Dr. Amar Nath
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
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+91 7579215524
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Ph.D. in CSE from IIT Roorkee, Sept. 2020.
Thesis ‘A Distributed Approach for Collaborative Task Execution in Dynamic Environment‘
M. Tech. in CSE from NIT Rourkela, June 2014.
B. Tech. in CSE from BIET Jhansi, June 2006.
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1. The DST-SERB Gov of India has accepted a project entitled “An Optimal Solution for Crop Residue Management with the Internet of Robotics Things and Artificial Intelligence” of Rs. approx. 28 Lacks.
2. Twelve students successfully completed their 6-week internship under this DST-SERB Project during June-July 2024.
1. January 13, 2020, to October 29, 2020, worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of School of Computing, DIT University, Dehradun.
2. July 01, 2014, to December 31, 2014, Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.
1. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘A Distributed Approach for Autonomous Cooperative Transportation’. Robotics Software Design and Engineering. A Book Chapter, 2021. IntechOpen publisher, Austria, London, UK.
1. A prize of Rs. 10,000 and an appreciation certificate were received from Director SLIET Longowal on 15th August 2024 for my DST project of Rs. Approx 28 Lakhs.
2. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE, 2006 and 2012).
3. Qualified National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET 2013).
4. Participated in Abdul Kalam’s “Dare to Dream” contest organized by DRDO, Delhi 2019.
5. Win the Best Paper Award in the student category at Springer International Conference “5th Soft-Computing for Problem-Solving” held in IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur Campus 18-20 Dec 2015.
6. Win the Best Paper Award in the student category at IEEE International Conference “14th International Conference on Information Technology” held in XIMB Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 21-23 Dec 2015.
7. I secured the 2nd position in my specialization (Software Engineering) of M. Tech at NIT Rourkela, Odisha-India.
8. Keynotes speaker talk at iRobot-2020: a world conference on Robotics And Artificial Intelligence, 18-20 June 2020.
9. IEEE Certificate for Completion of Professional Development Hours in “Cooperation in Autonomous Vehicles.”
10. Completed 5 Days Online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Basics of R Programming organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, in association with IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial (An Initiative of National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India) from April 29, 2020, to May 03, 2020.
11. Participated in national E-conference on “Insight into the Patent filing procedure for Research,” organized by Career Point School of Pharmacy, Career Point University, Kota, on 30th May 2020.
12. Completed 10 Days Online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RIT University, in Cooperation with NIT Warangal from 21st August 2021 to 30th August 2021.
13. Completed 5 Days ATAL Sponsored Online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Intelligent & Collaborative Robotics” by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BITs Pilani, from 13th September 2021 to 17th September 2021.
14. Organized a one-day “Cyber Jaagrookta (Awareness) Diwas” seminar on 29th October 2021. This event was proposed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
15. Completed 5 Days ATAL Sponsered Online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “ Robotics and Artificial Intelligence” Organized by the Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies from December 13, 2021, to December 17, 2021.
16. Completed One Week Online Faculty Development-FDP Programme on “IoT Induced Artificial Intelligence for Emerging Computing Paradigms” organized by the Department of Information Technology, NIT Jalandhar, from 04-08 October 2022.
17. Completed two two-week training programs for faculty members on AICTE Student Learning Assessment – STTP-PARAKH in collaboration with the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) from 07 February 2022 to 19 February 2022.
18. Completed 8 modules of MOOC from Swayam conducted by NITTT Chennai in June 2022.
19. Completed One Week of Online Faculty Development-FDP Programme on “ Cyber Crime and Forensic Tools” organized by the Department of CSE, SLIET Longowal, from 08 May to 12 May 2023.
20. Completed one-week Online FDP on “Advanced Pedagogy in Higher Education” held from 25 March 2024 – 29 March 2024 by IIT Kharagpur in association with Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab.
