Alex James is the Full-professor of AI hardware and Controller of Examinations at Digital University Kerala; and Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala. In the recent past, he held various administrative roles such as Dean External Linkages and Projects, Dean Academic, Associate Dean Academic and School Chair at Digital University Kerala. Prof James received his PhD from Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Australia. He heads the Maker Village, one of the largest electronic hardware incubators in India with over 80 electronics startups. He heads the AI Chip Centre as part of Chip to Startup Program, Centre for excellence in Intelligent IoT Sensors, Graphene Aurora Program and India Innovation Centre for Graphene. He is the founding advisory board member of India’s first Digital Science Park. He has spun out multiple startup companies from his research group; published more than 240 papers. For the last two decades, he worked in the areas of board design, signal integrity and mixed signal design in Industry and in the area of AI hardware and systems in academia. He has taught more than 60 courses, in the areas of chip design and AI. He was an associate editor for IEEE TCAS1 (2018-2023), and IEEE OJCAS (2023).

He got the IEEE Kerala Section Best Researcher Award (2022), IEEE CASS Best Associate Editor for IEEE TCAS1 (2020-2021), Kerala State Higher Education Council Award 2022 - Kairali Gaveshana Puraskaram from the Kerala government, 2024 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, IEEE CASS Best Associate Editor for IEEE TBCAS (2024-2025) and Dr Satyajit Chakraborty Memorial Research Award 2026.  First chair of IEEE CASS Kerala, which won the 2023 IEEE Circuits and Systems Regional Chapter-of-the-Year Award: Region 10 and 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Global Chapter-of-the-Year Award.  He is a member of SIG AgriFood and IEEE CASS Technical Committees on Neural Systems and Applications (NSA TC), Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (NCAS TC), Cellular Nanoscale Networks, and Memristor Array Computing (CNNMAC TC). He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2024-2025) and Associate Editor of IEEE Access, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence. He is currently IEEE CASS Board of Governor Member at Large (2026-28). He is an IET, BCS, and HEA Senior Fellow.