Area of Interest: Software Defined Wireless Sensor Network (SDWSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Network Optimization, Soft Computing techniques
E-Mail:
Gola Ka Mandir, Gwalior (M.P.) - 474005, INDIA
Ph.: +91-751-2409300, E-mail: vicechancellor@mitsgwalior.in, Website: www.mitsgwalior.in
Govt. Girls H S School Thatipur, Gwalior, M.P.
Govt. Girls H S School Thatipur, Gwalior, M.P.
Project Coordinator (All UG Programs)
Alumni Coordinator
Internship Coordinator
Department NSS Coordinator
Journal Publications:
International Conferences
PhD in Computer Science & Engineering (Dec 2023)
M.Tech in Information Security (Jul 2016 - Jun 2018)
B.E in Information Technology (Aug 2011 - Jun 2015)
Doctor of Philosophy at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India 2024
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior – 474015, India.
- Thesis Title: Models for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases using Deep Learning Techniques
1. S. Agarwal, K. V. Arya and Y. Kumar Meena, "CNN-O-ELMNet: Optimized Lightweight and Generalized Model for Lung Disease Classification and Severity Assessment," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 4200-4210, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2024.3416744 [SCI IF: 10.3].
2. S. Agarwal, K. V. Arya, and Y. K. Meena “MultiFusionNet: Multilayer Multimodal Fusion of Deep Neural Networks for Chest X-Ray Image Classification,” in Soft Computing vol. 28, pp. 11535–11551, Oct. 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s00500-024-09901-x, 2024 [SCI IF: 3.1].
3. S. Agarwal and K. V. Arya, “CXRNet: CNN Attention-based CXR image classifier,” Expert Systems, 42(1), e13423, Aug 2023, DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13423 [SCI IF: 3].
4. S. Agarwal and K. Agarwal, "Pi-calculus based formal verification of Web Services Composition," International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 137–140, 2015 doi: 10.14257/ijgdc.2015.8.5.13. [ESCI Indexed]
5. S. Agarwal and K. V. Arya, “Covid-19 & Pneumonia Detection Using Multi Model Fusion,” International Journal of Engineering Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, 2022, doi: 10.36224/ijes.140401.
6. S. Agarwal, N. Tiwari, and M. Dubey, “Checking of web services composition through online movie ticket booking example,” International Journal of Computer Science Research, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-5, 2017.
7. S. Agarwal, S. Tiwari, and S. Pathak, “Describing and Verifying Web Services Composition using PICalculus,” International Journal of Current Engineering and Scientific Research (IJCESR),pp. 89–93, ISSN (PRINT): 2393-8374, (ONLINE): 2394-0697, VOLUME-3, ISSUE-1, 2016, doi:10.21276/Ijcesr.
8. S. Pathak, S. Tiwari, and S. Agarwal, “Digital Image Watermarking in wavelet domain using chaotic sequence,” International Journal of Current Engineering and Scientific Research (IJCESR), pp. 76–81, ISSN (PRINT): 2393-8374, (ONLINE): 2394-0697, VOLUME-3, ISSUE-1, 2016, doi:10.21276/Ijcesr.
National/ International Conferences–
1. A. Verma, S. Agarwal, K. V. Arya, I. Petrlik, R. Esparza and C. Rodriguez, "Image Captioning with Reinforcement Learning," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), Gwalior, India, 2023, pp. 1–7, doi: 10.1109/CVMI59935.2023.10464514. [Scopus]
2. S. Agarwal, D. Yashwanth, K. V. Arya, C. Rodriguez, and P. Lezama, “Enhanced Bidirectional GRUs with Self-Attention for Medical Image Report Generation: A Deep Learning Approach,” Accepted in 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ICIT) 2023 at University of Matana, Jakarta, Indonesia. [Scopus]
3. M. Kourav, S. Agarwal, K. V. Arya, I. Petrlik, and C. Rodriguez, “Automatic Chest Radiology Report Generation Using Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings of 7th ASRES International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, pp. 239–247, 2023. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-1912-3-22. [Scopus]
4. S. Agarwal, S. Tiwari, and S. Pathak, “Describing and Verifying Web Services Composition using PI-Calculus,” Proceedings of International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Engineering, Science, Humanities, and Technology, pp. 119–123, 2016.
5. S. Pathak, S. Tiwari, and S. Agarwal, “Digital Image Watermarking in wavelet domain using chaotic sequence,” Proceedings of International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Engineering, Science, Humanities, and Technology, pp. 108–113, 2016.
6. Attend the international conference at the “International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing” (AISC-12) held in IIT, BHU, Varanasi, 2012. [IEEE UP Section]
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science & Engineering
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, Assam.
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (CSVTU), Bhilai, C.G..
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering
Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University (Pt. RSSU), Raipur,C.G..
