Faculty at School of Engineering

Nitin Kumar

Nitin Kumar

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering


Contact Information

  • Phd IIT Bombay
  • M.E. IISc Bengluru
  • B.Tech. NIT Warangal

  • Senior Research Engineer at Philips Research Bengaluru Nov. 2021-March 2023
  • Assistant Professor at LNMIIT Jaipur Feb. 2019 – October 2021
  • Research Project  Associate Aditya Image Information Technologies Aug. 2014 – May 2018
  • Member of Technical Staff at VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru Aug. 2013 – July 2014

  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Image Computing
  • Computer Vision
  • Graph Representation Learning

  • In top 10 (0.3%) finalists for best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) -2017
  • Recipient of travel grants from MICCAI, ICIP, MedImage societies

  • AIR 51 out of 1,36,027 (99.97 percentile) in CSE GATE-2011
  • AIR 1180 and 7194 in AIEEE-2003 and IIT-JEE 2003

1.   Authors: Nitin Kumar with Suyash P. Awate Title:   "Semi-Supervised Robust Mixture Models in RKHS for Abnormality Detection in Medical Images" Journal: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) (Impact Factor: 11.041) Pages:   4772 - 4787 Volume:  29 Year: 3rd March, 2020.  

2.   Authors: Nitin Kumar with Ajit V. Rajwade, Sharat Chandran, Suyash P. Awate Title: “Semi-Supervised Learning and Robust Modeling with Kernel Generalized- Gaussian for Abnormality Detection in Medical Images” Conference: International Conference on Image Processing  (ICIP) Page No.: 544-548 Place: Taipei, Taiwan Year: 2019.

3.   Authors:  Nitin Kumar with Ajit V. Rajwade, Sharat Chandran, Suyash P. Awate Title: “Kernel Generalized Gaussian and Robust Statistical Learning for Abnormality Detection in Medical Images”  (Top 10 (0.3%) finalists for Best Paper Award) Conference: International Conference on Image Processing  (ICIP) Page No.: 4157-4161 Place: Beijing, China Year:  2017

4.   Authors:  Nitin Kumar with Ajit V. Rajwade, Sharat Chandran, Suyash P. Awate Title: “Kernel Generalized-Gaussian Mixture Model for Robust Abnormality Detection” (Awarded travel grant by MICCAI and MedImage (ICVGIP) in 2017) Conference: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention(MICCAI) (Acceptance rate: 32%) Page No.: 21-29 Place: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Year: 2017

5.   Authors:  Nitin Kumar with Siddhartha Banerjee and C.E. Veni Madhavan Title: “Text Simplification for Enhanced Readability” Conference: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval And the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (IC3K- KDIR-2013) (Acceptance rate: 38%) Page No.: 202-207 Place: Vilamoura, Algarve Year:  2013