Dr. Balasundram Amavasai Senior Member

Reading, United Kingdom  •  IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section
Tagline
Ph.D. in Machine Learning
Contact
  • Mailing Address
    Balasundram Amavasai
    Greater London Innovation Centre, Slough, SL1 3YD United Kingdom (Work)
    Dr. Balasundram Amavasai
    96 Brooksby Road, Reading, RG31 6LY United Kingdom (Home)
Biography
I am the Lead Artificial Intelligence Architect for Europe at Stanley Black & Decker. I am currently serving as Vice Chair for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, with additional responsibilities in Data Science and Machine Learning. In 2007 I was presented with the Outstanding Contributions award and in 2017 the Exemplary Performance award by the IEEE. Prior to to my current position, I was head of the Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory (MMVL) at Sheffield Hallam University. I led projects in the area of robotics (macro, micro and nano), machine vision and machine learning, and have supervised numerous post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D. students. I received my B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK. My Ph.D. research was in the area of machine learning and machine vision.
Interests
Acoustic sensors
Adaptive signal processing
Ambient intelligence
Data acquisition
Measurement
Data processing
Emotion recognition
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
Databricks
Publications
J. Wedekind, B. P. AmavasaiK. Dutton, and M. Boissenin, "A machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language," 2008 International Conference on Information and Automation, pp. 991 - 996.
K. C. Lim, M. BoisseninB. P. Amavasai, and R. Saatchi, "Development of a desktop freehand 3-D surface reconstruction system," 2008 7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems, pp. 1 - 6.
B. McAlister, NH Siddique, and BP Amavasai, "GA-based minimization of scheduling problem in photolithographic track systems," 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems (CIS), pp. 105 - 111.
W. A. F. W. Othman, B. P. AmavasaiS. P. McKibbin, and F. Caparrelli, "An Analysis of Collective Movement Models for Robotic Swarms," EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool", pp. 2373 - 2380.
A. Eisinberg, K. HoustonP. DarioF. CaparrelliB. Amavasai, and M. Boissenin, "Marking techniques for vision recognition of microgrippers for micromanipulation," Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006., pp. 1030 - 1035.
Education
University of Sheffield
Doctor of Philosophy
Engineering , 1999
University of Sheffield
Bachelor of Engineering
Engineering , 1995