M.Tech in Information Technology from Tezpur University
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Tezpur University
Experience
Worked as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the MHRD sponsored Centre of Excellence under FAST Project entitled “Machine Learning Research and big Data Analysis” in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at Tezpur University from September 2016 to July 2017.
Career Highlights & Awards:
Obtained certificate of Merit in the Jigyas Talent Search Examination (JTSE) in Class V, Class VII and Class VIII.
Secured Silver Certificate in the Technothlon’10 Preliminary exam conducted by the Technical Board, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2010.
Received “Anundoram Borooah Award Certificate” from the Education (Secondary) Department, Government of Assam in 2010.
Secured 9th rank in Praveshika Examination 2007 and Qualified Praveen Examination in 2011 in Hindi organized by the Assam Rastrabhasha Prachar Samittee, Guwahati.
Qualified All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) in 2012 in All India level.
Secured First position in March Past Competition in the XVIII Annual Meet 2013-2014 at Tezpur University.
Secured Second position in Debate competition in Techxetra 2014 at Tezpur University.
Qualified for Assistant Professor in the CBSE-UGC NET July 2018
Received Ministry of Human Resource Development Assistantship from the Government of India during July 2019 - December 2023 while pursuing PhD from National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam.
Industrial Training/Workshops:
Participated in the one-week training program on Motivation of Youth for inspiring Rural reconstruction organized by the National Service Scheme Tezpur University in association with National Council of Rural Institutes on 2nd March 2014.
Attended one-week Faculty Development Program on Cyber Security organized by Faculty Development Centre in Cyber Security and Data Sciences hosted by Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam conducted by FDC PMMMNMTT during 14th October - 19th October 2019.
Participated and volunteered in the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications (BigDML 2019) held during 16-19 December 2019 organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.
Participated in the webinar on the topic “Artificial Intelligence: A Skill Needed in 2022 and Beyond ” organized by the Department of CSE, School of Engineering and Technology and School of Computing Sciences, the Assam Kaziranga University on 30th July 2020.
Participated in 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications (BigDML 2021) held during 19-20, December 2021 organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.
Attended two-weeks Faculty Development Program on “Machine Learning and Computer Vision” jointly organized by electronics and ICT Academics at IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, MNIT Jaipur, MNIT Patna and PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur during February 1-12 2021 under the scheme of Financial Assistance for setting up of Electronics and ICT academics of the Ministry of Academics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
Participated in the SERB-KARYASHALA sponsored one-week High End Workshop on Explainable AI: Theoretical Insights and Engineering Applications organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam from 3rd - 9th July 2023.
Participated in the SERB Sponsored One Week High End Workshop (Karyashala) on Hands-On Training on Computational Intelligence for Health informatics and Wearable Device Data Analysis (Under the Aggregate Vigyan Scheme) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam from 24th -30th July 2023
Publication and Books
Journal Publications:
Prarthana Dutta, Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, “DigiNet: Prediction of Assamese handwritten Digits using Convolutional Neural Network”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and experience, 2021. [SCIE]
International Conference Publications:
Prarthana Dutta and Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, “Optical Character Recognition and Text Line Recognition of Handwritten Documents: A Survey”, in: World Conference in Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications (WCAIAA23) [SCOPUS]
Prarthana Dutta and Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, “Datasets in OCR for handwriting Recog[1] nition: A Survey”, in 2023 4th International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (I3CS), pp. 1-8, IEEE, 2023. [SCOPUS]
Prarthana Dutta and Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, “Explaining Machine Learning Predictions: A Case Study”, in 2022 Trends in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering Conference (TEECCON), pp. 72-77, IEEE, 2022. [SCOPUS]
Prarthana Dutta and Naresh Babu Muppalaneni, “A Survey on Image Segmentation for Handwriting Recognition”, in: Third International Conference on Image Processing and Capsule Networks: ICIPCN 2022, pp. 491-506, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. [SCOPUS]
Book Chapter:
Prarthana Dutta, Naresh Babu Muppalaneni and Ripon Patgiri “A survey on explainability in artificial intelligence”, in Handbook of Research on Advances in Data Analytics and Complex Communication Networks 2022., pp. 55-75, IGI global.
Reviewer at the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (ICICSA 2023), organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India during September 22-23, 2023.
Reviewer at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (ICICSA 2022), organized In-person and Online (Hybrid mode) by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India during September 23-24, 2022.
