My research interests are broadly in the domains of Ubiquitous Computing, IoT and Edge Computing, Wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, Distributed Systems and Smart city applications. My research philosophy is mostly driven by the Mark Weiser' vision of calm technology, that aims to offer seamless integration into the surroundings avoiding the need for explicit intervention. My research objectives are primarily designed to capture the systems engineering aspects of human to machine interaction where 'machine' signifies the intelligent 'things' of 'IoT' integrated into our daily lives. Few research directions as I am pursuing with my students and collaborators are listed below.
Understanding user behavior through inertial sensing
Task offloading and microservices management in MEC
Decentralized trust computation and reputation system in IoT and CPS
Context aware data sourcing from extreme edge
Situation-awareness in Connected and Autonomous vehicles
IoT intervention in wild habitat monitoring
Sensing as a service middleware for applications of human sensing
Pervasive and Personalized Aid for Continuous Monitoring of Behavioral Disorders and Timely Intervention Toward Addressing Special Needs in Child Education. Role: PI. Cost: USD 60,000. Google Academic Research Award 2024
Seamless Man-Machine Interface for Next-generation Wargaming. Role: PI. Cost: Rs. 5 Crore 38 Lakhs, DRDO, DIA-COE IIT Jodhpur
Comprehensive (Environmental, Ecological, Anthropogenic, and others) Risk Assessment Data for Heritage Sites and Development of Smart Heritage Management Systems. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 56 Lakhs. DST
Developing Multiagent System based AI Strategist for Wargames. Role: Co-PI. Cost: Rs. 5 Crore 69 Lakhs, DRDO, DIA-COE IIT Jodhpur
ConSenseHAR: Decentralized collaborative context sensing towards pervasive Human Activity Recognition. Role: PI. Cost: Rs. 29 Lakhs, Core Research Grant, SERB, DST
Centre for Advanced Security Technology Development in Cyber Physical Systems . Role: Co-PI. Cost: 642.18 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: MeitY. 2022-2025
Detecting behavioural health disorders of older adults using self supervised learning and causal reasoning. Sponsoring Agency: NSF-TIH Indo-USA Joint Collaboration Program. TIH ISI Kolkata. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 69.90 Lakhs
Demonstration Centre for Smart Graded-Water Supply Grid. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 40 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: JCKIC
Inventorization of the wildlife towards a sustainable campus. Role: PI. Cost: 2Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: CETSD Campus Sustainability Program, IIT Jodhpur (JCKIC) 2021-2022
Design and Development of an Adaptive Middleware for Smart Building Monitoring. Role: PI. Cost: 21.84 Lakhs. Sponsoring agency: SERB, DST, 2017-2020
AIOT based Bed Occupancy Detection in a Hospital Setup. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 10 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: JCKIC, under the Aegis of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India. June-Aug 2021
Design of a Cuffless Continuous BP Monitoring Device. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 9 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: Johari Digital Healthcare Ltd. 2021-2022
Campus Testbed for Smart Building Monitoring:
In this project, we explored the significance of edge based in-network data processing in the context of smart building monitoring applications. We focused on the problem of sensory data collection from heterogeneous edge devices at low cost. Towards that we designed and developed cost-effective solutions involving context-awareness, data fusion, filtration, sensor ranking, forwarder selection and so on. A testbed has been deployed in the academic building of IIIT Guwahati. Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ has been configured with different sets of sensors to monitor the environment. The devices communicate with each other using IEEE 802.11 standards in an ad-hoc mode as per the current configuration. To evaluate the performance we considered crowd and occupancy estimation as a case study.
Garvit Chugh, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2022, Regular, MTech-PhD under the joint supervision of Dr. Sandip Chakraborty, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur). Research area: mobile and pervasive computing
Osho, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2021, Regular, PhD) under the joint supervision of Prof. Sajal Das, Department of CSE, Missouri University of Science and Technology). Research area: next-generation vehicular network
Ananya Mondal, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2021, Regular, PhD). Research area: IoT, Sensing as a service
Kondagurle Sukitha, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2022, Regular MTech-PhD). Research area: CPS Trust, Sensor reliability
Susmita Mondal, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2023, Regular PhD). Research area: Blockchain and IoT
Akhil Bhatia, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2021, Part-time, PhD). Research area: Task offloading, Edge computing
Kamal Kumar Gola, IIT Jodhpur (joined 2020, Part-time, PhD). Research area: Under Water Sensor Network
Ramesh Singh, Department of CSE, IIIT Guwahati (joined September 2019) under the joint supervision of Dr. Radhika Sukapuram, IIIT Guwahati (Co-Supervisor)
Sameeran Ravishankar Zingre (Earable Sensing and HCI)
Ankit Modi (Speech to Text)
Anirban Das, Assistant Professor, NIIT University, Rajasthan, India.
PhD [2017-2022] from IIIT Guwahati. Thesis title: “Design and Development of an Adaptive Middleware for Smart Building Monitoring”.
Priyal Jain. MTech from IIT Jodhpur. Graduated in 2023
Nayanita Saha. MTech from IIT Jodhpur. Graduated in 2023
Monik Raj Behera. Executive MTech
Ashish Kumar. Executive MTech