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    • Dr. Badal Soni

    Dr.Badal Soni

    Information

    • Designation : Assistant Professor
    • Email : badal@cse.nits.ac.in
    • Phone :

    Key Notes

    • Conference: International - 45
    • Journals: 44
    • Conferences: 46
    • Book Chapters: 8
    • Books: 8
    • PhD: Guided: 9
    • Post Graduates: Guided: 10

    106

    PUBLICATIONS

    9

    DOCTORAL STUDENTS

    2

    PROJECTS

    Areas of Interest

    • Image Processing
    • Machine Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Visual Question Answering
    • Wearable Device Sensor Data Analysis
    • Human Activity Detection Using Mobile Sensor Data
    • Computational Intelligence for Health Informatics

    Teaching Experience
    Assistant Professor (Level 12)
    6 July 2022 - Present
    National Institute of Technology Silchar
    Assistant Professor (Level 11)
    21 November 2019 - 5 July 2022
    National Institute of Technology Silchar
    Assistant Professor (Level 10)
    11 April 2013 - 21 November 2019
    National Institute of Technology Silchar

    Rashmi Pathak, Badal Soni, Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, Muhammet Deveci, “Assessing the factors of blockchain technology-enabled hospitals using an integrated interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy decision-making model”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 139, 109641, January, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109641, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 7.5, Quartile: Q1

    Nurul Amin Choudhury, Badal Soni, “KNEE-HAR: A ConvLSTM-based Lightweight Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Human Activity Recognition with Knee Abnormalities Using Raw Physiological Sensor Data”, IEEE Sensors Journal, February, 2025, 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3540903, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 4.3, Quartile: Q1

    Souvik Chowdhury, Badal Soni, “Handling language prior and compositional reasoning issues in Visual Question Answering system”, Neurocomputing, Volume 635, March, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2025.129906, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 5.5, Quartile: Q1

    Souvik Chowdhury, Badal Soni, “R-VQA: A robust visual question answering model”, Elsevier, Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 309, 112827, January, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112827, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 7.2, Quartile: Q1

    Souvik Chowdhury, Badal Soni, “ENVQA: Improving Visual Question Answering model by enriching the visual feature”, Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 142, 109948, January, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109948, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 7.5, Quartile: Q1

    Bitanuka Deb, Nurul Amin Choudhury and Badal Soni, “Effect of Shallow Learning Techniques for Breast Cancer Detection using Statistical Feature Set”, In Proceedings Published in Springer, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation, 2022, December 16th 2022, 2024, Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6855-8_13, Indexed in Scopus

    Rashmi Pathak, Badal Soni, Naresh Babu Muppalaneni,, “Significance and Challenges in Blockchain-Based Secure Sharing of Healthcare Data”, In Proceedings Published in Springer Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communications and Cyber Physical Engineering (ICCCE 2024), 2024, Springer, Singapore., https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7137-4_74, Indexed in Scopus

    R. M. Vamsi, N. Adapa, D. Yelamanchili, N. A. Choudhury and Badal Soni, “An Efficient and Optimized CNN-LSTM Framework for Complex Human Activity Recognition System Using Surface EMG Physiological Sensors and Feature Engineering”, In Proceedings 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), June 21st 2024, 2024, Prayagraj, India, IEEE, 10.1109/SCES61914.2024.10652396, Indexed in Scopus

    A. K. Srivastava and Badal Soni, “Deep Localization on Mixed Image Tempering Techniques Using U-Net”, In Proceedings 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), June 21st 2024, 2024, Prayagraj, India, IEEE, 10.1109/SCES61914.2024.10652417, Indexed in Scopus

    Gyanda Kaushal and Badal Soni, “ORBcmfd: Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF Keypoints Based Image Copy-Move Forgery Detection”, In Proceedings 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), June 21st 2024, 2024, Prayagraj, India, IEEE, 10.1109/SCES61914.2024.10652370, Indexed in Scopus

    Nurul Amin Choudhury, Badal Soni, “HAR-CLET: A Novel Conv-LSTM with Extra Tree Classifier for Human Activity Recognition”, In Proceedings TENCON 2024 IEEE Region 10 Conference, December 1st 2024, 2024, Singapore, IEEE, 903-906, 10.1109/TENCON61640.2024.10902714, Indexed in SCIE

    Badal Soni and Nurul Amin Choudhury, “Human Activity Recognition: In-Depth Design Analysis with New Tools and Techniques”, 2025, Springer

