Dr. Tapan Pradhan

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Assistant Professor
Email: tapan_pradhan[at]ee[dot]nits[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact: +91-9432125545
Date of Joining: 28/06/2018
Academic/Industrial Experience: 11+ years
Google Scholar ID: Click Here

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2841-6927

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Instrumentation and Signal Processing, Sensors and Actuators, Embedded System Design and Programming, Numerical Linear Algebra, Digital Image Processing, and Machine Learning.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Tapan Pradhan was born in 1978 in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal (India). He completed his earlier schooling from Baruipur High School, Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. He completed B.E.E. from Jadavpur University in 2002. After completing B.E. in Electrical Engineering, he joined Hindustan Motors Limited (HML) as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and worked as Service Territory Manager in PCH and NCR. He left HML and joined Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology as a Lecturer in 2005. He joined M.E.E in Jadavpur University in the year 2007 with a specialization, Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation. He completed his M.E. in 2009 and joined IIT Kharagpur as a research scholar. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. At present he is working as an Assistant Professor Grade I in the Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Silchar, Assam.

 SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Analog Electronics EE 1203
  • Digital Signal Processing EE 1401/ EE 305
  • Instrumentation EE 1309
  • Adaptive Signal Processing EE 383
  • Embedded Systems and Applications EEC 553
  • Basic Electrical Engineering EE 101

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE (90807433)

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

  • Invited as Guest Speaker at the National Conference on “Recent Trends in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering” at HETC, West Bengal, India on 29.04.2023.
  • Acted as Session Chair in Advances in the 2nd annual International Conference in Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A) 2022, NIT Silchar, Silchar, Assam, India during 16-18 Dec 2022.
  • Acted as Session Co-Chair in Advances in Control & Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS) 2022, NIT Silchar, Silchar, Assam, India during 22-25 Feb 2022.
  • Acted as Session Chair in International Conference on Power, Signals, Control and Computations EPSCICON 2014, Vidya Academy of Science & Technology, P.O. Thrissur – 680501, Kerala, India during 7-10 Jan 2014.
  • Best Paper Award in Human Computer Interaction Section of IEEE Techsym, Kharagpur in 2010.
  • Secured 5th rank in M.E.E. in 2009.
  • National Scholarship offered for securing 97th rank in Secondary Examination in 1995.
  • Received a medal from All India Science Teachers Association in 1993-94.

PATENTS

IIT Kharagpur, A. Routray, B. Kabi and T. Pradhan, “A Real-Time System for Object Detection
and Recognition with Machine Learning,” Indian Patent (Patent No. 444876),
August 14, 2023.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Effect of magnetic field on voltammetric sensor for electrolytic concentration measurement and electrode-electrolyte interface model based on a novel geometry”, Measurement Science and Technology (IOP Publishing Ltd), ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 2.4. DOI 10.1088/1361-6501/acf8e5. (SCIE)
  2. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Amplitude modulated feed-forward thermal drift compensation for linear and nonlinear current sensors”, Measurement Science and Technology (IOP Publishing Ltd), ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 2.4,   DOI 10.1088/1361-6501/acea9f. (SCIE)
  3. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Implementation of optimized planar Hall effect sensor as tunable resistors with DC bias control”, IEEE Sensors Letters, ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 0.694,  DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3274533. (SCOPUS)
  4. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Calibration and frequency estimation in sensors for electrical parameter measurement using regression and metaheuristic based models”, Expert Systems Journal (Wiley-Blackwell), ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 2.812,  Accepted on 18-11-2022. (SCIE)
  5. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Digital frequency response based optically isolated wire-wound Hall current sensor scheme for sinusoidal current waveform measurement”, IEEE Sensors Journal, ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 4.325,  Accepted on 02-11-2022. (SCIE)
  6. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan and D. Koteswara Raju, “Contactless current sensor with novel coil designs and Hall-effect based electron device for dynamic precision adjustment”, IEEE Sensors Journal, ISI Indexed with an Impact Factor of 4.325,  Accepted. (SCIE) DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3207276. (SCIE)
  7. S. Ranasingh, T. Pradhan, D. K. Raju, A. R. Singh and A. Piantini, “An approach to wire-wound Hall-effect based current sensor for offset reduction”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 3 (2021): 2006-2015.  (SCIE)
  8. S. Roy, M. Sinha, and T. Pradhan, “Generation of 100-year-return value maps of maximum significant wave heights with automated threshold value estimation.” Spatial Information Research, Springer, pp. 1-10, 2019. (SCOPUS)
  9. T. Pradhan, B. Kabi, R. Mohanty and A. Routray, “Development of Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms in Dynamic Fixed-Point Format: A Case Study of Lanczos Tridiagonalization,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Wiley, Issue 6, Vol 44, pp. 1222-1262, 2015. (SCI)
  10. T. Pradhan, B. Kabi, A. Routray and G. Anirudh, “Fixed-Point Hestenes SVD Algorithm for Computing Eigen Faces,” International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, North Atlantic University Union (NAUN), Issue 6, Vol 7, pp. 312-321 (2013). (SCOPUS)

