Dr. Dushyant Kumar Singh

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: dushyant[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 05322271371(O) 05322271811(R) 9359133388(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:

Invited Talk on “Computer Vision Applications” in ICCT-2021 conference at Invertis University, Bareilly, 22-23 January, 2021.

Keynote address on “Assistive Technologies for Elderly Peoples and Persons with Disabilities” in a seminar on ‘Need of Technology Development for Better Life of DIVYANGJAN’ at Patiala University Patiala, Punjab on 11th March 2020.

Invited talk on “Computer and Machine Vision” in ICRTCMSIT-2018 conference at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, 09-11 March, 2018.

Keynote address (Trends in Machine Learning) in a conference (ICMMCI-2022) on 15th July, held at LNCTS Bhopal, Bhopal (MP), during 15 - 16 July 2022.

Keynote address (titled: Trends in Machine Learning) in a conference (ICMMCI-2022) on 15th July, held at LNCTS Bhopal, Bhopal (MP), during 15 - 16 July 2022.

Award and Honors:

CSI Award for Active Participation (Youth) in region 1, for the year 2016-17

Red Hat Scholarship 2005-06 Award

GATE 2007 and 2012 qualified

UGC NET (June 2012) qualified

Indian patent titled “I-Lift: Intelligent Lift” GRANTED on 10 February 2024 [Patent No. 509408]

Indian patent titled “An Artificial Intelligent Based Enhanced Surveillance System And Method” GRANTED on 22 July 2024 [Patent No. 545457]

Indian patent titled “A Dynamic Emergency Vehicle Clearance System” GRANTED on 07 March 2024 [Patent No. 521324]

Indian patent titled “Monitoring Shoplifting Activity in Megastores through AI based Surveillance System and Method”, GRANTED 23 February 2024 [Patent No. 514642]

Listed in the world top 2% Scientist list for the year 2024, compiled by Stanford/Elsevier

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

Coordinated a “Workshop-cum-Training Program (WCTP)” on “Understanding Deep Learning” at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad in online mode, from March 10, 2021 to March 15, 2021. (self-financed, budget approx Rs 40,000/-)

Coordinated a two day’s workshop on DEEP LEARNING at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from Sept 21 to Sept 22, 2019.

Coordinated a two day’s workshop on XILINX ZYNQ SOC at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from Sept 18 to Sept 19, 2019.

Coordinated one week workshop on Computational Intelligence (WCI-2019) at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 17, 2019 to June 21, 2019.

Coordinated one week workshop on Image and Video Analytics (WIVA-2019) at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 10, 2019 to June 14, 2019.

Coordinated a “Workshop-cum-Training Program (WCTP)” of 1 month duration at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 10, 2019 to July 05, 2019. (self-financed, budget approx Rs 3,00,000/-)

Convened a “Summer Training Program (ETCS)” of 1 month duration at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 11 2018 to July 7 2018. (self financed, budget approx Rs 11,00,000/-)

Coordinated one week workshop on Image and Video Analytics (WIVA-2018) at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from March 29, 2018 to April 2, 2018. (budget approx Rs 1,50,000/-)

Co-coordinated a “Summer Training Program (ETCS)” of 1 month duration at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 12 2017 to July 7 2017. (self financed, budget approx Rs 9,00,000/-)

Co-coordinated a “Summer Training Program (ETCS)” of 1 month duration at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 13 2016 to July 9 2016. (self financed, budget approx Rs 8,50,000/-)

Co-coordinated a “Summer Training Program (ETCS)” of 1 month duration at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, from June 8 2015 to July 5 2015. (self financed, budget approx Rs 5,00,000/-)

Convened (individually) a workshop on “Propeller Display Design”, held at MNNIT Allahabad, on 03 Feb 2015.

Coordinated a workshop on “Matlab and Latex: Simulation and Documentation”, (SIMDOC-2014) as Treasurer, held at MNNIT Allahabad from 30th June to 5th July 2014.

Coordinated a workshop on “Information Security & Computer Forensics”, (WISCF-2014) as Organizing Team Member, held at MNNIT Allahabad from 23 – 28 June 2014.

Convened (individually) a workshop on “Basic Internet and Cyber Security”, held at MNNIT Allahabad, on 29th April 2014.

Coordinated a “Workshop on Advance Computing Technologies (WACT-2022)” at department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad in online mode, from February 07, 2022 to February 11, 2022. (No fee program, No finance involved)

Organized a SERB Karyashala (a high-end workshop) titled “A practical approach to Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Computer Vision Applications using high end computing resources”, in power of SERB Event Organizer, from March 15-22, 2024 at CSE Dept. MNNIT Allahabad. Funded by SERB under the Accelerate Vigyan Scheme, Fund amount is INR 5 lakh

On-going Projects:

Project Title: Development of an Integrated Intelligent Surveillance System for Suspicious Behavior Analysis; Funding Agency: DST SERB; Submitted in March 2020; Approved on 25 January 2021; Project in collaboration with University of Allahabad and DAIICT Gandhinagar (Total funding amount: 58 lakh); Individual Fund for MNNITA: 15 lakh

