Dr. Navjot Singh


Dr. Navjot Singh

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: navjot[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0532-2271351(O) 9650506400(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Chair in Conferences:

Session Chair in 6th Students’ Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES-2020) held during July 10-12, 2020 organized by Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad.
Session Chair in the first International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and their applications 2020, organized by MNNIT Allahabad during June 05-07, 2020.
Session Chair in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP-2019) held during September 07-10, 2019 at IIIT Allahabad.
Session Chair in International Conference on Advances in Computing Applications held during February 26-27, 2018 at NIT Uttarakhand.

Award and Honors:

Received Maulana Azad National Fellowship
Qualified CSIR-JRF
Qualified UGC-JRF
Qualified GATE
Cleared the SSB of the Indian Air Force

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

Technical Program Chair of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and their applications 2020, organized by MNNIT Allahabad during June 05-07, 2020
Convener of self-financed Workshop-cum-Training program on “Recent Trends in Computer Science” held during June 10 to July 5, 2019 at CSED, MNNIT Allahabad.
Convener of one-week skill development program on Basic Computer Training (BCT-2019) held during June 24-29, 2019 at MNNIT Allahabad
Secretary of a 2-day workshop on NMEICT Awareness on “Recent trends in Education System” on 29-30 November 2014 at NIT Uttarakhand.
Convener of Inter NIT Student Innovation Competition held on 19-21 February 2016 at NIT Uttarakhand.

On-going Projects:

Project title: IoT based real time and effective traffic signal scheduling for smart city, Sanction No.: DST/ICPS/CPS-Individual/2018/678(G) dated 03.01.2019, Funding Agency: DST, Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 13.706 lacs, Duration : 3 years, Status: Ongoing, Role: Co-PI
Project title: Secret Sharing Scheme based technology for multimedia security over cloud, Sanction No.: DST/ICPS/Cluster/CS Research/2018 (General) dated 13.03.2019, Funding Agency: DST, Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 15.14 lacs, Duration : 3 years, Status: Ongoing, Role: Co-PI

Expert Lectures:

Delivered 5 expert lectures on the topics “Search Algorithms,” “Heuristic Search and Game Search,” “Markov Decision Process,” “Policy iteration and Partially observable MDPs,” and “Reinforcement Learning” in ATAL sponsored programme on “Artificial Intelligence” from May 18-22, 2020 at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered 5 expert lectures on the topics “Search Algorithms,” “Heuristic Search and Game Search,” “Markov Decision Process,” “Policy iteration and Partially observable MDPs,” and “Reinforcement Learning” in ATAL sponsored programme on “Artificial Intelligence” from May 11-15, 2020 at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered 5 expert lectures on the topics “Search Algorithms,” “Heuristic Search and Game Search,” “Markov Decision Process,” “Policy iteration and Partially observable MDPs,” and “Reinforcement Learning” in ATAL sponsored programme on “Artificial Intelligence” from May 04-08, 2020 at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered 5 expert lectures on the topics “Search Algorithms,” “Heuristic Search and Game Search,” “Markov Decision Process,” “Policy iteration and Partially observable MDPs,” and “Reinforcement Learning” in ATAL sponsored programme on “Artificial Intelligence” from April 27- May 01, 2020 at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered expert lectures on “Search Algorithms” and “Heuristic Search and Game Search”, in ATAL sponsored programme on “Artificial Intelligence” from December 10-14, 2019 at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered an expert lecture on “Feature Extraction and Selection for Image Forensics”, in a national workshop on “Image Forensic using Machine Learning” on August 30, 2019 in the Department of Information Technology, REC Ambedkar Nagar.
Delivered an expert lecture on “Machine Learning and Deep Learning”, in a one-week lecture series on “Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning” on September 21, 2019 in the Department of Information Technology, REC Ambedkar Nagar.
Sole expert at Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision using MATLAB at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar from April 03-07, 2019.
Delivered an expert lecture on “Neural Networks”, in a self-financed workshop on “Data Analytics and Machine Learning with R” on May 31, 2018 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MNNIT, Allahabad.
Delivered an expert lecture on “Reinforcement Learning” in webinar organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Babu Banarasi Das Engineering College, Lucknow held on January 22, 2021.