KC (Casey) Santosh, PhD
Professor (AI) and Chair, Department of Computer Science, The University of South Dakota
Founding Director, USD AI Research (est. 2015)
Email: kc.santosh@usd.edu
Phone: (605) 658-6841


Biography

Prof. KC (Casey) Santosh, a highly accomplished AI expert, is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota (USD). He is also the founding director of the AI Lab. He served the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a research fellow. Before that, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the LORIA research centre, Universite de Lorraine in direct collaboration with industrial partner, ITESOFT, France. He earned his PhD in Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence from the INRIA Nancy Grand Est research centre (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France). With funding exceeding $8.7 million from sources like DOD, NSF, ED, and SDBOR, he has authored 12 books and more than 270 peer-reviewed research articles, including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMI, and IEEE TAI. He serves as an associate editor for esteemed journals such as IEEE Transactions on AI, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Int. J of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, and Int. J of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence.

As the founder of AI programs at USD, he has taken significant strides to increase enrollment in the graduate program, resulting in over 3,000% growth in just four years. His leadership has helped build multiple inter-disciplinary AI/Data Science related academic programs, including collaborations with Math, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Sustainability and Business Analytics departments. Prof. Santosh is highly motivated in academic leadership, and his contributions have established USD as a pioneer in AI programs within the state of SD.

To name a few, Prof. Santosh is the proud recipient of the Visionary Leadership Award (University of Derby – UK, 2023), the Cutler Award for Teaching and Research Excellence (USD, 2021), the President's Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019), and the Ignite Award from the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS, 2014).

Effective from Spring 2024, he joined the NIST's AI Standards and Innovation (formerly known as AI Safety Institute Consortium) and, since December 2024, has been serving in the U.S. Speaker Program (U.S. Department of State), delivering talks on AI and AI education-being the only representative from South Dakota in both roles.

Recent grant proposals (funded):
    #Grant — SD Biomedical Computation Collaborative (role: PI for AI)
    Agency: Department of Education
    Funding: $6.5 million (2024 - )
    Project: https://sd-bcc.org (For more information: click USD News)
    #Grant — Seed Grant - SD Biomedical Computation Collaborative (role: PI for AI)
    Agency: South Dakota BOR
    Funding: $0.745 million (2023 - )
    Project: https://sd-bcc.org
    #Grant — Research Infrastructure: CC* Campus Compute: Lawrence 2.0: Advancing Multi-Disciplinary Research and Education in South Dakota
    Agency: National Science Foundation, NSF Award # 2346643 (role: Co-PI)
    Funding: $0.499 million (2024 - )
    #Grant — AI/ML Capacity Building at USD (role - AI Lead)
    Agency: Department of Defense DOD News
    Funding: $1.0 million (2023 - 2025)

Honors & Awards
Talks
Talks (keynotes/plenary/invited)


Important note. Beyond my role as an AI scientist, I am also an AI educator, bringing insights tailored for diverse audiences. You can view a sample of my talks through my TEDx Talk (click the image). If you are looking at me for a talk, click ACM Distinguished Speaker and submit your request.


    2026
  1. (January 28, 2026) Toward Carbon-Neutral Human AI! Disrupting for Good: AI, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Circular Economy, American University Al Ras Khaimah, UAE.
  2. (March 26, 2026) Sustainable AI Engineering Solutions!, IEEE Conference on AI Engineering, NIT Jhamsedpur, India.
  3. 2025
  4. (December 04, 2025) Explainability lies in the eyes!, 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Data Science, Marakech, Morocco.
  5. (November 14, 2025) The Push and Pull: Clinicians, AI Scientists, and the Future of Medicine, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, Jaipur, India.
  6. (September 27, 2025) Human AI - Active Learning in Action, Data Engineering in Medical Imaging, MICCAI Workshop, Seoul, South Korea.
  7. (September 24, 2025) AI models, Big Data, and Carbon Footprint!, International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition, Tunisia.
  8. (August 17, 2025) Human AI - How Big Data is Big Enough?, 11th International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning, Paris, France.
  9. (June 17, 2025) Green Computing - Sustainable AI Solutions, 4th African Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Intelligence, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria.
  10. (May 19, 2025) Sustainable AI Solutions - No to Carbon Footprint, AAAI Summer Symposium, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai Campus, UAE.

  11. 2024
  12. (December 27, 2024) Big Data, Supercomputing, and Weapon for Math Destruction!, 3rd International Conference on Data Analytics and Learning, Nanded, India.
  13. (December 19, 2024) Green Computing is all what you need!, 7th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), IIIT Bhopal, India.
  14. (Dec 12, 2024) AI for humanities and AI Education, U.S. Speaker Program, STEAM partners, Kazakhstan.
  15. (Nov 14, 2024) The Push and Pull between Computer Scientists and Healthcare Professionals, BBS Seminar, University of South Dakota, USA.
  16. (October 19, 2024) Sustainable AI Solutions, IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture - IEEE Conference on CVMI, IIIT Allahabad, India.
  17. (August 26, 2024) Sustainable AI solutions for medical imaging informatics, Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI Summer School, Ulster University, UK.
  18. (August 15, 2024) Human-in-loop machine learning - how big data is big to begin with?, International Conference on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition, Vietnam.
  19. (June 30, 2024) #Generative AI, Big Data, and Carbon Footprint, Amity University, India.
  20. (June 12, 2024) #AI and #GenerativeAI - Ethical Concerns, South Dakota State Bar Annual Convention, Pierre, South Dakota, USA.
  21. (June 11, 2024) Chips and Science Act, Sustainable AI, and the Future, IEEE-USA Innovation, Workforce, and Research Conference, South Dakota, USA.
  22. (April 07, 2024) Building sustainable AI for all, TEDx Talk - USD, USD, Vermillion, SD, USA. Video
  23. (March 15, 2024) Explainable AI (xAI): who to blame - data or model?, 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Odisha, India.

