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The success of our students form our best achievements!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Visit our Alumni link<\/a> to know where they all are.<\/p>\n 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Mr. Suraj Kr. Pandey<\/strong> defends his doctoral thesis entitled: Bio-inspired Learning Strategies for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems <\/strong><\/em>(05th Dec. 2024)<\/p>\n Ms. Gayathri Rangu<\/strong> and Mr. Suraj Kr. Pandey<\/strong> are awarded separate grants to attend and present their individual papers at GECCO 2024, Melbourne Australia<\/p>\n Mr. Suraj Kr. Pandey<\/strong> presented his Synopsis seminar entitled – “Bio-inspired Learning Strategies for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems” on 1st May 2024<\/p>\n Dr. Divya Kulkarni<\/strong>, alumnus, joins Harvard Medical School and MGH, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, as a Research Fellow<\/p>\n 1st April 2024 – Dr. Shashi S. Jha<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, IIT Ropar, India, and alumnus, rolls out his first Ph.D. student at IIT Ropar!<\/p>\n Prof. S. B. Nair<\/strong> delivered a lecture at the Indo-German Workshop on Frontiers of Robot Learning (FRL 2024), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, March 4 – 6, 2024<\/p>\n Ms. Gayathri Rangu<\/strong> is offered an Internship at Qualcomm, Bangalore<\/p>\n Prof. S. B. Nair<\/strong> delivered a keynote lecture on The Immune Network at the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering(ic-ETITE’24), Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Madras Section, February 22-23, 2024 at VIT Vellore, India<\/p>\n Qualcomm<\/strong> provides RB5 Robotics Platforms<\/p>\n 2023<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Ms. Gayathri Rangu<\/strong>, Research Scholar, <\/strong>is elected as the General Secretary of the IEEE Student Branch, IIT Guwahati for the committee 2023-24.<\/p>\n Ms. Divya Kulkarni<\/strong> defends her doctoral thesis entitled: Immuno-Inspired Embodied Lifelong Learning in Robots\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(19th May 2023)<\/p>\n 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Indian Patent Granted: #415792<\/strong> entitled – A Technique for Synchronizing Task Execution by a Set of Asynchronous Nodes <\/i><\/b><\/a>has been granted to Prof. Shivashankar B. Nair, Dr. W. W. Godfrey, Dr. Shashi S. Jha<\/strong><\/p>\n 2021<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Indian Patent Granted<\/strong>: #377728<\/strong> entitled – A Mobile Agent Framework for an Internet of Things<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has been granted to Prof. Shivashankar B. Nair, Dr. W. W. Godfrey, Dr. Shashi S. Jha<\/strong><\/p>\n AI & Machine Learning lab. course: <\/strong>Robotics Lab. Research Scholars – Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Mr. Suraj Pandey and Ms. Menaxi Bagchi<\/em><\/strong>, conduct the AI & Machine Learning lab. course (semester May-Sept. 2021) of the M.Tech. (Medical Devices) programme at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Guwahati, India.<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Divya Kulkarni’s, <\/strong><\/em>paper co-authored by Shivashankar B. Nair<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0An Immuno-Inspired Transfer Learning Paradigm <\/em><\/strong>wins <\/em><\/strong> the<\/em><\/strong> Best Student Paper award <\/em><\/strong>at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), a ranked conference, scheduled from 28.06-1.07.2021, Krak\u00f3w, Poland. The award included a US$250 cash prize and a citation.<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Divya Kulkarni, <\/strong><\/em>Research Scholar, invited to Chair session R27 on Evolved Neural Networks<\/em><\/strong> at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), a ranked conference, scheduled from 28.06-1.07.2021, Krak\u00f3w, Poland.<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Divya Kulkarni, <\/strong><\/em>Research Scholar, is awarded a participation grant for attending the IEEE CEC 2021 organized by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). She will be presenting her paper entitled –\u00a0An Immuno-Inspired Transfer Learning Paradigm<\/em><\/strong>, at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), a ranked conference, scheduled from 28.06-1.07.2021, Krak\u00f3w, Poland.