Pawan Lingras

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About Pawan Lingras

Pawan Lingras is a Professor of Mathematics and Computing Science and Director of M.Sc. in Computing and Data Analytics at Saint Mary’s University (SMU), Halifax. He has authored more than 200 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co-authored three textbooks, co-edited two books, and nine volumes of research papers. Over last 25 years, his research and commercialization funding includes NSERC Discovery and Engage, NRC/IRAP, Nova Scotia Productivity and Innovation fund, and Mitacs for projects in data mining, big data, retail mining, wearable technology, Internet of Things, sensor data analysis, Web usage mining, image processing, engineering process mining, clustering - pattern profiling, prediction, automated classification, association mining and optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Pawan is a recipient of Father William A. Stewart, S.J, Medal for Excellence in Teaching (SMU Alumni Association) and Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence award (SMU Student Uniion). He coached CS Huskies programming team from which won eight Atlantic Canadian Championships, four runner-up, and one trip to the World Finals (Hawaii, 2002). He continues to mentor students in app development competitions. Pawan is a graduate of IIT Bombay with graduate studies from University of Regina. His co-authors hail from from Canada, India, China, Tunisia, USA, UK, Germany, Norway, and Chile. He was the Director of a Business Administration and Computing program in the The Gambia, West Africa. He served as a University Grant Council (UGC) funded Scholar-in-Residence at SRTM University, Nanded, and as a visiting professor at IIT Gandhinagar, both in India. He extensively travels through India as an invited speaker. He served as a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Scholar. He has also participated in Science tour of Germany and most recently served as a visiting faculty at Munich University of Applied Sciences.