Rubul Kumar Bania

Dr. Rubul Kumar Bania

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rubul.bania@gmail.com

Faculty members

Dr. Rubul Kumar Bania

Designation: Assistant Professor (On-lien)

Department: Computer Applications

Qualifications:

  • B.Sc. Computer Science (from Gauhati University),
  • MCA (from Tezpur university),
  • M.Tech-IT (from Tezpur university), 
  • Ph.D. (from NEHU), 

 

Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Social Network Analysis, Algorithms and Data structures.

Experience:

  1. Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Applications, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Tura Meghalaya, India (Since 16th May 2013).
  2. Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Assam Don Bosco University, Azara, Guwahati, Assam (Since Jan 2013 to May 2013).
  3. Full Time Research Scholar in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Tezpur University, Assam (Since August 2012 to January 2013).

Awards  

  1. Distinction in M.Tech-IT from Tezpur University, Assam.

Fellowship 

  1. UGC Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF), JRF 2012-2013.

Administrative responsibilities undertaken 

  1. Teacher In-Charge, Dept. of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus, from Dated 03/08/2022 till date.
  2. Member of Management Committee, Dept. of Forestry, NEHU, Tura Campus.
  3. Member, BOS, Dept. of Computer Application, NEHU (2016-2019 & 2019-2022)
  4. Member, BOS, Dept. of Bio-Medical Engineering, NEHU (2019-2022)
  5. Member BOS, Dept. of Information Technology, The Assam Kaziranga University, Assam (2022)
  6. Member, School Board, School of Technology, NEHU (2016-2019).
  7. Member, BOS, Dept. of Architecture, NEHU (2016-2019 & 2019-2021).
  8. Member, BOS, Dept. of Nano Technology, NEHU (2016-2019).
  9. Member, PGSU Election Committee (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 2022)

Member Professional/Scientific Bodies/Others:

  1. Member of Computer Society of India.
  2. Member of International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong.
  3. Member of Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), New York, founded by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
  4. Review Editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Journals.
  5. Reviewer of various reputed peer reviewed Journals.

Publications

Research Papers Published in Journals (Peer-Reviewed)

