Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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Sanjeet Kumar

Joined Institute on : 14-Jul-2003

  • Assistant Professor
  • Electronics and Communication Engg
  • B.Sc (Engg.), ME (BIT Mesra) & PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Contact Address

Department of ECE, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, RANCHI, JHARKHAND, PIN-835,215

Kankarbagh Colony, Patna-800,020.

  • Phone Office - 07992310903
  • Phone Residence - 07992310903
  • Email - sanjeet@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 20 Years

Research : 18 Years

Research Areas

5G and Beyond Communications; Critical Communications; AI Enabled Communication; Green Communications; Wireless Visual Surveillance;

Award and Honours

PhD Guided:

  1. Sarah Asheer,  PhD/EC/10002/2014, “Virtual MIMO based cooperative communication for an energy efficient and secure wireless sensor network”, Awarded: on 16th Aug. 2022, Sole Guidance
  2. Arti Kumari, PhD/EC/10004/2020, “Compressed sensing-driven framework for efficient and reliable image communication over wireless networks”,  Awarded: on 9th June 2026, Sole Guidance

M.Tech Project Guidance:

Sl. No.

Name of Candidate

Thesis Title

Year

01.

Ankita De (MT/EC/10005/2020)

Performance enhancement of an UAV network using efficient energy distribution and node placement

2022

02.

Monica Kumari (MT/EC/10009/2017)

Utilizing cooperative communication for an event-based data transmission in a WSN

2019

03.

Shashi Kant Kumar (MT/EC/10004/2016)

Development of vehicle control system for accident detection in VANET for road safety

2018

04.

Kirtika Samanta (ME/CE/10001/2016)

Study of soil particle size distribution using different methods

2018

05.

Aditi Rani (ME/ECE/10027/2015)

Security in wsn and its effect on the lifetime of sensor network

2017

06.

Navneet Nayan (ME/ECE/10004/2015)

Real time event detection in visual sensor networks

2017

07.

Sreerupa Deb (ME/CE/10019/2014)

Laboratory study of internal soil erosion using digital image processing

2016

08.

Yogesh Kumar Sharma (ME/ECE/10006/2014)

Efficient cluster head formation and lifetime evaluation of a wireless sensor network

2016

09.

Soumik Senapati (ME/ECE/10023/2014)

Smart wireless visual sensor network based on face recognition with hybrid DWT-DCT feature extraction techniques

2016

10.

Swarnali Goswami (ME/ECE/10032/2013)

Enabling FPGA hardware accelerator in high-performance computing

2015

11.

Neha Swarup (ME/ECE/10018/2013)

Lifetime enhancement of a wireless sensor network based on modifications in LEACH

2015

12.

Sarah Asheer (ME/ECE/10019/2012)

Design of an energy efficient wireless sensor network

2014

13.

Keshav Sinha (ME/EC/1033/2010)

Performance evaluation of image communication using LDPC

2012

14.

Alok Jha (ME/EC/1007/2010)

Complexity analysis of LDPC codes

2012

15.

Akash Kumar Gupta (ME/ECE/1015/2008)

VHDL implementation of Turbo code

2010

Other Award and Honours: 

S.No

Name of Award

Awarding Agency

Year

 01.

Best Paper Presenter Award (Enhancing Drone Efficiency with 5G-Enabled Cloud-Based Processing for Real-Time Image Analysis)

27th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Greater Noida, India, 2024 2024

 02.

INSPIRE Awards MANAK (Reviewer at National Level)

National Innovation Foundation-India (DST)

2020-21

 03.

INSPIRE Awards MANAK (Jury Member at District and State level, Jharkhand)

National Innovation Foundation-India (DST)

2019 and 2020

04.

Institute Fellowship (PhD)

 IIT Kharagpur

2008-2009

05.

