Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
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IITM Pravartak Technology Innovation Hub of IIT MadrasProf. Kushal Shah is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously served as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at IISER Bhopal and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He earned his B.Tech and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras, and later pursued postdoctoral research as a Feinberg Graduate Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research spans Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and Dynamical Systems, focusing on developing ethical and practical frameworks for intelligence testing, data-centric AI systems, and algorithms for anomaly detection, biomedical text mining, and time-series analysis. He has published extensively in reputed journals including PNAS, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions, and AI & Society, and is the author of the book Plasma and Plasmonics (Ane Books / De Gruyter). Recipient of the INAE Young Engineer Award, he has delivered invited talks at leading global institutions such as Imperial College London, University of Warwick, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.