  1. R. K. Bania (2023), “Ensemble of Deep Transfer Learning models for Real-time Automatic Detection of Face mask”, Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14408-y, Indexing: Web of Science (SCI), Scopus. IF: 2.58. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  2. R. K. Bania and A. Halder (2023), “Automatic Breast Mass Lesion Detection in Mammogram Images”, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Indexing: Web of Science (SCI), Scopus. Status: Accepted. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  3. R. K. Bania, and S. Sarmah (2022), “Entropy based Greedy unsupervised feature selection method using Rough set theory for Classification”, ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing, Vol.13, No. 1, pp. 2741 – 2749, DOI: 10.21917/ijsc.2022.0381. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  4. R. K. Bania, and L Worchuirin (2022),  “An Approach Towards Ensemble Attribute Selection for Classification”, Science & Technology Journal (STJ), Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.85-90. https://doi.org/10.22232/stj.2022.11.01.01 (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  5. R. K. Bania, (2022), “R-GEFS: Condorcet Rank Aggregation with Graph Theoretic Ensemble Feature Selection Algorithm for Classification”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific, DOI: 10.1142/S021800142250032X, Indexing: Web of Science (SCI), Scopus. IF: 1.27. (UGC Care listed Journal)
  6. R. K. Bania, (2021), “Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Framework for Sentiment Analysis on COVID-19 Tweets”, INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, Vol.20, No.02, pp.1-14. (UGC CARE Listed Journal).
  7. R. K. Bania and A. Halder (2021), “R-HEFS: Rough set based Heterogeneous Ensemble Feature Selection Method for Medical data Classification”, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier), Vol. 114 , pp. 102049. Indexing: Web of Science (SCI) and Scopus. IF: 7.011. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  8. R. K. Bania, (2020), “COVID-19 Public Tweets Sentiment Analysis Using TF-IDF and Inductive Learning Models”, INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, Vol.19, No.02, pp.23-41. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  9. R. K. Bania and A. Halder (2020), “R-Ensembler: A greedy rough set based ensemble attribute selection algorithm with kNN imputation for classification of medical data”, ,Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier), Vol.184, pp.1-22, 2020. Indexing: Web of Science(SCI) and Scopus. IF:7.027. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  10. R. K. Bania and A. Halder (2019), “Adaptive Trimmed Median Filter for Impulse Noise Detection and Removal with an Application to Mammogram Images”, “International Journal of Image and Graphics (World Scientific)”.Vol 20. No.4, pp. 2050032. Indexing: Web of Science(SCI) and Scopus. IF:1.02. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  11. D. Borah, R. K. Bania and  Che Ngoc (2019), “A Local type-2 Fuzzy Set based Technique for HE stain Image Enhancement”, Article In Press. “Ingenieria Solidaria”. ISSN: 2357-6014. Indexing: Web of Science(ESCI). (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  12. R. K. Bania (2019), “State-of-the-art Review: Solid Waste Management with Advanced Computational Technologies”, International Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews, 8(2), pp. 2512-2525, ISSN: 2279–0543, UGC J.No: 63179.
  13. C.I. Khyriem and R. K. Bania (2019), “ A Customer Opinion Categorization Framework for Indigenous Items of Jaintia and Khasi Hills”, “E-Commerce for Future & Trends”, ISSN: 2454-9347, UGC J.No: 47053.
  14. R. K. Bania and R. Khan (2018), “Handwritten Assamese Character Recognition using Texture and Diagonal Orientation features with Artificial Neural Network”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, (IJAER), 13(10), pp. 7797-7805. Indexing: Scopus. ISSN: 0973-4562. UGC J.No: 64529. (UGC CARE listed Journal)
  15.  R. K. Bania and P. Duarah (2018), “Exam Time Table Scheduling using Graph Coloring Approach”, International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering. (IJCSE), 6(5), pp. 84-93. https://doi.org/10.26438/ijcse/v6i5.8493, ISSN: 2347-2693. UGC J.No: 63193.
  16.  R. K. Bania (2018), “An Enhanced Rough Set based Feature Grouping Approach for Supervised Feature Selection”, International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (IJMSC), 1(2), pp.71-82. DOI: 10.5815/ijmsc.2018.01.05, UGC J.No: 43851.
  17. R. K. Bania (2015), “A Comprehensive review study on big data”, International Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications, 9 (12), pp. 83-91, ISSN: 2321-3469. UGC J.No: 44835.
  18. R. K. Bania (2015), “Comparative Review on Classical Rough Set Theory based Feature Selection Methods”, International Journal of Computer Applications, 114(19), pp.31-35. DOI: 10.5120/20089-2125, ISSN: 0975 -8887.
  19.  R. K. Bania (2014), “Survey on Feature Selection for Data Reduction”, International Journal of Computer Applications, 94(18), pp.1-8. DOI: 10.5120/16456-2390, ISSN:0975 -8887.

Edited Book Chapters:

  1. R. K. Bania and A. Halder , “Automatic Removal of Pectoral Muscle from Mediolateral Oblique View Mammograms”, Advances in Science and Technology, Vol-2, pp.239-245, Publisher-Tata-Mc-Graw Hill, ISBN-13: 978-93-90941-11-7.
  2. R. K. Bania and S. Sharma, Chapter Title: A Review on Solid waste management with recent advanced technologies in Global and Indian context. Book Title: Climate Change and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, ISBN- 978-93-87263-90-1, 2018 (October).
  3. R. K. Bania and A. Halder, “Empirical study towards segmentation of mass lesion in digitized mammogram images”, Advances in Science and Technology, Vol-1, ISBN-978-81-908910-9-7, Publisher: i-Manager, India, 2018.

Papers Presented in Conferences/Seminars:

