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MIR Labs -
Industrial Collaborations
MIR
Labs has close tie ups with several industries and scientific consultants around the
globe. Some of them are listed below.
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Belur
Dasarathy,
IEEE Fellow
Independent Consultant, USA |
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Belur Dasarathy is an independent consultant targeting needs of
multiple defense and commercial industries in the areas of multi-sensor
multi-source information fusion, target discrimination and recognition,
pattern recognition, image analysis and other related topics, for the
design and development of automated intelligent decision systems arising
in a variety of strategic/tactical defense-related problems as well as
other commercial/ civilian applications. His professional affiliations
over the past 3 decades include Dynetics (as Distinguished
Scientist/Senior Principal Engineer), Intergraph Corporation (as Senior
Technical Manager/Senior System Consultant), Computer Sciences
Corporation (as Computer Scientist) Indian Institute of Science (as
Assistant Professor), Southern Methodist University (as Visiting
Professor), Univ. of Alabama (as Adjunct Professor).
He is the founding (an entrepreneurial accomplishment
funded by Elsevier) and current Editor-in-chief of the International
Journal on Information Fusion, published by Elsevier, the very first
journal dedicated to this evolving field. He was one of the key founding
members of the board of directors of the International Society on
Information Fusion (ISIF) and served in that capacity for a couple of
years afterwards. He has been the editor of several special issues on
sensor fusion in Optical Engineering Journal. He was the guest editor of
Optical Engineering for three special sections on Sensor Fusion. He has
continually been the organizer and chairman of the annual SPIE
Conferences on Sensor Fusion since 1997 and on data mining, intrusion
detection, and network security since 1999.
Dr. Dasarathy has over 175 publications and is the author
of three IEEE Computer Society Press books: Decision Fusion, Nearest
Neighbor (NN) Norms: NN Pattern Classification Techniques, and Image
Data Compression: Block Truncation Coding. He has been the
keynote/invited speaker at many international conferences across the
globe. Dr. Dasarathy was the 1997 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer, a
recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 1996 IEEE Huntsville
Section Outstanding Engineer. His biographical citations include: "WHO'
WHO" in Computer Graphics," Marquis, 1984; "Personalities of the South,"
American Biographical Institute, 1986; "Who's Who in Technology Today,"
Dick Publishing, 5th Edition.; “Who’s Who in the South and Southwest,?
22nd Edition, 1991.; “The Official Registry of the Who?Who of American
Business Leaders,?1991 Edition, and most recently International Who’s
Who in Information Technology, 1999.
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Anuradha Acharya
CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions, USA
Gene Logic, India, USA
http://www.ocimumbio.com
http://www.genelogic.com
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Anu Acharya is the founder
and CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions, a Global Genomics
outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics. The
company was founded in the year 2000 and has completed 3 international
acquisitions, Gene Logic Genomics from Maryland, USA in the year 2007,
Isogen Life Sciences from The Netherlands in 2006 and the GD business of
MWG Biotech of Germany in 2005. Ocimum today has 2000 customers
worldwide and operates under 3 main business units of BioIT,
BioMolecules and Bioresearch. Ocimum recently raised capital from Kubera
Cross Border Fund (KUBC) for an equity investment of up to US$17 million
(including the pro rata investment by affiliates of Kubera Partners,
LLC, the Investment Manager of KUBC). Ocimum was previously financed by
the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private Equity arm of
the World Bank.
Prior to founding Ocimum Biosolutions, Ms. Acharya has had rich
experience in the Telecom, IT and entrepreneurship arenas. She worked
for a startup in the telecommunications space called Mantiss Information
and a consulting firm called SEI Information where she helped create a
social networking site for entrepreneurs. Her experience is backed by
education at premier institutions like the Indian Institute of
Technology at Kharagpur, India (IIT) and University of Illinois where
she has two Post Graduate degrees in Physics and MIS.