Collaborative Project under RUSA scheme, with Punjabi University [Approved]

Projects Completed:

Project Title: Study of Hardware Vulnerabilities for Threats and their Mitigation techniques; Funding Agency: MNNIT Allahabad (Institute Seed Grant for research); Approved on: December 2014; Total funding amount: 2.26 lakh)

Expert Lectures:

Expert Lecture on ‘A practical approach to ANN and Deep Networks’ topic in an ATAL FDP on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning using Python at Engineering College Bikaner, Bikaner (Rajasthan), on 21 June 2021. [Online Mode]

Expert Lectures and Hands-on-session in a 5 Days Training Program on “A Practical Approach to IoT” at IPS College of Technology and Management, Gwalior (MP), during 15th March to 19th March 2021. [Online Mode]

Expert lectures and practical hands-on sessions on “Machine Learning and Deep Learning” topics in one week Workshop-cum-training program on Understanding Deep Learning (WCTP-2021) organized between March 10, 2021 & March 15, 2021. [Online]

Expert Lecture on ‘Machine Vision for Robotic Applications’ and ‘Programming Aspects’ topic in a 1 week FDP on Recent Advances & Applications of Machines Learning & IoT in Mechanical Engineering, at SISTec Bhopal (MP), during 22-27 Feb 2021. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture in a webinar on ‘Robotic Vision and Applications’ topic at LNJPIT Chapra, (Bihar), on 20 Feb 2021. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture on ‘Towards Machine Learning’ topic in a Workshop on Machine Learning and Internet of Things at RML Avadh University, Faizabad, during 19-23 February 2021.

Expert Lecture on ‘Video Surveillance and AI’ topic in an ATAL FDP on Artificial Intelligence at MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj (UP), on 05 October 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture in a webinar on ‘Deep Learning for Object Detection and Classification’ topic at LNJPIT Chapra, (Bihar), on 04 October 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lectures and Hands-on-session in a 7 Days Training Program on “Python for Machine Learning and Applications” at IPS College of Technology and Management, Gwalior (MP), during 24th Aug to 30th Aug 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture on ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Deep Learning’ topic in a STTP on Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Research and Applications Perspectives at Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur (Rajasthan), on 17th Aug 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lectures on ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Deep Learning’ topics in a STTP on Machine Learning Applications at Alpine Institute of Technology Ujjain (MP), on 17th and 18th July 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture in a webinar on ‘Introduction to Machine Learning with Trends and Challenges’ at ACTS Satna (MP), on 8th June 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lectures on ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Deep Learning’ topics in a STC on Machine Learning to Deep Learning: Trends and Challenges at SRIT Jabalpur (MP), during 29 - 30 May 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture on ‘Deep Learning’ topic in a FDP on Mathematical and Computational Modeling at LNCTS Bhopal, Bhopal (MP), during 18 - 20 May 2020. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture on ‘Deep Learning for Vision’ topic in a STTP on Deep Learning for Engineering and Science based Applications at LNCTS Bhopal, Bhopal (MP), during 14th - 16th Oct 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘IoT in Computer Vision’ topic in a STTP on Recent trends in IoT at REC Bijnor, Bijnor (UP), during 30th Sept - 4th Oct 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Algorithm Analysis’ topic in a STTP on Data Structures and Algorithms at REC Bijnor, Bijnor (UP), during 30th Sept - 5th Oct 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Object Detection Techniques’ topic in a Workshop on Applications of Machine Learning in Signal, Image & Computer Vision at BTKIT Dwarahat, Almora, during 07-11 July 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Machine Vision’ topic in a Workshop on Machine Learning and Internet of Things at RML Avadh University, Faizabad, during 24-28 June 2019.

Expert lecture and practical hands-on session on “Machine Learning Introduction”, “Classification Techniques” & “Towards Deep Learning” topics in one week workshop on Computational Intelligence (WCI-2019) organized between June 17, 2019 & June 22, 2019.

Expert lecture and practical hands-on session on “Image Processing Introduction” & “Computer & Machine Vision” in one week workshop on Image and Video Analytics (WIVA-2019) organized between June 10, 2019 & June 15, 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Computer and Machine Vision’ topic in a one week AICTE-QIP STC on Trends and Techniques in Image Processing, Multimedia and Security Issues at MITS Gwalior, during 15-19 March 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Machine Vision for Surveillance’ topic in a National Workshop on Image Processing and Computer Vision Applications at REC Ambedkar Nagar, during 05-09 March 2019.

Expert Lecture on ‘Robotic Vision’ topic in a Faculty Development Program on Automation and Robotics at Ambalika Institute of Management & Technology, Lucknow during 21-25 Jan 2019.

Expert Lecture and practical hands-on session on ‘Computer Vision’ & ‘Machine Learning’ topics at Dept. of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, during Summer Training Program ETCS-2018 in June-July 2018.

Expert lecture and practical hands-on session on “Image Processing Introduction”, “Computer & Machine Vision” & “Object Detection Techniques” in one week workshop on Image and Video Analytics (WIVA-2018) organized between March 29, 2018 & April 2, 2018.

