Dr. Krishnandu Hazra Assistant Professor (CSE)
PhD (NIT Durgapur) Department of Computer Science and Engineering- krishnandu@iiitg.ac.in
Joined the Institute in January 2024
About
Hello, welcome to my home page. I am presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati (IIITG). I joined IIITG in January 2024. The details of my teaching, research experience and educational qualifications are as follows.
Teaching Experiences:
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIITG), Assam, India (From January 2024 - to till date)
- Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (From June 2022 to December 2023)
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India (From January 2021 to June 2022)
Research Experiences:
- PhD Research Scholar (with MHRD fellowship) at NIT Durgapur (from Jul 2017 to Dec 2020)
- Junior Research Fellow at NIT Durgapur in the project titled “Post-Disaster Situation Analysis and Resource Management Using Delay-Tolerant Peer-to-Peer Wireless Networks (DISARM)”, sponsored by Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA), Digital India Corporation, Government of India. (from Sept 2015 to Jul 2017)
Educational Qualification:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India in the year 2022
- M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India in the year 2015
- B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India in the year 2013
Recent Updates:
*** Currently, I am accepting applications for the summer internship 2026 (Duration: May to July 2026, tentatively for 3 months). Interested candidates can apply through the following Google form.
Google form Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KchbRypqAFymCOdFCPKVYyJ19GtXxn_esNFP4so6uVY/viewform?edit_requested=true
Research Interests
My research interests are in the broad areas of:
- Wireless Networks
- UAV Communications and Networking
- Affective Computing
- Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Award
- ANRF Research Grant under Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PM ECRG), Govt. of India. Year: 2025
Sponsored Projects
Title: Design of a Distributed Resource-Aware Framework to Enhance Resiliency of Multi-UAV Networks Using Bio-Inspired Approach
Principal Investigator: Dr. Krishnandu Hazra
Total Budget: 27,15,009 INR
Duration: 3 Years
Sponsoring Agency: ANRF(SERB), Govt. of India.
Current Status: Ongoing
PhD Students
Full-Time PhD students:
- Partha Pratim Sarmah (with ANRF fellowship) [Status: Ongoing], [Research Area: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks]
- Sushmita Panda (with Institute Fellowship) [Status: Ongoing], [Research Area: Social Networks Analysis and NLP]
Part-Time PhD students:
- Dipanjan Joardar [Status: Ongoing], [Research Area: Machine Unlearning]
Teaching
- Winter
2024: CS330 - Software Engineering
[January-April, 2024] - Winter
2024: CS331 - Software Engineering lab
[January-April, 2024] - Winter 2024: CS111 - Data Structure Lab [January-April, 2024]
- Monsoon 2024: CS301 - Theory of Computation [July-November, 2024]
- Monsoon 2024: CS351 - Cloud Computing Lab [July-November, 2024]
- Winter 2025: CS231 - Operating Systems [January-April, 2025]
- Winter 2025: CS232 - Operating Systems Lab [January-April, 2025]
- Monsoon 2025: CS301 - Theory of Computation [July-November, 2025]
- Monsoon 2025: CS210 - Algorithm Lab [July-November, 2025]
- Winter 2026: CS231 - Operating Systems [January-April, 2026]
- Winter 2026: CS232 - Operating Systems Lab [January-April, 2026]
Administrative Responsibility
- Warden of Boys' Hostel: From April 2024 to Till date
Publication
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Conference
- Partha Pratim Sarmah; Satyaki Roy; Krishnandu Hazra, "NIRVANA: Nature-Inspired Resilience for UAV Agents via Distributed CoordiNAtion", 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026), (2026), IEEE
- Partha Pratim Sarmah; Partha Sarathi Paul; Krishnandu Hazra, "On Predicting Emotion From Commercial Smartwatch-A Big Data Narrative", 2025 IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI),3, (2025), pages. 1-6, IEEE