She is a regular in technology forums and round tables and one of the
well known first generation entrepreneurs in the Indian life-sciences
space. She was named by Red Herring Magazine to the list of "25 Tech
Titans under 35" in 2006. Ocimum has received several awards including
"Fastest Growing Life Sciences Company in India", Red Herring Asia 100,
"IT Innovation Award" by NASSCOM and has been named to the Deloitte list
of Fastest Growing companies in Asia, three years in a row.
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Dominik Slezak
Chief Scientist
Infobright Inc., Canada
http://www.infobright.org
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Dominik Slezak received
his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 from Warsaw University, Poland. In
an instructional capacity he has successfully supervised more than 10
graduate students in Canada and Poland. He has pursued academic
collaborations with Warsaw University, University of Regina, and the
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology. Currently, he is
working as chief scientist for Infobright Inc.
Dominik serves as an associate editor and reviewer for
a number of international scientific journals, and chair of several
international scientific conferences. He has published over 50
pier-reviewed papers for books, journals, and conference proceedings. He
has delivered a number of invited talks in Canada, China, Egypt, India,
Japan, South Korea, Poland, and the United Kingdom. His research
interests are related mainly to rough sets, data warehousing, data
mining, KDD, bioinformatics, as well as medical and multimedia data
analysis.
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Jan de Meer
Chief Scientist
Smartspacelab.eu GmbH, Germany
http://www.smartspacelab.eu/
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Jan graduated from
Electrical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg,
and from Theoretical Computer Sciences from Technical University Berlin,
both located in Germany. Funny enough, he also hold a Deep-Sea Sailor
Diploma from the Deep Sea Sailor School Lübeck, Germany, and is a
honorary speaker of the German Society of Informatics, GI Regional Group
Berlin.
He is a national delegate to the IT Security Standardization Group DIN
NIA27 respectively ISO/IEC SC27 and a professional member of ACM, IEEE,
GI (German Association on Informatics), IHK (Chamber of Industry and
Commerce) and ASQF (Association on Software & System Quality and
Certification) on Formal Testing etc. On lecturing, he is undertaking
University and Business courses and publications on Networking, Formal
Evaluation Tools, System Engineering, Safety and Security Technology,
Multipurpose Chip Card Technology at several Universities, currently
such as TFH Berlin, Online University Brandenburg, the private OTA
University on Business Berlin, Smart University at Sophia Antipolis etc.
He has chaired international conferences and is a member of programme
committees on issues of Safety & Security Quality of Service, Open
Distributed Processing, Middleware, Protocol Testing Systems, Formal
Methods etc. Furthermore, he was able to combine scientific career with
an industrial career, which opened the doors to technology transfer
activities by supporting partners from industry, SME and academia.
In Cooperation with leading scientists from Information Technology
(University of Montreal), Physics (IHP Frankfurt/Oder) and Economy (ZAB/IRC
Frankfurt/Oder) from Brandenburg Technical University, he launched in
summer 2007 the Scientific Technology Enterprise smartspacelab.eu GmbH
aiming at smart communication and sensing technology spread over
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Robert Johnson
CEO
Cimcor Inc.
http://www.cimcor.com/
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Robert
E. Johnson, III is the President/CEO of Cimcor, Inc.
Cimcor is a software development firm that develops
unique security software solutions.
Robert is actively involved in a
variety of projects in the technology community. He
sits on the board for the Purdue Technology Center
of Northwest Indiana, Founder of Velocityware.Com,
and a variety of other technology related
initiatives.
Established in 1997 and
headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana, Cimcor
continues to build a strong reputation for
innovative Information Technology integrity
solutions. Since its founding, Cimcor has gained
nationwide recognition for its software security and
data integrity products. Cimcor was one of the first
software companies to develop a data integrity
product for Y2K called PLC Scan2000. This product
automatically assessed the status of software for
industrial computer systems to determine if they
were Y2K ready in a fraction of the time it took to
do it manually.