Selected Publications: =======================================================================
Journals:
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7. Amandeep Kaur, Divya Jyoti, Ankit Sharma, Dhiraj Y., Rajni Goyal, and Amar Nath. Deep Caries Detection Using Deep Learning: From Dataset Acquisition to Detection. Clinical-Oral-Investigation–Springer. SCIE–3.1
6. Rajni Goyal, Amar Nath, Utkarsh Niranjan and Rakesh Sharda. Analyzing the performance of deep convolutional neural network models for weed identification in potato fields. Crop Protection-Elsevier. SCIE–2.5
5. Rajni Goyal, Amar Nath and Utkarsh. Weed detection using deep learning in complex and highly occluded potato field environments. Crop Protection-Elsevier. SCIE–2.5.
4. Amar Nath, Divya Patel and Rajdeep Niyogi. Mass prediction of an object’s mass from its image using deep learning. SN Computer Science Journal, Springer, 2024.
3. Rajdeep Niyogi and Amar Nath. ‘Formal specification and verification of a team formation protocol using TLA+. In International Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, Wiley. SCI-IF-3.5. 2023.
2. Amar Nath & Santanu Kumar Rath, “Service-Oriented Architecture-based Design of Bank-ATM and its Verification with Petri net” in International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, Inderscience, 2021 Vol. 16, No.4, pp.343 – 352.
1. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. A distributed approach for road clearance with multi-robot in urban search and rescue environment. In International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 3(4): 392-406, 2019, Springer. IF-2.1.
International Conferences:
26. Rajni Goyal, Amar Nath, Utkarsh Niranjan and Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘Analyzing monitoring and controlling techniques for water optimization used in precision irrigation’. The 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2024) was held from April 17 to 19, 2024, at Kitakyushu International Convention Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.
25. Rajdeep Niyogi and Amar Nath. ‘IoRT-based distributed algorithm for robust team formation and its application to smart city operation’. The 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2024) was held from April 17 to 19, 2024, at Kitakyushu International Convention Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.
24. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘A distributed approach for autonomous landmine detection using multi-UAVs’. The 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2024) was held from April 17 to 19, 2024, at Kitakyushu International Convention Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.
23. Goyal, Rajni, Amar Nath, and Utkarsh. “IndianPotatoWeeds: An Image Dataset of Potato Crop to Address Weed Issues in Precision Agriculture.” In International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation, pp. 116-126, IIT Ropar, 2023.
22. Amar Nath, Rajdeep Niyogi, Tajinder Singh and Virendra Kumar. ‘Multi-agent Deep Q-learning based Navigation.’ The 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2023) will be held from March 29 to 31, 2023, at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Sponsored by Google.
21. Amar Nath, Tajinder Singh and Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘Ramification of sentiments on robot-based smart agriculture: An analysis using real-time tweets.’ The 8th International Workshop on Big Data Processing in Online Social Networks (BOSON-2023) will be held in collaboration with the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2023)-March 29 to 31, 2023, at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Sponsored by Google.
20. Divya Patel, Amar Nath, & Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘Adding material embedding to the image2mass problem’. The 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA-2022), publication on the Springer LNCS ICCSA 2022 Proceedings, held on July 4 – 7, 2022, in collaboration with the University of Malaga, Spain. Sponsored by Google.
19. Singh, Tajinder, Amar Nath, and Madhu Kumari. “Detect Me If You Can: A Deep Learning Based Approach for Novelty Detection on Social Media Text Stream.”7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering, Available at SSRN 4214218. Dec 2022.
18. Amar Nath, Rajdeep Niyogi, Tajinder Singh and Virendra Kumar. ‘Multi-Agent Q-learning based Navigation in an Unknown Environment’. 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2022), held at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia, April 13 – 15, 2022. Sponsored by Google.
17. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi, “Distributed framework for task execution with quantitative skills”. The 21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications will be held on Sept 13 – 16, 2021 in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy. Sponsored by Google.
16. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi, “Formal modeling verification and analysis of a distributed task execution algorithm.” In The 35-th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2021), held from May 12-14, 2021, at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Sponsored by Google.
15. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi, “Formal verification of a distributed algorithm for task execution”. International Conference on Computational Science and its Application 2020 held on July 1-4, 2020 ONLINE in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy. Sponsored by Google.
