Alex James received the Ph.D. degree in 2 years from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works on brain-inspired circuits as well as algorithms and systems. He is a Full Professor with a research specialization in the area of AI hardware, intelligent imaging and analog electronic systems at the NeuroAGI cente, Indian Institute of Information technology and Management Kerala; and professor in charge of Maker Village, Kochi. He is actively engaged in research commercialization and startups. He has several years experience of managing industry projects and academic projects in board design and pattern recognition circuits, and data and business analytics consulting for IT and semiconductor industry.  He has authored several peer-reviewed publications and is a reviewer to international journals and conferences such as IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICECS, TCAS, TVLSI, TCAD, TCyb, TEC, and TIP. Dr. James has been the founding chair for IEEE Kerala Section Circuits and Systems Society and Executive Member of IET Vision and Imaging Network. He is a member of IEEE CASS Technical committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems. He was an editorial member of Information Fusion, Elsevier, and is an Associate Editor for HCIS, Springer, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2017-18) (Guest associate editor), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2018-present). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ACM, Senior Fellow of HEA, and Fellow of BCS.

Journals (Selected)
(2020/21). Analog self-timed programming circuits for aging memristors. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, accepted, (Impact Factor=3.43, SJR Q1).
(2020/21). Recursive threshold logic - a bioinspired reconfigurable dynamic logic system with crossbar arrays. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, accepted, (Impact Factor=4.71, SJR Q1).
(2020). Memristive gan in analog. Nature-Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–14, (Impact Factor=3.998, SJR Q1).
(2020). Analog neuro-memristive convolutional dropout nets. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,  (Impact Factor=2.7, SJR Q1).
(2020). Neuromemristive circuits for edge computing: A review. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 31(1), 4–23, (Impact Factor=12.18, SJR Q1 ).
(2020). Automating analogue AI chip design with genetic search. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2000075, (SELECTED AS COVER PAGE).
(2020). In-yolo: Real-time detection of outdoor high voltage insulators using uav imaging. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 35(3), 1599–1601, (Impact Factor=4.42, SJR Q1).
(2020). Who is the winner? memristive-cmos hybrid modules: Cnn-lstm versus htm. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 14(2), 164–172, (Impact Factor=4.710, SJR Q1).
(2020). A theoretical analysis of the peaking phenomenon in classification. Journal of Classification, 1–14, (Impact Factor=1.86, SJR Q1 ).
(2019). Temporal g-neighbor filtering for analog domain noise reduction in astronomical videos. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 66(5), 868–872, (Impact Factor=3.43 )
(2019). A hybrid memristor–cmos chip for ai. Nature Electronics, 2(7), 268–269, (Impact Factor=27.5, SJR Q1 ) - Single author paper
(2019). An overview of memristive cryptography. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 228(10), 2301–2312, (Impact Factor=1.78, SJR Q2 ) (Invited) - Single author paper
(2019). High voltage outdoor insulator surface condition evaluation using aerial insulator images. High Voltage, 4(3), 178–185, (Impact Factor=3.027, SJR Q1).
(2018). Bit-plane extracted moving-object detection using memristive crossbar-cam arrays for edge computing image devices. IEEE Access, 6, 18954–18966, (Impact Factor=4.64, SJR Q1). 
(2018). Discrete-level memristive circuits for htm-based spatiotemporal data classification system. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 3(1), 34–43.
(2018). Guest editorial: Special issue on large-scale memristive systems and neurochips for computational intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2(5), 320–323.
(2018). Hierarchical temporal memory using memristor networks: A survey. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2(5), 380–395.
(2018). Learning in memristive neural network architectures using analog backpropagation circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 66(2), 719–732, (Impact Factor=4.31, SJR Q1 ).
(2018). Wireless charging techniques for uavs: A review, reconceptualization, and extension. IEEE Access, 6, 29865–29884, (Impact Factor=4.64, SJR Q1).
(2018). Diffusion sensitivity enhancement filter for raw dwis. IET Computer Vision, 12(7), 950–956
(2018). Engineering the global university rankings: Gold standards, limitations and implications. IEEE Access, 6, 6765–6776, (Impact Factor=4.64, SJR Q1).
(2017). Htm spatial pooler with memristor crossbar circuits for sparse biometric recognition. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 11(3), 640–651, (Impact Factor=4.71, SJR Q1 ).
(2017). Hierarchical temporal memory features with memristor logic circuits for pattern recognition. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 37(6), 1143–1156, (Impact Factor=2.88, SJR Q2 ).
(2017). Edge-aware spatial denoising filtering based on a psychological model of stimulus similarity. IEEE Access, 6, 3433–3447, (Impact Factor=4.64, SJR Q1 ).
(2016). An efficient method to estimate the optimum regularization parameter in rlda. Bioinformatics, 32(22), 3461–3468, (Impact Factor=4.43, SJR Q1 ).
(2016). A survey of memristive threshold logic circuits. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 28(8), 1734–1746, (Impact Factor=12.180, SJR Q1).
(2015). Detection and analysis of emotion from speech signals. Procedia Computer Science, 58, 91–96, (Impact Factor=1.26).
(2015). Heart rate monitoring using human speech spectral features. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 5(1), 33, (Impact Factor=4.18, SJR Q1 ).
(2015). Threshold logic computing: Memristive-cmos circuits for fast fourier transform and vedic multiplication. IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, 23(11), 2690–2694, (Impact Factor=2.360, SJR Q2).
(2015). Memristor pattern recogniser: Isolated speech word recognition. Electronics Letters, 51(17), 1370–1372, (Impact Factor=1.316, SJR Q2).
(2015). Spatial stimuli gradient sketch model. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 22(9), 1336–1339, (Impact Factor=4.180, SJR Q1).
(2015). Sparse distributed localized gradient fused features of objects. Pattern Recognition, 48(4), 1538–1546, (Impact Factor=7.196, SJR Q1).
(2014). Memristive operational amplifiers. Procedia Computer Science, 41, 114–119, (Impact Factor=1.26).
(2014). Resistive threshold logic. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 22(1), 190–195, (Impact Factor=2.037, SJR Q2).
(2014). Medical image fusion: A survey of the state of the art. Information fusion, 19, 4–19, (Impact Factor=13.669, SJR Q1).
(2014). Guest editorial: Special issue on medical image computing and systems. Information Fusion, 19, 2–3, (Impact Factor=13.669, SJR Q1).
(2014). Memristive threshold logic circuit design of fast moving object detection. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 23(10), 2337–2341, (Impact Factor=2.360, SJR Q2).
(2012). Nearest neighbor classifier based on nearest feature decisions. The Computer Journal, 55(9), 1072–1087, Oxford Press.
(2012). Ranked selection of nearest discriminating features. Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2(1), 12, (Impact Factor=3.7, SJR Q1).
(2011). Improving feature selection algorithms using normalised feature histograms. Electronics letters, 47(8), 490–491, (Impact Factor=1.316, SJR Q2).
(2010). Cognitive memory network. Electronics Letters, 46(10), 677–678, (Impact Factor=1.316, SJR Q2). 
(2010). Inter-image outliers and their application to image classification. Pattern recognition, 43(12), 4101–4112, (Impact Factor=7.196, SJR Q1).
(2008). Face recognition using local binary decisions. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 15, 821–824, (Impact Factor=4.18, SJR Q1).

