Debanga Raj Neog

  Assistant Professor, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati
  Associate Faculty, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
  Programme Coordinator, National Service Scheme (NSS) Cell, IIT Guwahati

  Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

  Ph.: +91-361-258-3504 (office)
  Email: dneog[AT*]iitg.ac.in

Important

I am not accepting any internships right now except through the advertisement posted in MFSDS&AI website (https://www.iitg.ac.in/dsai/). I will not reply to any email requests.


News


2024:
  • November 16, 2024: Participated as a Special Guest in a Virtual Studio-Based live special session organized by Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan for Government School children (around 1 Lakh) in Assam.
  • November 14, 2024: Participated in an interactive session with the inaugural group of school students (mentees) hailing from Dhubri, Karbi Anglong, and Dibrugarh districts and visiting the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as part of the AROHAN scheme initiated by the Government of Assam.
  • October 24, 2024: Participated as a Guest Speaker at our World Standards Day (WSD) 2024 celebrations, scheduled for October 24, 2024, at Radisson Blu, Guwahati. This year’s theme, ‘Shared Vision for a Better World: SDG 9 - Achieving Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure through AI,’ highlights the critical role standards play in enhancing quality, safety, and innovation.
  • October 15, 2024: Participated as a Keynote Speaker in the Yuba Samaroh organized on the occasion of Zila Diwas of Morigaon District on October 15, 2024. It was an interactive program with students above Class 9 to the College level. Around 500 students from different parts of the district attended the program.
  • October 8, 2024: Participated as a jury member in the State Level Students’ Science Seminar on "Artificial Intelligence: Potentials & Concerns," organized by the National Science Centre, Guwahati (a unit of the National Council of Science Museums) under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council, Government of Assam.
  • October 6, 2024: Delivered a talk on "AI-based Human Pose Estimation and its Applications in Healthcare" as a resource person at AIIMS Guwahati during IAPMR National Mid-term CME 2024.
  • September 15, 2024: Joined as a Keynote Speaker in the event organized in the celebration of National Engineer's Day by Institution of Engineers (India), Assam State Centre.
  • August 29, 2024: Joined as a Chief Guest at the valedictory function of the 35th Regional Level National Youth Parliament, 2024, hosted by Kendriya Vidyalaya llT Guwahati.
  • August 17, 2024: Delivered a Session on Artificial Intelligence for High School Students at Cotton Collegiate Govt. H.S. School at Guwahati.
  • August 10, 2024: Delivered a talk on Computer Vision and its Applications in a Hands-on workshop on Computer Vision organized in Research and Industrial Conclave 2024 held at IIT Guwahati.
  • July 30, 2024: Delivered a talk on "AI and Healthcare" at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Assam as a part of their monthly motivational talk series.
  • July 27, 2024: Participated as a resource person and delivered a talk on "Transformers and NLP" at the recent workshop titled “Unveiling Assamese: A Journey through Language Processing” at Assam Don Bosco University.
  • June 15, 2024: The paper "Multimodal Vision-based Hand Rehabilitation and Performance Visualization" accepted at Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) 2024!
  • June 6, 2024: Delivered an online Guest Lecture on “Ethics in AI and Data Science” at Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan.
  • May 30, 2024: My MOOC "Programming with Generative AI" is released on the Coursera platform!
  • May 10, 2024: Delivered a lecture on "AI and Healthcare" at a one-day National Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence: Education and Healthcare Perspectives" organised by the Department of Computer Science, K.C Das Commerce College, Guwahati.
  • April 6, 2024: Presented a talk titled “Exploring Generative AI with GAN and Diffusion Models” as a resource person at the symposium on “Generative AI for Electronics and Communication Engineering,” which was organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University.
  • March 25, 2024: Three papers got accepted at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024), Singapore!
  • March 8, 2024: Delivered a talk on "Generative AI and its Application" in a Five-Day Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: The Future of Technology organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, at Tezpur University.
  • Feb 16, 2024: Our work "Graph Neural Network Assisted Gauss Quadrature for Isogeometric Analysis" accepted for oral presentation at the MadeAI Conference 2024 to be held in Porto, Portugal.
  • Feb 6-10, 2024: Participated as a resource person at the Workshop on Research Design held at Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, from 06 – 10 February 2024.
  • Jan 15, 2024: The NWO’s Merian Fund India has approved €1.75 million (4 Cr. for IITG) in funding for the research project (my role as Co-PI), "Lodestar" (Low-cost Disaster & Emergency Services for Communities at Risk).
  • Jan 12, 2024: A paper got accepted at Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (Impact Factor: 9.2)!

