Assistant Professor(CSE) Grade-I,
Head for Human Ergonomic, Assistive and Haptic Lab (HEAHL), Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT)
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh , India-462003
Email- vsemwal@gmail.com , vsemwal@manit.ac.in
Mobile No- 7541805885, 8874142887
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Research Group Affiliations: Humanoid Robotics.
Research Interests: Bipedal Robotics, Human Activities Recognition, Gait Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Classifications & Identification, TinyML, IoHT, Machine Leanring, IIOT, Neural Network Based learning (MLP,CNN,RNN,Radial Basis function, gradient descent leanring) , Deep Learning, Auto encoder, LSTM, Optimisation, ELM, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Sentimental Analysis , Topic modeling, Information Extraction, Exploratory data analysis, Edge, Fog & Cloud Computing etc.
About Me: Dr. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal is working as an Assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MANIT Bhopal). He has also worked with NIT Rourkela, IIIT Dharwad and NIT Jamshedpur as Assistant Professor prior to join NIT Bhopal. He is having more than 7 years of teaching & research experience. He has earned his doctorate degree in Robotics & AI from IIIT Allahabad, Prayagraj in year 2017, M.Tech. Wireless Communication and Computing from IIIT Allahabad in 2010 and B.Tech. (IT) from College of Engineering Roorkee, Uttarakhand (2008). His research includes Human robot interaction, IoT, wearable sensor based health monitoring system, Bipedal Robotics, Gait Analysis and synthesis, Artificial Intelligence, algorithm prospective of machine learning and Theoretical Computer Science. He has published more than 50 research papers in SCOPUS/SCI indexed journals and International Conferences. He is an active reviewer of many Elsevier, IEEE and Springer journals/conferences. He has organized/conducted more than 10 STTPs/workshops and 3 international conferences. He has been awarded Early Career Research Award /Grant (ECRA) of 25 lakhs by DST-SERB, government of India in 2019. He is also a senior member of IEEE, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Indian Academy of Neuroscience (IAN), and Soft computing Research society (SCRS) professional bodies. He has completed 03 research projects of 50 lakhs, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, competitive research of Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-III) by Uttarakhand Technical University Dehradoon , and SEED Grant by MANIT Bhopal. Currently, He is supervising 2 externally funded project of more than 1 corer, sponsored by HEFA, ministry of education, and MPCST, Govt. Of M.P. He has delivered more than 50 invited/expert talks on various platforms. He has also visited various foreign countries Japan, Singapore, Bangladesh, South Korea and Nepal to present his research work and for international research collabration. Currently he is supervising 5 Ph.D scholars.
Job Summary:
Visiting Faculty- IIIT Bhopal ( Mentor Institute _ MANIT Bhopal) July-2020 to December 2020 ( NLP) & July-2019 to December 2019 (Compiler Design), Jul-Dec 2022 OODM, Jan to May 2023 (IoT), July-Dec-2023, Fundamental of Computer Programming (FCP 101).
Worked as Assistant Professor, Department Computer Science & Engineering at
NIT Rourkela, Odhisha,India (June -2018- 7- February -2019)
IIIT Dharwad, Karnatka, India (August -2016 - June -2018)
NIT Jamshedpur, Jharkhand,India (January -2016 - 7- August -2016)
Education Details:
Ph.D. ( Robotics) - Dept of IT, IIIT Allahabad - INDIA
M Tech(Wireless), Dept of IT, IIIT Allahabad - INDIA
B Tech (IT) - Dept of IT, College of Engineering Roorkee - INDIA
Proposed Laboratory : Human Ergonomics, Assistive and Haptic Lab (HEAHL) at MANIT Bhopal : My team is working on development of assistive techniques to see the different human capability, limitations and biomechanical analysis of human interaction. We at HEAHL are trying to develop the cognitive aspect of various human factors and behaviors. The focus areas are AR/VR/AI/Robotics.
DST-SERB Ongoing Project :
I am supervising two project of total 52 lakhs, one is sponsored by SERB-DST, Govt. Of India as PI for project entitled "Development of Computational model for bipedal walking trajectories generation and analysis of different gait abnormality" with file number" with file no. ECR/2018/000203 " . (2019-2022) of 25 lakhs and another project "Development of Heterogeneous computing model for post-injury walking pattern restoration and postural stability: Cognitive Robotics approach" of 32 Lakh funded by HEFA under CSR Grant schema ( Ministry of Education) (2021-2024).
Regarding Ph.D. position opening: For the coming next semester, I am looking for a good candidate for Ph.D. at MANIT Bhopal in the following domain areas: Human gait analysis and robot walk, Human Activity recognition, Human Hand Moment analysis using EMG sensor, Wearable sensor based computing. Computer Vision / wearable sensor based person tracking and positioning with small microcontroller like Arduino Nano 33 BLE sense etc. using TinyML and Deep Learning. Python and hardware programming is required. One can mail me on this mail ID- vsemwal@gmail.com, along CV and SOP. The good SCI publication record is desirable if any.
Ph.D Thesis: Data Driven Computational Model for Bipedal Walking and Push Recovery
In this research, we have developed the data driven computational walking model to overcome the problem with traditional kinematics based model. Our model is adaptable and can adjust the parameter morphological similar to human. The human walk is a combination of different discrete sub-phases with their continuous dynamics. Any system which exhibits the discrete switching logic and continuous dynamics can be represented using a hybrid system .
Editorial Ship:
Associate Editors:
Multimedia Tool and Application, Springer
SN Computing, Springer