1993 PAL, Sankar Kumar (b. 1950) PhD(Cal.&Lond.),DIC,FNA,FASc,FTWAS,FTWAS,FNAE,FIAPR,FIEEE, INSA Distinguished Professor Chair,Distinguished Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata – 700108; Res. B-4, Lake View Park, P.O. ISI, Kolkata – 700108; Tel: (033) 25752040, 25752041(O), 24648775, 25772030(R), 09831101500(M); Fax: 25778699, 25773357; Email: ; ; Sp. Pattern Recognition/Image Processing/Machine Learning,Soft Computing & Data Mining/Bioinformatics/CognitiveSystems/Safety Analytics.