Deepak Kumar

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of technology, Roorkee. I have joined the Ph.D. in Dec, 2021 under supervision of Prof. Balasubramanian Raman. Before joining Ph.D., I have completed my master’s degree from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad.

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News

• Feb 2025: Selected for Six months Research Internship at SAMSUNG Research Institute Bangalore (SRI-B), India.
• Dec 2024: Received travel Grant to attend The Fifth Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML) hosted by the BITS Pilani Goa Campus from December 21-23, 2024.
• Dec 2024: Became a reviewer of the IEEE 6^th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks, CINE 2024.
• Nov 2024: Became a reviewer of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters journal.
• Aug 2024: A paper titled 'Towards Engagement Prediction: A Cross-Modality Dual-Pipeline Approach using Visual and Audio Features' got accepted at The 32^nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'24) 28 Oct-01 Nov 2024, Melbourne, Australia.
• Aug 2024: A paper titled 'Fusing Multimodal Streams for Improved Group Emotion Recognition in Videos' got accepted at the 27^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), Dec 01-05, 2024, Kolkata, INDIA.
• June 2024: Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024 for an innovative research proposal.
• June 2024: A paper titled 'All Signals Point to Personality: A Dual-Pipeline LSTM-Attention and Symbolic Dynamics Framework for Predicting Personality Traits from Bioelectrical Signals' got accepted in the Elsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal.
• June 2024: Became a reviewer of the 9^th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2024).
• April 2024: A paper titled 'Neuro-Emotional Mapping of Human Emotions via EEG Signals' got accepted at the 18^th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 27-31 May 2024 SDKM, ITU Campus, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Mar 2024: I spearheaded the "Syntax" team in the "Brain Responses to Emotional Avatars Challenge" during the 18^th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024), and secured the 2nd position.
• Mar 2024: A paper titled 'Integrating Physiological Signals with Dynamical Attention Networks for Personality Trait Analysis' got accepted at the 33^rd International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2024) Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan.
• Feb 2024: Became a reviewer of the 33^rd International Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN) Conference 2024.
• Jan 2024: Completed six months of work studentship at Deloitte, India.
• Dec 2023: Played a role as a volunteer at the 14^th The Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) conference 2023 from 15 - 17 December at IIT Ropar, India.
• July 2023: Selected for a Six-months work-studentship program at Deloitte, India.
• Dec 2022: A paper titled 'Speech-based Automatic Prediction of Interview Traits' got accepted at The 7^th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2022), VNIT Nagpur, India.
• Dec 2021: Started pursuing Ph.D. at Machine Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab, IIT Roorkee advised by Prof. Balasubramanian Raman.

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Education

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Work Experience

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Research Interests

• Affective Computing and Cognitive Science
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Multimodal Information Analysis
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

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Publications

Journal

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Deepak Kumar, Pradeep Singh and Balasubramanian Raman, "All Signals Point to Personality: A Dual-Pipeline LSTM-Attention and Symbolic Dynamics Framework for Predicting Personality Traits from Bioelectrical Signals" Elsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control(BSPC) Journal. [SCI, Q1, IF=5.1]

Conferences

 

1.			Deepak Kumar, Surbhi Madan, Pradeep Singh, Abhinav Dhall, and Balasubramanian Raman, "Towards Engagement Prediction: A Cross-Modality Dual-Pipeline Approach using Visual and Audio Features", 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'24) 28 Oct-01 Nov 2024, Melbourne, Australia. [CORE A* | ERA A]
2.			Deepak Kumar, Piyush Dhamdhere and Balasubramanian Raman, "Fusing Multimodal Streams for Improved Group Emotion Recognition in Videos", 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), December 01-05, 2024, Kolkata, INDIA. [CORE B | Qualis A1 Accepted]
3.			Deepak Kumar, Pradeep Singh, Ashutosh Kumar, Sutirtha Ghosh and Balasubramanian Raman. "Neuro-Emotional Mapping of Human Emotions via EEG Signals" 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 27-31 May 2024 SDKM, ITU Campus, Istanbul, Turkey. [CORE B | Qualis A1]
4.			Deepak Kumar, Pradeep Singh, Richa, Kishore Babu Nampalle and Balasubramanian Raman. "Integrating Physiological Signals with Dynamical Attention Networks for Personality Trait Analysis" International Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN 2024). [CORE B | Qualis A2]
5.			Deepak Kumar and Balasubramanian Raman. "Speech-based Automatic Prediction of Interview Traits." 7th IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP 2022). [IAPR Endorsed ]
6.			Surbhi Madan, Deepak Kumar and Anamika Agnihotri. "Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor." 2018 International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART 2018).

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Achievements

• GATE qualified in 2013, 2014, 2015.
• UGC-NET qualified in Dec 2015, November 2017, July 2018.

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Professional Membership

• Student member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• Professional member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Associate member of IEI ( The Institution of Engineers (India) )

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Contact

Room No: S-208, South Wing, ECE Building
Machine Vision Lab
Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Mail ID: d_kumar@cs.iitr.ac.in