Dr. Anirban Mukherjee

Office: RCC Institute of Information Technology, Canal South Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Pin – 700015

Residence: 21, A D Pal Road, PO- Uttarpara, Dist- Hooghly, Pin – 712258

Phone: +91 98362 10201

Email:  anirbanm.rcciit@gmail.com

principal@rcciit.org.in

• Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (in 1994)

• Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (in 1998)

• PhD in Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, (in 2014)

PhD topic: Automatic Diagram Drawing based on Natural Language Text Understanding 

Teaching: 

24 years (1997–till date) in Post Graduate Diploma level in erstwhile RCC, Calcutta (JU) and at Degree level (in MCA and Undergraduate & Post Graduate Engineering Programs - B.Tech IT and M.Tech CSE, IT, ECE) in RCCIIT 

Subjects Taught: Systems Analysis & Design, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, CAD, Multimedia, Operations Research, Project Management, Organization Behaviour, Principles of Management, Engineering Mechanics etc.

Administration: 

6+ years (2008–2014) as In-Charge Administration, RCCIIT

1+ year as Faculty In-Charge, Admin (2019–2020), RCCIIT

1+ year as Principal (Officiating), RCCIIT

• Had been Co-Investigator in the project titled ‘Distribution and Processing of Biomedical Data and Images Using HealthGrid’ sponsored by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India for the period 2009-2011

• Coordinator of the AICTE Funded Project ‘Prerana’ (for SC/ST students) at RCCIIT

• Coordinator of the AICTE Funded Project ‘Skill & Personality Development Programme (SPDP)’ (for SC/ST students) at RCCIIT

• Coordinated (on behalf of RCCIIT) of the European Commission funded project EU-IndiaGrid (Joining European and Indian Grids for e-Science Network Community, 2008)

• Visited the following institutes/Universities and facilitated collaboration and signing of MoUs with RCCIIT: – (i) The University of Cagliari, Italy (student fellowship program – research, 2008),  (iii) Maths & Computer Sc. Dept., University of Bremen, Germany (student exchange program, 2008), (iv) Arizona State University (ASU), USA (research collaboration, 2015), (v) Dudley College, UK (management and leadership program, 2016), (vi) Cambridge English Language Assessment, Cambridge University, UK (BEC program, 2016), (vii) Nottingham University, UK (student exchange program, 2016)

• Had been Coordinator for RCCIIT for European  Commission sponsored project ‘Erasmus Mundus Mobility for Asia (EMMA)’

• Had taken lead role in submitting proposals and winning World Bank-MHRD funded TEQIP –II Project for RCCIIT

• Had been the Nodal Officer, Faculty & Staff Development, TEQIP-II Project, RCCIIT

• Member Secretary, Board of Management and Board of Governors, RCCIIT

Area of interest: Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics, Digital Pedagogy, Optimization

Research experience: 15+ years

Publications 

• In Journals: 7                      

• In conference Proceedings: 13

• Book Chapter: 9

• Books: 20 (including 2 text books for UG engineering and 16 co-authored books for 6 Universities of India on Computer Graphics & Multimedia)

• Edited books: 8

PhD guidance

• One PhD guided; registered at JU (28.04.2017);Thesis titled Study for Development and Application of Hybrid Soft Computing Technique for Economic Load Dispatch

• Three PhD candidate (Computer Application, Computer Science and IT) enrolled at MAKAUT, with following proposed research title:

-  An Empirical Study on Identification of Factors Having Impact on E- commerce Activities Towards Digitization in West Bengal

-  Study of Different Supervised and Unsupervised Approach for Intelligent Detection and Classification of Plant Disease 

-  Intelligent Handwriting Analysis of  Patients for early Diagnosis of Neural Disease 

Others:

• Reviewed several journal papers, conference papers and book chapters

• Acted as Session Chair in International Conference ICRCICN 2015, Kolkata

• Acted as a Organizing Secretary in International Conference ICRCICN 2016, Kolkata

• Acted as General Chair in International Symposium ISSIP 2017 and as a Program Chair of International Conference ICRCICN 2017, Kolkata

• Acted as General Chair in International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence – RAAI 2020, Kolkata (online)

• Acted as Session Chair in 3rd International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP 2020) jointly organized by University College Algebra, Zagreb, Croatia and CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India.

