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Dr. Bidyut Kumar Patra
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engg
bidyut.cse@itbhu.ac.in
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Area of Interest: 
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Recommender System

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India under the supervision of Professor Sukumar Nandi. I received ERCIM (Marie-Curie) Fellowship from European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), France, for doing post-doctoral research at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland. My research interest includes Data Mining, Machine Learning, Anomaly Detection, Recommender Systems, Educational Technology.

  • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

                Thesis Title: Mining Arbitrary Shaped Clusters in Large Dataset.
                Advisor: Prof. Sukumar Nandi

  • M.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta.
  • B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta.
  • Best Teacher Award 2021, National Institute of Technology Rourkela.
  • Flipkart Pvt. Ltd awarded Travel award of INR 200000 for tutorial talk at 41st ECIR conference (2019).
  • Microsoft Azure Research Award, Microsoft Research (2015).
  • Marie Curie Fellow, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), (2013).
  • CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (2009-2010), CSIR, New Delhi, India
  • International Travel Grant (June, 2011) DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India.
  • Travel Grant from Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), TIFR, Mumbai, India for presenting a paper in RSCTC 2010, Warsaw, Poland

Journals

  • Rabi Shaw and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Cognitive-Aware Lecture Video Recommendation System using Brain Signal in Flipped Learning Pedagogy, Expert Systems with Application, (2022), Volume 207, 118057, November, 2022 [Impact Factor: 8.665] 
  • Uttam Singh, Rabi Shaw and Bidyut Kr. Patra. A Data Augmentation and Channel Selection Technique for Grading Human Emotions on DEAP Dataset, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2022). [Just Accepted] [Impact Factor: 5.076] 
  • V Ramanjaneyulu Yannam, Jitendra Kumar, Korra Sathya Babu and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Enhancing the accuracy of group recommendation using slope one predictor, The Journal of Supercomputing (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04664-4  [Impact Factor: 2.557]
  • Rabi Shaw, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Animesh Pradhan and Swayam Purna Mishra. Attention Classification and Lecture Video Recommendation based on captured EEG Signal in Flipped Learning Pedagogy, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2022.2091561. [Impact Factor: 3.353 ]
  • Rabi Shaw, Chinmay Mohanty, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Animesh Pradhan. 1D Multi-Point Local Ternary Pattern: A Novel Feature Extraction Method for Analyzing Cognitive Engagement of students in Flipped Learning Pedagogy, Cognitive Computation. [ Impact Factor:5.418 ] 
  • Rabi Shaw and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Classifying Students based on Cognitive State in Flipped Learning Pedagogy, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 126, January, 2022, Pages 305-317. [Impact Factor: 7.187] (Top 2nd Publication in Computing System, Google Scholar Metric), Q1
  • Abhaya and Bidyut Kr. Patra. RDPOD: An Unsupervised Approach for Outlier Detection, Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 1065-1077, 2022. [Impact Factor: 5.606] (Top 14th Publication in Artificial Intelligence, Google Scholar Metric), Q1 
  • Rama Syamala Sreepada and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Enhancing Long tail Item Recommendation in Collaborative Filtering: An Econophysics-inspired Approach, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Volume 49, September-October, 2021. [Impact Factor: 6.014], Q1
  • Pramit Mazumdar, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Korra Sathya Babu. Cold-start Point-of-Interest Recommendation through Crowdsourcing , ACM Transaction on Web (ACM TWEB), Vol. 14 (4), Pages 1-36, Article 19 (August, 2020),. [Impact Factor: 2.290 ] 
  • Rama Syamala Sreepada and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Mitigating Long Tail Effect in Recommendations using Few Shot Learning Technique, Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA), Volume 140, February 2020. [Impact Factor: 6.954] (Top 4th Publication in Artificial Intelligence, Google Scholar Metric) Q1
  • Pramit Mazumdar, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Korra Sathya Babu and Russell Lock. Hidden Location Prediction using Check-in Patterns in Location Based Social Networks, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 57 (3), 571-601 (2018) . [Impact Factor: 3.161] (Top 8th Publication in Data Mining and Analysis, Google Scholar Metric) [Q2] 
  • Pramit Mazumdar, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Russell Lock and Korra Sathya Babu. An Approach to Compute User Similarity for GPS Applications, Knowledge-Based System (KBS), Vol 113, December 2016, Pages 125–142. Impact Factor: 8.038. The KBS is top 3rd publication in Fuzzy System (Google Scholar). [Q1]
  • Bidyut Kr. Patra, Raimo Launonen, Ollikainen Ville, Sukumar Nandi. A new similarity measure using Bhattacharyya coefficient for collaborative filtering in sparse data, Knowledge-Based System (KBS) , Vol 82, July, 2015, Pages 163-177. [ Impact Factor:8.038]. Top 3rd publication in Fuzzy System (Google Scholar). [Q1]
  • Bidyut Kr. Patra and Sukumar Nandi. Effective data summarization for hierarchical clustering in large datasets, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol 42, Issue 1, January, 2015, Pages 1–20. [Impact Factor: 3.161] KAIS is the top 8th publication in Data Mining and Analysis. [Q2]
  • Bidyut Kr. Patra, Sukumar Nandi and P. Viswanath. A distance based clustering method for arbitrary shaped clusters in large datasets, Pattern Recognition (PR), Vol. 44, Issue 12, December, 2011, Pages 2862-2870. [Impact Factor: 7.740]. Google Scholar: Top 6th publication in Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition. [Q1]
  • Bidyut Kr. Patra and Sukumar Nandi. Tolerance Rough Set Theory based Data Summarization for Clustering Large Datasets, Transaction on Rough Sets (Springer), Vol XIV, August, 2011, Pages 139-158.

