Prof. Manish Kumar Thakur

Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D.(Computer Science & Engineering) from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, June 2014
• Thesis Title-: Tampered Videos: Detection and Quality Assessment
• Shodhganga Link: https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/44603
• M.Tech.(Computer Science) from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, June 2004
• B.E(Electronics Engineering) from Nagpur University, June 1998

Biography

Dr. Thakur completed his B.E. from Nagpur University, M. Tech. from BIT Mesra Ranchi, and Ph. D. from JIIT Noida. As an academician he started his career in 2001. Since then, he is involved in teaching subjects at under graduate and post-graduate levels. These subjects include Data Structures, Multi-Dimensional Data Structures, Algorithms, Graph Algorithms, Multimedia Computing, Parallel Computing, etc. During his teaching career of more than 21 years, he supervised around 200 under graduate and post-graduate student’s projects/thesis. Also, under his guidance, 2 students successfully completed their Ph. D. and 1 student is pursuing the Ph. D.

Apart from academics, he has been actively involved in organizing international conferences (viz. Publication Co-chair, International Conference on Contemporary Computing),and annual technical festival at JIIT (Cyber Srishti).Asfaculty advisor of KNUTH Programming Hub at JIIT, he organized and conducted numerous programming workshops and programming competitions on different competitive programming portals. Under his mentorship, many students secured good ranks in national and international level coding competitions, like ACM ICPC and many studentsproject proposals have been shortlisted for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) under his mentorship. Also, under his supervision, 4 groups (6 students in a group) in 2019 and 3 groups in 2022 won the prestigious Smart India Hackathon (SIH) for different problem statements.

Work Experience

21+Years in Academics

• Jan 2006 to date at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida
• July 2001 to Jan 2006 at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi

Interest Area(s)

• Nature Inspired Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Video Forensics
• Graph Theory -Algorithms and Applications
• Multi-Dimensional Data Structures

Publications

Till Oct 2022

Total Citation (Scopus / Google Scholar):152 / 272

H Index (Scopus / Google Scholar): 5 / 7

Google Scholar Profile:http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=MYxL_ZkAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus Profile:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36069948900

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2479-1540

International Journals:

• Joshi, B. and Thakur, M. K., “Genetic Algorithm and Cuckoo Search Algorithm Based Routing Optimizations in Network-on-Chip,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07272-9 (SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =2.807)
• Wadhwa, A., and Thakur, M. K., "Most SignificantHotspot Detection using Improved Particle Swarm Optimizer,” Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 75, 2022, 101177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101177 (SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =10.267)
• Joshi, B. and Thakur, M. K., “A Traffic Intensive Virtual Channels Allocation Scheme in Network-on-Chip,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07191-9 (SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =2.807)
• Wadhwa, A., and Thakur, M. K., "A PSO-Optimized Model for Identifying Spatio-Temporal Hotspots of Terrorist Incidents in India,” Defence Science Journal, 72(3), 382-391. https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.72.17727, (SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =0.707)
• Wadhwa, A., and Thakur, M. K., "Rapid surveillance of COVID-19 by timely detection of geographically robust, alive and emerging hotspots using Particle Swarm Optimizer,” Applied Geography, 2022, 144, 102719, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102719 (SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =4.732)
• Wadhwa, A., and Thakur, M. K., "Effectiveness of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Geographically Robust Hotspot Detection,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022, 47(2), pp. 1693–1715, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06032-5(SCIE Indexed, Scopus Indexed, IF =2.807)
• Joshi, B. and Thakur, M. K., “Stable Matching based Virtual Channels Allocation Scheme in Network-on-Chip,” Journal of Interconnection Networks, 2020, 20(2), 2050008, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219265920500085(Scopus Indexed)
• Tewari, T. K., and Thakur, M. K., "High payload svd based audio watermarking scheme inherently robust to mp3 compression,” International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control, 2020, 10(6), pp. 875–885, https://doi.org/10.2174/2210327909666190411123949 (Scopus Indexed)
• Tiwari, S., Mittal, N., Garg, N., Tewari, T. K., and Thakur, M. K., "Secret Data Hiding using Artificial Neural Networks and Discrete Wavelet Transform," International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Vol. 8, Issue 5, June 2019, pp. 649-656 (Scopus Indexed)
• Ankita, Thakur, M. K., and Tewari, T. K., "K-means and Particle Swarm Optimization based Color Constancy of Images," International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Vol. 8, Issue 4, April 2019, pp. 1578-1585 (Scopus Indexed)
• Bhatnagar, A., Gambhir, V., and Thakur, M. K., “A new perspective to Stable Marriage Problem in profit maximization of matrimonial websites,” Journal of Information Processing System, Vol. 14, No. 4, August 2018, pp. 961-979, https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.02.0092 (ESCI, Scopus Indexed)
• Joshi, B. and Thakur, M. K., “Performance evaluation of various On-Chip topologies,” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Vol. 96, No. 15, August 2018, pp. 4883-4893 (Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., “Dynamic dual threshold-based schemes for abrupt scene change detection in videos,” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Vol. 96, No. 14, July 2018, pp. 4460-4470 (Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., “An efficient digital video watermarking system robust against various spatial, temporal, and Spatio-temporal attacks,” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Vol. 96, No. 8, April 2018, pp. 2370-2380 (Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P., “Video Authentication against Set of Temporal Tampering,” International Journal of Security and its Applications, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Jan 2017, pp. 149-164 (Emerging Source Citation Index)
• Shukla, Y., Biswas, K. K., Jain, C., and Thakur, M. K., “siRNA efficacy prediction using multi-task multi kernel learning," Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan 2014, pp. 124-126, https://doi.org/10.1166/asem.2014.1459
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P.," Performance analysis of PSNR and SSIM against frame drop and its subjective score", International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Vol. 7, No. 3, Feb 2013, pp. 679-688
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P., "A hybrid video quality metric for analyzing quality degradation due to frame drop,” International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 9, Issue 6, No. 1, Nov 2012, pp.78-84
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P.," A full reference algorithm for dropped frames identification in uncompressed video using Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Vol. 6, No. 20, Nov 2012, pp. 562-573 (Scopus Indexed)
• Nigam, V., Yadav, D., and Thakur, M. K., “A novel approach for hand analysis using image processing techniques,”International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 320-323

