Timeline (August 2014 onwards)

Started working as Junior Research Fellow at Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI, on 4th August, 2014

Tenure of Junior Research Fellow extended up to 3rd August, 2016

Assisted Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2015-16

Attended International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication (MicroCom 2016), January 23-25, 2016

Attended Second International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy and Communication (CIEC 2016), January 28-30, 2016

Internship at G-SCOP Lab, Grenoble INP, France on "Big Data for Energy Management (DST-INRIA/2015-02/BiDEE)", June 02-July 01, 2016

Attended IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2016), July 24-29, 2016

Designated as Senior Research Fellow at Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI, on 4th August, 2016

Attended 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI 2016), September 22-24, 2016

Assisted Dr. Debarka Sengupta in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2016-17

Tenure of Senior Research Fellow extended up to 3rd August, 2018

Internship at INRIA, Grenoble, France on "Big Data for Energy Management (DST-INRIA/2015-02/BiDEE)", September 01-30, 2017

Assisted Dr. Deba Prasad Mandal in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2017-18

Attended GIAN Workshop on Interactive and Visual Approaches to Data Mining (IVADM17), October 30 - November 03, 2017

Attended Ninth International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2017), December 27-30, 2017

Published "DECOR: Differential Evolution using Clustering based Objective Reduction for many-objective optimization" in Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2018 (IF: 4.832)

Attended the One Day Workshop of IEEE CIS - Intel AI Academy (ICIAIA'18), July 13, 2018

Tenure of Senior Research Fellow extended up to 3rd August, 2019

Attended 2018 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2018), November 18-21, 2018

Published "Unmasking the causal relationships latent in the interplay between occupant's actions and indoor ambience: a building energy management outlook" in Applied Energy, Elsevier, 2019 (IF: 7.900)

Published "NAEMO: Neighborhood-sensitive Archived Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization Algorithm" in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, 2019 (IF: 3.818)

Published "ESOEA: Ensemble of Single Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Many-Objective Optimization" in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, 2019 (IF: 3.818)

Attended A Hands-on Deep Learning Workshop-2019 of NVIDIA-DLI, JU, D-LAB-KMUTT & CSCR-ISI, June 06, 2019

Attended The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), July 13-17, 2019

Published "Uniform Distribution driven Adaptive Differential Evolution" in Applied Intelligence, Springer, 2020 (IF: 2.882)

Welcome to the home page of Monalisa Pal

Monalisa Pal is a Senior Research Fellow at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India. She has received her B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) from Netaji Subhash Engineering College under West Bengal University of Technology and M.E. degree in

Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering (ETCE) from Jadavpur University. She has done her schooling under Central Board of Secondary Education. She is currently pursuing her research on evolutionary computation algorithms in Machine Intelligence Unit at ISI under the supervision of Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay.

Her research area includes brain-computer interfacing and human-computer interaction for robotics and rehabilitation, gesture recognition for healthcare, energy management for smart buildings and evolutionary optimization algorithms. She has published extensively on internationally reputed journals and conferences on bio-medical, computational intelligence, and image analysis.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (pursuing since 2014 till date), Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI Kolkata
  • M.E. in Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
  • Class XII: All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Army Public School (CBSE), Kolkata
  • Class X: All India Secondary School Examination (CBSE), B. D. Memorial Institute, Kolkata

Memberships (Professional Bodies)

  • Student Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), since 2019. (Membership No.: 2235366)
  • Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), since 2018. (Membership No.: L35264)
  • Graduate Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2017. (Membership No.: 94193690)

Internships

  • At INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France, Sep 01-30, 2017 under the guidance of Dr. Corinne Touati
  • At G-SCOP Lab, Grenoble INP, France, Jun 02 - Jul 01, 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Stéphane Ploix

Vocational trainings

  • Trained on "Microcontrollers in Industrial Application" at IETE Kolkata Centre for 40 hrs during June-July 2011
  • Trained on "Installations Of Studios, High Power Medium and Short Wave, FM Transmitters, Captive Earth Station and AM/FM and Satellite Broadcasting" at All India Radio, Kolkata, from 05.01.2011 to 01.02.2011

Projects

  • Associated with "A Big Data Perspective for Energy Management in Smart Grids & Dwellings", Indo French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR - CEFIPRA), Oct 2015 to Sep 2018 (3 years).

Teaching experience

  • Assisted Dr. Deba Prasad Mandal in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2017-18
  • Assisted Dr. Debarka Sengupta in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2016-17
  • Assisted Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay in teaching Programming Techniques and Data Structures to M. Tech. (QR & OR) during First Semester of AY 2015-16

Awards/Fellowships

  • Awarded SIGEVO GECCO 2019 student travel grants (ACM Grant) on Jun 04, 2019
  • Awarded International Travel Partial Support (DS No - 076) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on Apr 30, 2019
  • Awarded Domestic Travel Support (DS No - 0706) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on Oct 30, 2017
  • Awarded Student Exchange Fellowship for 30-day visit under DST-INRIA/2014-02/308 on May 29, 2017
  • Awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant (Partial) on Jun 09, 2016
  • Awarded International Travel Partial Support (DS No - 0012) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on Apr 08, 2016
  • Awarded Student Exchange Fellowship for 30-day visit under IFC/0036/2016 on Mar 09, 2016
  • Awarded Research Fellowship (from Aug 04, 2014 till date) as admissible in Machine Intelligence Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  • Awarded GATE Fellowship for 2 years (July 2012 to June 2014) during Post Graduation at Jadavpur University
  • Stood 1st in B.Tech Exam under West Bengal University of Technology, in all Academic Years at Netaji Subhash Engineering College in E.C.E. Dept.
  • Qualified for 2006 CBSE Merit Scholarship

Workshops attended

  • Attended A Hands-on Deep Learning Workshop-2019 of NVIDIA-DLI, JU, D-LAB-KMUTT & CSCR-ISI, June 06, 2019
  • Attended One Day Workshop of IEEE CIS - Intel AI Academy (ICIAIA'18), July 13, 2018
  • Attended GIAN Workshop on Interactive and Visual Approaches to Data Mining (IVADM17), Oct 30 - Nov 03, 2017

Presented paper at conferences (with peer-reviewed proceedings)

  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019) @Prague, Czech Republic, Jul 13-17, 2019
  • Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2018) @Bengaluru, India, Nov 18-21, 2018
  • Ninth International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2017), @Bengaluru, India, Dec 27-30, 2017
  • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2016), @Vancouver, Canada, Jul 24-29, 2016
  • 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI 2016), @Rourkela, India, Sep 22-24, 2016
  • Second International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy and Communication (CIEC 2016), @Kolkata, India, Jan 28-30, 2016
  • International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication (MicroCom 2016), @Durgapur, India, Jan 23-25, 2016
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Monalisa Pal
Senior Research Fellow
Machine Intelligence Unit
4th Floor, Platinum Jubilee Building
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B. T. Road, Kolkata – 700108
West Bengal, India
Email:
monalisapal_r@isical.ac.in
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(Monday to Friday,
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