  24. 2023
  25. (December 07, 2023) #AIforGood, but how about carbon footprint?, 6th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition, University of Derby, UK.
  26. (Nov 8, 2023) Human-in-loop machine learning - how big data is big to begin with?, 15th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, South Korea.
  27. (September 20, 2023) Machine learning in healthcare - let us go beyond one-way test or automation?, The University of Chicago Medicine, USA.
  28. (August 12, 2023) Big data issue, no worries - active learning is the must!, 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems, Dali, Yunnan Province, China.
  29. (July 24, 2023) Responsible AI or human?, MGM's Health Sciences Institute, Mumbai, India.
  30. (July 22, 2023) Explainable AI model or data?, Applied AI Workshop, Central University of Karnataka, India.
  31. (July 20, 2023) Machine learning for medical imaging informatics - deep or shallow?, Summer School of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IIIT Allahabad, India.
  32. (July 16, 2023) Trust me, AI is not for computer scientists!, Banasthali University, India.
  33. (June 01, 2023) AI & Ethics Panel, Great Plains Network Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, USA. [Video]
  34. (May 25, 2023) The Human Connection - Artificial Intelligence (people, governance, and tooling), South Dakota Humanities Council, SD, USA.
  35. (May 09, 2023) AI/Data Science - from Healthcare to Housing Industry?, Mountain Plains Housing Summit, Sioux Falls, SD, USA. [Video]
  36. (May 02, 2023) AI is the dealbreaker, and so is active learning!, APEC symposium on ICT Skill Standards for Artificial Intelligence, Bangkok, Thailand.
  37. (March 28, 2023) AI is dealbreaker - #activelearning, #bigdata, #carbonfootprint, #sustainableAI, and #greencomputing, USD's third AI symposium, Vermillion, SD, USA. [Video]
  38. (Feb 07, 2023) Few-shot Learning in an #Activelearning Framework to Understand Future #Epidemics, SDSU Data Science Symposium, Brookings, SD, USA.
  39. (Feb 07, 2023) #AIforgood - Utopia or dystopia?, USD Utopia/Dystopia Symposium, Vermillion, SD, USA.

  40. 2022
  41. (Nov 21, 2022) #Activelearning to Minimize the Possible Risk from Future #Epidemics, IEEE Computer Science Society - Hyderabad section, JNTU, Hyderabad, India.
  42. (Nov 18, 2022) #MedicalImagingInformatics - #eXplainableAI, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication, GNITS, Hyderabad, India.
  43. (Aug 13, 2022) #eXplainableAI for #healthcare in #activelearning framework, 23rd New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC 2022), IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter, Silicon Valley, USA. Link
  44. (Aug 12, 2022) #Activelearning in healthcare - infectious disease outbreak, International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), IIIT Allahabad, India. Link
  45. (July 23, 2022) #AI for Medical Imaging Informatics - Where have We Missed #Explainability?, IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2022), Shenzhen, China. Link
  46. (July 28, 2022) #eXplainableAI for Medical Imaging Informatics, 9th International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning (MVML 2023), Prague, Czech Republic. Link
  47. (June 20, 2022) #AIforGood and so does #machinelearning - #machinelearning for #physics and/or #physicists (case study - neutrino classification), PIRE-GEMARDAC, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Link
  48. (May 17, 2022) #AI for infrastructure security - Time to think about Critical Infrastructure Security, VIT, Bhopal, India.
  49. (March 25, 2022) #AI for Medical Imaging Informatics - Where have We Missed #Explainability?, College of Engineering and Technology (Seminar), East Carolina University, USA. Link

Additional note. I had an opportunity to deliver over 90 talks across the globe (since 2008).
Honors & Awards
Honors/Awards
Honors/Awards/Recognitions


    National Recognition, AI Lead
  • U.S. Speaker (AI and AI education), U.S. Department of State (2024–present)
  • Member, AI Standards and Innovation (formerly AI Safety Institute Consortium, AISIC), NIST (2024–present) Link
  • Global Impact & Recognition
  • World's Top 2% Scientists based on citation indicators across all fields (Stanford University, 2023–present)
  • Top 0.05% of scholars in AI for healthcare (GPS Scholar, lifetime)
  • Awards & Distinctions
  • Visionary Leadership Award, University of Derby, UK (2023)
  • Cutler (Richard & Sharon) Faculty Award in Liberal Arts, College of Arts & Sciences, USD (2021) Link
  • The Choice Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) of the year for the book "Medical Imaging: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, and Machine Learning Techniques", Association of College and Research Libraries (2020) Book link; Certificate, Taylor & Francis; OAT, Engineering
  • President's Award for Research Excellence, USD (2019) Link
  • Professor of the Game: Certificate of Recognition (Academic Achievement), Academic Affairs, USD (2019, 2020)
  • Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching (Nominations), USD (2016–2024)
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Ignite Award, Project: Automatic X-ray Screening for Rural Areas (2014)
  • Professional Affiliations
  • Senior Member, IEEE (since 2018)
  • Senior Member, ACM (since 2018)
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Signal Processing Society (since 2023) www.ieee.org
  • ACM Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery (since 2022, two terms) www.acm.org
  • Program Evaluator (PEV) for accrediting computing programs, ABET (since 2022) www.abet.org
  • Paper Awards
  • Best Paper Awards: IHCI (2025), ISPR (2025), IEEE CAI (2025), ISBI (2025, 3rd position), RTIP2R (2025, 2024, 2020, 2018, 2016), KICSS (2006), IEEE CIS (2006)
  • Scholarships/Fellowships
  • Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH (2013–2015)
  • INRIA-CORDI Fellowship, Fresh FP-6 Strep, European Project (2008–2011)
  • Japan Scholarship Program Asian Development Bank (2005–2007)