Today, Cimcor’s ground breaking
software CimTrak allows computer servers and network
devices to “self-heal?in the case of any
unauthorized change. Unmatched in its ability to
protect critical IT assets, CimTrak is essential
real-time integrity for any IT organization. All
Cimcor personnel are dedicated and focused on
providing our customers the richest experience doing
business with us. From our accessible executives to
our veteran software engineers and from our
professional sales force to our knowledgeable
support staff, we are devoted to the highest
standards in order to ensure our customers receive
the products and services necessary to ensure
continued success.
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Dickson Lukose
Head, Knowledge Technology Cluster,
MIMOS BERHAD,
Technology Park Malaysia,57000 Kuala
Lumpur
Malaysia |
Dr.
Dickson Lukose (PhD) is the Head of the Knowledge
Technology Cluster at MIMOS BHD. Dr Lukose is also
the director of the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory as well as the Centre of Excellence in
Semantic Technologies. Prior to MIMOS BHD, Dr Lukose
was involved with a startup company named DL
Informatique Sdn. Bhd., an MSC Status Company
specializing in the applications of Artificial
Intelligence Technology in developing software
applications in the areas of Risk Management and
Knowledge Management. Before returning to Malaysia,
Dr. Lukose spent many years working in financial
services industry developing enterprise
applications. He has done over 10 years of academic
research in Artificial Intelligence, supported by
research grants from Graphic Directions, Leverhulme
Foundation, CSIRO, and Australian Research Council.
Dr. Lukose has authored over 60 research papers and
technical reports on the subject of artificial
intelligence, knowledge acquisition and modeling for
scientific journals and conference proceedings,
chaired or co-chaired over 15 international
conferences on these subjects, and edited a number
of books in these areas.
His
qualifications include B.Sc. (Hons), and PhD from
Deakin University (Australia), and Post-Doctorate
Research as a Leverhulme Fellow at Loughborough
University of Technology (UK). He has carried out
teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence at
Deakin University (Australia), Loughborough
University of Technology (UK), University of Calgary
(Canada) and University of New England (Australia).
He worked as a Senior Knowledge Engineer with
Brightware Inc. (USA), and as Principal Knowledge
Engineer with MindBox Inc.(USA), where he has been
engaged in architecture and developing complex
knowledge based systems for the Financial Services
Industry. During his tenure with Brightware and
Mindbox, he has worked with leading financial
institutions in UK, USA and Korea.
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Shiguo Lian
France Telecom R&D Beijing
2 Science Institute South Road, Haidian District Beijing, 100080,
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Shiguo Lian got his Ph.D. from Nanjing University of
Science and Technology, China, in July 2005. He was
a research assistant in City University of Hong Kong
in 2004. Since July 2005, he has been a Research
Scientist with France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs)
Beijing. He is the author or co-author of more than
80 refereed international journal and conference
papers covering topics of intelligent computing and
security, including chaos based cryptography, neural
network based information security, multimedia
analysis and security, network security, ubiquitous
computing and intelligent services. He has
contributed 15 chapters to books and held 14 filed
patents. He is the author of the book "Multimedia
Content Encryption: Techniques and Applications" (CRC
Press, 2008), editor of "Multimedia Communication
Security: Recent Advances" (Nova Sciences Publisher,
2009), and co-editor of "Handbook of Research on
Secure Multimedia Distribution" (IGI Global, 2009),
"Intelligent Computing Based on Chaos" (Springer,
2009) and "Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for
Security Applications" (Springer, 2009). He got the
Nomination Prize of "Innovation Prize 2006 in France
Telecom", and he got "Top 100 Doctorate Dissertation
in Jiangsu Province in 2005? He is a member of
Chinese Image and Graphics Association, IEEE
Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and
Systems (TC NCAS), IEEE ComSoc Communications &
Information Security Technical Committee (CIS TC),
Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC),
and IEEE Computer Society's TC on Security and
Privacy. He is on the editor board of International
Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS),
International Journal of Organizational and
Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), International
Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE),
and International Journal of Security and Its
Applications (IJSIA). He is the guest editor of
International Journal of Neural Network World,
Applied Soft Computing, Telecommunication Systems,
Soft Computing, Security and Communication Network,
Journal of Universal Computer Science, Informatica,
and Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft).
