Resume
Resume of Prof Gora C Nandi
(Specialization-Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, Deep Learning), Robotics)
Academics
Graduated (B.E) from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, (Then B E College, Shibpur) in 1984.
Post Graduation (M. Prod. E) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1986.
Obtained Ph .D degree from Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992.
Took intensive special training on Super Computer (Cray 90), through selection Organized by Pittsburgh Super Computer Centre, Mellon Institute, USA, 1994.
Took intensive training on Applied Optics (including Holography and Machine Vision) organized by Oakland University, sponsored by NSF, USA, 1994.
Visiting Research Scientist, The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA 1994-1995.
Visiting Research Fellow, Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department., The Chinese University at Hong Kong (1997)
Visiting Faculty, Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, ( 2010- 2011)
Academic Awards
National Scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) , Govt of India.
Doctoral Fellowship by External Scholarship Division, MHRD, Govt. of India.1988
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997, Awarded by The CUHK, Hong Kong
Indo –Swiss Joint Research Award, March 1, 2005- June 30, 2010, DST Govt of India.
Visiting Professorship, 2010-2011, Awarded by The Institute of Software Research (ISR), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Visiting Professorship, Summer 2013, EPFL University, Switzerland
Awarded NSF-DST Joint Research & Development project, titled "Safe Human-aware Robot Navigation in Warehouses" in collaboration with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA , 8 th August , 2022.
Awarded a US NSF ( US $ 5,00,000) -DST, Govt. of India ( Rs 2, 00,00,000) joint project grant (with IIT Jammu and IIIT-M Gwalior, India and University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA). (as Co -PI).
Current Position
Seniormost Professor and Head of the Centre of Intelligent Robotics of the premier Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, (working since 2001).
Professional Experience
My professional experience in the area of teaching, research and in academic administration is detailed below
TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Teaching and research in the area of Intelligent Robotics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. ( Please see my publication details for more information)
EXPERIENCE IN ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Dean of Academic Affairs ( the only dean of the institute at that time): 2003-2006
Dean of Resource Generation: 2006-2007
Dean of student Affairs: 2007-2010
Dean of Academic Affairs: 2012-2017
Head of Undergraduate Division: 2007-2010
Head of IT Division: 2012-2014
Performed the duties of the DIRECTOR, IIIT-A: Jan 2014-May 2014 & July 2016- May 2017. Provided dynamic leadership in the critical phases of transition of the institute. During 2016-2017, the Indian Today ranking of the institute was 11, Outlook survey ranked us 12 and in QS world ranking we were placed 11 within our country and in the subject area.
The Longest serving Dean of Academic Affairs of the institute ( Total 8 years- 2003-2006 & 2012-2017)
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES/ SOCIETIES
• Senior Member of ACM, USA
• Senior member of IEEE,USA
• Founder Chairman, ACM-IIIT-Allahabad Professional Chapter, (2009-2010)
• Founder Chairperson, IEEE-Robotics and Automation Society Section Chapter ( UP, Uttarakhand, Nepal) ( 2014-2017)
• Chartered Member of Institute of Engineers (India)
• Former Member of Robotics and Remote system division of American Nuclear Society, USA.
• Former Member of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering.
• Founding Member of Robotics Society of India.
• Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
• Member of IEEE Computer Society
SOME JOB/ADMISSION OFFERS AT THE BEGINNING OF MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER
PSU Job offered from Bokaro Steel Plant
PSU job offered from Hindustan Cables
Success in WB JEE ( With 272 rank in Engineering & 395 rank in Medical (MBBS course) in 1980)
Admission offered from Jadavpur in Electrical Engg Branch
Title of My M.S. thesis
Development of a slip sensor for Robot End-Effectors, submitted and defended in the Production Engineering Deptt, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 1987, India.
Title of My Ph.D. thesis
List of Sponsored Projects awarded to me:
A. Ongoing Projects:
Awarded a US NSF ( US $ 5,00,000) -DST ( Rs 2, 00,00,000) joint project grant (with IIT Jammu and IIIT-M Gwalior, India and University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA). (as Co -PI). Date of award- May 30th, 2024 from DST side and March -11, 2024 from US NSF side.
Project title: "Turning 'Tragedy of the Commons (ToC)' into 'Emergent Cooperative Behavior (ECB)' for Automated Vehicles at Intersections with Meta-Learning,"(DST # TPN/97724, NSF tracking ID# 2343167).
Awarded a grant of Rs 1.2 crore (0.25 million US $) by I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC) , an organization set up by the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), DST, Govt. of India , October, 2020 (as Principal Investigator).
Project title: Intelligent grasp manipulation technology development in a cobotics framework for complex manipulation in the warehouse environment.
Awarded US NSF-IHFC DST collaborative grant worth Rs. 50 lacs (0.06 million US $) in collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. ( as Principal Investigator).
Project title: Safe Human-aware Robot Navigation in Warehouses. Sanction date: August, 2022.
Awarded under Indo-German project call 2021, DAAD- DST collaborative project on the topic " Planning Human-Robot interactions with DNN (Large Language Models) ", TPN-73769 (as Principal Investigator) with Bielefeld University, Germany. Sanction date: July, 2023.
Indo-European Union (EU) consortium where our proposal recently bagged a joint collaborative project on Robotics capacity development amounting to €797,785 with IIIT-D, IIIT-Hyderabad and few other reputed Universities and Industries.
B. List of Completed Projects:
1. Abroad (In USA & Hong Kong)
• From US DOE for research in the area of developing a Mercuric Iodide based semiconductor detector for mobile robots deployed in a radioactive decontamination mission. Project completed ( as Principal Investigator).
• From Ford Motor Co., Detroit, for research in the area of optimizing process parameters for sheet metal braze welding using neural network. Project completed (as Co-PI)
• Developing controller for single wheel Gyroscopically stabilized robots, The CHUK, Hong Kong ( as Co-PI)
2. In India
AICTE for developing a precision pointing technology for high data rate telemetry (1995-1998). Rs 15 00000/. Project completed, NIT , Durgapur
( as PI)
MHRD for developing sensor fusion strategies for robotic applications.(1999-2001). Rs 1000000/ Project Completed, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. ( as PI)
Two MHRD funding in 2003 for the duration of 2003-2006 at IIIT-Allahabad of Rs 500000 each. ( as PI)
A mega project titled “Development of Prosthetic and Physiotherapy devices under IRCB”, (Rs 1.7 crores= half million US $) sanctioned during May 2005-2008. ( as co-PI)
Development of Active Prosthesis limbs for Physically Challenged Persons Using Robotics Technology ( Project ID IT 35). INDO –SWISS, Joint Research Program (March 1, 2005 –June , 2006).(as PI).
Brought funding from MHRD for conducting Science Conclave at IIIT-A in Dec 2014, Rs 10 million (as PI).
Funding brought from external agencies for conducting other outreach projects
Organized PAC Meeting of the Expert Committee-USERS March 20, 2012- with DST funding Rs 1 million (as PI)
Organized DST-PAC Meeting in the area of Robotics, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at IIIT-A during 4-5 October , 2013.DST Funding Rs 1.2 million (as PI).
Organized a workshop on Soft Computing from 15-19 May, 2007, DST funding received Rs 1 million. Other sponsors – Microsoft, DRDO. (as PI).
Organized a Summer school on Robotics from June 7 -13, 2014, DST funding Rs 1 million. Other sponsors –Microsoft, Nugenix, National Instruments (as PI).
Organized (jointly) Inspire Program and Nobel Laureate Science Conclave , December, 2014, sponsored by DST, Rs 10 million.