    • 2023:
  • December 22, 2023: Delivered a lecture on 'Image Processing and CNN' at the 'Professional Development Workshop' organized by MFSDS&AI,IIT Guwahati for the Royal University of Bhutan delegates.
  • December 1, 2023: In this article on Indian Express I shared why IIT aspirants should look beyond placement packages.
  • November 24, 2023: Delivered an invited talk at International Conference on Next-Gen Preparedness for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, Nov 22-24, 2023, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, on "Efficient Inferencing in Resource Constrained Devices" focused on agricultural applications.
  • November 9, 2023: Conducted an 3 hour hands-on session for the students of Royal Global University, Assam, on the topic of Image Processing using Python.
  • September 8, 2023: Participated in an interactive session with the inaugural group of school students (mentees) hailing from Nagaon and Hojai districts and visiting Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as part of the AROHAN scheme initiated by the Government of Assam.
  • September 2, 2023: Delivered an expert talk at a Skill Development Inaugural program organized by iHUB DivyaSampark, Technology Innovation Hub (A joint initiative of DST Govt. of India and IIT Roorkee) and District Administration Purnia, focused on "Emerging Technology (Cyber Physical System)" at the Art Gallery Auditorium in Purnea, Bihar.
  • August 26, 2023: Delivered a talk on the topic "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" as a Resource Person in the Regional Workshop organized by CPMS College of Nursing on the theme "Imbibe Artificial Intelligence to Empower Nursing Profession for Future Challenges".
  • July 31, 2023: A conference paper "Application of artificial neural network in impact and crashworthiness: a review" got accepted at the 2nd International Conference on Modern Research in Aerospace Engineering.
  • July 24, 2023: A Journal Paper got accepted at Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor: 8.5 (2023))!
  • July 6, 2023: Delivered a talk at York University, Canada on the topic "Generative AI and Biomedical Imaging".
  • June 26, 2023: Featured in Forbes India and shared my comments on Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Education.
  • June 24, 2023: Joined as a member of Super 20: An initiative by Kamrup District Administration and IIT Guwahati to train 20 students from Govt. Schools of the Kamrup district.
  • June 2, 2023: Appointed as the Programme Coordinator of the NSS (National Service Scheme) Cell, IIT Guwahati.
  • May 21, 2023: A paper got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Impact Factor: 5.6 (2023))!
  • May 15, 2023: Featured in News18 and shared my comments on Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Jobs.
  • May 11, 2023: Awarded Young Scientist Award 2023 by Assam Science Technology and Environment Council under Science, Technology and Climate Change Department, Government of Assam
  • April 16, 2023: Featured in LiveMint and shared our ongoing work in Generative AI.
  • April 14, 2023: Featured in EdexLive where I shared my views on ChatGPT.
  • April 12, 2023: Featured in Business Standard and shared my views on the impact of ChatGPT on Job Market.
  • April 4, 2023: Delivered a talk as a Chief Guest for the inauguration ceremony of a New Building of Little Flowers' School, Nalbari that took place at J.B. Complex, College Road, Nalbari at 11 AM on 4th April 2023.
  • March 6, 2023: Delivered an expert lecture on "Introduction to Generative Models" at G.H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Visited GHRCE satellite ground station.
  • March 4, 2023: Conducted a session on "Image Processing and AI" as a part of a Refresher Course on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, being organized by the HRDC, Gauhati University.
  • March 2, 2023: Delivered a talk on "CNN: Basics and Applications" as a part of a Short Term Course (STC) on "Foundations of Machine Learning and Deep Learning and applications" held at the department of ECE, Gauhati University.
  • February 26, 2023: A paper got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!
  • February 24, 2023: Delivered a talk on "Generative Adversarial Networks and Applications" on February 24, 2023 as a part of the Faculty Development Programme on “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things towards Engineering Applications” from 20 -25 February under the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) scheme organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Arunachal Pradesh, India.
  • February 21, 2023: Featured in Education Times and shared my views on ChatGPT.
  • January 25, 2023: Delivered a talk on "Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks" in the DS&AI Reading Group of MFSDS&AI, IITG.
  • January 11, 2023: Deivered a talk on "Introduction to Extended Reality (XR) Applications" during campus immersion of IIT Guwahati professional program on AI and DL.
  • January 6, 2023: Participated as a panelist on the India Today show Newstrack with Rahul Kanwal, where we had a discussion about ChatGPT.