Honors & Awards
Publications
Publications


Few samples

  • C Wall, L Wang, R Rizk, KC Santosh: Winsor-CAM: Human-Tunable Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Layer-Wise Winsorization, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (2025, revision 2). arXiv
  • A Jain, SR Dubey, SK Singh, KC Santosh, BB Chaudhuri: Non-Uniform Illumination Attack for Fooling Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2025). DOI
  • L Wang, I Uddin, KC Santosh: Expert-Guided Explainable Few-Shot Learning with Active Sample Selection for Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025).
  • A Vettoruzzo, MR Bouguelia, J Vanschoren, T Rognvaldsson, KC Santosh: Advances and Challenges in Meta-Learning: A Technical Review, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (2024). DOI
  • KC Santosh and S. Antani: Multimodal Learning in Medical Imaging and Informatics, IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (2023). DOI
  • KC Santosh, S Ghosh, D GhoshRoy: Deep Learning for Covid-19 Screening using Chest X-rays in 2020: A Systematic Review, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2022). DOI
  • Md S Kamal, L Chowdhury, S Hasan, N Dey, and KC Santosh: Explainable AI for Glaucoma Prediction Analysis to Understand Risk Factors in Treatment Planning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (2022). DOI
  • KC Santosh, S Allu, S Rajaraman, S Antani: Advances in Deep Learning for Tuberculosis Screening using Chest X-rays: The last 5-Year Systematic Review, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2022). DOI
  • KC Santosh and S Ghosh: Covid-19 versus Lung Cancer: Understanding chest CT images through Deep Ensemble Neural Networks, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific (2022). DOI
  • KC Santosh and S Ghosh: Covid-19 medical imaging tools: how big data is big?, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2021). DOI
  • KC Santosh: COVID-19 Prediction Models and Unexploited Data, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  • KC Santosh: AI-driven tools for coronavirus outbreak: Need of active learning and cross-population train/test models on multitudinal/multimodal data, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  • S Ghosh, A Pal, S Jaiswal, KC Santosh, N Das, M Nassipuri: segFast-02: Semantic-based image segmentation using encoder-decoder compression architecture, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  • KC Santosh and L Wendling: Angular relational signature-based chest radiograph image view classification, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer (2018). DOI
  • KC Santosh and S Antani: Automated chest X-ray screening: can lung section symmetry help detect pulmonary abnormalities?, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2018). DOI
  • KC Santosh and P Roy: Arrow detection in biomedical images using sequential classifier, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2018). DOI
  • M Bouguelia, S Nowaczyk, KC Santosh: Antanas Verikas. Agreeing to disagree: active learning with noisy labels without crowdsourcing, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2018).
  • KC Santosh, L Wendling, S Antani, G Thoma: Overlaid Arrow Detection for Labeling Biomedical Image Regions, IEEE Intelligent Systems (special issue: Pattern Recognition) (2016). URL
  • KC Santosh: g-DICE: Graph mining-based Document Information Content Exploitation, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Springer (2015). DOI


    2025

    10 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 19 conference proceedings

  1. C Wall, L Wang, R Rizk, KC Santosh: Winsor-CAM: Human-Tunable Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Layer-Wise Winsorization, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (2025, revision 2). arXiv
  2. H Wang, X Xiong, M Lan, Y Chu, Z Jiang, KC Santosh, S Wang, R Zhong: PC-SNN: Predictive Coding-based Local Hebbian Plasticity Learning in Spiking Neural Networks, Neurocomputing (2025, major revision). arXiv
  3. NR Rasmussen, R Rizk, L Wang, KC Santosh: Ecologically Valid Benchmarking and Adaptive Attention: Scalable Marine Bioacoustic Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2025, under review). arXiv
  4. Shomoita Jahid Mitin, Rodrigue Rizk, Maximilian Scherer, Thomas Koeglsperger, Daniel Lench, KC Santosh, Arun Singh: Bi-cephalic self-attended model to classify Parkinson's disease patients with freezing of gait, European Journal of Neuroscience (2025, minor revision). arXiv
  5. L Wang, I Uddin, KC Santosh: Expert-Guided Explainable Few-Shot Learning with Active Sample Selection for Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025).
  6. Shotabdi Roy, Joseph Nuamah, Taylor J Bosch, Richa Barsainya, Maximilian Scherer, Thomas Koeglsperger, KC Santosh, Arun Singh: EEG-Based Classification of Parkinson's Disease With Freezing of Gait Using Midfrontal Beta Oscillations, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (2025). DOI
  7. A Jain, SR Dubey, SK Singh, KC Santosh, BB Chaudhuri: Non-Uniform Illumination Attack for Fooling Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2025). DOI
  8. A Goenka, S Mitra, KC Santosh, M Naskar, N Das: An algorithmic approach to construct the library of universal logic gates beyond NAND and NOR, Integration , Elsevier (2025). DOI
  9. J Dhar, M Haghighat, N Zaidi, F Sohel, B-Q Vo, KC Santosh: Towards Building Robust Models for Unimodal and Multimodal Medical Imaging Data, Information Fusion , Elsevier (2025). DOI
  10. Mohammed A Chowdhury, Rodrigue Rizk, Conroy Chiu, Jing J Zhang, Jamie L Scholl, Taylor J Bosch, Arun Singh, Lee A Baugh, Jeffrey S McGough, KC Santosh, William CW Chen: The heart of transformation: exploring artificial intelligence in cardiovascular disease, Biomedicines (2025). DOI
  11. Conference proceedings:

    ICDM (1), NeurIPS (1), MICCAI (1), ICIP (1), AAAI (2),
    IEEE COgMI (1, invited paper - vision), ISPR (1, best paper award),
    IHCI (1, best paper award), IEEE ISBI (1),
    IEEE CAI (5, best paper award(1)), RTIP2R (4, best paper award (1))


    2024

    2 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 13 conference proceedings

  12. A Vettoruzzo, MR Bouguelia, J Vanschoren, T Rognvaldsson, KC Santosh: Advances and Challenges in Meta-Learning: A Technical Review, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (2024). DOI
  13. H Mukherjee, A Dhar, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, K Roy, U Pal: LIFA: Language Identification From Audio with LPCC-G Features, Multimedia Tools & Applications , Springer (2024). DOI
  14. Conference proceedings:

    IEEE CAI (3), IEEE CogMI (1), CIPR (3), RTIP2R (2, best paper award (1)),
    CVMI (3), DAL (2)


    2023

    8 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 7 conference proceedings

  15. KC Santosh and S. Antani: Multimodal Learning in Medical Imaging and Informatics, IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (2023). DOI
  16. D GhoshRoy, PA Alvi, KC Santosh: Leveraging sampling schemes on skewed class distribution to enhance male fertility detection with ensemble AI learners, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific (2023). DOI
  17. KC Santosh, D GhoshRoy, S Nakarmi: A Systematic Review on Deep Structured Learning for COVID-19 Screening Using Chest CT from 2020 to 2022, Healthcare, MDPI (2023). DOI
  18. D Ghoshroy, PA Alvi, and KC Santosh: Unboxing industry-standard AI models for male fertility prediction with SHAP, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Healthcare, MDPI (2023). DOI
  19. A Makkar and KC Santosh: SecureFed: Federated learning empowered medical imaging technique to analyze lung abnormalities in chest x-rays, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Springer (2023). DOI
  20. N Das, KC Santosh, L Shen, S Chakraborty: Cervical Cancerous Cell Classification: Opposition-based Harmony Search for Deep Feature Selection, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2023). DOI
  21. D Ghoshroy, PA Alvi, and KC Santosh: AI Tools for Assessing Human Fertility using Risk Factors: A State-of-the-Art Review, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2023). DOI
  22. S Roy and KC Santosh: Analyzing Non-biological Foreign Objects in Chest X-rays – Clinical Significance and AI tools, Healthcare, MDPI (2023). DOI
  23. D Ghoshroy, PA Alvi, and KC Santosh: eXplainable AI to predict male fertility using extreme gradient boosting algorithm with SMOTE, Electronics – Feature Papers in Computer Science & Engineering, MDPI (2023). DOI
  24. Conference proceedings:

    IEEE CAI (4), RTIP2R (3)


    2022

    10 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 10 conference proceedings

  25. T Ghosh, S Sen, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy, and U Pal: Advances in Online Handwritten Recognition in the last decades, Computer Science Review, Elsevier (2022). DOI
  26. KC Santosh, S Allu, S Rajaraman, S Antani: Advances in Deep Learning for Tuberculosis Screening using Chest X-rays: The last 5-Year Systematic Review, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2022). DOI
  27. KC Santosh and S Ghosh: Covid-19 versus Lung Cancer: Understanding chest CT images through Deep Ensemble Neural Networks, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific (2022). DOI
  28. S Raman, V Gupta, P Nagrath, and KC Santosh: Hate and aggression analysis in NLP using interpretable AI, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2022).
  29. KC Santosh, N Rasmussen, M Mamun, S Aryal: A systematic review on cough sound analysis for Covid-19 diagnosis and screening: is my cough sound COVID-19?, PeerJ Computer Science (2022). DOI
  30. F Alenezia, A Armghana, KC Santosh: Underwater image dehazing using global color features, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2022). DOI
  31. Md S Kamal, L Chowdhury, S Hasan, N Dey, and KC Santosh: Explainable AI for Glaucoma Prediction Analysis to Understand Risk Factors in Treatment Planning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (2022). DOI
  32. S Pandey, V Chouhan, D Verma, S Rajrah, R Saini, and KC Santosh: Do-It-Yourself Recommender System: Reusing and Recycling with Blockchain and Deep Learning, IEEE Access (2022). DOI
  33. KC Santosh, S Ghosh, D GhoshRoy: Deep Learning for Covid-19 Screening using Chest X-rays in 2020: A Systematic Review, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2022). DOI
  34. Md Kawsher, M Biswas, L Gaur, F Alenezi, and KC Santosh: Deep Features to Detect Pulmonary Abnormalities in Chest X-rays due to Infectious DiseaseX: Covid-19, Pneumonia, and Tuberculosis, Information Sciences, Vol 492, Elsevier (2022). DOI
  35. Conference proceedings:

    IEEE CBMS (2), IEEE CVMI (1), RTIP2R (7)


    2021

    17 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 18 conference proceedings

  36. TJ Bosch, R Barsainya, A Ridder, KC Santosh, and A Singh: Interval timing and midfrontal delta oscillations are impaired in Parkinson's disease patients with freezing of gait, Journal of Neurology, Springer (2021). DOI
  37. KC Santosh: Current Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021). DOI
  38. V Gupta, KC Santosh, R Arora, T Ciano, KS Kalid, S Mohan: Socioeconomic impact due to COVID-19: An empirical assessment, Information Processing and Management, Elsevier (2021). DOI
  39. S Majumder, S Chowdhury, N Dey, and KC Santosh: Balance Your Work-Life: Personal Interactive Web-Interface, International Journal Of Interactive Multimedia And Artificial Intelligence (2021). DOI
  40. KC Santosh and S Ghosh: Covid-19 medical imaging tools: how big data is big?, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2021). DOI
  41. J-C Burie, A Fornés, KC Santosh, and MM Luqman: Deep learning for graphics recognition: document understanding and beyond, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (2021). DOI
  42. A Koilada, N Das, KC Santosh: Cervical Cancerous Cell Classification: Opposition-based Harmony Search for Deep Features Selection, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2021). DOI
  43. H Mukherjee, H Salam, KC Santosh: Lung Health Analysis: Adventitious Respiratory Sound Classification Using Filterbank Energies, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2021). DOI
  44. S Ghosh, A Chaki, KC Santosh: Improved U-Net architecture with VGG-16 for brain tumor segmentation, Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Springer (2021). DOI
  45. P Pirasteh, MR Bouguelia, KC Santosh: Personalized Recommendation: An Enhanced Hybrid Collaborative Filtering, Advances in Computational Intelligence, Springer (2021). DOI
  46. N Jain, V Gupta, KC Santosh: Understanding Cartoon Emotion using Integrated Deep Neural Network on Large Dataset, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer (2021). DOI
  47. M Ghosh, H Mukherjee, Obaidullah Sk, KC Santosh, N Das, Kaushik Roy: LWSINet: A deep learning-based approach towards video script identification, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (2021). DOI
  48. M Ghosh, S Roy, H Mukherjee, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy: Understanding movie poster: Transfer-deep learning approach for graphic-rich text recognition, The Visual Computer, Springer (2021). DOI
  49. Md N Yousuf Ali, Md L Rahman, J Chaki, N Dey, KC Santosh: Machine Translation using Deep Learning for Universal Networking Language based on their Structure, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2021). DOI
  50. F Alenezi, KC Santosh: Geometric Regularized Hopfield Neural Network for Medical Image Enhancement, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (2021). DOI
  51. S Ghosh, A Bandyopadhyay, S Sahay, R Ghosh, I Kundu, KC Santosh: Colorectal Histology Tumor Detection using Ensemble Deep Neural Network, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2021). DOI
  52. D Ruikar, KC Santosh, R Hegadi, L Rupnar, V Chaudhary: 5K+ CT Images on Fractured Limbs: A Dataset for Medical Imaging Research, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2021). DOI
  53. Conference proceedings:

    CCIB(1), IEEE CBMS(4), IJCNN (1), AMLDA(1), and RTIP2R(11)