• Editorial Review Board Member of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (JACI)

• Special Topics Guest Editor of Journal of Pattern Recognition Research, 2016

• Guest Editor of Special Issue: Computational Intelligence and Communications, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Taylor & Francis, 2016

• Editorial Review Board Member of International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence (IJHI)

Membership:

• Life Member of Computer Society (CSI)

• Fellow of Computer Division of Institution of Engineers (IEI) - FIE, MIE

Journal:

Before 2012

1. A Mukherjee and U Garain, A Review of the Methods for Automatic Understanding of Natural Language Mathematical Problems, Artificial Intelligence Review, 29(2), pp. 93-122, 2008.     DOI:10.1007/s10462-009-9110-0

2012-13

 2. A. Mukherjee, S. Kolay, U Garain, A Biswas, Evaluation of Automatic Conversion of Text to Diagram, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 410- 419, 2012. ISSN: 2250 – 2459

2013-14

3. A Mukherjee, U Garain, and A Biswas, Experimenting with Automatic Text-to-Diagram Conversion: A Novel Teaching Aid for the Blind People, Educational Technology & Society, Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 40-53, 2014. ISSN: 1436-4522 (online) and 1176-3647 (print)

2016-17

4.  D Santra, A Mondal, K Sarker, A Mukherjee, Hybrid PSO-ACO Technique to Solve Multi-Constraint Economic Load Dispatch Problems for 6-Generator System, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 38, No. 2-3, pp. 96-115, 2016. ISSN: 1206-212X (Print) 1925-7074 (Online). DOI: 10.1080/1206212X.2016.1218241

2019-20

5.  D Santra, K Sarker, A Mukherjee, S Mondal. Combined Economic Emission and Load Dispatch Using Hybrid Metaheuristics. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience, Vol. 1, No.2/3, pp. 211-238, 2019. DOI: 10.1504/IJHI.2019.10025164

6.  D. Santra, A. Mukherjee, K. Sarker and S. Mondal. Dynamic Economic Dispatch Using Hybrid Metaheuristics, Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology, vol.7, no. 3, pp. 1-30, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43067-020-0011-2

2020-21

7.  D. Santra, A. Mukherjee, K. Sarker and S. Mondal. Hybrid Genetic Algorithm-Gravitational Search Algorithm to Optimize Multi-Scale Load Dispatch. International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC), IGI, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 28-53, 2021

2023-24

8. D. Santra, A. Mukherjee, and S. Mondal,  A Study on Comparison between Thermal and Hydro-thermal ELD Using Metaheuristics Technique,  ECTI-CIT Transactions, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 222–234, May 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37936/ecti-cit.2024182.254733 

Conference Proceedings:

Before 2012

1.  A Mukherjee, U Garain, and M Nasipuri, On Construction of a GeometryNet, In Proc. of 25th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, 530-536, 2007.

2. A Mukherjee and U. Garain, Automatic Diagram Drawing based on Natural Language Text Understanding, In Proc. of 5th International Conference (Diagrams 2008), Herrsching, Germany, 398-400, 2008. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_47

3.  A Mukherjee and U Garain, Understanding of Natural Language Text for Diagram Drawing, In Proc. of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, 138-145, 2009.

4.  A Mukherjee and U Garain, Intelligent Tutoring of School Level Geometry Using Automatic Text to Diagram Conversion Utility, In Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), Kolkata, India, IEEE, 45-48, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/EAIT.2011.16

2012-13

5.  A Mukherjee, S Sengupta, D Chakraborty, A Sen, and U Garain, Text to Diagram Conversion: a Method for Formal Representation of Natural Language Geometry Problems, In Proc. of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, 137-144, 2013. DOI: 10.2316/P.2013.793-042

2013-14

6.  A Mukherjee, U Garain, and A Biswas, Evaluation of Diagrams Produced by Text-to-Graphic Conversion Systems, In Proc. of 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition - GREC 2013, Bethlehem PA, USA, 252-265, 2013.

 2014-15

7.  H Bhaumik, B Chakraborty, A Mukherjee, S Bhattacharyya, and M Chattopadhyay, Towards Reliable Clustering of English Text Documents using Correlation Coefficient, In Proc. of 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICCICN), IEEE Xplore, 530-535, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/CICN.2014.121

2015-16

8. D Santra, A Mondal, K Sarker and A Mukherjee, Hybrid PSO-ACO Technique to Solve Economic Load Dispatch Problem, In Proc. of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), IEEE Xplore, 187-191, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ICRCICN.2015.7434233.

