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Dr. Rahul Kala

Associate Professor

Email: rkala@iiitm.ac.in

Experience: 9 years

Address:

A - Block Room No. 118, ABV-IIITM, Morena Link Road, Gwalior-474015 (M.P.)

Personal Web Page: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-5028

Dr. Rahul Kala

Biography

Rahul Kala received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Information Technology from the ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK in 2013. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India in the Centre for Intelligent Robotics from 2014-2023. He is the author of five books and over 130 papers. He has numerous funded projects from Government agencies and industry to his name. He is a recipient of the Early Career Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is a recipient of the Best PhD dissertation award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society; and a scholarship under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Program from the UK Government.

Others Details

 

Number of PhD Students Graduated: 04 (since joining)

Number of M. Tech. Graduated: 06 (since joining)

Number of Publications: 03 (Journals since joining), 05 (Conferences since joining), h-index: 27, i10 index: 67

Number of Projects: 02

Academic Qualifications

 

Degree

Year

Subject

University/Institution

PhD

2013

Cybernetics, Systems Engineering

University of Reading, UK

5-year Integrated BTech and MTech

2010

Information Technology

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

Research Interests

 

Robot Motion Planning, Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles

Selected Publications

 

  1. V. Malviya, R. Kala, Navigation with a Cooperative Social Robot for a Group of Visitors using Face Detection and a ‘Stop and Wait’ Scheme, Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, Vol. 82, October 2023, pp. 1009-1021.
  2. V. Paturkar, R. Yadav, R. Kala, Sequential visual place recognition using semantically-enhanced features, 2024, Multimedia Tools and Applications 83 (17), 50477-50491.
  3. HS Pruthi, R Singh, R Kala, GC Nandi, Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Focused on Socially Interactive Scenarios, 2024, In: 2024 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bengaluru, India, pp 1-5.
  4. S. Yenamandra et al., Towards open-world mobile manipulation in homes: Lessons from the neurips 2023 homerobot open vocabulary mobile manipulation challenge, In: Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: Competition Track.
  5. H. S. Pruthi, R. Singh, R. Kala, G.C. Nandi, Trajectory Prediction Modeled by Bimodal Bivariate Distribution, In: 2024 IEEE 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Prayagraj, India, pp 1-6.
  6. R. Gupta, S. Kant, S. Singh, R. Kala, G.C. Nandi, Integrated Batching, Pick Sequencing and Robot Assignment for Robotic Warehouse Automation, In: 2024 IEEE 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Prayagraj, India, pp 1-6.
  7. R. Chaudhary, N. K. Sharma, R. Kala, S. N. Singh, Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Speed Predictor for Distributionally Robust Eco-driving, IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 13904-13918.
  8. A. Malviya, V. D. Tripathi, R. Kala, V. Malviya, Behaviour Conditioned Interactive Synthetic Dataset for Indoor Scenarios, In: Advances in Robotics, Jodhpur, India.

Research Lab(s)

 

Center for Autonomous Systems, Multimedia and Computer Vision Laboratory

Competitive Grant(s)

 

Sl

Grant (Project/ Consultancy)

Funding Agency

PI/Co-PI

1

Behavior-Conditioned Safety-Aware Synthetic Scenario Generation for the Indian traffic

IHub Data, IIIT Hyderabad

PI

2

Turning “Tragedy of the Commons (ToC)” into “Emergent Cooperative Behavior (ECB)” for Automated Vehicles at Intersections with Meta-Learning

DST-NSF

Co-PI

Faculty Development / Management Development / Workshops / Conferences

 

SN

Title

Period

Sponsoring Organization

Venue

From

To

1.

Workshop on Robotics and Autonomous Systems

14th October 2023

14th October 2023

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

2.

Emerging Topics of Computer Vision and Multimedia

19 April 2024

20 April 2024

TIIC, ABV-IIITM Gwalior

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

3

Emerging Technologies and Challenges in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

24 May 2024

25 May 2024

TIIC, ABV-IIITM Gwalior

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

4.

Workshop on Generative AI and Human Robot Interactions

16 February 2024

18 February 2024

IHFC, TIH, IIT Delhi

IIIT Allahabad

5.

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Applications

21st February, 2025

23rd February, 2025

IEEE

ABV-IIITM Gwalior

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