K. P. Ray & Arati Dixit 
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Signal and Data Processing [PDF ebook] 
ICSDP 2022

A Triangular Patch Antenna for WLAN Application.- Design and Analysis of Novel Miniaturized Metamaterial Structures for Multiband Applications.- Application of Windowing Techniques and optimization techniques for thinned narrow beams from antenna arrays.- Design and Fabrication of Microstrip Hexagonal Fractal Array Antenna For Wideband Applications.- Solution of unit commitment problems in GAMS computational environment.- Taxonomy and Implications of Machine Learning for Internet of Things: Qualities, Uses, and Algorithms.- Twitter Spam Detection using different Machine Learning Techniques.- On the Role of Perceptual Information in Image Classification.- A Stacked Multichannel Feature Map based U-Net model for Brain Tumor Segmentation.- Crop Recommendation & Price Forecasting through a Farming Assistance Portal.- Feature Engineering and Selection for the Identification of Fake News in Social Media.- Early Detection of pathological myopia in fundus images using deep learning.- An investigation on the extractive summarization of Kannada text.- Combating Fake News with Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods.- Employing Soft Computing based GGA-MLP for Hyper Parameter Optimization in Covid -19 Infected Lung Image Data Classification.- Forecasting with Fuzzy Time Series and Variation.- You Tube Spam Comment Detection.- A smart device for automatic detection of lane-marking on the roads using image processing.- Application of Independent Component Analysis for Determination of Factors Influencing Power Generation: In the Indian Context.- Design and Implementation of Smart Text Reader System for People with Vision Impairment.

K. P. Ray is an M. Tech in Microwave Electronics from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering IIT, Bombay. Presently he is a Professor, Director School of Radar Technology and Head of the Dept of Electronics Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), DRDO, Pune. Before joining DIAT in 2016, he was the Programme Director of SAMEER (Meit Y) Mumbai, wherein he joined SAMEER (TIFR) in 1985 and worked for over 31 years in the areas of electromagnetics, radars, RF and microwave systems/components and developed expertise in the design of antenna elements/arrays and high-power RF/microwave sources for RADAR, scientific and industrial applications. He has successfully executed over 50 projects sponsored by various Govt. agencies (DRDO/MOD, ISRO/DOS, DAE, DST/DSIR/TIFAC, Meity, DBT, IMD, BHEL, etc.) and many industries in the capacity of main designer, a chief investigator and a project manager, etc. Recently, he developed A Microwave Sterilizer, ‘ATULYA’ to neutralize COVID-19. He was a guest/invited//adjunct faculty in the electrical engineering department at IIT, Bombay, Goa Engineering College, University of Mumbai and CEERI (CSIR) Pilani for post-graduate courses. He has guided over 10 Ph.D. students, over 130 M.Tech. students and supervised over 25 Ph.D. students. He has co-authored a book with Prof G. Kumar for Artech House, USA and published over 485 research papers in international/national journals and conference proceedings. He holds 3 patents, earned 10 Transfer of Technology (To T) for commercialization and filed 5 patents.
Arati M. Dixit received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University (WSU), Detroit, MI, USA. She has completed The Certificate in Scientific Computing Program from WSU. She is an alumnus of IIT Bombay & University of Pune with a Computer Science & Engineering, M.Tech. and B.E. respectively. Presently, she is a Senior Scientist in Predictive Analytics and Modeling Group at Applied Research Associates Inc. Raleigh and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at NCSU. She has been associated with the academic profession for the last 16+ years. She has published over 80 research papers in reputed refereed national/international conferences and journals. Her areas of interest are AI-ML and security analytics, cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems and education technology. She has been associated with Ph.D. students at the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology and Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has been a member of the Board of Studies and Research Recommendation Committees with reputed Institutes/Universities.
Wing Commander (Dr) Debashis Adhikari (R) is a B.Tech. from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, Calcutta University, M.E. from Pune University and obtained his Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DRDO), Pune. He served the Indian Air Force for 23 years before taking premature separation while in the rank of Wing Commander. He has a rich experience in surface-to-air missile systems and wireless systems of the IAF and was also involved in various indigenization and modification projects. He has delivered guest lectures at various Defence PSUs, a few DRDO labs and the Indian Navy on Missile Guidance. With a total experience of 31 years, Dr. Adhikari had faculty tenures at DIAT (DRDO) Pune, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune and was Professor & Dean, School of Electrical Engineering at MIT AOE, Pune before joining VIT Bhopal. His area of interest is MIMO wireless systems. He has also handled the additional responsibility of Dean, Faculty & Staff Affairs. Presently he is working as Dean School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at VIT Bhopal University as well as Dean of faculty affairs of the University.
Ribu Mathew holds a Doctorate degree in Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Chennai Campus. A Gold Medallist in his Post Graduation, Dr. Mathew completed his M.Tech. in VLSI design and B.Tech. in electronics and communication engineering. In his Doctoral research work, he has contributed in the field of design, modeling and fabrication of NEMS technology piezoresistive readout-based nano cantilever sensors for chemical and biological sensing applications. In addition to the computational knowledge in industrial standard NEMS devices, he has gained experience in NEMS/IC layout tools, and clean room fabrication technologies from Ce NSE, IISc Bangalore. He has published several research papers in reputed international journals and international conferences. His research areas include the design, modeling and fabrication of MEMS/NEMS technology-based sensor and actuator systems, especially micro/nano cantilever and diaphragm-based devices, bio-MEMS, analog/RF IC design, So C design, and device modeling.