CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022
  • Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India
• M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2015
  • Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India
• B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2013
  • University Institute of Technology, Burdwan, India

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor (Grade-II), Sep 2023 - Present
  • National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India
• Assistant Professor, June 2022 - May 2023
  • VIT-AP University, India
• Teaching Personal, Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
  • G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttrakhand, India

Technical Skills

• Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image & Video Retrieval
• Languages: Python, C++, MATLAB
• Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, OpenCV

Selected Publications

Journals

• Ajay Kumar Mallick, S. Mukhopadhyay, ”Video Retrieval Framework based on Color Co-occurrence Feature of Adaptive Low Rank Extracted Keyframes and Graph Pattern Matching,” in Information Processing & Management (Elsevier), (2022).
• M. Majhi, Ajay Kumar Mallick, ”Random Projection and Hashing based Privacy Preserving for Image Retrieval Paradigm using Invariant and Clustered Feature”, in Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences (Elsevier), (2022).
• Ajay Kumar Mallick, S. Mukhopadhyay, ”Video retrieval using salient foreground region of motion vector based extracted keyframes and spatial pyramid matching”, in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), (2020).

Conferences

• Atul Sharma, Ajay Kumar Mallick , “AttentiveFP: An Attention-Guided Deep Learning Approach for Fingerprint Liveness Detection.” IEEE International Conference on Computer, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3)”, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/IC2E365635.2025.11166886, (2025).

• Sourabh Sharma, Ajay Kumar Mallick , “Fusion of Handcrafted and Deep Convolution Networks Learned Features for Image Retrieval.” IEEE 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/RAIT65068.2025.11088972, (2025).

• Malika Sood, Jyoti Srivastava, Ajay Kumar Mallick, “Revolutionizing Tomato Agriculture: Leaf Disease Detection Using CNN and Its Variants”, IEEE 9th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), DOI: 10.1109/I2CT61223.2024.10544294, (2024).

• Ajay Kumar Mallick, Sushila Mukhopadhyay, “Video Retrieval based on Motion Vector Key Frame Extraction and Spatial Pyramid Matching”, *6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/SPIN.2019.8711781, (2019).

• Ajay Kumar Mallick, and Sushila Maheshkar, “Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval Based on Spatio Temporal Pattern Tree”, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing, Springer, pp.173-186, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7895-8_14, (2018).

• Aniket Ninawe,Ajay Kumar Mallick , Vikash Yadav, Hifzan Ahmad, Dinesh Kumar Sah, and Cornel Barna. “Cathedral and Indian Mughal Monument Recognition Using Tensorflow”, In International Workshop Soft Computing Applications, Springer, pp. 186-196,DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51992-6_16 , (2018).

• Mukul Kirti Verma, Rajesh Dwivedi,Ajay Kumar Mallick, “Dimensionality Reduction Technique on SIFT Feature Vector for Content Based Image Retrival”, In International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Springer, pp. 383-394, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9181-1_34, (2018).

• Susila Maheshkar, Bhavishya Mathur, Raj Roushan, and Ajay Kumar Mallick , “Automatic Hadoop cluster deployment and Management tool”, In 2017 Third International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), IEEE,pp. 163-168, DOI: 10.1109/ICRCICN.2017.8234500, (2017)

• Ajay Kumar Mallick, and Sushila Maheshkar, “Video Retrieval Based on Color Correlation Histogram Scheme of Clip Segmented Key Frames”,Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC), IEEE, pp.213-218, DOI: 10.1109/PDGC.2016.7913148, (2016).

• Ajay Kumar Mallick, and Sushila Maheshkar. “Digital image watermarking scheme based on visual cryptography and SVD” , In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015, Springer, pp. 589-598, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/ 978-81-322-2695-6_50, (2016).

Invited Talks

• “AI and its Applications in Architecture and Planning”
  • Invited Talk at the e-Short Term Course (e-STC) on “Information Science for Building Design and Urban Planning”, NIT Hamirpur, Oct 2024.
• “Handcrafted and Deep Feature Based Image and Video Retrieval”
  • Invited Talk at the Online Short Term Course (eSTC) on “Research Applications of Deep Learning”, NIT Hamirpur, July 2024.

Conference & Workshop Organization

• Organizing Secretary, 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (ICAMS 2025), NIT Hamirpur.
• Coordinator, International Short Term Course on “Research Applications of Deep Learning”, NIT Hamirpur, July 2024.

Service and Leadership

Administrative Roles

• Assistant Faculty In-charge (AFI), Technical Activities & Clubs ( Google Developer Group), NIT Hamirpur, Nov 2025 - Present
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC), Smart India Hackathon 2025, NIT Hamirpur, Aug 2025 - Present
• Assistant Faculty In-charge (AFI), Cultural Activities & Clubs (Sangeet), NIT Hamirpur, Aug 2024 - Present
• Officer In-Charge (OIC), Department Programming Laboratory 6, NIT Hamirpur, Feb 2024 - Present
• Officer In-Charge (OIC), Department Infrastructure, NIT Hamirpur, Feb 2024 - Present

Professional Memberships

• Life Member, Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI)
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Conference Session/ Co-Session Chair

• Session Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (ICAIET) - 2025, Organized by School of Computer Science & Engineering, XIM University, Bhubaneswar (New Campus), Harirajpur, 28 – 30, August 2025.

• Session Chair, 7th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science, (ISMS 2025) , organized by Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, 22-23 February 2025.

• Technical Session Co-Chair, International Conference on Recent Trends in Transport Phenomena ((RTTP 2024)), organized by Department of Chemical Engineering in Association with Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE), 24-26 June, 2024.

• Technical Session Co-Chair, *5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences, (MIND 2023) , organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Hamirpur, 21-22 December, 2023.

Conference Advisary/ Technical Program Committee

• Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Recent Trends in Intelligent Computing Manufacturing and Electronics, (rTIME-2025) , to be organized by the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand – 834004, India, 05-07, December, 2025.

• National Advisory Committee, International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Sustainable Development, (ICCISD 2026), Organized by Department of Computer Science and Applications, Sharda School of Computing Science & Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India, 23 - 24 July 2026.

• Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, (ICCSAI 2025) , organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sur Institute of Technology & Sports Complex, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 28-29, August, 2025.

• Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (ICAIET 2025), Organized by School of Computer Science & Engineering, XIM University, Bhubaneswar (New Campus), Harirajpur, 28 – 30, August 2025.

• Technical Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology, (RAIT 2025) , Organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, 6-8 March, 2025.

Journal Reviewer

• Signal, Image and Video Processing , Springer, Electronic ISSN 1863-1711.
• Information Processing and Management, Elsevier, Online ISSN: 1873-5371, Print ISSN: 0306-4573.
• PloS one, Public Library of Science, Online ISSN: 1932-6203.

Conference Reviewer

• 10th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP 2025) , to be organized by IIT, Ropar, India, 10-13 December, 2025.
• 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019) , organized at New York, NY, USA, 26-28 July 2019.
• 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2017) co-organized by National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), Taiwan, 24-27 November 2017.