Biography
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Prof. Santosh is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science (CS) at the University of South Dakota (USD). He also serves International
Medical University (IMU), Malaysia as an Adjunct Professor (Full). For a year (AY 2019/20), he served School of Computing and IT, Taylor's
University as a Visiting Associate Professor. Prior to that, he worked as a research fellow at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health
(NIH). He worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the LORIA research centre,
Universite de Lorraine in direct collaboration with industrial partner, ITESOFT, France. He also served as a research scientist at the INRIA Nancy Grand Est research centre (France), where he received his PhD in
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence. Before that, he worked as a graduate research scholar at the SIIT, Thammasat University, Thailand.
Prof. Santosh has demonstrated expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer
vision, image processing, data mining, and big data with various application domains such as healthcare informatics and medical imaging,
document imaging, biometrics, forensics, speech/audio analysis, and Internet of Things. His research projects (with $2m+) are funded by
multiple agencies such as SDCRGP, State of SD, Department of Education (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Asian Office of
Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD).To name a few, Prof. Santosh is the proud recipient of the
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).Prof. Santosh completed leadership
and training program for Deans/Chairs (organized by the Councils of Colleges of Arts & Sciences (U.S., 21)) and PELI - President's
Executive Leadership Institute (USD, 21). Prof. Santosh is highly motivated/intereseted in academic leadership.
Editor (journals):
Associate #EditorInChief of Computer Science & Engineering Section, Electronics, MDPI
#AcademicEditor of PeerJ Computer Science (2021 - 2023)
#AssociateEditor of IEEE Transactions on
Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Machine Learning &
Cybernetics, Springer Nature, IET Image
Processing. IEEE Access, SN Computer Science, Springer Nature, Advances in
Computational Intelligence, Springer Nature, International Journal of
Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), IGI Global, and Journal of
Pattern Recognition Research
#GuestEditor of Elsevier: Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in
Biology and Medicine, and Computer &
Electrical Engineering
IEEE: Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics
Springer Nature: MTAP, IJST, SN
Computer Science, and IJDAR
MDPI: Information, AI, Applied Sciences, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Digital, Healthcare, Signals, and Journal of Imaging
IGI Global: IJCVIP
Chair (conferences):
#CBMS (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023): Industry Chair (2023), General Chair (2020, 2022), Special Track Chair (2021), Steering Committee (2020 - present)
USD's symposium on #ArtificialIntelligence (2021, 2022, 2023): Chair/Founder
#AICV, 2023 - Chair
#RTIP2R (2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023): Chair/Founder
#ICMI, 2022 - General Chair
#GREC (2019): Program Chair
USD's #DataHarnessing
symposium (2018 and 2019): Chair/co-Founder
Review panelist (research grant proposals):
Applied Artificial Intelligence 