    Fraud Detection

    Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh
    Ongoing

    Leveraging Ensemble and Deep Learning Techniques for Bangla Fake News Detection

    Ms. Chandreyee Purkayastha
    Ongoing

    Gait Recognition in an Uncontrolled Environment

    Ms. Sakshi Singh
    Completed : 

    Visual Question Answering System

    Ms. Doli Phukan
    Completed : 

    Image Copy Move Detection Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

    Mr. Ayush Kumar
    Completed : 

    Image Dehazing using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization and Guided Filter

    Ms. Debalina Biswas
    Completed : 

    Emotion Recognition from EEG signals

    Mr. Vishwajeet Singh
    Completed : 

    An Efficient and Robust Copy-Move Forgery Detection in Digital Images

    Mr. Shiv Sankar Nath
    Completed : 

    Porting and Optimization of Multiple Sequence Alignment on Intel Xeon Phi Architecture

    Mr. Kirna Sonavane
    Completed : 

    Vector Quantization based Modelling Technique in Text-dependent Speaker Verification System

    Ms. Saswati Debnath
    Completed : 

    Human Activity Recognition using Mobile Sensor Data

    Ms. Gyanda Kaushal
    Ongoing

    Development of Decision-Making Model for Implementing Blockchain Technology in Healthcare System

    Ms. Rashmi Pathak
    Supervisor : Dr. Badal Soni
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Naresh Babu M.

    Development of Interpretable and Efficient Visual Question Answering Models

    Mr. Souvik Chowdhury

    Design and Development of Ubiquitous Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition Systems in Uncontrolled Environment

    Mr. Nurul Amin Choudhury

    Empirical Study on Computational Sarcasm Detection in English and Telugu

    Mr. Ravi Teja Gedela
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Ujwala Baruah
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Badal Soni

    Study on Deep Learning Approaches for Fake News Detection in Low-Resource Dravidian Languages

    Mr. Eduri Raja
    Completed : 

    Effective Breast Cancer Image Segmentation and Classification Using Deep Neural Networks

    Mr. Anji Reddy Vaka
    Completed : 

    Automatic System for Classification and Segmentation of Brain Abnormalities Using Deep Learning

    Ms. Arpita Ghosh
    Completed : 

    An Empirical Study on Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Mizo Language

    Ms. Candy Lalrempuii
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Badal Soni

    Sl.No: 1

    Title Of Research Project: " Capacity Building for human resource development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and Related Technology) "

    Sponsored By: MeitY

    Overall Budget: Rs Rs. 150 lakhs

    Duration: Sep 01, 2022 - Aug 31, 2027 (5 years)

    Status: Ongoing

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Ranjay Hazra (Dept. of E&I) NIT Silchar

    Co Principal Investigator: Dr. Badal Soni, Dept. of CSE and Dr. R. Murugan, Dept. of ECE, NIT Silchar

    Sl.No: 2

    Title Of Research Project: " Design and Development of Intelligent Cyber-Physical System for Prediction, Early Detection and Remote Monitoring of Alzheimer’s Disease in Real-Time using Bio-Multifunctional Smart Wearable Sensors "

    Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

    Overall Budget: Rs Rs. 77 lakhs

    Duration: Feb 09, 2024 - Feb 08, 2027 (3 years)

    Status: Ongoing

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Soumen Moulik, NIT Meghalaya

    Co Principal Investigator: Dr. Badal Soni, NIT Silchar

    Sl.No Course Title Resource Person Documents Area Funding Agency Date
    1 One Week High-End Workshop (Karyashala) Prof. P. K. Das, IIT Guwahati, Dr Manish Bhatt, IIT Guwahati, Dr Gyanendra Verma, NIT Raipur, Dr. Soumen Moulik, NIT Meghalaya, Dr. Debashree Devi, IIIT Guwahati, India Computational Intelligence for Health Informatics and Wearable Device Data Analysis DST-SERB Jul 24 2023 - Jul 30 2023
    2 Advances in Image Processing and Soft Computing Techniques Experts from Academic and Research Institutes, India Image Processing and Soft Computing Techniques TEQIP-II Feb 20 2017 - Feb 24 2017
    3 Application of Machine Learning Experts from Academic and Research Institute, India Machine Learning TEQIP-II Mar 20 2017 - Mar 24 2017

    Professional Society Membership

    • Senior Member, IEEE
    • IEEE Young Professionals
    • Professional Member, ACM
    • Professional Member, IAENG
    • Professional Member, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology

    DST-SERB Funding

    VIRITIKA:

    Event Coordinator,  Training and Skill Internship (VRITIKA) on Image Tampering Detection For Forensics Applications,  funded by the Department of Science & Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB ) under Accelerate Vigyan Scheme, organized at NIT Silchar, India,  during 25th July -3rd September 2023 (Funded amount 1.5 lakh).