 

Conferences

  1. Rabi Shaw, Chinmay Mohanty, Animesh Pradhan, Bidyut Kr.       Patra.   At- tention Analysis in Flipped Classroom using 1 D Multi-Point Local Ternary Patterns, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Tech- nologies (ICALT 2021), July 12-15, 2021. (CORE B Conference) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT52272.2021.00008
  2. Chinmay Mohanty, Rabi Shaw and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Cognitive Attention Analysis of Students using Novel Handcrafted Features in Flipped Learn- ing Pedagogy, 14th ACM Annual Conference COMPUTE 2021, University of Delhi, Delhi, October 21-23, 2021. (Only Indian Conference in Educational Technology) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT52272.2021.00008
  3. Shreyas Agrawal, Sumanto Dutta, Bidyut Kr Patra. Sentiment Analysis of Short Informal Text by Tuning BERT-Bi-LSTM Model, The IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies (EUROCON 2021), Lviv, Ukraine, July 6-8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON52738.2021.9535538
  4. Rabi Shaw, Dibyam Kumar Agrawal, Bidyut Kr Patra. An Effective Similarity Measure for Improving Performance of User Based Collaborative Filtering, The IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies (EUROCON 2021), Lviv, Ukraine, July 6-8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON52738.2021.9535538
  5. N Sangita Achary and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Graph Based Hybrid Approach for Long-Tail Item Recommendation in Collaborative Filtering, The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science Management of Data CoDS- COMAD 2021, Bangalore, India, January 2-4, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430984.3431058 
  1. Satarupa Uttarkabat, Naga Dhanunjay Sunkara and Bidyut Kr. Patra. RSOD: Efficient Technique for Outlier Detection using Reverse Nearest Neighbors Statistics, The 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE 2020), February 27-29, 2020, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India. https://doi.org/10.1109/CINE48825.2020.234401
  2. Subrata Das, Bidyut Kr. Patra and Jitendra Kumar. Weighted Slope One With Threshold Filtering, The 6th International Conference on Mathematics Computing (ICMC 2020), March 18- 22, 2020, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8061-1_12
  3. Rabi Shaw and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Slope One Meets Neighborhood: Revisiting Slope One Predictor in Collaborative Filtering, The 6th International Confer- ence on Mathematics Computing (ICMC 2020), March 18- 22, 2020, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8061-1_18
  4. Pragati Agarwal, Rama Syamala Sreepada and Bidyut Kr. Patra. A Hybrid Framework for Improving Diversity and Long Tail Items in Recommenda- tions, The 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2019), Tezpur Central University, Tezpur, Assam, Decem- ber 17-20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34872-4_32
  5. Omprakash Sonie (Flipkart) , Muthusamy Chelliah (Flipkart) and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Concept to Code: Neural Networks for Sequence Learning, The 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Ger- many , April, 2019. (CORE A Conference) (Tutorial) https://doi.org/10.1145/3308560.3320100
  6. Dharahas Tallapally, Rama Syamala Sreepada, Bidyut Kr.   Patra and Korra Sathya Babu. User preference learning in multi-criteria recommendations us- ing stacked auto encoders, 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys-2018), Vancouver, Canada, October 2-7, 2018. (Top 6th Publication in Data Mining and Analysis, Google Scholar Metric) (CORE A Conference) https://doi.org/10.1145/3240323.3240412
  1. Rama Syamala Sreepada, and Bidyut Kr. Patra. An Incremental Approach for Collaborative Filtering in Streaming Scenarios, The 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, March 26- March 29, 2018. (CORE A Conference) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_55
  2. Rama Syamala Sreepada, Bidyut Kr. Patra and Avijit Chakraborty. Revisit- ing Tendency based Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Recommendations, The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD 2018), Goa, January 11-13, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152494.3152523
  3. Pramit Mazumdar, Bidyut Kr. Patra and Korra Sathya Babu. Handling Cold- start Scenarios in Point-of-Interest Recommendations Through Crowdsourc- ing. The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Man- agement of Data CoDS-COMAD 2018, Goa, India, January 11-13, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152494.3167980
  4. Sanjoli Poddar and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Reduction in Execution Cost of k- Nearest Neighbor based Outlier Detection Method, The 4th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2018), IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, January 9-11, 2018.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0023-3_6
