Rajendra Acharya

Rajendra Acharya is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Health at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He also holds roles as Distinguished Professor at the International Research Organization for Advanced Science and Technology (Japan), and Adjunct Professorships at the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and Asia University (Taiwan). His research focuses on biomedical imaging, signal processing, health informatics, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.

He holds qualifications including BEng (Mysore, 1989), MTech (Manipal, 1998), PhDs from NIA (2002) and Chiba (2007), and a DSc (AGH, 2020). His work has attracted over $6M in grants and resulted in 600+ publications, including 550+ journal articles and 17 books. He maintains an h-index of 130 with 67,000+ Google Scholar citations.

Key research areas include AI applications in medical diagnostics (e.g., cancer detection, neurological disorders), signal processing for healthcare, and interdisciplinary collaborations in biophysics and health systems. His articles explore topics like EEG-based disease detection, deep learning for medical imaging, and AI-driven health monitoring systems.

Awarded top 1% Highly Cited Researcher (2016–2022), he serves on editorial boards of journals and guest-edits AI-focused issues. Current projects include AI frameworks for depression detection, airport operations optimization, and student academic progress prediction in education.