I am a PHD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Insttute of Technology, Kharagpur. I am persuing my research under the supervision of Dr. Sandip Chakroborty and Dr. Bivas Mitra. Prior to this, I have completed my masters from IIT, Kharagpur. Currently, I am a member of Complex Networks Research Group, IIT, Kharagpur. Continuing with my research in the broad area of research as Ubiquitous Computing and Persvasive Sensing for Safe Driving, i have been awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF), 2021. I also have a strong interest for travelling & exploring things.
Developing Smart and Safe Transportation System
Sugandh Pargal, Bivas Mitra, and Sandip Chakraborty,“Driving in Diverse Environments - A Multimodal Datasets for Contextual Driving Anomaly Analysis”, [Under Review].
Sugandh Pargal, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Shohreh Deldari, and Salil S. Kanhere, “DoAssist: Domain Invariant Driving Anomaly Detection based on Spatiotemporal Driving Data”, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), 2025, Washington DC, USA.
Sugandh Pargal, Neha Dalmia, Harsh Borse, Bivas Mitra, and Sandip Chakraborty,“Zero-configuration Alarms: Towards Reducing Distracting Smartphone Interactions while Driving”, ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM JCSS), 2024, Volume 2, Issue 3.
Sugandh Pargal, Sandip Chakraborty, Shohreh Deldari, and Salil S. Kanhere,“Domain Invariant Driving Behaviour Prediction Based on Autoencoder Anomaly Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (IEEE PerCom WiP Workshops), 2024, Biarritz, France.
Sugandh Pargal, Debasree Das, Bikash Sahoo, Bivas Mitra, and Sandip Chakraborty,“GRIDS: Personalized Guideline Recommendations while Driving Through a New City”, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS), 2023, Volume 2, Issue 2.
Sugandh Pargal, Debasree Das, Pragma Kar, and Sandip Chakraborty,“FreeSteer: A Smartphone Application for Detecting Anxiety in Novice Drivers through Smart Glasses”, International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2023, Bangalore, India.
Rohit Verma,Sugandh Pargal, Debasree Das, Tanusree Parbat, Sai Shankar Kambalapalli, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“Impact of Driving Behavior on Commuter’s Comfort during Cab Rides: Towards a New Perspective of Driver Rating”, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2022.
Debasree Das, Sugandh Pargal, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“Why Slammed the Brakes On? Auto-annotating Driving Behaviors from Adaptive Causal Modeling ”, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops).
Sugandh Pargal, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“Poster: Who is Using the Phone within the Car? Blind Device Localization in a Car with Unimodal Acoustic Signature”, HotMobile '22: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications.
Sugandh Pargal, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Utkarsh Sinha, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“My Mobile knows that I am Driving! In-Vehicle (Relative) Blind Localization of a Smartphone ”, 2022 International Workshop On Mobile Ubiquitous Systems and Technologies (MUST 2022) In Conjunction with 23rd IEEE MDM 2022.
Debasree Das, Sugandh Pargal, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“DriBe: On-road Mobile Telemetry for Locality-neutral Driving Behavior Annotation”, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2022) [Best Paper Runner UP Award].
Debasree Das, Sugandh Pargal, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty,“Assessing Driver’s Behavior considering Surrounding Vehicles’ Action”, (Comsnets 2021) as Graduate Forum project proposal.
System Design Expert (AI Researcher) on 3D reconstruction for satellite videos, Fujitsu Consulting Pvt. Ltd. from Feb, 2025 - Present
Internship On building IBM Watson talent: Responsible AI for HR (Proactive Sourcer), IBM Pvt. Ltd. from May, 2019 to July, 2019.
Internship On Entity Tracking System to generate Entity Summary Sheets, IIT, Delhi from May, 2016 to July, 2016.
Worked as an Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur from Jan, 2022 to July, 2022 in Programming and Data Structure Theory and Lab.
Online Course from April, 2022 to May, 2022 in Mobile Computing link.
Worked as an Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur from Jan, 2021 to April, 2021 in Complex Networks.
Worked as an Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur from July, 2019 to Dec, 2020 in Programming and Data Structure Lab.
Awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) at IIT, Kharagpur in Computer Science and Engineering Department in October, 2021.
Awarded Australia India Research Fellowship (PMRF) at University of New South Wales, Sydney in Computer Science and Engineering Department in October, 2023.
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Master Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Engineering