 2016-17

9. D Santra, K Sarker, A Mukherjee and D Chatterjee, Hybrid PSO-ACO Algorithm to Solve Economic Load Dispatch Problem with Transmission Loss for Small Scale Power System, In Proc. of 2016 IEEE  International Conference on Intelligent Control Power and Instrumentation (ICICPI), IEEE Xplore, 226-230, 2016. ISBN (Print-On-Demand): 978-1-5090-2639-5, ISBN (Online): 978-1-5090-2638-8, DOI:10.1109/ICICPI.2016.7859707

2017-18

10. D Santra, K Sarker, A Mukherjee and S. Mondal, Medium Scale Multi-Constraint Economic Load Dispatch Using Hybrid Metaheuristics, In Proc. of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Research In Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), IEEE Xplore, 169 – 173, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5386-1931-5.  DOI: 10.1109/ICRCICN.2017.8234501, 

11.  A Mondal, A Mukherjee and U Garain, Intelligent Tutoring by Diagram Recognition, In Recent Trends in Signal and Image Processing – ISSIP 2017, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 727, Springer Nature Springer Singapore Pte Ltd., pp.141-149, 2017. ISBN 978-981-10-8863-6. DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-8863-6

2020-21

12. S Chaki, A Mukherjee and S Chatterjee, Emotion Recognition from Feature Mapping Between Two Different Lobes of Human Brain Using EEG, In Proc. of International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1355, Springer, pp. 203-211, 2021. ISBN 978-981-16-1543-6

13. P Chanda, N Das, D Kar, A Mukherjee and A Mondal, Interactive and Intelligent Tutoring of Graphical Solutions, In Proc. of International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence,  Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1355, Springer, pp. 335-344, 2021. ISBN 978-981-16-1543-6

Book Chapter:

2013-14

1.  A Mukherjee, U Garain, and A Biswas, Diagram Drawing Using Braille Text: A Low Cost Learning Aid for Blind People, Global Trends in Intelligent Computing Research and Development, Eds. B. K. Tripathy and D. P. Acharjya, IGI Global, ISBN: 978-1-4666-4936-1, Chapter 14, pp. 384-406, 2014.

2014-15

2. A Mukherjee, U Garain, and A Biswas, Evaluation of Diagrams Produced by Text-to-Graphic Conversion Systems, Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges, Eds. B. Lamiroy and J.-M.Ogier, GREC 2013, LNCS 8746, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-662-44853-3, Chapter 20, pp. 252-265, 2014.

3. D Santra, A Mondal, and A Mukherjee, Study of Economic Load Dispatch by Various Hybrid Optimization Techniques, Hybrid Soft Computing: Research and Applications, Eds. S. Bhattacharyya, P. Dutta, and S Chakraborty, Springer Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Chapter 2, pp. 37-74, 2015. ISBN: 978-81-322-2543-0, DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2544-7_2

2017-18

4. D Santra, K Sarker, J Sarker, A Mukherjee and S Mondal, Combination of Stochastic Methods for Solving ELD Problem of Thermal Power Generation System, Stochastic Methods for Estimation and Problem-Solving in Engineering, Ed. Seifedine Kadry, IGI Global, Chapter 2, pp.33-60, 2018, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5045-7

2018-19

5. D Santra ,K Sarker , A Mukherjee and S Mondal, Load Optimization using Hybrid Metaheuristics in Power Generation with Transmission Loss, Hybrid Metaheuristics: Research and Applications, Ed. S. Bhattacharyya, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Chapter 10, pp. 257-285, 2018. ISBN: 978-981-3270-22-0 (hardcover). DOI: 10.1142/9789813270237_0010

6.  A Mondal, A Mukherjee and U Garain, Intelligent monitoring and evaluation of digital geometry figures drawn by students, Intelligent Multimedia Data Analysis, Eds. by S Bhattacharyya, I Pan, A Das, S  Gupta, De Gruyter, 2019,  Chapter 5, pp. 95-122,  ISBN 978-3-11-055207-2

2019-20

7. S Bhattacharya, A Mukherjee and S Phadikar A Deep Learning Approach for the Classification of Rice Leaf Diseases, Intelligence Enabled Research - DoSIER 2019, Eds. S Bhattacharyya, S Mitra and P Dutta, Springer: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 61-70, 2019. ISBN 978-981-15-2020-4, DOI:10.1007/978-981-15-2021-1

8. R Saha, A Mukherjee, A Sadhukhan, A Roy, M De, Handwriting Analysis for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease,  Intelligent Data Analysis: From Data Gathering to Data Comprehension, Eds. D Gupta, S Bhattacharyya , A Khanna, K Sagar, Wiley, 2020, Chapter 18, pp. 369-385, ISBN: 978-1-119-54446-3, DOI: 10.1002/9781119544487.ch18`

