Department of Artificial Intelligence
Visiting Faculty Members
Prof. Nabendu Chaki
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Brief Bio: Prof. Nabendu Chaki is a professor in the department of CSE department at University of Calcutta. He has authored 08 books, more than 250 Scopus Indexed journals, 07 international patents, and several conference papers in reputed avenues. He is also a senior member of IEEE, life member of Computer Society of India, life member of Indian Science Congress, and is the Founding Chair, ACM Professional Chair, Kolkata since January 24, 2014.
Research Expertise: Distributed Systems, Formal Methods, Systems Engineering and Security
Prof. Jagdish Chand Bansal
South Asian University, New Delhi
Brief Bio: Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is a Professor at South Asian University, New Delhi , and a visiting professor at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, UK. He also holds a visiting professorship at NIT Goa, India. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published over 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences.
Research Expertise: Swarm Intelligence, Soft Computing, Optimization, Computational Intelligence
Prof. Naresh Kumar Nagwani
NIT, Raipur
Brief Bio: Prof. Naresh Kumar Nagwani is currently a professor and Associate Dean Academics (UG) at NIT, Raipur. He has published 100+ Papers in International Journals and Conferences. 9 students have completed their PhD under his guidance. He has completed 3 research projects.
Research Expertise: Data Mining, Graph Mining, Fuzzy Logic, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, NLP, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Methodologies, Quantum Theory
Dr. Arun Mishra
DIAT, Pune
Brief Bio: Dr. Arun Mishra is currently the head of CSE department and an associate professor at Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune. He has authored 90+ publications in reputed journals and conferences. He has been part of several research projects.
Research Expertise: Cryptography, Blockchain Technology, Seure Software Engineering, Post Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Theory, Cyber Security
Dr. Dilip Singh Sisodia
NIT, Raipur
Brief Bio: Dr. Dilip Singh Sisodia is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Raipur, with over 23 years of academic and research experience. His work focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Biomedical Data Processing, with applications in recommender systems, anomaly detection, and healthcare. He has published 150+ research papers, edited six books, holds three patents, and led six funded projects from premier agencies like ISRO, DST-SERB, and DRDO. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022–2025), Dr. Sisodia has supervised eight Ph.D. scholars and received multiple awards for excellence in research, teaching, and innovation, including the Chhattisgarh Best HEI Teachers’ Award (2025), Best Researcher Award (2024), and Excellent Teacher Award (2023).
Research Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing, Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Image/Signal Processing,Theoretical Computer Science
Dr. Raghunath Tewari
IIT, Kanpur
Brief Bio: Dr. Raghunath Tewari is currently an associate professor in the CSE department at IIT Kanpur. He completed his MS and PhD at University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA. He has authored 20+ impactful journals and conference papers. He is also a recipient of the INSPIRE Faculty Award by the Department of Science and Technology, India.
Research Expertise: Theory of Computation, Complexity Theory, Graph Theory