CURRICULAM VITAE

NAME : Dr. RAJESH KUMAR

PRESENT DESIGNATION : Head Computer Centre,

Associate Professor in School of Mathematics

and Computer Applications

AREA OF SPECIALISATION : Software Engineering,

& AREA(S) OF INTEREST Pattern Recognition, Fracture Mechanics

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Degree / University/Board / Subjects / Division / Year / Marks
M.Sc.(Post-Graduation) / Univ. of Roorkee, Roorkee
(Now IT-Roorkee) / Applied Mathematics / FIRST / 1988 / 68.93%
Master of Philosophy / Univ. of Roorkee Roorkee
(Now IT-Roorkee) / Computer Applications / FIRST / 1990 / 67.7%
Ph. D. (Doctorate) / Univ. of Roorkee Roorkee
(Now IT-Roorkee) / Applied Mathematics / --- / 1995 / ---

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS:

1.  Awarded Gold Medal and received National scholarship being topper at graduation level.

2.  Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers) in the year 1989 & 1991.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 13.5 Years (Graduate and Post Graduate Level)

S.No. / Employer / Post Held / To / From / Total Period
1. / Punjabi Univ., Patiala / Lecturer / 08-01-1996 / 05-09-97 / 1 Yr and 8 Months
2. / Thapar Inst. of Engg. & Tech., Patiala / Lecturer & Sr. Lecturer / 05-09-97 / 24-11-2003 / 6 Yrs. and 2 Months
3. / Thapar Inst. of Engg. & Tech., Patiala / Assistant Professor / 25-11-2003 / 26-05-2009 / 5 Yrs. and 6 Months
4. / Thapar University , Patiala / Associate Professor / 27-05-2009 / Till date / ---

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE : Programming Languages and Packages

C and C++, FORTRAN, dBase 3 PLUS,

MS-office, Mathematica etc.

Operating System: DOS, Windows2000/XP, Linux

Research Paper Published In International Journals:

1.  Bhargava, R.R. and Rajesh Kumar “ Dugdale Model Solution for an Infinite Plate with a Circular Arc Crack”, Engng. Frac. Mech., Vol. 46, No. 2, pp: 265-273, 1993.

2.  Bhargava , R.R. and Rajesh Kumar “ Two Equal Symmetric Circular Arc Cracks in an Elastic Medium – The Dugdale Approach”, Journal of Engineering Mathematics Vol. 34, pp: 359-368, 1998.

3. Vijay Kumar Banga, Yaduvir Singh, Rajesh Kumar “Simulation Of Robotic Arm Using Genetic Algorithm& A H P ”, International Journal of intelligent Technology Vol. 2 , Number 2, pp: 93-98, 2007.

4. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “Complexity Measures for Software Components”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 6, Issue 7, pp: 1005-1012, July 2007

5. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “Managing Component-Based Systems With Reusable Components”, International Journal of Computer Science and Security (IJCSS), Malaysia, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp: 60-65, August 2007.

6. Avadhesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover, “An Evaluation of Maintainability of Aspect-Oriented Systems: a Practical Approach”, International Journal of Computer Science and Security, Vol -1, Issue-2, pp: 1-9, August 2007.

7. P S Grover, Rajesh Kumar, Arun Sharma “ Few Useful Considerations for Maintaining Software Components and Component-Based Systems, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 32, Issue 4, pp: 1-5, September 2007.

8. Anuj Sharma, R. K. Sharma, Rajesh Kumar “Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Strokes Preprocessing”, International Journal of Machine GRAPHICS and VISION, vol. 18 , No. 1 , pp: 105-120, 2009.

9.  Vijay Kumar Banga, Yaduvir Singh, Rajesh Kumar “Robotic ARM Movement Optimization and Trijectory Planning Using genetic Algorithm”, International Journal of Soft Computing Application, Vol. 3, pp: 69-76, 2008.

10.  Vijay Kumar Banga, Yaduvir Singh, Rajesh Kumar “ Uncertainty Compensation and optimization of three and four degree of freedom robotics system using genetic algorithm” , AMSE ( An International Journal) , Vol 7, Issue 1, pp: 70-77, 2008.

11.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “Estimation of Quality for Software Components – an Empirical Approach “ ACM SIGSOFT: Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 33, Issue 6, pp 1-10, November 2008.

12.  P.S.Grover, Rajesh Kumar, Avadhesh Kumar “ Measuring Changeability for Generic Aspect-Oriented Systems ", published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 33, Issue 6, pp: 1-5, November 2008.

13.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “ Empirical Evaluation and Validation of Interface Complexity Metrics for Software Components” International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 18, Issue 7, pp: 519-531, November 2008.

14.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P. S. Grover, Reusability Assessment for Software Components, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp: 1-6, March 2009.

15.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P. S. Grover, Dependency Analysis for Component-Based Software Systems, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp: 1-5, May 2009.

