Dr. Krishnandu Hazra Assistant Professor (CSE)
PhD (NIT Durgapur) Department of Computer Science & 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:
*** I am currently looking for motivated PhD students. I have multiple vacancies of fully funded PhD positions. If you are interested in pursuing PhD under my guidance, please feel free to email me with your details.
*** I accept internship or additional project requests throughout the year. You should apply only if you are interested in working with dedication for at least three months in related areas of my research interest (mentioned below). I am glad to share that my previous internship students published research papers in reputed forums.
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
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 [January-April, 2025]
- Monsoon 2025: CS301 - Theory of Computation [July-November, 2025]
- Monsoon 2025: CS210 - Algorithm Lab [July-November, 2025]
Administrative Responsibility
- Warden of Boys' Hostel: From April 2024 to Till date
Publication
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Conference
- 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
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
Book Chapters
- 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
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