Faculty
Our project under guidance by :-
DR. PRIYA RANJAN
Dr.Prof Priya Ranjan. , Khurda.
Team MENTOR and MD in TEAM "SURYAAN" and technical head and advisor in "EMBESYS+"
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, March 2003 (Degree Conferred, May 2003).
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, May 1999.
B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, June 1997.
Website:- www.ijaal.in
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2011-November 2011. Director (Projects),
Engineering Divison, Human Development Foundation,
Bhubneshwar, Orissa-751017, India.
2010-2011. Full Professor and Dean (Academic),
Engineering Divison, Babu Banarasi Das University,
Lucknow, India.
2009-2010. Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT)
Kanpur, India.
2003-2009. Senior Research Scientist,
Intelligent Automation Inc. Rockville, Maryland.
2003-2009 Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Joint Appointment with Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park.
9/1997-6/2003. Research Assistant, Institute for Systems
Research, University of Maryland.
2002-Summer. Summer Intern at Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), Rockville, Maryland.
2001-Summer. Summer Intern at Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), Rockville, Maryland.
2000-Summer. Summer Intern at Digex Inc., Beltsville, Maryland.
1997-Summer. Scientist at Center for Articial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR),
Bangalore, India
1996-Summer. Paid Summer Intern at TELCO (PVT.) Limited, Jamshedpur, India
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2011-November 2011. Director (Projects),
Engineering Divison, Human Development Foundation,
Bhubneshwar, Orissa-751017, India.
2010-2011. Full Professor and Dean (Academic),
Engineering Divison, Babu Banarasi Das University,
Lucknow, India.
2009-2010. Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT)
Kanpur, India.
2003-2009. Senior Research Scientist,
Intelligent Automation Inc. Rockville, Maryland.
2003-2009 Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Joint Appointment with Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park.
9/1997-6/2003. Research Assistant, Institute for Systems
Research, University of Maryland.
2002-Summer. Summer Intern at Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), Rockville, Maryland.
2001-Summer. Summer Intern at Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), Rockville, Maryland.
2000-Summer. Summer Intern at Digex Inc., Beltsville, Maryland.
1997-Summer. Scientist at Center for Articial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR),
Bangalore, India
1996-Summer. Paid Summer Intern at TELCO (PVT.) Limited, Jamshedpur, India
Grants and Contracts
[1] Principal Investigator, Universal programmable and a ordable power technologies for
underwater vehicles Phase-I, Six months NAVY SBIR grant, 2009, Phase-II in 2009 .
[2] Principal Investigator, A Swarm Intelligence Based Approach to Secure, Scalable and
Robust Design for Survivable Networking, Phase I-Six months ARMY SBIR grant,
2007, Phase-II $750k awarded in Aug 2008 .
[3] Principal Investigator, A Mixed Initiative Approach to Human-Robot Interaction,
Phase I-Six months DARPA SBIR grant, 2006-2007, Phase-II $750k awarded in Feb,
2008.
[4] Principal Investigator, Computing a Semantic View of a Scene for Surveillance from
Stereo and Discreet LIDAR, Phase I-Six months Army SBIR grant. ($75k joint with
Prof. Carlos Tomasi from Duke University), 2005-2006.
[5] Co-Investigator, DDDAS-TMRP: Data-Driven Power System Operations, CNS-05-
0540216, 01/1/2006-12/31/2008, National Science Foundation ($320,000), Played an
important role in proposal conceptualization and preparation. The grant supports my
time associated with my position at the University of Maryland.
[6] Full funding support to attend \Swarming by Nature and by Design" at Institute for
Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) , Spring 2006.
[7] Full funding grant to attend Quantum Control Summer School, Caltech, 2005.
[8] Full funding support to attend the summer school at Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics (IPAM) on \Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High
Dimensional Data", 2005.
[9] Full funding support to attend the \IMA 2005 Summer Program: Wireless Commu-
nications", 2005.
[10] Student Researcher and Co-Investigator, ITR: Nonlinear Dynamics-Based Robust
Congestion Control, ANI-02-19162, 10/1/2002-9/30/2005, National Science Founda-
tion ($447,408), Provided signicant research support to my Ph.D. advisor Prof. E.H.
Abed in proposal preparation.
[11] Full funding grant to present my paper at IEEE INFOCOM, NY, 2002.
[12] Full funding grant to present my paper AACC American Control Conference, Alaska,
2002.
[13] Full funding grant to present my work at Mini-Workshop on Internet Congestion
Control organized as a part of a workshop on \Large-Scale Communication Networks:
Topology, Routing, Trac, and Control" by Institute for Pure and Applied Mathe-
matics (IPAM), Los Angeles, March 2002.
[14] National Talent Search Examination - NTSE (1991) Scholar
[15] Bihar Merit Scholarship (1991)
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He is a great mentor and innovative person and one of the main person behind TEAM SURYAAN success.
A great social worker and thinker.
MR. AVINASH PAL