Conferences (Selected)
(2020) Towards Strong AI with Analog Neural Chips, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2020) Towards Hardware Optimal Neural Network Selection with Multi-Objective Genetic Search, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2020) Self Tuning Stochastic Weighted Neural Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2020) Biometric-Aware Pixel Fused Crossbars, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2020) Vilokana-Lightweight COVID19 Document Analysis, IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(2019) Smart cameras everywhere: AI vision on edge with emerging memories, 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
(2019) A memristor-CMOS Braun multiplier array for arithmetic pipelining, 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
(2019) Chaotic Oscillator Using Coupled Memristive Pairs, 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
(2019) Variation-aware binarized memristive networks, 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
(2019) Multi-Receiver Dynamic Wireless Charging System's Architecture as a Means to Mitigate Voltage Pulsations at the Receiver: A Simulation Study, International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)
(2019) Reconfigurable Threshold Logic Networks in FPGA for Moving Object Detection,  IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
(2019) Extended Neighbourhood Filter for LDR Displays, IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
(2019) Reconfigurable Threshold Logic Networks in FPGA for Moving Object Detection, IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
(2019) Generalized bell-shaped membership function generation circuit for memristive neural networks, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2019) Memristive non-idealities: Is there any practical implications for designing neural network chips?, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2019) Probabilistic neural network with memristive crossbar circuits, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
(2019) AnalogHTM: Memristive spatial pooler learning with backpropagation,  IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)
(2019) Binarized Neural Network with Stochastic Memristors, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)
(2019) Amsnet: analog memristive system architecture for mean-pooling with dropout convolutional neural network, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)

Research Areas
Neuromorphic VLSI and Neuro-memristive Systems
Cognitive Hardware Architectures
Quantum Image and Neural Systems
Image processing and recognition
Neural based NLP, Face and Speech recognition

Recent Collaborators
Leon Chua (University of California Berekely)
Kaushik Roy (Purdue University)
Khaled Salama (KAUST)
Belur Dasarathy (Information Fusion Consultant)
Bhaskar Choubay (Sigen University/Oxford University)

Currently teaching (Fall 2020):
Data Structures and Algorithms (Online mode)
Embedded Systems (Online mode)

Projects Guidance (Fall/Spring 2020):
MSc Mini-Projects (20 students)
MSc Thesis (4 students)
PhD Students (2 external)
PhD Students (Several positions avaliable for 2020)
Post-doc (Several positions avaliable for 2020)