Achuthsankar S. Nair is an Indian academic and former Director of the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), Government of Kerala, for a period of three years from November 2001 to October 2004, during which he led several information technology development initiatives.
He served as Head of the Department of Bioinformatics at the University of Kerala. He has also served as Chairman of the Computer Society of India, Trivandrum chapter.
Nair is the author of more than 20 books in English and Malayalam, in addition to scholarly articles and a number of research publications co-authored with his students.
Early life and education Nair was born in a Malayali family as a child of Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair, former Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and former Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Kerala, and Komalam S Nair at Vanchiyoor in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
He obtained his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, and his M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He later earned an M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kerala. He holds two doctoral degrees - one in Engineering and another in Music.
Nair's wife, Hema Ramachandran, was an engineering lecturer. His daughter, Gayathri, is a B.Ed. student. His son, Aditya, is a student of history.
Career Nair held academic positions as a Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and was instrumental in establishing the discipline of Bioinformatics at the University of Kerala. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Korea, South Korea, FTMS - De Montfort University, Malaysia, and Daito Bunka University, Japan.
He is a prolific science writer and an interdisciplinary scholar; his publications span a wide range of subjects, including Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Microhistory, and Carnatic music. Nair's research contributions in bio-sequence analysis include work in gene prediction, pattern recognition, and data compression.
Bibliography Books
Free Software and GNU/Linux (Malayalam)
Python - A Pedagogic Introduction Machine and Deep Learning
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Awards Nair is a recipient of Government of Kerala's Young Scientist Award (1991), Engineering Teacher's National Award (1994) from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), National Teacher's Award (2013) from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Award for Excellence in Social Service (2014) from the Vakkom Moulavi Foundation, and P.T Bhaskara Panicker Award (2019).
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204 publications by ResearchGatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Achuthsankar-Nair 22 published works in IEEE Xplorehttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37290496400 8 publications in Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
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