Rank 2 (Second) in M.C.S.E. from Jadavpur University, 1993.
Rank 3 (Third) in B.Tech. (Computer Science and Technology), Calcutta University, 1991.
Rank 1 (First) in B.Tech. Part I and Part II (Computer Science and Technology), Calcutta University, 1991.
Rank 1 (First) in B.Sc. (Honours in Physics) examination from S. A. Jaipuria College, 1986.
Visiting Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, April, 2001 - September, 2003, on study leave from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.
Senior Research Fellow, ISI, Kolkata under Govt. Research Fellowship Scheme, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, May, 1993 - April, 1994.
Best paper award at the International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (ICCSEA), Odisha, India, 2020.
Best paper award at the Seventh International Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO 2014), Beijing, China, July 4-6, 2014
Best Paper award at the International Conference on Business and Information Management, ICBIM-2012, January 9-11, Durgapur, India, 2012.
“Gold Medal” awarded for obtaining the highest marks in the B.Sc. (Hons.) examination from S. A. Jaipuria College, Calcutta University, 1986.
“Prof. A.K. Chowdhury Memorial Award” for obtaining the highest marks in B.Tech, Part II examination (Computer Science and Engineering), Calcutta University, 1990.
The 4th international Conference on “Frontiers in Intelligent Computing, Theory and Application (FICTA-2015), Organized by NIT Durgapur, India, November 16-18, 2015.
DAV Model School, Durgapur for recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff, March 26-27, 2022.
Assam University, Silchar for guest faculty of the Dept. of CSE, 25th August 2021
SAIL, Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP), Member of the evaluation panel for Competition to win the CEO's Trophy for Young Managers 2020-21, final presentation on 21st Oct., 2020.
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai for faculty selection for the post of Assistant and Associate Professors in the School of Computing, 4th Nov., 2020
Chairman of the Selection Committee for project associate, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, 17th December, 2020
University of Kalyani for Assistant Professors for Computer Science, 19th July 2019
Chairman of the Selection Committee for Graduate/Diploma Apprentice, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, 23rd October 2019
PhD Viva-voce examination, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal, 25th Jan, 2022.
Evaluation and Viva-Voce of eight M. Tech. Thesis of the Department of CSE of IIT Kharagpur on April 28, 2022.
Evaluation of the PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Silchar, Assam, April 2021.
Enhancement Seminar of two PhD scholars, Department of CSE, IIIT Ranchi, December 09, 2021.
External Examiner for M.Tech Thesis in Assam University, Silchar, 21st Sep., 2020
Evaluation of the PhD thesis, Sathyabama University, Chennai, March 2018
Evaluation of the PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Patna, 2019
Evaluation of the PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Silchar, Assam, 2015
PhD Viva-voce examination, Kalyani University, Kalyani, 2015
Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (ICICSA 2022), September 23-24, 2022, NIT Silchar, India..
Advisory member of the Conference Technical Committee of the International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2022), École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India, August 25-27, 2022.
Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing, Security, and Applications (ICRTCSA), 2020.
2018 2nd Second International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP 2018), Kolkata, 2018. (International Advisory Board)
International Conference on Computer Network, Security and Computing (ICCSC-2018), Bangalore. May 25-26, 2018, (National Advisory Committee)
2017 First International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP 2017), (collocated with the Third IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN 2017), Kolkata, November 3-5, 2017. (International Advisory Committee)
International Conference on Computing Analytics and Networking (ICCAN-2017), KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, December 15-16, 2017. (International Advisory Committee)
10th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies (ICACCT 2016), Panipat, India, Nov 18-20, 2016. (International Advisory Committee)
International Conference on Advance Computing, Kolkata, Maulana Abul Kalam University of Technology, September 23-25, 2016. (International Advisory Committee)
6th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI 2022), Jan. 15, 2022.
3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics (CICBA-2021) on 07/01/2021.
INDICON 2021, 21.12.2021
MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
6th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI 2022), January 14-16 2022.
International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2022) organized by Mahindra University, École Centrale School of Engineering, Hyderabad. August 25-27, 2022. Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India.
5th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI-2021), January 15-17 2021, Kolkata.
International Conference on Sustainable Advanced Computing (ICSAC 2021), March 5-6, 2021.
International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Architecture and Intelligence (I2AS2021), Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, JIS Group, Kolkata, April 2-3, 2021.
International Conference on Computer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICCEEE 2021), July 15-17, 2021, Pune, India.
International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE 2021), July 19-21, 2021.
International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE-2020), Gran Canaria (Meloneras), Spain, September 9-11, 2020.
5th IAPR Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP-2020), IIIT Allahabad, Dec. 4-6, 2020.
IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT-2019), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India, December 06-08.
Doctoral Symposium on Intelligence Enabled Research (DoSIER 2019), October 19-20, 2019.
