Rajarshi Gupta

Full Name: RAJARSHI GUPTA

Designation: Professor (from January 01, 2018)

Date of Joining the University: December 01, 2005 as Lecturer.

Personal website: www.rajarshigupta.in  

ORCID: 0000-0001-5964-7683 

Scopus Author ID: 55346909700 

Previous Positions:

2005-2014: Assistant Professor (stage-I, II and III)

2015-2017: Associate Professor 

Sept. 2020-Oct. 2022: Head of Department, Applied Physics.

Current additional responsibilities: 

1. Convener, Institution's Innovation Council (IIC)-Calcutta University.

2. 2. Head, University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC), CU.

Contact information:

Biomedical Measurements and Intelligent Health Monitoring Systems Lab. 

First Floor, West wing, Department of Applied Physics. 

University of Calcutta, Rasbihari Siksha Prangan (aka Rajabazar Science College Campus)

E-mail: rgaphy@caluniv.ac.in

Mobile: +91-8240669580

Current research interests: Biomedical Signal Analysis, Intelligent Human Health Monitoring. 

Education:

2012: PhD (Technology) from University of Calcutta, Instrumentation Engineering

2008: Diploma in Business Administration, IMT Ghaziabad

2002: M.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering from University of Calcutta, Aggregate marks: 82.11% (Ranked first class first) 

1998: B.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering from University of Calcutta, Aggregate marks:79.1% (Ranked first class second) 

1995: B.Sc Physics Major from University of Calcutta, Aggregate marks: 65.25%  

1992: Higher Secondary (10+2) from West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education, Aggregate marks:  70.3%  

1990: Madhyamik (10) from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, Aggregate marks:  84.3% 

Earlier Positions held: 

Lecturer, Hoogly Institute of Technology (HIT) (1999) 

Lecturer, Dr. Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Haldia (1999-2001)

Lecturer, North Calcutta Polytechnic, Kolkata (2001-2005). 

Teaching assignments

 B.Tech. level 

1. Analog Electronics (EE-303) 

2. Microprocessor and Microcontroller: (PCC-EE403) 

3. Process Control Instrumentation (OEC-EE 406-OE-12)

4. Transducer and Measurement Systems: (OEC-EE505 -OE-11) 

    5. Digital Signal Processing: PEC-EE504 (PE-06)   

    4. Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory (LC EE 508)

Funded Research Projects:

 Completed

1. Principal Investigator, DST (WB) project on "Development of short-range health monitoring system using ZigBee based wireless communication", Sanction No. 851(Sanc.)/ST/P S&T/6G-2/2013 dtd: 11/01/2016. Total funding: Rs.9.57 Lakhs (approx). 

2. Co-Investigator, DST WB project on Development of cardiovascular signal simulator for training of medical professionals", Sanction No. 20(Sanc.)/ST/P/S&T/6G-12/2017 DTD:12/06/2018. Total funding Rs.10.36 Lakhs. 

Principal Investigator: Dr Palash Kundu, Dept of EE, Jadavpur University, India. Other Co-Investigator: Dr Arunansu Talukdar, Professor, Dept of Medicine, Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India.

3. Deputy Coordinator, UGC Special Assistance Programme (SAP) Departmental Research Support (DRS) Phase II: Sanction No. F. 530/15/DRS-II/2015(SAP-I) dated August 18, 2015.Total Funding 1.39 Crore (approx.). Theme: Remote Healthcare; Funding INR: 26 Lakhs (approx.).

4. PI Subgroup B: Sensor and System Development Group; University Potential for Excellence (UPE) phase -II under UGC, Area of work: Cardiovascular health assessment device development. Grant: INR 40 lakhs (approx.).

5. Mentor: DST Women Scientist Project titled: "Self-enabled monitoring of hypertension towards low cost digital healthcare" File No: SR/WOS-A/ET-67/2018 . Total Grant INR22.5 lakhs (approx.)

PI: Mrs. Monalisa Singha Roy, Research Scholar, EE, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta.

6. Co-Investigator, DST WB project on "Development of Low cost Point‐of‐care Technology for Early Screening of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for Remote Population of West Bengal", Sanction No. - 15(Sanc)/ST/P/S&T/6G-6/2018 DTD: 29/01/2019. Total Grant: INR10.80 Lakhs. 