    • 2022:
  • December 28, 2022: Featured in NDTV article and shared my views on Generative AI.
  • December 20, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Efficient Inference on FPGAs using Low-Precision AI Models" on December 20th, 2022 (Tuesday) in the School of Engineering, Tezpur University as a part of a workshop titled “Two Days Workshop on Embedded Machine Learning on System-on-Chip (SoC)” in association with IIT Guwahati, IIT Mandi and CoreEL Technologies, Bangalore on 20th and 21st of Dec, 2022.
  • September 28, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Fundamentals and applications of Generative Adversarial Network" in the Skill Development Inaugural cum Faculty Development Program (FDP) in "Emerging Technology (Cyber Physical System)" organized by iHUB DivyaSampark at IIT Roorkee in association with the Department of Science and Technology(DST) Bihar for the faculties of Computer Science and Information Technology of Government Engineering Colleges from 27th to 28th September 2022 at Patna, Bihar.
  • September 24, 2022: Featured in ComputerWeekly and shared my view on the future of AI in India.
  • September 21, 2022: Appointed as an Associate Faculty in the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati.
  • September 14, 2022: The journal paper "A conceptual framework for the development of Chatbots addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy" accepted.
  • September 14, 2022: Delivered two lectures on "Convolutional Neural Networks - Introduction" and "Popular CNN Architectures and Applications" at High End Workshop on Fundamentals of Deep Learning jointly organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Research for Resurgence Foundation, Nagpur.
  • September 13, 2022: Addressed New Batch of UG Students (through IIT JEE Advanced, 2022) for the Open House 2022 as an alumni of IITG (B.Tech. 2011, ECE).
  • September 8, 2022: SERB Startup Research Grant approved on "Development of an Artificial Intelligence(AI) Model to Measure and Analyse the Tissue Movements in the Eye Region for Healthcare Applications".
  • September 6, 2022: Delivered the Orientation Talk to National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers at IITG.
  • August 23, 2022: The journal paper "Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Multi-scale Residual Convolutional Neural Network (MSR-Net) Combined with Generative Adversarial Networks" accepted at the journal - Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer).
  • August 6, 2022: Delivered a talk as a guest speaker at the orientation event of SAIL (Student Alumni Interaction Linkage Cell), IIT Guwahati
  • July 22, 2022: Joined as a panelist on the theme discussion, ‘Career in Computer Science- AI, Data Science, Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking’ organized by Advancing North East (www.advancingnortheast.in) - a digital initiative of the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region(M-DoNER) and North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi).
  • June 7, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on the results of Assam's High School Leaving Certificate Examination.
  • June 2-6, 2022: Delivered 3 lectures and 3 lab sessions in a short-term training course titled "Introduction to Virtual Reality" as a part of a grant project being implemented by the DPA Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and CDAC.
  • April 2, 2022: Delivered a talk focusing on "Application of Big Data and Data Analytics in the power utilities for overcoming industry challenges through the insights-based informed decision making and enhancing consumer experience" as a Guest of Honour at Computer Science Engineers' Association of Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (CSEAA)'s 3rd Annual General Meet.
  • February 21, 2022: Delivered a talk on "Wearables and IoT" at Winter FDP on IoT & Applications (Smart Systems) held at IIT Guwahati.
  • February 19, 2022: Delivered a keynote speech as a Guest Speaker on "Augmented Reality and AI: Hype vs. Reality" at GDSC MPSTME AI Summit.
  • January, 2022: One paper accepted at WiSPNET 2022.
  • January 16, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on lower success rate of students from North East India in getting into IITs and IIMs.
  • January 9, 2022: Joined as a panelist in News18 for a panel discussion on the future of Assamese language in higher education.
  • January 3-8, 2022: Delivered 2 lectures and 1 hands-on Matlab coding session in the lecture series on Machine Learning Application in Signal Processing and Communication Engineering under Winter Joint Faculty Development Programmes 2021-2022.