Second International Conference on “Frontiers of Operations Research & Business Studies (FORBS 2019)” in collaboration with Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), Durgapur Chapter, Calcutta Business School (CBS), December 27-28, 2019.
REVIEWER
Transactions on fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (IEEE), Access (IEEE), Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE), Soft Computing (Springer), Sadhana (Springer), Engineering Science and Technology (Elsevier), Knowledge-based Systems (Elsevier), Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Operations Research and Decisions, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (ISSE), etc.
Chapters 13 and 14 of the book “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, for Indian adaptation of the
4th Edition of Wiley India, 2020
“Machine Learning meets Computational Biology” of CRC Press | Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
SERB (DST): 1, SPARC: 5
SOME PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of NITD for a period of three years from 14/06/2022
Member of the Screening Committee (SCC) of NITD for the award of DAA to eminent persons, 2022
Member of the Committee of NITD to consider equivalence of filing of a patent with one publication in a SCI/SSCI/AHCI/ non-paid Scopus/ Web of Science Journal, 2022
HOD, CSE, NITD, 2 terms: 2019 - March, 2021, and 2007 – 2009
PhD Coordinator, CSE Department, NIT Durgapur, July 2018 - January, 2019 (Due to take over of the charge of HOD)
Senior Member of IEEE from June 2017
Ex-Chair member (2023-2024). Chair (2021-2022), Vice Chair (2019-2020), Office bearers (2017-2018) of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Kolkata Chapter
Member of the Springer Award Committee Global AI Congress, 2nd July, 2019
Coordinator of the Question Setting and Moderation Committee (for Computer Science and Application) for 18th State Eligibility Test (SET), West Bengal College Service Commission, November 2014.
Post Graduate Board of Studies (PG- BOS) of the Department of Computer Science, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, for a term of 4 years with effect from June 06, 2021
Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal from March 26, 2015.
UG Board of Studies of Computer Science
UG Board of Studies of Computer Application
Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal for a term of 4 years with effect from April 07, 2020
UG Board of Studies of Computer Science
UG Board of Studies of Computer Application
MCKV Institute of Engineering, Department of IT, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal, with effect from 30th May, 2020
GUEST OF HONOUR
Guest of Honour on the World Telecommunication & Information Society Day –2018, The Institution of Engineers (India), Durgapur Local Centre, May 17, 2018
Seminar at Institution of Engineers (India), Durgapur under the aegis of CPDB, IEI, Kolkata, April 03, 2016
INVITED LECTURES IN FDP/STC/WORKSHOP
"Generalization and Robustness of Neural Networks" in 5 days FDP (July 11-15, 2022) on “Recent trends in AI and machine learning and its applications” on July 13, 2022.
"Generalization and Robustness of Neural Networks" in 5 days FDP on “ML & DL approach towards Computer Vision” organized by the Department of Computer Applications (PG) of Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College Durgapur on March 29, 2022.
“Clustering Techniques in Intelligence” in online FDP on Data Intelligence and Computation Organized by CCE, NIT Warangal & Department of Master of Computer Application, Regent Education and Research Foundation Group of Institutions, Barrackpore on March 22, 2022.
“Clustering: Hard and Soft” in 5 days online FDP on Emerging Technologies organized by the Department of Information Technology, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur on March 10, 2022.
"Clustering" in online FDP on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning organized by the Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Dr. B. C. Roy Polytechnic, Durgapur on Feb.17, 2022.
6. “Clustering - K-means and SOM” on 22nd January, 2021 in a one week FDP on “AI & ML in, Computation, Optimization and Communication”, organized by the Department of Information Technology, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, January 18-22, 2021.
“SOM and Clustering” on 9th March, 2021 in AICTE STTP Programme “Machine Learning and Optimization for Uncertain Decision Making”, organized by Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering in association with Center for Continuing Education, NIT Warangal, March 5-9, 2021.
“Generalization and Robustness of ANN” on 4th May, 2021 in AICTE Sponsored 6 Days' Online STTP (Phase 2) on “Big Data Analytics Using Soft Computing Tools”, organized by the Department of IT, MCKV Institute of Engineering, May 3-8, 2021,.
“Self-Organizing Map and Clustering” on 5th July, 2021 in AICTE Sponsored STTP Programme "Tools and Techniques for Machine Learning and its Applications", Department of Applied Science, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal, July 5-10, 2021.
“Unsupervised Machine Learning techniques & Probabilistic Theory” on 15th Dec 2021 in ATAL Academy sponsored online FDP on Advance Statistical & Machine Learning Models (ASMLM-2021), organized by the Department of CSE, IIIT Ranchi, December 15 – 19, 2021
Following two lectures in a 10 days online FDP on "Data Science using AI and Machine Learning", organized by E & ICT Academy, NIT Warangal in association with SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Ramapuram, sponsored by (MeitY), GOI, September 18 - 27, 2021.
