Pankal Pal

Pankal Pal

Senior Research Fellow, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India 826004

Brief Bio

Hi! I’m Pankaj Pal a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I am also an entrepreneur and chief technical officer in startup. Being a climate activist my research are all grounded in the idea that science and technology can help us to overcome Climate crises. I have expertise in Wireless networking, Sensor networks and embedded system. For a decade I have been investigating the applications of ICT technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and the digital twin in mitigating the impact of climate change on agriculture, water resources and human health.

My work and research

My area of research interest includes cyber physical systems, embedded systems, Internet-of-Thing, Edge computing, Precision Agriculture. My major contributions as a part of my work as doctoral candidate are as follow:

  1. Design of ecmomical and reliable multi-probe self-calibrated soil capacitive moisture sensor.
  2. Development of IoT and WSN based farm monitoring infrastructure for food grass crops.
  3. Design of CC2538, CC2650 and CC1352 base Wireless sensor nodes for farm and cold storage monitoring.
  4. Design of solar energy harvesting wireless sensor networks.
  5. Design of fringing field based multi-probe self-calibrated soil moisture sensor.
  6. Artificial intelligence based node deployment recommendation system in medium grass vegetation.

Current Projects

  1. Title: AI/ML-driven Intrusion Detection Framework for IoT enabled Cold Storage Monitoring. Role: Senior Research Fellow (Team Leader). Collaborator: Data Security Council of India (DSCI) | A NASSCOM® Initiative.
  2. Title: Solar powered industrial Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV) for surveying and seed dropping. Role: Senior Software Engineer (Team Leader). Collaborator: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India.
  3. Title: Interoperability issues in Fog-Cloud Infrastructure for IoT Applications. Role: Senior Research Fellow. Collaborator:Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.
  4. Title: Design of reliable and energy efficient transport layer protocol for Wireless sensor networks. Role: Senior Research Fellow. Collaborator: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Recent publications

  1. Pal, Pankaj, Sachin Tripathi, and Chiranjeev Kumar. “Single Probe Imitation of Multi-Depth Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network.” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2022).
  2. Pal, Pankaj, et al. “Machine Learning Regression for RF Path Loss Estimation Over Grass Vegetation in IoWSN Monitoring Infrastructure.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2022).
  3. Sharma, Rashmi Priya, Dharavath Ramesh, Pankaj Pal, Sachin Tripathi, and Chiranjeev Kumar. “IoT enabled IEEE 802.15. 4 WSN monitoring infrastructure driven Fuzzy-logic based Crop pest prediction.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2021).
  4. Pal, Pankaj, et al. “2.4 GHz RF Received Signal Strength Based Node Separation in WSN Monitoring Infrastructure for Millet and Rice Vegetation.” IEEE Sensors Journal 21.16 (2021): 18298-18306.
  5. Pal, Pankaj, et al. “Genetic algorithm optimized node deployment in IEEE 802.15. 4 potato and wheat crop monitoring infrastructure.” NATURE Scientific Reports 11.1 (2021): 1-12.

Recent Data repository

  1. Agro Glean System, Pankaj Pal, Rashmi Priya Sharma, November 11, 2020, “Effect of Paddy Rice vegetation on received signal strength between CC2538 SoC based sensor nodes operating at 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency (RF)”, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/j5xy-3e81.
  2. Agro Glean System, Pankaj Pal, November 11, 2020, “Effect of Paddy vegetation on path-loss between CC2650 SoC based sensor nodes operating at 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency (RF)”, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/d93c-dd49.
  3. Agro Glean System, Pankaj Pal, November 11, 2020, “Effect of millet vegetation on received signal strength between CC2538 SoC based sensor nodes operating at 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency (RF)”, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/0j8q-nb57.
  4. Agro Glean System, Pankaj Pal, November 11, 2020, “Effect of Sugarcane Vegetation On Path-Loss Between CC2650 and CC2538 Soc Based Sensor Nodes Operating At 2.4 Ghz Radio Frequency (Rf)”, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/8mcm-hx34.

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Contact Address:

Room No. 124, Project Lab
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dhanbad
Sardar Patel Nagar, Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004
Email: palpankaj03@gmail.com
Phone: +91-9973389227