<\/span><\/p>\n 2020<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em>, alumnus of this Lab. and currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA), School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Innovation<\/strong><\/em> \u00a31000 grant as a Principal Investigator, to carry out a short term independent research project. Dr. Semwal will be collaborating with a team of senior researchers from the University of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and East Anglia.<\/p>\n Publications from this Lab.<\/em><\/strong> now figure in SWI- Prolog<\/strong> site: https:\/\/www.swi-prolog.org\/Publications.html<\/a><\/p>\n Shivashankar B. Nair <\/em><\/strong>is appointed as Adjunct Professor<\/strong><\/em> at the School of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar,\u00a0 for the Jan.-May 2020 semester.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Sonia <\/em><\/strong>defends her thesis entitled “Non-Intrusive Human Sensing: Techniques & Applications<\/em><\/strong>” on 22nd October 2019.<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team <\/em><\/strong>comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Ms. Meenaxi Bagchi, Mr. Suraj Pandey, Research Scholars and Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a two-day session at the\u00a0 TEQIP-III workshop on \u00a0Recent Trends in Embedded System for IoT and Mechatronics (RTESTM-2019) at NIT, Arunachal Pradesh (24th-28th September 2019) coupled with a hands-on on Tartarus running on PCs and Raspberry Pis.<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/em><\/strong> comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Ms. Meenaxi Bagchi, Mr. Suraj Pandey,\u00a0Research Scholars and Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a two-day session at the \u00a0ATAL Workshop on IoT and Cyber Security (19th \u2013 23rd August 2019) coupled with a hands-on on Tartarus<\/em><\/strong> running on PCs and Raspberry Pis at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,\u00a0August\u00a02019.<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em> defends his doctoral thesis entitled “On Decentralizing Intelligence in Cyber-Physical Systems<\/em><\/strong>” on\u00a0 03rd April 2019<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/strong><\/em> comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Research Scholar, and Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a two-day session on Nature-Inspired Artificial Intelligence coupled with a hands-on on Tartarus<\/strong><\/em> running on PCs and Raspberry Pis at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Management, IIITDM, Jabalpur, 27-28th March 2019<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/em><\/strong> comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Research Scholar, and Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a two-day session on Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence with a hands-on on Tartarus<\/strong><\/em> at the AICTE Teaching & Learning Academy organized by the Depts. of Mechanical Engineering & Computer Sc. & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,\u00a0 March 2019<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/strong><\/em> comprising research scholars. Divya Kulkarni, Suraj Pandey & Ms. Menaxi Bagchi, Research Scholar, and Prof. Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a two-day session on Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence with a hands-on on Tartarus <\/strong><\/em>at the TEQIP FDP organized by the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, March 2019<\/p>\n Sonia<\/strong>, a Research Scholar, conferred the\u00a0SN2Women Travel Award <\/strong>to attend and present her paper \u00a0at the PERCOM 2019 at Kyoto, Japan (11-15th March 2019)<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em>, (TCS Scholar), joins the University of Edinburgh, as\u00a0 a Post Doctoral Research Associate, Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) on 201th January 2019.