Brief Biography

Madhu Chetty has a Ph.D., M.Tech. and B.E. in Electrical Engineering. He has also recently completed the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Monash University in 2004. His main research interests include but not limited to the Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques such as Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Bayesian Network, Fuzzy system etc. He has special interest in the applications of the CI techniques to bioinformatics problems, e.g. application of fuzzy measures to classical profile HMM for improved sequence analysis, artificial neural network and Bayesian network for structure prediction, efficient and accurate  genetic algorithms for protein folding prediction, fuzzy and causal network for modelling and inferencing gene regulatory network, feature selection in micro array gene expression data etc. He also has research interests in areas such as grid computing,optimal control, modelling large scale complex system etc. Dr Chetty is a senior member of IEEE and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India). He has worked in academic positions at various universities such as University of Melbourne, Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (now VNIT),  India, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and Monash University. He has also worked as Scientist  at the Research Labortory at VNIT in India. At Monash University, Australia, Madhu has also served as Course Leader and discipline leader of the Bachelor of Information Technology degree program. He was recently on the board of faculty's strategic education committee and also a coordinator for the honours program at Gippsland campus. Madhu has number of publications in journals and international conferences and is also supervising doctoral research students in Bioinformatics. He has also been recipient of research grants to support his research.

As Associate Editor, Madhu is now on editorial board of the 'Neurocomputing' journal. He is also on editorial board of the 'Journal of Computational Intelligence techniques in bioinformatics and system biology'. He has been on various technical committees and also serves on the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also a proactive member of the  Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium (VBC), Melbourne Australia. He has also been invited to be the special session co-chair and be a part of the organising committee of Pattern recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 07) to be held in Singapore in October 2007. Madhu has served as a Publicity co-chair for the 2007 IEEE symposium on computational intelligence in Bioinformatics and computational biology (CIBCB).

Madhu will serve as General Chair for the Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008) being organised at Melbourne (15-17 October 2008). He will also be serving as Technical co-chair for the CIBCB in 2008. Madhu is currently the Vice Chair of the IEEE CIS subcommittee on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BBTC)