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Dr. Rajendra K Bera

Dr. Rajendra Bera is currently the Chief Mentor at Acadinnet (http://www.acadinnet.com/). He has acquired a wide multi-disciplinary background that includes aerospace engineering, molecular biology, quantum computing, non-linear dynamical systems, intellectual property rights, science & technology policy. His professional career experiences too are wide and span academia, research, & industry.
In academia he served as a visiting assistant professor of aerospace, mechanical and nuclear engineering at the University of Oklahoma, USA (1979-1980); a visiting faculty of aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (1979-1980) where he taught fighter aircraft design; an honorary professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India where he taught quantum computing and intellectual property rights, and a visiting professor at Jain University, department of aerospace engineering where he taught fighter aircraft design and intellectual property rights.
In research, he was a research scientist (1971-1995) at the National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India where he worked mainly in aerodynamics, flight dynamics, theory of elasticity, neural networks, science and technology policy, and technology transfer to industry. At IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, India (1995-2005) he built an R&D group focused on developing patentable technologies and mentored young researchers and inventors. He retired as the head of R&D; chair of Invention Development Team of IBM Global Services, India; and mentor of inventors at IBM India. He is the sole inventor on 28 US patents, all assigned to IBM. His patenting areas include compiler optimization, resource allocation, pattern recognition, and static analysis of computer codes.
Dr. Bera received his BTech, MTech, and PhD degrees in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences; and is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India). He is listed in several Marquis Who's Who.
He is the sole author of over 45 (out of 50+) research publications in refereed journals and of several articles in the media. He is also the sole inventor on twenty-eight (28) US patents. His current research interests include pattern recognition in molecular biology, quantum computing, intellectual property rights, and non-linear dynamical systems.
Many years ago, he was an amateur pilot. In his last four years at IBM, Dr. Bera extensively lectured in the IBM Software Labs in a unique program to create a research culture among his colleagues. The topics covered were molecular biology, quantum computing, formal systems in mathematics, chaos and fractals, information theory, and computer science. He is a member of the Infosys Prize Nomination Council (since 2012); and serves as a member of Peer Teams for assessment and accreditation of universities by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, India since 2011.
His scientific output and contributions in various forms is listed in subsections.
- Rajendra K. Bera. The Amazing World of Quantum Computing, Springer Nature, Singapore, March 2020, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-2471-4
- Dr. Rajendra K. Bera’s response to the USPTO’s Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions, 2019, is now available at the USPTO website, https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Rajendra-Bera_RFC-84-FR-448809.pdf.
Dr. Bera is the sole inventor on 28 US patents, all assigned to IBM. His patents can be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=bera+rajendra&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT - Bera, Rajendra K. Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing. Book Chapter in Synthetic Biology - New Interdisciplinary Science, Madan L. Nagpal, Oana-Maria Boldura, Cornel Baltă and Shymaa Enany, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.83434. https://www.intechopen.com/books/synthetic-biology-new-interdisciplinary-science/synthetic-biology-artificial-intelligence-and-quantum-computing
- Bera, Rajendra Kumar, A Conjecture About Trump (October 20, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3472485
- Bera, Rajendra Kumar, China: The Trump Factor Revisited (October 5, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3464779
- Bera, Rajendra Kumar, Iran: The Trump Factor (June 27, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3410738
- Bera, Rajendra Kumar, China: The Trump Factor (May 27, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3394720
- Bera, R. K., The Essence of Quantum Computing, Part III – Measurement and Interpretation, Advanced Computing & Communications, Vol. 02, Issue 02, 2018, pp. 7-31, (https://acc.digital/the-essence-of-quantum-computing-part-3-of-3-part-series/).
- Bera, R. K., The Essence of Quantum Computing, Part II – Algorithms, Advanced Computing & Communications, Vol. 02, Issue 03, June 2018, pp. 24-50, https://acc.digital/the-essence-of-quantum-computing-3/
- Bera, R. K., The Essence of Quantum Computing, Part I – Foundations, Advanced Computing & Communications, Vol. 02, Issue 02, March 2018, pp. 7-31, https://acc.digital/the-essence-of-quantum-computing/
- Bera, Rajendra Kumar, AI powered society (September 28, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3256873
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- Bera, R. K., Method and system for processing of allocation and deallocation requests in a computing environment, Patent No. US 8,195,802 (issued June 5, 2012).
- Bera, R. K., Method, apparatus and computer program product for network design and analysis, Patent No. US 8,176,108 (issued May 8, 2012).
- Bera, R. K., Listing and modifying groups of blocks in the editing of a document, Patent No. US 8,122,349 (issued February 21, 2012).
- Bera, R. K., Run-Time parallelization of loops in computer programs using bit vectors, Patent No. US 8,028,281 (issued September 27, 2011).
- Bera, R. K., Compiler optimization of source code by determination and utilization of the equivalence of algebraic expressions in the source code, Patent No. US 8,028,280 (issued September 27, 2011).
- Bera, R. K., Concurrent editing of a file by multiple authors, Patent No. US 7,954,043 (issued May 31, 2011).
- Bera, R. K., Restructuring computer programs, Patent No. US 7,934,205 (issued Apr 26, 2011).
- Bera, R. K., Method, system and program product for data searching, JP3832821 (B2), (issued October 11, 2006).