2020-21

9. R Saha, A Mukherjee, A Sarkar and S Day, Extraction Of Common Feature Of Dysgraphia Patients By Handwriting Analysis Using Variational Auto Encoder, Deep Learning Research and Applications, Eds. S Bhattacharyya, V Snasel, A Ella Hassanien, S Saha,  and B K Tripathy, De Gruyter, 2020, Chapter 5, pp. 85-104,  ISBN: 978-3-11-067079-0, DOI: 10.1515/9783110670905     

2023-24

D. Santra, A. Mukherjee, and S. Mondal,  A Study on Comparison between Thermal and Hydro-thermal ELD Using Metaheuristics Technique,  ECTI-CIT Transactions, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 222–234, May 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.37936/ecti-cit.2024182.254733  

Authored Book:

Introduction to Computer Graphics & Multimedia (2nd Edition),  2007, ISBN: 9788125919315

Fundamentals of Mechanical Science, Pearson, 2005

Edited Book:

2016-17

1. S Bhattacharyya, N Das, D Bhattacharjee and A Mukherjee, Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application, IGI Global, 2016. ISBN: 9781522517856, DOI: 10.4018/9781522517856 

2017-18

2.  S Bhattacharyya, I Pan, A Mukherjee and P Dutta, Hybrid Intelligence for Image Analysis and Understanding, Wiley, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-119-24292-5, DOI 10.1002/9781119242963 

3.  S Bhattacharyya, A Mukherjee, I Pan and P Dutta, Arup Kumar Bhaumik, Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for Pattern Analysis and Understanding, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017. ISBN 9781498769358

 4. S Bhattacharyya, A Mukherjee, H Bhaumik, S Das and K Yoshida, Recent Trends in Signal and Image Processing, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 727, Springer Nature Springer Singapore       Pte Ltd., ISSIP 2017, ISBN 978-981-10-8863-6

2018-19

5.  S Bhattacharyya, H Bhaumik, A Mukherjee and S De, Machine Learning For Big Data Analysis, Frontiers in Computational Intelligence, De Gruyter, 2019. ISBN 978-3-11-055032-0

2019-20

6.  J Ray, A Mukherjee, S K Dey  and G Klepac, Metaheuristic Approaches to Portfolio Optimization, IGI Global, 2019. ISBN 9781522581031, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8103-1

2020-21

7.  A Deyasi, S Mukherjee, A Mukherjee, A K Bhattacharjee and A Mondal, Computational Intelligence in Digital Pedagogy, Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL), Springer, 2020. ISBN 978-981-15-8744-3,  DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8744-3 

8.  I Pan, A Mukherjee, V Piuri, Proceedings of Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1355, Springer, 2021. ISBN 978-981-16-1543-6

2021-22

9. S Bhattacharyya, P Dutta, D Samanta, A Mukherjee, I Pan, Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Enabled Research: Theoretical Foundations and Applications, Elsevier, 2021. ISBN: 978-0128228449 

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2020-21

• MAKAUT + Cambridge Marketing College Online Certificate Course on Online Teaching, 1 month (Aug 8 - September 6, 2020)

2019-20

• IIT-B + TEQIP-II Online FDP on Digital Transformation in Teaching-Learning Process (DTITLP), 2 weeks (February 14 - March 6, 2020)

• NIT DGP Workshop on Data Science (Under ATAL Program), 1 week (October 14 - 18, 2019)

• RCCIIT FDP on Modern Day Challenges For Effective Communication and Self-Management in Teaching, 1 week (July 8 - 12, 2019) 

2016-17

• ESCI PDP on Cyber Defense and Network Security, 1 week (March 27-31, 2017)

• TEQIP-II National level FDP on Latex: The Art of Technical Writing, 1 week (February 6-10, 2017)

• TEQIP-II FDP on Pedagogy and Research Methodology, 1 week (August 01-05, 2016)

2015-16

• AICTE-UKIERI Leadership and Management Workshop- IV,  2 days (March 17-18, 2016)

• IIT-KGP FDP for Effective Teaching (Continuing Education Programme), 3 days (March 10-12, 2016)

• AICTE-UKIERI Leadership and Management Workshop- III,  3 days (October 12-14, 2015)

• RCCIIT+IIT-KGP National Level FDP on Pedagogy & E-Learning Technology,  1 week (June 22-26, 2015)

• AICTE-UKIERI Leadership and Management Workshop- II,  3 days (March 2 – 4, 2015)

• AICTE-UKIERI Leadership and Management Workshop- I,  3 days (January 21 – 23, 2015)

• TEQIP-II FDP on Hybrid Intelligence, 1 week (January 18-22, 2016)