List of selected Invited talks delivered/participation in National/International Conferences and conducted other academic outreach programs :
September, 1997, The MAE Department, The Chinese University at Hong Kong. On Single wheel Gyroscopically stabilized robot-GYROVER.
SPIE’s International Symposium on Sensor Fusion: Architecture & Algorithm 18-20 April, 2001, Orlando, USA and presented a paper titled “Development of a sensor integration strategy for robotic application based on geometric optimization”.
July, 2004, The Institute for the Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.Russia, Issues on biped locomotion control and its applications for human prosthesis.
July, 2007, School of Computer Science, Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL University, Switzerland, On CPG based control of bipedal Robots.
Delivered a five lecture series during 2007-2009, at ALIMCO (Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation), Kanpur during the Technology Development of AMAL (Adaptive Modular Active Leg).
IEEE/RSJ conference (IROS-2008), September 22-28, 2008, at Nice, France presented a paper "Biologically Inspired CPG based above knee active prosthesis"
September, 2008, DST-PAC (Department of Science and Technology, A Govt. Of India funding Agency, Program Advisory Committee) meeting, IIT, Kharagpur, India, on Biologically Inspired CPG controlled prosthesis design.
April, 2010, IIT, Bombay during annual Tech- Festival of Mechanical Engineering Department, on Robotic Control System Design under Reactive Paradigm.
November, 2010, Computer Science and Engineering department, SUNY, Buffalo, USA, on Effective Human-Robot- Interactions.
May, 2011, Computer Science and Engineering Department , OHIO State University, USA on biped locomotion of Humanoid robot
September 18, 2011, Delivered an invited lecture under the banner of ACM, IIIT-A Chapter on Human- Robot Interactions with special reference to Push Recovery.
July 5-7, 2012, Delivered an invited lecture on "Human Robot Interactions:issues and future challenges" in an International Workshop on "Advances in Robotics" at IIT,Delhi
Delivered a Keynote lecture on "Future Trends on Development of Intelligent Robots" in the International Conference on "Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing" AISC - 2012 from 7-9 December 2012, organized by IIT, BHU, Varanasi.
Delivered a talk on Biped Locomotion Control with reference to Push Recovery of Humanoid Robots at the 6th India-Korea Joint Workshop on Robotics, October 30-31, 2013, Juju, The republic of Korea.
Delivered an invited talk on Locomotion Control of Biped Humanoids, IIT, Indore, 16th December, 2013.
Delivered a talk on Neuro- Fuzzy computing at Bharat Electrionics Limited , Ghaziabad, New Delhi, October 18, 2014.
Took active part in deliberation of lecture on ICRA-2015 Workshop of IEEE RAS Chairpersons, May 26-30, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Delivered Key note address on “Challenges of bringing Humanoid Robots in a real world environment” in the UPCON-2015, December 4-6, 2015, IIIT-Allahabad.
Invited by Microsoft Research India to join a select group of academicians in representing India at the Faculty Summit at Redmond, WA USA, July 13-16, 2016.
Delivered Key note lecture on "Biped Locomotion- Challenges and Issues" at the second SERB School on Robotics, organized during 14th to 19 th November 2016 at IIT, Madras.
Delivered a Key note lecture on "Robotics-State of the Art" at the IEEE International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems ( AMIAMS-2017), February 3-5, 2017. MNNIT, Allahabad, India
Delivered a talk on Robotics Research as going on at IIIT-Allahabad, National Institute of Technical Teacher Training and Research, February 20, 2017.
Delivered an invited talk on Robotics on March 8, 2017, at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Lucknow to inaugurate TSC's DRONE DIKSHA initiative on webnair with more than 1600 participants on the web and near about 100 in house participants.
Delivered a keynote lecture on Human -Robot Interactions on March 17, 2017 in IEEE Computer Society of India Symposium (CSIS) 2017.
Delivered a talk titled " Solving biped locomotion challenges using Computational Theoretic Approach" in Indo-Korea joint workshop on Robotics, March 22-23, 2017, IIT Delhi.