    2020

    18 journal articles, 2 book chapters and 14 conference proceedings

  54. B Cankaya, B Eren Tokgoz, A Dag, and KC Santosh: Development of a Machine-Learning-Based Decision Support Mechanism for Predicting Chemical Tanker Cleaning Activity, Journal of Modelling in Management (2020).
  55. H Mukherjee, P Sreerama, K Roy, Z Temesgen, and KC Santosh: Automatic lung health screening using respiratory sounds, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  56. A Maiti, B Chaterjee, and KC Santosh: Skin Cancer Classification through Quantized color features and Generative Adversarial Network, International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (2020).
  57. H Mukherjee, A Dhar, Sk Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, Kaushik Roy: Identifying Language from Songs, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (2020). DOI
  58. A Banerjee, N Das, and KC Santosh: Weber Local Descriptor for Image Analysis and Recognition: A Review, The Visual Computer, Springer (2020). DOI
  59. H Mukherjee, S Ghosh, A Dhar, Sk Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy: Shallow Convolutional Neural Networks for COVID-19 Outbreak Screening using Chest X-rays, Cognitive Computation, Springer (2020). DOI
  60. H Mukherjee, S Ghosh, A Dhar, Sk Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy: Deep Neural Network to Detect COVID-19: One Architecture for both Chest X-rays and CT Scans, Applied Intelligence, Springer (2020). DOI
  61. HR Bhapkar, P Mahalle, N Dey, KC Santosh: Revisited COVID-19 mortality and recovery rates: are we missing recovery time period?, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  62. S Aryal, KC Santosh, R Dazeley: usfAD: A robust unsupervised stochastic forest-based anomaly detector, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2020). DOI
  63. N Dey, KC Santosh: COVID-19: Psychological and Psychosocial Impact, Fear, and Passion, Digital Government: Research and Practice, ACM (2020). DOI
  64. S Mitra, KC Santosh, MK Naskar: Niblack Binarization on Document Images: Area Efficient, Low Cost, and Noise Tolerant Stochastic Architecture, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2020). DOI
  65. KC Santosh: COVID-19 Prediction Models and Unexploited Data, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  66. KC Santosh: AI-driven tools for coronavirus outbreak: Need of active learning and cross-population train/test models on multitudinal/multimodal data, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  67. D Das, KC Santosh, U Pal: Truncated Inception Net: COVID-19 Outbreak Screening using Chest X-rays, Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Springer (2020). DOI
  68. D Elliott, KC Santosh, C Anderson: Gradient boosting in crowd ensembles for Q-learning using weight sharing, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2020). DOI
  69. S Das, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy, C K Saha: Cardiotocograph-based labor stage classification from uterine contraction pressure during ante-partum and intra-partum period - a fuzzy theoretic approach, Health Information Science and Systems, Springer (2020). DOI
  70. R Guha, N Das, M Kundu, M Nasipuri, KC Santosh: DevNet: an efficient CNN architecture for handwritten Devanagari character recognition, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2020). DOI
  71. S Aryal, AA Baniya, KC Santosh: A Novel Data Pre-processing Technique: Making Data Mining Robust to Different Units and Scales of Measurement, The Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems (2020).
  72. Conference proceedings:

    ICPR (1), CBMS (5), and RTIP2R (7, best paper award (1)) CVIP(1).

    Book chapters:

    Medical imaging and COVID-19 (2)


    2019

    11 journal articles, 6 book chapters and 27 conference proceedings

  73. S Ghosh, A Pal, S Jaiswal, KC Santosh, N Das, M Nassipuri: segFast-02: Semantic-based image segmentation using encoder-decoder compression architecture, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  74. H Mukherjee, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, K Roy: Deep learning for spoken language identification: Can we visualize speech signal patterns?, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer (2019). DOI
  75. A Jagtap, RS Hegadi, KC Santosh: Feature Learning for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification Using Convolutional Neural Network, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) (2019). DOI
  76. H Mukherjee, A Dhar, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, K Roy: Linear predictive coefficients-based feature to identify top-7 spoken language, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2019). DOI
  77. S Ukil, S Ghosh, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy, N Das: Improved word level handwritten Indic script identification through integrated small convolutional neural networks, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer (2019). DOI
  78. D Ruikar, KC Santosh, RS Hegadi: Automated fractured bone segmentation and labeling from CT images, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2019). DOI
  79. H Mukherjee, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, K Roy: A lazy learning-based language identification from speech using MFCC-2 features, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  80. R Saini, P Kumar, B Kaur, P P Roy, D P Dogra, KC Santosh: Kinect sensor-based interaction monitoring system using the BLSTM neural network in healthcare, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  81. S Vaidya, C Mouli, KC Santosh: Imperceptible watermark for a game-theoretic watermarking system, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  82. Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, C Halder, N Das, K Roy: Automatic Indic script identification from handwritten documents: page, block, line and word-level approach, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2019). DOI
  83. KC Santosh: Speech processing in healthcare: can we integrate?, Intelligent Speech Signal Processing, Elsevier Press (2019). DOI
  84. Conference proceedings:

    PReMI (1), ICICC (2, best paper award(1)), GREC@ICDAR (2),
    ICCDC (2), CACCS (1), RTIP2R (15, best paper award(1)), and AISC (2)

    Book chapters:

    Medical Imaging (3) and Document processing (3).


    2018

    14 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 6 conference proceedings

  85. KC Santosh and S Antani: Automated chest X-ray screening: can lung section symmetry help detect pulmonary abnormalities?, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2018). DOI
  86. KC Santosh and L Wendling: Angular relational signature-based chest radiograph image view classification, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer (2018). DOI
  87. S F Nimmy, G Sarowar, N Dey, A Ashour, KC Santosh: Investigation of DNA discontinuity for detecting Tuberculosis, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer (2018). DOI
  88. D Ruikar, RS Hegadi, KC Santosh: A Systematic Review on Orthopedic Simulators for Psycho-Motor Skill and Surgical Procedure Training, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2018). DOI
  89. S Vajda, A Karagyris, S Jaeger, KC Santosh, S Candemir, Z Xue, S Antani, G Thoma: Feature Selection for Automatic Tuberculosis Screening in Frontal Chest Radiographs, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer (2018). DOI
  90. H Mukherjee, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, S Phadikar, K Roy: Line spectral frequency-based features and extreme learning machine for voice activity detection from audio signal, International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer (2018). DOI
  91. Sk Md Obaidullah, A Bose, H Mukherjee, KC Santosh, N Das, K Roy: Extreme learning machine for handwritten Indic script identification in multi-script documents, Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE (2018). DOI
  92. Sk Md Obaidullah, C Halder, KC Santosh, N Das, K Roy: Handwritten Indic script identification in multi-script document images: A survey, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2018). DOI
  93. C Halder, Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, K Roy: Content independent writer identification on Bangla script: A document level approach, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2018). DOI
  94. Sk Md Obaidullah, C Halder, KC Santosh, N Das, K Roy: PHDIndic 11: Page-level handwritten document image dataset of 11 official Indic scripts for script identification, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (2018). DOI
  95. KC Santosh: Correspondence: Edge map analysis in chest X-rays for automatic pulmonary abnormality screening, Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, Elsevier (2018). DOI
  96. Sk Md Obaidullah, N Das, KC Santosh, K Roy: Automatic Line-Level Script Identification From Handwritten Document Images – A Region-Wise Classification Framework For Indian Subcontinent, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (2018). URL
  97. KC Santosh and P Roy: Arrow detection in biomedical images using sequential classifier, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2018). DOI
  98. M Bouguelia, S Nowaczyk, KC Santosh: Antanas Verikas. Agreeing to disagree: active learning with noisy labels without crowdsourcing, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2018).
  99. Conference proceedings:

    SPIE Medical Imaging (1), ICRCICN (1), ICSKIMA (1), ICICBA (1), and AISC (3).


