Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Pravas Ranjan Bal
, Computer Science and Engg
Ph.D. (CSE, IIT Roorkee), M.Tech. (CSE, NIT Rourkela) 		Contact Address
Permanent Address
Local Address Department of Computer Science & Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Off Campus Deoghar Deoghar Jharkhand
Phone (Office)
Phone Residence
Email Id pravasranjan90@gmail.com
Joined Institute on : 2-Jun-2023
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 2 Years

Research : 7 Years
  Professional Background
  1. Assistant Professor in CSE Department, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Deoghar ( From June 2023 to Present). 
  2. Assistant Professor in CSE Department, Shiksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) University ( From February 2021 to May 2023). 
  3. Visiting Research Scholar in MADESIS project, Information Technology Department, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands ( From September 2019 to December 2019). 
  Research Areas
 

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Software Fault Prediction, and Android Malware Detection, Software Engineering.
  Award and Honours
 
  1. Awarded as Odisha State Talent Scholarship in  Standard VI by State Government of Odisha.
  2. Secured 20th Rank (GEN) in OJEE (MCA) 2010.
  3. Got Odisha State Merit Scholarship from 2010-2013
  4. Gate Qualified in 2014. 
  5. MHRD Fellowship for M.Tech., NIT Rourkela.
  6. MEITY Fellowship for Ph.D, IIT Roorkee.
  7. Microsoft Research Grant for Visiting ICSOFT International Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2018.
  Publications
 

Conferences:

  1. Bal, P. R., Jena, N., and Mohapatra, D. P., "Software reliability prediction based on ensemble models", Proceeding of International Conference on Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices, Springer, Singapore, 2017, pp. 895-902.
  2. Bal, P. R., and Mohapatra, D. P., "Software Reliability Prediction Based on Radial Basis Function Neural Network", Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Springer, Singapore, 2017, pp. 101-110.
  3. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., "Extreme Learning Machine based Linear Homogeneous Ensemble for Software Fault Prediction", Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Software Technologies, Porto, 2018, Vol. 1, pp. 69-78. (Core B and Era B Rank).
  4. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., "Cross-Project Defect Prediction using Extreme Learning Machine: An Ensemble-based Study", Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Software Technologies, Porto, 2018, Vol. 1, pp. 320-327. (Core B and Era B Rank).
  5. Shukla S., Kumar S., and Bal, P. R., "Analysing Effect of Ensemble Models on Multi-Layer Perceptron Network for Software Effort Estimation ", Proceeding of 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services, Milan, 2019, pp.384-385. (Core B and Era B Rank).

Journals:

  1. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., "Parametric and Non-Parametric Software Reliability Models", IEEE Reliability Magazine, 2017. 
  2. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., "WR-ELM: Weighted Regularization Extreme Learning Machine for Imbalance Learning in Software Fault Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1355-13752020. (Impact Factor: 5.883)  
  3. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., "RELMP-MM: An Approach to Cross Project Fault Prediction using Improved Regularized Extreme Learning Machine and Identical Matched Metrics", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2022. (Impact Factor: 3.662)  
  4. Bal, P. R., and Kumar, S., " A Data Transfer and Relevant Metrics Matching based Approach for Heterogeneous Defect Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2022. (Impact Factor: 9.322)
  Member of Professional Bodies
 
  Current Sponsored Projects
 
  1. Smart Improvement of the productivity for Crop by using Deep Learning

Status: Completed (October 2021 to November 2022)
Sponsor: Microsoft (AI for Earth Grants)
Role: Co. Principal Investigator
Cost: 15000 $

  1. Smart Automation of Detection and Diagnosis of Soil Quality with Plant Diseases Using Deep Learning

Status: Completed (October 2021 to November 2022)
Sponsor: Microsoft (AI for Earth Grants)
Role: Co. Principal Investigator
Cost: 15000 $

  1. AI for Smart Monitoring of Security Challenges in State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Biochips

Status: Ongoing (May 2023 to Present)
Sponsor: SERB, Govt. of India
Role: Co. Principal Investigator
Cost: Rs. 30,00000
  Text and Reference Books
 
  Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
 
  Fellow
 
  Member, Editorial Board
 

Reviewer of Journals:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Reliability (I. F. : 5.883)
  2. Energy Reports, Elsevier (I.F. : 6.87)
  3. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (I. F. : 19.118)
  4. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (I. F. : 3.691)
  5. Empirical Software Engineering, Springer (I. F. : 3.762)
  6. Software Quality Journal, Springer (I. F. : 1.813)
  7. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (I. F. : 14.255)
  8. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Elsevier (I. F.: 6.757)
  9. Expert Systems with Application, Elsevier (I. F.: 8.665)
  10. Egyptian Informatics Journal, Elsevier (I. F.: 4.195)

  

Reviewer of Conferences:

  1. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent and Cloud Computing (ICICC-2021), Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOADU), Bhubaneswar.
  2. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2022 (CORE A, ERA A) 
  3. 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (CORE B, ERA B)