Curriculum Vitae

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Work

Assistant Professor,
Robotics,
Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India
(2014-present)

Scholarships and Awards

  • One of the four finalists in the Professional Category at the Study UK Alumni Awards, organized by the British Council.
  • First Prize in Best PhD Dissertation award by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society worth USD $1,000. Awarded at the 2014 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference at Qingdao, China.
  • Commonwealth 2010 (UK) scholarship for pursuing PhD at the University of Reading, UK, approximately worth £71,000.
  • Travel grant for attending 2017 World Congress in Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, June 8-13, 2018 (sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India) worth Rs. 2,28,815.
  • Travel grant for attending 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 3-7, 2012 (sponsored by University of Reading and Commonwealth Scholarship) worth £800.
  • Researcher of the Year from the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK a competition for 3rd year PhD students; nominated for the award at the university level, did not win.
  • Lord of the Code scholarship (1st prize) from RedHat and Ekalavya, KReSIT, IIT Bombay worth Rs. 2 lacs (as a team).
  • GATE scholarship for pursuing MTech worth Rs. 80,000.
  • As an undergraduate student, numerous awards in software, programming and related contests.

Funded Projects

  • Mission Planning using Sampling based Techniques as Principle Investigator from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for Rs. 39,28,766. [2016-continue]
  • Medical Cyber Physical System for lifestyle diseases using Big Data Analytics as Co- Principle Investigator from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for Rs. 19,12,250. [2018-continue].
  • Towards Socialistic Navigation of Robots and Virtual Robotic Agents as Principle Investigator from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad for Rs. 10,00,000. [2017-continue].
  • Self-Learning Maps for Self-Driving Cars for Urban Scenarios as Principle Investigator from NavAjna Technologies Pvt.Ltd. for Rs. 12,81,600. [2019-continue].
  • SLAM for Extreme Weather Conditions as Principle Investigator from NavAjna Technologies Pvt.Ltd. for Rs. 11,95,200. [2018-continue].
  • New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Department of Science and Technology and NSTEDB, Government of India as Coordinator for Rs. 2,87,50,000 [2018-continue].
  • Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs as coordinator from Ministry of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, Government of India for Rs. 1,55,00,000.

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Education

PhD in Cybernetics,
Thesis: Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles
School of Cybernetics, School of Systems Engineering,
University of Reading, UK
 
(2010-2013)
BTech (IT) + MTech (IT) (5-year Integrated)
Thesis: Robotic Path Planning using Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Techniques
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India
 
(2005-2010)
All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII)
Maheshwari Public School, Jaipur
Central Board of Secondary Education, India
 
(2005)
All India Senior School Examination (Class X)
St. Paul’s School, Gwalior
Central Board of Senior Secondary Education, India
(2003)

Areas of Research

  • Mission Planning for mobile robots
  • Robot Motion Planning
  • Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Hybrid Soft Computing
  • Pattern Recognition and Classification

Selected Publications

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Books

Video Lectures

Journals (SCI)

Journals (Others)

Conferences

Book Chapters

Nationals

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4

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27

33

37

3

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109

 

Authored Books

  • R. Kala (2016) On-Road Intelligent Vehicles: Motion Planning for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier, Waltham, MA.
  • R. Tiwari, A. Shukla, R. Kala (2013) Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics:Algorithmic Approaches, IGI Global Publishers,Hershey, PA.
  • A. Shukla, R. Tiwari, R. Kala (2010) Real Life Applications of Soft Computing, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  • A. Shukla, R. Tiwari, R. Kala (2010) Towards Hybrid and Adaptive Computing: A Perspective, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.