    2017

    5 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 7 conference proceedings

  100. KC Santosh, A Aafaque, S Antani, G Thoma: Line segment-based stitched multipanel figure separation for effective biomedical CBIR, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2017). DOI
  101. KC Santosh and S Vajda: Automated chest X-ray screening: can edge map measure the evidence of pulmonary abnormalities?, Atlas of Science (June 02, 2016). URL
  102. F Zohora and KC Santosh: Foreign Circular Element Detection in Chest X-rays for Effective Automated Pulmonary Abnormality Screening, International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (2017). DOI
  103. Sk Md Obaidullah, KC Santosh, C Halder, N Das, K Roy: Word-level Multi-script Indic Document Image Dataset and Baseline Results on Script Identification, International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (2017). DOI
  104. Sk Md Obaidullah, C Goswami, KC Santosh, N Das, C Halder, K Roy: Separating Indic scripts with mantra for effective handwritten script identification in multiscript documents, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2017). DOI
  105. Conference proceedings:

    RTIP2R (7, best paper award (1)).


    2016

    4 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 3 conference proceedings

  106. KC Santosh, S Vajda, S Antani, G Thoma: Edge map analysis in Chest X-rays for Automatic Abnormality Screening, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology & Surgery, Springer (2016). DOI
  107. KC Santosh, N Alam, P Roy, L Wendling, S Antani, G Thoma: A Simple and Efficient Arrowhead Detection in Biomedical Images, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2016). DOI
  108. KC Santosh, L Wendling, S Antani, G Thoma: Overlaid Arrow Detection for Labeling Biomedical Image Regions, IEEE Intelligent Systems (special issue: Pattern Recognition) (2016). URL
  109. A Karargyris, J Siegelman, D Tzortzis, S Jaeger, S Candemir, Z Xue, KC Santosh, S Vajda, S Antani, L Folio, G Thoma: Combination of texture and shape features to detect Tuberculosis in digital chest X-rays, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology & Surgery, Springer (2016). DOI
  110. Conference proceedings:

    DRR (1), CVIP (1), and ICISO (1)).


    2015

    5 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 3 conference proceedings

  111. KC Santosh: g-DICE: Graph mining-based Document Information Content Exploitation, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Springer (2015). DOI
  112. KC Santosh, S Candemir, S Jaeger, S Antani, G Thoma, L Folio: Automatically Detecting Rotation in Chest Radiographs using Principal Rib-Orientation Measure for Quality Control, International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2015). DOI
  113. KC Santosh, L Wending: Character recognition based on Multi-projection Non-linear Profiles Measure, Frontiers of Computer Science, Springer (2015). DOI
  114. KC Santosh, L Wendling: Graphical Symbol Recognition, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2015). DOI
  115. S Candemir, E Borovikov, KC Santosh, S Antani, G Thoma: RSILC: Rotation and Scale Invariant, Line Colour aware Descriptor, Image and Vision Computing (2015). DOI
  116. E Philippot, KC Santosh, A Belaïd, Y Belaïd: Bayesian Networks for Incomplete Data Analysis in Form Processing, International Journal of Machine Learning & Cybernetics, Springer (2015). DOI
  117. Conference proceedings:

    ImageCLEF (1) and IEEE CBMS (2).


    2005-2014

    5 journal articles, 0 book chapters and 3 conference proceedings

  118. KC Santosh, L Wending, B Lamiroy: BoR: Bags-of-Relations for Symbol Retrieval, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2014). DOI
  119. KC Santosh, B Lamiroy, L Wendling: Integrating Vocabulary Clustering with Spatial Relations for Symbol Recognition, International Journal of Document Analysis and Application, Springer (2014). DOI
  120. KC Santosh, L Wendling, B Lamiroy: DTW–Radon Shape Descriptor for Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2013). DOI
  121. KC Santosh, C Nattee, B Lamiroy: Relative Positioning of Stroke Based Clustering: A New Approach to On-line Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition, International Journal of Image & Graphics (IJIG), World Scientific (2012). DOI
  122. KC Santosh, B Lamiroy, L Wendling: Symbol Recognition using Spatial Relations, Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Elsevier (2012). DOI
  123. KC Santosh: Use of Dynamic Time Warping for Object Shape Classification through Signature, Kathmandu University Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (2010). URL
  124. KC Santosh, C Nattee: A Comprehensive Survey on On-line Handwriting Recognition Technology and its Real Application to the Nepalese Natural Handwriting, Kathmandu University Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (2009). URL
  125. KC Santosh, C Nattee: Template-based Nepali Handwritten Alphanumeric Character Recognition, Thammasat International Journal of Science and Technology (2009). URL
  126. Conference proceedings:

    2014: ICPR (1), CBMS (1), ICFHR (1), and RAIT (1).
    2013: ICDAR (3), MVA (2), and IbPRIA (1).
    2012: GREC (1).
    2011: IEEE ICFHR (1), IEEE ICPR (1), and GREC (1).
    2009: IEEE ICDAR (1), ACIVS (1), and GREC (1).
    2006: KICSS (1, best paper award), PRICAI (1), and IEEE CIS (1).