  1. Presented a Paper on “AgroChat: An Interactive ChatBot for Farmers” in International Conference on Environment And Sustainable Development (ICESD-2022), November, 24-25, 2022, Venue: NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India.
  2. Presented a Paper on “Early Detection of Tomato Leaf Diseases Using Deep learning Approach” in National seminar on Conservation of Biodiversity (NSCB-2022), September 2nd & 3rd, 2022, Venue: NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India.
  3. Presented a Paper on “LSTM based Deep learning model for COVID-19 Public Tweets Sentiment Analysis” in North-East research Conclave (NERC), in AI-Track, IIT Guwahati, 20/05/2022.
  4. Presented a Paper on “Sentiment Analysis on Covid19 Tweets: Machine Learning Approach” in 2nd  International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET 2022) at Assam Don Bosco University Guwahati, Assam from April 21-23,  2022.
  5. Presented a Paper on “Automatic Removal of Pectoral Muscle from Mediolateral Oblique View Mammograms”, in 2nd National Conference on Recent advances in Science and Technology (NCRAST), May 15-17, 2019. Assam Science & Technical University, Guwahati, Assam.
  6. Presented a Paper on “Empirical Study towards Segmentation of Mass Lesion in digitized Mammogram Images”, in 1st National Conference on Recent advances in Science and Technology (NCRAST), March 15-17, 2018. Assam Science & Technical University, Guwahati, Assam.
  7. Presented a Paper on “An effective supervised filter based feature selection algorithm using rough set theory”, in IEEE International Conference on Energy Communication Data analytics and Soft computing (ICECDS 2017), 1-2 August 2017, Tamil Nadu, India.
  8. Presented a Paper on “Fuzzy Rough set gene selection for gene expression data”, National seminar on Advances of Bioinformatics and computational biology in applied Biotechnology. October-5, 2015, NEHU, Tura Campus.
  9. Presented a Paper on “A New modified approach to Rough Set Feature Selection” in 3rd ACM International Conference on Computer Applications, 27-29 December, 2012 at Pondicherry.

Participation in Workshops/Training Programs

  1. Participation in IP Awareness Training Program under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission organized by Intellectual Property office, Govt of India, on dated 31st January 2023.
  2. Participation in ATAL FDP on “Data Science” IIIT Una, from 27nd -31th December 2021. (No: ATAL/2021/1638294113)
  3. Participation in ATAL FDP on “Explainable Artificial Intelligence and the Future” IIIT Kota, from 20nd -24th December 2021. (No: ATAL/2021/1638293645)
  4. Participation in ATAL FDP on “Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms for Natural Language Processing (NLP)”, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering &Technology, from 22nd -26th  November 2021.(No: ATAL/2021/1637285597)
  5. Participation in ATAL FDP on “Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms for Natural Language Processing (NLP)”, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering &Technology, from 22/11/2021 to 26/11/2021.
  6. Participation in five-day workshop on “Mathematics for Machine Learning”, organized by Department of Basic & Applied Science, NIT Arunachal Pradesh from 25-30 January, 2021, in online mode, sponsored by AICTE, India.
  7. Participation in International Level Webinar on “Research Proposal Writing”, organized by IEEE CMRTC student Branch and Centre for signal and Image processing, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India.09/06/2020.
  8. Participation in National Level Webinar on “Research Methodology”, organized by Loyala College, Tamilnadu, Chennai, India.12/06/2020 to 13/06/2020.
  9. Participation in 53rd Online Short-Term Course on E-Content Development organized By UGC-Human Resource Development Centre Gujarat University, India.11/06/2020 to 17/06/2020.
  10. Participation in, TEQIP-III sponsored Five Days Webinar on Strategies for Mental and Physical Health Protection During & Aftermath Pandemic: #COVID-19 organized by Assam Science and Technology and Dept. of Electronics and Communications Engineering, GIMT, Guwahati, India.17/06/2020 to 21/06/2020.
  11. Participation in Online Five Days National Faculty Development Program on “Applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning”organized by Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, India.24/06/2020 to 28/06/2020.
  12. Participation in Online One Week National Level Faculty Development Program on “Recent Trends in Data Science” organized by Theem College of Engineering, Mumbai, India.01/07/2020 to 05/07/2020.
  13. Participation in Online One Week National Level Faculty Development Program on “EContent Development and Delivery”organized jointly by, DUIET, Dibrugarh University, Assam and SSBUICET, Panjab University, at DUIET, Dibrugarh, Assam India.19/08/2020 to 23/08/2020.
  14. Participation in Online One Week International Level Faculty Development Program on “Machine Learning and Computer Vision: Applications, Research Challenges (MLCV 2020)”organized jointly byNational Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar and Gauhati University Institute of Science & Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India.24/08/2020 to 28/08/2020.
  15. Participation in Refresher Course on Machine Learning (29th January 2020 to 11th February 2020), Gauhati University, Assam. 29th-11th Feb 2020) Participation in (Interdisciplinary) Refresher Course (24th Sep 2018 to 14th Oct 2018), Gauhati University, Assam. 24th Sep - 14th Oct 2018.
  16. Participation in Faculty Development Programme. (Organized by Dept of MBA, NEHU, Tura Campus). 1-14 March 2018.
  17. Participation in Training on Laravel (A PhP framework) organized by Dept. of IT, Gauhati University. 27 March - 3rd April 2017.
  18. Participation in National level Workshop on Big Data at Gauhati University. 2-6 Feb 2017.
  19. Participation in Summer School- Soft Computing Paradigm and Machine Intelligence Techniques. 7-11 July 2016.
  20. Participation in 2nd IEEE workshop on Advanced Matlab Applications-ADMAT 2015, IIT Guwahati, 11-12 April 2015.
  21. Participation in UGC Sponsored Orientation Course (), at Gauhati University, Assam, 28th July to 24th August 2014.
  22. Participation in Workshop on Network Implementation and Security at Dept of Computer Science, Gauhati University. 7-8 Feb 2014.