Delivered a talk on "Big data Analytics in Robotics" at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on a Big Data Workshop organized by Faculty of Engineering, from December 13-15, 2017.
Participated as a panel speaker in STS forum 3rd INDIA – JAPAN Workshop in Delhi on February 28 2018.
Delivered a keynote speech on Advances of Machine Learning in Robotics during the inaugural function of Advances in Computing Technology (ACT-2018 Faculty Development Program Technically sponsored by TEQIP-III) on March 12, 2018 at MMM University of Technology, Gorakhpur, UP,India.
Delivered Expert Lecture on "Machine Intelligence and Robot Vision" during the Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Machine Learning and Computer Vision(MLCV-2018) Sponsored by WB-TEQIP III, KNIT, sultanpur, UP, India, 9th April -13th April, 2018.
Invited by the URV University, Tarragona, Spain to act as a Jury for a doctoral thesis examination committee, May 21-25, 2018.
Attended 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA-2018) conducted during June12-15, 2018 at Anchorage, Alaska , USA , presented a paper and chaired a session on Robotics-II.
Delivered a Keynote Address on "Influence of Machine Intelligence on solving classical Robotics Problems", in IEEE UPCONN-2018 on November 4th at MMM University, Gorakhpur, India.
Delivered a keynote address in the “2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing and Software Engineering (ICACSE-2019)” on February 09,2019, KNIT Sultanpur.India
Participated as a panel speaker in STS forum 4th INDIA – JAPAN Workshop in Delhi on Wednesday, February 27 2019.
Delivered a Keynote address on Friday, 5th April, 2019 on "Machine Learning Applications in Robotics" in IIT,Kanpur, The Robotics Society of India and IEEE RAS sponsored Winter School on Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Delivered a key note lecture on May 7, 2019 at Barcelona, Spain on "Robotics in the Era of Machine Learning" during International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized during May 7th , 2019 at Barcelona and May 8th, 2019 at Madrid, Spain.
Delivered keynote lecture and took part in panel discussion on May 8th, 2019 at Madrid, Spain , on Civil Law Rules on Robotics under the backdrop of European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2017 with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics, on the occasion of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized during May 7th , 2019 at Barcelona and May 8th, 2019 at Madrid, Spain.
Attended renowned International Conference, CVPR- 2019, June 16-19, 2019, Long Beach, CA, USA.
Delivered an expert lecture on December 14, 2019 on Uncertainty handling using Bayes' theorem and Dempster-Shafer theorem, in the Faculty development program on "Artificial Intelligence" organized by MNNIT, Allahabad, INDIA during Decembe 10-14, 2019.
Delivered an invited technical talk on "Robotics Research in the Machine Learning and Deep Learning Paradigm" organized by the Computer Science and Engineering Department of NIT, Hamirpur in assiciation with the IEEE Computer Society - Delhi Chapter (INDIA) on 17th December, 2019.
Delivered two expert lectures on Machine Learning in the Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends in AI and Mobile Systems (RTAIMS-2019)", organized by the Computer Science and Engineering Department of NIT Hamirpur (HP), INDIA during 16-21 December, 2019.
Delivered a Keynote Lecture on "Robotics and Machine Intelligence" during Two-Day Workshop on Robotics and Machine Intelligence held at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, INDIA during 2-3 January, 2020 jointly sponsored by the Center of Intelligent Robotics, IIIT-A and IEEE-RAS UP Section Chapter.
Delivered a Planary Talk on "Solving Intelligent Robot Grasping Problem in the Deep Learning Paradigm" at ICEECS-2020, organized during January 10-11, 2020 at VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP, INDIA.
Attended IEEE CVPR 2020 (online mode) and presented poster "Robotic Grasp Detection by Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold", with my students Priya Shukla, Mridul Mahajan, Tryambak Bhattacharjee, Arya Krishnan, WiCV IEEE CVPR 2020, June 16-18, 2020, Seattle, USA.