Principal Investigator: Dr Jayanta Kumar Chandra, Dept of EE, Purulia Govt. Engineering College, India. Other Co-Investigators: Dr Arunansu Talukdar, Professor, Dept of Medicine, Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India.

7. Co-investigator, Regional Geriatric Centre, Medical College Kolkata, "Affordable, wearable cardiac monitor for early detection, monitoring and prevention of cardiac arrhythmia for elderly citizens". MC/4982/ 09/2022 dtd: 13/09/2022.

Ongoing

Co-Investigator, DST WB project on "Self-operated cardiac monitor for early detection of Electrocardiogram rhythm disorder", Sanction No. - 2052(Sanc)/SBST-11012(16)/5/2023-STSEC DTD: 31/01/2024. Total Grant: INR11.66 Lakhs.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta.

Research Guidance: 

A. As Sole Supervisor:

1. Dr. Priyanka Bera (Awarded in: 2021) 

Currently Associate Professor, University of Engineering and management, Newtown Kolkata.

CSIR Senior Research Fellow (SRF) (2018-2020), Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, GLA University, Mathura, UP, India. 

Title of thesis: "Hybrid Compression Approaches for Electrocardiogram with Preservation of Diagnostic Information".

URL: Google Scholar Link

2. Dr. Biplab Roy (Awarded in: 2021): 

Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, Neotia Institute of Technology, Management & Science (NITMAS), West Bengal. 

Title of Thesis: "Advanced Signal Processing Methods for Assessment of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Functions".

Google Scholar Link: scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=IzKw0-MAAAAJ&hl=en

3.  Sri Soumyak Chandra: (Awarded in: 2024)

Sr. Engineer R&D (Firmware and Systems), Cenergist , Kolkata, India. 

Title of thesis: "Intelligent Human Heath Monitoring using Wireless Communication: Some New Approaches".

Google Scholar Link: scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=wYVyUmAAAAAJ&hl=en

4. Ms. Priya Sardar, PhD Enrolled (2023): Area of work: "Non-invasive diabetes detection using Physiological signals".

B. As primary supervisor:

1. Dr. Samiul Alam : (Awarded in: 2023) 

Currently Assistant Professor, Dept of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engg., Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.

Title of research: "Signal Quality-Guided Compression Techniques of Photoplethysmogram for Continuous Health    Monitoring". 

URL: Google Scholar Link; 

2. Dr. Monalisa Singha Roy: (Awarded in: 2024) 

Currently Visiting SCientist, Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI Kolkata.

DST Women Scientist (WOS-A), Project title: "Self-enabled monitoring of hypertension towards low-cost digital healthcare". File no is SR/WOS-A/ET-67/2018.

Title of research: “Non-invasive Assessment of Cardiovascular Functions utilizing Machine Learning Techniques”. Visiting Scientist, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Unit, Kolkata. Google Scholar Link 

Joint Supervisor:  Dr. Kaushik Das Sharma, Professor in EE, Dept of Applied Physics, CU)

3. Ms. Priya Sardar: Department Research Fellow, EE, Applied Physics, CU

PhD registered under Electrical Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta)

TITLE of research: Non-invasive diabetes detection using physiological signals.

C. As Joint supervisor:

1. Dr. Harekrishna Chatterjee (Awarded in: 2016) 

Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Techno India University, Kolkata, West Bengal. 

Title of research: "ECG Feature Extraction and Signal Processing using Standalone Embedded Systems".

Primary Supervisor: Dr. Madhuchhanda Mitra, Professor in IE, Dept of Applied Physics, CU).

2.  Nirmal Murmu, (PhD registered) 

Currently Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta. 

Primary supervisor: Dr. Kaushik Das Sharma, EE, Applied Physics.

3. Mrs. Nabanita Banerjee (PhD registered with Department of of Radio Physics & Electronics, CU)

 Primary Supervisor: Dr. Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, Assoc. Professor, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, CU.

4. Ms. Debasmita Pal (PhD registered with Department of of Radio Physics & Electronics, CU) 

Primary Supervisor: Dr. Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, Assoc. Professor, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, CU.