    • 2021:
  • November, 2021: One paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2021.
  • November 29, 2021: Delivered a talk as a Guest Speaker on "Cyber Crime and Artificial Intelligence" on the occasion of IW Awareness Week at Air Force Station Digaru.
  • October 8, 2021: Delivered a talk on "Technical Talk on Applications of AI in Defense Technology and Object Tracking" on the occasion of IEEE Day at ITR Chandipur, DRDO in Collaboration of IEEE Communications and Computer Joint Societies Chapter.
  • September 22, 2021: Joined as a Panelist in panel discussion focusing on "Career Opportunities in Robotics, Automation, and Related Areas" in 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA)" organized by IIT Goa.

    • Bio

    Dr. Debanga Raj Neog is an assistant professor at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada, and his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He has over 14 years of experience in leading academic and industrial projects in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. He has received several awards and recognitions for his work, such as the Young Scientist Award by Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (India), the Mitacs Globalink Research Award - INRIA (Canada and France), and the Four Year Doctoral Fellowship at UBC (Canada). Before joining IIT Guwahati in September 2021, he was a co-founder of Nytilus Inc., a Toronto-based computational imaging startup for industrial applications. He has published his research work in reputed journals such as ACM Transaction on Graphics, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. Besides teaching and research, Dr. Neog has a passion for traveling, lends expertise to AI startups as an advisor, and is actively involved in social outreach activities.

    Teaching

    MOOC
  • "Programming with Generative AI" on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-with-generative-ai/).

    • 2024:
  • May-Aug: DA 112 (Introduction to R) as a core course for BSc Honors (online by IITG) program.
  • Feb-May: DA 106 (Data Science: An Introduction) as a core course for BSc Honors (online by IITG) program.
  • Jan-May: DA 526 (Image Processing with Machine Learning) as a PG course.
  • Jan-May: DA 325 (Deep Learning) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI (taught jointly).
  • Jan-May: DA 312 (Advanced Machine Learning Laboratory) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI (taught jointly).
  • July-Nov: DA 231 (Introduction to Data Science) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI.
  • July-Nov: DA 513 (Data structures and Databases Lab) as a core lab course for M. Tech. in Data Science.
  • July-Nov: DA 512H Databases as a course for M. Tech. in Data Science.

    • 2023:
  • Jan-May: DA 526 (Image Processing with Machine Learning) as a PG course.
  • Jan-May: DA 214 (Database Management Systems) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI.
  • Jan-May: DA 215 (Database Management Systems Laboratory) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI.
  • July-Nov: DA 231 (Introduction to Data Science) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI.
  • July-Nov: DA 322 (Machine Learning) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI (taught jointly).
  • July-Nov: DA 513 (Data structures and Databases Lab) as a core lab course for M. Tech. in Data Science.
  • July-Nov: DD 550 (Image Processing with Machine Learning) as a part of MDes in Electronic Product Design Program.

    • 2022:
  • Jan-May: DA 526 (Image Processing with Machine Learning) as a PG course.
  • July-Nov: DA 231 (Introduction to Data Science) as a core course for B. Tech. in Data Science and AI.
  • July-Nov: DD 550 (Image Processing with Machine Learning) as a part of MDes in Electronic Product Design Program.


    • Responsibilities (Current and Past)

