Amit Kumar Singh

Currently, a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at University of Essex, UK. He also serves as academic assistance for a joint program between University of Essex and Norwest University (NWU), China, and earlier served as Years 1 engineering lab manager. He has a post-doctoral research experience for over five years at several reputed universities. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2013. He also worked in industry with HCL Technologies, India for a year and half until 2008.

His current research interests are design and optimisation of intelligent computing systems for various application domains like multimedia, transportation, automotive, healthcare, cloud, etc. The design and optimisation principles can have inspirations from AI, Biology, Market, Heuristics, etc. to fulfil the application domain needs of security, reliability, energy-efficiency and/or performance. He has published over 110 papers in reputed journals/conferences, and received several notable recognitions, like most viewed (#1) article of future internet 2021, the most popular article of IEEE Access 2019, IEEE TC February 2018 Featured Paper, best paper awards at ICCES 2017, ISORC 2016, PDP 2015 and HiPEAC 2013, and GLSVLSI 2014 runner up.

He has served as the publication chair of ESWeek, Publicity co-chair of CF and TPC member of prestigious conferences, e.g. DAC, DATE, CASES, CODES+ISSS, ICCAD and RTAS. He also organised special sessions, tutorials and workshops at top venues while inviting eminent researchers. He edited a book for JLPEA journal and served as the editorial board of several journals. He also served as external examiner for research students’ thesis of various countries like Norway, Brazil and Sweden.

He is Associate College Member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and members of IEEE and ACM.