Invited as a Resource Person/Lectures delivered/External Expert/Examiner

  1. External Examiner for Evaluation of Final Year Project Evaluation, B.Sc Computer Science, PDUAM College, Gauhati University on dated 27th January, 2023.
  2. Delivered a talk in International Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ICESD-2022) Theme: Emerging Trends In Agriculture, Life Science & Applied Computing, during November 24-25, 2022, Venue: NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India.
  3. Session Chaired in National Seminar on Conservation of Biodiversity (NSCB, 2022), September 2nd & 3rd, 2022, Venue: NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India.
  4. External Examiner for Evaluation of Final Year Project Evaluation, B.Tech (CSE), Gauhati University on dated 27th-28th June, 2022.
  5. External Examiner for Evaluation of Final Year B.Sc (Computer Science) Practical Exam, PDUAM College, Gauhati University on dated 25/03/2022.
  6. Delivered a talk in Two weeks National level Online Workshop on Art of Computer Programming, organized by Dept. of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, 14th and 25th March 2022.
  7. Invited as a Key-note Speaker in National Webinar on “Historical Perspectives of Pandemic and Impact of Covid-19” held on 9-10th March 2021 in Nongstoin college, East khasi hills, Meghalaya.
  8. Invited as a panel of expert, in Tezpur University's annual science festival 'inSCIgnis' 26February 2021 to 28 February 2021, on the topic ‘Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence’.
  9. Invited Lectures for two days, 28/07/2020 and 31/07/2020 on Five Days Webinar on "Machine Learning for Engineering Applications” organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, GIMT, Guwhati. 27/07/2020 to 31/07/2020.
  10. External Expert for Evaluation of Final Year B.Tech Project work (CSE/IT), Dept of IT, Gauhati University. 21st - 23rd June 2016.
  11. Resource Person for Conducting Entrepreneurship Awareness camps (EACs) in Dept. Computer Application from 23rd -25th March 2017.
  12. Resource Person for Bioinformatics: Linking Science to information Technology, March-2018, BIF centre, Dept. of RDAP, NEHU Tura campus, DBT sponsored.

Organization Workshop/Seminar

  1. In Collaboration with Biotech KISAN Hub, NEHU, Tura Campus organized International Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ICESD-2022) Theme: Emerging Trends in Agriculture, Life Science & Applied Computing, during November 24-25, 2022 Venue: NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India.    
    Role: Convenor.
  2. Organized One week duration High-End Workshop Sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) on “Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare” during the period of 19th -24th September, 2022.
    Role: Event Organizer.
  3. Two weeks National level Online Workshop on “Art of Computer Programming”, Date 14th-25th March, 2022, Department of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus.
    Role: Coordinator.
  4. Two days National level Webinar on “Cyber Crime, Security and Awareness” Date 8th-9th March, 2022, Department of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus.
    Role: Coordinator.
  5. One Week National Level Webinar on “Basics of Computer Applications and Role of ICT”. Date 8th -12th February, 2021, Department of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus.
    Role: Coordinator.
  6. Two days National Level Webinar on “Recent Trends in Science and Technology”. Date 26-27th February, 2021, Department of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus.
    Role: Coordinator.
  7. National Level Workshop on Network Security. Date 26-27th May 2016, Department of Computer Application, NEHU, Tura Campus.
    Role: Coordinator.

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