  • Coordinator, "Student Science & Technology Village: The New Nalanda", India International Science Festival-2024, an initiative of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, in association with Vijnana Bharati. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research India (CSIR-India)
  • Convener, North-East NSS Convention 2024.
  • Convener, IIT Guwahati Swachhata Hi Seva 2024.
  • Faculty Advisor, Student Alumni Interaction Linkage (SAIL), IIT Guwahati, June 2024-present
  • Web Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems 2024, April 2024-present
  • Programme Coordinator, National Service Scheme Cell, IIT Guwahati, June 2023-present
  • Programme Coordinator (IIT G), Super 20 (A joint initiative between IIT Guwahati and DIstrict Administration Kamrup), June 2023-present
  • Member Secretary, NSS Institute Advisory Committee, June 2023-present
  • Member, Library Advisory Committee, Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library, IIT Guwahati, May 2023-present
  • Member, Admission Committee, 2023 (For M. Tech. in Data Science Programme)
  • Member, Interdisciplinary M. Tech. Programme Committee, 2023 (For M. Tech. in Data Science Programme)
  • Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Guwahati Sub-section Conference, GCON, 2023
  • Member of the Local Tour Organizing Committee, Yuva Sangam (युवा संगम) under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Program at IIT Guwahati, 2023
  • Member of the Organizing Committee (Finance), National Conference on Communications: NCC 2023
  • Programme Officer, National Service Scheme, IIT Guwahati, December 2021-June 2023.
  • Faculty Advisor (B. Tech. 2021), Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati, November 2021-present
  • Member, School Undergraduate Program Committee, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati, September 2021-present
  • Member, Library Advisory Committee, Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library, IIT Guwahati, October 2021-May 2023
    - Member, Ebook purchase sub-committee, October 2022-May 2023
  • Co-organizer, Short-term training course titled “Introduction to Virtual Reality” to train trainers from Argentina as a part of a grant project being implemented by the DPA Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and CDAC.
  • Member of AI Track (Technical Committee), North-East Research Conclave-2022
  • Lead Member, Panel Search Team, North East Research Conclave (NERC), IIT Guwahati, 2022

    • Research Areas

  • Machine learning and Deep Learning: Object tracking and localization, stereo reconstruction
  • Image Processing: Semantic segmentation, biomedical image processing
  • Computer Vision: Eye tracking, face tracking
  • Computer Graphics and AR/VR: Facial animation, anatomical augmented reality
  • Computational Imaging: High dynamic range imaging, polarimetry-based inspection

    • Awards/Honors

  • Young Scientist Award 2023
    Awarded by Assam Science Technology and Environment Council under Science, Technology and Climate Change Department, Government of Assam
  • Best Paper Award
    For the paper "Interactive Gaze Driven Animation of the Eye Region" in the 21st International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 2016
  • Mitacs Globalink Research Award
    Fully sponsored 4-month internship to France in collaboration with INRIA, MITACS and University of British Columbia, 2016
  • Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
    University of British Columbia, full financial support for the Ph.D. studies up to four years
  • International Tuition Award
    University of British Columbia, covered tuition fees for the entire Ph.D. studies
  • Gordon Research Trainee Fellowship
    Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements, covered registration and accommodation for the conference, 2013
  • Japanese Research Merit Award
    Inspec Inc., Japan, one time $2500 award for excellence in resaerch, 2012

    • Academic Grants

    Grant Name Year Role Amount (INR)
    The NWO’s Merian Fund India 2024 Co-PI (IITG) 400 Lakhs
    SERB Startup Research Grant (from Science and Engineering Research Board, India) 2022 PI 20 Lakhs
    Startup Research Grant (from IITG) 2022 PI 5 Lakhs
    Research Concept Grand Challenge Award (from IITG) 2022 PI 2 Lakhs

    Consultancy Projects

    Consultancy Name Year Role Project Amount (INR)
    Federated Learning Methodologies for Large Language Model with Ziroh Lab, Bangalore (ongoing) 2024-25 PI 17 Lakhs
    TPI of CIBMS (completed) 2022-23 Co-PI 55.6 Lakhs
    Revetting of RFP, Smart City Guwahati (ongoing) 2023-24 Co-PI 18.88 Lakhs
    AI Training of Working Professionals (with TimesPro, completed) 2022-23 - 3.2 Lakhs
    Project with Argentinian trainers on AR/VR under Ministry of External Affairs, DPA II Division. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India under Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) (completed) 2022 Co-PI 2.1 Lakhs

