Bio

Previous Research Experience 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow,  Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA ,  Nov 2019 - Present,  Advisor:  Prof. Carlo Ratti and Dr. Paolo Santi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grab-NUS AI Lab, Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore,  March 2019 - Oct 2019,  Advisor: Prof. Tan Kian Lee

Research Assistant, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia, Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

Researcher, Automation Division, Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, India, July 2011 - Feb 2019

Education

Ph.D. 2019,  ISSNIP Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia,  "Big Data Cluster Analysis and its Applications", Supervisors: Prof. Marimuthu Palaniswami and Prof. (Emeritus) James C. Bezdek 

M.Tech. 2011,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Supervisors: Prof. Soumen Das and Prof. Alok Barua  

B.Engg. 2009,  Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS), Indore, India. 

Honors and Awards

•  Recipient of Best Paper Award at EAI International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (EAI-INTSYS), Dec 2021

•  Nominated for Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the Ph.D. Thesis 2020, at the University of Melbourne., May 2020.

•  Recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Work Grant in Cybernetics from IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Nov 2019.

•  Recipient of  Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Conference at  Miyazaki, Japan,  Oct 2018

•  Recipient of Student Travel Grant to attend IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Conference,  Oct 2018 

•  Recipient of  Best Paper Award at IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) at Singapore,  Feb 2018

•  Recipient of Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS) and Melbourne  International Research Scholarship (MIRS) ,  Nov'2014 - Aug'2018

•  Recipient of Postgraduate Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource and Development,  India,  July'2009 - June'2011

•  Secured All India Rank 62 (98.83%ile) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in  Instrumentation Engineering, March 2009

Services

• TPC Member, EAI Broadnets 2021.

• Reviewer [Publon]

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 

  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data

  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal 

  • IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Pattern Recognition Journal- Elsevier

  • Complex & Intelligent System- Springer

  • International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks

  • IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2020

  • IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2021

  • IEEE PowerTech Conference 2021

• Board of Studies Member in SAGE University, Indore, India, May'19-Present

Invited Talks/Webinars/Workshops

• Invited Talk on "Data-driven Driving Behaviour Analytics – Making the roads safer for all of us!" at "IEEE ITSS: Two-Wheeler Safety and Mobility Technologies", Ahmedabad University,  November 2023

•  Invited Talk on "Unlocking the Value of Vehicular Data: A Simple, Unsupervised Approach for On-board Driver Behavior Classification" at " AIMLSys 2023: Sustainable AI for Edge workshop", Bangalore, October 2023

•  Invited Talk on " Data-driven Driving Behaviour Analytics – Making the roads safer for all of us!" at Faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands, October 2023

• Invited Talk on "Data-Driven Driving Behaviour Analytics" at Inter-Disciplinary Research Platform (IDRP) IoT Workshop", IIT Jodhpur, August 2023

• Invited Panelist on "AI/ML for Public Service Delivery" at International Conclave, Kaushalya The Skill University, Ahmadabad, August 2023

• Invited  Webinar ("Tatsujin Speak")   on "Transportation Revolution through AI" :  Advance Data Science Approaches to Mobility" at Mizuho India Japan Study Centre (MIJSC), IIM Bangalore, October 2022

• Invited Panelist for theme "Social Factors in AI for Mobility", i-Hub Mobility Summit, IIIT Hyderabad, India, September 2022

• Guest Talk on "Cluster Structure Assessment for Streaming Data and its applications for IoT and Transportation" at Centre for Networked Intelligence (CNI), IISc Bangalore, India, March 2022

• Guest Lecture on "Data-Driven Analytics for Autonomous Systems" at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bangalore, India, March 2022

• Guest Talk on "Big Data Analytics and its Applications" at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India, Feb 2022

• Virtual Workshop on "Regression and its Applications in Manufacturing Industries" at Steel Authority India Limited (SAIL), Bokaro, India, July 2021

• Guest talk on Big Data Clustering and Urban Analytics in IEEE Symposium on Data Analytics and Internet of Things (ISDAIOT), Melbourne,  Nov 2020 

• Keynote talk on Driving Behaviour Classification from Naturalistic driving data at 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations in Science Engineering and  Technology (ICRISET), Sep 2020

• Driving Style Recognition of Professional Drivers, MIT DUSP, June 2020

• Keynote talk on Urban Intelligence at National Conference Interdisciplinary Research and Innovative Technologies at SAGE University, India, June 2020

• Big Data Analysis and Urban Intelligence, MIT DUSP,  June 2019.

• Invited Talk on "Cluster Assessment on Streaming Data Clustering" at CSIRO, Melbourne, October 2017