Bio-Sketch

Prof. K.P.S Rana (M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.)

Academic Background:

Prof. K.P.S Rana received M.Sc. degree in Physics (Specialization in Electronics) from Meerut University, Meerut in 1989, and M.Tech. degree in Optical Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, in 1991, and Ph.D. degree on “Intelligent methods for complex vibration measurement and control” from GGSIP University in 2011.

Professional Background:

He has served Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from 1993 - 2000 as Scientist ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ in sensors division at Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC), Bangalore and contributed significantly towards innovative designs of camera. Since August 2000 he has been with Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi University, New Delhi at the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. At NSIT he has served as Assistant Professor from August 2000 – December 2005, as Associate Professor from January 2006 – October 2011, and Professor from November 2011 – September 2018. Since September 2018 he has been Professor with NSUT and recently he has been promoted to Sr. Professor from November 2021.


He has a h-index of 24 (Google Scholar) and h-10-index of 43 (Google Scholar) leading to total citations as on 20/10/2022 as 1893. He has published over 67 international peer reviewed journal articles and more than 100 conference proceeding papers. My ORCID reference is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1283-8620. He has been elected as fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI) (F-119028-4) and fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (SIRO Recognized by DSIR, Govt. of India) (IETE) (F-502787). I am a life member of The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) (M-56000).

His Research Gate score is 30.4 on 25/10/2021. His current Google scholar statistics as on 09/10/21 are as follows.



Citations

h-index

i10-index

1893

24

43

Areas of Scientific Interest:


His current research and teaching interest includes Measuring circuits and Instrumentation, Sensors and transducers: modeling and linearization, Digital Signal processing: Notch filtering, Multi-notch filtering, System Modeling and Identification, Digital Filter design, Robotic Manipulators: Modeling, Tracking and Control, Intelligent Instrumentation, Real Time Systems, FPGA Applications, Renewable Energy: PV Systems and alternative energy sources: Modeling and Control for MPPT, Modeling and Control of PEMFC/SOFC for MPPT etc.

Most recently he has also started working on Artificial Intelligent / Machine Learning / Deep Learning. In this area following high impact publications are the most recent contributions. The team includes B.Tech. students of the University working in their final year project. The most interesting part has been that these students are able to publish as early as their 6th semester.

[1] “A Multimodal Hierarchical Approach to Speech Emotion Recognition from Audio and Text”, Prabhav Singh, Ridam Srivastava, K.P.S. Rana, Vineet Kumar, Knowledge Based System, Elsevier, 2021, vol. 93, pp. 312-324, Impact factor: 8.038, Science Citation Index.

[2] “An Application of Deep Dual Convolutional Neural Network for Enhanced Medical Image Denoising”, Alpana Sahu, K.P.S. Rana, Vineet Kumar, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (ISSN: 1741-0444), Springer, January 2023, IF: 2.852, pp. 100031, https:// 10.1007/s11517-022-02731-9.

[3] “SEMI-FND: Stacked Ensemble Based Multimodal Inference For Faster Fake News Detection”, Prabhav Singh, Ridam Srivastava, K.P.S. Rana, Vineet Kumar, Expert Systems with Applications (ISSN: 0957-4174), Web of Science, SCIE, IF:8.665, Elsevier.


[4] “A Topic Modelled Unsupervised Approach To Single Document Extractive Text Summarization”, Prabhav Singh, Ridam Srivastava, K.P.S. Rana, Vineet Kumar, Knowledge Based System (ISSN: 0950-7051), Web of Science, SCIE, Elsevier, Vol. 246, No. 21, June 2022, IF: 8.038, pp. 108636, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108636.

April 2023, pp. 119302, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119302.


[5] "A novel complex-valued convolutional neural network for medical image denoising" Shubhankar Rawat, K. P. S. Rana, Vineet Kumar, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (ISSN: 1746-8094), Science Citation Index, Elsevier, 69, 2021, pp. 379-391, Impact Factor: 3.137, DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102859.


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