Background
AWARDS
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2019
Best Student Paper Award, Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2019 (with PhD student: Sobhan Dhara)
IEI (Institute of Engineers - India) Young Engineers Award, 2016
Singapore (Ministry of Manpower) EOM Research Fellowship, 2011
ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Alain Bensoussan Fellowship (surrendered), 2011
Featured Paper, IET-IP, 2007
Paper of the Month, IEE-P-VIS, 2006
WORK
Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India --- April 2023 onwards
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India --- May 2015 to April 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, Roorkee, India --- September 2014 to May 2015.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore --- December 2011 to September 2014.
Visiting Scientist, Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India --- August 2010 to December 2011.
Research Scholar, Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India --- August 2005 to July 2010.
Research Assistant, Center for Signal Processing and Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada --- January, 2003 to May 2005.
Research Intern, Video Processing and Communications Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada --- August, 2003 to January 2004.
Project Intern, Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, India --- October 2001 to March 2002.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India --- August 2011.
Affiliation: Research Scholar, Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
Master of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada --- April, 2005.
Affiliation: Research Assistant, Center for Signal Processing and Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communications Engineering), University of Madras, Chennai, India --- July, 2002.
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
In-Charge, E&ECE Departmental Subject Teaching Allocation. [March, 2024 onwards]
In-Charge, E&ECE Departmental ERP. [March, 2024 onwards]
In-Charge, E&ECE Department Webpage. [March, 2024 onwards]
In-Charge, General Computing Facility (GCF), Department of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur. [2021 onwards]
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate / Dual Degree 2016-2021 Batch of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur.
Young Professional Chair, IEEE Kharagpur Section, 2016-2017 & 2019.
Academic Committee Member, Department of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur
Curriculum Revision Committee Member (UG & PG), Department of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur
Professor in-charge, Embedded Systems Laboratory, Department of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur
Doctoral Scrutiny Committee Member of Several IIT Kharagpur Ph.D. Students
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorship
Associate Editor, IET Image Processing (2015 -
Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (2017 -
Editorial Board, IEEE MMTC Communications - Review (2017 -
Association Memberships
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [#80155575]
Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG) [#62187]
Contributions in Conferences
Track Chair (Signal Processing), National Conference on Communications, 2020.
Program Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing & Workshop on Multimedia, Noida, India 2017.
Co-convener, International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Roorkee, India 2016.