Publications:

(A) Books / Book Chapter:

1. ECG Acquisition and Automated Remote Processing: Rajarshi Gupta, Madhuchhanda Mitra, Jitendranath Bera;

Springer (2014). Link: http://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132215561.; ISBN Print: 978-81-322-1556-1; Electronic: 978-81-322-1557-8;

2. Invited Book Chapter  "Telecardiology" at "Telemedicine and Electronic Medicine" Volume in the "E-medicine, M-Health, Telehealth Handbook": CRC Press USA; Link: https://www.crcpress.com/Telemedicine-and-Electronic-Medicine/Eren-Webster/p/book/9781482236583 ; Editors: Halit Eren, John G. Webster.

ISBN: 978-1-4822-3658-3. 

3. Invited Book Chapter " Biomedical Sensors and Their Interfacing" in with "Advanced Interfacing Techniques for Sensors”, Editors: Boby George, Joyanta Kumar Roy, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Jagadeesh Kumar (Springer International), under “Smart Sensing, Measurement and Instrumentation” series).

ISBN: 978-3-319-55368-9; Link: Advanced Interfacing Techniques for Sensors

4. As Editor, Health Monitoring Systems: An Enabling Technology for Patient Care;

ISBN: 978-1-4987-7582-3, Publisher: CRC Press USA, 2019; CRC Press Online link

5. Book Chapter "Biomedical Sensors and Data Acquisition", in Health Monitoring Systems: An Enabling Technology for Patient Care, Editors: Rajarshi Gupta, Dwaipayan Biswas, (CRC Press USA) ISBN: 9781498775823  

6. Book Chapter (Co-author) "Data Compression in Health Monitoring", in Health Monitoring Systems: An Enabling Technology for Patient Care, Editors: Rajarshi Gupta, Dwaipayan Biswas, (CRC Press USA) ISBN: 9781498775823  

7. Book Chapter "Blood Pressure Monitoring", in Health Monitoring Systems: An Enabling Technology for Patient Care, Editors: Rajarshi Gupta, Dwaipayan Biswas, (CRC Press USA) ISBN: 9781498775823  

(b) Journal Publications (Selected) (for detailed list click here)

1. Aytrik Bose, Soujanya Chowdhury, Jayanta K. Chandra, Arunansu Talukdar, and Rajarshi Gupta, "PPG-derived Respiration Signal Predictor Guided Simple Rule-Based Detection of COPD", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 74, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2025.3611460 (Accepted Manuscript).  

2. Debasmita pal, Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, and Rajarshi Gupta, "Ensembled Data Augmentation Model for Simplified Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection Under Limited Minority Class Data", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement , Vol. 73, 2024 (DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2024.3460887) Accepted manuscript.  

3. Nirmal Murmu, Rajarshi Gupta and Kaushik Das Sharma, "Real-time PPG-to-ECG Reconstruction Model with On-Device Recalibration Facility", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 73, 2024. (DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2024.3450120) Accepted Manuscript. 

4. Sk. Md. Shafique Anwar, Debasmita Pal, Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, and Rajarshi Gupta, "A Lightweight Method of Myocardial Infarction Detection and Localization from Single Lead ECG Features Using Machine Learning Approach", IEEE Sensors Letters, Vol. 8, No.4, April 2024, DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3374790 (Accepted Manuscript).  

5. Aytrik Bose, Shatanik Mukherjee, Jayanta K. Chandra, Rajarshi Gupta, and Dipankar Ghosh, "On-device Signal Quality Guided and Embedded Physiologic Information for High Fidelity Continuous PPG Compression", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2024.3351256) (Accepted Manuscript). 

6. Samiul Alam, Rajarshi Gupta and Kaushik Das Sharma, "On-Device Multi-level Signal Quality Aware Compression for Energy-efficient Wearable PPG Sensing", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 3955 - 3964, 2023 DOI: 10.1109/JSEN3234171 (Accepted Manuscript).

7. Soumyak Chandra, and Rajarshi Gupta, "Smart Biomedical Sensor Network for Multi-patient Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 72, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2022.3231278 (author accepted manuscript).

8. Debasmita Pal, Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "Two-stage Classifier for Resource Constrained Onboard Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 72, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2022.3224535 (Author accepted Manuscript).

9. Monalisa Singha Roy, Rajarshi Gupta and Kaushik Das Sharma, "BePCon: A Photoplethysmography-based Quality-aware Continuous Beat-to-Beat Blood Pressure Measurement Technique Using Deep Learning", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2022), Vol. 71, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2022.3212750 (author accepted manuscript).

