Dr. Ram Prasad Padhy is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. He received both his B.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Prior to joining IIT Bhubaneswar, he was an Assistant Professor for 3.5 years in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kancheepuram. He has 5 years of cumulative industrial research experience with Samsung Research Institute, Delhi and Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. His research interests include Machine learning, Computer vision, Autonomous robotics, and Visual surveillance. His research publications comprise international journals, conferences, and patents in these domains. He has also served as reviewer in many peer reviewed international journals and conferences.

• Title: Situational Awareness in Self-driving Cars using Machine Learning, Funding Agency : SERB-DST, Role: Principal Investigator, Budget: Rs. 19.01 Lakh, Duration: 24 Months (Dec 2021 to Dec 2023)
• Title: Safety Critical Scenario Identification in Self-driving cars using Machine Learning, Funding Agency : NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation Foundation (NM-ICPS TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad), Role: Principal Investigator, Budget: Rs. 24.83 Lakh, Duration: 24 Months (July 2022 to July 2024)

• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Interactive Computer Graphics
• Problem Solving and Programing / Programming and Data Structures
• Introduction to Data Science for Engineers
• Artificial Intelligence
• AI for Autonomous Vehicles

Ongoing

1. Thurimerla Prasanth (January 2022 – Present) – IIITDM Kancheepuram, Thesis Title: Multi Sensor Fusion based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles

1. Naveen Kumar, V Rajakumari, Ram Prasad Padhy, Soumyaranjan Routray, Kumar Prasannajit Pradhan, “A Machine Learning Approach for Optimizing and Accurate Prediction of Performance Parameters for Stacked Nanosheet Transistor”, Physica Scripta, IOPscience. Status: Recently Accepted, Year: 2024. Impact Factor: 2.9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad2b35, ISSN: 1402-4896
2. Ram Prasad Padhy, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Fabio Narducci, Carmen Bisogni, Sambit Bakshi, “Monocular Vision Aided Depth Measurement from RGB Images for Autonomous UAV Navigation”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, ACM, Year: 2023. Impact Factor: 4.094 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3550485, ISSN: 1551-6857
3. Nayan Kumar Subhashis Behera, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Sambit Bakshi, and Ram Prasad Padhy, “Person re-identification: A taxonomic survey and the path ahead”, Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, Volume: 122, Pages: 104432, Year: 2022. Impact Factor: 3.86 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2022.104432, ISSN: 1872-8138
4. Ram Prasad Padhy, Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi, “Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Using Visual Features in Unknown Environments”, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE, Volume: 8, Pages: 74-80, Year: 2019. Impact Factor: 4.135 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2019.2892280 , ISSN: 2162-2256
5. Ram Prasad Padhy, Xiaojun Chang, Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi, “Multi-stage Cascaded Deconvolution for Depth Map and Surface Normal Prediction from Single Image”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, Volume: 127, Pages: 165-173, Year: 2018. Impact Factor: 4.757 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2018.07.012, ISSN: 0167-8655
6. Ram Prasad Padhy, Feng Xia, Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi, “Monocular Vision Aided Autonomous UAV Navigation in Indoor Corridor Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE, Volume: 4, Pages: 96-108, Year: 2018. Impact Factor: 4.908 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2810952, ISSN: 2377-3782
7. Ram Prasad Padhy, Sachin Verma, Shahzad Ahmad, Suman Kumar Choudhury, and Pankaj Kumar Sa, “Deep Neural Network for Autonomous UAV Navigation in Indoor Corridor Environments”, Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Volume: 133, Pages: 643-650, Year: 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.099, ISSN: 1877-0509
8. Suman Kumar Choudhury, Ram Prasad Padhy, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Khan Muhammad, and Sambit Bakshi, “Scale Aware Deep Pedestrian Detection”, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley, Volume: 30, Year: 2018. Impact Factor: 3.31 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3522, ISSN: 2161-3915
9. Suman Kumar Choudhury, Ram Prasad Padhy, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi, “Human Detection using Orientation Shape Histogram and Coocurrence Textures”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume: 78, Pages: 13949–13969, Year: 2018. Impact Factor: 2.577 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6866-8, ISSN: 1573-7721
10. Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Ram Prasad Padhy, Saurav Sharma, and Sambit Bakshi, “Improved Pedestrian Detection using Motion Segmentation and Silhouette Orientation”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume: 77, Pages: 13075–13114, Year: 2017. Impact Factor: 2.577 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4933-1, ISSN: 1573-7721

1. Suman Kumar Choudhury, Ram Prasad Padhy, and Pankaj Kumar Sa, “Faster R-CNN with Densenet for Scale Aware Pedestrian Detection vis-à-vis Hard Negative Suppression”, IEEE 27th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), IEEE, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MLSP.2017.8168128, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6341-3
2. Divyansh Rastogi, Ram Prasad Padhy, and Pankaj Kumar Sa, “Detection of Retinal Disorders in Optical Coherence Tomography using Deep Learning”, IEEE 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCNT45670.2019.8944406, ISBN: 978-1-5386-5906-9
3. Ram Prasad Padhy, Shahzad Ahmad, Sachin Verma, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi, “Localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Corridor Environments using Deep Learning”, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), IEEE, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412096, ISBN: 978-1-7281-8808-9
4. Haseeb Khan and Ram Prasad Padhy, “Free Space Detection for Autonomous Vehicles in Indian Driving Scenarios”, Eighth International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), 2023. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58535-7_35, ISSN: 978-3-031-58535-7

1. Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Ram Prasad Padhy, and Banshidhar Majhi, “A denoising inspired deblurring framework for regularized image restoration”, IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), IEEE, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/INDICON.2016.7839086, ISSN: 2325-9418
2. Satyabhama Vyshnavi Lakshmipriya Potti and Ram Prasad Padhy, “Depth Estimation from Single RGB Image using Attention based Encoder-Decoder Network”, IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), IEEE, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/INDICON59947.2023.10440944, ISSN: 2325-9418

Senior Software Engineer Samsung Research & Development Institute – Delhi, Samsung India Electronics PVT. LTD., Duration: July, 2011 – Jan, 2015

Lead Research Engineer, Siemens Corporate Technology Division – Future of Automation, Siemens Technology and Services PVT. LTD., Bengaluru, Duration: Aug, 2019 – Jan, 2021

Assistant Professor, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai, Duration: Feb, 2021 – July, 2024

Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, Duration: July, 2024 – Present