Video Lectures

  • R. Kala (2010) Video Lecture of Soft Computing (39 Hour Video Lecture Series), Soft Computing and Expert System Laboratory, IIITM Gwalior, India. Available at: http://rkala.in/softcomputingvideos.php
  • R. Kala (2013) Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles (14 videos/13 hours Video Lecture Series), School of Cybernetics, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK. Available at: http://rkala.in/autonomousvehiclesvideos.php

International Journals - SCI

  • R. Kala (2019) Robot Mission Planning using Co-evolutionary Optimization, Robotica, DOI: 10.1017/S026357471900081X
  • R. Kala (2019) On sampling inside obstacles for boosted sampling of narrow corridors, Computational Intelligence 35(2): 430-447.
  • SMH Jafri, R. Kala (2019) Motion Planning for an Outdoor Mobile Robot on a Probabilistic Costmap, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Accepted, To Appear.
  • S.S. Paliwal, R. Kala (2018) Maximum clearance rapid motion planning algorithm. Robotica 36(6): 882-903 (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2018) Routing-based navigation of dense mobile robots. Intelligent Service Robotics 11(1): 25–39. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2018) On repelling robotic trajectories: coordination in navigation of multiple mobile robots. Intelligent Service Robotics 11(1): 79–95. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2016) Homotopic Roadmap Generation for Robot Motion Planning, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 82(3): 555–575. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2016) Reaching destination on time with cooperative intelligent transportation systems, Advanced Transportation 50(2): 214–227. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2016) Homotopy conscious roadmap construction by fast sampling of narrow corridors, Applied Intelligence, 45(4): 1089-1102. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2015) Congestion Avoidance in City Traffic. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 49(4): 581–595. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2015) Intelligent Transportation System with Diverse Semi-Autonomous Vehicles, International Journal of Computational Intelligent Systems, 8(5): 886-899. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2014) Computing Journey Start Times with Recurrent Traffic Conditions. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 8(8): 681 – 687. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2014) Dynamic Distributed Lanes: Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles. Applied Intelligence, 41(1): 260-281. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2014) Navigating Multiple Mobile Robots without Direct Communication. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 29(8): 767–786. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2014) Heuristic based evolution for the coordination of autonomous vehicles in the absence of speed lanes. Applied Soft Computing, 19: 387–402 (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2014) Coordination in Navigation of Multiple Mobile Robots. Cybernetics and Systems, 45(1): 1-24. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2013) Planning Autonomous Vehicles in the Absence of Speed Lanes using an Elastic Strip. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(4): 1743-1752. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2013) Multi-Level Planning for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles in Traffic Scenarios based on Separation Maximization. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 72(3-4): 559-590. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2013) Rapidly-exploring Random Graphs: Motion Planning of Multiple Mobile Robots. Advanced Robotics, 27(14): 1113-1122. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, K. Warwick (2013) Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles in a Non-Autonomous Vehicle Environment without Speed Lanes. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 26(5-6): 1588–1601. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2013) Multi-Robot Motion Planning using Hybrid MNHS and Genetic Algorithms. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 27(3): 170-198. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala (2012) Multi-Robot Path Planning using Co-Evolutionary Genetic Programming. Expert Systems With Applications, 39(3): 3817-3831. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, A. Shukla, R. Tiwari (2011) Robotic path planning in static environment using hierarchical multi-neuron heuristic search and probability based fitness. Neurocomputing, 74(14-15): 2314-2335. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, A. Shukla, R. Tiwari (2011) Robotic Path Planning using Evolutionary Momentum based Exploration. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 23(4): 469-495. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, A. Shukla, R. Tiwari (2010) Dynamic Environment Robot Path Planning using Hierarchical Evolutionary Algorithms. Cybernetics and Systems, 41(6): 435-454. (Download Paper)
  • R. Kala, A. Shukla, R. Tiwari (2010) Fusion of probabilistic A* algorithm and fuzzy inference system for robotic path planning. Artificial Intelligence Review, 33(4): 275-306. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)
  • R. Kala, A. Shukla, R. Tiwari (2009) Self-Adaptive Parallel Processing Neural Networks with irregular Nodal Processing Powers using Hierarchical Partitioning. Neural Network World, 19(6): 657-680. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)

