Subrata Das

Laboratory Manager

Dr. Subrata Das is a research Laboratory Manager at the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in Grenoble, France. Subrata guides fundamental research in the areas of document content management, unstructured data analyses, machine translation, decision-making under uncertainty, and data fusion. His technical expertise includes mathematical logics, probabilistic and other formalisms for handling uncertainty, symbolic argumentation, graphical modeling, particle filtering, and a broad range of computational artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

Before joining Xerox, Subrata held the Chief Scientist position at Charles River Analytics in Cambridge, MA, where he researched and developed systems for DARPA, NASA, and various branches within the US Department of Defense, including the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Lab. He has extensively collaborated with various universities around the world. In the past, Subrata held research positions at Imperial College and Queen Mary and Westfield College, both part of the University of London. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, a Master's in Mathematics from the University of Kolkata, and an M.Tech. from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Subrata is the author of the books "Deductive Databases and Logic Programming," published by Addison-Wesley, "Foundations of Decision Making Agents: Logic, Modality, and Probability," published by the World Scientific/Imperial College Press, and "High-Level Data Fusion," published by the Artech House. Subrata has also co-authored the book entitled "Safe and Sound: Artificial Intelligence in Hazardous Applications," published by the MIT Press.

Subrata is a member of the editorial board of the Information Fusion journal, published by Elsevier Science. He has been a regular contributor, a technical committee member, a panel member, and a tutorial lecturer at the International Conference on Information Fusion. Subrata has published many conference and journal articles, edited a journal special issue, and regularly gives seminars based on his books.