Professional Activities

Events Organised:

    • Chairman of five day IKG PTU, Kapurthala sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Recemnt Trends and Applications of Machine Learning”, from 5th to 9th March, 2018 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Chairman of two day TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on “Insights of Data Science”, on 21st and 22nd October, 2016 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Patron of two weeks TEQIP-II sponsored faculty development programme on “Computing Tools to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Research”, from 16th - 27th May, 2016 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Coordinator of one day TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on “Emerging Trends in Data Analytics”, on 9th April, 2016 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Co-chairman of TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on “Producing Elegant Technical Reports Efficiently” held from 19th – 20th Jan., 2016 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Coordinator of five days TEQIP-II sponsored faculty development programme on “Recent Computing Paradigms”, from 7th - 11th July, 2014 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Coordinator of five days TEQIP-II sponsored faculty development programme on “Natural Language Processing”, from 13th - 17th January, 2014 at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
    • Coordinator of two day workshop on “Learning Content Management System” from 22nd – 23rdMay, 2012 at GNDEC, Ludhiana.
    • Organising Secretary of AICTE sponsored two day symposium on “Challenges and opportunities in Medical Image Processing and Applications”, organized by Dept. of IT on 3rd -4th Feb., 2012.


Professional Membership:

    • Life member, Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi
    • Life member, Punjab Academy of Sciences
    • Life member, Computer Society of India
    • Senior member, Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, Navi Mumbai
    • Life member, Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata [Section–Engineering Sci.]
    • IEEE membership, IEEE Computer Society membership
    • Life member, The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata
    • Member, The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), USA


Other Activities:

a) Reviewer of conferences and journals:

    • International Conference on Advances in Information Communication Technology & Computing (AICTC-2016), 12-13 August 2016, organised jointly by Govt. Engineering College, Bikaner and ACM Chapter, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
    • International Conference on Natural Language Processing in Regional Languages (regICON 2015), 18th – 19th Sept., 2015, Punjabi University, Patiala.
    • Journal of Research, published by Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi.
    • Reviewer for the “International Conference on Information System for Indian Languages (ICISIL2011)”, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, March 9th -11th, 2011. Proceedings published by Springer “Communications in Computer and Information Science”, Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag (ISBN: 978-3-642-19402-3, ISSN: 1865-0929).

b) Board of Studies:

    • Member Board of Studies (Computer Science & Engg.), Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur. [2016 – till date]
    • Chairman, Board of Studies (Computer Science & Engg.), GNDEC, Ludhiana. [5.5.2014 – till date]
    • Member, Board of Studies (Computer Science & Engg.), GNDEC, Ludhiana. [..2012 - 4.5.2014]
    • Member Board of Studies (Computer Applications), Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. [29.09.2008 – …]
    • Punjabi University, Patiala appointed as external expert for Board of Under-graduate Studies in Computer Science from 10.2.2012 to 31.12.2013 (vide letter no. 993/S.Const., dated 10.2.2012).
    • Member Board of Studies (Computer Science & Engg./Information Technology/Computer Applications), Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. [29.09.2008 – 12.12.2011]

c) Sessions Chaired:

    • Chaired session during “International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing (ICRTC- 2016)”, at Dept. of Computer Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, on 31st August, 2016.
    • Chaired session during “2nd National Conference on Role of Information Technology in Management & Engineering (RITME-2016)”, at Malout Institute of Management & Information Technology (MIMIT), Malout, on 26th August 2016.
    • Chaired session at PTU sponsored “National Conference on Cyber Crime & Security Threats in Digital World”, at Gujranwala Guru Nanak Institute of Management & Technology, Ludhiana, on 30 March, 2012.
    • Chaired session during “International Conference on Upcoming Trends in IT (ICUTIT-2012)”, at Punjab College of Technical Education, Baddowal, Ludhiana, on 24th March, 2012.