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Researcher

K. P. Soman

Also known as Soman Kotti Padannayil

Soman is the Dean of the Amrita School of Artificial Intelligence in Coimbatore, with books and papers that run from data mining, kernel methods and wavelets to deep learning for stock prices and cyber security. He earned a PhD at IIT Kharagpur, worked there as a scientific officer at the Reliability Engineering Centre, and joined Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, where he heads the Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking established in 2003. PHI Learning published his Insight into Data Mining in 2006, Machine Learning with SVM and other Kernel Methods in 2009 and Insight into Wavelets in 2010. In 2017 and 2018 he co-wrote deep-learning papers on stock prediction, and in 2018 and 2019 he co-authored cyber security work with Vinayakumar R, among it an arXiv survey and the IEEE Access paper on intelligent intrusion detection. Stanford's lists of the world's top 2% scientists included him in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

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Timeline

  1. 2003

    Amrita's computational engineering centre

    Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham establishes its Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking in June 2003, and Soman is the head of the centre. Before joining Amrita, he earns a PhD at IIT Kharagpur and works there as a scientific officer at the Reliability Engineering Centre.

  2. 2006–2010

    Books with PHI Learning

    He co-authors Insight into Data Mining: Theory and Practice with S. Diwakar in 2006. Machine Learning with SVM and other Kernel Methods, written with R. Loganathan and V. Ajay, follows in 2009, and Insight into Wavelets: From Theory to Practice in 2010; PHI Learning publishes all three.

  3. 2017–2018

    Deep learning for stock prices

    In 2017, he co-authors Stock price prediction using LSTM, RNN and CNN-sliding window model with S. Selvin, R. Vinayakumar, E. A. Gopalakrishnan and V. K. Menon. In 2018, NSE stock market prediction using deep-learning models, written with M. Hiransha and E. A. Gopalakrishnan, appears in Procedia Computer Science.

  4. 2018–2019

    Deep learning for cyber security

    In December 2018, he, Mohammed Harun Babu R and Vinayakumar R submit the arXiv survey A short review on Applications of Deep learning for Cyber security, which covers intrusion detection, malware classification, Android malware detection, spam and phishing detection and binary analysis. In 2019, IEEE Access publishes Deep learning approach for intelligent intrusion detection system, which he co-authors with R. Vinayakumar, M. Alazab, P. Poornachandran and others.

  5. 2022–2023

    On Stanford's top 2% lists

    Stanford University's world top 2% scientists list for 2022 includes him, and he is Associate Dean of Amrita's School of Computing. In 2023, the single-year list names him as Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence and head of department of Computational Engineering and Networking in Coimbatore.

  6. 2024

    Students win HackHarvard grand prize

    In 2024, a team of third-year B.Tech Artificial Intelligence students from Amrita's Coimbatore campus wins the Overall Best Hack award at HackHarvard with the app Sustain-ify, the first All-Track Grand Prize for an Indian university since the hackathon began in 2015. Soman, as Dean of the Amrita School of Artificial Intelligence, describes the event as a 36-hour marathon of coding and collaboration.

  7. 2025

    Dean of Amrita's AI school

    Stanford University's 2025 list of the world's top 2% scientists names him, as Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, in both the career-long and single-year categories.

Career

  1. Since 2003Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamHead
  2. Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurScientific Officer

Education

  1. Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurPhD

From the biography.

  1. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.

Sources and credits

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  1. Amrita Centre for Computational Engineering and Networking - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. PHI Learning - ISBN 9788120340534 - INSIGHT INTO WAVELETS : FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE - About Author(s) phindia.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Soman K.P - Google Scholar scholar.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. A short review on Applications of Deep learning for Cyber security arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. 15 Amrita researchers listed in Stanford's world top 2% scientists - Amma.org embracingtheworld.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. 24 Amrita University researchers listed in Stanford's world top 2% scientists - Amma.org amma.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Amrita University Students Win Grand Prize in a World-Renowned Hackathon at Harvard - Amma.org amma.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. 37 Amrita University Scholars Included in Stanford's Top 2% Scientists in the World - Amma.org amma.org. Checked 21 October 2026.