• Ph.D. (Information Technology) -2016, Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India.
  Thesis Title: Multimodal Fusion Framework using Multiresolution Analysis for Emotion Recognition and Prediction                       download thesis
  Supervisor: Prof. (Dr.) Uma Shanker Tiwari
  
• M. Tech. (Information Technology) - 2009, Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, Allahabad, India. (First Div.)
  Thesis Title: Speaker Identification System using Wavelet Transform
  Supervisor: Prof. (Dr.) Uma Shanker Tiwari
• B. Tech. (Information Technology) - 2006, Harcourt Butlar Technical University (formerly H. B. T. I.) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India ( First Div.)

• Affective Computing
  
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Medical Imaging
• Natural Language Processing
• Biometrics
  
• Speech Processing
• Human Computer Interaction

Awards, Honors and Professional Recognition

• Awarded as Outstanding Mentor in National Level Project Competition (PROWAR-2016) on 30th April 2016 organized by School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India
  
• Achieved 3rd Rank in Uttar Pradesh State Engineering Admission Test (UPSEAT- 2003)
• GATE-2007 qualified
• MHRD scholarship/fellowship holder during M. Tech. and Ph.D.
• Editorial advisory board member – Handbook of Research on Political Activism in the Information Age, IGI Global, 2014
  
• Editorial advisory board member – Political Campaigning in the Information Age,IGI Global, 2014
• Editorial advisory board member – Gamification for Human Factors Integration: Social, Education, and Psychological Issues, IGI Global, 2014
  
• Editorial advisory board member – Transforming Politics and Policy in the Digital Age, IGI Global, 2014

Expert Talk / Visit

• Chaired two technical sessions in CocoNet 2019 (An International Conference sponsored by ACM) from 18 - 21 Dec. 2019 at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Trivandrum, Kerala.
  1. CoCoNet-S2: Sixth Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (VisionNet'19)
  2. CoCoNet-S10: Main Track - Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (Regular Papers)
  
• NBA visit to Government Engineering College Bikaner under TEQIP-III tuning program during 6-8 Sept. 2019
  
• Delivered expert talk in two days TEQIP-III sponsored workshop on "Outcome base accreditation for Undergraduate Engineering programs" on 16-17th March 2018 at Government Engineering College Bikaner, India
  
• Delivered expert lecture on "Deep Convolutional Neural Network" a TEQIP-III Sponsored STTP on "Computational Intelligence & Cloud Computing (CICC-2017)" 26th - 30th December 2017 in Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology Raipur.
  
• Delivered expert talk on "Deep Learning: Theory and Applications" One Week STTP on "Soft Computing Techniques & Robotics"  4th - 8th September, 2017 in Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology Raipur.
• Delivered expert talk "Multi-resolution Analysis of Signals" Summer School on Image Processing, 8-12 June 2015 Department of Computer Engg. NIT Kurukshetra
• Delivered expert talk "Affective Computing: HCI Perspective" Winter School on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition, 12 -17th Dec. 2016 Department of Computer Engg., NIT Kurukshetra    
  

Administrative Responsibilities

• Warden Hostel-9 NIT Kurukshetra (From 1 July 2019 to till now)
• Center Superintendent (End Semester Examination, Apr/May 2018)
  
• Warden, Hostel -8, NIT Kurukshetra (from 22 July 2014 to 28 July 2016)
• Deputy Center Superintendent (End Semester Examination, 2013-2014)

• Member, Accreditation committee for accreditation of UG/PG course of the department
• Coordinator, B. Tech (CO) Dissertation/Project
• Member, Departmental Purchase Committee (DPC)
• Member, M. Tech Dissertation/Project
• Member, committee for processing PhD applications
• Member, Input to the DAC for reviewing B. Tech CO and IT (curriculum, syllabi and scheme) committee
• Member, Input to the DAC for reviewing M. Tech (curriculum, syllabi and scheme) committee
• Member, Committee for proposing new M. Tech program in Network/Cyber Security
• Member, Accreditation Committee (NBA)
  

Technical Program Committee (Last 5 Years)

• Organizing Chair, MIND-2019, First International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Science held during March 3-4, 2019 at NIT Kurukshetra
  
• CICT-2017, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), 3-5 Nov.,2017, ABV-IIITM Gwalior
  
• ICCCS-2017, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, CYBER SECURITY & SMART GRID, 20-21 April, 2017
• ICACCI-2017, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 13-16 Sep. 17
  
• ICCAN-2017, International Conference on Computing Analytics and Networking (ICCAN - 2017), 15-16 Dec. 2017, KIIT University
  
• LAMDA-2017 First International Conference on  Latest Advances in Machine learning and Data Science [LAMDA - 2017], NIT Goa
  
• IEEE CGVIS-2017, IEEE Second International Conference on Computer Graphics, Vision and Information Security (IEEE CGVIS - 2017)
• EDCAV-2015, International Conference on Electronic Design, Computer Networks & Automated Verification (EDCAV 2015)
  
• ICCCT-2014, International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (ICCCT-2014)
• ICACCI-2013, Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2013)   
• SRS-2013, Second Student Research Symposium (SRS-2013)

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Young Professionals
• Multimedia Computing, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
• IEEE Membership
• ACM Membership
  
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Membership
• Member of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology – IACSIT (Singapore)
• Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG)