Dr. Gurdit Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Punjab Agricultural University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, and a B.Tech. from Punjab Technical University. With over 15 years of academic and research experience, Dr. Singh specializes in mobile sensing, image processing, cryptography, and secure wireless networks. His research contributions include projects on smartphone-based road surface monitoring, secure wireless mesh networks, and intelligent transportation systems, with funding from prestigious agencies like MeitY. He has published in reputed journals such as Pervasive and Mobile Computing and authored book chapters on artificial intelligence in agriculture. Dr. Singh’s ongoing work integrates machine learning with mobile sensor data to solve real-world problems in transportation and smart environments. He is a recognized researcher with IDs in OrcID, Scopus, WoS, and Google Scholar, and continues to contribute to both academia and applied research domains.

Education (Starting from recent):

Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering), Punjab Engineering College (2019), M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), Punjab Engineering College (2012), B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), Punjab Technical Univerity (2007)

Position Held in PAU: Assistant Professor (July 2020 - Till Date)

Field of Specialization:

• Mobile Sensors
• Wireless network
• Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
• Secure Wireless Networks
• Machine Learning

Research Interests:

• Mobile Sensors
• Machine Learning
• Image Processing

Research projects:

• Communication Assisted Road Transportation Systems (CARTS) project was funded by ITRA Media Lab Asia, initiated by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• Wireless mesh networks: Analysis of routing protocols
• Worked on wireless mesh networks and studied various routing protocols and their drawbacks andcurrently working on a secure HWMP routing protocol for wireless mesh networks.
• Road Surface Condition Detection using Smartphone Sensors
• Worked on smartphone sensors which can detect the road surface conditions like pothole and bumpsby installing an Android application on smartphone.

Publications upto 5 (from recent):

1. Singh, Gurdit. "A critical analysis of convolutional neural networks for leaf disease detection in plants." In Artificial Intelligence and Smart Agriculture: Technology and Applications, pp. 461-493. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024.
2. Singh, Gurdit, and Tanpreet Singh. "An In-Depth Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks for Agricultural Purposes." In Society 5.0 and the Future of Emerging Computational Technologies, pp. 15-34. CRC Press, 2022.
3. Gurdit Singh, Divya Bansal, Sanjeev Sofat, "A Smartphone Based Technique to Detect Driving Behavior using DTW", in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 40, September 2017, Pages 56-70, ISSN1574-1192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.06.003. (Published in SCIE)
4. Gurdit Singh, Divya Bansal, Sanjeev Sofat, "Smart Patrolling: An Efficient Road Surface Monitoring Using Smartphone Sensors and Crowdsourcing", in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 40,September 2017, , Pages 71-88, ISSN 1574-1192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.06.002. (Published in SCIE)
5. Gankotiya, Anil Kumar, Sahil Seth, and Gurdit Singh. "Attacks and their Counter Measures in WirelessMesh Networks." IJITKM, Volume-3, Issue-1, Jun-Dec 2010.
6. Gurdit Singh, Divya Bansal, and Sanjeev Sofat. "Intelligent Transportation System for DevelopingCountries-A Survey." International Journal of Computer Applications vol. 85, no. 3, 34-38, January2014.