Prof. Dr. U. R. Acharya

Prof. Dr. U. R. Acharya, PhD, DEng is a senior faculty member at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is also (i) Adjunct Professor at University of Malaya, Malaysia, (ii) Adjunct Professor at Asia University, Taiwan, (iii) Associate faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore and (iv) Visiting Professor at Kumamoto University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (Surathkal, India) and DEng from Chiba University (Japan). He has published more than 500 papers, in refereed international SCI-IF journals (345), international conference proceedings (42), books (17) with more than 27,000 citations in Google Scholar (with h-index of 86). He has worked on various funded projects, with grants worth more than 5 million SGD. He is ranked in the top 1% of the Highly Cited Researchers for the last four consecutive years (2016, 2017,2018, and 2019) in Computer Science according to the Essential Science Indicators of Thomson. He is on the editorial board of many journals and has served as Guest Editor for many journals. His major academic interests are in Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical Imaging, Data mining, Visualization and Biophysics for better healthcare design, delivery and therapy.