  5. Pramit Mazumdar, Bidyut Kr. Patra and Korra Sathya Babu. An Effective POI Recommendation in various Cold-start Scenarios, The 22nd International Confer- ence on Management of Data (COMAD), IIT Madras, Chennai, March, 2017. (CORE B Conference) http://hdl.handle.net/2080/2705
  6. Rama Syamala Sreepada and Bidyut Kr. Patra. Multi-criteria Recommendations through Preference Learning, The 4th ACM IKDD Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS-2017), IIT Madras, Chennai, March, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3041823.3041824
  7. Apurva Pathak, Bidyut Kr. Patra A knowledge reuse framework for improving diversity and novelty in recommendations, 2nd ACM IKDD Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS-2015), Bangalore, India, March, 2015; [#Citation: 20]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2732587.2732590
  8. Apurva Pathak, Bidyut Kr. Patra Abhishek Agarwal, Arnab Chakraborty A City Traffic Dashboard based on Social Network Data, First Runners-up in Re- search Challenge, 2nd ACM IKDD Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS-2015),  Bangalore, India, March, 2015. ttps://doi.org/10.1145/2778865.2778873 
  9. Bidyut Kr. Patra, Raimo Launonen, Ollikainen Ville, Sukumar Nandi Exploit- ing Bhattacharyya similarity measure to diminish user cold-start problem in sparse data., 17th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2014) Univer- sity of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October, 2014.
  10. Apurva Pathak, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Ollikainen Ville , Raimo Launonen Clus- tering based approach for balancing accuracy and diversity in collaborative filtering, 17th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2014) University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11812-3_22
  11. Bidyut Kr. Patra, Ollikainen Ville, Raimo Launonen, Sukumar Nandi and Ko- rra Sathya Babu A distance based incremental clustering for mining clusters of ar- bitrary shapes, The Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2013), ISI Kolkata, December, 2013, Kolkata, INDIA. (LNCS) (2013) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45062-4_31
  12. Bidyut Kr. Patra Using the triangle inequality to accelerate Density based Outlier Detection Method , In Proceeding of the Second International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security, (ICCCS 2012), October 6-8, 2012 NIT Rourkela, India. Procedia Technology -Elsevier Science (2012) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2012.10.056
  13. Bidyut Kr. Patra and Sukumar Nandi Neighborhood based Clustering Method for Arbitrary Shaped Clusters In Proceeding of the 19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligence System, (ISMIS 2011), June, 2011 Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. (LNCS) (2011) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21916-0_34
  14. Neminath Hubballi, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Sukumar Nandi NDoT: NDoT: Nearest Neighbor Distance Based Outlier Detection Technique to appear in The 4th Inter- national Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2011), June 27 - July 1, 2011, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia . (2011)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21786-9_8
  15. Bidyut Kr. Patra, Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas, Sukumar Nandi Dis- tance based fast hierarchical clustering method for large datasets In Proceeding of the Seventh International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2010), June 28-30, 2010, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. (LNAI) (2010) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45062-4_31 
  16. Bidyut Kr. Patra, Sukumar Nandi A Fast Single-link Clustering Method based on a Tolerance Rough Set Model, In Proceeding of the Twelfth International Confer- ence on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining & Granular Computing (RSFD- GrC 2009), December 16-18, 2009, IIT Delhi, India. (LNAI) (2009) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10646-0_50
  1. Bidyut Kr. Patra, Sukumar Nandi, and P.Viswanath Data Summarization based First Hierarchical Clustering Methods for Large Datasets, IEEE International Con- ference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME 2009), Kuala Lumpur,   April,   2009   (IEEE)   (2009) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIME.2009.65
  2. Bidyut Kr. Patra, P.Viswanath and Sukumar Nandi, A Fast Single Link Clus- tering Method for Large Data Sets, MCDES (Centenary Conference), May 2008, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, India (2008)  
  3. S.R.Singh, Bidyut Kr. Patra, Debasish Giri, Mining Frequent Closed Itemsets using Conditional Frequent Pattern Tree, IEEE India Annual Conference 2004 (INDICON 2004), December, 2004, IIT Kharagpur, India (2004) 10.1109/INDICO.2004.1497805