 GATE Scholarship

 MHRD

 2000-2002

 

Outreach Activities/ Resource Person:

1. Co-Convenor: One-day workshop on “Emerging Trends in Communication, VLSI and Embedded Systems” on 20th April 2026.
2. Co-convenor: International Conference on Communication and Smart Devices (ICCoSD-2025), 25-26th July 2025
3. Guest Lecture on Role of AI in Wireless Communication and Healthcare" The Institution of Engineers (India) , 25th of February, 2025.
4. Invited Lecture on RC Communication and Protocols, One week workshop on Mastering UAV Design from Concept to Creation, BIT Mesra, 24th July 2024.
5. Invited Lecture on Role of Information Theory in Brain Machine Interface, One week workshop on Brain Machine Interface, DST Karyasala, BIT Mesra, 24th August 2022.
6. Course coordinator: Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on 5G Mobile Communication Networks (5GMCN) during 9 to 13 Dec, 2019.
7. Workshop Coordinator: “FOUNDATION PROGRAM IN ICT FOR EDUCATION”, using blended/hybrid MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)– FDP101x, under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching, MHRD, GoI, Conducted by IIT Bombay, during  March 2018. 
8. Workshop Coordinator: Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching-Learning Process - FDP201x, under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching, MHRD, GoI, Conducted by IIT Bombay, during May 2018.
Publications

Journal Publications:

1. Arti kumari and Sanjeet Kumar, “Efficient Multispectral Image Communication Using Compressed Sensing”, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, River Publishers, 22(02), 227–248, 2026. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.2223 (Scopus Indexed)

2. Arti kumari and Sanjeet Kumar, “Efficient and Reliable Image Communication over Binary Erasure Channel based on Compressed Sensing”, Microwave Review, Vol. 31, No. 1,  pp. 49-57, July 2025   (Scopus Indexed)

3.  Arti kumari and Sanjeet Kumar, “Compressed Sensing for Image Communication with various Measurement Matrices” Journal of Electrical Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 4818-4828,  2024. (Scopus Indexed)

4. Arti kumari and Sanjeet Kumar, “Compressed Sensing Image Communication in Rayleigh Fading Channel Using Polar Code” Microwave Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 3-14, December 2024. DOI: 10.18485/mtts_mr.2024.30.2.1 (Scopus Indexed)

5. Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar, “Lifetime enhancement through event-based data reporting and transmission in a wireless sensor network”, Microsystem Technologies, Springer (February 2022): 1-13. (SCI Indexed)

6. Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar,  "A comprehensive review of cooperative MIMO WSN: its challenges and the emerging technologies", Wireless Networks, Springer (November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02506-w (SCI Indexed).

7. Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar, “ Lifetime enhancement of a WSN through duty cycle in an aggregation based cooperative MIMO framework" Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, 112, 1783–1808 (January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07127-2 (SCIE Indexed).

8.  Navneet Nayan, Sitanshu Sekhar Sahu, Sanjeet Kumar, “Detecting anomalous crowd behavior using correlation analysis of optical flow”, Signal, Image and Video Processing, 13(6), pp: 1233-1241, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-019-01474-9 (SCI Indexed)  ( ISSN: 1863-1711)

9.  S. Kumar, J. Sahay, G. K. Mishra and Sanjeet Kumar, “Cognitive Radio Concept and Challenges in Dynamic Spectrum Access for the Future Generation Wireless Communication Systems”, Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, Vol: 59, Issue 3, pp 525–535, Feb 2011.  (SCIE Indexed)

10.  Akash Gupta, Sanjeet Kumar, “VHDL Implementation of different Turbo Encoder using Log-MAP Decoder”, Journal of Telecommunications, Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2010, (ISSN 2042-8839).

11.  Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Performance of Symmetric and Asymmetric Turbo Code for Distributed Source Coding in an AWGN channel”, Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan TELEKOMUNIKASI, Indonesia, June 2008, (ISSN: 1410-7066).

