PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

 

Professional Affiliation:

 

1.      Fellow, The Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI), Membership number: F-1289507, since 27 April, 2022.

2.      Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Membership number: 1100759368, since 17 June, 2020.

3.      ACM Professional Member, Membership number: 8354810, since 22 May, 2020.

4.      Fellow, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Membership number: F-234608, since 22 July 2017.

5.      Senior Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Membership number: 92164938, since 11 July, 2016.

6.      Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, since 01 January, 2024.

7.      Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society, since 01 January, 2024.

 

General Chair/Session Chair/Program Chair, etc.:

 

  1. Track Chair, Signal Processing track, 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC 2025), 20-22 February, 2025, JIIT, Noida, India.
  2. Technical Chair, International Conference on Communication, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning (I4CML 2024), 23-24 November, 2024.
  3. Honorary General Chair, 4th International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2024), 28-29 September, 2024, Eminent College of Management and Technology (ECMT), Kolkata, India.
  4. Technical Program Committee Chair, 2024 4th International Conference on Computer, Remote Sensing and Aerospace (CRSA 2024), 05-07 July, 2024, Osaka, Japan.
  5. TPC Chairman, 2024 International Conference on Computer Vision, Robotics and Automation Engineering (CRAE 2024), 21-23 June, 2024, Kunming, China.
  6. General Chair, 1st International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing, Power, Communication and Computing (ASPCC-2024), 6-8 June, 2024, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India.
  7. Honorary Conference Chair, 3rd International Conference on Biologically Inspired Techniques in Many-Criteria Decision-Making (BITMDM-2024), 06-07 December, 2024, Nagaland University, Dimapur, India.
  8. General Conference Chair, 2024 5th International Conference on Computer Vision, Image and Deep Learning (CVIDL 2024), 19-21 April, 2024, Zhuhai, China.
  9. Publication Chair, 2024 3rd International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (ISPP2024), 01-03 March, 2024, Kunming, China.
  10. General Chair, 2024 International Conference on Remote Sensing, Mapping and Image Processing (RSMIP 2024), 19-21 January, 2024, Xiamen, China.
  11. TPC Chair, Track III: Applications Using Intelligent Techniques in Electronics & Communication, Springer Natures International Conference SIGMAA-2023, 15-16 December, 2023, Delhi, India.
  12. Session Chair, Mind, Brain, and Consciousness Conference (MBCC 2023), 14-16 December, 2023, IIT Mandi, India.
  13. General Chair, 21st International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT 2023), 14-16 December, 2023, Organized by the Orissa Information Technology Society and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, India, Bhubaneswar, India.
  14. Technical Chair, WADLA 3.0 - International Research Workshop on Advances in Deep Learning and Applications, 11-16 December, 2023, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, India.
  15. Track Chair, Signal Processing Track, 2023 9th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC 2023), 07-09 December, 2023, Noida, India.
  16. Program Chair, 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Internet of Things (ICCIIoT), 2023, 04-06 December, 2023, The Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
  17. Honorary General Chair, International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2023), 29-30 November, 2023, Kolkata, India.
  18. Honorary Chair, International Conference on Blockchain and Machine Intelligence Applications (ICBMIA) 2023, 16-17 August, 2023, Kolkata, India.
  19. General Chair, 2023 3rd International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication (ICSIPC 2023), 26-28 May, 2023, Kunming, China. 
  20. Track Chair, 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Systems, Devices and Computing (ESDC-2023), 04-06 May, 2023, IIIT Sri City, India.
  21. Session Chair, IEEE 2023 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (ICAIA) Alliance Technology Conference (ATCON-1), 21-22 April, 2023, Bengaluru, India.
  22. Conference Chair, 2023 2nd International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, 24-26 February, 2023, Changsha, China.
  23. General Chair, International Conference on Next Generation Communication and Information Processing (INCIP 2023), 10-11 February, 2023, Dehradun, India.
  24. Honorary General Chair, International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2022), 29-30 November, 2022, Kolkata, India. 
  25. Program Chair, 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2022), 24-27 November, 2022, University of Malta and NIT Raipur, India.
  26. Financial Chair, 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022), 22-26 November, 2022, Indore, India.
  27. Publicity co-Chair, National Conference on Communications (NCC 2022), 24-27 May, 2022, IIT Bombay, IIT Dharwad, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Goa, and IIT Indore, India.
  28. General Chair, 2022 2nd International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication (ICSIPC 2022), 20-22 May, 2022, Qingdao, China.
  29. Convener, Conference on under Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sammelan & Expo (MPVS -2021), 22-25 December, 2021, IIT Indore, MPCST Bhopal, and Vigyan Bharati, India.
  30. Co-General Chair, International Conference on Technology, Research, and Innovation for Betterment of Society (TRIBES-2021), 17-19 December, 2021, IIIT Naya Raipur, India.
  31. Program Chair, The 4th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), 08-10 December, 2021, University of Malta, Malta.
  32. Founding Chair, 3rd International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing, 23-25 September, 2021, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India.
  33. Track Chair, Brain Computer Interface session, International Conference on Machine Vision and Augmented Intelligence (MAI-2021), 11-14 February, 2021, IIITDM Jabalpur, India.
  34. Session Chair, 10th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocPros 2020), IIT Indore, India, 18-20 December, 2020.
  35. Tutorial Chair, 23rd International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2019), 04-06 July, 2019, IIT Indore, India.
  36. Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics and Their Applications, 10-12 July, 2016, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
  37. Session Chair, Special session on EEG and ECG signal processing, International Conference on Medical Biometrics (ICMB-2014), 30 May-01 June, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
  38. Session Chair, Special session on Non-stationary signal analysis methods and applications, 5th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-11), 14-16 December, 2011, Tumkur, India.

