Prof. dwarikanath mahapatra

Biography

Dwarikanath Mahapatra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Khalifa University. He has previously worked as a Principal AI Scientist at Locai, and Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE.  He obtained his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Australia. Dwarikanath's research interests are mainly in medical image analysis, machine learning, deep learning, decision support systems and computer aided diagnosis. He also explores other aspects of computer vision such as object detection and tracking, surveillance and image classification using deep neural networks. Dwarikanath has published more than 100 papers in prestigious conferences and journals, and holds 15 patents. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
• B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR), India.

Affiliated Centers, Groups & Labs

• Khalifa University