Bio-Data                                                                             Udit Kr. Chakraborty

Professor & Head,

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,

Majhitar, Rangpo, Sikkim (E) – 737 136

Mobile: (+91) 7602019487

Email: udit.kc@gmail.com

Academic Qualifications:

1. Doctor of Philosophy (Comp. Sc. & Engg.), University of Calcutta – 2018                                                                                                                        [Intelligent Textual Learner-Computer Interaction for e-Learning Systems.]

   1. Master of Technology (Comp. Sc. & Engg.) Sikkim Manipal University - 2009.

      1. Bachelor of Technology (Comp. Sc. & Engg.), N.E.R.I.S.T, N.E.H.U - 2000

Area's of Interest: Formal Languages, Algorithms, Soft Computing, Rough Set Theory, Natural Language Processing, Education Technology, Deep Learning

List of Publications:

JOURNALS:

• • “GNCLUS-A Proposed Genetic Algorithm for Clustering Gene Expression Data”-Samarjeet Borah, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, M.K.Ghose, International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering, Technology and Sciences (IJ-CA-ETS), ISSN- 0974-3576, Oct'09-Mar'10, Vol-2 Issue-I, pp-146-149.

  • “Natural Language Grammar Induction using Genetic Algorithm” - Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Ratika Pradhan, Samarjeet Borah, International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Applications in Engineering, Technology and Sciences (IJ-ETA-ETS), ISSN: 0974-3588,July ’10–Dec ’10,Volume 3 Issue 2, pp. 494-497.

  • “Artificial Neural Network Based Adaptive Chess Playing Machine”, - Diwas Sharma, Udit Chakraborty, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science (IJARCS), Vol. 4, Number 4 March- April 2013, pp. 87-90.

  • “Intelligent fuzzy spelling evaluator for e-Learning systems”, - Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Debanjan Konar, Samir Roy, Sankhayan Choudhury, Education and Information Technologies, 21, pages171–184(2016) , DOI 10.1007/s10639-014-9314-z

• • “A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to find Minimal Vertex Cover”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Debanjan Konar, Chandralika Chakraborty, International Journal of Computer Applications® (IJCA) (0975 – 8887), Special Issue on NCWBCB, May 2014, pp. 5-7.

  • “An Improved Chess Machine based on Artificial Neural Networks”, Diwas Sharma, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, International Journal of Computer Applications® (IJCA) (0975 – 8887), Special Issue on NCWBCB, May 2014,, pp. 8-12.

  • “Automatic Free Text Answer Evaluation using Knowledge Network”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Sampa Das, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887), Volume 117 – No. 3, May 2015, pp. 5-8

    • “Open Ended Tool for Self-Paced Learning”, Paden Rinchen, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology (SCOPUS), Vol.8, No.8 (2015), pp.201-208. 10.14257/ijhit.2015.8.8.2.

    • “Ananalysis of the Intelligent Predictive String Search Algorithm: A Probabilistic Approach”, Dipendra Gurung, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Pratikshya Sharma, International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business (IJIEEB)V9-N2. 10.5815/ijitcs.2017.02.08

    • “Automatic Short Answer Grading using Rough Concept Clusters”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Debanjan Konar, Samir Roy, Sankhayan Choudhury, International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 14, No. 3 / 4, 2019, pp. 260-280, DOI : 10.1504/IJAIP.2018.10010768.

• • • “A Fuzzy Indiscernibility based measure of distance between Semantic Spaces towards Automatic Evaluation of Free Text Answers”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Samir Roy, Sankhayan Choudhury, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 25, Issue 06, pp. 987-1004, December 2019.

• • • “Vector Similarity Measure for ASAG”, Chandralika Chakraborty, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, B. Sarma, International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering (UGC), Vol. 7, Issue. 4, pp. 959-963, April 2019.

