Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SUGANTHAN
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Phone: 6790 5404, Fax: 6793 3318
Office: S2-B2a-21
Email: epnsugan@ntu.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/

Biography

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan received the B.A degree, Postgraduate Certificate and M.A degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1990, 1992 and 1994, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a predoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney in 1995–96 and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland in 1996–99. Since 1999 he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he was an Assistant Professor and now is an Associate Professor. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Pattern Recognition Journal and International Journal of Computational Intelligence. His research interests include evolutionary computation, applications of evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, biometrics and neural networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Research Interest

Evolutionary Computation, Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, Biometrics, Particle Swarm Optimization, Computational Intelligence in Computer Games, Neural-networks, Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms.

Selected Research Projects

  • Development and Applications of Novel Evolutionary Algorithms (A* PSF Grant 2005-2008, S$ 707,000/-)

Selected Publications

  • P. N. Suganthan, E. K. Teoh and D. P. Mital, “Pattern recognition by graph matching using the Potts mean field theory network”, Pattern Recognition, pp 997-1009, No. 7, Vol. 28, 1995
  • P. N. Suganthan, “Shape indexing using self-organising maps”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, pp. 835-840, Vol. 13 No. 4 July 2002
  • E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan and X. Yao, “Gene selection algorithms for microarray data using least squares support vector machine”, BMC Bioinformatics, Feb. 2006, 7:95.
  • J. J. Liang, A. K. Qin, P. N. Suganthan and S. Baskar, "Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimizer for Global Optimization of Multimodal Functions", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2006.
  • J. J. Liang, P. N. Suganthan, C. C. Chan and V. L. Huang, “Wavelength detection in FBG sensor network using tree search dynamic multi-swarm particle swarm optimizer”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2006