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Comp. Sc., MITS-DU, Gwalior,(MP), India 24-03-2025– Till Date
Assistant Professor Senior Scale 01-07-2024– 17-03-2025
SoCS, UPES Dehradun NIRF-42 Dehradun, Uttarakhand India
Assistant Professor 05-08-2013– 06-01-2020
Dept. of Comp. Sc., CSIT, under CSVTU Bhilai (CG), India
Lecturer 07-07-2008– 03-01-2011
Dept. of Comp. Sc., CSIT, under CSVTU Bhilai (CG), India
Workshops, FDPs, Conferences & Professional Activities
2026
April 2026
IEEE – EBSCO Information Services, India
Participated in IEEE training sessions on “IEEE Xplore,” “VTU–IEEE Xplore,” and “IEEE CSDL” conducted by EBSCO Information Services on 16 April 2026. Awarded a Certificate of Participation.
April 2026
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS-DU), Gwalior, India
Participated in the Author Workshop on “ScienceDirect: Mastering ScienceDirect & Research Article Writing Fundamentals” held on 15 April 2026. Awarded a Certificate of Participation.
January 2026
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS-DU), Gwalior, India
Delivered a session on “Professional Resume Building” during ‘LevelUp: The IEI LaunchPad’, organized by the IEI Student Chapter (CSE) on 30 January 2026. Received a Certificate of Appreciation (Ref. No.: MITS-DU-202630-10000).
2025
November 2025
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), Gwalior, India
Successfully completed a One-Week Faculty Development Program on “Data Science Using Python”, organized under the AICTE ATAL Academy, held from 10–15 November 2025.
November 2025
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), Gwalior, India
Served as Session Coordinator (TS-04: Embedded Systems & VLSI Design) at the 7th International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering & Technology (ICSISCET 2025), held on 1–2 November 2025. Awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.
July–September 2025
NPTEL (IIT Madras)
Successfully completed an 8-week online course on “Introduction to Operating Systems” under the SWAYAM initiative (MHRD).
February–March 2025
Electronics and ICT Academy (NIT Patna & NIT Jamshedpur)
Participated in a One-Week Faculty Development Program on “Machine Learning for Multimedia Forensics”, held from 28 February to 4 March 2025 under Phase-II of the ICT Academy scheme.
2024
January 2024
DST-SERB (Vigyan Scheme), NIT Silchar
Participated in a DST-SERB Sponsored One-Week High-End Workshop (Karyashala) on “Hands-on Training on Computational Intelligence for Health Informatics and Wearable Device Data Analysis.”
2020
January 2020
NIT Silchar & Guwahati University
Attended the workshop on “Machine Learning and Computer Vision Applications & Research Challenges (MLCV-2020).”
SCI/SCIE/Scopus Indexed International Journal Publications
1. Roy, M.; Baruah, U.
“Enhancing Medical Image Classification through Controlled Diversity in Ensemble Learning”
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108138
EID: 2-s2.0-85186888044 | ISSN: 0952-1976
Indexing: SCI
2. Roy, M.; Baruah, U.; Varma, V.
“TransDL: A Transfer Learning-Based Concatenated Model for COVID-19 Identification and Analysis of Posteroanterior Chest X-ray Images”
Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024.
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-16825-5
EID: 2-s2.0-85171457419 | ISSN: 1573-7721, 1380-7501
Indexing: SCI
3. Roy, M.; Baruah, U.; Sharma, S.; Dey, P.; Rawat, M.; Paul, B.
“Enhancing Predictive Modeling Using CT and CXR Images: A Review of Lung Disease Detection and Experimental Insights”
SN Computer Science, 2025.
DOI: 10.1007/s42979-025-04041-x
Indexing: Scopus
4. Gupta, S.; Roy, M.; Pusarla, N.; Aston, P. J.; Gupta, K.; Bajaj, V.
“3D Attractor Reconstruction for Enhanced ECG Classification of Arrhythmia and Congestive Heart Failure”
IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025.
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3572080
Indexing: SCI
Conference Publications
International Conferences
1. Roy, M.; Baruah, U.; Rajak, S.
“Challenges in COVID-19 Detection and the Imperative for Improved Methods”
International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies (ACT 2024), 2024.
EID: 2-s2.0-85209154277 | ISBN: 979-8331300579
2. Rajak, S.; Baruah, U.; Roy, M.
“A Novel Hybrid Approach for Multi-Class Classification of Hindi Hostile Online Posts”
Published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), 2026.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14531-4_25
ISBN: 978-3-032-14530-7, 978-3-032-14531-4
ISSN: 1865-0929, 1865-0937
In the faculty of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology from the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India.
In the Information Technology (IT) discipline from the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India.
In the Information Technology discipline from the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India.
From the National Law Institute University, Bhopal
24th March 2025 to Present
MADHAV INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, GWALIOR (M.P.), INDIA
Deemed University (Declared under Distinct Category by Ministry of Education, Government of India)
Currently supervising one PhD scholar and M.Tech scholar
Selected for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Labex Primes, Université de Lyon, France.
Awarded Research Fellowships from the MP Council of Science & Technology, Bhopal (2017, 2018, 2019).
As a CoCoordinator organized a externally funded one week Faculty Development Programme titled as "Cybersecurity in the Age of GenAI: Threats, Defenses, and Intelligent SOCs with LLM Integration" during 31st December to 5th Jan. 2026.