Book Chapter:

• Wadhwa, A.,and Thakur, M. K., “Repulsion-Based Grey Wolf Optimizer,” Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2020, pp. 385-394. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 1164. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4992-2_36  (Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P., “Learning based no reference algorithm for dropped frame identification in uncompressed video,” in Proc. 3^rdInformation Systems Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2016), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 435. Springer, Jan 8-9, 2016, pp. 451-459, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2757-1_45(Scopus Indexed)
• Sethi, H., Sirohi, A., and Thakur, M. K., “Intelligent Mail Box,” in Proc. 3^rdInformation Systems Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2016), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 435. Springer,Jan 8-9, 2016, pp. 441-450, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2757-1_44(Scopus Indexed)

International Conferences:

• Ankita and Thakur, M. K., “A GWO based efficient approach to identify terrorist incident hotspots in India,” in Proc. 2022 Fourteenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2022), August 4-6, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1145/3549206.3549264(Scopus Indexed)
• Agarwal, S., Yadav, L., and Thakur, M. K., “Circular and Cylindrical Hotspots Detection for Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data,” in Proc. 2019 Twelfth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2019, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2019.8844936, (Scopus Indexed)
• Jain, R., Garg, S., Gangal, S., Ankita, Thakur, M. K., “TaxiScan: A scan statistics approach for detecting Taxi demand hotspots,” in Proc. 2019 Twelfth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2019, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2019.8844898, (Scopus Indexed)
• Ankita and Thakur, M. K., “Modified DBSCAN using Particle Swarm Optimization for spatial hotspot identification,” in Proc. 11^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2018), August 2-4, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2018.8530558(Scopus Indexed)
• Agarwal, S., Yadav, L., and Thakur, M. K., “Crime prediction based on statistical models,” in Proc. 11^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2018), August 2-4, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2018.8530548(Scopus Indexed)
• Jain, A., Bhatia, D., and Thakur, M. K., “Extractive text summarization using Word Vector Embedding,” in Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS), Dec 14-15, 2017, pp. 51-55, https://doi.org/10.1109/MLDS.2017.12(Scopus Indexed)
• Tomar, D., Prasad, Y., Thakur, M. K., and Biswas, K. K., “Feature selection using Autoencoders,” in Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS), Dec 14-15, 2017, pp. 56-60, DOI: 10.1109/MLDS.2017.20(Scopus Indexed)
• Bhatnagar, V., Magon, R., Srivastava, R., Thakur, M. K., “A Cost Effective Sign Language to Voice Emulation System,” in Proc. 8^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2015), August 20-22, 2015, pp. 521-525, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2015.7346737(Scopus Indexed)
• Gulati, S., Rastogi, A., and Thakur, M. K., “Dynamic Simulator and Planning Tool for Studying the Defense and Attack Strategies in a War-Zone,” in Proc. 8^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2015), August 20-22, 2015, pp. 138-143, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2015.7346668(Scopus Indexed)
• Bhalla, C., Sadana, P., Manocha, A., and Thakur, M. K., "Spatio-temporal extraction, visualization, and investigation of worldwide disease alerts," in Proc. 7^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2014), August 7-9, 2014, pp. 400-405, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2014.6897207(Scopus Indexed)
• Agarwal. A. and Thakur, M. K., "Sign language recognition using Microsoft Kinect," in Proc.6^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2013), August 8-10, 2013, pp. 181-185, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2013.6612186(Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P., "Data-parallel full reference algorithm for dropped frame identification in uncompressed video using genetic algorithm,” in Proc.6^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2013), August 8-10, 2013, pp. 467-471, DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2013.6612241(Scopus Indexed)
• Dweivedi, R. and Thakur, M. K., "Integration of geographical information system in context based mobile application for promotional short messaging service (SMS)," in Proc. International Conference on Issues and Challenges in networking, Intelligence and Computing Technology (ICNICT 2011), September 2-3, 2011
• Thakur, M. K., Kumari, M., and Das, M., “Architectural layout Planning using Genetic Algorithms,” in Proc. 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2010), Vol. 4, July 9-11, 2010, pp. 5-11, DOI: 10.1109/ICCSIT.2010.5565165 (Scopus Indexed)
• Thakur, M. K., Saxena, V., and Gupta, J. P., "A performance analysis of objective video quality metrics for digital video watermarking," in Proc.3^rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2010), Vol.4, July 9-11, 2010, pp.12-17, DOI: 10.1109/ICCSIT.2010.5564962 (Scopus Indexed)
• Verma, M. and Thakur, M. K., “Architectural Space Planning using Genetic Algorithms,” in Proc. 2^nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2010), Vol. 2, February 26-28, 2010, pp 268-275, DOI: 10.1109/ICCAE.2010.5451497 (Scopus Indexed)

