Swagatam Das

Swagatam Das is a Professor and currently serves as Deputy Director of the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI) at TCG CREST, Kolkata, India. Previously, he held the position of Head of the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from 2021 to 2023.

His academic credentials include a B.E. in Telecommunications Engineering (2003), M.E. in Telecommunications Engineering with Control Engineering specialization (2005), and Ph.D. in Engineering (2009), all from Jadavpur University, India.

Dr. Das's research spans Evolutionary Computing and Machine Learning with significant contributions in bio-inspired optimization algorithms, generative adversarial networks, large language models, and deep semantic segmentation for medical diagnostics. His work demonstrates consistent innovation across theoretical foundations and practical applications in artificial intelligence.

His scholarly impact is evidenced by:

• Over 400 peer-reviewed publications in journals and conferences
• Google Scholar citations exceeding 30,000 with H-index of 81
• Founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier)
• Associate editor roles for IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and Pattern Recognition

Dr. Das actively shapes academic discourse through program committee participation at premier conferences including NeurIPS, AAAI, and IEEE CEC, while leading strategic research initiatives as Deputy Director of IAI at TCG CREST.