    Karyashala:

    Co-ordinator, One Week High-End Workshop (Karyashala) on “Hands-on Training on Computational Intelligence for Health Informatics and Wearable Device Data Analysis”, funded by  Department of Science & Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB ) under Accelerate Vigyan Scheme, organized at NIT Silchar, India,  during 24th-30th July 2023 (Funded amount 5.0 lakh).

    Administrative Responsibilities

    • Convenor, Computer Science Society (CSS), NIT Silchar from 20/02/2015 to 06/09/2019
    • Faculty Advisor, Machine Learning Club, NIT Silchar from 05/09/2024-
    • Faculty In-charge Hindi Section, NIT Silchar from 07/08/2019 to 03/11/2022
    • Member Secretary, Department Ph.D. Monitoring Committee (DPMC) from 28/01/2025-
    • Member Secretary, Department Purchase Committee (DPC) from 21/08/2019 to
    • Member, IT committee, NIT Silchar from 04/12/2023 to till date
    • Member, CoE, MSME, NIT Silchar from 02/08/2023 to till date
    • Faculty Advisor, M.Tech (PG-1st Year) NIT Silchar from 16/08/2024 to till date
    • Department Ph.D. Monitoring Committee (DPMC) Member from 26/08/2019 till date
    • DUPC Member Dept. of CSE, NIT Silchar from 26/05/2016 to 23/08/2019
    • Faculty Advisor for 2017-21, UG-CSE Batch from 26/05/2017 to 30/06/2021
    • M.Tech (PG)/Ph.D. Lab In-charge (CC-20) from 16/09/2019 to till date
    • Multimedia and Image Processing (MIP) Lab In-charge from 31/05/2019 to till date

       

    Dataset Published    

    • Candy Lalrempuii, Badal Soni, April 4, 2023, “LUS: Mizo Monolingual Corpus“, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/4kx5-wc43 (Online).
    • Eduri Raja, Badal Soni, Samir Kumar Borgohain, April 3, 2023, “DFND : Dravidian_Fake News Data”, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/nj13-t949. (Online).
    • Nurul Amin Choudhury, Badal Soni, June 3, 2024, “Wild-SHARD: Smartphone Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition Dataset in Wild“, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/dc2h-a428 (Online).
    • Ravi Teja Gedela, Ujwala Baruah, Badal Soni, August 3, 2023, “Telugu Conversational Dataset for Sarcasm Detection“, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/s0yz-en95  (Online).
    • Souvik Chowdhury, Badal Soni, November 27, 2024, ” Robust VQA (RVQA) Dataset with Language Prior and Compositional Reasoning Labels“, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9cjm-dx19 (Online).
    • Sakshi Singh, Nurul Amin Choudhury, Badal Soni, October 17, 2024, “Gait-Motion: A Smartphone Sensor-based Gait Recognition Dataset“, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/maxd-y692 (Online).

       

    Conference Organized

    • Technical Program Chair and Publication Chair, 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computing Technologies, Internet of Things and Data Analytics (AICTA-2024)  organized at NIT Raipur, India, from 15 – 17 November 2024.
    • Organizing Secretary, 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2024)  organized at NIT Goa, India from 20 to 21 December 2024.
    • Organizing Secretary, 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2023) organized at NIT Hamirpur, India, from 21 to 22 December  2023.
    • Conference Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computing, IoT and Data Analytics (AICTA-2023) organized at Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, India, from 18 to 20 December 2023.
    • Publication Chair, 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2021) organized at NIT Raipur, India from 11 to 12 December  2021.
    • Finance Chair, 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2021)  organized at NIT Silchar, Assam, India, from  16 to 19 December 2021.
    • Organizing Chair, 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2020) organized at NIT Silchar, Assam, India from 30 to 31st July 2020.
    • Financial and Hospitality Chair, 6th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI-18), organized at NIT Silchar from 04 to 06 June 2018.
    • Organized a Special Session at the International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences, organized at NIT Kurukshetra, India, from 3 to 4 March 2019. 

