Dr. Rajesh P Barnwal (SM' ACM, SM' IEEE, SM' INAE)
Senior Principal Scientist (CSIR-India) & Associate Professor (AcSIR-India)
Head, AI & IoT Lab, Information Technology Group
Member, Advanced Casting Research Group
CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
(CSIR, Under Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)
Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur - 713 209 [India]
E-mail: r_barnwal[AT]cmeri[DOT]res[DOT]in
Phone: +91-9434-921476 (D)
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-- Albert Einstein
Rajesh (pronunciation r ah j ai sh)
(Hindi: राजेश, Bengali: রাজেশ, Punjabi: ਰਾਜੇਸ਼ , Telugu: రాజేష్, Chinese: 拉杰什, Urdu: راجیش);
Height: 187 cm, Eye Color: Black, Nationality: Indian
Cyber-Physical Systems
Industrial Internet of Things
AI /Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
Master of Technology (M.Tech. ) (CGPA: 9.58/10) (Second Rank Holder)
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering (Erstwhile SIT)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur , India
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (CSE)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
(Supervisor: Prof. Soumya K. Ghosh)
Thesis Title: Mitigating Information Falsification in Participatory Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems: A Data-driven Approach
PostDoc (Under INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship)
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India
(Mentor/ Host: Prof. Ashis Ghosh)
Project: Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Models
Research Experience
Senior Principal Scientist (Jun' 2023 - Present) , AI & IoT Lab, Information Technology Group, CSIR-CMERI, Dgp, India
Principal Scientist (Jun' 2018 - Jun' 2023) , AI & IoT Lab, Information Technology Group, CSIR-CMERI, Dgp, India
Senior Scientist (June' 201 4- June' 2018), AI & IoT Lab, Information Technology Group, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India
Scientist (June' 2009 - June' 2014) , Information Technology Group, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India
Junior Scientist (Jun' 2006- Jun' 2009) , Information Technology Group, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India
Senior Scientific Asst. (Aug' 2002 - Jun' 2006) CSIR-CIMFR (Erstwhile CMRI), Dhanbad, India
Graduate Research Intern, General Motors-R&D, India Science Lab, Bangalore
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor (2018 - Present) (Engineering Sciences)
Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), India
Assistant Professor (2014 - 18 ) (Engineering Sciences)
Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), India
Teaching Assistant (2011-12) (Information Technology)
School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Courses Taught
Computer Programming & Numerical Methods
Experimental Statistics
A Comprehensive Approach to Computer Vision
Training on "AI on Edge" by STM Partner Institute during 19-23 September' 2023
One week national e-workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights conducted by InTEC, Bhubaneshwar during 13-18 June' 2022
Deep-dive Training Course on Quantum Computing by CDAC, Bangalore (27 June-01 July' 2022)
Short-term course on "Optimization and Genetic Algorithms" by Prof. D.K. Pratihar, IIT-Kharagpur (12-14 Dec. 2011)
Short-term course on "Computational Statistics" by Prof. Rudra Pradhan, VGSOM, IIT-Kharagpur (27-30 Dec. 2010)
Short-term course on "Fourth Generation Communication Network" by Prof. Suvra Sekhar Das, GSST, IIT-Kharagpur (2009)
Short-term course on "Object Oriented Software Engineering" by Prof. D.K. Mohapatra, NIT-Rourkela
Certificate in Intellectual Property Right (Score: 90/100) from WIPO Academy, Geneva, Switzerland
Certificate Course in Machine Learning (Score: 76/80) from Stanford University, California
Certificate Course in Control of Mobile Robots from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Certificate Course in R Programming from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA
Power Searcher Certificate from Google Inc., CA
Training received entitled "Championship program in Industry 4.0" from IMTMA, Bangalore
Certificate in Internet of Things (IoT) from ESCI, Hyderabad, India
Certificate in Data Science from NISCAIR, New Delhi, India
Red Hat Certified Engineer (Score: 100%) from Red Hat Inc., USA
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (Score: 100%) from Red Hat Inc., USA
Power Searcher Certificate from Google Inc., USA
Certificate in ORACLE-8i DBA from STS International, India
Certificate in ArcGIS from ESRI-NIIT Inc., India
Certificate in Matlab from InfoUniv, Kolkata, India