Prof. Anupam Agrawal

Professor, IIIT Allahabad
Ph.D.

Research Interests:

Image & Vision Processing, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Softcomputing, Remote Sensing, Biometrics & Pattern Recognition, Multimedia Information Processing.

Brief Biography

Education
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher at Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
  • Ph.D. Information Technology (Advisors: Prof. R.C. Joshi, Dept. of E&C Engg., IIT, Roorkee and Prof. M. Radhakrishna, IIIT, Allahabad).
  • M.Tech. Computer Sc. & Engg. (Advisor: Dr. Sukhandu Das , Dept. of CS&E, IIT Madras, Chennai).
Work Experience
  • Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Allahabad (September 2012 – present).
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Allahabad.
    Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Allahabad.
  • Senior Research Scientist (Scientist ‘D’), DRDO, Govt. of India, New Delhi & Dehradun.
Awards & Honors
  • Founder member to start ACM Professional Chapter at IIIT Allahabad (Feb’2010).
  • Successfully organized Intl. Conf. IITM 2010 (under ACM) and IITM 2013 (under Springer) at IIITA.
  • Elected Senior Member of IEEE, USA, 2008.
  • Elected Fellow of IETE, New Delhi, 2006.
  • Certificate of merit by Institution of Engineers (India) for best Research Paper, 2007.
  • Er. Hari Mohan Memorial Award for the best research paper by the Institution of Engineers (India), Lucknow in November, 2005.
  • National Merit Scholarship holder during 1982 – 1986.
  • DRDO, Govt. of India fellowship during 1986 -1988.
  • Name selected for inclusion in ‘Marquis Who’s Who in Science & Engineering’, USA (9th Ed.), 2006-2007.
  • Expert member of DOEACC Society, DOE, GOI since 1997.
Assignments Aboard
  • Visited Bercelona, Spain and Bologna, Itely regarding project work during Post-Doctoral research at University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.
  • During 24th Jul to 31st Jul, 2005: Visited Seoul, South Korea for presenting paper in IEEE IGARSS-2005 conference. Interacted with researchers/ faculty members of leading National Universities in Korea.
  • During 20th Feb to 29th Feb, 2004: Visited Middle-East countries (Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat) representing IIIT-A for promotion of Indian Education.
  • Specialized Training Received
  • IEEE ‘Geospatial Data Fusion and Interoperability’ tutorial course in Seoul, Korea (24 Jul’ 05).
  • ‘Object Oriented Programming using Java’ course at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (16 Jan. – 26 Feb. 2000).
  • ‘Software Quality Analyst’ (4 Jun’97) by Quality Assurence Institute (India) Ltd., New Delhi and ‘ISO 9000 Certified Internal Quality Auditor’ (25 – 27 Aug’98) training by Indian Institute of Quality Management Jaipur.
  • ‘Terrain Informatics’ course at DTRL (DRDO), New Delhi (21 Apr – 02 May’97).
  • ‘Advanced Image Processing’ course at S.J. College of Engg., Mysore (18 – 23 Feb’91).
Extra Curricular Activities
  • Participated in Himalayan Trekking to NAG TIBBA from 15 Jun – 17 Jun, 1992, organized by DRDO Adventure Club, DIWS, Mussoorie.