Mohan Trivedi is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California San Diego and founding director of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory (est. 1986), as well as the Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) (est. 2001). Trivedi and his team are pursuing research in intelligent vehicles, human-centered autonomous driving, machine perception, machine learning, human-robot interactivity, and advanced driver assistance. LISA research outputs have directly impacted a broad range of commercially deployed ADAS, driver monitoring, active safety, and high autonomy systems, including lane departure warning, lane keep assist, lane/road/vehicle/pedestrian/traffic sign detection/tracking modules, panoramic surround viewing, trajectory prediction and collision avoidance, driver attention, activities, intent and readiness prediction modules. The LISA team has won over 25 “Best/Finalist” paper awards, six best dissertation awards, the IEEE ITS Society’s Outstanding Research Award and LEAD Institution Award, as well as the Meritorious Service and Pioneer Award (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Computer Society. Trivedi has received Distinguished Alumnus awards from BITS-Pilani, India and Utah State University. He has given over 120 keynote/plenary talks. He regularly serves as a consultant to various industry and government agencies in the US and abroad. He frequently serves on panels dealing with technological, strategic, privacy, and ethical issues surrounding research areas he is involved in. Trivedi has served as the Chair of the Robotics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, Governing Board member of the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics, and IEEE ITSC societies. Trivedi is a Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, and IAPR.
Marimuthu Palaniswami (Life Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Melbourne, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia. He is an internationally recognized expert in Internet of Things (IoT), Sensor Networks, Automated Learning, and Computational Intelligence in large-scale complex systems. He is a named Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society over the period 2013–2015. He has a demonstrated track record in leading large research initiatives. In particular, he is the Founder and Director of the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), which has become an internationally recognized constellation of researchers, partner universities and industry organisations in the area of sensor networks. He is also a Co-Founder of the European Centred IoT forum. He has authored or coauthored more than 500 scientific papers including books and edited volumes. His research has focused on translational aspects of his research and he has a fantastic track record in working with diverse industry sectors, from defence to environment, from telecom to biomedical and from health to local government domains. He was the General Chair of more than ten IEEE Sponsored International conferences with a focus on Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (IoT).
Dr. Arpan Pal is a Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems TCS Research.
Arpan Pal has more than 30 years of experience in the area of Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, as Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research, he is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Retail and Remote Sensing.
He is on the editorial board of notable journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, Springer Nature Journal on Computer Science and is on the TPC of notable conferences like ICASSP and EUSIPCO. He has filed 180+ patents (out of which 95+ granted in different geographies) and has published 160+ papers and book chapters in reputed conferences and journals. He has also written two complete books on IoT and Digital twins in Manufacturing. He is on the governing/review/advisory board of some of the Indian Government organizations like CSIR, MeitY, Educational Institutions like IIT, IIIT and Technology Incubation centres like TIH.
Prior to joining Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Arpan had worked for DRDO, India as Scientist for Missile Seeker Systems and in Rebeca Technologies as their Head of Real-time Systems. He is a B.Tech and M. Tech from IIT, Kharagpur, India and PhD. from Aalborg University, Denmark.