 

Editorship:

 

1.      Associate Editor: IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 8 April, 2024 to present.

2.      Associate Editor: 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 15-19 July, 2024, Orlando, Florida, USA. (Theme: Biomedical Signal Processing)

3.      Associate Editor: Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), 7 December, 2023 to present.

4.      Guest Editor: Special issue on Advances in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Computer Vision, MDPI Mathematics journal, 25 July, 2023-30 April, 2024. (with Dr. Karri Chiranjeevi and Dr. Lalit Garg)

5.      Guest Editor: Special issue on Distributed Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Health Monitoring Applications, MDPI Sensors journal, 11 April, 2023-25 February, 2024. (with Dr. M. Sabarimalai Manikandan)

6.      Associate Editor: IEEE EMBS Conference Editorial Board (CEB) for 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 24-28 July, 2023, Sydney, Australia. (Theme: Biomedical Signal Processing)

7.      Associate Editor: IEEE EMBS Conference Editorial Board (CEB) for 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 11-15 July, 2022, Glasgow, UK. (Theme: Biomedical Signal Processing)

8.      Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2 September, 2021 to 14 February, 2024.

9.      Review Editor: Editorial Board of Brain Imaging Methods (specialty section of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Neurology), 20 February, 2021 to 13 June, 2023.

10. Review Editor: Editorial board of Mathematics of Computation and Data Science (specialty section of Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics), 12 August, 2020 to 06 October, 2021.

11. Guest Editor: Special issue on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in Energy Infrastructure, including Economic Implications, MDPI Energies journal, 18 September, 2020-30 June, 2021. (with Prof. Dipankar Deb and Prof. Moinak Maiti)

12. Associate Editor: 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, 20-24 July, 2020, Montreal, Canada. (Theme: Biomedical Signal Processing)

13. Associate Editor: Electronics Letters, 29 Januray, 2019 to present.

14. Associate Editor: IEEE EMB Conference for the Biosignal Processing Theme, 41st EMB Conference 2019, 23-27 July, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

15. Associate Editor: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier), 15 February, 2018 to present.

16. Editor: IETE Technical Review Journal, 18 May, 2017 to present.

17. Editor: Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1 March, 2012- 27 September, 2018.

18. Associate Editor: Special session on Non-stationary signal analysis methods and applications at 5th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-11), 14-16 December, 2011, Tumkur, India. 

 

Membership of Board of Studies/Senate/Committees at Various Academic Institutes/State & National Level Committees:

 

1.      Member, Advisory Board for establishment of Innovation and Incubation Centre, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, India, Three years, 10 May, 2024 to present.

2.      Special Invitee, Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)- Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA), IISER, Pune, India, 08-09 April, 2024.

3.      Co-opted Member, Board of Awards, The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi, India, Session: 2023-2024, 16 January, 2024 to present.

4.      Expert Member, Expert committee for evaluation/examination of CRG proposals, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) Kolkata, India, 12-13 October, 2023.

5.      Member, Board of Studies (BoS), Department of Information Technology, Nagaland University, Lumami, India, Three years, 04th October, 2023 to present.

6.      Member, Advisory Committee for the Center of Data Science and AI, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, 26 September, 2023 to present.

7.      Special Invitee, Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA), GITAM (Deemed be University), Vishakhapatnam, India, 08-09 June, 2023.

8.      Board of Studies Member, Information and Communication Technology, FEST, Adani University, Ahmedabad, India, 21 April, 2023 to present.

9.      Distinguished Expert, DQAC Meeting, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Prestige Institute of Engineering, Management & Research, Indore, India, 18 January, 2023.

10. Expert Member, Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Search-cum-Selection Committee for SERB-POWER grant, SERB, New Delhi, Three years, 17 January, 2023 to present.

11. Research Advisory Committee (RAC) Member, G.H. Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Business Management, Jalgaon, India, 02 January, 2023 to present.