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Impact

Citations: 1379
h-index: 20
i10-index: 37

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Courses Taken

  • Artificial Intelligence for 3rd year undergraduate IT students
  • Robot Motion Planning for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students
  • Artificial Life Simulations for first year postgraduate students
  • Humanoid Robotics for postgraduate students
  • Robotics and Industrial Automation for final year undergraduate and post-graduate students
  • Computational Intelligence for postgraduate students
  • Data Structures for 1st year undergraduate students
  • Object Oriented Methodologies for 2nd year undergraduate students
  • Principles of Programming Languages for 2nd year undergraduate students

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Research Supervision

  Completed Ongoing
PhD - 6
MTech 25 1

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Review Assignments and Program Committees

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Lectures and Invited Talks

  • IEEE CIS Summer School at IIIT Allahabad, “High Rate/High Definition Data in Self-driving Cars” (11th August, 2019)
  • Universitas Budi Luhur, Jakarta, “Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Robotics” and “Autonomous Vehicles” (17th-19th July, 2019)
  • Global Academy of Technology Bangalore, “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Robotics” (1st­­­3rd July, 2019)
  • Mercedez Benz Research and Development India, Bangalore, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (14th March, 2019)
  • JK Institute Allahabad, “Leveraging the power of Machine Learning in Robotics” (25th February, 2019)
  • Vignan University, “Robot Motion Planning” (17th December, 2018)
  • Universitas Budi Luhur, Jakarta (online) “Some buzzwords for Machine Learning in the medical domain” and “Machine Learning in Robotics” (18-19th October, 2018)
  • Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow, “Artificial Intelligence Problems in Railways” (5th October, 2018)
  • Quantum University Roorkee, “Mobile Robotics: From School Projects to Real Life” (21st September, 2018)
  • IIIT Naya Raipur, “Making more out of your robotics school projects”, (9th February, 2018)
  • NIT Raipur, “Motion Planning in Robotics”, (9th February, 2018)

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Major Workshops/Conferences Attended

  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June 2019.
  • IEEE Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Brisbane, Australia, 16-19 May 2018.
  • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8-13, 2018.
  • Path Planning and Navigation for Robotics under GIAN, IIT Delhi, 3rd – 8th January, 2018.
  • Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths (JENESYS) program at different places in Japan from 24th September to 4th October, 2016.
  • 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 24-29, 2016.
  • 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Qingdao, China, October 8-11, 2014.

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Administrative Responsibilities

  • Coordinator, Incubation (2017 – continue)
  • Member, Department Under Graduate Committee (2015-continue)
  • Advisor, Technical Council, Student Gymkhana (2015-continue)
  • Warden, Boys Hostel III (2017 - 2018)
  • Member, Network Committee (2016-2017)
  • Treasurer, Robotics and Automation Society, UP Section Chapter (2015-2019)

Workshops/Events Organized

  • E-summit, 8-10 March, 2019, IIIT Allahabad
  • E-summit, 15-18 March, 2018, IIIT Allahabad
  • Robotics to Rural – Innovation Teaching and Research Approaches, 28th October, 2017, IIIT Allahabad.
  • First SERB Summer School on Robotics, 7-13 June, 2014 held at IIIT Allahabad, sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
  • Communication Connect, 27-28 October, 2017, IIIT Allahabad

Contact

Office:
Room No. 2203, Computer Centre - 1,
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad,
Devghat, Jhalwa,
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh - 211015,
INDIA

Residence:
H-5, Residential Quarters,
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad,
Devghat, Jhalwa,
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh - 211015,
INDIA

Phones  
Office +91 532 292 2117
Residence +91 532 292 2685
Mobile +91 7054 292 063
   
Skype rkala001
Emails rkala001@gmail.com
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Dr. Rahul Kala
Assistant Professor,
IIIT Allahabad,

Phone: +91 532 299 2117
Mobile: +91 7054 292 063
E-mail: rkala@iiita.ac.in, rkala001@gmail.com