- Surbhi Soni, Swati Nanda Gupta, Rama Devi, Krishnandu Hazra, "Information Extraction From Tweets for Disaster Damage Assessment Using Rule-based NLP", 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), (2024), pages. 1-6, IEEE
- Krishnandu Hazra, Swaraj Deep, Sujoy Saha, and Subrata Nandi, "RCPDNPT: A Tool to Deploy a Post- disaster Network Under Resource-Constraint Scenarios", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems: I3CS 2020, NEHU, Shillong, India,Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series (LNNS, volume 170), (2021), pages. 453-461, Springer, Singapore
- Partha Sarathi Paul, Krishnandu Hazra, Sujoy Saha, and Subrata Nandi, "Oh Dear! It’s Just a Tool to Plan the Deployment of a Post-Disaster Network!", Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems 2020,Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1255), (2020), pages. 873-880, Springer, Singapore
- Krishnandu Hazra, Vijay K. Shah, Mohd Bilal, Simone Silvestri, Sajal K. Das, Subrata Nandi, and Sujoy Saha, "A novel network architecture for resource-constrained post-disaster environments.", 11th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS-2019), (2019), pages. 328-335, IEEE
- Partha Sarathi Paul, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Bishakh Chandra Ghosh, Krishnandu Hazra, Sandip Chakraborty, Sujoy Saha, and Subrata Nandi, "Offline crisis mapping by opportunistic dissemination of crisis data after large-scale disasters", Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management, (2016), pages. 1-8, ACM
Book Chapters
- Partha Pratim Sarmah, Aryan Choudhari, Partha Sarathi Paul, and Krishnandu Hazra, "On Mental Health Monitoring Using Commercial Wearable Devices and Machine Intelligence", Machine Learning in Healthcare: Data-Driven Decisions, Predictive Modelling, Personalized Medicine, (2025), pages. 305-334, De Gruyter
- Tamal Mondal, Krishnandu Hazra, Praveen Kumar Sharma, Partha Sarathi Paul, Ratna Mandal, Subrata Nandi, and Sujoy Saha, "New emergency communications: implication to climate hazards", Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters, (2022), pages. 605-624, Edward Elgar Publishing
- Partha Sarathi Paul, Krishnandu Hazra, Sujay Saha, Subrata Nandi, Sandip Chakraborty, and Sajal Das. , "Generating crisis maps for large-scale disasters: Issues and challenges", Wireless Public Safety Networks 3, (2017), pages. 67-98, Elsevier
Journal
- Prasenjit Karmakar, Vijay K. Shah, Satyaki Roy, Krishnandu Hazra, Sujoy Saha, and Subrata Nandi, "Reliable Backhauling in Aerial Communication Networks Against UAV Failures: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,19, (2022), pages. 2798 - 2811, IEEE
- Krishnandu Hazra, Vijay K. Shah, Satyaki Roy, Swaraj Deep, Sujoy Saha, and Subrata Nandi, "Exploring biological robustness for reliable multi-UAV networks", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,18, (2021), pages. 2776 - 2788, IEEE
- Krishnandu Hazra, Tanmoy Ghosh, Avirup Mukherjee, Sujoy Saha, Subrata Nandi, Saptarshi Ghosh, and Sandip Chakraborty, "Sustainable text summarization over mobile devices: An energy-aware approach", Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems,32, (2021), pages. 100607, Elsevier
- Krishnandu Hazra, Vijay K. Shah, Simone Silvestri, Vaneet Aggarwal, Sajal K. Das, Subrata Nandi, and Sujoy Saha, "Designing efficient communication infrastructure in post-disaster situations with limited availability of network resources", Computer Communications,164, (2020), pages. 54-68, Elsevier
Patent
- Sujoy Saha, Prithviraj Pramanik, Partha Sarathi Paul, Subrata Nandi, Kingshuk De, Bishakh Chandra Ghosh, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Tamal Mondal, Krishnandu Hazra, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Sandip Chakraborty, Niloy Ganguly, "AN END-TO-END SYSTEM FOR OFFLINE LOCALIZED CRISIS MAPPING AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF", The Patent Office Journal No. 24/2021 (Part-2, Page 417), (2021), Indian Patent