Arpan Pal

Dr. Arpan Pal

Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head

Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems

TCS Research

Arpan Pal has more than 33 years of experience in Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, as Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) India, he is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Retail and Remote Sensing.

Arpan has filed 225+ patents (out of which 140+ granted in different geographies) and has published 200+ papers and book chapters in reputed conferences and journals. He is listed among the top 20 innovators in India in terms of patents. He is two times winner of Tata Group top Innovation award in Tata Innovista under Piloted technology category. He is recipient of Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Kharagpur, India and is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (FNAE).

Prior to joining TCS, Arpan had worked for Indian Defence R&D lab DRDO as Scientist for Missile Seeker Systems and in Rebeca Technologies as their Head of Real-time Systems. He is a B.Tech and M. Tech from IIT, Kharagpur, India and PhD. from Aalborg University, Denmark.

He is on the editorial board of notable journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems and has been on different organizing committees of notable conferences like IEEE Sensors, IEEE APSCON, ICPR and IEEE Percom. He has written three complete books on IoT, Digital twins in Manufacturing and Application of AI in Cardiac Disease screening.