PROF. (DR.) R. K. SAMANTA

Name, Department, Institute and Address :

Dr. R. K. Samanta
Professor (Retired)
University of North Bengal,
Darjeeling - 734013, INDIA
E-mail: rksamantark@gmail.com
URL:https://samantark.tripod.com/homepage.html

Birth: January,1954.
Academic qualifications:M.Sc; MCA ( TTP), Ph.D.

Communication Address
Univ. Avenue, Gate No. 2
University of North Bengal, Darjeeling
Pin- 734 013, INDIA. 		R. K. Samanta

After Post Graduation.:

  • Research Fellow/ North Bengal University/ 1978-80.
  • Tech. Assistant / 1981-83 / Research Service Centre / North Bengal University.
  • Lecturer / 1984-89/ Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Sr. Lecturer / 1989-91/ Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Reader / Jan, 1992 -2001 / Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Professor / May, 2001 - / Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Professor & Head / Oct, 2001 - Nov. 2002/ Deptt. of Computer Science. / Vidyasagar University.
  • Head / Nov.1992-Nov.1994/ Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Head / Nov.1992-Nov.1994/ Computer Centre, North Bengal University.
  • Head / Nov.1996 - Nov.1998 Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Head / Nov.1996 - Nov.1998 / Computer Centre, North Bengal University.
  • Head / Nov.2006 - Nov.2008 / Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Head / Nov.2012 - Jan. 2013 / Deptt. of Computer Sc. & Applications/ North Bengal University.
  • Director / 2012 - 2013/ IQAC / North Bengal University.

    • Supervisor of Ph. D. Students ( Computer Science):

    1. Dr. A. K. Saha (Degree Awarded, North Bengal University)

    Title of the thesis: " Studies on Paediatric Growth Problems in North-Bengal Districts of India and Development of a Fuzzy Object-Oriented Knowledge-Based System for Treatment Planning".

    2. Dr. M. G. Goswami ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University)

    Title of the thesis: " An Approach towards the Development of an Expert System for Paediatric Problem Domain".

    3. Dr. Indrajit Ghosh ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University )

    Title of the thesis: " Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Tea Garden Management".

    4. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Datta ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University )

    Title of the thesis: "Development of Medical Expert Consultation Systems"

    5. Sri Dilip Roy Chowdhury ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University )

    Title of the thesis: "A Study on Some Prevalent Diseases Amongst Neonates of North-Eastern Parts of India and Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support System for Treatment"

    6. Sri Malay Mitra ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University )

    Title of the thesis: "Medical Diagnosis Using Soft Computing Techniques"

    7. Sri Joydeb Ghosh ( Degree Awarded, North Bengal University )

    Title of the thesis: "Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Solving n Coins Problem"

    8. Sri Rajesh Misir (Degree Awarded, Vidyasagar University )

    Title of the thesis: "On the Development of Intelligent Systems for Biomedical Problems"

    Major Projects completed:

    A. " KID : Expert System for foetal and Child Growth and Development for North Bengal Districts : An Object-Oriented Approach ".

     Sponsored by : CSIR, Govt. of India.
     Principal Investigator : R. K. Samanta.
    Status : Completed.

    B. " Environment and Child Growth : A Study of Poorest of the Poor Families of North Bengal districts " .

     Sponsored by : Castricum Muttahara (Netherlands ).
     Co-inveatigator : R. K. Samanta.
    Status : Completed.

    Seminers / Courses / Conferences / Conventions / Workshops attended / Invited Talks:

     1. A Six-weeks course on "FORTRAN PROGRAMMING" - Regional Computer Centre, calcutta, 1979.
    2. Symp. on Nuclear Interactions at High Energies May 2-8,1979,North Bengal University, India.
    3. Symp. on Nucl. Phys. and Solid State Phys., Dec. 27-31,1982, Banaras Hindu University, India.
    4. A Tutorial workshop on "PROGRAMMING IN PASCAL" - I. I.T., Kanpur,1983.
    5. A Course on "OPERATING SYSTEM" - I. I.T., Delhi, 1986.
    6. A Course on "PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES" - I. I.T., Delhi, 1986.
    7. MCA Teachers` Training Programme (Module IV) - I. I. M., Calcutta, 1988.
    8. International Conference On Management of Data 1989 and Pre-Conference Tutorial On Information Systems Methodologies - Hyderabad, India, Nov. 21-25, 1989.
    9. A Course on "MICROPROCESSORS" by U.S.I.C., North Bengal University and R.I.C., University of Bombay, June 4-15, 1990.
    10. 30th Annual Convention,1995, Computer Society of India, Nov.9-12, 1995, Hyderabad, India.
    11. Third International Conference on Modelling and Simulation MS’97, Victoria University of Technology, Australia, 29-31 October, 1997.
    12. 5th West Bengal State Science Congress, North Bengal University, 21-23 March, 1998.
    13. National Seminar on Networking, Internetworking and Data Security, 18-19 April, 1998, Darjeeling.
    14. National Conference on Medical Informatics, 6-7 April, 1999, IPE, Hyderabad.
    15. International AMSE Conf. on Computer Modelling, Simulation and Communication ( CMSE ‘99), 1-3 Dec, 1999, BIT, Jaipur.
    16. International Conference on Modelling and Simulation ( MS’2000-Egypt), 11 - 13 April, 2000. Cairo (Egypt).
    17. UGC sponsored national seminar on Competency Development Programme for Teacher Education: Individual & Institutional Challenges, 29-30 September, 2011, A. C. Training College, Jalpaiguri, India.
    18. Session Chair, 2nd National Conference on Computing and Systems( NaCCS - 2012), 15 - 16 March, 2012, University of Burdwan, India.
    19. 3rd. National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science( NCETACS- 2012), 30- 31 March, 2012, St. Anthony's College, Shillong, India.
    20. Invited Talk - 'Research Scholars' Workshop on Computer Science and Application' organized by Salesian College and Computer Society of India, Siliguri Chapter, India on 11th September, 2012.
    21. 1st . Nat. Conf. Electronics, Comm., Sensing & Signal Processing Technologies, Surendra Inst. of Engg. & Management, Darjeeling.2nd Nov, 2012.
    22. Session Chair, CSI - 2012, Kolkata, December 1-2, 2012, India.
    23. “ Journey from 30 ton ENIAC to 650 gm iPad4", Invited Talk delivered on 16th March, 2013, The Jalpaiguri Govt. Engg. College Alumni Association, Jalpaiguri, India.
    24. Nat. Symp. on Recent Trends in Plant and Microbial Research, March 22-23, 2013, Deptt. of Botany, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India.
    25. Workshop on Cyber Security on 25th March, 2013, Department of Computer Science and Application, North Bengal University, India.
    26. “ Cyber Security", Invited Talk delivered on 15th May, 2013, Workshop on Application of Information Technology in the Modern Civilization, St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India in collaboration with the Computer Society of India, Siliguri Chapter.
    27. Session Chair, Second Int. Conf. on Computing and Systems- 2013, The Univ. of Burdwan, India, Sept. 21-22, 2013.
    28. Session Chair, CIMTA- 2013: Computational Intelligence: Modeling, Techniques and Applications, Kalyani University, India, Sept. 27-28, 2013.
    29. Session Chair, UCG Sponsored National Seminar on AI and its Impact on Modern IT World, Gour Mahavidyalaya, Malda, India, 6-7 December, 2013.
    30. Keynote Address: Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, UCG Sponsored National Seminar on AI and its Impact on Modern IT World, Gour Mahavidyalaya, Malda, India, 6-7 December, 2013.
    31. "Introduction to BioPerl", invited talk, Nat. Conf. cum Workshop on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 14-15 March, 2014, SMIT, Sikkim
    32. Session Chair, 3rd Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing Theory and Application ( FICTA - 2014), 14 - 15 Nov., 2014, Bhubaneswar Engg. College, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

    Scientific research :

    Samanta started his research activities in 1978 in the area of theoretical Physics as a Research Fellow. This involved an extensive computational work. The computational work was done using Barroughs 6700 system installed at RCC, Jadavpur. Since then he gradually become interested to computers and computations field and ultimately switched to the area of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems technology, Bio-medical problems, Medical Informatics, and Tea garden management.

    Paediatric Growth and Development (PGD)

    Samanta and his co-investigators have studied some problems with Paediatric growth and development for the region of North Bengal districts of India. They have found a significant growth retardation for fetal and child cases. They also have noted that the present region is lagging behind the 'standard' in terms of 'Environmental health'. It is suggested by these investigators that a constant monitoring is required for PGD of the region.

    Expert Systems Technology and its Societal Applications

    As an ideal situation, a paediatrician should be placed to each and every rural health centre. But, for a developing country like India, Paediatrician is a scarce commodity. To mitigate such expertise as well as to mitigate other potential problems, it is proposed that an automated consultation system within an expert system framework should be useful. A low-cost PC based portable consultation system is being proposed here. Currently, he and his co-investigators are engaged in developing such a system. On the other hand, they are also investigating the applicability of AI techniques in tea garden management. Potential technological issues are of interest such as rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning, model-based reasoning, fuzzy knowledge base, artificial neural networks in connection with the development of such KBS/ES.

    Software Engineering Issues

    Software engineering, a relatively new and developing paradigm, deals with such methodologies, techniques, and tools so that one can develop quality systems with less time and costs. Perhaps this discipline has reached near to its adolescence but, however, it has still to attain its full maturity. New concepts and ideas from researchers and practitioners are being added to this discipline. Samanta and his co-workers are currently engaged to develop an expert system in the PGD domain and in tea garden management. Expert Systems development is the first and foremost software engineering. They are trying to contribute some new concepts and ideas from practitioners' point of view towards this discipline in the process of developing an expert system. Studies on the relative suitability of object technology, prototyping approach vs. phase-refinement approah, GUI approach, use CASE tools etc. are of interest.

