PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

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

1. External Expert Member, Review of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Warangal, 17-18 March 2026.

2. Special Invitee, Subject Expert Committee of Anusandhan National Research Foundation-Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (ANRF-PMECRG) in sub-area of Computer Engineering, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), IISER Pune, India, 17-18 February 2026.

3. Academic Expert, Board of Studies (BoS), Department of Electronics Engineering, Medicaps University, Indore, India, 15 January 2026.

4. Expert Member, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Center for Advanced Research (CAR) project screening committee, ICMR, New Delhi, India, 05 December 2025.

5. Expert Member, Expert committee for evaluation of the screened-in proposal under advanced research grant (ARG)-Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (EECE), Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Delhi, India, 13-14 October 2025.

6. External Member, Board of Studies (BoS), Prestige Institute of Engineering Management and Research Indore, India, 25 July 2025.

7. Expert Member, Expert committee for monitoring and closure evaluation of CRG-CoI projects, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 05-07 June 2025.

8. Subject Expert. Curriculum Development Workshop, Department of Electronics Engineering, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE), Nagpur, 22 May 2025.

9. Expert Member, Task Monitoring and Review Meeting (TMRC), Defence Institute of Psychological Research, DRDO, Delhi, India, 05 March 2025, 05 June, 2025.

10. Expert Member, 6th Academic Audit, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VNIT Nagpur, India, 31 January 2025.

11. Expert Member, Departmental Academic Audit, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, India, 23 September 2024.

12. 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.

13. Chair, IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter, 26 April 2024 to present.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

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

19. 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.

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

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

22. 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.

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

24. 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.

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

26. 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.

27. 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.

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

29. 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.

30. 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.

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

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

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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 05 July 2024.

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

38. 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.

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

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

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. 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.

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

46. 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.

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

48. 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.

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

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

51. 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.

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

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

Editorship:

Journals:

1. Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IETE Journal of Research, 30 October 2025 to present.

2. Handling Editor: Signal Processing (Elsevier), 17 September 2024 to present.

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

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

5. 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)

6. 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)

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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)

11. Associate Editor: Electronics Letters, 29 January 2019 to present.

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

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

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

Conferences:

1. Associate Editor for the IEEE EMBS Conference Editorial Board (CEB) for the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 14-18 July 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Theme: Biomedical Signal Processing)

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: 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

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

7. 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.

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

In India:

1. Program Chair, IEEE 2nd International Conference on Next Generation Communication & Information Processing (INCIP 2026), 20-21 August 2026, Central University of Karnataka, India.

2. General Chair, 2026 International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (2AI), 17-19 June 2026, Central University of Kashmir, India in collaboration with AI Research Lab, University of South Dakota, USA.

3. Track Chair, Brain Computer Interface and Application Track, 3rd International Mind, Brain, and Consciousness Conference (MBCC 2026), 03-06 June 2026, IIT Mandi, India.

4. Honorary Chair, 4th International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2025), 05-06 December 2025, Eminent College of Management & Technology, Kolkata, India.

5. General Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Computer Vision & Machine Intelligence (CVMI-2025), 10-11 October 2025, NIT Rourkela, India.

6. General Chair, 2nd International Conference on Data Mining and Information Security (ICDMIS 2025), 07-08 October 2025, Eminent College of Management & Technology, Kolkata, India.

7. Track Chair, Signal Processing track, 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC 2025), 20-22 February 2025, JIIT, Noida, India.

8. Honorary General Chair, 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2024), 14-15 December 2024, Eminent College of Management and Technology (ECMT), Kolkata, India.

9. 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.

10. Technical Chair, International Conference on Communication, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning (I4CML 2024), 23-24 November 2024, Indore, India.

11. 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.

12. General Chair, 1st International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing, Power, Communication and Computing (ASPCC-2024), 6-8 June 2024, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India.

13. TPC Chair, Track III: Applications Using Intelligent Techniques in Electronics & Communication, Springer Natures International Conference SIGMAA-2023, 15-16 December 2023, Delhi, India.

14. Session Chair, Mind, Brain, and Consciousness Conference (MBCC 2023), 14-16 December 2023, IIT Mandi, India.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Track Chair, Signal Processing Track, 2023 9th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC 2023), 07-09 December 2023, Noida, India.

18. Honorary General Chair, International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2023), 29-30 November 2023, Kolkata, India.

19. Honorary Chair, International Conference on Blockchain and Machine Intelligence Applications (ICBMIA) 2023, 16-17 August 2023, Kolkata, India.

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. General Chair, International Conference on Next Generation Communication and Information Processing (INCIP 2023), 10-11 February 2023, Dehradun, India.

23. Honorary General Chair, International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2022), 29-30 November 2022, Kolkata, India.

24. Program Chair, 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2022), 24-27 November 2022, University of Malta and NIT Raipur, India.

25. Financial Chair, 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022), 22-26 November 2022, Indore, India.

26. 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.

27. Convener, Conference on under Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sammelan & Expo (MPVS -2021), 22-25 December 2021, IIT Indore, MPCST Bhopal, and Vigyan Bharati, India.

28. Co-General Chair, International Conference on Technology, Research, and Innovation for Betterment of Society (TRIBES-2021), 17-19 December 2021, IIIT Naya Raipur, India.