1. “Multi-objective GA for Multi-objective Machine Learning” on September 25, 2021
2. “SOM and Clustering for Unsupervised Learning and Dimension Reduction Methods” on September 26, 2021
“On Clustering” on 22nd August 2020 in the International webinar on Emerging Trends and Advances in Machine learning 2020 (IETAM 2020), organized by the Dept. of Computer Science and B.C.A, Debra Thana Sahid Kshudiram Smriti Mahavidyalaya in technical collaboration with IEEE CIS, Kolkata Chapter, August 22-23, 2020.
“Clustering and SOM” on 6th October 2020 in AICTE Sponsored STTP on “Big Data Analytics Using Soft Computing Tools”, Organized by Department of Information Technology, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, October 5-10, 2020.
“On Regularization and Robustness of NNs” on 25th November 2020 in 5 Days Online Workshop on Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques with its Applications, organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, BTR, Assam, Sponsored by AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy, November 23 – 27, 2020.
“Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms, Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction using Principal Component Analysis (PCA)” on 21st November, 2019 in the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored Programme on “Artificial Intelligence” conducted by National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Durgapur, during November 18-22, 2019.
“K-Means Clustering and Clustering using SOM Neural Network”, Seminar in A K Choudhury School of Information Technology, Calcutta University, 12th September, 2019.
On the theme “Enabling the positive use of Artificial Intelligence for All” as communicated by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the World Telecommunication & Information Society Day - 2018, The Institution of Engineers (India), Durgapur Local Centre, May 17, 2018.
13. “Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition” in One Day Seminar organized by Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology & Management (DIATM) in association with IE (I), Durgapur Local Centre, on 14th September 2018.
“Regularization and Generalization of ANN” on 20th April, TEQIP-II Sponsored Workshop, Recent Trends in Machine Learning and Soft Computing (RTMLSC-2018), April 16-20, 2018.
15. One Day Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Aspects, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, 8th August 2017
One Week Workshop on “Advances in Image Processing and Soft Computing Techniques”,CSE Department, NIT Silchar, February 20-24, 2017.
One day Symposium on "Some New Research Directions in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence", Technically sponsored by IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter in the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, 25th February, 2017.
One day National Level Seminar on "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization" in the Department of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, 4th March, 2017.
“Artificial Neural Network (ANN)” in One Week Short Term Course (STC) on “Soft Computing & Optimization Techniques in Engineering and Engineering Science (SCOTEES 2017)”, October 10-16, NIT Durgapur, 2017.
WORKSHOP/SYMPSOSIUM/DLP ORGANIZED
1-Day Workshop on “Assessment of Learning Materials and Usability Score” of the Teaching-Learning System held in DAV Model School, Durgapur, sponsored by MeitY (Project: NITD/SRCC/TP/CSE/2020/4), 30th July, 2022.
2-Days Workshop on “Assessment of Learning Materials (LMs) and Usability Score” of the TeachingLearning System, NIT Durgapur, sponsored by MeitY (Project: NITD/SRCC/TP/CSE/2020/4), April 22- 23, 2022
One Day Webinar on “Contemporary Advances in Computational Intelligence” in association with IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter in Visva-Bharati, 14th Dec. 2022.
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) “Evolutionary Multi Objective Optimization and Some of Its Applications in Image Processing” in association with IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter in Visva-Bharati, India, 20th Dec. 2022.
Organizing Secretary, National workshop on current state of affairs on cyber security & cryptology (NWCSC), organized by NIT Durgapur and Vivekananda Vijnana Mission, West Bengal at NIT Durgapur, September 13-14, 2019.
Joint Coordinator, Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning and IoT, CSE Department, NIT Durgapur, June 17-21, 2019.
Organizing Secretary, TEQIP-II sponsored One day Symposium on “Machine Learning and its Applications” Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Durgapur on 22nd March, 2017.
INVITED/KEYNOTE LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
‘On Robustness and Generalization of Neural Networks’ in online International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization Theory and Applications (SCOTA 2021), organized by Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, March 26-27, 2021.
“Hard vs Soft Clustering” on 28th October 2021 in the three-Day 27th International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics & Computational Optimizations (RAMCO-2021) held online at School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India, under the auspices of IAPS, October 26th - 28th, 2021.
Keynote Lecture “Optimization and Genetic Algorithms” on 5th October 2016 at International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (lCCSE 2016) organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Department of Computer Application of RCC Institute of Information Technology and technically sponsored by IEEE Electron Device Society (Kolkata section) and The Institution of Engineers (INDIA, Kolkata Section) and financially sponsored by TEQIP-II, Kolkata, October 4–6, 2016.