    Book chapters:

    (2012): INTECH (1)


Honors & Awards
Academic News
Academic News


  • (Summer 2025): USD Hosts Week of AI-Focused Events, Highlighting Commitment to Research and Innovation (USD News, June 23–27, 2025). Link
  • (Summer 2025): 7th USD IEEE-Sponsored AI Symposium with the Inaugural SD Biomedical Computation Consortium: Panel Discussion on Workforce Development in the State – AI and Biomedical Engineering (USD News, June 26, 2025). Link
  • (Spring 2025): Panel Discussion on AI and Medical Research (Rotary South Dakota Downtown Sioux Falls, January 6, 2025).
  • (Fall 2024): USD Receives $6.5 Million to Establish South Dakota Biomedical Computation Collaborative (USD News). Link
  • (Fall 2024): In the Moment – Harnessing AI for Good in South Dakota (South Dakota Public Broadcasting). Link
  • (Summer 2024): USD Computer Science Department Expands AI Offerings with MS in Artificial Intelligence (USD News). Link
  • (Summer 2024): USD Faculty to Discuss AI Ethics at State Bar of South Dakota Annual Convention (USD News). Link
  • (Summer 2024): USD Announces Participation in Department of Commerce Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety (USD News). Link
  • (Summer 2024): USD's KC Santosh to Highlight CHIPS and Science Act and AI Innovation at IEEE-USA Conference (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2024): Computer Science Chair Co-Authors Book on Active Learning in Healthcare with Recent Department Graduate Student (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2024): NSF Director Michael L. Littman to Deliver Keynote at USD's Fourth Annual AI Symposium (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2024): IEEE Sponsors USD's Fourth Annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium (USD News). Link
  • (Summer 2023): Graduate Computer Science Student Co-Authors Book on AI with Department Chair (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2023): USD to Host Third Annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2023): Students Flock to Artificial Intelligence Offerings at USD's Computer Science Department (Sioux Falls Business). Link
  • (Fall 2022): Students Flock to Artificial Intelligence Offerings at USD's Computer Science Department (USD News). Link
  • (Fall 2022): University of South Dakota's Artificial Intelligence Program Proves Attractive for People of All Careers (Sioux City Journal). Link
  • (Spring 2022): USD to Host First Artificial Intelligence Symposium, March 22, 2022 (USD News). Link
  • (Spring 2021): USD to Host First AI Symposium, March 16–18, 2022 (USD News). Link
  • (January 2021): Farming with Technology – AI for Sustainable and Precision Agriculture (Prairie Business Magazine). Link
  • (Fall 2020): USD to Offer State's Only Artificial Intelligence Programs (USD News). Link
  • (Fall 2020): USD to Offer State's Only Artificial Intelligence Programs (WeAreSouthDakota). Link
  • (Fall 2020): State's Only AI Program to Come to USD (NewsBreak). Link
  • (Fall 2020): State's Only AI Programs to Come to USD (The Volante). Link
  • (Spring 2020): USD Computer Scientist Provides AI Guidelines for COVID-19 Outbreak (USD News). Link
  • (Fall 2018): Making Sense of Big Data (College of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Page 10). Link
  • (Fall 2018): USD to Host Symposium on Data Harnessing (USD News). Link
  • (Fall 2018): USD Professor Authors Book, "Document Image Analysis" (The Volante). Link
  • (Fall 2018): NSA Hosts Dashain, Celebrates Good Over Evil (The Volante). Link
  • (Spring 2018): Nepalese Student Association at USD (YouTube, International Office). Link
  • (Fall 2017): New Organization Founded to Represent Nepalese Culture (The Volante). Link
  • (Fall 2017): Dr. KC Shares Insights About Computer Science at the University of South Dakota (USD International Blog). Link

Honors & Awards
Recruiting
Recruiting


Ongoing hiring

We are hriing Faculty, Postdoctoral Researchers, PhD, and MS students. Join me in the Computer Science Department at the University of South Dakota (USD). Research positions are within the USD AI Research Lab (Founding Director, KC Santosh, PhD) — check us out! https://www.ai-research-lab.org

Follow our LinkedIn pages (the best/primary place to check our calls or position announcements, immediately after the formal call on yourfuture.sdbor.edu/) to learn more about research areas and opportunities:

Currently available positions

Postdoc and/or biomedical AI scientist (multiple) – SDBOR & Department of Education (funding source)


Honors & Awards
Leadership
Leadership


Visionary Leadership Award

    Recipient of the Visionary Leadership Award, University of Derby, UK (2023).

Leadership Training

    Participated in the CCAS Deans/Chairs Training Program (1.0: Spring 2021; 2.0: Summer 2024) and completed the President's Executive Leadership Institute at USD (Aug 2021–May 2022), engaging with university leaders nationwide, preparing future university leaders, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

Program Leadership

    Fully revised faculty expectation documentation (2020, updated from 2015), revisited the department mission (2020), and authored the graduate handbook (2025), centering all efforts on the AI+x initiative.

    The AI+x initiative emphasizes program rebranding, interdisciplinary expansion through curriculum innovation, fundraising and financial sustainability, student and faculty success and retention, and outreach and visibility through agreements and MOUs, as well as signature events such as the IEEE-sponsored AI Symposium (estd. 2018) and the university-wide brownbag lecture series (estd. 2020).

Curriculum Innovation

    Leadership in curriculum transformation through the AI+x initiative, integrating artificial intelligence across disciplines and statewide partnerships, and establishing USD as South Dakota's hub for AI, Data Science, and Engineering. Scaled the department from two legacy degree programs (1970–2020; 60–80 students) to five degree programs – including a PhD in Data Science & Engineering – with six specializations and certificates serving ~500 students (data: FA23/SP24/FA24). Built and led interdisciplinary programs spanning Math, Biology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, Sustainability, and Business Analytics.

Strategic Growth: Enrollment, Hiring, and Budget

    Hired more than 15 faculty (plus two adjuncts) and six staff/postdoctoral data scientists; increased graduate enrollment from 10-12 to over 300 (Fall 2024), undergraduate majors from <50 to ~170, and expanded the operating budget from ~$0.5M to ~$2.2M.

Program Assessment and Accreditation Leadership

    Led ABET accreditation for the BS in Computer Science, securing initial accreditation (2016-17) and renewal (2022-23); served as an ABET Program Evaluator since Fall 2017.

Fundraising and Development Initiatives

    Secured significant funding and resources, including the $2M Tuve Endowment, the $52K Hansen Scholarship, the Dakota PC AI supercomputing gift, and annual contributions of ~$10–15K from Unite for USD, supporting research, scholarships, and infrastructure initiatives.

Strategic Partnerships, Agreements, and MOUs

    Built and led regional, national, and international collaborations, including industry partners in the U.S. and institutional MOUs across India, Morocco, the UAE, and the UK, with key partnerships at Gulf Medical University, University Cadi Ayyad–ENSAM, IIIT Allahabad, and IIIT Bhopal.