 

 

Publications in Book Chapter:

1.  Kumar, D., Sanjeet Kumar (2022). A Center of Gravity-Based Novel Clustering Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 426. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0745-6_48

2. Kumari M., Sanjeet Kumar, Asheer S. (2021) " Utilizing Cooperative-MIMO for an Event-Based Data Transmission in a Wireless Sensor Network", Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 673. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5546-6_56 (ISBN: 978-981-15-5546-6)

3. Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar, “Design of an Energy-Efficient Cooperative MIMO transmission scheme based on Centralized and Distributed Aggregations”, Advances in Computational Intelligence, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 988, pp 273-286, Springer, Singapore, July 2019. (ISBN: 978-981-13-8222-2)

4. Pratit Nayak, Ekta Nashine, and Sanjeet Kumar, "Deployment of a wireless sensor network in the presence of an obstacle and its performance evaluation", Advances in Signal Processing and Communication, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering -Chapter 09, Vol. 526, pp:85-93, Springer, Singapore, 2019 (ISBN: 978-981-13-2552-6)

5. Navneet Nayan, Sanjeet Kumar and Sitanshu Sekhar Sahu “Accidental Event Detection Based on Optical Flow Analysis” Advances in Communication, Devices and Networking, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering vol. 462, pp: 1-8, 2018, Springer, Singapore (ISBN: 978-981-10-7900-9)

6. Yogesh Kumar Sharma and Sanjeet Kumar, "Clusterhead Selection Technique for a Heterogeneous WSN and its Lifetime Enhancement using HETROLEACH Protocol", Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 453, Springer, Singapore, 2018 (ISBN: 978-981-10-5564-5)

7. Bhavya Ishaan, Anu Kumari, M. Malkani, and Sanjeet Kumar, “Key Identifications Using Hebbian Learning”, Springer book Chapter: Security in Computing and Communications Volume 625, pp 124-133, September 2016. (ISBN: 978-981-10-2737-

 

Conference Publications:

1. J. Nahar, A. Priya, Sanjeet Kumar, S. Kumar and R. Prasad, "Enhancing Drone Efficiency with 5G-Enabled Cloud-Based Processing for Real-Time Image Analysis," 2024 27th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Greater Noida, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/WPMC63271.2024.10863440.

2. A. Kiran, G. K. Mishra, Sanjeet Kumar, S. Kumar and R. Prasad, "Wearable Textile Antenna for GPS application," 2024 27th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Greater Noida, India, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/WPMC63271.2024.10863345.

3. A. Priya, Sanjeet Kumar and S. Kumar, "Surveillance Using 5G Based Drone Swarm System for Forest Area," 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SCES61914.2024.10652563.

4. D. Bhattacharjee, Sanjeet Kumar and A. Kumari, "Implementation of Polar Codes Over Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channel Using Channel Transformation," 2023 14th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Delhi, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCCNT56998.2023.10308183.

5. A. Kumari and Sanjeet Kumar, "Performance Evaluation of Measurement Matrices in Compressed Sensing," 2023 Fifth International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), Erode, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICECCT56650.2023.10179636.

6. Sourav Gupta, Sushant  Anand, Mohit Kumar, Sarah Asheer, and Sanjeet Kumar, "Performance evaluation of an energy efficient clustering algorithm based on heterogeneous node deployment in a wireless sensor network", IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT 2018), at PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, October 26-28, 2018.

7. Aditi Rani and Sanjeet Kumar, "A Low Complexity Security Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (I-PACT 2017), VIT University, Vellore, 21-22 April 2017.

8. Aditi Rani and Sanjeet Kumar, "A survey of security in wireless sensor networks", IEEE Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Technology (CICT 2017), Ghaziabad, 9-12 February 2017.

9. Soumik Senapati , Yogesh Kumar Sharma and Sanjeet Kumar, "Target Detection using Hybrid DWT-DCT based Feature Extraction in a Visual Sensor Network", International Conference of Recent Trends in Engineering and Material Science (ICEMS-2016),  Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India, March 17-19, 2016.