• "Survivability Prediction of Patients Suffering Hepatocellular Carcinoma using Diverse Classifier Ensemble of Grafted Decision Tree", Ranjit Panigrahi, Moumita Pramanik, Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Akash Kumar Bhoi, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2020 Vol.64 No.4, pp.349 - 360. DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2020.10034781

• "Academia adapting to e-Learning: A survey on Indian engineering educational", Trishita Saha, Chandralika Chakraborty, Bhairab Sarma, Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Indian Journal of Educational Technology (UGC-Care2), Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2023, pp.:164-176

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP:

NATIONAL:

• • “Issues Facing the Growth of Technical Education in the North East” - Udit Kr. Chakraborty, AICTE Sponsored national Seminar On Future Perspective of Higher Technical Education in North Eastern Region, SEMC, Meghalaya, 20th - 21st January, 2009.

  • “Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms-A Selective Survey”-Imran Ali, Neeraj Yadav, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Samarjeet Borah, National Conference on Distributed Computing ' 09, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, 07-08 Mar' 09.

  • “A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Grammar Induction” - Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Ratika Pradhan, Samarjeet Borah, Proceedings of National Workshop on Design and Analysis of Algorithms (NWDAA) 2010, Tezpur University, pp. 141-145.

• “An Efficient Neural Network Based Scheme for Recognition of Learners’ Textual Response in e-Learning Systems”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Samir Roy, Proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI) 2010, NITTTR Kolkata, Dec 22-25, pp. 31 -36.

• “A Multi-layer Self-organizing Neural Network (ML-SONN) Architecture for Handwritten Character Recognition”, Debanjan Konar, Minakshi Roy, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Proceedings of National Conference on Linear Algebra and Its Applications, SMIT, Jan 9-10, 2017.

INTERNATIONAL:

• • “Neural Networks Based Intelligent Analysis of Learners' Response for an e-Learning Environment”, Udit Kr.Chakraborty, Samir Roy, Proceedings of International Conference on Education Technology and Computers 2010 (ICETC 2010), IACSIT, IEEE, Shanghai, China, June 22-24, 2010, Volume-2, pp.333-337.

  • “An Adaptive Scheme for Handling Deletion Spelling Errors’ for an Intelligent e- Learning System”, Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Sankhyayan Chowdhury, Samir Roy, 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development (ICCTD 2010), IACSIT, IEEE, Cairo, Egypt, November 2-4, 2010,pp.-260-263.

  • “Fuzzy Automata Inspired Intelligent Assessment of Learning Achievement”, Udit.Kr Chakraborty, Samir Roy, Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011 , IEEE ,Tumkur, India, December 14-16, 2011, pp. 1505-1518.

  • “A Novel Semantic Similarity based Technique for Computer Assisted Automatic Evaluation of Textual Answers”, Udit.Kr Chakraborty, Samir Roy, Sankhyayan Chowdhury, ICACNI’2014, M.K. Kundu et al. (eds.), Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics - Volume 1, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 27, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07353-8_46, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • “Semantic Similarity based Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Free Text Answers using Link Grammar”. Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Rashmi Gurung, Samir Roy, 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education, pp. 218-221, 10.1109/T4E.2014.57

  • “Rough Set Based Keyword Evaluation and Weighing for Textual Answer Evaluation”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Debanjan Konar, Samir Roy, Sankhayan Choudhury, Proceedings of 12th IEEE India International Conference, 17-20 December 2015.,  10.1109/INDICON.2015.7443405

  • “Intelligent Predictive String Search Algorithm”, Dipendra Gurung, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Pratikshya Sharma, Proceedings of International Conference on Communication, Computing and Virtualization, 26-27 February 2016, Mumbai. 10.1016/j.procs.2016.03.116

  • “Intelligent Evaluation of Short Responses for e-Learning Systems”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Debanjan Konar, Samir Roy, Sankhayan Choudhury, ICCII 2016, JNTU, Hyderabad, 2016 , Advs in Intelligent Syst., Computing, Vol. 507, Suresh Chandra Satapathy et al. (Eds): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics , 978-981-10-2470-2, 420114_1_En, (35), pp 365-372, 10.1007/978-981-10-2471-9_35

