Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delhi
E-mail : vikas@cs.du.ac.in

Education

2014 - 2019

PhD. in Computer Science

University of Hyderabad
Dissertation title: Collaborative Filtering and Multi-Label Classification with Matrix Factorization. 

2011 - 2014

Master of Computer Applications

Pondicherry University

2007 - 2010

Bachelors of Computer Application

IGNOU

Experience

08 Dec 2020 -

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delhi

28 Sep 2019 - 07 Dec 2020

Assistant Professor
Department of Data Science and Analytics
Central University of Rajasthan

11 July 2019 - 27 Sep 2019

Assistant Professor
Department of Data Science and Analytics
Central University of Rajasthan

11 July 2018 - 09 July 2019

Assistant Professor
Department of Data Science and Analytics
Central University of Rajasthan

Teaching

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021

MCAO 302: Data Mining, University of Delhi

Apr 2021 – Aug 2021

MCAC 202: Database Systems, University of Delhi

MCAC 202: Database Applications, University of Delhi

Dec 2020 – Mar 2021

MCAC 103: Mathematical Techniques for Computer Science Applications, University of Delhi

MCSC 103: Information Security, University of Delhi

Sep 2020 – Nov 2020

MBD 415: Database Management, Central University of Rajasthan

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020

MBD 421: Foundations of Data Science, Central University of Rajasthan

Jul 2019 – Dec 2019

MBD 511: Modelling in Operations Management, Central University of Rajasthan

MBD 513: Data Mining, Central University of Rajasthan

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019

MBD 421: Foundations of Data Science, Central University of Rajasthan

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018

MBD 511: Modelling in Operations Management, Central University of Rajasthan

MBD 513: Data Mining, Central University of Rajasthan

Publications

2022


Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Vikas Kumar. "Inductive Conformal Recommender System." Knowledge-Based Systems (2022).

Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Vikas Kumar. "A hinge-loss based codebook transfer for cross-domain recommendation with non-overlapping data." Information Systems 107 (2022): 102002.

Abhishek Majumder, Joy Lal Sarkar, Bibudhendu Pati, Ramasamy V, Chhabi Rani Panigrahi, Sudipta Roy, Vikas Kumar. "MERIT: Multi-Itinerary Tourist Recommendation Engine for Industrial Internet of Things." A4E, INFOCOM, 2022.

2021


Nitesh Sukhwani, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Vikas Kumar, and Sanjaya Kumar Panda. "Efficient Computation of Top-K Skyline Objects in Data Set With Uncertain Preferences." International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) 17, no. 3 (2021): 68-80.

Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, Haris Aziz, and Vikas Kumar. "Committee Selection using Attribute Approvals." In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp. 683-691. 2021.

Rasmikanta Pati, Arun K Pujari, Padmavati Gahan, and Vikas Kumar. "Independent Component Analysis: A Review, with Emphasis on Commonly used Algorithms and Contrast Function." Computación y Sistemas 25, no. 1 (2021).

2019


Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni, Arun K Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Vikas Kumar. "A maximum margin matrix factorization based transfer learning approach for cross-domain recommendation." Applied Soft Computing 85 (2019): 105751.

Prasad Bhavana, Vikas Kumar, and Vineet Padmanabhan. "Block based singular value decomposition approach to matrix factorization for recommender systems." arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07410 (2019).

Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Vikas Kumar. "Skyline recommendation with uncertain preferences." Pattern Recognition Letters 125 (2019): 446-452.

Vikas Kumar, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Venkateswara Rao Kagita. "Group preserving label embedding for multi-label classification." Pattern Recognition 90 (2019): 23-34.

Arun K Pujari, Ansh Mittal, Anshuman Padhi, Anshul Jain, Mukesh Jadon, and Vikas Kumar. "Debiasing gender biased hindi words with word-embedding." In Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 450-456. 2019.

Rasmikanta Pati, Vikas Kumar, and Arun K. Pujari. "Gradient-based swarm optimization for ICA." In Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering, pp. 225-235. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

2018


Vikas Kumar, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, Sandeep Kumar Sahu, and Venkateswara Rao Kagita. "Multi-label classification using hierarchical embedding." Expert Systems with Applications 91 (2018): 263-269.

2017


Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, Sandeep Kumar Sahu, and Vikas Kumar. "Conformal recommender system." Information Sciences 405 (2017): 157-174.

Vikas Kumar, Arun K. Pujari, Sandeep Kumar Sahu, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, and Vineet Padmanabhan. "Collaborative filtering using multiple binary maximum margin matrix factorizations." Information Sciences 380 (2017): 1-11.

Vikas Kumar, Arun K. Pujari, Sandeep Kumar Sahu, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, and Vineet Padmanabhan. "Proximal maximum margin matrix factorization for collaborative filtering." Pattern Recognition Letters 86 (2017): 62-67.

2016


Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, Vikas Kumar, and Sandeep Kumar Sahu. "Threshold-based direct computation of skyline objects for database with uncertain preferences." In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 193-205. Springer, Cham, 2016.

K. H. Salman, Arun K. Pujari, Vikas Kumar, and Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni. "Combining swarm with gradient search for maximum margin matrix factorization." In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 167-179. Springer, Cham, 2016.

2015


Sandeep Kumar Sahu, Arun K Pujari, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Vikas Kumar, and Vineet Padmanabhan. "GP-SVM: Tree structured multiclass SVM with greedy partitioning." In 2015 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), pp. 142-147. IEEE, 2015.

Sandeep Kumar Sahu, Arun K Pujari, Vikas Kumar, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, and Vineet Padmanabhan. "Greedy partitioning based tree structured multiclass SVM for Odia OCR." In 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2015.

Funded Projects


  1. Project Title: Hybrid Deep Architecture for Semi-Supervised Recommender System
    Project Duration: 2 years
    Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Status: Ongoing

    *Soon I will advertise for a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) position.


  2. Project Title: Latent Factor Transfer for Cross-Domain Recommendation
    Project Duration: 2 years
    Funding Agency: University Grants Commission
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Status: Sanctioned

  3. Project Title: Semi-Supervised Recommender System
    Project Duration: 1 year
    Funding Agency: Faculty Research Programme Grant - IoE, University of Delhi
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Status: Ongoing

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