FUTURE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Affiliated to MAKAUT   |   Approved by AICTE

Departmental Achievements

Student Achievements

1. Somesh Laheri, 4th Year, selected for the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship)

2. Debayan Biswas, 4th Year, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

3. Ahtram Anjum, 3rd Year, first position in Liftoff (Water Rocket) event, National Student's Space Challenge (held in IIT Kharagpur, November 2022).

Faculty Achievements

1. Prof. (Dr.) Pradipta Kr. Banerjee, Professor and Head, Department of CSE (AI & ML):

• Position: Principal Supervisor
  Title of Project: Category wise vehicle count on different roads of Howrah and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Area using artificial intelligence on traffic police camera recording.
  Fund Allocation: 4.09 Lakhs (approx.)
  Funding Agency: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), New Delhi
  Tenure: 6-months
  Starting Date: 18th June’ 2023

• Position: Mentor/Team guide
  Title of Project: A small-scale quadcopter proto for real time activity detection and classification
  Responsibilities: Developed state-of-the-art detection and classification algorithm using deep neural network in Python
  Organisation: Defense Research Unmanned System Exposition (DRUSE) organized by DRDO
  Year: 2018
  Status: Completed (Finalist)

• Position: Mentor/Team guide
  Title of Project: Automatic Smart Dustbin: A neural network and image processing application, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Project
  Resposibilities: Developed Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to classify bio-degradable, bio-medical and no-biodegradable objects using image processing technique in Python
  Organisation: INAE Youth Conclave organized by IIT KGP
  Year: 2018
  Status: Bagged First Position

• Position: Mentor/ Team guide
  Title of Project: A small-scale Quadcopter proto for real time activity detection, classification and localization using deepnet and hybrid correlation filtering
  Responsibilities: Developed state-of-the-art detection and classification and localization algorithm
  Organisation: AERO INDIA STUDENT PAVILION, Bangalore
  Year: 2019
  Status: Bagged 6th position

• Ph.D Enrollment:
  Position: Principal Supervisor
  Ph.D. Scholar: Debosmita Chakraborty
  Date of Enrollment: 05.10.2020
  Title: Early detection of stress and anxiety of students from Indian origin
  University: MAKAUT, West Bengal

• 1999, Bela Rani Medal, proficiency in B.Sc. Part-II (Physics Hons.),

• 1999, Sudhir Kumar Bhose Memorial Medal, proficiency in B.Sc. Part-II (Hons.),

• 1999, Niladri Bhattacharyay Memorial Award, proficiency in B.Sc. Part-II (Physics Hons.),

• 1999, Manada Sundari Stipend, proficiency in B.Sc. Part-I (Physics Hons.),

• 1998, H.L.Mitter Memorial Prize, proficiency in B.Sc. Part-II (Hons.), 1999.

2. Mr. Sourav Das, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE (AI & ML):

• Member of Reviewer Board: 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2023) (March 2023).

• Program Committee Member: 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) (December 2022).

• Program Committee Member: 13th Meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval and Evaluation (Fire 2021) - Track: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC).

• Program Committee Member and Reviewer: 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2021), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and Soft Computing Research Society India (March 2021).

• Selected as a member of the “Bridging Machine Learning and Behaviour Models Research Group” of the prestigious Alan Turing Institute, UK, on June 2023.

• Recipient of the prestigious national level ACM Anveshan Setu Ph.D. fellowship (as a working professional Ph.D. scholar) for the year 2023-24.

• Stood first at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani in the Slogan Writing competition for the "Swachhta Pakhwada 2021" (A fortnight of cleanliness - a nationwide cleanliness initiative under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme, Govt. of India).

• ACL 2021 D&I Award Recipient by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), where I was among the Diversity and Inclusion Award Recipients of the 58th meeting of ACL 2021, making my registration cost for the conference covered, and the other virtual amenities provided by the ACL 2021 committee.

• Received the Research Excellence Award 2021 in the Global Innovation & Excellence Award (GIEA 2021) jointly co-organized with the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2021) (April 2021).

  The award is sponsored by the following bodies:

  1. Smart Society, USA,

  2. CI2S Lab for Computational Intelligence, Argentina, and

  3. Scientific Innovation Research Group (SIRG) Lab, Egypt.

• Received best paper award in the respective technical track at International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2020).

• Received MHRD (Government of India) RUSA 2.0 Fellowship (July 2018 - March 2020).

• Departmental first class first rank holder in M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering).

• Received fellowship as Teaching Assistantship during M.Tech from TEQUIP Phase-II (a Government of India project assisted by the World Bank) (November 2016 - January 2018).

• Appeared for NIIT 9th National IT Aptitude Test 2013, scored among the top 25% nationally out of the 81447 candidates who took the test, and among all the candidates of the same discipline secured the score among the top 10%.

3. Ms. Hasnahana Khatun, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE (AI & ML):

• Presented poster “Multi-Conveyance Fuzzy TSP by Genetic Algorithm: CAO Defuzzification Method” on AKC 100 Symposium organized at the University of Calcutta on January 2023.

• Qualified for UGC NET Examination (Lectureship) in 2022.