Biswajit R Bhowmik

Date of Joining at NITK:

Monday, December 2, 2019

Length of Professional Experience:

9 Years.

Contact Details

E-mail:

brb [AT] nitk [DOT] edu [DOT] in

b [DOT] bhowmik [AT] iitg [DOT] ac [DOT] in

biswajitbhowmik [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Telephone:

+91-824-247-3164

+91-824-247-3044

Personal Website:

https://sites.google.com/view/biswajitrbhowmik

Author Identifiers

Academic Background

Ph.D.: Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2018.
M.Tech: Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, 2010.
B.Tech (Hons.): Information Technology, Vidyasagar University Midnapore, 2004.

Areas of Interest

Specific Area: Network-on-Chip (NoC) – 2D, 3D, Wireless, and Photonic.
Broad Area: Testing and Fault-Tolerance, Hardware Security, Formal Verification, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Expanded Area: Computer Systems and Architecture, Computational Geometry, Machine Learning, and Distributed Systems.

Professional Experience

Serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Duration: December 2019 – Till Date.
Served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur. Duration: January 2019 – November 2019.
Served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kurnool. Duration: July 2018 – January 2019.
Served as a Project Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on the project entitled “Online Testing of Complex VLSI Circuits using Failure Detection and Diagnosis Theory of Discrete Event Systems” sponsored by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India. Duration: August 2016 – February 2017.
Served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Bengal College of Engineering & Technology Durgapur. Duration: December 2010 – July 2011.
Served as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Bengal College of Engineering & Technology Durgapur. Duration: January 2008 – November 2010.
Served as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Bengal College of Engineering & Technology Durgapur. Duration: January 2005 – December 2007.

Significant Projects

1. Project Title: Logical Correctness for Batteryless Internet of Things.
Research Area: Internet of Things and Formal Verification
Principal Investigator: Dr. Biswajit R Bhowmik
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board under Start-up Research Grant (SERB-SRG) Scheme, Bharat Sarkar.
Budget: 20,01,090 INR
Duration: Two Years [2022-2024]
Project Staff: One JRF

Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing : 3

Institute Research Scholars are selected through Ph.D. Admission Process held Twice in a Year normally for July and December sessions.

Besides, I am looking for a couple of

Interns in a 2-3 month duration. Candidates must have good knowledge in a Programming Language like C, C++, Verilog/VHDL.
Final Year B.Tech (CSE, ECE), M.Tech (CSE, ECE), BCA, MCA, BSc (CS), MSc (CS) students who wish to continue Final Year Project in my areas of interest and enrolled at an institute/university near to the NIT Karnataka.
Ph.D. students who would like to enroll (or already enrolled) at an institute/university other than NIT Karnataka and continue research works in my areas of interest in collaboration with a Supervisor at the home institution.

Significant Publications

Books

Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, and Jatindra Kumar Deka, “VLSI Design, Verification, and Testing”, First Edition. [Under Self-Revision].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “Design & Analysis of Algorithms”, Second Edition, Katson Publisher, ISBN: 978–93–5014–135–9, 2012, Pages: 475.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “Design & Analysis of Algorithms”, First Edition, Katson Publisher, ISBN: 978–93–5014–135–9, 2011, Pages: 275.

Monographs

Biswajit R Bhowmik, “Minimization of Congestion Control in Single Traffic Wireless Mobile Networks – A Priority-Based Hard Handoff Management Scheme”, First Edition, Lambert Academic Publishing, Europe. [Under Review].

Journals [Selected]