14. Amar Nath and Rajdeep Niyogi. ‘Communication QoS-aware navigation of autonomous robots for effective coordination. In 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2020), 15-17 April 2020, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy. Sponsored by Google.
13. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. DMTF: A Distributed Algorithm for Multi-Team Formation. In 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020), 22-24 February 2020, Valletta, Malta. Sponsored by Google.
12. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. A distributed approach for autonomous cooperative transportation in a dynamic multi-robot environment. In 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2020), 30 March-3 April 2020, Brno, Czech Republic. Sponsored by Google.
11. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. An approach for task execution in dynamic environment. In 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2018), LNAI 11320, pp. 71-76, 11-15 Dec. 2018, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
10. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. ARGoS based implementation of a multi-robot coordination algorithm. In Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2018), pp. 1492-1498, 19-22 Sep. 2018, PES University, Bangalore, India. IEEE.
9. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. Design and verification of a collaborative task execution procedure using BPMN modeler. In International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2017), pp. 103-109, 13-16 Sep. 2017, Manipal University, India. IEEE.
8. Shashank Urade, Amar Nath, and Rajdeep Niyogi. “Design and Verification of Nuclear Waste Handling System” in proceedings of “6th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics (ICACCI)” held at Manipal University, Karnataka 13-16, September 2017.
7. Amar Nath, Ankit Khandelwal, Akul Kanojia, Ishitva Manocha and Rajdeep Niyogi. “Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Cab Service System” in proceedings of “10th International Conference of Contemporary Computing (IC3)” held at Noida-Jaypee Institute of Information Technology & University of Florida, 10-12, August 2017.
6. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. Team Formation with Unknown Size in Multi-agent Environment. In International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT-2016), pp. 33-38, 22-24 Dec. 2016, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India.IEEE.
5. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. Validation and Verification of Joint-Actions in Multi-Agent Planning. In International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT-2015), pp. 187-192, 21-23 Dec. 2015, Xavier UniversityIndia. IEEE. Best student paper.
4. Amar Nath, Rajdeep Niyogi and Santanu Kumar Rath. “Optimized Scenario of Temperature Forecasting using SOA and Soft Computing Techniques” in proceedings of “5th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving” held at IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur Campus UP. 18 – 22, December 2015. Best student paper.
3. Amar Nath, Arun AR, and Rajdeep Niyogi. An extension of FMAP for Joint Actions. In International Conference of Contemporary Computing (IC3-2015), pp. 487-492, 11-13 August 2015, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology & University of Florida, India. IEEE.
2. Srajan Dongre, Amar Nath, Swati Arora, Satyendra Singh Chouhan and Rajdeep Niyogi. “Multi-Agent Planning by Learning Environment ”in International Conference of 5thInternational Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering – ACE 2014, Dec26-27, 2014 in Kochi, Kerala India.
1. Amar Nath, Sumana Maity & Santanu Kumar Rath, “Stock Price Prediction using Service Oriented Architecture and Soft Computing” in proceedings of “IIMB International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence” held at IIM Bangalore, Dec 11-13 2013.
Area of Specialization
Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Algorithms, Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT), Formal Verification, Multi-UAVs, and Precision Agriculture.
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Projects:
1. Sponsored Project (Ongoing):
Principal Investigator: Dr. Amar Nath
Funding Agency: DST-SERB – Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
Amount: Rs. 2779832.
The DST-SERB Gov of India has accepted a project entitled “An Optimal Solution for Crop Residue Management with the Internet of Robotics Things and Artificial Intelligence” of Rs. approx. 28 Lacks.
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2. Research Project (Completed): Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amar Nath Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 50000. Title: ML, AI, GIS For Climatic Change Studies Funded by: IIC Cell, SLIET Longowal.
3. Research Project (Ongoing): Principal Investigator: Dr. Amar Nath Amount Sanctioned: 05 Lacs
Project Title: “IoRT and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Solution for the Pest Control” Funded by: SLIET Longowal under Research Promotion Grant (Seed Money)
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