0009-0001-8902-6914 About
Dr. Ajay Kumar Mandava is an academician, researcher, and institutional leader with more than a decade of experience spanning higher education, research and innovation, and academic administration. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE) at GITAM, Bengaluru Campus, where he also holds the roles of GITAM–CU Research Collaboration Lead, Head of MURTI (Bengaluru), and Deputy Director of the Research and Development Cell (RDC).
He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA). His research spans a broad and interconnected set of domains, including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Autonomous Systems, and Security and Inspection Systems. His work has been supported by leading national funding bodies such as AICTE, DRDO, and the IITTNiF Technology Development initiative under DST-NM-ICPS.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Mandava has taken on a wide range of leadership and administrative responsibilities, including Institute Research Coordinator, Board of Studies (BoS) Co-Chair, Head of Department (In-charge), Chair of the Departmental Research Committee, and Assistant Principal, alongside other roles in institutional research and academic governance. Through these positions, he has played a central role in research coordination, academic planning, curriculum development, faculty and student mentoring, and broader institutional growth.
His international exposure includes tenure as a Research Assistant at the University of Nevada Las vegas and Desert Research Institute, USA, and experience as an Sr. Software Engineer R&D Consultant, Scientific Games (formerly Bally Technologies), USA. During this period, he contributed to advanced scientific and engineering projects backed by organizations such as NASA, NSF, DOE, and ACS — experience that has shaped his interdisciplinary approach and strong grounding in collaborative research environments.
Dr. Mandava's contributions to teaching and research have earned him several notable honors, including the Best Teacher Award from GITAM (2026), the Best College Dissertation Award from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2013), and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2010–2011). He is also a member of distinguished academic honor societies — Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Golden Key — reflecting his sustained record of scholarly excellence.
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Publications (34)
- Detecting Student Engagement Levels Using Resnet Save
- Multi-feature adaptive Laplacian pyramid fusion for low-contrast medical image enhancement Save
- DETECTION OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT VIA TRANSFORMER-ENHANCED FEATURE PYRAMID NETWORKS ON CHANNEL-SPATIAL ATTENTION,ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ ВОВЛЕЧЕННОСТИ УЧАЩИХСЯ С ПОМОЩЬЮ СЕТЕЙ ПИРАМИДАЛЬНЫХ ПРИЗНАКОВ, УЛУЧШЕННЫХ ТРАНСФОРМЕРОМ, С КАНАЛЬНО-ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННЫМ ВНИМАНИЕМ Save
- Student Engagement Analysis using Bi-Up Sampling Feature Pyramid Network with Inter Cross Coordinate Self Attention Save
- The intelligent object detection framework for detecting fish from underwater images Save
- An automated detection model of threat objects for X-Ray baggage inspection based on modified encoder-decoder model Save
- D-ResNet-PVKELM: deep neural network and paragraph vector based kernel extreme machine learning model for multimodal depression analysis Save
- Effective deep learning based multimodal sentiment analysis from unstructured big data Save
- MC-CDPNet: Multi-Channel Correlated Detail Preserving Network for X-Ray-Based Baggage Screening Save
- SRNN-MAFM-based Unimodal Text Sentiment Analysis Save