Prahlad Vadakkepat

Prahlad Vadakkepat is a researcher in the field of robotics and is the founder and General Secretary of the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) and in 2013 is its General Secretary.[1] He is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.[2] His research is in the areas of Humanoids, Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers, Distributed robotic systems, Biomorphs and Intelligent Control techniques.

Early life and education

Vadakkepat hails from the Palghat District of Kerala,[3] India, and belongs to the Gupta denomination of the aryavaisya community.

Vadakkepat received B.Tech from NSS College of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1986), M.Tech (1989) and PhD (1996) degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was with the Regional Engineering College Calicut National Institute of Technology Calicut, India as lecturer (1991-96). He has pursued Post-Doctoral studies (1996-98) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST. He is a recipient of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation KOSEF fellowship. In 1999 he moved to the National University of Singapore.

Career

Vadakkepat's work in FIRA has led to several start ups in robotics and embedded systems.[4] Vadakkepat has toured Europe, Asia and India to popularize FIRA and robotic competitions.[3] He was the general chair to the FIRA RoboWorld Cup and Congress in Singapore, 2005, in Incheon, and in Bangalore 2010.[5]

Vadakkepat is the founder and director of Robhatah Robotic Solutions in Singapore and Bangalore.[6] He initiated the international conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vadakkepat is an associate editor of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. His Humanoid robot[7] and robot soccer teams have consistently won several international prizes: first prize and overall championship in Humanoids at the FIRA Robot World Cup (Germany 2006, Singapore 2005 and Austria 2003),[8] First Prize in open category in Singapore Robotic Games (2004) and Second prize in FIRA 2004.

Vadakkepat has served as the Secretary to the IEEE Singapore Section for the year 2005 and as Technical Activity Coordinator to the Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) in 2001-2002. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, India.

Vadakkepat is featured in a number of newspapers and TV shows in several countries (India, Singapore, USA, Korea, Spain, China and France).[9] Vadakkepat has publications in a number of international journals.[10]

He is a trustee to the Magadeepti Charitable Trust Palghat and is the founder of the Grama Samskrithy Foundation Palghat.

References

[11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

  1. ↑ The Hindu : Kerala News : Robots to share and care
  2. ↑ Robotics not receiving the attention it should in India: scientist - The Hindu
  3. 1 2 Robots to share and care - The Hindu
  4. ↑ India’s top scientific brains join hands to ignite scientific passion in students | India Education Review
  5. ↑ Robot World Cup commences in Bangalore
  6. ↑ Spirit of Enterprise - Nominees
  7. ↑ Gulf Daily News » Local News » Robots 'can play key role'
  8. ↑ Fascinating and Living up with Robotics - The Economic Times
  9. ↑ http://www.samachar.com/Robotics-not-receiving-the-attention-it-should-in-India-scientist-mc0uK5jcigb.html
  10. ↑ Google Scholar report
  11. ↑ Top scientists to ignite scientific passion among students | Kerala IT News
  12. ↑ Decennial celebrations at MCET begins - IBNLive
  13. ↑ June | 2014 | Imprint
  14. ↑ Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology
  15. ↑ gulftoday.ae | Kalam, Swaminathan join ‘Igniting Minds’ move

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