Laxmidhar Behera

Laxmidhar Behera, Ph.D. is the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor at IIT Kanpur, India; he is a teacher, researcher, author, and industrial collaborator for over 25 years, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Machine Learning.

Professor Behera has more than 280 publications, Journals, and Conference Proceedings, including many peer-reviewed articles receiving best paper awards. His co-authored book, “Intelligent Systems and Control”, an Oxford University Press publication, is now in its’ 5th reprint and is a prescribed graduate-level textbook in many Universities across the world. Laxmidhar has authored several books pioneering the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and Machine Learning. He has also been an associate editor for two international journals published by Taylor & Francis and Hindwai.

His research work lies in the convergence of machine learning, control theory, robotic vision, and heterogeneous robotic platforms contributing innovative advancements in the theoretical and experimental paradigms for this field. His other research interests include intelligent control, semantic signal/music processing, neural networks, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), control of cyber-physical systems, and cognitive modeling. Professor Behera is the recipient of many large exclusive grants to support his groundbreaking research.

Automating industry with groundbreaking science, Prof. Behera has initiated academic-industrial collaborations with TCS, India; Renault Nissan; BEL, Bangalore, India; and ADNOC, Abu Dhabi. These collaborations have made significant technological developments in the areas such as robotics-based ware-house automation, vision, drone-guided driver assistance systems, and drone-guided pipeline inspection systems. He has established international research collaborations with ETH, Zurich; University of Texas, San Antonio, US; University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Ulster, UK; NAIST, Japan; and Deakin University, Australia.

Lending his genius to many academic institutions Prof. Behera has worked as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani (1995- 1999), and as a reader at Intelligent Systems Research Center (ISRC), University of Ulster, United Kingdom (2007-2009). He has been a visiting researcher/professor at FHG, Germany, and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. He has supervised 19 Ph.D. Student theses to completion and is guiding 16 Ph.D. students currently. He is a Fellow of INAE and Senior Member of IEEE, and a Technical Committee member on IEEE SMC on Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

Prof Behera received the BSc (engineering) and MSc (engineering) degrees from NIT, Rourkela in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi in 1996. He pursued his postdoctoral studies in the German National Research Center for Information Technology, GMD, Sank Augustin, Germany, during 2000-2001. Prof. Laxmidhar Behera remains a global innovator and visionary in his field.