10.Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Soumik Senapati, Deo Kumar and Sanjeet Kumar, "Efficient Formation of Cluster Heads based on Center of Gravity with respect to density of nodes for a Heterogeneous WSN", International Conference of Recent Trends in Engineering and Material Science (ICEMS-2016),  Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India, March 17-19, 2016.

11. Neha Swarup and Sanjeet Kumar “Lifetime Enhancement of a Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network using Modified LEACH Protocol", International Conference on Knowledge Collaboration in Engineering (ICKCE), Coimbatore, India, March 27-28, 2015. 

12. Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar, “Performance of Wireless Sensor Network Under Various Energy Models, Routing Protocols and Node Mobility Conditions”, International Conference on Advanced Communication, control & Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), Tamilnadu, India, May 2014.

13.Sarah Asheer and Sanjeet Kumar, “ Relay Node Placement Strategies in a Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile”, International Conference on Advanced Communication, control & Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), Tamilnadu, India, May 2014. 

14. Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Priority-Based Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding using Keyframes,”  in Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Communications, NCC-2014, IIT Kanpur, March 2014.

15. Abhishek, Sanjeet Kumar, and Saswat Chakrabarti,“ Performance Evaluation of Asymmetric Turbo Codes Using Log-MAP Decoding Technique” International Conference on Devices and Communications (ICDeCom-11), Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, February 24-25, 2011.

16. Sanjay Kumar, J. Sahay, G. K. Mishra and Sanjeet Kumar, “Spectrum Allocation Options for Next Generation Wireless Communications Systems”, International Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronics Systems (Wireless VITAE 2011), Chennai, India, Feb 28 - March 03, 2011.

17. Akash Gupta, Sanjeet Kumar, “VHDL Implementation of different Turbo Encoder using SOVA Decoder”, International Conference on Communications, Computers & Devices, IIT Kharagpur, Dec 10 - 12, 2010.

18. Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Performance of Symmetric and Asymmetric Turbo Code for Distributed Source Coding in a Flat Fading Channel” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Communications, NCC-2009, IIT Guwahati, Jan. 2009.

19.Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Performance comparison of a Distributed Source Coding scheme using Log-MAP and SOVA decoder in an AWGN channel”, in Proceeding of the fourth IEEE Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, IIIT Allahabad, India, Dec. 2008.

20. Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Distributed Video Coding with SOVA decoder and Adaptive Rood Pattern Search based motion estimation at the decoder” in Proc. International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Networking, Tamilnadu, India, Dec. 2008. 

21. Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Distributed Source Coding for correlated image data in an AWGN channel” in Proceeding of National Seminar on Devices, Circuits and Communication, NASDECC-08, BIT Mesra, India, Nov. 2008.

22. Sanjeet Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Performance evaluation of a Distributed Video Coding scheme using low complexity SOVA decoder for transmission over unreliable channels” in Proceeding of the RAWTEL-08, BIT Mesra, India, Oct. 2008.

 

Current Sponsored Projects

Ongoing Project:

Co-PI: 5G Use Cases Lab Project, Funding Agency: DoT, Govt. of India (80%) and BIT Mesra (20%) , 2024-2028, Amount: 72 Lacs

Completed Project:

PI: Big Data Analysis of 5G network based Autonomous Drone Swarm system: A prototype, Funding Agency: IDEAS, Technology Innovation Hub@ISI, Kolkata, 2022-2025, Amount: 14.40 Lakhs

Project Mentor (UG Project): Real time event detection and target detection in sensor networks, 2023- 2024,  BIT Mesra,  Amount: 0.5 Lacs

Co-PI: Development of   Low Cost Cryptography Approach for Cyber Security, Funding Agency: JCST, Jharkhand Govt., 2017-2019, Amount: 2 Lacs

PI: Design of Wireless Visual Sensor Network for Smart and Secure Surveillance, Seed Money Scheme- 2015, BIT Mesra,  Amount: 0.8 Lacs

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Patent Application No. 202311015392, Publication Date: 24/03/2023

Title of Invention: Efficient Threat Mitigation Framework for Smart Grid IoT Environments