Sankar Kumar Pal is the Director and a Distinguished Scientist of the .
His areas of research interests include Fuzzy sets and Uncertainty Analysis, Fuzzy logic, Artificial neural networks for Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Data mining, Genetic algorithms, Rough sets, and Soft computing.
=Fellowships and Awards=
Fellow, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Fellow, IEEE), USA.
Fellow, The International Association for Pattern Recognition (Fellow, IAPR), USA.
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS), Italy.
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy( FNA), India.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the year 1990 in Engineering Sciences.
Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for the year 1993.
Hari Om Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1993 in Electronics /Telecommunication / Informatics /Automation.
NASA Space Act Tech Brief Award from NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, U.S.A., 1993.
1994 Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Neural Networks Council (USA).
Patent Application Award from NASA, Invention and Contribution Board, USA, 1995.
Distinguished Speaker of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for Asia Pacific Region, 1997.
Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal for the year 1997 from IETE, India.
Om Prakash Bhasin Award for the year 1998 in Electronics & Information Technology.
G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research for the year 1999.
Khwarizmi International Award (1st winner) from the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2000. picture
FICCI Award for the year 2000-2001 in Engineering and Technology
=External links=
[http://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar/ Official Homepage]