Priyanka Upadhyay | Robust Navigation | Best Researcher Award

Ms. Priyanka Upadhyay | Robust Navigation | Best Researcher Award

Netaji Subhas University of Technology | India

Priyanka Upadhyay is a researcher in Electrical Engineering with growing contributions in autonomous robotics, intelligent navigation, and control systems. She is pursuing a doctoral degree focused on robust navigation of autonomous robots and holds postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications in Electrical Power Systems and Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Her research record includes publications on hybrid path-planning algorithms, enhanced Bezier-based trajectory modeling, autonomous mobile robot navigation, and control strategies for multi-link manipulators. Her work has gained academic attention, reflected in 16 citations, an h-index of 2, and i10-index of 0, demonstrating steadily increasing scholarly visibility with 8 citations since 2020. She has prior teaching experience as a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and has participated in several conferences, faculty development programs, and short-term courses related to artificial intelligence, optimization, robotics, renewable integration, and power electronics. Her technical expertise is strengthened by hands-on training in tools such as MATLAB and experience in industrial settings. She has earned recognition including a Silver Medal for an NPTEL Robotics certification and reviewer certification from an international robotics journal. Her research interests include electrical machines, robotic navigation, path planning, and intelligent control. She continues to advance her academic profile with a commitment to innovation, learning, and collaborative research.

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Featured Publications

Upadhyay, P., Rajesh, N., Garg, N., & Singh, A. (2015). Evaluating seed germination monitoring system by application of wireless sensor networks: A survey. In Computational Intelligence in Data Mining—Volume 2: Proceedings of the … (Cited by: 3).

Upadhyay, P., Singh, A., & Garg, N. (2014). Modeling software maintainability and quality assurance in the agile environment. International Journal of Database Theory and Application, 7(3), 83–90. (Cited by: 3).

Singh, P., Upadhyay, P., & Singh, S. K. (2025). Unlocking the economic potential of potato cultivars for mini-tuber production under aeroponic culture. Potato Research, 1–24. (Cited by: 2).

Upadhyay, P., Singh, R., & Rani, A. (2023). Reliable autonomous navigation of mobile robot in unconstrained environment. In 2023 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN) (pp. 531–537). IEEE. (Cited by: 2).

Upadhyay, P., Patil, K. U., Kuber, R., Kulkarni, V., & Singh, A. (2014). Evaluation of hypoxic-ischaemic events in preterm neonates using trans cranial ultrasound. International Journal of Healthcare and Biomedical Research, 3, 67–72. (Cited by: 2).

Major Singh Goraya | Computer Science | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Major Singh Goraya | Computer Science | Best Researcher Award

Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology | India

Dr. Major Singh Goraya is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET), Longowal. He holds a Ph.D. from Punjabi University, complemented by strong academic foundations in computer engineering. His primary research areas include cloud computing, resource management, green computing, fault tolerance, and load balancing. With 27 Scopus-indexed publications, 460 citations across 399 documents, and an h-index of 10, Dr. Goraya has made consistent scholarly contributions to high-performance and sustainable computing. His studies have explored dynamic resource allocation, energy-efficient scheduling frameworks, and deep learning-based optimization techniques. He has supervised several Ph.D. and M.Tech. research scholars and continues to guide emerging researchers in cloud resource efficiency and intelligent computation. His international exposure through conferences in the UK, Canada, and Malaysia reflects his active engagement in global research forums. In addition, he has successfully organized numerous academic workshops, conferences, and training programs. Dr. Goraya’s innovative contributions strengthen the integration of artificial intelligence and cloud technology, promoting scalable and eco-efficient computational solutions that advance modern computer engineering research.

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Featured Publications

Goyal, N., Singh, T., & Goraya, M. S. (2025). Deep convolutional neural networks vs. vision transformers for video-based human activity recognition. In Proceedings of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. xx–xx). Springer.

Singh, J., & Goraya, M. S. (2023). An autonomous multi-agent framework using quality of service to prevent service level agreement violations in cloud environment. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 14(3).

Goyal, N., Goraya, M. S., & Singh, T. (2023). An axiomatic analysis for object detection and recognition using deep learning. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (pp. xx–xx). Springer.

Thakur, A., & Goraya, M. S. (2022). A workload and machine categorization-based resource allocation framework for load balancing and balanced resource utilization in the cloud. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, 14(2).

Hasan, M., Goraya, M. S., & Garg, T. (2022). E-FFTF: An extended framework for flexible fault tolerance in cloud. In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (pp. xx–xx). Springer.