Prof Shakti Kundu

Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

Prof (Dr) Shakti Kundu is with the Computer Science and Engineering area at NIIT University. He has more than 17 years of teaching experience during which he has guided three PhD candidates. His research interest is in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Data Science & Big Data Analytics, Web Data Mining and Agile Software Development. He has been invited to deliver talks at various international conferences and has published several research articles in reputed journals and conferences. Moreover, he has authored three books on Software Engineering and Digital Marketing. He also serves as member of review board of various peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Qualification

Experience

Courses Taught

Agile development & Software Engineering
Big Data Analytics
Computer Organization & Architecture
Data Mining and Warehousing
Data Communications & Computer Networks
Operating Systems
OOPs & C++
CISCO Packet Tracer

Research Area(s)

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, with a focus on human activity recognition, generative artificial intelligence, natural language processing and agentic artificial intelligence.
Agile Software Development, with a focus on agile project management in diverse domains, scaling agile practices, integration with user experience, and adapting agile methods to regulated environments.
Web Data Mining, with a focus on information retrieval, sentiment analysis and data analytics.

Consulting Area

Selected Publications

Shakti Kundu, et al., “Optimized Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm enabled DETR (DEtection TRansformer) model for skin disease classification”, PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science US, May 2025, 01-33.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “ML Computational Inference Techniques and Indicator Metrics for Analyzing Uncertainties in Stock Market Data”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Netherlands, February 2025, pp. 01-21.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Deep Learning-Based Urban Energy Forecasting Model for Residential Building Energy Efficiency”, Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Sage Publications Inc. US, May 2024, Vol. 42(5), pp. 1799-1828.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Analyzing Physical Activity Impact based on Ubiquitous Nonlinear Dynamics and Electroencephalography Data”, Technology and Health Care, IOS press Netherlands, May 2024, Vol. 32(03), pp. 1301-1312.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Measuring Network Security in the Cloud: A Roadmap for Proactive Defense”, Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography, April 2024, Vol. 27 (2024), No. 2-B, pp. 889-902.

Publications

Research Papers

Shakti Kundu, et al., “Optimized Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm enabled DETR (DEtection TRansformer) model for skin disease classification”, PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science US, May 2025, 01-33.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “ML Computational Inference Techniques and Indicator Metrics for Analyzing Uncertainties in Stock Market Data”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Netherlands, February 2025, pp. 01-21.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Deep Learning-Based Urban Energy Forecasting Model for Residential Building Energy Efficiency”, Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Sage Publications Inc. US, May 2024, Vol. 42(5), pp. 1799-1828.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Analyzing Physical Activity Impact based on Ubiquitous Nonlinear Dynamics and Electroencephalography Data”, Technology and Health Care, IOS press Netherlands, May 2024, Vol. 32(03), pp. 1301-1312.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Measuring Network Security in the Cloud: A Roadmap for Proactive Defense”, Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography, April 2024, Vol. 27 (2024), No. 2-B, pp. 889-902.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Estimating Computer Network Security Scenarios with Association Rules”, Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography, April 2024, Vol. 27 (2024), No. 2-A, pp. 223-236.

Conference Papers

Shakti Kundu, et. al., “A Hybrid Method for Named Entity Recognition in Kumauni Language using Machine Learning”, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2023), Volume 2 organized by Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India on August 11th -13th, 2023. Published in Springer - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, volume 994, pp. 89-107, July 2024.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “An overview of Stemming and Lemmatization Techniques”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Networks, Intelligence and Computing (ICONIC 2023) organized by School of Computer Applications, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India on April 28th - 29th, 2023. Published in “Advances in Networks, Intelligence and Computing" Book, Taylor & Francis, CRC press, Chapter 31, pp. 308-321, April 2024.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Artificial Intelligent Approach for Colorful Image Colorization using a DCNN”, in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN-2022) organized by Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia on December 04th – 06th, 2022, pp. 54-58.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “An HAR-11 Net Model for Human Action Recognition Using Deep Learning Techniques”, in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN-2022) organized by Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia on December 04th – 06th, 2022, pp. 561-565.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Application of Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing”, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on System Modelling & Advancement on Research Trends (SMART) organized by Faculty of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Teerthanker Mahaveeer University, Moradabad, UP, India on December 10th - 11th, 2021, pp. 489-492.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “The Impact of Feature Extraction on Multi-Source Sentiment Analysis”, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on System Modelling & Advancement on Research Trends (SMART) organized by Faculty of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Teerthanker Mahaveeer University, Moradabad, UP, India on December 10th - 11th, 2021, pp. 510-515.
Shakti Kundu, et. al., “Generation of Donor List from Internet Based Shopping using Machine Learning Approach”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computing, Networks & Renewable Energy (CNRE-2021) organized by IKG PTU Kapurthala, Punjab, India on August 05th - 07th, 2021, pp. 08-11.

