Bio:
Prof. KC Santosh—a highly accomplished AI expert—is the chair of the Department of Computer Science and the founding director of the Applied AI Research Lab at the University of South Dakota (USD). He also served the National Institutes of Health as a research fellow and LORIA Research Center as a postdoctoral research scientist, in collaboration with industrial partner ITESOFT, France. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence from INRIA Nancy Grand East Research Center (France). With funding exceeding $8 million from sources like DOD, NSF, ED, and SDBOR, he has authored 10 books and more than 250 peer-reviewed research articles, including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMI, and IEEE TAI. He serves as an associate editor for esteemed journals such as IEEE Transactions on AI, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Int. J of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, and Int. J of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence.
To name a few, Prof. Santosh is the proud recipient of the Visionary Leadership Award (University of Derby—UK, 2023) Cutler Award for Teaching and Research Excellence (USD, 2021), the President's Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019), and the Ignite Award from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS, 2014). Effective from Spring 2024, he joined the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and, since December 2024, has been serving in the U.S. Speaker Program (U.S. Department of State), delivering talks on AI and AI education—being the only representative from South Dakota in both roles.
As the founder of AI programs at USD, he has taken significant strides to increase enrolment in the graduate program and his leadership has helped build multiple inter-disciplinary AI/Data Science related academic programs, including collaborations with Biology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Sustainability and Business Analytics departments. Prof. Santosh is highly motivated in academic leadership, and his contributions have established USD as a pioneer in AI programs within the state of SD.
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#AI for infectious diseases: #Pneumonia, #TB and #Covid-19
AI has contributed a lot to healthcare (AI-based decision-support systems with clinical significance). Infectious disease outbreak is no exception. The talk will provide a walk through about how...
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