    Industrial Funding/Grants

  • The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Grant, Toronto, Canada (2020 and 2021), C$40,000
    Research and development of machine learning and deep learning-based solutions for computational imaging including high dynamic range optical systems and realtime 3D vision systems.
  • ENCQOR 5G Industrial Grant, Toronto, Canada (2020-2021), C$40,000
    Used for development of a 5G-enabled computer vision solution using Time-of-flight cameras for industrial object volume measurement, for example in shipping.
  • MITACS Internship Grant, Montreal, Canada (2019), C$5,000
    Used for development of a augmented reality solution that uses deep learning to model the environment light to generate more realistic AR contents.
  • Techstars Fund/GINCO Industries, Dubai, U.A.E. (2018), C$120,000
    Used for the development of Augmented Reality solutions to display contents to industrial workers using AR headsets.
  • Digital Attraxion Fund, Belgium. (2019), €100,000
    Used for the development of Augmented Reality solutions to display high dynamic range contents based on novel machine learning based computation imaging techniques.

    Publications

    [Google Scholar] [ResearchGate]

    Patents

  • Methods and Systems for Computer-based Skin Animation [link]
    Dinesh Pai, Duo Li, Shinjiro Sueda, Debanga Raj Neog. US Patent (US 10013792) Granted on July 3, 2018. A software based on this patent was used in the 2016 winter Hollywood box office hit "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

    • Journals

  • Application of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Finite Element Analysis: A Comprehensive Review
    D. Nath, Ankit, D. R. Neog, and S. S. Gautam, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (Accepted).
  • Efficient Hand Segmentation for Rehabilitation Tasks using a Convolution Neural Network with Attention
    H. P. J. Dutta, M. K. Bhuyan, D. R. Neog, K. F. MacDorman, R. H. Laskar, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), 2023.
  • Patient Assistance System based on Hand Gesture Recognition
    H. P. J. Dutta, M. K. Bhuyan, D. R. Neog, K. F. MacDorman, R. H. Laskar, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023.
  • A Hand Gesture Operated System for Rehabilitation using an End-to-End Detection Framework
    H. P. J. Dutta, M. K. Bhuyan, D. R. Neog, K. F. MacDorman, R. H. Laskar, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
  • A conceptual framework for the development of Chatbots addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
    Debanga Raj Neog, Ransing Ramdas, and Ramalho Rodrigo, I.P. Pavlov Russian Medical Biological Herald, 30.4 (2022): 575-580.
  • Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Multi-scale Residual Convolutional Neural Network (MSR-Net) Combined with Generative Adversarial Networks
    Kar, M. K., Neog, D. R., Nath, M. K, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 1-30
  • A Review on Progress in Semantic Image Segmentation and its Application to Medical Images [paper],
    Mithun Kumar Kar, Malaya Kumar Nath, Debanga Raj Neog, SN Computer Science, Springer, July 2021.
  • The Human Touch: Measuring Contact with Real Human Soft Tissues [project page]
    Dinesh K. Pai, Austin Rothwell, Pearson Wyder-Hodge, Alistair Wick, Ye Fan, Egor Larionov, Darcy Harrison, Debanga R. Neog, Cole Shing, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 37 (4) (SIGGRAPH), 2018.
  • Anatomical Augmented Reality with 3D Commodity Tracking and Image space Alignment [paper]
    Armelle Bauer, Debanga R. Neog, Ali-Hamadi Dicko, Dinesh K. Pai, Jocelyne Troccaz, Francois Faure, Olivier Palombi, Computers and Graphics, Elsevier, 2017.
  • Hand Pose Recognition from Monocular Images by Geometrical and Texture Analysis [paper]
    M. K. Bhuyan, Karl F. MacDorman, Mithun Kumar Kar, Debanga R. Neog, Brian C. Lovell, Prathik Gadde, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Elsevier, June, 2015.
  • Thin Skin Elastodynamics [project page]
    Duo Li, Shinjiro Sueda, Debanga R. Neog, Dinesh K. Pai, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32 (4) (SIGGRAPH), 2013.
  • Eyecatch: Simulating Visuomotor Coordination for Object Interception [project page]
    Sang Hoon Yeo, Martin Lesmana, Debanga R. Neog, Dinesh K. Pai, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31 (4) (SIGGRAPH), 2012.
  • Fingertip Detection for Hand Pose Recognition [paper]
    M. K. Bhuyan, Debanga R. Neog, Mithun Kumar Kar, International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, 4(3), 2012.