Conferences/ Workshops Attended

Delivered Talks (Invited Speakers at FDP, Workshop, etc.)

• Delivered 5 Hrs. talk on “Competitive Programming to enhance the coding skills”, at Jaypee University Anoopsahar on September 26, 2022
• A two Hrs. online talk on “Opportunities for International Students” at JIIT on June 11, 2022
• Talk titled as “Exploring with MS-Excel and Google Forms” was delivered during 2 days Staff Development Program held from 14^th Feb 2020 to 15^th Feb 2020. Talk was conducted in two sessions of 2 Hrs. each.
• Talk titled as “Temporally Tampered Videos” was delivered on 12^th July 2017 during 6 days FDP on Recent Trends in Signal Processing, JIIT Noida, July 10 – 15, 2017
• Talk titled as “Parallel Computing and Algorithms – Performance Evaluation Metrics” was delivered on 10^th July 2017 during 6 days FDP on Performance Assessment of Computing System, JIIT Noida, July 10 – 15, 2017
• Talk titled as “Trends and Innovations in Algorithms Courses” was delivered on 7^th July 2015 during 6 days FDP on Emerging Trends in Computing Education, JIIT Noida, July 6 – 11, 2015
• Talk titled as “Exploring the world of Interconnection Networks” was delivered on 11^th March 2015 as Invited Speaker during 2 day National Seminar on Parallel Computing at IES Group of Institutions, Bhopal, March 10 – 11, 2015

Organised (FDP, Technical Festival, and Workshop):

• A one-day Competitive Programming Workshop at Jaypee University, Anoopsahar on September 26, 2022
• 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2021) as Publication Co-chair, 4 - 6 Aug 2022
• Half day interactive session on “Opportunities for International Students,” June 11, 2022. Conducted talk, quizzes, and success stories
• 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2021) as Publication Co-chair, 5 - 7 Aug 2021
• Organised a 2-days workshop on competitive programming for JUIT faculty, July 16-17, 2020. Conducted 4 sessions (2 Hrs. each) spread in two days
• 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2019) as Publication Co-chair & Local Arrangement Committee Co-chair, 8 - 10 Aug 2019
• Cyber Srishti 2019 – A Two Day Tech Fest, April 20-21, 2019
• Cyber Srishti 2018 – A Two Day Tech Fest, April 21-22, 2018
• Cyber Srishti 2017 – A Two Day Tech Fest, April 22-23, 2017
• Cyber Srishti 2016 – A Two Day Tech Fest, May 7-8, 2016
• Organised a 6-days FDP on Emerging Trends in Computing Education, July 6–11, 2015
• Cyber Srishti 2015 – One Day IT Symposium, June 4, 2015
• Cyber Srishti 2014 – A Two Day IT Symposium, April 26-27, 2014

Attended (FDP, Workshops, Webinar and Conferences):

