Shivashankar B. Nair Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati - 781039 Assam (India) _______________
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Areas of Interest: For more info. visit: www.iitg.ernet.in/cse/robotics	Artificial Intelligence - Real (Open) World Applications Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things, Intelligent Mobile Agents, Bio-inspired Systems, Networked & Emotional Robotics, Nature-inspired Language processing, Artificial Immune Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems.
Educational Qualifications:	Ph.D. (Robot-Robot-Human Interactions in Real Time Environments) 1998 Amravati University, Amravati (India) M.E. (Electronics)* 1988 Amravati University, Amravati (India) M.Sc. (Applied Electronics)* 1985 Amravati University, Amravati (India) B.A. Additional (English Literature) 1983 Nagpur University, Nagpur (India) B.Sc. (Physics, Maths, Chemistry) 1982 Nagpur University, Nagpur (India) * First in the University	Click here to preview the Book Co-authored by me: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Kevin Knight, Elaine Rich, Shivashankar B. Nair Tata McGraw Hill Visit the Companion site of the book Click here to download a trial version of Prolog Check out the Mobile Agent Platform at our Robotics Site
Experience: 1998-To date at IIT-G Current: Past: Administrative:	2012- Professor 2012-2014 Professor & Head 2004-2012 Associate Professor 2008-2009 Visiting Professor (South Korean Brain Pool), Hanbat National University, Daejeon, South Korea 1998-2004 Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Duties:Teaching Graduate and Masters level courses Conducting Research and Guiding Projects, Consultancy 2006-2007 - GATE-2007 Chairman, IIT Guwahati	Visit the Robotics Lab. __________________________ IEEE RAS Networked Robotics iRobIN __________________________
Pre IIT-G Experience: 1985 - 1986 1986-1998	Lecturer S.S.G.M.College of Engineering Shegaon, Maharashtra (India) Teaching at the Under Graduate Level Senior Lecturer Amravati University Amravati, Maharashtra (India) Teaching and Conducting Research at the Post Graduate Depts. of Applied Electronics and Computer Science; Guiding Masters' degree projects. Visiting Faculty Government College of Engineering, Amravati, Maharashtra (India) Teaching and Guiding projects; Aiding in setting up laboratories	Links: M.Tech. & B.Tech. Projects AI Projects@IITG (Intranet Only) AIS The Robix Rascal Robot - trying to learn to avoid an obstacle (a pen) using a blind approach coupled with neural networks. Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance: Unsupervising Supervised Learning