Sankar Kumar Pal

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sankar Kumar Pal
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Sep 13, 1950(1950-09-13)
Age	74
Birthplace	Kolkata
Country	India
Birth City	West Bengal
Horoscope	Virgo

Sankar Kumar Pal Biography

Sankar Kumar Pal is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on September 13, 1950 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

SK Pal is the recipient of numerous awards including the 1990 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (which is the most coveted award in science in India), the 1999 G.D. Birla Award, 1998 Om Bhasin Award from the Prime Minister of India, 1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, 2000 Khwarizmi International Award from the President of Iran, 2000-2001 FICCI Award, 1993 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, 1993 NASA Tech Briefs Award (USA), 1994 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award (USA), 1995 NASA Patent Application Award (USA), 1997 IETE-R.L. Wadhwa Gold Medal, the 2001 INSA-S.H. Zaheer Medal, 2005-06 Indian Science Congress-P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Gold Medal from Prime Minister of India for Lifetime Achievement, 2007 J.C. Bose Fellowship of the Government of India, 2008 Vigyan Ratna Award from Science & Culture Organization, 2013 Indian National Academy of Engineering Chair Professor, 2015 INAE-S.N. Mitra Award, 2017 INSA-Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award, and 2018 INSA Distinguished Professor Chair. He is a Padma Shri awardee in 2013. He was elected Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), International Association for Pattern Recognition, International Association for Fuzzy Systems, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Sankar Kumar Pal is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is a computer scientist with an international reputation on fuzzy neural network, soft computing, and machine intelligence. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in 2004, both at the ISI. He is the founder President of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Kolkata Chapter.

Sankar Kumar Pal Net Worth

Sankar Kumar Pal is one of the richest Computer Scientist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sankar Kumar Pal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

SK Pal studied at the University of Calcutta for his BSc in Physics (1969), BTech (1972) and MTech (1974). He received a PhD in Radio Physics and Electronics from the Rajabazar Science College campus of University of Calcutta in 1979 as a student of Indian Statistical Institute, and another PhD in Electrical Engineering along with Diploma of the Imperial College from Imperial College, University of London, in 1982. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley and University of Maryland, College Park from 1986-1987 as Fulbright Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center from 1990-1992 and in 1994, as NRC Senior Research Associate, Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for Asia-Pacific Region in 1997, and US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC in 2004 as a Visiting Scientist. He joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, as the CSIR Senior Research Fellow in 1975, and eventually entered into full faculty in 1987, as Professor. He then became Distinguished Scientist in 1998 and Director in

2005. He was the first Computer Scientist as well as someone outside Statistics and Mathematics to become the Director of ISI in its 76-year history.

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Sean Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Sankar Kumar Pal celebrates birthday on September 13 of every year.