About

Roles and Responsibilities :

1. Chief Student Coordinator, India International Science Festival (IISF)- 2024 

2. Executive Member (Governing Council): The Robotic Society (INDIA)

3. Co-Chair, Gifu University Global Innovative Leaders Program (GILP) Symposium 2023- Japan

4. Mentor- Students' Academic Board (SAB) IIT Guwahati- 2023-24

5. Member (Advisory Committee)- Research & Industrial Conclave 2023, IIT Guwahati

6. Overall Student Coordinator- North East Research Conclave (NERC) 2022, IIT Guwahati

7. Student Convenor (as General Secretary)- Research & Industrial Conclave 2022, IIT Guwahati

8. General Secretary- Students' Academic Board (SAB) IIT Guwahati- 2021-23

9. Committee Member- Hostel Management Committee- 2019-20, IIT Guwahati

10. Student Volunteer- TEQIP Robotics and AI - IIT Guwahati

Memberships:

1. Graduate Student Member, IEEE: New York, NY, US

2. Student Member, Robotic Society of Japan: Tokyo, Japan, JP

3. Student Member, The Robotic Society: IN

Awards and Honours:

1. Best 3 Minute Thesis Presentation Award, Research and Industrial Conclave, IIT Guwahati, India · August 2024

2. Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) International Travel Support (ITS) Grant 

Issued by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India · Jun 2024

Financial Assistance for participating in "10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT 2024), Malta (01 July, 2024 to 04 July, 2024)"

3. Best Paper Presentation Award in the Manipulation & Grasping session at the Advances in Robotics (AIR) 2023 Conference at IIT Ropar for the paper "Grasp Synergies in Activities of Daily Living: A Cross-sectional Study using a Multi-sensory Data Glove."： https://advancesinrobotics.com/2023/programme/appreciations-awards/

4. Govt. of India (MHRD) Fellowship for PhD at IIT Guwahati

5. Selected for JASSO Fellowship under the Student Exchange Support Program for International Joint PhD Programme at Gifu University, Japan

6. Qualified for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 3 times.

Recognitions:

1. Reviewer, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH)

2. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH)

3. Reviewer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

4. Reviewer, Measurement and Control Journal (SAGE)

5. Reviewer, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development/ Clinical Trials (PLoS ONE)

6.  Reviewer, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2024 | Boston, MA, USA

7. Reviewer, AIR '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Advances in Robotics, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States

8. Reviewer, 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2024)  to be published in Springer Book Series, ‘Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems’

Mentorships:

1. MTP Mentorship: I mentored Sumitesh Behera, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, for his Master of Technology thesis on 'ANFIS-Trained Torque Control for a Soft Hand Exoskeleton'. (June 2025)

2. Intern Mentorship: I mentored Dhitiman Gogoi & Bhargab Jyoti Bhuyan, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from Tezpur University during their undergraduate winter internship at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati  on the topic 'Predictive Modelling of Grasp Forces using Machine Learning" (December 2024- February 2025)

3. MTP Mentorship: I mentored Sanjib Saikia, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, for his Master of Technology thesis on 'Kinematic Design and Development of Hand Exoskeleton for Neurorehabilitation. (May 2022)

4. BTP Mentorship: I mentored Kento Hirogaki from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Gifu University, Japan, for his bachelor's Thesis Project titled 'The Development of a New Exoskeleton Glove System for Rehabilitation Assistance of Spinal Cord Injury Patients'  (March 2024)

5. Mentored 20k+ students across India for M.Tech./MS and Ph.D Admissions in IITs/NITs and foreign universities by creating a Facebook Group consisting of 85k members currently.

Teaching Assistant:

1. DA109  AI Basic, Online B. Sc.(Hons.) in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Coursera

2. Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

3. ME302M Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

4. ME301M Robotic Vision and Control

5. ME101 Engineering Mechanics

6. ME 640 Robotics And Robot Application

7. ME 326: Mechanical Engineering Lab III (DAQ Lab)  

8. ME 111: Engineering Drawing

9. ME 326: Mechanical Engineering Laboratory- (Fluid Machinery)

10. ME 412: Mechanical Tribology Lab

Courses learnt during (M.Tech + PhD) Dual and Joint Degree Coursework:

1. Fundamentals of Human Body Mechanics

2. Mechatronics and Manufacturing Automation

3. Advanced Mechanics of Solids

4. Mechanical Vibrations

5. Computer Integrated Manufacturing

6. Introduction to Composite Materials

7. Advanced Engineering Mathematics

8. Engineering Computing Laboratory 

9. Technical Writing 

10. Robotics & Robot Application

11. Finite Element Methods in Engineering

12. Manufacturing Laboratory

13. CAD/CAM 

14. Advanced Bioengineering

15. Advanced Motion Control (At Gifu University)