Biography
U. R. Acharya, Ph.D., DEng, DSc, is a Professor at University of Southern Queensland, Australia; a Distinguished Professor at the International Research Organization for Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Japan; Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; and Adjunct Professor at the Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include biomedical imaging and signal processing, data mining, and visualization, as well as applications of biophysics for better healthcare design and delivery. His funded research has accrued cumulative grants exceeding six million Singapore dollars. He has authored over 600 publications, including 550 in refereed international journals, 42 in international conference proceedings, and 17 books. He has received more than 67,000 citations on Google Scholar (with an h-index of 130). He has been ranked in the top 1% of the highly cited researchers for the last seven consecutive years (2016–2022) in computer science, according to the Essential Science Indicators of Thomson. He is on the editorial boards of many journals and has served as a guest editor on several AI-related issues.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Professor | University of Southern Queensland, Australia | 2023 | |
Fields of Research
- 400304. Biomedical imaging
- 400309. Neural engineering
- 400310. Rehabilitation engineering
- 420308. Health informatics and information systems
- 420311. Health systems
- 420313. Mental health services
- 460203. Evolutionary computation
- 460207. Modelling and simulation