National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Samit Ari joined the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, as a faculty member in 2009, where he presently holds the position of professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He also serves as Associate Dean, SRICCE (Sponsored Research, Industrial Consultancy and Continuing Education). Previously, he also served several administrative positions, like Associate Dean, Academic (Undergraduate) from July 2022 to June 2025 Prof.-in-Charge and Coordinator, Accreditation and Ranking Cell from July 2020 to June 2023 and Vice-President, Student Activity Centre (Games and Sports) from July 2018 to June 2020. He is the Prof.-in-Charge of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Laboratory and head of this laboratory research group. Prof. Ari is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was also Associate Editor of IET Image Processing Journal during 2019-2022. He served as guest editor of the International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering – special issue, 2014. He has already published more than 130 research articles, including IEEE transactions, Elsevier journals, etc. and his Google Scholar h-index is 29 with 2800+ citations. His two patents were granted and also another two patents are published in the domain of machine intelligence, signal and image processing. He was awarded as Young Faculty Research Fellow under the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics & IT, MeitY, for the year of 2015-16 and got recognition from ICMR and National Innovation Foundation India for innovation and contribution in the field of science and technology in the year of 2015. He received SERB Start up Research grant for Young Scientists, 2012. He received several best paper awards in different conferences, namely IEEE-ICCECE-2020, ICMACC-2022 and ICSTSN 2023, etc.

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Signal Processing
Areas of Interest
  • Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Image Processing.

Samit Ari
সমিত আড়ি Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering

samit@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2464

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP)

129

PUBLICATIONS

7

SPONSORED PROJECTS

19

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

4

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Samit Ari

Professor

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Room Number: EC-227

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2009

Ph.D.
Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

Teaching Experience
  • Signal Processing, Image Processing, Soft Computing, Machine Intelligence,  Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Rourkela,   02 Jul 2009 - Present

Consortium of Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture, Health , Energy and Environment Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • Co-Investigator
  • 60
  • Running   Sponsored
Unauthorized person detection and location monitoring using thermal imaging and Gait recognition. SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of a Brain Controlled Robotic wheel chair for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient. Media Lab Asia,DEITY
  • Principal Investigator
  • 60
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of Advanced holter monitor with extended recording and episode detection IMPRINT India and IIT Kharagpur
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of a hand Gesture based interface system for Remote Controlled Surveillance Mobile Robot. DRDO
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Automatic Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmias using Electrocardiographic Signal SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of a Data Acquisition system for OTOMELERA naval gun. DRDO
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

J. P. Sahoo and S. Ari,"GCROM: A System for Surveillance Mobile Robot Control using Vision based Static Hand Gesture Recognition",IN 563253, Granted to NIT Rourkela, 2025       << Patent >>

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Total Publications: 129
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D. K. Ghosh and S. Ari,"On an algorithm for vision-based hand gesture recognition", Signal, Image and Video Processing, vol.10, no.4, pp.655-662, Springer 2016, 10.1007/s11760-015-0790-4       Article

S. Ari, S. K. Behera, and U. C. Pati,"Editorial: special issue on electronic systems – part III", International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, vol.7, no.1, pp.1-2, Inderscience 2014       Article

G. K. Sahoo, S. Ari, and S. K. Patra,"Performance evaluation of ECG compression techniques", in 2015 IEEE International Conference Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), pp.1-5, IEEE, J P Nagar, Arasampalayam Coimbatore Tamil Nadu, March 2015, 10.1109/ICECCT.2015.7226202       Inproceedings

G. K. Sahoo, S. Ari, and S. K. Patra,"ECG signal analysis for detection of cardiovascular abnormalities and ischemic episodes", in 2013 IEEE sponsored Conference on Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), pp.1055-1059, IEEE, Thuckalay, Tamil Nadu, April 2013, 10.1109/CICT.2013.6558254       Inproceedings

S. Ari, S. K. Behera, and U. C. Pati,"Editorial", International Journal of Signal &Imaging Systems Engineering;Special Issue on Electronic Systems III, vol.7, no.1, pp.1-2 2014       Misc

One-day Training Program on Machine Learning Techniques and its Applications Electronics and Communication Engineering (Short-term Course)
Machine Learning Techniques for Signal & Image Processing Applications Electronics and Communication Engineering (Workshop)
Machine Learning Techniques for Signal & Image Processing Applications Electronics and Communication Engineering (Short-term Course)
Short Term Course on Soft computing tools & practice on image processing application Electronics and Communication Engineering (Short-term Course)