  • “A Quantum Parallel Bi-Directional Self-Organizing Neural Network (QPBDSONN) Architecture for Extraction of Pure Color Objects from Noisy Background”, Debanjan Konar, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Gandhi, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Proceedings of 2016 Intl. Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Sept. 21-24, 2016, Jaipur, India

  • “Hyperparameter Tuning for Enhanced Authorship Identification using Deep Neural Networks", Tarun Dugar, Gowtham S, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI 2019), 23rd - 25th April, Tirunelveli, India, IEEE 978-1-5386-9439-8, pp. 293-298.

  • “Automatic Evaluation of Short Answers Using Deep Neural Networks”, Chandni Agarwal, Barsha Sharma, Deepshikha, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, 4th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems [ICCES 2019], Coimbatore, India, 17-19 July 2019, IEEE Xplore ISBN: 978-1-7281-1261-9, pp. 443-448.

  • “Genetic Algorithm: An approach on optimization”, Immanuel Savio D, Udit Kr. Chakraborty,4th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems [ICCES 2019], Coimbatore, India, 17-19 July 2019, IEEE Xplore ISBN: 978-1-7281-1261-9, pp. 700-707.

  • “An IOT based Water Management System for Smart Cities”, Immanuel Savio D, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, In: Bhuiyan C., Flügel WA., Jain S.K. (eds) Water Security and Sustainability. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 115. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9805-0_21, pp.247-259.

  • "WEKA Result Reader – A Smart Tool for Reading and Summarizing WEKA Simulator Files", Ranjit Panigrahi, Samarjeet Borah, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, FICTA-2020, NITK Surathkal, India. 04-05 January  2020, V. Bhateja et al (eds.), Evolution in Computational Intelligence, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1176, pp. 159-167, 10.1007/978-981-15-5788-0

  • "Classifying Infected and Uninfected Red Blood Cell Images for Malaria Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks", Sweta Agarwal, Bishal Chettri, Nitin Sandilya, Udit Kr. Chakraborty. American Journal of Advanced Computing, IEM-ICDC 2020 Special Issue on "Computational Intelligence and Smart Information and Communication Technology", January 2021, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 34-38.

  • "Comparing Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms - A Travelling Salesman Perspective", Immanuel Savio D, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering, CONFLUENCE 2021,IEEE Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India pp.182.187

  • "Automatic Text Summarization using Wu-Palmer Measure and Graph Based Sentence Selection", Rishav Rakshit, Chandralika Chakraborty, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Bhairab Sarma, Proceedings of 6th International Joint Colloquium on Computer Electronics Electrical Mechanical and Civil -CEMC 2021.

  • "Automatic Short Answer Grading using Universal Sentence Encoder", Chandralika Chakraborty , Rohan Sethi  ,Vidushi Chauhan  , Bhairab Sarma  , Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Proceedings of ICL2022 – 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, 27–30 September 2022, Hilton Park Vienna, Austria, pp. 1633-1642.

  • "Prosthetic Face Recognition using a Siamese Neural Network", Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Atharva Bendre, Shuvam Ganguli, Rinzing Namgyal Rai, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (IC3S), Shillong, India, 16th-18th March 2023.

  • "Automatic Short Answer Grading using a LSTM based approach" Udit Kr Chakraborty, Anurag Mishra, 2023 IEEE World Conference on Applied Intelligence and Computing (AIC), 29-30 July 2023, Sonbhadra, India, 2023, pp. 332-337, doi: 10.1109/AIC57670.2023.10263899. 

  • "Innovative Corporate Query Handling with Domain Specific RAG", S. Kumari, U. K. Chakraborty, B. Nath, A. Kumar, P. Srivastava, N. Vivek, Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT 2024).

  • "Automatic Short Answer Grading using Fast Text", Sampa Das, U. K. Chakraborty, Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and Communication (ICTDsC 2024). 

