Prof. Shyamanta M. Hazarika

Prof. Shyamanta M Hazarika is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. Prof. Hazarika have an M.Tech in Robotics from IIT Kanpur. He has been awarded PhD from School of Computing, University of Leeds, England where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Anthony G Cohn. From October 2009 to March 2010, he has been a Vertretungsprofessur (Substitute `Full' Professor) of Cognitive Systems & NeuroInformatics, FB3 - Informatik, University of Bremen, Germany. His primary research interest is in Rehabilitation Robotics and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. This translates into interest in bio-mimetic prosthetics; cognition and cognitive vision. From August 2010 to May 2017, he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Tezpur University, wherein he had es tablished the Biomimetic and Cognitive Robotics Lab. He have been part of European Science Foundation's COST Action IC0903 MOVE: Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects. As member of Working Group 1, the emphasis was on development of appropriate `ontology' for identification of motion patterns from massive amounts of data generated by location-aware devices. More recently on a DST-UKIERI Project he had worked with Prof. John Q Gan, University of Essex, England on a Brain Controlled Wheelchair.
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