Specialization

Object Detection, Deep learning

Email

ashish.gupta@thapar.edu

Biography                                

Ashish Kumar Gupta received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. He is currently associated with Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala (formally Thapar University) with a capacity of Assistant Professor in the Electrical and computers program of the Electrical and Instrumentation department. His teaching interest includes compiler design, analysis and design of algorithms, data structures and algorithms, Unix Systems programming, machine learning, and image processing. He has published several research papers in peer- reviewed international journals. He has been a reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, The Visual Computer, and Multimedia tools and applications. His research interests include image processing, salient object detection, attention mechanism, and deep learning.

Education

• Ph.D. in Deep Convolution Neural Networks for Salient Object Detection  from PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur 482005  in 2021
• M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha in 2010
• B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru GhasiDas University, Bilaspur (C.G.) in 2003.

Experience: Total Teaching Experience X years

• From Feb 2022 – Till Date: Assistant Professor-I, Electrical and Instrumentation Department,  Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patialia 147004.
• From July 2021 - Feb 2022: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,  ITER, Siksha ‘O’Anusandhan, Bhubaneshwar 751030.
• From July 2008 - July 2015: Assistant Professor, Information Technology,  Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology, Jabalpur 482005.
• From March 2004 - July 2006: Designation, Department,  Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology, Jabalpur 482005.

Teaching Interests:

• Compiler Design                                                                                  
• Operating Systems
• Data Structures and Algorithms                                                                 

Research Interest:

• Salient Object Detection
• Deep Convolution Neural Networks

Publications:

Journals 

• A. K. Gupta, A. Seal , P.Khanna and A. Yazid’, "ALMNet: Adjacent layer driven multiscale features for salient object detection, "   IEEE transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70,  2021, pp. 1-14.
• A. K. Gupta, A. Seal , P. Khanna, O. Krejcar and A. Yazidi, “Gated contextual features for salient object detection” , IEEE transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70,  2021, pp. 1-13.
• A. K. Gupta, A. Seal , P. Khanna and M. Prasad, “Salient object detection techniques in computer vision - A survey,” Entropy, 22(10), 2020, pp. 1174.
• A. K. Gupta, A. Seal, P. Khanna, O. Krejcar and A. Yazidi, “AW k S: adaptive, weighted k-means-based superpixels for improved saliency detection,” Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2020, pp. 1-15.
• K. Gupta, A. Seal, and P. Khanna, "Divergence-based SLIC," Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 14, pp. 783-785, 2019.

International Conferences: NIL

National Conferences: NIL

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

• Data Warehousing and Data Mining, One Week FDP from June 30- July 11, 2008, organized at MANIT, Bhopal (M.P.)
• Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC – 2009, July 03-05, 2009 organized at IIT Bombay, Mumbai.

Sponsored Project

“Deep learning based Automatic Target Detection and Recognition “supervised by (PI) received a Grant amount of Rs 6.31 lacs by TIET, Patiala (SEED Project), from March 2023 to March 2025

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