Key Research Areas

1. Intelligent Systems and Control, Cognitive Robotics, Nano-robotics, Vision Based Control, Soft Computing Information Retrieval in Music and Language, Semantic Information Processing, Physics of Complex Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, Formation Control of Uavs, Brain-computer Interface, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics

About

1. Prof. Laxmidhar Behera is the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, a position he has held since January 2022. He holds the position of senior Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. Prof. Behera earned his B.Sc. (Engg) and M.Sc. (Engg) degrees from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi in 1996. He pursued his post-doctoral research in German National Research Centre for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin. With over 28 years of research and teaching experience, Prof. Behera has made significant contributions to intelligent systems and control, vision-based robotics, warehouse automation, brain-computer interfaces, drone technology, consciousness studies and mental healthcare. He has established industrial collaborations with organizations such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Renault Nissan, and BEL Bangalore. He has successfully executed sponsored research projects of more than 25 Crores. Prof. Behera has supervised 31 Ph.D. students to completion and currently supervising 14 PhD students. He has also supervised more than 70 master's dissertations. He has authored three graduate-level textbooks, and more than 380 publications that include 123 peer-reviewed journal papers, 238 conference papers, and 26 book chapters. During the initial lockdown because of COVID pandemic, he distributed free cooked food packets to hungry children for 50 days.

Recent Publications

1. High-Level Clocks Network Simulation for Input Challenges in Quantum Computing Singh P.;Roy C.;Yadav C.S.;Behera L.;Bandyopadhyay A.
2. Simulating Photonic Interference Using Quantum Walk Roy C.;Singh P.;Yadav C.S.;Behera L.;Bandyopadhyay A.
3. Optimizing Yagi Antenna Arrays for a Single-Channel Input in Optical Vortex Quantum Computing Singh P.;Yadav C.S.;Behera L.;Bandyopadhyay A.
4. Decoding Cognitive Load Changes Induced by Mantra Meditation From Physiological Signals Using Deep Neural Networks Singh S.;Beuria J.;Behera L.;Bilas Pachori R.;Gupta V.
5. MFG-RNN: A multi-feedback gated recurrent neural network with HJB-based weight update for EEG-based concealed information detection Gupta K.V.;Kumar Reddy Bollu T.;Behera L.;Ika K.;Pachori R.B.
6. A cyber-physical system based unmanned ground vehicles for safety inspection and rescue support in an underground mine Behera L.;Agarwal S.;Sandhan T.;Sharma P.;Kumar A.;Ranjan A.;Watsa S.;Singh A.;Kasina J.S.
7. MOORL: A Framework for Integrating Offline-Online Reinforcement Learning Chaudhary G.;Mondal W.U.;Behera L.

Courses Taught

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Laxmidhar Behera

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