    • Conferences

  • "Multimodal Vision-based Hand Rehabilitation and Performance Visualization"
    Kamal, Debanga Raj Neog, M. K. Bhuyan, (accepted in Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) 2024).
  • "Navigating Sustainability: A Transboundary Socio-Ecological Study of The Brahmaputra River Basin"
    Gitima Das, Anamika Borua, Debanga Raj Neog, 30th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development Research in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 10-14 June 2024.
  • "Attention Classification using Multimodal Fusion of EEG and Eye Gaze Data"
    Indrani Paul Roy, Debanga Raj Neog, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024).
  • "Hand Function Assessment using Computer Vision for Hand Rehabilitation"
    Kamal, Debanga Raj Neog, H Pallab Jyoti Dutta, M. K. Bhuyan, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024).
  • "Globemetrics: A Healthcare Framework for Video Based Saccade Characterization"
    Debanga Raj Neog, Pharvesh Salman Choudhary, Mayurdeep Pathak, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024).
  • "Graph Neural Network Assisted Gauss Quadrature for Isogeometric Analysis"
    D. Nath, Ankit, D. R. Neog, and S. S. Gautam, MadeAI Conference 2024, Porto, Portugal (accepted for oral presentation).
  • Application of artificial neural network in impact and crashworthiness: a review
    D. Nath, Ankit, D. R. Neog, and S. S. Gautam, 2nd International Conference on Modern Research in Aerospace Engineering, 2023 (Accepted).
  • Two-stage Hand Gesture Recognition based on Hand Keypoints Localization
    H Pallab Jyoti Dutta, Debanga Raj Neog, M.K. Bhuyan, Mousumi Das, International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET 2022).
  • Contextual Emotion Learning Challenge [link]
    Jainendra Shukla, Puneet Gupta, Aniket Bera, Arka Sarkar, Prakhar Goel, Shubhangi Butta, Anup Kumar Gupta, Snehil Sanyal, Debanga Raj Neog, Manas Kamal Bhuyan, Kalyani Marathe, Linda Shapiro, Varchita Lalwani, 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2021).
  • Seeing Skin in Reduced Coordinates [project page]
    Debanga R. Neog, Anurag Ranjan, Dinesh K. Pai, 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2017), May, 2017.
  • Interactive Gaze Driven Animation of the Eye Region [project page]
    Debanga R. Neog, Joao L. Cardoso, Anurag Ranjan, Dinesh K. Pai, Best Paper Award, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web3D Technology, July, 2016.
  • Biomechanical Modeling and Control of Facial Muscles [link]
    Debanga R. Neog, Dinesh K. Pai, North-West Biomechanics Symposium, Vancouver, July, 2016.
  • Gaze Driven Animation of Eyes [link]
    Debanga R. Neog, Anurag Ranjan, Joao L. Cardoso, Dinesh K. Pai, Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, July, 2015.
  • Biomechanical Modeling and Measurement of Eyelid Movement [link]
    Debanga R. Neog, Dinesh K. Pai, Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movement, Boston, MA Sep, 2013.
  • Generating lambertian image with uniform reflectance for endoscope image [paper]
    Yuki Shimasaki, Yuji Iwahori, Debanga R. Neog, Robert J. Woodham, M. K. Bhuyan, International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT2013).
  • An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Approach to Multilevel Image Segmentation [paper]
    Debanga R. Neog, Muhammad Amjad Raza, Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2011), June, 2011.
  • Hand Pose Recognition using Geometric Features [paper]
    M. K. Bhuyan, Debanga R. Neog, Mithun Kumar Kar, National Conference on Communications, 2011.
  • Shape from an Endoscope Image Using Extended Fast Marching Method [paper]
    Debanga R. Neog, Yuji Iwahori, M. K. Bhuyan, Robert J. Woodham, K Kasugai, Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011.
  • A model of visuomotor coordination and submovements in three dimensional object interception
    Dinesh. K. Pai, Sang-Hoon. Yeo, Martin Lesmana, Debanga. R. Neog, Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Venice, Italy, 2012/4.

