B.E. Computer Science and Engineering (A.U): 2001, M.Tech. Information Technology (IIEST Shibpur (erstwhile BESU and BEC)): 2005, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur): 2011
Software & Systems Engineering, Reliability Assessment & Fault Tolerance, Software Defined Network, Natural Language Processing
Total experience: 19+ years
Some of the appointments:
- Working as Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, JNU, India since 2013 (regular/permanent)
- Served as Associate Professor (II) in the School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 2012-2013
-Served as Assistant Professor followed by Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Kolkata, affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India, 2011- 2012
- Served as Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, CEM Kolaghat (Govt. aided), affiliated to Vidyasagar University followed by West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India, 2003 - 2006 (regular/permanent)
- Served as Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology, BCREC Durgapur, affiliated to Burdwan University followed by West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India, 2001-2002 (regular/permanent)
Other temporary/contractual appointments (industrial / academic):
- Served as examiner, paper setter of Burdwan University, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal University of Technology, etc.
- Served as Associate Scientist at ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB)
- Served as Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology, other Institutes/Universities
- Served as Senior Research Associate (Postdoctoral) at City University of Hong Kong
- Served as a member of Academic Council and University Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- Served as external examinar of M.Tech. dissertation of Gautam Buddha University and Ph.D. thesis examiner of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- Served as external expert in the School Research Committee of the Ph.D. students of Gautam Buddha University, India
- Serving as external expert in the Doctoral Committee of the Ph.D. students of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
Some of the invited/guest lectures/session chairs:
- Delivered invited/guest lectures at IIT Kharagpur, City University of Hong Kong, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), UGC-HRDC, JNU, etc.
- Delivered Keynote Talk on "Software Reliability Assessment and Fault Tolerance: Issues and Challenges", at 18th International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2016
- Served as Session Chair at IJAS International Conference at University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2016
- Served as Session Chair at International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering, Dehradun, India, 2024
- Served as Session Chair at International Conference on Networks and Cryptology, New Delhi, India, 2025
SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TAUGHT
- Principles and Patterns of Software Design
- Software Reuse and Component Based Software Engineering
- Software Reliability
- Software Engineering
- Object Oriented Software Engineering
- Data Structures
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Computer Organization and Architecture
- Compiler Design
- Information Theory
- Natural Language Processing
- Academic Ethics and Technical Writing
- Data Visualization
Existing Ph.D. scholars (research under progress) Area of research
- S Tripathi Software Defined Network
- Devendra Natural Language Processing
- S Chourasia Risk and Reliability Assessment
- H Dolly Natural Language Processing
SERVED AS REVIEWER OF:
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Elsevier
- Measurement, Elsevier
- IEEE Software
- IEEE Systems Journal
- International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor & Francis
- International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer Journal
- Information Systems Frontiers, Springer
- TELKOMNIKA Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering
- International Journal of Performability Engineering, Totem Publisher, Inc.
- International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security.
- International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, CRL Publishing.
- International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, World Scientific.
- International Journal of Engineering and Technology
MEMBERSHIPS
- Society for Reliability and Safety (SRESA) - life member
- Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) - life member
- Global Alumni Association of IIEST Shibpur (erstwhile BESU and BEC) - life member
- Technology Alumni Association of IIT Kharagpur
# Best regular paper award (with Nisha Kumari) at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering, 2024
- Senior Research Fellowship (High Value Scholarship) of IIT Kharagpur
- Senior Research Associate (Postdoctoral) at City University of Hong Kong ( https://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/tgayen.htm )
Recent Publications (upto 14)
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Nisha Kumari, Tirthankar Gayen, "Optimal resource selection for Green Software Development using Machine Learning", Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier , Vol. 258, pp. 647-657, 2025.
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Chaitali Dey Bhowmik, Tirthankar Gayen, "Traffic aware dynamic load distribution in the data plane of SDN using Genetic Algorithm: A case study on NSF network", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 88, 2023.
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Devendra, Tirthankar Gayen, "A Hybrid Approach for Machine Translation to Low Resource Indian Language: A Case Study on Chhattisgarhi", Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier (accepted).
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Devashish Dutta, Subhanu Halder, Tirthankar Gayen, "Intelligent Part of Speech Tagger for Hindi", Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Vol. 218, pp. 604-611, 2023.
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Chaitali Dey Bhowmik, Tirthankar Gayen, "A Technique for Topography Aware Dynamic Controller Placement in SDN", International Journal of Information Technology, Springer Nature Singapore, Vol. 14, pp. 3565-3577, 2022.
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S. Tripathi, Tirthankar Gayen, "Real-Time Intelligent Assignment of Controllers with Adaptive Load Balancing", Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier (accepted).
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Anjushi Verma, Tirthankar Gayen, "Reliability assessment of combined hardware-software non-repairable time-critical systems", The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, Vol. 66, Issue 7, pp. 1644–1663, 2023.
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Anjushi Verma, Tirthankar Gayen, “Reliability Assessment of Time Critical Software: a case study on Stepper Motor Application,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 43, Issue 12, pp. 7979-7994, 2018.
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Ritwik Mishra, Tirthankar Gayen, "Automatic lossless summarization of news articles with abstract meaning representation", Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 135, pp. 178-185, Elsevier, 2018.
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Tirthankar Gayen, "Inadequacy of journals to infer on the quality of research in Computing, Science, Engineering And Technology", Academic Journal of Science, Vol. 07, 02, pp.373–376, 2017.
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Anjushi Verma, Ankur Ghartaan, Tirthankar Gayen, "Review of Software Fault-Tolerance Methods for Reliability Enhancement of Real-Time Software Systems", International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 1031-1037, 2016.
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Anjushi Verma, Tirthankar Gayen, "Suitability of black box approaches for the reliability assessment of component-based software", International Journal of Computer and Systems Engineering, Vol. 10, No.4, pp. 767-774, 2016.
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S. Garnaik, Tirthankar Gayen, S Mishra, "Reliability Enhancement of Software by Minimizing the Overflow Errors", International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 724-730, 2014.
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S. Bhadra, Tirthankar Gayen, "A Distributed Service and Business Model for Providing Cloud Computing Service", International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 148-158, 2013.
Book Chapters (upto 5)
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Chhaya Yadav, Tirthankar Gayen, "Stopwords aware emotion based sentiment analysis of news articles", EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 183-193, 2023.
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Chaitali Dey Bhowmik, Tirthankar Gayen, "A model for achieving fault tolerant data plane with effective load distribution in Software Defined Network", Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer Singapore, Vol. 351, 2023.
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Mithun Majumdar, Tirthankar Gayen, "Computer Aided Segmentation of Oral Mucosa to Detect Cancer", Applications of Machine Intelligence in Engineering, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 179-190, 2022.
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Chaitali Bhowmik, Tirthankar Gayen, "An Effective Technique of Protocol-Aware Network Traffic Classification for Performance Enhancement of SDN", Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, Vol. 166, pp. 547-556, 2021.
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Richa Agrawal, Anjushi Verma, Tirthankar Gayen, “Reliability Assessment of Safety Critical Intelligent Systems: Issues and Challenges”, Cybernetics Approaches in Intelligent Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Vol. 661, pp. 99-110, 2017.