Rahul Kala

Curriculum Vitae

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Work

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

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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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

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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

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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

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