He is in the organization committee of MINES2009,
MobiSec 2009, SEPS 2009 and MUSIC'08, and also the
Technical Committee member of some refereed
conferences or workshops, including IEEE ICC2009
CSWS Symposium, IEEE ICC2008 CSS Symposium, IEEE
GLOBECOM2008 CCNS Symposium, MoMM'2008, IPMC'08,
UIC-08, CASNET 2008, SAM'08 and SecPri_WiMob 2008,
etc. He is also the reviewer of some refereed
international journals and conferences.
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TOVEK, spol. s r.o.
Prague, Czech Republic
www.tovek.cz |
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Tovek is a
private software company established in 1993 focused on developing solutions for
intelligent information retrieval, visual information analysis and subject
centric (meaning based) information organization. Tovek’s main customers in
public sector area are intelligence and security services and law enforcement
organizations. Tovek’s main customers in private sector are organizations
developing their competitive intelligence, fraud investigation and knowledge
management capabilities.
Tovek’s knowledge and expertise stems from long term
partnership with market leaders in the domain (www.autonomy.com,
www.i2group.com )
and from cooperation with professional associations (www.scip.org),
universities (www.vse.cz
, www.cvut.cz
, www.unob.cz,
www.vsb.cz),
and research and standardization communities (www.TopicMaps.org).
Tomáš Vejlupek, President
and Founder of TOVEK
Tomáš
graduated from the Czech Technical University, Electro-technical Faculty. His
main area of interest and expertise is competitive intelligence and decision
support information systems . His professional expertise stems from positions
in Tovek (business development and solution architect), IT company Syscom (IT
project management), Czech Airlines (audiovisual computer based training) and
the Czech Air Navigation Services (SW development and programming).
Miroslav
Nečas, Project Manager
Miroslav
received PhD in System Engineering at Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty
of Economics and Management. Before he joined Tovek (2006) as Project Manager,
Miroslav led Analysis and IT departments in the marketing company Formica. His
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Peep Küngas
CEO
- SOA Trader Ltd.
Estonia |
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Dr. Peep Küngas received PhD in Information and Intelligence Science
from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway in August 2006. MSc and BSc in Computer and Systems
Engineering were acquired from Tallinn University of Technology,
Tallinn, Estonia respectively in 2002 and 2000. Peep has expert
knowledge and experience in services ecosystems, the Semantic
Web, formal methods, automated theorem proving, knowledge
engineering, automated Web services annotation and
orchestration, machine learning and
intelligent distributed systems. Dr. Peep Küngas has served as a
Program Committee member and reviewer of several scientific
forums. Additionally he has published over 40 scientific
peer-reviewed and more than 20 popular scientific papers. Since
2007 Peep Küngas serves as CEO of SOA Trader, Ltd., which
consults Estonian public sector in forming e-services
development strategies and develops national semantic
interoperability and Web interoperability frameworks. Moreover,
under Peep's leadership, SOA Trader has developed a set of
knowledge discovery and engineering tools for effective
discovery, analysis and exploitation of information system
components in large information systems.
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Rajen Bhatt |
| Dr. Rajen Bhatt has obtained his Ph.D. from the IIT Delhi in 2005. Since then he is working as a Chief Engineer at Samsung India R&D Center in Noida, India. He has published several research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has several patents to his credits with Indian and US patent office. He is also collaborative researcher of Computational Intelligence Research lab at University of Manitoba, Canada. His current research interests are Pattern recognition, Computer vision, Recommender systems, and Soft Computing. He also holds expertise over innovation and management of Intellectual Property. He holds an expertise over industry standard R&D project management and rapid deployment of research results to consumer products. During his tenure in Samsung he has worked on numerous R&D projects leading from research to product development. His novel concept of fuzzy recommender system has received the Samsung Best Paper Award for 2008. |
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