Buddhadeb Pradhan

Postdoctoral research fellow, Brandon University, Canada

PERSONAL DETAILS
Address 1 Santoshpur Govt. Colony, Block-B, Santoshpur, Kolkata - 700142(Present)
Address 2 Purusttompur, Asda, Paschim Medinipur, 721445(Permanent)
Phone (+91)9007222496/7602332145
E-mail buddhadebpradhan@gmail.com/bpradhan.ca@nitjsr.ac.in
Father Banka Bihari Pradhan
Birth April 3, 1988

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Doctor of Philosophy(Engineering) 2014-2020
Institute: National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Thesis Title : Coordinated Navigation of Multiple Mobile Robots
Degree Awarded Date: 31.01.2020

Master of Technology(Computer Science and Engineering) 2009-2011

University: Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Institute: National Institute of Science and Technology
CGPA : 9.03
Thesis Title : Grid Computing based Power Systems Extreme Event Screening : A
Graph Theoritic Approach

Bachelor of Technology(Computer Science and Engineering) 2005-2009

University: West Bengal University of Technology
Institute: Calcutta Institute of Technology
CGPA : 8.08
Project Title : Searching an Unique Path Between a Source and Destination in MANET

XII 2005
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
Percentage : 75.6

X 2003
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
Percentage : 86.13

WORK EXPERIENCE
Feb 2020- Till
Assistant Professor (Adhoc)
Date
National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur
 Academic and administrative responsibilities as well as guiding PG students for their project
work
Mar 2012- Aug
Assistant Professor
2014
Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Kolkata
Academic and administrative responsibilities as well as guiding students for their project
work

SKILLS
Languages Bengali (Mother Tongue)
English (fluent)
Hindi (fluent)
software matlab, eclipse, gridsim, phpmyadmin
Programming C, C++, java, html, javascript, php, pyhton
Research
Robotics, Soft Computing, Big Data, Machine Learning
Interest

PUBLICATIONS
Journals
• S. Choudhury, K.H. K. Reddy, B. Pradhan, A. Kr. Luhach,D. S. Roy, “A PSO-
based EnergyEfficient Approachfor IoT Applicationsin Smart Cities”, Wireless
Personal Communications (Accepted)

• B. Pradhan, G. Srivastava, D.S. Roy, K. H. K. Reddy, J. Chun-Wei Lin “Under-

water Sensor Networks’ Traffic classification with SDN and Data-Driven Hybrid
Metaheuristics” (Accepted at ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks)

• B. Pradhan, N.B. Hui, D.S. Roy, G. Srivastava, J. Chun-Wei Lin “Strategic Coor-
dination and Navigation of Multiple Wheeled Robots”, ACM Transactions on
Internet Technology, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1-15, July 2021. doi.org/10.1145/3450521

• K. H. K. Reddy, A. Kr. Luhach, B. Pradhan, J. K. Dash, D. S. Roy, A genetic

algorithm for energy efficient fog layer resource management in context-aware
smart cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020,102428, ISSN 2210-6707.
(IF:5.268)SCI

• M.W. Hussain, B. Pradhan, X.Z. Gao, K.H.K. Reddy, D.S. Roy, Clonal selection
algorithm for energy minimization in software defined networks, Applied Soft
Computing, Volume 96, 2020, 106617, ISSN 1568-4946. (IF:5.472)SCI

• B. Pradhan, V. Vijayakumar, S. Pratihar, D. Kumar, K. H. K. Reddy, D. S.

Roy, A genetic algorithm based energy efficient group paging approach for IoT
over 5G, Journal of Systems Architecture, 2020, 101878, ISSN 1383-7621.
IF:2.552)SCI

• B. Pradhan, A. Nandi, N. B. Hui, D. S. Roy and J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, “A

Novel Hybrid Neural Network-Based Multirobot Path Planning With Motion
Coordination,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no.
2, pp. 1319-1327, Feb. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2019.2958197 (IF:5.339)SCI
 • Pradhan, Buddhadeb ,Vijayakumar, V , Hui, Nirmal , Sinha Roy, Diptendu.
(2019). Intelligent navigation of multiple coordinated robots. Journal of Intelli-
gent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 36, no. 5, pp 4413-4423. doi: 10.3233/JIFS-169996
(IF:1.637)SCIE.

• B. Pradhan, D. Sinha Roy and N.B. Hui, Motion planning and coordination of
multi-agent systems, International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics,
vol. 8, no. 5, pp.492–508, 2018 Scopus.

• Pradhan, B., Nayak, A. (2011). An Elegant Load Balancing Scheme in Grid

Computing Using Grid Gain. International Journal of Computer Science and Its
Application, Vol. 1 Issue 1, pp. 254-257.