    • Book Chapter

  • Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Disaster Risk Reduction in the Agriculture Sector
    DR Neog, G Singha, S Dev, EH Prince
    Disaster Risk Reduction and Rural Resilience

    • Book

  • (Editor) Artificial Intelligence and Data Science based R&D interventions, Springer 2023
    R Bhattacharjee, DR Neog, KR Mopuri, SK Vipparthi.

    • Reviewer For:

  • Project: Core Research Grant (CRG) projects, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
  • Books: McGraw Hill Publishing company, Springer Nature (“Artificial Intelligence, Data Science based R&D interventions (AI)”).
  • Notable Journals/Conferences: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, SIGGRAPH (ACM Transaction on Graphics), Virtual Reality, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, PLOS ONE, SN Computer Science, Computers, Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, IETE Journal of Research, National Conference on Communications, EquinOCS.

    • Current Students

    Ph. D. students

    (1) Kamal Kumar (Joined IITG MFSDS&AI on Jan 2022). Jointly with Prof. M. K. Bhuyan.
    (2) Rahul Bhardwaj (Joined IITG MFSDS&AI on July 2022).
    (3) Pallapu Mohan Krishna (Joined IITG MFSDS&AI on July 2022). Jointly with Prof. M. K. Bhuyan.
    (4) Gautam Singha. (Joined IITG MFSDS&AI on July 2023).
    (5) Dipjyoti Nath (Mechanical Dept.). Jointly with Dr. Sachin Singh Gautam.
    (6) Gitima Das (HSS). Jointly with Prof. Anamika Barua.
    (7) Nishi Chaudhary (Joined IITG MFSDS&AI on July 2024). Jointly with Prof. Shyamanta Moni Hazarika.

    M. Tech. students

    (1) Akash Kashyap, Thesis: Trend Monitoring Software of Flight Data Recording Systems, Defended on 12/05/2023. (Jointly supervised with Dr. A. Rajesh, EEE, IIT Guwahati).
    (2) Suman Kumar, Thesis: Depth Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles using Monocular Vision, Defended on 18/06/2024. (Jointly supervised with Dr. Parijat Bhowmick, EEE, IIT Guwahati) (2023-2024)
    (3) Nandeesh H U (Jointly supervised with Dr. Suresh Sundaram, EEE, IIT Guwahati) (2024-2025)
    (4) Tapan Mahata (Jointly supervised with Prof. Ashok Singh Sairam, Mathematics, IIT Guwahati)

    B. Tech. students (BTP)

    (1) Azal Ahmad Khan, Chemistry Dept., IIT Guwahati (2023-2024). Joined University of Minnesota for Ph.D. from 2024.
    (2) Manaswi Yadamreddy, Engineering Physics Dept., IIT Guwahati (2024-2025)
    (3) Abhishek Gautam, Engineering Physics Dept., IIT Guwahati (2024-2025)
    (4) Katta Srikar Reddy, MFSDS&AI, IIT Guwahati (2024-2025)
    (5) Devansh Bhardwaj, MFSDS&AI, IIT Guwahati (2024-2025)

    Interns (Past and Present)

    (1) Indrani Paul Roy, Dept. of ECE, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Joining University of Pennsylvania for MS.
    (2) Priyakshi Goswami, Mathematics and Computer Science, Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Tamil Nadu, India. Joined VU Amsterdam for MS.
    (3) Aviral Goyal, Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore (VIT, Vellore), India.
    (4) Mohsin Chougale, Dept. of Information Technology, University of Mumbai. Joined Columbia University for MS.
    (5) Arsh Kandroo, Department of M&C, IIT Guwahati. Data Scientist at Microsoft.
    (6) Narmin Kauser, Department of M&C, IIT Guwahati.
    (7) Aryan Singh, MFSDS&AI, IIT Guwahati.
    (8) Anish Nethi, Mahindra University.
    (9) Soumen Sinha, Mahindra University.
    (10) Utkarsh Yashwant Tambe, SRM Institute of Science and Technology.
    (11) Abhilekh Borah, Manipal University Jaipur.
    (12) Sahil Hussain, NIT Arunachal.

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    Personal

  • I love to travel! I have visited 18 countries so far around the globe.
  • I have also hosted several meetups related to language exchange and artificial intelligence in Canada and Europe.
  • I was featured in Forbes India and Entrepreneur Middle-East magazine.


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