Dr. Soman K.P., Professor, CEN
Email: kp_soman@amrita.edu

Dr. K.P Soman is the head, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Professor, Systems, Amrita Institute Of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore-641105. His qualifications include

B.Sc. Engg. in Electrical engineering from REC, Calicut.

P.M. Diploma in SQC and OR from ISI, Calcutta.

M.Tech (Reliability engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur

PhD (Reliability engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur.

Dr. Soman held the first rank and institute silver medal for M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur. He held the second rank at ISI, Calcutta for his P.M. Diploma. His areas of research include optimization, data mining, signal and image processing, neural networks, support vector machines, cryptography and bio-informatics. He has over 55 papers in national and international journals and proceedings. He has conducted various technical workshops in India and abroad.  Recent Books »

Publications-2002s

[1] “Analysis of DNA sequence using Chaos game representation”, National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT- Chennai, Dec 21, 2002.

[2]“Project Bio-Hunter – A Parallel Algorithm for Gene Sequencing”, Accepted for presentation at VI Annual Conference of The Society Of Operations Management, India, to be held at IIM - Kozhikode.

[3] “Applications of Fractals and Chaos in Quality Control”, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin.

[4] “Parallel Implementation of Conceptual Clustering For Large Business Datasets, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin.

[5] “Robust Design using Simulation and Optimization- A Spreadsheet based Approach”, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin.

[6] “Use of Support Vector Machines to enhance the effectiveness of Direct Marketing”, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin

[7] “Data Mining Application in Marketing Analysis, Using Data Mining on Real Data from COIL- Challenge 2000, Accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin

[8] “Spread Sheet Implementation of a fast algorithm for computing corporate default probabilities”, accepted for presentation at International Conference on “Statistics in Business and Industry”, Jan 2-4, 2003, to be held at Cochin.

[9]“Advanced Information Visualization Techniques for Business Applications”, Accepted for presentation at VI Annual Conference of The Society Of Operations Management, India, to be held at IIM -Kozhikode

[10] “Simulation of Ferro-resonance”, National Conference, IIT-Kharagpur.

[11]“Data Mining Techniques for Portfolio Optimization and Investment Decisions” – A Spread Sheet Based Approach using Genetic Algorithm, National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT- Chennai, Dec 21, 2002.

[12]“Data Mining for Heart Disease Diagnostics –A case study”, National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT- Chennai, Dec 21, 2002.

[13]“Proximal Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Applications- An Easy implementation and demonstration in Excel and Java”, National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT- Chennai, Dec 21, 2002.

[14]“Left Shoulder Detection Using Support Vector Machines”, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, May 2002

Publications –2003

[1] “Applications of Fractals and Chaos in Quality Control”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[2] “Robust Design using Simulation and Optimization- A Spreadsheet based Approach”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[3] “Use of Support Vector Machines to enhance the effectiveness of Direct Marketing”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[4] “Data Mining Application in Marketing Analysis, Using Data Mining on Real Data from COIL- Challenge 2000”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[5] “Spread Sheet Implementation of a fast algorithm for computing corporate default probabilities”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[6] “Parallel Implementation of Conceptual and Clustering For Large Business Datasets”, International Conference on ‘Statistics and Business’, jointly organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; University of Waterloo, Canada, 2 to 4 January, 2003.

[7] “Efficient classification and analysis of Ischemic Heart Disease using Proximal Support Vector Machines based Decision Trees” at IEEE International conference Tencon 2003, Bangalore, India.

[8] "PARADIP: Anatomy of a Massively Parallel Primal Dual Interior Point Method based LP Solver" at 6th International Conference of the Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Socities on Operations Research: Emerging Paradigms for Information Technology, to be held on Dec 8-11.