Qualification

• Ph.D (PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur)
• M.Tech (PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur

Teaching & Research Experience

• IIIT Kota - Assistant Professor (May 2019 - till now)
• Previous experience: 3+ years

Research Interests

• Robotics
• Deep Learning

Roles and Responsibilities

• Head of Department
• DPGC CSE Convener
• Scholarship Institute Nodal Officer
• UG Admission In-charge

Funded Projects

1.  “AITextGlasses: AI powered smart glasses for visually impaired persons to read newspaper and other multi-column text in Hindi language”
   • Role: PI (2024-2025)
   • Amount: Rs. 17,26,752/-
   • Funded By: Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
   • Status: Ongoing
   
   
2.  “Design and development of IoMT based anthropomorphic robotic glove for stress detection and aiding hand disabled people”
   • Role: PI (2023-2024) and Co-PI (2024 to 2025)
   • Amount: Rs. 11,20,752/-
   • Funded By: Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
   • Status: Ongoing
   
   
3.  “MobiSStick: Mobile enabled smart stick for visually impaired persons”
   • Role: Co-PI
   • Amount: Rs. 14,45,156/-
   • Funded By: DST
   • Status: Completed
   
   

Other Notable Information

• Established ARC (A Robotics Club) in IIIT Kota with UG students
• Founder member of RACE (Robotics and Control Engineering) group of PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur

Publications

Journals

1. Sonal Yadav, Amit Kumar, Ayu Yaduvanshi, Prateek Meena, A review of feature extraction and classification techniques in speech recognition, SN Computer Science, vol. 4, 777, 2023.
2. Anupam Kumar, Ritu Raj, Amit Kumar and Bharat Verma, Design of a novel mixed interval type- 2 fuzzy logic controller for 2-DOF robot manipulator with payload, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 123, Part B, 106329, 2023.
3. Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, Hemangee Kapoor, Manoj Singh Gaur and Amit Kumar, Adaptive distribution of control messages for improving bandwidth utilisation in multiple NoC, The Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 79, pp. 17208–17246, 2023.
4. Amit Kumar, Real-time performance comparison of vision-based autonomous landing of quadcopter on a ground moving target, IETE Journal of Research, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 5455-5472, 2023.
5. Amit Kumar, Shashwat Singh, Vibhor Rawal, Shivam Garg, Anand Agrawal, Sonal Yadav, CNN- based device-free health monitoring and prediction system using Wifi signals, International Journal of Information Technology, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 3725–3737, 2022.
6. Amit Kumar, Aparajita Ojha, Sonal Yadav and Anupam Kumar, Real-time interception performance evaluation of certain proportional navigation based guidance laws in aerial ground engagement, Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 95-114, 2022.
7. Amit Kumar, Vision-less autonomous tracking and landing of a micro aerial vehicle on a slow maneuvering ground moving target using distance sensors, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 81, no. 24, pp. 35261–35281, 2022.
8. Amit Kumar, Tejeshwar Saini, Pratik B. Pandey, Apoorv Agarwal, Anand Agrawal and Basant Agarwal, Vision-based outdoor navigation of self-driving car using lane detection, International Journal of Information Technology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 215-227, 2022.
9. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Experimental evaluation of certain pursuit and evasion schemes for wheeled mobile robots, International Journal of Automation and Computing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 491-510, 2019.
10. Amit Kumar, Capturing an evader using multiple pursuers with sensing limitations in convex environments, Defence Science Journal, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 451-459, 2018.
11. Amit Kumar, Aparajita Ojha and Prabin Kumar Padhy, Anticipated trajectory based proportional navigation guidance scheme for intercepting high maneuvering targets, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1351-1361, 2017.
12. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Anticipated velocity based guidance strategy for wheeled mobile evader amidst stationary and moving obstacles in bounded environment, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 495-507, 2015.
13. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Subdivision-based corridor map method for path planning, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 331-339, 2013.
14. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Natural path planning using wavelet noise in static environment, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 17-24, 2013.