      Conference Session Chair

    • Session Chair, 6th  International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2024) during 20- 21 December 2024 organized at NIT Goa, India.
    • Session Chair,  2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computing, IoT and Data Analytics (AICTA 2024) during November 15-17, 2024 at NIT Raipur.
    • Session Chair, 8th International Conference on Microelectronics and Telecommunication Engineering(ICMTE-2024), at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi-NCR Campus, Ghaziabad, to be held on 6th – 7th December 2024.
    • Session Chair, 4th International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A) 2024. Organized by Dept. of E&I, NIT Silchar during December 9-10, 2023.
    • Session Chair, 8th Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES2024) Organized by Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad during June 21- 23, 2024.
    • Session Chair,   3rd International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A) 2023. Organized by Dept. of E&I, NIT Silchar during December 15-17, 2023.
    • Session Chair,  2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (ICICSA-2023). Organized by National Institute of Technology Silchar September 22-23, 2023.
    • Session Chair in 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision, High-Performance Computing, Smart Devices and Networks (CHSN 2022) Organized by JNTU Kakinada, December 28-29, 2022.
    • Session Chair, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A) 2022, Organized by Dept. of E&I, NIT Silchar during December 16-18, 2022.
    • Session Chair, in Springer International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Security and Communication (AISC-2022) organized by LENDI Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Vizianagaram, India, in collaboration with IIT Kota and California State University San Bernardino during 25th – 26th November 2022. 
    • Session Chair, 6th Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES2020) Organized by Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad during July 10-12, 2020.
    • Session Chair, 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision, High-Performance Computing, Smart Devices and Networks (CHSN-2021), Organized by JNTU Kakinada, 20-21 August 2021.
    • Session Coordinator, 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2020) during 30- 31 July 2020 at NIT Silchar, Assam, India.
    • Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Vision Towards Emerging Trends in Communication and Networking (ViTECoN’19) during  30-31 March 2019 at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.

    Workshop Organized

    • Co-ordinator,  One Week Workshop on “Advances in Image Processing and Soft Computing Techniques,” funded by TEQIP-II, organized at NIT Silchar, India, from 20 to 24 February 2017.
    • Co-ordinator,  One Week Workshop on “Application of Machine Learning” funded by TEQIP-II, organized at NIT Silchar, India, from 20th to 24th March 2017.  

    Bootcamp Organized

    • Co-ordinator,  One Week Bootcamp on “Drone Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Training Program” funded by MeitY, Govt. of India from the 3rd October 2023 to 7th October 2023.
    • Co-ordinator,  One Week Bootcamp on “Drone Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Training Program” funded by MeitY, Govt. of India from the 10th October 2023 to 14th October 2023.  
    • Convenor,   One Week Bootcamp on “Drone Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Training Program” funded by MeitY, Govt. of India from the 5th February 2024 to 9th February 2024.
    • Convenor,   One Week Bootcamp on “Drone Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Training Program” funded by MeitY, Govt. of India from the 10th February 2024 to 14th February 2024. 

      Invited Talks

    • Delivered Expert Talk on Human Activity Recognition using Sensors Data and Smart Learning Algorithms in SERB-sponsored one-week Karyashala on “Transformation to Industry 5.0: AI, Analytics, Blockchain & Robotics” organized by E&I dept., NIT Silchar, from July 25th to July 31st, 2024.
    • Invited as Resource Person to deliver talk in One Week National Level Online Faculty Development Program on “Optimization Techniques in Engineering Applications” organized by the Faculty development Cell in association with Dept. of CSE, JNTU-GV, CEV(A) on 1st July to 6th July 2024.
    • Delivered an Invited Talk on Human Activity Recognition Using Inbuilt Smartphone Sensors and Smart Learning Algorithms organized by IEEE Computer Society Chapter, Vizag Bay Section on 31-05-2024.
    • Delivered Expert Talk on Human Activity Recognition using Wearable Sensors Data in 6th Edition of International Conference ICCCE – 2023 during 28th-29th April 2023 at CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad
    • Delivered a Guest Lecture on Human Activity Recognition Using Inbuilt Smartphone Sensors and Smart Learning Algorithms in an international joint symposium (iSAI-NLP 2023) and conference on AIoT 2023, Bangkok, Thailand, November 27-29, 2023.
    • Delivered a Guest Lecture on machine learning and application on 8th June 2021 at Lendi Institute of Engineering & Technology Vizianagaram.
    • Invited as Resource Person to deliver talk at Short Term Training Program on “Machine Learning and Data Analytics using Python” organized by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi NCR Campus, Ghaziabad, from 7th to 11th August 2023.
    • Delivered a talk on Image Processing and Machine Learning for Social Impact at the International Conference AISC-22 at Lendi Institute of Engineering & Technology Vizianagaram

       

     

     

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