Book Chapter

  1. Jitendra Kumar, YV Ramanjaneyulu, Korra Sathya Babu, Bidyut Kr. Patra. A survey on group modeling strategies for recommender systems, Book Chapter in New Paradigms in Computational Modeling and Its Applications, Editor Snehashish Chakraverty, Academic Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822133-4.00005-0
  2. P. Viswanath, Bidyut Kr. Patra and V.Suresh Babu, Some Efficient and Fast Ap- proaches to Document Clustering, appears as a book chapter in "Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies", Information science refer- ence (IGI Global), Hershey, New York (2008) DOI:10.4018/978-1-59904-990-8.ch011

  • Title: Design and Development of E-learning Platform for Assisting Underprivileged (SC/ST) School Students in Rourkela Region, Odisha by Converging Cable TV Network and Broadband Technology.
    Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
    Duration: 2020-2023
    Amount of Fund: 38.80 Lacs.
    Chief Investigator: Dr. Bidyut Kr. Patra

  • Title: Development of City Traffic Dashboard using Social Media Data and Historical GPS Trajectory
    Funding Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India
    Duration : 2019-2022.
    Fund: 18.23 Lac
    PI: Dr. Bidyut Kr. Patra

    Title: Development of a Psycho-Cognitive Recommender System for Weak Learners in Flipped Learning Scenario.
    Funding Agency: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.
    Duration: 2018-2021.
    Amount: 23.86 Lac
    PI: Dr. Bidyut Kr. Patra

Degree Awarded

  • Pramit Mazumdar, Ph.D. [September, 2018]

        Title: Human Mobility Analysis in Location-based Social Networks.
        Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Università degli Studi Roma TRE, Rome, Italy.

  • Rama Syamala Sreepada, Ph.D. [July, 2020]

·       Title: Enhancing Accuracy and Long Tail Item Recommendations in Collaborative Filtering Framework. (Synopsis Report)
         Current Position: MITAC S Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada (November, 2020).
Satarupa Uttarkabat , M.Tech. (Res) [November, 2020]
Thesis Title: Outlier Detection using Unsupervised Learning Techniques
Current Position: Ph.D. Student @IIT Kharagpur.
 

  • Associate Professor, IIT(BHU) Varanassi-221 005, INDIA. (June 16, 2022-Till Date).
  • Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India. ( October, 2011- June, 2022)
  • Research Scientist (Postdoctoral Marie-Curie Fellow), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland. (2013-2014)
  • Assistant Professor, Tezpur Central University, Tezpur, India. (2010-2011)
  • Lecturer, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. (2001-2005)
  • Research Engineer, IIEST Shibpur (Formaly, Bengal Engineering & Science University (BESU)), India, (2001)