Outreach, Visibility, and Signature Events

    Founded and co-chaired the IEEE-sponsored USD AI Symposium, now the university's largest academic event with 2,700+ attendees (2024), and then expanded with SDBCC in 2025; Organized the NSF Workshop on AI-Powered Materials Discovery (with Physics) and led the Dakota Dream Project, bringing AI in robotics education to underserved K-12 communities and elevating USD's regional, national, and international visibility in AI.

Scholarly Leadership, Grants, and Professional Recognition

    Recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford, 2023-) and top 0.05% in AI for healthcare worldwide (ScholarGPS). Delivered 90+ invited and keynote talks across 20+ countries, authored 12 books and 270+ peer-reviewed publications, appointed U.S. Speaker on AI and AI Education, and serves on NIST AI Standards & Innovation (2024-). Secured major funding including the $6.5M SD-BCC, $1M DoD, $0.5M NSF, and SDBOR grants.

Leadership in Review Panels, Conferences, and Journals

    Served as review panelist and panel lead for NSF (USA), NSERC/Mitacs (Canada), Swiss NSF, MRC (UK), and national agencies in Australia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Chaired major IEEE conferences such as IEEE Conference on AI and served as Associate Editor for leading journals including IEEE TMI, IEEE TAI, and IEEE Access.

Honors & Awards
Curriculum
Curriculum Innovation


Curriculum innovation through the AI+x initiative integrates AI across disciplines and positions USD as South Dakota's hub for AI, Data Science, and Engineering. AI+x initiative involves curriculum innovation, interdisciplinary programs, and research labs/centers.


  • Launched the state's first formal AI programs , including BS/MS AI specializations and certificates (plus online) (brochure, Fall 2020).
  • Co-developed the MS in Business Analytics (Fall 2019, Beacom School of Business).
  • Introduced the accelerated 4+1 pathway (Fall 2020).
  • Launched the MS in Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2024).
  • Established the interdisciplinary PhD in Data Science & Engineering (Fall 2023) in partnership with the South Dakota School of Mines.
  • Expanded interdisciplinary certificates, including undergraduate Data Science (for CS and non-CS majors, online) and graduate certificates in Bioinformatics (online) (with Biology and Biomedical Engineering), Geospatial Analytics (with Biology and Sustainability), and Large Data Analytics for Physics (with Physics).
  • Leading development of new interdisciplinary programs planned for Fall 2026, including the MS in Quantum Computing, MDes in HCI / UX-UI (with School of Fine Arts and Psychology), BS/MS in Data Science & Engineering (with SD School of Mines), and PhD in Computational Biomedical Science (with Sanford School of Medicine).

Honors & Awards
Outreach
Outreach and Visibility


    ... under construction!
Honors & Awards
Review Panelist
Review Panelist (Grant, to name a few)


I have provided sustained leadership in research evaluation by leading and serving on review panels not only nationally but globally, with activities spanning major funding agencies and research organizations across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, reflecting trusted leadership and broad international recognition in evaluating impactful, interdisciplinary research worldwide.



Honors & Awards
Leading Conferences
Leading Conference (few of them)


Demonstrated sustained scholarly leadership by founding, chairing, and guiding premier international and IEEE-sponsored conferences and symposia, shaping research agendas, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and elevating global visibility in AI, data science, and engineering.


  • #RTIP2R (2016, 2018, 2020–2025): Program, General & Honorary Chair + Founder
  • IEEE #CAI: 2026 (Program Chair), 2025 (Vertical Chair), 2024 (Publicity Chair)
  • #IHCI 2025: Advisory Chair
  • #GREC : Program Chair (2019), General Chair (2025)
  • IEEE #AI Engineering : General Chair + Co-founder (2026)
  • IAPR #ICDAR : Doctoral Consortium Chair (2024)
  • #AppliedAI : Honorary Chair + Founder (2024, 2025)
  • IEEE #CBMS : Industry Chair (2023), General Chair (2020, 2022), Special Track Chair (2021), Sponsorship Chair (2026), Steering Committee (2020–present)
  • #Artificial Intelligence Symposium (USD) : Chair + Founder (2021–2025)
  • IEEE #CogMI : Program Chair (2024)
  • IEEE #CVMI: General Chair (2022–2024)
  • #icSoftComp: Chair (2022–2025)
  • #AICV : Chair (2023)
  • IEEE #ICMI : General Chair (2022)
  • #DataHarnessing Symposium : Chair + Co-founder (2018, 2019)
Honors & Awards
Leading Journals
Leading Journals


I have been leading and serving prestigious, high-impact journals as Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Associate Editor-in-Chief across IEEE, Springer Nature, World Scientific, and IET. My editorial service spans artificial intelligence, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern recognition, and human-centric intelligent systems, where I help ensure rigorous peer review while shaping research directions and upholding the quality and integrity of scholarly publishing.


Honors & Awards
USD AI Research
USD AI Research


We are excited to have you explore our work, where we push the boundaries of foundational AI and machine learning while embracing sustainable AI solutions. Our research spans green computing, active learning, and scalable as well as robust AI solutions, ensuring efficiency while saying no to carbon footprint. We specialize in areas such as pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing, data mining, and big data analytics. Our interdisciplinary work impacts domains including healthcare informatics, medical imaging, document analysis, biometrics, forensics, speech processing, and the Internet of Things. Join us as we drive AI innovation with sustainability at its core!

Aligned with USD's AI programs, this is a place where everyone-regardless of background-can thrive. Our passion lies in striving for excellence, driving AI innovation, and supporting one another in the pursuit of success. Together, we are shaping the future of intelligent systems. Go Yotes! Let's drive AI innovations together!

More information, check 'em out here: https://www.ai-research-lab.org. We are hriing Faculty, Postdoctoral Researchers, PhD, and MS students.

#AI #DataScience #Research #Engineering #Innovation #Opportunities

Books
Future Books
Reinforcement Learning Book
AI Fertility Book
Crack ML Book
Active Learning Book
AI Book
AI ML Healthcare Book
Deep Learning Medical Imaging Book
Book 2017
COVID-19 Book 1
COVID-19 Book 2
Medical Imaging Book
Document Processing Book

Contact: Department of Computer Science
The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street
Office #201, Arts & Sciences (Building)
Vermillion, SD 57069