  • "Efficient and Accurate Short Answer Grading using SBERT" Sampa Das, U. K. Chakraborty, IEEE ACROSET 2025

  • "A concept of on-demand Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Framework", Nganbam Nilakantha Singh, Dhruba Ningombam, Udit Kumar Chakraborty, 5th ICACCP, SMIT, Sikkim, 6th - 8th June 2025.

BOOKS / MONOLOGUE / SELF LEARNING MATERIAL/PROCEEDINGS (EDITED)/BOOK CHAPTERS:

• • “Network Management and Security”, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Biswaraj Sen, Sikkim Manipal University, 2011.

  • “Natural Language Grammar Induction using Genetic Algorithm” , Udit Chakraborty, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-659-12397-9.

  • “Introduction to Soft Computing, Neuro Fuzzy and Genetic Algorithms” Samir Roy, Udit Chakraborty, Pearson 2013, ISBN: 978-8-131-79246-9

• “Issues and Challenges of Bio-Inspired Computing”-Proceedings of National Conference cum Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NCWBCB-2014), March 2014, SMIT, Sikkim. - Editors: Samarjeet Borah, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, Mrinal Kanti Ghose

• "Online Examination in India: Feasibility and Authenticity", Chandralika Chakraborty, Bhairab Sarma, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, In S.K.Choudhury, S. Sarkar (eds.), Indian Education System in the wake of COVID-19-Issues and Challenges, SSDN Publishers, 2021, ISBN: 978-93-8895-039-8, pp.108-114.

• "Comparing Word Embeddings on Authorship Identification", Tarun Kumar Dugar, Gowtham S, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, In S. Borah, R. Panigrahi (eds.), Applied Soft Computing Techniques and Applications, AAP-CRC Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781774630297

• "Extractive Text Summarization using Convolutional Neural Network", Mihir, Chandni Agarwal, Sweta Agarwal, Udit Kr. Chakraborty, In S. Borah, R. Panigrahi (eds.), Applied Soft Computing Techniques and Applications, AAP-CRC Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781774630297

Keynote/Invited Lectures:

1. Invited Lecture on "AI in EdTech for Enhanced Learning Experience"  at IEEE International Conference on Augmented Reality, Intelligent Systems and Industrial Automation (ARIIA - 2024), Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal, 28th December 2024.

2. Invited Lecture on "OBE Methods and Practices" at SIST, Sikkim, 29th January 2025

3. Invited Lecture on "LLM and RAG: Smart and Innovative Implementations" at International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD 2025), INTI International University & Colleges, Malyasia, 1st - 2nd March 2025.

Professional Associations:

• • • Reviewer of Interactive Learning Environments, Journal published by Taylor & Francis (Indexed by: SCOPUS)

    • Reviewer of Applied Soft Computing, Journal published by Springer. (Indexed by: SCI)

    • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

    • Reviewer of Informatica, published by  Slovenian Society Informatika. (Indexed by: SCOPUS)

    • Reviewer of IEEE INDICON 2015.

    • Reviewer of 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution

    • Reviewer of 2015 IEEE ICRCICN

    • Reviewer of 2017 IEEE ICACCI

    • Member of Editorial Board, Progress in Human Computer Interaction (http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/phci)

    • Reviewer of International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (Indexed by: SCIE)

Workshops/Conferences Organised:

• • • North Eastern Regional Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NER-WNLP 2014), Feb 21-22, 2014, SMIT, in collaboration with Dept. of Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar. --------Organizing Secretary.

    • National Conference cum Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NCWBCB 2014), SMIT, Sikkim, March 14-15-----------Organizing Secretary

    • 1st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP) 2017, Sikkim, September 8-10, 2017-------------Co-convener

Professional Identities:

• ORCID: 0000-0002-2199-6703

  • SCOPUS: 55398810100

  • Researcher Id:N-6546-2017

  • Google Scholar: F50WdmkAAAAJ&hl=en

  • Microsoft Academic Search Id: 6j7836g-jf31-4j91-fegi-h0e1gh1h91i3

  • Vidwan-ID : 151034