Umesh Chandra Pati

Umesh C. Pati is a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. He has obtained his B.Tech. Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. He received both M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Instrumentation and Image Processing, respectively, from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He has also served as Head, Career Development Center, NIT Rourkela for three years. His current areas of interest are Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Automation, Instrumentation Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision, and Medical Imaging. He has authored/edited two books and published more than 100 articles in the peer-reviewed international journals as well as conference proceedings. Dr. Pati has filed 2 Indian patents. He has served as a reviewer in a wide range of reputed international journals and conferences. He also has guest-edited special issues of Cognitive Neurodynamics and the International Journal of Signal and Imaging System Engineering. He has delivered many Keynote/Invited talks in India as well as abroad. He has visited countries like the USA, Italy, Austria, Singapore, Mauritius, etc., in connection with research collaboration and paper presentation. He was also an academic visitor to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University, USA, and the Institute for Automation, University of Leoben, Austria. He is a Senior member of IEEE, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and life member of various professional bodies like MIR Labs (USA), The Indian Society for Technical Education, Instrument Society of India, Computer Society of India, and Odisha Bigyan Academy. His biography has been included in the 32nd edition of MARQUIS Who’s Who in the World 2015.

Publications

YOLO-IP: An Efficient and Robust Deep Learning Framework to Detect Insect Pests for Agricultural Applications
Rashmiranjan Nayak, Prashant Dwivedi, Umesh Chandra Pati. © 2023. 26 pages.
The food security of any country may be jeopardized due to improper management of agricultural insect pests. Accurate pest detection and efficient pest control strategies must be...
A Deep Learning-Based Vector Autoregressive-Gated Recurrent Unit Hybrid Model for Long-Term Forecasting of Weather Parameters for Smart Farms
Naba Krushna Sabat, Rashmiranjan Nayak, Umesh Chandra Pati, Santos Kumar Das. © 2023. 25 pages.
Agriculture is inextricably linked to the environment. Climate change has an effect directly on agricultural activities. India gets severely impacted if there is a loss of...
Water Quality Time-Series Modeling and Forecasting Techniques
Rashmiranjan Nayak, Mogarala Tejoyadav, Prajnyajit Mohanty, Umesh Chandra Pati. © 2022. 24 pages.
Water pollution is a global problem. In developing countries like India, water pollution is growing exponentially due to faster unsustainable industrial developments and poor...