Biswajit R Bhowmik, Pallabi Hazarika, Prachi Kale, Sajal Jain, "AI Technology For NoC Performance Evaluation", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS II) (Special Issue on IEEE APCCAS 2021), Vol. 68, Issue 12, December 2021. Pages: 3483-3487.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “Dugdugi: An Optimal Fault Addressing Scheme for Octagon-Like On-Chip Communication Networks”, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), Vol. 29, issue 5, May 2021. Pages: 1009 - 1021.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Maximal Connectivity Test with Channel-Open Faults in On-Chip Communication Networks", Journal of Electronic Testing: Testing and Applications (JETTA), Springer, Vol. 36, No. 3, June 2020. Pages: 1–24.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “A Power-Aware Fault Detection Scheme for Mesh-Based Network-on-Chip Interconnects”, Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE) [Special Issue on IEEE ISED 2018], American Scientific Publishers (ASP), Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2019. Pages: 256–272.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “A Low-Cost Test Solution for Reliable Communication in Networks-on-Chip”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Application (JETTA), Springer, Vol. 35, No. 2, April 2019. Pages: 215–243.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “Performance-Aware Test Scheduling for Diagnosing Co-Existent Channel Faults in Topology-Agnostic Networks-on-Chip”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Vol. 24, No. 2, Article 17, January 2019. Pages: 1–29.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “On-line Analysis of Stuck-at Faults in on-Chip Network Interconnects”, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC), World Scientific Publishing, Vol. 27, Issue 13, December 2018. Pages: 1–13.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “Reliability-Aware Test Methodology for Detecting Short-Channel Faults in On-Chip Networks”, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), Vol. 26, Issue 6, June 2018. Pages: 1026–1039.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “A Time-Optimized Scheme Towards Analysis of Channel-Shorts in on-Chip Networks”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Springer, Vol. 33, Issue 2, April 2017. Pages: 227–254.

Conferences [Selected]