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/em><\/strong> comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Research Scholar, and Shivashankar B. Nair, conduct 2-day session on Bio-Inspired Systems & hands-on on Tartarus at the\u00a0TEQIP Workshop on Internet of Things (IoT): Research Initiative<\/em>, Government College of Engineering, Amravati, India, December 2018<\/p>\n Sonia<\/em><\/strong><\/span> presents his doctoral synopsis entitled “Non intrusive Human Sensing: Techniques & Applications<\/em><\/strong>” on\u00a0 29th November 2018<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em> presents his doctoral synopsis entitled “On Decentralizing Intelligence in Cyber-Physical Systems<\/em><\/strong>“on\u00a0 31st October 2018<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. team<\/em><\/strong> comprising Ms. Divya Kulkarni, Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, conducts a one-day session on Bio-Inspired CPS coupled with a hands-on on Tartarus at the TEQIP – III Workshop on Design & Deployment of Cyber Physical Systems<\/em>, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, 18th Sept. 2018, Assam, India<\/p>\n Shivashankar B. Nair<\/strong><\/em>, invited to attend the Knowledge Sharing Program (9th-13th July 2018) conducted by the Electronics & Telecommunication Research Institute, (ETRI), Daejeon, S. Korea<\/p>\n Ms. Divya Kulkarni<\/em><\/strong>, Research Scholar, awarded the GECCO Student Travel Grant<\/strong> to attend and present her paper at the Genetic & Evolutionary Conference, GECCO 2018, to be held in Kyoto, Japan in July 2018<\/p>\n Dr. Shashi Shekhar Jha<\/strong><\/em>, a past doctoral student of this lab., offered a faculty position<\/strong> at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar<\/strong>. Dr. Jha is currently a Research Fellow at the Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing & Engineering (UNiCEN) Corp. Lab, Singapore.<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em>, a TCS Research Scholar at this Lab., gets financial assistance to attend and present his paper entitled – A Practitioners\u2019 Guide to Transfer Learning for Text Classi fication using Convolutional Neural Networks<\/em><\/strong>, at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2018) to be held at San Diego, California, USA,from the Science & Engineering Research Board, (SERB), Government of India<\/strong><\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em>, a TCS Research Scholar, awarded the SIAM Student Travel Award<\/strong> to attend and present his paper entitled – A Practitioners\u2019 Guide to Transfer Learning for Text Classi fication using Convolutional Neural Networks<\/em><\/strong>, at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2018) to be held at San Diego, California, USA<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em>, a TCS Research Scholar, awarded the Microsoft\u00a0 Research Travel grant<\/strong> of INR 100,000 to attend and present his paper entitled – A Practitioners\u2019 Guide to Transfer Learning for Text Classi fication using Convolutional Neural Networks<\/em><\/strong>, at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2018) to be held at San Diego, California, USA<\/p>\n Ms. Sonia,<\/strong><\/em>, becomes a member of the Young Professional Committee of IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Ms. Sonia<\/strong><\/em>, in a team of 8, wins the 2017 IEEE SMC Brain Hackathon held in\u00a0 Banff, Canada (5-8th Oct. 2017). She was awarded a cash prize of\u00a0 $1000.<\/p>\n Ms. Sonia,<\/strong><\/em> Research Scholar, awarded the SMC 2017 Student and Young Professional Travel Grant to attend and present her paper at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, to be held in\u00a0 Banff, Canada (5-8th Oct. 2017).<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal, <\/strong><\/em>TCS\u00a0Research Scholar,\u00a0joins as intern at Samsung R&D<\/p>\n Ms. Sonia,<\/strong><\/em> Research Scholar, joins as intern at TCS Kolkata<\/p>\n Tushar Semwal<\/strong><\/em> delivers an invited talk on Machine Learning at the Workshop on Advances in Electronics & Communication held at the Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar (14-15th March 2017)<\/p>\n Tartarus<\/strong><\/em> – A Multi-Agent Platform is now available for download as a licensed free\u00a0 software (30th Jan. 2017)<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Samir Kr. Borgohain <\/strong><\/em>defends his doctoral thesis (09th Nov. 2016)<\/p>\n Robotics Lab. shifts to the 1st floor of the CSE Dept. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Shashi Shekhar Jha <\/strong><\/em>defends his doctoral thesis (16th Oct. 2016)<\/p>\n Tartarus <\/em><\/strong>makes inroads into Raspberry Pi as AgPi <\/strong><\/em>(See AgPi: Agents on Raspberry Pi<\/a>)<\/p>\n Tartarus <\/em>finds its way to a top of the line Agent conference [Ranked A*]<\/strong>: “