16. Avadhesh Kumar, P.S. Grover, Rajesh Kumar, “ Generalised Coupling Measures for

Aspect - Oriented Systems” ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp: 1-6, May 2009.

17.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P. S. Grover, “Fuzzy-Logic Based Approach to Measure Maintainability of Component-Based Systems” (Communicated to International Journal)************

18.  Anuj Sharma, R. Kumar and R.K. Sharma, “Recognizing Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Characters using Comparison of Small Line Segments", International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 131-135, June 2009.

19.  Avadhesh Kumar, P.S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar, “A Quantitative Evaluation of Aspect-

Oriented Software Quality Model (AOSQUAMO)”, accepted for publication in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 34, Issue 5, September 2009.

20. Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover and Avadhesh Kumar “A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Measure Complexity of Generic Aspect-Oriented Systems”, accepted for publication in Journal of Object Technology (JOT), May/June 2010.

Research Paper Published in National Journals:

21. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover "Investigation of Reusability, Complexity and Customizability Metrics for Component Based Systems" ICFAI Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 3, June 2006.

22. Avadhesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover, “A Comparative Study of Aspect-Oriented Methodology with Module-Oriented and Object-Oriented Methodologies”, ICFAI Journal of Information Technology, Vol 4, pp: 7-15, December 2006

23. Anuj Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, R. K. Sharma “ Preparing data to recognize online handwritten characters using HMM” published in PRAGYAN IT , pp: 7-14, June 2008.

Research Paper presented/ accepted in International Conference/Seminar/Symposia:

1.  Bhargava , R.R. and Rajesh Kumar, “ Modified Dugdale Model Solution for a Matrix with a Circular Arc Crack” accepted at 2nd European Solid Mechanics Conference(EUROMECH) Genoa, Italy 1994.

2.  Bhargava , R.R. and Rajesh Kumar, “ Arrest of Opening of Two Circular Arc Cracks Weakening a Plate by Variable Load Distribution” presented and published in the proceedings of Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics held at Beijing, China from Sept. 5-10, 2004.

3. Arun Sharma, P.S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar “Measuring the Complexity Metrics for Component Based Systems” Published in Proceedings of AISECT2004- An international Conference on ICT in Education and development held at Bhopal from Dec.17-18, 2004.

4. Avadhesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover, “A Change Impact Assessment in Aspect-Oriented Software Systems”, published in proceedings of International Software Engineering Conference, Russia (SECR-2006), pp-83-87, December 2006.

5. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “A Critical Survey of Reusability Aspects for Component-Based Systems”, presented and published in the proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE’07) at Bangkok, Thailand from 29-31 Jan 2007.

6. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “ Empirical Evaluation and Critical Review of Complexity Metrics for Software Components”, published in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Corfu Island, Greece, February 16-19, 2007.

7. Avadhesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover "Towards a Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Aspect-Oriented Systems", presented and published in the IEEE proceeding of 19th Australian Software Engineering conference (ASWEC 2008) held at Perth, Western Australia, from March 26-28, 2008.

8. Anuj Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, R. K. Sharma “Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Character Recognition Using Elastic Matching”, published in IEEE Proceedings of International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP) 2008, held at Sanya, Hainan, China , pp 391-395, May 27 - 30 , 2008.

9. Anuj Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, R. K. Sharma “ HMM in Segmentation of Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Words Recognition” published in Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Information System, Technology and Management (CISTM 2008) held at Delhi, India ,pp: 26(1-11), July 31-August 02, 2008.

10. Avadhesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, P.S. Grover, “Towards a Unified Framework for Complexity Measurement in Aspect-Oriented Systems” , International Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (CSSE 2008), Wuhan, China, pp.98-103, December 12-14, 2008.

11. Anuj Sharma, R. Kumar and R.K. Sharma, “Rearrangement of Strokes in Recognition of Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Words", published in IEEE Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2009) held at Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1241-1245, July 26-29, 2009.

Research Paper presented/ accepted in National Conference/Seminar/Symposia :

12. Bhargava , R.R. and Rajesh Kumar “ Dugdale Plastic Zone Closure by Variable Load Distribution for Two Circular Arc Cracks”, presented at Conference on Mathematics for Industrial Development held at Institute of Basic Sciences, Agra from March 21-24,1994.

13. Rajesh Kumar and Bhargava R.R. “ Closure Model for Two Equal Symmtrically Situated Arc Cracks – A Modified Dugdale Approach” presented at National conference on Mathematical and Statistical Techniques held at S.B.A.Sc, TIET Patiala from Dec. 6-8, 2001.

14. Manish Joshi, Arun Sharma and Rajesh Kumar "Globally LAN: WLAN" Published in Proceeding of National Conference on Issues and Trends in Wireless Networks (IT-Wins2004) organized by Computer Center, Thapar Institute of Engg. and Technology, Patiala held on 17-18 December 2004.

15. Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P S Grover “Classification of Metrics for Component Based Systems”, published in Proceedings of National Conference (FACM’05) at Thapar Institute of Engg. and Technology, Patiala, March 04-05 , 2005.