  • CS241 : Analog Electronics {Theory}
  • EC100 : Basic Electronics Engineering {Theory}
  • EC1000 : Basic Electronics Engineering {Theory}
  • EC201 : Analog Electronics {Theory}
  • EC2610 : Fundamentals of Signals and Systems {Theory}
  • EC311 : Analog Communication Systems {Theory}
  • EC340 : Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing {Theory}
  • EC341 : Digital Signal Processing {Theory}
  • EC3602 : Digital Image Processing {Theory}
  • EC3606 : Introduction to Machine Intelligence {Theory}
  • EC440 : Soft Computing Techniques {Theory}
  • EC444 : Soft Computing {Theory}
  • EC644 : Soft Computing {Theory}
  • EC655 : Transform Domain Signal Processing {Theory}
  • EC656 : Data Compression {Theory}
  • EC6604 : Machine Intelligence {Theory}
  • EC6609 : Soft Computing {Theory}
  • EE243 : Analog Electronics {Theory}
  • EC270 : Basic Electronics Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC2700 : Basic Electronics Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC273 : Circuit Simulation Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC367 : Product Development Laboratory – I {Practical}
  • EC373 : Analog Communication Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC4701 : Soft Computing Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC472 : Image Processing Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC476 : Bio-Medical Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC665 : Signal Processing Application Laboratory (MATLAB,C) {Practical}
  • EC6674 : Machine Intelligence Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC6677 : Soft Computing Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC674 : Soft Computing Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [16]
Deep Learning Techniques for Automated Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy Grading
Madarapu Sandeep
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Graduated :  Aug 2025
Supervisor
Systematic Extraction and Outburst Susceptibility Assessment of Glacier Lakes using Satellite Images
Jagadeesh Thati
Enrolled: Jul 2018
Graduated :  Sep 2025
Supervisor
Detection of Ocean Eddies using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Shaik John Saida
Enrolled: Jul 2018
Graduated :  Jan 2024
Supervisor
Patient-Specific ECG Beat Classification using Deep Learning Techniques
Allam Jaya Prakash
Enrolled: Jul 2017
Graduated :  Jan 2024
Supervisor
Subject Independent Vision based Hand Gesture Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks
Jaya Prakash Sahoo
Enrolled: Oct 2016
Graduated :  May 2023
Supervisor
Human Action Recognition based on Analysis of Video Sequences
Suraj Prakash Sahoo
Enrolled: Jul 2015
Graduated :  Jun 2021
Supervisor
Analysis of Electroencephalogram Signal for P300 based Brain-Computer Interface Speller
Sourav Kundu
Enrolled: Jul 2014
Graduated :  Oct 2020
Supervisor
Unsupervised Techniques for Change Detection in Multispectral Images
Neha Gupta
Enrolled: Jul 2014
Graduated :  Dec 2019
Supervisor
Variable Length FFT/IFFT Processor: Algorithm to Architecture Mapping and Implementation
Govinda Rao Locharla
Enrolled: Jul 2013
Graduated :  Apr 2018
Co-Supervisor
A Framework for Vision-based Static Hand Gesture Recognition
Dipak Kumar Ghosh
Enrolled: Jul 2010
Graduated :  Oct 2016
Supervisor
BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Manab Kumar Das
Enrolled: Jul 2010
Graduated :  May 2015
Supervisor
Deep Learning Techniques for Medical Image Analysis
Dipankar Roy
Enrolled: Jul 2025
Continuing
Supervisor
ML based ASIC design for biomedical devices
Samanway Ghosh
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Computer Vision
Arka Bairagi
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
VLSI AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Soumyashree Mangaraj
Enrolled: Jul 2022
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
SIGNAL & IMAGE PROCESSING
Mohammad Iman Junaid
Enrolled: Sep 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [3]
Image Analysis using Deep Learning Techniques
Ashutosh Mohanty
Enrolled: Jul 2025
Continuing
Supervisor
Deep Learning Techniques on Image Processing Application
Manda Sreevalli
Enrolled: Jul 2025
Continuing
Supervisor
Machine learning Techniques and Implementations
Revathi Pogiri
Enrolled: Sep 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
M.Tech by Research Students [1]
SIGNAL PROCEESING AND PATTERN RECOGNISATION
Goutam Kumar Sahoo
Graduated :  Aug 2015
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Associate Editor, IET Image Processing Journal,   2019
  • Young Faculty Research Fellowship award, Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT, Deity for year 2015-16.,   2016
  • Received SERB start up Research grant for Young scientists,   2012
Memberships / Fellowships
  • IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society,   2010

  • Associate Dean (Sponsored Research)