Ankush Mittal

Dr. Ankush Mittal received the B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engg. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1996 and Master's in 1998 respectively. He was nominated for outstanding PhD award by Electrical and Computer Engg, The National University of Singapore in 2001. Dr. Mittal was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore for two years. He has also worked as an Associate professor at IIT-Roorkee for seven years. He is at present serving College of Engineering Roorkee as Director (Research) and facilitates publications, grants, and research aptitude of faculty and students at COER. He has contributed more than 200 research papers in journals and conferences of high repute with significant impact factor, many of which are in IEEE transactions, Springer and Elsevier journals. He is also a co-author of a book on Bayesian Network technologies published by Information Science, USA. He was conferred young scientist awards from the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and from Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) in 2007. He received outstanding teacher award for his excellent teaching at IIT Roorkee in 2008. Dr. Mittal's research received international recognition and he was conferred with IBM faculty award in 2008. He has guided 7 Ph.D. thesis, 30 M. Tech. thesis and 20 B. Tech. thesis at The National University of Singapore and IIT Roorkee. His research interest include image and video processing, content based retrieval, E-learning, and bioinformatics.