Conferences
• Pradhan B., Hui N.B., Roy D.S. (2022) Strategic Coordination and Navigation
of Multiple Wheeled Robots. In: Kumar R., Chauhan V.S., Talha M., Pathak H.
(eds) Machines, Mechanism and Robotics. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering.
Springer, Singapore.

• Pradhan B., Hui N.B., Roy D.S. (2020) Heuristic Coordination for Multi-agent Mo-
tion Planning. In: Khanna A., Gupta D., Bhattacharyya S., Snasel V., Platos J., Has-
sanien A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communica-
tions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1087. Springer,Singapore

• B. Pradhan, D. Sinha Roy, N. B. Hui, “Multi-Agent Navigation and Coordination

using GA-Fuzzy Approach”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol.
817, pp. 793-805, 2019.

• K.Hemant K. Reddy, Manas Ranjan Patra, Diptendu Sinha Roy, B Pradhan, “An
Adaptive Scheduling Mechanism for Computational Desktop Grid Using GridGain,
Procedia Technology,Volume 4, 2012, pp. 573-578.

• Pradhan B., Shial R.K., Sinha Roy D. (2012) Grid Computing Based NIC Infras-
tructure: A Step towards IT Enabled India, INDIA 2012, Visakhapatnam, India.
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

• B. Pradhan, K. Hemant Reddy, D. S. Roy and D. K. Mohanta, “Intentional

islanding of electric power systems in a grid computing framework: A graph-theoretic
approach,” 2011 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems,
Kolkata, 2011, pp. 156-160.

• B. Pradhan, S. S. Paik, D. S. Roy and D. K. Mohanta, “A sustainable protection

scheme for the Indian power system using grid computing: A graph-theoretic
approach,” 2011 Annual IEEE India Conference, Hyderabad, 2011, pp. 1-6.

• Buddhadeb Pradhan, Ajay Nayak, “Harnessing the potential of Grid Computing

using Grid Gain” in Proceedings of National Conference on Next Generation
Communication and Computing, 2010, NMIET, Bhubaneswar.

AWARDS AND RESEARCH DISTINCTIONS

• Invited Speaker: ”Introduction to Python”, Workshop on Python Programming,
September 8, 2021.
 • Invited Speaker: ”Multi-Agent Coordination: Soft Computing Perspective”, FDP
on Research trends in Advanced Computing, June 17, 2020.
• Invited Speaker: ”Cyber Security”, One Day National Webinar on ”Cyber Security”
, December 15, 2020.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments(IOS Press)
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Computer Science Research
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (IOS Press), Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
• Programme Committee Member of International Conference on Big Data and Cloud
Computing (ICBCC 2019)
• Programme Committee Member and reviewer of International Conference on Emerg-
ing Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2018)
• Life Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
• Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Professional Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member of Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM-ACM)
• Life Member of The Robotics Society (TROS)
• GATE Qualified at 2009 having 87.25 Percentile
• Best Paper Award received at SocProS 2017 held at IIT Bhubaneswar

CONFERENCE/SEMINAR/FDP ATTENDED
• Attended ATAL FDP program on ”Robotics Operating System” from 25.10.2021
to 29.10.2021 held at Ghousia College of Engineering, Ramanagaram, Karnataka
• Attended ATAL FDP on ”Mobile Robotics”, September 20, 2021 to September 24,
2021 held at IIT Patna.
• Attended ATAL FDP on ”Intelligent and Collaborative Robotics”, September 13,
2021 to September 17, 2021 held at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani,
Pilani Campus.
• Attended ATAL FDP on ”Internet-of-Things (IoT): From Data Acquisition to
Storage and Analysis”, 14th December 2020 to 18th December 2020 held at NIT
Meghalaya.
• Presented Poster on ”Doctoral Symposium (AIR 2017)”, July 02, 2017 held at IIT
Delhi.
• Attended ”National Conference on Cloud Computing”, January 19, 2015 to January
21, 2015 held at National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Odisha.
• Attended One Day Seminar on ”Recent Trends in Pattern Recognition and Nano
Science”, held on 6th March, 2013 at Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
REFERENCES
• Dr.Nirmal Baran Hui, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering , National
Institute of Technology Durgapur, Email: nirmal.hui@me.nitdgp.ac.in

• Dr. Diptendu Sinha Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

and Engineering , National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Email: diptendu.
sr@nitm.ac.in

• Dr. Gautam Srivastava, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Com-

puter Science, Brandon University (BU),Brandon, MB, Email: srivastavag@
brandonu.ca