Congratulations to Dr Om Prakash Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Instrumentation & Control Engg., NIT Jalandhar for his recent publications:

• Congratulations to Dr. Om Prakash Verma and his research team for achieving highest number of publications (19 out of which 9 SCI indexed journals, 2 SCOPUS indexed journals, 6 SCOPUS indexed book chapters , and 2 SCOPUS indexed edited books) in the department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering during 2021. 
  
  SCI Journals

1. Kumar, S., Gupta, H., Yadav, D., Ansari, I.A., and Verma, O.P., Yolov4 Algorithm for The Real-Time Detection of Fire and Personal Protective Equipment’s at Construction Sites, Multimedia Tools and Applications (I.F. 2.757)(Accepted)
2. Yadav, D., Kumar, S., Verma, O.P., Pachauri, N., and Sharma, V., (2021). Approximate Solution of Non-Linear Dynamic Energy Model for Multiple Effect Evaporator using Fourier Series and Metaheuristics, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (I.F. 3.309)
3. Gupta, H., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Monitoring and Surveillance of Urban Road Traffic using Low Altitude Drone Images: A Deep Learning Approach, Multimedia Tools and Applications (I.F. 2.757)
4. Gupta, H., Varshney, H., Sharma, T.K., Pachauri, N., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Comparative Performance Analysis of Quantum Machine Learning with Deep Learning for Diabetes Prediction, Complex & Intelligent Systems (I.F. 4.927)
5. Pati, S., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Performance Optimization of Multiple Stage Evaporator using Interior-Point Method and Metaheuristic Approaches in Environment of Real-Time Plant Complexities, International Journal of Green Energy (I.F. 2.459)
6. Chaurasia, N., Kumar, M., Chaudhry, R., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Comprehensive Survey on Energy Aware Server Consolidation Techniques in Cloud Computing, The Journal of Supercomputing (I.F. 2.474)
7. Verma, O.P., Yadav, D., Pati, S., Kumar, S., Gupta, H., and Pachauri, N., (2021). Water Cycle Algorithm Tuned Robust Fractional-Order Proportional–Integral–Derivative Controller for Energy Optimization and Control of Nonlinear Multiple Stage Evaporator: A Case Study of Paper Mill, Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, (I.F. 1.447)
8. Gupta, H., Kumar, S., Yadav, D., Verma, O.P., Sharma, T.K., Ahn, C.W., and Lee, J.H., (2021). Data Analytics and Mathematical Modeling for Simulating the Dynamics of COVID-19 Epidemic—A Case Study of India, Electronics (I.F. 2.397)
9. Kumar, S., Yadav, D., Gupta, H., Verma, O.P., Ansari, I.A., and Ahn, C.W., (2021). A Novel YOLOv3 Algorithm- Based Deep Learning Approach for Waste Segregation: Towards Smart Waste Management, Electronics (I.F. 2.397)
   
   SCOPUS Journals

1. Begum, K.G., Verma, O.P., and Pachauri, N., (2021). Modified H2 optimal PI tuning method for first order time delay systems, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management
2. Sharma, V., Sharma, S., Verma, O.P., Bhardwaj, B., Sharma, T.K., and Pachauri, N., (2021). Prediction and optimization of abrasive wear loss of ultrahigh strength martensitic steel using response surface methodology, Harris Hawk and artificial neural network, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management
   
   Book Chapters (SCOPUS Indexed)

1. Pati, S., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Optimization of Energy Efficiency of Multiple-Stage Evaporator Using ABC Algorithm, In Proceedings of International Congress on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (CAMSE 2020). Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2. Rajput, V., Verma, O.P., and Ansari, I.A., (2021) Auto-Text Completion Framework to Improve Online Conversation, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, In Proceedings of International Congress on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (CAMSE 2020). Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
3. Pachauri, N., Yadav, D., Sharma, T.K., Sharma, V., and Verma, O.P., (2021).Towards the Real-Time Control of Nonlinear Multiple Stage Evaporators: Design of IMC with Process Delay, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, In Proceedings of International Congress on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (CAMSE 2020). Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
4. Varshney, H., Kant, U., Gupta, H., Verma, O.P., Sharma, T.K., and Ansari, I.A., (2021). Semantic Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessel with Autoencoders, In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on SoCTA2020. Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
5. Gupta, H., Jindal, P., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Automatic Vehicle Detection from Satellite Images Using Deep Learning Algorithm, In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on SoCTA2020. Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
6. Jindal, P., Gupta, H., Pachauri, N., Sharma, V., and Verma, O.P., (2021). Real-Time Wildfire Detection via Image-Based Deep Learning Algorithm, In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on SoCTA2020. Springer Singapore. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
   
   Edited Books (SCOPUS Indexed)

1. Manik, G., Kalia, S., Sahoo, S.K., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., (Eds.), 2021. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Select Proceedings of CAMSE 2020, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0942-8
2. Sharma, T.K., Ahn, C.W., Verma, O.P., and Panigrahi, B.K., (Eds.), 2021. Soft Computing: Theories and Applications Proceedings of SoCTA 2020, Volume 2, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2, (vol. 1381), Springer Nature.

• Synergetic fusion of energy optimization and waste heat reutilization using nature-inspired algorithms: a case study of Kraft recovery process 
  Neural Computing and Applications  (Springer, Impact Factor: 4.664)
   
• A Classification system for Diabetic Patients with Machine Learning Techniques
   "Journal of Medical Systems" with IF of 2.415 (Springer)
   
• Evaluation of Power Sources and the Effect of Varying Current in SMAW Process 
  IJSAEM, Springer
  Vikas Kumar¹, Manoj Kumar Parida² and O P Verma^{3
  1,2}School of Electronics Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, deemed to be Univeristy, Bhubaneswar 751024, Odisha, India
  ³Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 144011, India
  URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13198-019-00877-8