Mrinmoy Guria, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "IoT-Enabled Driver Drowsiness Detection Using Machine Learning”, 2022 IEEE 7th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (IEEE PDGC 2022), November 25-27, 2022, Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh, Bharat.
Angalakuditi Hindu, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "An IoT-Enabled Stress Detection Scheme Using Facial Expression”, 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (IEEE INDICON 2022), November 24-26, 2022, Cochin, Kerala, Bharat.
T D Manjunath, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "QuSAF: A Fast ATPG for SAFs in VLSI Circuits Using a Quantum Computing Algorithm”, 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (IEEE INDICON 2022), November 24-26, 2022, Cochin, Kerala, Bharat.
Arijit Karali, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Hybrid MoCs for Long-Distance On-Chip Communications”, 2022 IEEE 10th Region Ten Symposium (IEEE TENSYMP 2022), July 1-3, 2022, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Bharat.
Anil Verma, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Automated Detection of Maize Leaf Diseases in Agricultural Cyber-Physical Systems”, 2022 IEEE 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE MED 2022), June 28 - July 1, 2022, Athens, Greece.
Rudraprasad Mondal, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "DeCS: A Deep Neural Network Framework for Cold Start Problem in Recommender Systems”, 2022 IEEE 10th Region Ten Symposium (IEEE TENSYMP 2022), July 1-3, 2022, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Bharat.
Prachi Kale, Pallabi Hazarika, Sajal Jain, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Performance Evaluation in 2D NoCs using ANN”, 2022 Springer 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (Springer AINA 2022), April 13-15, 2022, Sydney, Australia. Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, "ANN-Based Performance Prediction in MoCs”, 2022 Springer International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (Springer ISAI 2022), February 17 - 19, 2022, Haldia, Paschimbanga, Bharat.
Gagan N, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Topology Exploration for Long-Distance Communication”, 2021 IEEE 33rd Region 10 Conference (IEEE TENCON 2021), December 7-10, 2021, Auckland, New Zealand. Pages: 875-880. Rank: Tier-3/C.
Gagan N, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "TLM-NoC: Two Level Mesh Network-On-Chip for Performance Improvement”, 2021 IEEE 23rd International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC 2021), December 17-19, 2021, Hainan, China. Rank: Tier-2/B. [AR ≈ 16%].
Gagan N, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Long-Distance Communication via Pseudo-3D Networks-on-Chip”, 2021 IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (IEEE INDICON 2021) [Received Best Paper Award], December 19-21, 2021, Guwahati, Bharat.
Pallabi Hazarika, Sajal Jain, Prachi Kale, Biswajit R Bhowmik, "AI Technology For NoC Performance Evaluation”, 2021 IEEE 17th Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (IEEE APCCAS 2021), November 22-26, 2021, Penang, Malaysia.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, "Selective Fault-Masking for Improving Yield and Performance of on-Chip Networks”, 2021 IEEE 34th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2021), October 17-21, 2021, Melbourne, Australia. Pages: 3336-3341. Rank: Tier-2/B.
Sajal Jain, Prachi Kale, Pallabi Hazarika, Biswajit R Bhowmik, “A Machine Learning Enabled NoC Performance Evaluation”, 2021 IEEE 25th High Performance Extreme Computing (IEEE HPEC 2021), September 20-23, 2021, Boston, USA. Pages: 1-6. [In-Press]
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Shrinidhi Anil Varna, Adarsh Kumar, Rahul Kauraiya, "Reducing False Prediction on COVID-19 Detection Using Deep Learning", 2021 IEEE 64th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (IEEE MWSCAS 2021), August 9-11, 2021, Lansing, Michigan, USA. Pages: 404-407.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, "Reliability Monitoring in a Smart NoC Component", 2020 27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (IEEE ICECS 2020), November 23-25, 2020, Glasgow, Scotland. Pages: 1-4.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “Test Methodology for Analysis of Coexistent Logic-Level Faults in NoC Channels”, 2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2020), October 11-14, 2020, Toronto, Canada. Pages: 2339-2344. Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, "Improving Reliability in Spidergon Network on Chip Microprocessors", 2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (IEEE MWSCAS 2020), August 9-12, 2020, MA, USA. Pages: 474-477.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, "Locating Open-Channels in Octagon Networks on Chip-Microprocessors", 2020 IEEE Computer Society 19th Annual Symposium on VLSI (IEEE ISVLSI 2020), July 6-8, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus. [Accepted]
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “Reliability-Aware Test Methodology for Detecting Short-Channel Faults in On-Chip Networks”, 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2019) [IEEE CAS Transactions Track], May 26-29, 2019, Japan.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “A Time-Optimized Test-Solution Scheme for the Analysis of Permanent Faults on NoC Interconnects”, 2018 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design (IEEE ISED 2018), December 13-15, 2018. Kochi, India. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 35%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, “Heaping of Sorrow Upon Sorrow”, 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (IEEE iSES 2018) (A sister conference of ASAP, ISVLSI, and ARITH), December 17-19, 2018, Hyderabad, India. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 30%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “Charka: A ReliabilityAware Test Scheme for Diagnosis of Channel Shorts Beyond Mesh NoCs”, 2017 ACM/IEEE 20th Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (ACM/IEEE DATE 2017), March 27- 31, 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 24%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “When Clustering Shows Optimality Towards Analyzing Stuck-at Faults in Channels of on-Chip Networks”, 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC 2016), December 12-14, 2016, Sydney, Australia. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 20%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “On-Line Testing of Coexistent Stuck-at and Open Faults in NoC Interconnects”, 2016 IEEE 28th Region Ten Conference (IEEE TENCON 2016), November 22-25, 2016, Singapore. Conference Rank: Tier-3/C.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “A Topology-Agnostic Test Model for Link Shorts in on-Chip Networks”, 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2016), October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “On-Line Detection and Diagnosis of Stuck-at Faults in Channels of NoC-Based Systems”, 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2016), October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “Detecting and Diagnosing Open Faults in NoC Channels on Activation of Diagonal Nodes”, 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2016), October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, “One Poison is Antidote Against Another Poison”, 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2016), October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “Towards a Scalable Test Solution for the Analysis of Interconnect Shorts in on-Chip Networks”, 2016 IEEE 24th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE MASCOTS 2016), September 19-21, 2016, London, UK. Conference Rank: Tier-1/A. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 15%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “An Odd-Even Scheme to Prevent a Packet from Being Corrupted and Dropped in Fault-Tolerant NoCs”, 2016 IEEE 22nd International On-Line Testing Symposium (IEEE IOLTS 2016), July 4-6, 2016, Catalunya, Spain. Conference Rank: Tier-3/C.
Biswajit Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “Impact of NoC Interconnect Shorts on Performance Metrics”, 2016 IEEE 22nd National Conference on Communications (IEEE NCC 2016), March 4-6, 2016, Guwahati, India. Conference Rank: Tier-3/C.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “A Matrix Model for Redefining and Testing NoC Interconnect Shorts”, 2015 IEEE 27th Region Ten Conference (IEEE TENCON 2015), November 1-4, 2015, Macau. [Selected as Best Paper and Received Young Scientist Award]. Conference Rank: Tier-3/C.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Jatindra Kumar Deka, Santosh Biswas, “Reliability on Top of Best Effort Delivery: Maximal Connectivity Test on NoC Interconnects”, 2015 ACM 8th India Annual Conference (ACM Compute 2015), October 29-31, 2015, Ghaziabad, India. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 19%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “An Optimal Diagnosis of NoC Interconnects on Activation of Diagonal Routers”, 2015 IEEE 28th International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2015), October 9-12, 2015, Hong Kong. Conference Rank: Tier-2/B.
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “A Packet Address Driven Test Strategy for Stuck-at Faults in Networks-on-Chip Interconnects”, 2015 IEEE 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE MED 2015), June 16-19, 2015, Spain. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 31%].
Biswajit R Bhowmik, Santosh Biswas, Jatindra Kumar Deka, “Detection of Faulty Interswitch Links in 2-D Mesh Network-on-Chips”, 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE ANTS 2014), New Delhi, India, December 14-17, 2014. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 33%].
P. K. Guha Thakurta, Souvik Sonar, Biswajit R Bhowmik, Swapan Bhattacharya, Subhansu Bandyopadhyay, “A New Approach on Priority Queue based Scheduling with Handoff Management for Mobile Network”, 2010 19th ISCA International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2010), California, USA, June 16-18, 2010. [Acceptance Rate ≈ 30%].

