Dr. Arindam Ghosh (HOD)

Associate Professor

About

Email	arindam.ghosh@bcrec.ac.in
Date of birth
Date of joining	2012-09-03
Department	Computer Science and Engineering
Address
Vidwan ID
About Me	Dr. Arindam Ghosh is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, India. He holds a B.E. from the University of Burdwan, an M.Tech. from Jadavpur University, and a Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur. With over 17 years of academic experience, his areas of interest include Cyber-Physical Systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), Participatory Sensing, and Machine Learning. Dr. Ghosh has published extensively in reputed journals and conferences and is actively engaged in academic leadership, research coordination, and curriculum development.
Specialization / Research Interest	Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoTs), Participatory Sensing, and Applications of Machine Learning.

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. - July 2021
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)(First Class)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Jadavpur University, WB, India. - May 2010
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E)(First Class)(Honours)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Burdwan University, WB, India. - June 2004
Higher Secondary Examination (Class-12)(First Class)
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, India. - April 1999
Secondary Examination (Class-10)(First Class)
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, India. - April 1997

Teaching and R & D experience

Teaching	Research	Industry
17	4	3

Assistant professor - September 2012-to date

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering.(NBA accredited)

• Dr. B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, India.(NAAC B+ grade)

Assistant professor - September 2007- August 2012

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

• Seacom Engineering College, Sankrail, India.

• Participated in online workshop on “NIRF India Rankings 2022” held on 5th & 6th

January 2022 organized by “Institute for Academic Excellence”.

• Participated and Completed online FDP on the theme “Inculcating Universal Human

Values in Technical Education” organized by All India Council for Technical

Education(AICTE) from 2nd August, 2021 to 6th August, 2021.

• Completed MOOC course from NPTEL on “NBA Accreditation and Teaching

Learning in Engineering(NATE)”in 2020.

• Participated and Completed AICTE Training and Learning(ATAL) Academy online FDP

on “Foundation and Practical Aspects of Cyber Security” in December 2020 at

Department of CSE, BCREC.

• Completed MOOC course from the University of Washington offered through Coursera on

“Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach” in 2020.

• Completed MOOC course from the University of Washington offered through Coursera on

“Machine Learning: Regression” in 2020.

• Participated in “Train The Trainer Program on Data Warehousing Concepts

and Tools” held from 29th September to 1st October 2010, “Infosys Technologies Ltd,

Bhubaneswar”.

• Participated in the “Theoretical aspect of computer science (UGC sponsored refresher

course)” held from 21st January 2009 to 12th February 2009 “UGC – Academic Staff

College, Jadavpur University”.

Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoTs), Participatory Sensing, and Applications of Machine Learning.

• Awarded travel grant to attend “COMSNETS 2019” held at Bangalore, India.

• Awarded travel grant to attend “CoDS-COMAD 2019” held at Kolkata, India.

• Awarded “ITRA–Deal” to attend “14th Annual International Conference on Mobile

Systems, Applications” held in 2016, Singapore.

Activities

Area of Interest

CityProbe: A city-scale pervasive sensing system for monitoring road conditions, air and sound pollution. Funding Agency: IMPRINT - 1, MHRD, Govt. of India. Co–investigator: Prof. Subrata Nandi, Prof. Mousumi Saha, Prof. Sujoy Saha Aug 2017 to Aug 2020 • Designs integrated framework, that uses static medium range devices and develops novel models for real time monitoring, estimation, forecasting of citywide air–quality considering sparse data sample and feasible input features. • Develops a low cost system that uses custom design monitoring devices for indoor air quality involving mass occupancy like classroom using suitable ML models.

Expertise

Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, LATEX. Operating Systems: Windows, Linux. Communication Skill: English(Bi-lingual Proficiency), Bengali(Bi-lingual Proficiency), Hindi.

Other distinctions

• College SPOC for “Smart India Hackathon” in 2019 and 2020 organized by MHRD and AICTE. Mentored teams for submission in the software and hardware edition of the same. One of the teams was reached level-2 in the hardware edition. • In 2017, established “Think-IoT laboratory” with active support from the “Mobile Computing and Network Research Group” at NIT-Durgapur, to train students in recent technologies and research areas. • In 2017, established the Institutional and student chapter of Computer Society of India (CSI) in BCREC and act as a founding coordinator of the chapter between 2017-19. • Organized all India seminar on “Think-IoT 2017.V1-Booting IOT: An Introduction to IoT platform” in association with Institute of Engineers, held at BCREC, Durgapur as a joint convener on 28th and 29th April 2017. • Organized seminar on “Computer Intelligence Application” as joint secretary held at Seacom Engineering College on 18th February 2011. • Assistant Center in-charge for conducting WBUT university semester examination from June 2009 and December 2010 at Seacom Engineering College. • Organized seminar on “Recent advancement in intelligent computing” as convener held at Seacom Engineering College on 8th November 2009.

Publications

Conference

Date	Title	Conference	DOI	Link
28-01-2021	On Automatizing Recognition of Multiple Human Activities using Ultrasonic Sensor Grid	9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)	DOI	View
13-05-2019	NoiseProbe: Assessing the Dynamics of Urban Noise Pollution through Participatory Sensing	2019 11th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS)	DOI	View

Participations

Participation In Seminar / Conference / Symposium / Workshop / Discussion Meeting

SL. No.	Event	Duration	Year
1	• PG–CSE (M.Tech) course coordinator, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur. • Co–chair, upcoming multidisciplinary conference on “Mathematics, Engineering and Science” (MESIICON 2022), Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur. • Departmental representative in R & D cell, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur. • Associate editor, BCREC Engineering & Science Transaction(BEST)[ISSN:2582-9068]. • Coordinator membership of ”National Cyber Safety and Security Standards (NCSSS)” and resourse centre.

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