• Attended 1-day IIC Regional Meet at Lucknow on 29^th Aug 2022
• Attended 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 4 - 6 Aug 2022
• Attended the 6-days (one week) Online FDP on “Graph Analytics Applications (GAA-2022)”, conducted by JIIT Noida from 25^th Jul 2022 to 31^st Jul 2022
• Attended the 6-days (one week) Online FDP on Data Science Tools (DST-2022) conducted by JIIT Noida from 1^st Feb 2022 to 6^th Feb 2022
• Attended 2-days Online FDP on “Online Teaching & Training” conducted by NITTTR, Chennai from 10^th Jan 2022 to 11^th Jan 2022
• Attended 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 5 - 7 Aug 2021
• Attended Two-day Workshop on “Managing Personal Finances” conducted by JIIT Noida from 7^th Apr 2021 to 8^th Apr 2021
• Attended 6-days (one week) online FDP on “Soft Computing Techniques and their Applications (SCTA 2020)” conducted by JIIT Noida from 13^th July 2020 to 18^th July 2020
• Attended (one day) Leadership Talk with Dr. Pramod Chaudhari, Founder, Chairman, Praj Industries Limited and Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer MHRD Innovation Cell on 16^th May 2020
• Attended (one day) India First Leadership Talk webinar with Prof D. P. Singh, Chairman UGC on 9^th May 2020
• Attended 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 8 - 10 Aug 2019
• Attended 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 2 - 4 Aug 2018
• Attended 6 days Faculty Development Program on Reimaging Computing, organized by Department of CSE&IT from 4 - 10 July 2018
• Attended 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 10 - 12 Aug 2017
• Attended 6 days Faculty Development Program on Recent Trends in Signal Processing, organized by Department of ECE from 10 - 15 July 2017
• Attended one day (9^th February 2017) of the 25th International Conference and Expo (Convergence India 2017) from 8 – 10 February 2017, Pragati Maidan, Delhi
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 11 - 13 Aug 2016
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 20 - 22 Aug 2015
• Attended 6 days Faculty Development Program on Emerging Trends in Computing Education, Department of CSE/IT, JIIT, Noida, July 6–11, 2015
• Attended 3 days IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Dec 15-17, 2014
• Attended 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 7 - 9 Aug 2014
• Attended 6 days Faculty Development Program on Advanced Computing Methods, organized by the Dept. of Mathematics, JIIT Noida from 21 – 26 July 2014
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 8 - 10 Aug 2013
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 6 - 8 Aug 2012
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 8 - 10 Aug 2011
• Attended short course on “Genetic Algorithms” taken by Prof Rao Vemuri (University of California, Davis, USA) held from 8-10 Nov, 2010 at JIIT Noida
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 9 - 11 Aug 2010
• Attended 5 days IUCEE Workshop on Digital Signal Processing using LabView, held at SVECW, Bhimavaram (AP) from 5-9 July 2010
• Attended 5 days IUCEE Workshop on Design and Analysis of Algorithms, held at INFOSYS Mysore, from 29 June 2009 to 3 July 2009
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 17 - 19 Aug 2009
• Attended 3 days workshop on Graph and Geometric Algorithms, held at BITS Pilani from 22-24 January 2009
• Attended, 3 days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 7 - 9 Aug 2008
• Attended 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 15-19 October 2007
• Attended 5-days Faculty Development Workshop on Self – Realization, Commitment and Excellence” organised by JIIT Noida from 11^th July 2006 to 15^th July 2006

Professional Projects / Professional Achievements

• Faculty Advisor, JIIT Youth Club (JYC), since 2020
• Faculty Coordinator, Cyber Srishti – Two Days Tech Fest, since 2014
• Faculty Advisor, Programming Hub, JIIT Noida, since 2011
• Faculty Advisor, Photography Hub, JIIT Noida, since 2011
• Faculty Advisor, Open Source Developers Community, JIIT Noida, since 2011
• Faculty Advisor, CICR (Robotics Club), JIIT Noida, from 2009 to 2011
• Hostel Warden, JIIT Noida, since 2013
• Member, CIQAC / IQAC and sub-committees, JIIT Noida, since 2014
• Member, Alumni Cell, JIIT Noida, since 2014
• Member, JIIC, JIIT Noida, since 2022
• Member, IIC, JIIT Noida, since 2018
• TPC member of various international conferences like, International Conference on Contemporary Computing(JIIT Noida), International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT 2015, 4-5 Sept 2015 at University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun), International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA 2015, 15-16 May 2015 at Galgotia University, Greater Noida), and 13^thIEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology,15-17 Dec 2014 at JIIT Noida, etc.
• Session Chair in 3-days International Conference on Contemporary Computing jointly organized by JIIT and University of Florida at JIIT Noida from 4 - 6 Aug 2022
• Session Chair in 3-days International Conference on Informatics (ICI), 14 - 16 Apr 2022
• Technical Session Chair, 12^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 8-10 Aug 2019, JIIT, Noida
• Technical Session Chair, International Conference on Peaceful and Prosperous South Asia-Opportunities and Challenges, 27-29 March 2017, JIIT, Noida
• Technical Session Chair, 7^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 7-9 Aug 2014, JIIT, Noida
• Co-chair, Publication, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 - 2019)
• Co-chair, Local Arrangement, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
• Chair, Student Volunteers, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) – 2008, 2009, and2010