Book Chapters

1. Sonal Yadav, Ayu Yaduvanshi, Shashank Shekhar, Lokesh Bansal, Prateek Meena, Amit Kumar. Book Chapter: An Intelligent Interview bot for candidate assessment for candidate assessment by using facial expression recognition and speech recognition System. Book Title: Computational Statistical Methodologies and Modeling for Artificial Intelligence (ISBN: 9781032170800), 2023.
2. Monika Vyas, Amit Kumar, and Vivek Sharma, “Deep learning solutions for pest identification in agriculture”, Book Title: Object Detection with Deep Learning Models: Principles and Applications, Chapman and Hall/CRC, pp. 199-214, 2022.

Conferences

1. Monika Vyas and Amit Kumar, A comprehensive review on technological advancements in object detection deep learning models. International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2023), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 971, pp 329–338, 2024.
2. Pravesh Singh, Aman Sharma, Tanmay Gemini, Raghav Garg, Amit Kumar and Anupam Kumar, Design and development of autonomous payload delivery drone. 6 th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2021), Jaipur, India. Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 425, pp. 631–640, 2022.
3. Nishchhal, Vaibhav Manav, Tejveer Singh, Hitendra Singh Chauhan, Amit Kumar and Gyan Singh Yadav, Detection of multi-column text in related sequence using object detection technique, 6th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2021), Jaipur, India. Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 425, pp. 621–629, 2022.
4. Anupam Kumar, Rajkumar Pareek, Varun Saini, Mahendra Choudhary, Ashish Sharma and Amit Kumar, Human heart rate stabilization using fractional order fuzzy logic controller, 6th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2021), Jaipur, India. Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 425, pp. 945–956, 2022.
5. Saksham Jain, Urvashi Agrawal, Amit Kumar, Anand Agrawal and Gyan Singh Yadav, Simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous robot navigation. International Conference on Control, Communication and Information Science (ICCISc 2021), Idukki, India, 2021.
6. Shashwat Singh, Vibhor Rawal, Shivam Garg and Amit Kumar, Obesity risk prediction using Wifi based human activity recognition techniques. 2021 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI -2021), Coimbatore, India, 2021.
7. Rashika Joshi, Meenakshi Tripathi, Amit Kumar, and Manoj Singh Gaur, Comparative study of object recognition algorithms for effective electronic travel aids. International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR), Jaipur, India, 2019. Published in Conference Proceedings of ICDLAIR2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 175. 2021.
8. Rashika Joshi, Meenakshi Tripathi, Amit Kumar, and Manoj Singh Gaur, Object recognition and classification system for visually impaired. IEEE 9 th International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Chennai, India, pp. 1568-1572, 2020.
9. Himanshu Sharma, Meenakshi Tripathi, Amit Kumar, and Manoj Singh Gaur, Embedded assistive stick for visually impaired persons. 9 th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Bengaluru, India, pp. 1325-1330, 2018.
10. Shivam Anand, Amit Kumar, Meenakshi Tripathi and Manoj Singh Gaur, Human face detection enabled smart stick for visually impaired people, Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol. 16, pp 277-289, 2019.
11. Sharang Sharma, Manind Gupta, Amit Kumar, Meenakshi Tripathi, and Manoj Singh Gaur, Multiple distance sensors based smart stick for visually impaired people. IEEE 7 th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, USA, pp. 1-5, 2017.
12. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Anticipated velocity based guidance strategy for wheeled mobile evaders amidst moving obstacles in bounded environment, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 248, pp. 789-798, 2014.
13. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, Performance evaluation of certain proportional navigation guidance schemes, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded systems (CARE), Jabalpur, India, pp. 1-7, 2013.
14. Amit Kumar and Aparajita Ojha, An evader-centric strategy against fast pursuer in an unknown environment with static obstacles, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded systems (CARE), Jabalpur, India, pp. 1-6, 2013.