Expert lecture and practical handshaking on “Internet of Things” at MNNIT Allahabad during Summer Training Program ETCS-2017 during June-July 2017.

Expert Lecture on “Computer Vision with MATLAB” in a workshop on MATLAB Applications in Science, Technology & Management at SMS, MNNIT Allahabad, during 1-7 December 2016.

Invited talk on “Machine Vision” in CSI Allahabad Chapter meeting on 05/11/2016.

Expert lectures on “Python Programming” at MNNIT Allahabad for Summer Training Program ETCS-2016 during June-July 2016.

Expert Lecture on “Information Security” in a workshop SRAKSHA-2016 [under ISEA project], at MNNIT Allahabad, during 17-21 March 2016.

Expert Lecture on “Image Processing: An Introduction” in a workshop SIMDOC-2015 at MNNIT Allahabad, during 14-18 December 2015.

Expert Lecture on “Hardware Security” in a workshop SURAKSHA-2015, at MNNIT Allahabad, during 19-23 August 2015.

Expert lectures on “Embedded System Design” at MNNIT Allahabad for Summer Training Program ETCS-2015 during June-July 2015.

Expert Lecture on ‘Machine & Robotic Vision’ topic in one week STC on Machine Learning and Its Applications in IoT, Computer Vision and Cloud Computing (MICC-2021) at MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj (UP), during 20-24 September 2021. [Online Mode]

Expert Lecture on ‘Intelligent Vision for Surveillance and Monitoring’ topic in an AICTE one week STC on Applications of Image Processing, Computer Vision and Intelligent Technologies in pandemic at MITS Gwalior, (MP), on 22 January 2022. [Online Mode]

Expert Talk on ‘Towards Deep learning’ topic at GHRIET Nagpur (Maharashtra), on 03 May 2023.

Expert Talk on ‘Deep Learning for Computer Vision’ topic in SERB Karyashala (A High-End Workshop) organized at CSE Dept. of MNNIT Allahabad, during 15-22 March, 2024.

Overseas Assignments:

Visited Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in August 2017 to attend & present paper in conference and as well chairing a session in the same conference.

Visited London (UK) to attend & present paper in conference in June 2014.

Visited Krabi (Thailand) to attend & present a research paper at a conference in March 2024

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, June 2021, December 2021, June 2022

Sadhana Springer journal, Feb 2021

Wiley Computational Intelligence journal, Jan 2021, July 2022

IET Image Processing 2019, 2020

Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Recent Patents on Computer Science journal [Bentham Science, Scopus], articles reviewed in August 2018 and next.

Editorial Review Board member of IJISP [IGI Global, Scopus, E-SCI]

IJISP [IGI Global, E-SCI], articles reviewed in April 2018 and next.

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics [Inderscience journal, Scopus indexed], reviewed a research article in April 2016.

TPC member for CVIP-2020 IIITA & UPCON-2020 MNNITA

TPC member and reviewer for SRAIC-2019 & CICT-2019

TPC member and reviewer for ICETIT-2019 & ICAICR-2019

Reviewer for ICSGRC-2018, Malaysia

TPC member of Feynman 100-4th ICCS, LPU Jalandhar

TPC member of ICACCCN-2018, Galgotia Univ.

TPC member Confluence 2018

Reviewer for ICCI-2017, IIT Kanpur

Reviewer for CICT-2017, IIITM Gwalior

TPC member of SIN 2017; ICCCT-2017; CMST-2018

TPC member of IDEA-2K17 in Bhopal, and of ICCCA 2017 at Galgotia University, Gr Noida

Reviewer for IMIAMS 2017 at MNNITA, IESC 2017 at NITM, 2nd IEEE CGCVIS at Admas University Kolkata.

TPC member of ICACCI2016-Industry Track

TPC member of SIN 2015, SIN 2016

Reviewer for ICACCI 2015

Reviewer for ICIC 2015

Technical Program Committee member for ICIIS-2014, IIITM Gwalior, India

Reviewer for EDCAV 2015

Technical Program Committee member for ICAECC-14, REVA University, Bangalore, India

Technical Committee member for 2nd ICCNT, 2014, Bali, Indonesia

Program Committee member in SIN 2014

Reviewer for ICIC 2014, at Taiyuan, China

Program Committee member in AICERA 2013-ICMiCR, Kerala

Reviewer for Students Conference SCES-2013, SCES-2014 at MNNIT Allahabad

TPC & Reviewer for SIN 2012, SIN 2013

Wiley International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Nov 2021

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, May 2022

T&F Imaging Science Journal, May 2022

T&F, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Feb 2022

World Scientific, Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Dec 2021

Journal of Internet Technology, Dec 2022

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Feb 2023

SAGE Journal of Information Science, May 2023

SAGE Journal of Information Science, May 2023

Springer Nature Scientific Reports, June 2023

Books Reviewed:

Reviewed a book titled “Embedded System: A Contemporary Design Tool”, 2nd Ed by James K. Peckol, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. [1st Qtr. of 2023]

Other Significant Achievements:

Reviewed project proposals submitted for a grant at SERB DST under CRG scheme [1 each in June 2022 & June 2023]