Deliverd a special lecture (two hour duration) on Machine Learning , Deep Learning and Robotics during Online training and certification course on AI and ML conducted by Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), PUNE September 1-7, 2020.
Delivered an invited talk on 24th September, 2020: "On Solving Basic Robotics Problems using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques", during Short term training program cum workshop on"Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System", held from 22nd September, 2020 to 28th September, 2020 at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A), Prayagraj. UP-211015.
Delivered Expert Lecture on "Machine Learning for IoT", on 10-12-2020, during the Faculty Development Program on the Internet of Things, held at IIIT Allahabad from 7th December 2020 to 11th December 2020 sponsored by AICTE, ATAL Academy.
Delivered Expert Lecture on "Artificial Intelligence Applications", in the training program on “Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning" at MANIT Bhopal, 17th May, 2021.
Delivered a two hour long keynote lecture on Intelligent and Collaborative Robotics,during ATAL sponsored faculty development program organized during 13-17 th September, 2021, by BITS Pillani.
Delivered Online lectures as Expert, for Short Term Training and Certification Course in AI & ML conducted by Defence Institute for Advanced Technology, Pune, Title of the talk : Robotics Research using Machine learning and Deep Learning, Organization: DIAT, Pune, Date: 1 st September, 2022.
Delivered an expert lecture on Human Robot Interactions in the Computer Science and Engineering Department , DIAT Pune, 9-09-2022, Friday.
Following internship programs for the students of other than IIIT-A institutions organized :
Summer internship -May-July 2021,
Winter Internship- December 2021,
Summer internship-May-July 2022,
Winter internship-December 2022.
Delivered two Invited talks on AI in Robotics on 8th November, 2022 during 8:30 A.M - 12:30 P.M during AICTE ATAL FDP/CPDP on the topic “Advances in Artificial Intelligence” organized by Computer Vision and Biometrics Laboratory, Department of Information Technology, IIIT Allahabad during October 31-November 11, 2022.
As the Head of the Center of Intelligent Robotics, at IIIT-A, conducted an International workshop on Human Robot Interactions during 24-26 th November, 2022. Also delivered a key note lecture on Intelligent robot grasping in the warehouse environment. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/center-of-intelligent-robotics-51182b257_workshop-prof-gc-nandi-head-cir-took-activity-7002210218327584768-vIBn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).
Delivered an expert lecture on 2nd January, 2023 on behalf of the I-DPAT Hub Foundation, at IIT (BHU) Varanasi on Challenges of developing Collaborative Robotics framework - the present state of the art.
Took part in several joint meetings with a number of faculty members of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science department of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign , USA , during February 11-18, 2023 as a PI of US NSF - TIH funded joint project execution. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/center-of-intelligent-robotics-51182b257_we-are-happy-to-state-that-prof-g-c-nandi-activity-7032131977965121536-PsJn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).
Delivered a lightening talk on "Safe Human-aware Robot Navigation in Warehouses" and took part in project demonstration during NSF/TIH PI Meeting and Workshop for Indo-US Research Collaboration during May 22-23, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7067405700297072640/)
Delivered an invited talk on Effective Human-Robot-Interactions within the LLM Paradigm at the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Denver, USA on Thursday, September 21st , 2023. (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7111864967863177217/).
Delivered an invited talk on Generative AI and its application in Robotics at IIT Bombay, Mumbai on January 17, 2024
Delivered an invited talk on Generative AI and its application in Robotics at DIAT (Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune) on 19th February 2024.
Delivered a Keynote lecture on Generative AI and its applications in Human Robot Interactions at the fourth international workshop on Generative AI and Human Robot Interactions held during February 16-18, 2024, organized by the Center of Intelligent Robotics, IIIT-Allahabad. INDIA.