12. Expert Member, Board of Studies Meeting, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India, 27 December, 2023, 14 June, 2024.

13. Expert Member, Board of Studies Meeting, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore, India, 27 December, 2022.

14. Special Invitee, Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA), SERB, IISER Pune, India, 22-23 December, 2022.

15. Expert Member, Board of Studies Meeting, Department of Electronics, Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, India, 14 December, 2022, 31 May, 2023, 29 November, 2023, 24 May, 2024.

16. Research Advisory Board Member, IES College of Technology, Bhopal, India, 08 November, 2022 to present.

17. Coordinator, Review of Prime Ministers Research Fellowship (PMRF) scholars in image processing and biomedical signal processing area, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, 22 September, 2022.

18. Special Invitee, Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA), SERB, New Delhi, India, 5 September, 2022.

19. Expert Member (Special Invitee), Board of Studies, School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (SEEE), VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, 24 August, 2022.

20. Coordinator, Review of Prime Ministers Research Fellowship (PMRF) scholars in signal processing area, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, 12 June, 2022.

21. Member, Expert committee for the monitoring/evaluation of project proposals under Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) special call on Wearable Electronics for Biomedical Applications, SERB, New Delhi, 30 May, 2022.

22. Expert Member, Board of Studies, Department of Electronics Engineering and Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering of G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, India, Three years, 05 February, 2022 to present.

23. Special Invitee, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-promoting opportunities for women in exploratory research (POWER) screening committee for engineering science scheme (Electrical, Electronics & Computer Science Engineering domain), SERB, New Delhi, India, 21-22 January, 2022.

24. External Expert, Departmental academic committee (DAC) and the departmental visiting committee (DVC), Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, India, Three years, 06 July, 2021 to present.

25. External Member, Board of Studies, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, India, 5 July, 2021.

26. Expert Member, Board of Studies, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, G.H. Raisoni Institute  of Business Management, Jalgaon, India, 2021-2024 (8 June, 2021, 10 February, 2022, 30 June, 2022, 16 January, 2023, 10 July, 2023, 29 December, 2023, 25 May, 2024), Three years, 2024-2027.

27. Senate Member, IIITDM Kancheepuram, India, Two years, 01 April, 2021 to 31 March, 2023.

28. Academic Expert Member, Board of Studies of Electronics & Communication Engineering Department, IES University, Bhopal, India, 10 February, 2021, 04 December, 2021.

29. Expert Member, NBA advisory committees namely Department Advisory Board (DAB) and Program Assessment Committee (PAC), Department of Electronics & Communication, Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), India, 16 January, 2021 to present.

30. Subject Expert, Board of Studies, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Science, Indore, India, 06 October, 2020, 18 June, 2021, 12 March, 2022, 22 August, 2022, 11 October, 2023, 01 June, 2024.

31. Expert Member, Board of Studies Meeting, Department of Information Technology, Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India, 16 July, 2020, 06 February, 2021, 17 August, 2021.

32. Special Invitee (Expert Member), Review meeting of Engineering Science scheme (Electrical, Electronics & Computer Science Engineering domain), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), IIT Madras, India, 06-07 March, 2020.

33. Expert Member, The Faculty, Faculty of Engineering, Medi-Caps University, Indore, India, Three years, 01 February, 2020 to 31 January, 2023.

34. Member (Academic), Board of Studies, Electronics & Communication, Electronics and Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, India, 14 March, 2019 to 26 February, 2022.

35. Member, State Level Steering Committee, Department of School Education, Government of Madhya Pradesh from 29 August, 2018 to 12 January, 2020.

36. Expert Member, Board of Studies, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India, 28 May, 2018, 30 May, 2019, 20 July, 2020, 06 February, 2021.

37. Senate Member, IIT Indore, India, from 18 December, 2017 to present.

38. Expert from Academics, Academic audit, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MANIT, Bhopal, India, 16 November, 2016.

39. External Expert Member, Board of Studies, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India, 20 October, 2016, 14 February, 2020.

40. Expert for selection committee of Prime Ministers Research Fellowship (PMRF), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, 23 May, 2018.

41. Distinguished Member of Board of Studies for the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India, 18 December, 2014.

 

Other Information:

 

1.      Reviewer for 34 conferences.

2.      Reviewer for 105 scientific journals.

3.      Technical program committee (TPC) member for 55 conferences.

4.      Advisory committee member for 54 conferences.

5.      Reviewer for Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Italy- Singapore Science & Technology Call for Joint Research Projects, project proposals.

6.      Subject expert for 34 faculty selection committees at reputed institutes.

7.      PhD thesis examiner for 200 theses from reputed institutes.

8.      MS thesis examiner for 3 theses from reputed institutes.

9.      Delivered more than 300 invited talks in short term courses, faculty development programs and other academic events.