29. Founding Chair, 3rd International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing, 23-25 September 2021, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India.

30. Track Chair, Brain Computer Interface session, International Conference on Machine Vision and Augmented Intelligence (MAI-2021), 11-14 February 2021, IIITDM Jabalpur, India.

31. Session Chair, 10th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocPros 2020), 18-20 December 2020, IIT Indore, India.

32. Tutorial Chair, 23rd International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2019), 04-06 July 2019, IIT Indore, India.

33. Session Chair, International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics and Their Applications, 10-12 July 2016, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

34. 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.

Abroad:

1. Co-Chair, 5th International Conference on Life, Health and Modern Medicine (LHMM 2026), 18-20 December 2026, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

2. Conference Chair, 2026 4th International Conference on Data Science, Advanced Algorithm and Intelligent Computing (DAI 2026), 03-05 December 2026, Shanghai, China.

3. Conference General Chair, 2026 International Conference on Smart Healthcare and Digital Health (SHDH 2026), 14-16 August 2026, Shanghai, China.

4. Conference Chair, 6th International Conference on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics Engineering (ICBBE 2026), 17-19 April 2026, Nanchang, China.

5. Co-chair, 11th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences (ICBEPS 2026, 29-31 May 2026, Singapore.

6. Conference Chair, 2026 5th International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (ISPP 2026), 10-12 April 2026, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, China.

7. Conference Chair, 2026 2nd International Conference on Health Informatization and Data Analytics (HIDA 2026), 27-29 March 2026, Guangzhou, China.

8. Conference General Chair, 2026 8th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine (ICBB 2026), 27-29 March 2026, Guangzhou, China.

9. Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Life, Health and Modern Medicine (LHMM 2025), 28-30 November 2025, Hokkaido, Japan.

10. Special Session Chair, Special Session on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Data Science: Methods, Practices and Applications, 12th International Conference of Image Processing, Wavelet and Applications on Real World Problems (IWW 2025), 03-05 November 2025, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

11. Conference Chair, 2025 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2025), 17-19 October 2025, Nanjing, China.

12. Conference Chair, 2025 International Conference on Image, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning (ISPML 2025), 26-28 September 2025, Xi'an, China.

13. Conference Chair, 2025 International Conference on Algorithms, Machine Learning and Image Processing (AMLIP 2025), 05-07 September 2025, Jeju Island, Korea.

14. Conference General Chair, The 2nd International Conference on Biomedicine and Intelligent Technology (ICBIT 2025), 15-17 August 2025, Hangzhou, China.

15. Conference Chair, 2025 2th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (AINLP 2025), 08-10 August 2025, Yueyang, Hunan, China.

16. Conference Chair, 2025 International Conference on Health Informatization and Data Analytics (HIDA 2025), 13-15 June 2025, Guangzhou, China.

17. Technical Program Committee Chair, 2025 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Communication Engineering (CCCE 2025), 13-15 June 2025, Kunming, China.

18. Conference General Chair, The 5th International Conference on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics Engineering (ICBBE 2025), 06-08 June 2025, Chongqing, China.

19. Technical Program Committee Chair, 2025 International Conference on Vision, Advanced Imaging, and Computer Technology, 18-20 April 2025, Guangzhou, China.

20. General Chair, 2025 International Conference on Digital Society and Intelligent Computing (ICDSIC 2025), 18-20 April 2025, Shanghai, China.

21. Co-chair, 10th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences (ICBEPS 2025), 23-24 May 2025, Singapore.

22. Conference Chair, 2025 International Conference on Health Big Data (HBD 2025), 28-30 March 2025, Kunming, China.

23. Conference Chair, 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI 2025), 14-16 February 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

24. Conference General Chair, The 4th International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Engineering (EICE 2025), 10-12 January 2025, Guangzhou, China.

25. Conference Chair, 2024 International Conference on Remote Sensing Technology and Image Processing (RSTIP 2024), 06-08 December 2024, Dali, China.

26. Technical Program Committee Chair, 2024 4th International Conference on Computer, Remote Sensing and Aerospace (CRSA 2024), 05-07 July 2024, Osaka, Japan.

27. TPC Chairman, 2024 International Conference on Computer Vision, Robotics and Automation Engineering (CRAE 2024), 21-23 June 2024, Kunming, China.

28. General Conference Chair, 2024 5th International Conference on Computer Vision, Image and Deep Learning (CVIDL 2024), 19-21 April 2024, Zhuhai, China.

29. Publication Chair, 2024 3rd International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (ISPP2024), 01-03 March 2024, Kunming, China.

30. General Chair, 2024 International Conference on Remote Sensing, Mapping and Image Processing (RSMIP 2024), 19-21 January 2024, Xiamen, China.

31. 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.

32. General Chair, 2023 3rd International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication (ICSIPC 2023), 26-28 May 2023, Kunming, China.

33. Conference Chair, 2023 2nd International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, 24-26 February 2023, Changsha, China.

34. General Chair, 2022 2nd International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication (ICSIPC 2022), 20-22 May 2022, Qingdao, China.

35. Program Chair, The 4th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), 08-10 December 2021, University of Malta, Malta.

36. Session Chair, Special session on EEG and ECG signal processing, International Conference on Medical Biometrics (ICMB-2014), 30 May-01 June 2014, Shenzhen, China.