    Medical Informatics and Web-based Technology ( CGI-Perl and BioPerl )

    WWW and Internet technology have opened up a new avenue towards the knowledge elicitation. But, however, web-based knowledge elicitation has certain problems in general. Specially, we have to judge the quality of those knowledge before applying to it in the actual medical floor. We are pursuing different issues related to medical informatics in our laboratory. We are pursuing the development of Web-based decision support systems (DSS) using CGI-Perl. The applications of BioPerl are also of interest in Bioinformatics.

    AI and Expert Systems in Tea Garden Management

    Dr. Samanta and his co-workers are also investigating the application of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems technology in Tea garden management. They have produced some results in this connection.

    Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Soft Computing

    Dr. Samanta and his co-workers are also investigating the application of Data mining as well as Rough set theory and other Soft computing techniques in medical domain as well as in agricultural domain. They have also produced some results in this connection.

    Professional Bodies :

    A : Senior Life Member, Computer Society of India.
    B : Member of the Board of Examiners of Burdwan University, Berhampur University, Kanpur University, Visva Bharati University, Jai Narain Vyas University, and North Bengal University.
    C : Reviewer: KBCS - 96, KBCS - 98, NCST, Bombay.
    D : Member, Executive Body, CSI, Siliguri Chapter / 1994 - 1998.
    E : Chairman, Computer Society of India, Siliguri Chapter / 1998-99/ 1999-2000.
    F : Member, Screening Committee, DOEACC Society, DOE, Govt. of India.
    G : Reviewer: Computer Science & Informatics: a Computer Society of India Journal.

    Honorary post :

    A : Joint Managing Editor/ North Bengal University Review (Science & Technology)/ 1991-93.
    B : Chairman, Programme Committee, Eastern Regional Convention, 1995, Siliguri, Computer Society of India.
    C : Editor, Proceedings, ERC-95, Siliguri, Computer Society of India.
    D : Chairman, Programme Committee,National Seminar on Networking, Internetworking and Data Security, Darjeeling, 18-19 April,1998.
    Honors
    1. Biographical inclusion in the Tenth Edition of the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership published by American Biographical Institute, USA.
    2. Man of the Year – 2000 by American Biographical Institute, USA.
    3. Member, Research Board of Advisers, American Biographical Institute, USA.
    Research work done with :

    (i) Prof. S. Mukherjee, North Bengal University;
    (ii) Prof. P. C. Sood, Banaras Hindu University;
    (iii) Dr. C. Maheswari, Banaras Hindu University;
    (iv) Prof. D. Dutta Majumder, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta;
    (v) Dr. N. L. Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia;
    (vi) Dr. D. P. Dutta, North Bengal University;
    (vii) Mr. A. K. Roy, North Bengal University;
    (viii) Dr. N. R. Manna, North Bengal University;
    (ix) Dr. S. C. Pal, North Bengal University;
    (x) Mrs. Pampa Mondal, North Bengal University;
    (xi) Dr. M. G. Goswami, North Bengal University;
    (xii) Dr. A. K. Saha, North Bengal University;
    (xiii) Dr. (Mrs) Mridula Chatterjee, North Bengal Medical College;
    (xiv) Dr. K. C. Mitra, Siliguri;
    (xv) Dr. Indrajit Ghosh, A.C. College, Jalpaiguri.
    (xvi) Dr. Sanjay Kumar Dutta, Visva-Bharati University.
    (xvii) Sri Dilip Roy Chowdhury, North Bengal University.
    (xviii) Sri Malay Mitra , North Bengal University
    (xix) Sri Joydeb Ghosh, North Bengal University
    (xx) Sri Rajesh Misir, Vidyasagar University
    (xxi) Sri Dipanjan Moitra, North Bengal University

    Foreign Visits
    1. Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia - presenting a paper at the 3rd International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, 29-31 October, 1997.
    2. Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Kernish El-Nile, El-Maadi, CAIRO, Egypt - presenting a paper in the International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS’2000-Egypt), Cairo(Egypt), 11 - 13 April, 2000.
    List of Publications : Please click here
    Others

    A. Former Guest Faculty: Information Technology and Computer Science & Engineering, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Darjeeling
    B. Former Guest Faculty: Information Technology & DTP wing, Continuing Education Programme, North Bengal University.
    C. Former Guest Faculty: P. G. Diploma in Tea Management, North Bengal University.
    D. Former Guest Faculty: IGNOU, Siliguri Study Centre.
    E. Former Guest Faculty: P. G. Diploma in Cultural Tourism, North Bengal University.
    F. Frequent talker in 'Gyan Bigyan' section, All India Radio, Siliguri.

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