Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Soumya Sidhishwari
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engg
Ph. D. 		Contact Address
Permanent Address B/10 Bihar Bankmens' colony Chitragupta Nagar Patna-800020
Local Address Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi -835 215
Phone (Office) 9470113158
Phone Residence 9470113158
Email Id soumya@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 1-Apr-2009
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 13 Years

Research : 8 Years

Individual: 5 Years
  Professional Background

Designation

Organization/Institute

Period

Assistant Professor

BIT, Mesra (Dept.of ECE)

17 May 2017 onwards

Associate Lecturer

BIT, Mesra (Dept.of ECE)

April 2009-16 May 2017

Research Associate

BIT, Mesra (Dept.of ECE)

June 2005-March 2009

 
  Research Areas
 

Area of Interest   :

Fiber Optic Sensors, Fiber Optic Communication

Research Fields   :

Fiber Optic Sensors, Fiber Optic Communication

 
  Publications
 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

  •  Journal Publications:
  1. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal and Soumya Sidhishwari, "Apodized chirped fiber Bragg grating for measuring the uniform and non-uniform characteristics of physical parameters", Measurement (Elsevier) Volume. 240, pp. 115606 (1-20), 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2024.115606.  [SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.2]
  2. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal and Soumya Sidhishwari, “Optimization and analysis of apodized fiber Bragg grating properties for quasi-distributed sensing,” Physica Scripta, 99 (2024) 075504. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad4f26  (SCI IF:2.9)
  3. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal and Soumya Sidhishwari, “Design of an Apodized Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for Sensitivity Analysis of Physical Parameters using Support Vector Machine”, Braz. J of Phys (Springer Nature), Volume. 54, Number. 58, pp. 1-11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-024-01431-z. [SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.5]
  4. Mandal, H.N., Sidhishwari, S. Sensitivity Enhancement of Apodized Fiber Bragg Grating for Temperature Measurement. Phys. Wave Phen. 31, 252–262 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X23040039 [SCI, SCIE Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.4] 
  5. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal and Soumya Sidhishwari, “Theoretical investigation of the impact of apodized fiber Bragg grating and machine learning approaches in quasi-distributed sensing,” Meas. Sci. Technol. Volume 34 Number 10, 2023, 105101. DOI 10.1088/1361-6501/acde9a  https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/acde9a (SCI, SCIE IF:2.4)
  6. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal, Soumya Sidhishwari, “Sensitivity analysis of designed apodized fiber Bragg grating sensor using artificial neural network and tree-based models,” Results in Optics, Volume 10, 2023, 100343, ISSN 2666-9501, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rio.2022.100343. (SCOPUS) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666950122001328
  7. Soumya Sidhishwari, Mainak Basu and S. K. Ghorai, “A Modal interference-based Fiber Optic Sensor for Dual Parameter Measurement using an Artificial Neural Network,” Optical Fiber Technology, 50 (2019) 216–224 (SCI  IF: 2.8). ISSN: 1068-5200. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1068520018306485#ab005 
  8. S. K. Ghorai, Soumya Sidhishwari and S. Konar, “Phase Retrieval in Optical Fiber Modal Interference for Structural Health Monitoring,” Optics Communications, vol. 283, pp. 1278-1284, 2010. ISSN: 0030-4018 (SCI  IF:2.335).
  1. Soumya Sidhishwari and S. K. Ghorai, “Strain Measurement in a Mach-Zehnder Fiber Interferometer using Data Dependent System Method,” International Journal of Computer Applications, Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA, vol.  4, pp. 24-28, 2011. ISSN: 0975-8887.
  • Conference Publications:
  1. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal and Soumya Sidhishwari, "Predictive Analysis on Apodized Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating for Estimating  Temperature-Strain Effects using Machine Learning," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing and Effective  Communication Technologies (INSPECT 2024), at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM) Gwalior,  India. (Accepted-IEEE Xplore)

  2. H. N. Mandal and S. Sidhishwari, "Classification of Temperature-Strain Effects on Apodized Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor using Artificial Neural Network," 2023 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SILCON59133.2023.10404650. 

  3. H. N. Mandal and S. Sidhishwari, "Predictive Analysis on Apodized FBG for Quasi-Distributed Temperature-Strain Sensing," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SPCOM55316.2022.9840764. (held during 11th–15th July 2022 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India).

  4. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal, Soumya Sidhishwari, “Investigation of Gaussian Apodized FBG Properties for the Analysis of Building Materials”, International Conference on Circuits, Controls and Communications (CCUBE), at RNSIT on December 23-24, 2021. (IEEE). ISBN No:978-1-6654-0203-3     DOI: 10.1109/CCUBE53681.2021.9702729

  5. Himadri Nirjhar Mandal, Soumya Sidhishwari, “Design of a Gaussian Apodized Uniform FBG Sensor for Multi-parameter Sensing and Predictive Analysis using Machine Learning”, Third International Conference on Innovative Trends in Electronics Engineering (ICITEE), 14 December 2021. Royal Book Publishing, pp 173-182. ISBN: 9789391131753

  6. Nidhi Jha, Soumya Sidhishwari, Analysis of Dispersion Compensation Techniques used in Optical Fiber Communication, 4th International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing & Communication Systems (MCCS-2019), May 11-12, ARTTC BSNL Ranchi, 2019.

  7. S. K. Ghorai, Dilip Kumar and Soumya Sidhishwari, “Phase Extraction in Two Mode Birefringent Optical Fiber and its Application in Quasi-Distributed Strain Sensing,” Proc. of SPIE, vol. 6189, pp. 6189X, 2006, ISBN: 9780819462459.
  8. S. K. Ghorai, S. Sengupta, Soumya Sidhishwari and D. R. Roy, “A Hybrid Fiber Optic  Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring,” Sensors, IEEE, pp. 1667, 2010. ISSN: 1930-0395, E-ISBN: 978-1-4244-8168-2, Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-8170-5.
  9. Soumya Sidhishwari and S. K. Ghorai, “Strain Measurement in a Mach-Zehnder Fiber Interferometer using Data Dependent System Method,” Proc. of National Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Network (CCSN-2011) at PIET, Rourkela, October 29-30, 2011.ISBN:81-85824-46-0.
  10. Soumya Sidhishwari and  S. K. Ghorai, “Simultaneous Measurement of  Strain and Temperature using Modal Interference in Birefringent Fiber,” Proc. of International  Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS-10, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, December 11-15, 2010.ISBN:978-81-309-1719-1.
  11. Soumya Sidhishwari, S. Sengupta and S. K. Ghorai, “Higher Order Modal Interference in Optical Fiber for Structural Health Monitoring,” Proc. of International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS-08, New Delhi, December 14-17, 2008.
  12. S. K. Ghorai, Soumya Sidhishwari and S. Sengupta, “Improved Least Squares based Autoregressive Model for Phase Extraction in Distributed Fiber Optic Interferometric Sensors,” Proc. of International Conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS-06, Hydrabad, December 13-16, 2006.

  • Book Chapter

    Nidhi Jha and Soumya Sidhishwari, “Analysis of Dispersion Compensation Techniques Used in Optical Fiber Communication,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication Systems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 673, Springer, ISSN 1876-1100, June 2020.
  Member of Professional Bodies
 

Indian Society for Technical Education, Life member, No. - LM 57812
  Member, Editorial Board
 

Member of the editorial board of Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Horizon Research Publishing (HRPUB))