16.  Anuj Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, R. K. Sharma “On The Recognition of Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Characters”, published in the proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-08) held at Jadavpur University , Kolkata , pp: 42-45, February 7-9, 2008.

17.  Arun Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, P. S. Grover, Trackability Aspects for Component-Based Systems, in INDIACom-2008: 2nd National Conference: Computing for Nation Development, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management, New Delhi, pp: 734-735, February 15-16, 2008.

18.  Anuj Sharma, R. Kumar and R.K. Sharma, “Development of Online Handwritten Character Recognizer", published in Proceedings of 3rd National Conference on methods and models in Computing (NCM2C-2008), JNU, New Delhi, pp. 82-89. December 2008.

19.  Rajesh Kumar and Vineet Khera “UML based effort estimation” published in Proceedings of National Conference “NCANIT-09” held at Guru Jhambeshwar University, Hisar, pp: 537-542, March 24-25 , 2009.

20. Rajesh Kumar and Vineet Khera “Development issues in component based systems” published in National Conference “ETSNT’09” held at Amity University, Noida, pp: 169-174, April 17-18 , 2009.

Workshops /Congress /Conferences/ Short Term Courses Organized:

1.  Organized National Conference on “ Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics” from March 04-05, 2005. There were 62 registrations and 6 experts from IIT’s and other Institutions of repute.

2. Organised a “WDP Workshop on ORACLE” from June 07 to June 29, 2007 for Faculty, Students and Employees of the Thapar University at Computer Centre, TU, Patiala.

3. Organised a workshop on “Java Learning Program” from Dec. 22, 2008 to Jan. 3, 2009 for Faculty, Students and Employees of the Thapar University at Computer Centre, TU, Patiala.

Workshops /Congress /Conferences/ Short Term Courses Attended:

1. 37th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics held at G.B.Pant University of Agriculture and Technology.

2.  First Annual Conference of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics held at University of Roorkee, Roorkee from Feb. 4-7,1993.

3.  One day Seminar on Emerging Areas Of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology held at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology on Dec. 12, 2000.

4.  Indo-US Workshop on Problems in Elastic Vibrations, Smart Structures and their Solution Technologies held at University of Roorkee, Roorkee from Jan. 2-4, 2001.

5.  Short-term course of two weeks duration entitled “ Internet, Web & E-commerce” sponsored by AICTE-ISTE held at Computer science and Engg. Dept., TIET, Patiala from June 18-29, 2001.

6.  National Conference on Mathematical and Statistical techniques, TIET, Patiala,

Dec. 6-8, 2001.

7.  Workshop on Indian Language OCR held at University of Hydrabad, Hydrabad from Feb. 1-3, 2002.

8.  5th Punjab Science Congress on Science and Technology in New Millennium held at Thapar Institute of Engg. And Tech. Patiala, Punjab from Feb. 7-9, 2002.

9.  Short-term course of two weeks duration entitled “ Modern Mathematical Techniques in Computer Science, Communication and IT” sponsored by AICTE-ISTE held at Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur from May 20-31, 2002.

10.  Workshop on MT/MAT Benchmarking and Evaluation in Indian Context held at IIT Kanpur on August 24, 2002 (Half Day ).

11.  National Conference on Mathematical and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at TIET, Patiala from Jan. 27-28, 2003.

12.  Workshop on Machine Translation Evaluation System held at TDIL division MoIT, New Delhi from Sept. 22-23, 2003.

13.  National Workshop on UNICODE organized by MoIT in New Delhi from Sept. 24-26, 2003.

14.  AnglaBharti Mission Workshop on Design of Machine Aided Translation Systems for Translation to English to All Indian languages based on AnglaBharti Technology held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from March 29,2004 to March 31, 2004.

15.  Faculty Development Programme held at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad from October 22 -26, 2005.

16.  Attended one day workshop on” Writing self Instruction Material” on July 29, 2006 at TIET, Patiala organized by Department of Distance Education, TIET, Patiala.

17.  Attended Two day workshop on “ Introduction to Graphs and geometric Algorithms” held from Jan. 22-24, 2009 at BITS Pilani.

Ph.D Thesis Supervision :

S. No. / Title of Thesis / Status / Area
1. / Online Handwritten Gurmukhi Character Recognition / Submitted on 18-02-2009 / Pattern Recognition
2. / Design and Analysis of Metrics
for Component-Based Software Systems / Submitted on 09-03-2009 / Software Engineering
3. / Performance Improvement in Robotic Arm Movement Using Fuzzy and Genetic Algorithm. / About to submit / Robotics
4. / Analysis and Design of Metrics for Aspect Oriented Systems. / In Progress / Software Engineering
5. / Efficient Load Balancing Algorithms for Parallel & Distributed Systems / In Progress / Netwoking

M.E./M.Sc. Thesis Supervision :