Authored Book(s)

Shakti Kundu. (2024). ‘Modern Software Engineering Guidebook’, first edition, BPB Publications India, pp 01-338, July 2024. (ISBN: 978-93-55519-801 / e-ISBN: 9789355517296 / A SIN: B0D9NBSJLV)
Shakti Kundu. (2021). ‘Digital Marketing Trends and Prospects’, first edition, BPB Publications India, pp 01-166. January 2021. (ISBN: 978-93-8989-858-3 / e-ISBN: 978-93-8989-858-4)
Shakti Kundu. et al (2020). ‘Software Engineering: A Systematic Approach”, Lulu Publication, 3101 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27607, United States, pp 01-85, July 2020. (ISBN: 978-1-71603-172-4)

Patents

Application Number: 202111012621
Patent Title / Title of Invention: Aquatic Life Saving Device
Field of Invention: Computer Science
Applicant Name(s): Dr. R.K. Dwivedi, Ms. Hina Hashmi, Mr. Abhilash Kr Saxena, Mr. Jyoti, Dr. Shakti Kundu, Ms. Neeraj Kumari
Date of Filing: 24-March-2021
Publication Date: 21-May-2021

Application Number: 202111012609
Patent Title / Title of Invention: Anti Drowning Life Saving System
Field of Invention: Electronics
Applicant Name(s): Dr. R.K. Dwivedi, Dr. Ashendra. Dr. Arpit Jain, Dr. Shakti Kundu, Mr. Gaurav Kr Rajput, Mr. Pradeep Kr Shah
Date of Filing: 24-March-2021
Publication Date: 21-May-2021

Application Number: 17146631
Patent Title / Title of Invention: Automatic Fuel Energy Generated Car
Applicant Name(s): Arpit Jain, Vineet Tirth, Ali Algahtani, Dr. Shakti Kundu, S.B. Chordiya, Yogesh Mohanrao Nigade, Abhijit Prakash Bhujbal, Dhanke Jyoti Atul, Beg Raj, B.K. Sarkar
Date of Filing: 12-January-2021
Publication Date: 13-May-2021
US Patent Publication Number: US 2021/0143724 A1

Application Number: 202011029594
Patent Title / Title of Invention: ACS-System: Advance Customer Service System using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Programming
Field of Invention: Electronics
Applicant Name(s): Dr. Shakti Kundu, Dr. Puja Shrivastava, Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Dr. Sangeetha G, Dr. Manoj Kumar Pandey, Mr. Sachin Sudam Shinde
Date of Filing: 13-July-2020
Publication Date: 28-August-2020

Application Number: 202011031626
Patent Title / Title of Invention: Social Media Sentiments Calculus: Profile Based Mapping Social Media Sentiments Calculus using Cloud Computing, Deep Learning Programming
Field of Invention: Computer Science
Applicant Name(s): Dr. Manish Saraswat, Dr. Shakti Kundu, Dr. Vivek Mehrotra, Dr. Shiva Durga, Mr. Ch. Rayala VinodKumar, Dr. Jyothi Mandala
Date of Filing: 23-July-2020
Publication Date: 28-August-2020

Consultancy

Awards & Recognition

Received “Certificate of Appreciation - 2024” as a judge for “The Annual Inter School International Tech Fest 2024 – Ninth Edition” in the theme “Web Coders / Web Designing” event held at St. Mark’s Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi on 10th December 2024.
Received “Research Excellence Award - 2023” during MUJ Excellence Awards organized by department of HR, Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ) on 18th September 2023.
Received “Academic Excellence Award - 2022” during MUJ Excellence Awards organized by department of HR, Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ) on 11th October 2022.

Professional Activities & Achievements

International & National Invited Talk:

As a keynote speaker, delivered a technical session on “Agentic Artificial Intelligence” in IEEE Scopus indexed - 13th International Conference on “System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART-2024)” organized by the College of Computing Sciences & Information Technology (CCSIT) from 06th - 07th December 2024 at Teerthanker Mahaveer University (TMU), Moradabad, UP, India.
As a distinguished speaker, delivered a session on “AI and Data-Driven Decision Making for Institutional Leaders” in the 5 Days Faculty Development Program on "Leveraging AI to Transform Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" organized by the Association of Indian Universities - Vivekananda Global University - Academic and Administrative Development Centre at Jaipur from 18th to 22nd November 2024 at Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, India.
As a Keynote Speaker, delivered a technical session on the topic "Latest Trends and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence" at ICACEBD-2024, G H Raisoni Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India on 15th - 16th March, 2024.
As a Resource Person, delivered a technical session on the topic “The Next Generation Big Data Analytics w.r.t Industry 4.0” in a One-week Workshop on “Emerging Technologies in Big Data Analytics using HADOOP” organized by the Department of Computer Science, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 21st - 25th August, 2023.
As a Keynote Speaker, delivered a technical session on the topic “The exploration of AI & ML based Intelligent Systems” in the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Research Trends (ICRT-2023) organized by Roorkee Institute of Technology (RIT), Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India on 03rd - 04th February, 2023.
As an Invited Speaker, delivered a technical session on the topic "A perspective of Big Data Analytics: Current Trends and Subsequent Directions" at DST-GOI sponsored 2 weeks FDP on “Emerging Technologies”, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed to be University), New Delhi, India on 12th August, 2022.
As a Keynote Speaker, delivered a technical session on the topic "Recent Trends and Future Directions in Big Data Analytics" at ICAIBDA-2022, G H Raisoni Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India on 10th June, 2022.
As a Keynote Speaker, delivered a technical session on the topic "Journey with Software Engineering: Global Market Perspective" at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh on 13th June, 2020.
As a Key / Special Invitee, delivered guest lecture on "Software Development Trends for Industry 4.0" organized by Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (PSIT), Kanpur, India on 05th September, 2020.

Reviewer Board Member of International Journal(s):

IEEE Access
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Frontiers in Medicine
PLOS ONE
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, Wiley
Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Sage
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIMS), Springer, Netherlands
Discovery Applied Sciences, Springer Nature
Smart Science, Taylor and Francis
International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), IGI Global
IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer Society
International Journal of Engineering & Technology (IJET), SPC, UAE
Computer Applications in Engineering Education (CAE), Wiley, USA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences
Asia Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, Thailand

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