Professor Mahesan Niranjan

Department of Computer Science

University of Sheffield

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Email: M.Niranjan@dcs.shef.ac.uk

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Mahesan Niranjan received his BSc from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1982) and MEE from Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1985), both in Electronics Engineering. His PhD was from the University of Cambridge, England (1990). After eight years as lecturer in the Cambridge University Engineering Department, he was appointed to a Professorship in Computer Science in The University of Sheffield, where he is now Head of the Department of Computer Science. In Sheffield he leads a research group in Machine Learning which includes five members of Faculty, three post-doctoral research assistants and six PhD candidates. His research interests are in Nonlinear & Nonstationary Signal Processing and Statistical Pattern Recognition. He has worked on the algorithmic aspects as well as on a range of applications including Speech Processing, Medical Diagnostics and Computational Finance. More recently he is interested in problems in Computational Biology and works closely with a team of Developmental Biologists in Sheffield.