Achievements

Recipient of the First Prize from Springer-Nature for Best Oral Presentation in Computer Science and Engineering Track at the 4th Annual Research Conclave 2018 organized by IIT Guwahati, March 8–11, 2018.
Earned the Best Paper Award in Computer Science and Engineering Track (Oral) at the 4th Annual Research Conclave 2018 organized by IIT Guwahati, March 8–11, 2018.
Institute First (PhD) Student of a Research Paper published in the Premier and Prestigious Conference: ACM/IEEE DATE 2017.
Recipient of Project Fellow Assistantship sponsored by MeitY, Govt. of India, August 2016 – February 2017.
Recipient of MHRD Scholarship, Govt. of India as IITG Institute Assistantship for Doctoral Programme, July 2011 – July 2016.
Institute First (PhD) Student of a Research Paper published in the Premier and Prestigious Conference: IEEE MASCOTS 2016.
Recipient of International Travel Grant partially sponsored by DeitY, Govt. of India to attend the 24th IEEE MASCOTS 2016.
Recipient of International Travel Grant partially sponsored by DeitY, Govt. of India to attend 28th IEEE TENCON 2016.
Recipient of ACM-IARCS Student Travel Grant to attend 20th IEEE/ACM DATE 2017.
Recipient of Student Travel Grant Award from the 29th IEEE SMC 2016.
Recipient of International Travel Grant sponsored by MeitY, Govt. of India to attend 22nd IEEE IOLTS 2016.
Recipient of Teaching Assistant Certificate by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, Jul–Oct, 2016.
Earned the Best Paper Award at the IEEE TENCON 2015.
Earned the Young Scientist Award at the IEEE TENCON 2015.
Recipient of International Travel Grant sponsored by MeitY, Govt. of India to attend 28th IEEE SMC 2015.
Recipient of MHRD Scholarship, Govt. of India, as NITDgp Institute Assistantship for Post Graduation, June 2008 – April 2010.
Stood the Second Position (2nd Topper) in the Department and possibly the Third Position (3rd Topper) at the Institute at Post Graduation Level, NIT Durgapur.
Stood the Second Position (2nd Topper) in the Department at the Graduation Level, HIT Haldia.
Earned the Graduation Scholarship from Indian Center for Advancement of Research and Education (ICARE), 2002 – 2004.
Stood the First Position in the District (District Topper) at the 10th Standard in Jela Bijnan Manasikota Ebong Medha Abheeksha (District Science Mentality and Talent Test) organized by Paschim Banga Bigyan Mancha (West Bengal Science Forum), 1997.
Recipient of the Silver Medal for the First Position in School at the Secondary Examination, 1998.
Recipient of Silver Medal from ANNAYA Haldia, as a Mark of Proficiency for Obtaining Star Marks at the Secondary Examination in Haldia Sub-Division, 1997.
Stood the First Position in the School (School Topper) at the Secondary (10th) Examination, 1997.
Recipient of the “Certificate of Merit” and Scholarship in Science Talent Search Test Programme organized by National Science Society, 1994 – 1997.
Recipient of the “Certificate of Merit” (Three times) for Achievement-Cum-Diagnostic Test in Mathematics organized by Centre for Pedagogical Studies in Mathematics, 1993 – 1995.

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