 

NATIONAL JOURNALS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. T. Pradhan, A. Routray, and S. Gupta,“Fast and Fixed-Point SVD Algorithm for Face and Eye Tracking”, Proceedings of Matrix Information Geometries (MIG), Indo-French Seminar, France, 2011, pp. 44-45.
  2. T. Pradhan, B. Kabi and A. Routray, “Fixed-Point Hestenes Algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition of Symmetric Matrices,” International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods AMCM, Venice, Italy, 2013, pp. 63-70.
  3. S. Dhar, T. Pradhan, S. Gupta, and A. Routray, “Implementation of Real Time Visual Attention Monitoring Algorithm of Human Drivers on an Embedded Platform,” in IEEE symposium, Techsym, Kharagpur, India, Apr. 2010, pp. 241– 247. (Best Paper Award).
  4. T. Pradhan, A. N. Bagaria, A. Routray, “Measurement of PERCLOS using eigen-eyes,” in 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2012, pp. 1–4.
  5. B. Kabi, T. Pradhan, R. Mohanty and A. Routray, “Comparative Study of Tridiagonalization Methods for Fast SVD,” Proceedings of International Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and its Applications (NLAA), IIT Guwahati , 2013, pp. 14–15.
  6. R. Mohanty, G. Anirudh, T. Pradhan, B. Kabi, and A. Routray, “Design and Performance Analysis of Fixed-point Jacobi SVD Algorithm on Reconfigurable System,” International Conference on Applied Computing, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering, ICACC, Saipan, USA (2013)and IERI Procedia, Elsevier 2014, vol. 7, pp. 21–27.
  7. B. Kabi, A. S. Sahadevan and T. Pradhan, “An Overflow Free Fixed-point Eigenvalue Decomposition Algorithm: Case Study of Dimensionality Reduction in Hyperspectral Images”, DASIP 2017, Dresden, Germany.
  8. S. Roy, M. Sinha, and T. Pradhan, “Return Period Estimation of Maximum Significant Wave Height over Bay of Bengal based on Satellite Data using a Probabilistic Approach”, INTROMET 2017, Ahmedabad, India.
  9. S. Roy, T. Dasgupta, and T. Pradhan, “An Improved and Optimized ContentAware Resizing Algorithm for Images with Densely Situated Foreground Objects”, International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WISPNET) 2018, SSN College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India.
  10. G. Adhikari, S. Roy, T. Dasgupta, and T. Pradhan, “A Novel Technique for Unwarping Curved Handwritten Texts Using Mathematical Morphology and Piecewise Affine Transformation”, 9th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) 2018, IISC Bangaluru, India.
  11. S. Roy, G. Adhikari, T. Dasgupta, and T. Pradhan, “An Adaptive Warp Correction Algorithm for Handwritten Text Images with Non-Linear Baselines”, 9th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) 2018, IISC Bangaluru, India.

BOOK CHAPTER

  1. Pradhan, A. Routray and B. Kabi, “Comparative Evaluation of Symmetric SVD Algorithms for Real-Time Face and Eye Tracking,” Matrix Information Geometry, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 323-340.

PROJECTS

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

  • Organized a one week TEQUIP III sponsored workshop on “Synchrophasor Measurement
    Technology for Smart Grid – Present Scenario and Implementation in Indian Power
    System” during 19-23rd January 2019 in Electrical Engineering Department, NIT
    Silchar, Assam.
  • Organized a one week TEQUIP III sponsored workshop on “The Development of
    the Energy Internet of Things (eIoT) in Green Energy Infrastructure” during 1-5th
    September 2020 in Electrical Engineering Department, NIT Silchar, Assam.
  • Organized a one week TEQUIP III sponsored workshop on “Biomedical Instrumentation
    System for clinical diagnostic research” during 20-24th February 2020 in Electrical
    Engineering Department, NIT Silchar, Assam.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

  • Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Advances in Control
    & Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2022) during 22-25.02.2022 in NIT
    Silchar, Assam.

PHD SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision
1  Soumyaranjan Ranasingh Completed

(2020-2023

  Sensors and Actuators Joint Supervision
2  Sandeepan Sengupta Ongoing  Sensors and Image Processing Sole Supervisor
3 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
4 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
5 Ongoing Sole Supervisor

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
 1  Tirthankar Chakaraborty  2020  Tip Position and Tip Deflection Control of a Two-link Flexible Manipulator using Sliding Mode Control  with Prof B K Roy
 2  Thota Venkata Krishna Teja  2021  Investigation Of Wireless Communication Medium On The Control Performance Of Inverted Pendulum  with Dr. Rajeeb Dey
3 Ankita Labhane 2022 An Automatic Face Mask Detection using Image
Processing to Limit Spread of COVID-19		  with Dr. Prasanta Roy
4 Istaranjan Kanungo 2024 Pressure Point Analysis for Leak
Detection and Localization, ClogDetection and Removal
5  Chandan Chetri  2024 Q-SVD Based ImageEnhancement for Agriculture And

Industry Applications