10. Samiul Alam, Rajarshi Gupta and Kaushik Das Sharma, "On-board Signal Quality Assessment Guided Compression of Photoplethysmogram for Personal Health Monitoring", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 70, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2021.3067238 (author accepted manuscript).

(c) Conference Publications (Selected: most recent) for detailed list click here:

1. Sudipta Das, Priya Sardar, and Rajarshi Gupta, "Identification of Twelve Fault Classes from IEEE-9 Bus System Using Autoencoder and XGBoost", 4th IEEE Conference on Applied Signal Processing (ASPCON), 2025, Kolkata (Accepted).

2. Sayantan Datta, Nabanita Banerjee, Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "Mean-Deviation Based Sample Reduction and Fourier Decomposition Guided Low Resource Mental Stress Detection", 4th IEEE Conference on Applied Signal Processing (ASPCON), 2025, Kolkata (Accepted).

3. Partha Sarathi Maity, Dhiman Das, Debasmita Pal, Rajarshi Gupta and Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, "MobiECG: A Mobile Phone-based Real-time Atrial Fibrillation Detection from Electrocardiogram", 4th IEEE Conference on Applied Signal Processing (ASPCON), 2025, Kolkata (Accepted).

4. Debasmita Pal (*), Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "Data Augmentation by Hybrid Data Resampling: Towards Enhanced Performance in Automatic Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection", IEEE CALCON 2024, Kolkata India, DOI: 10.1109/CALCON63337.2024.10914252 . 

5. Priya sardar (*), Rajarshi Gupta, and Jayanta K. Chandra, "Detection of Diabetes using Short-duration Photoplethysmography", IEEE CALCON 2024, Kolkata India DOI: 10.1109/CALCON63337.2024.10914214.

6. Nabanita Banerjee (*), Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "AURG-GWO: Adaptive Updation and Random Grouping based GWO for Mental Stress Detection", IEEE CALCON 2024, Kolkata India, DOI: 10.1109/CALCON63337.2024.10914318.

7. Nirmal Murmu (*), Rajarshi Gupta, and Kaushik Das Sharma, "MemSAR: A New Memory-Based Stacked Autoencoder for Blood Pressure Measurement using Single Channel Photoplethysmography", 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano (ETMN 2024), New Delhi, 23-24 Nov 2024.

8. Rajarshi Gupta(*), "Wearable Health Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities", 2023 8th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC), 14-16 December 2023, Kolkata, India DOI: 10.1109/CODEC60112.2023.10466000 (Invited Speaker).

9. Mousumi Mondal(*), Shromana Majumder(*), Sumyak Chandra, Debasmita Pal, Rajarshi Gupta, and Sumitra Mukhopadhyay, "A Wireless In-shoe Plantar Pressure Sensing System With Embedded Sensor Condition Analysis", IEEE 2023 Smart Generation Technologies in Computing, Networking & Communication (SMARTGENCON), Bengaluru, India, Dec 29-31, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/SMARTGENCON60755.2023.10442612 .

10. Yudha Raja Singam D(*), Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "FPGA Based Implementation of Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement Using Photoplethysmogram Signal", 3rd. International Conference on Signal and Data Processing (ICSDP), Nov 3-5, 2023, VIT Bhopal University. 

11. Debasmita Pal(*), Sumitra Mukhopadhyay and Rajarshi Gupta, "A Machine Learning-based Lightweight and Real-time Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection Using Optimum Samples and Features", 9th. IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON-2022), Dec 2-4, 2022, Allahabad (Awarded best paper in Track: Signal Processing); DOI: 10.1109/UPCON56432.2022.9986397 

Professional Activity:

Editorial Assignments: 

1. Since April 2020 - : Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (https://ieee-ims.org/committee/ieee-tim/editorial-board ) 

1.  From 2021-: Editorial Board Member, Physiological Measurement from Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), published by IoP Science) https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0967-3334/page/Editorial%20Board 

2. Oct 2024 - June2025: Editor of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) www.nature.com/srep/about/editors 

3. Jan 2022- Jan 2025: Editorial board Member: APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (published by The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) http://www.apsipa.org/atsip.htm

Membership in professional bodies:

1. Fellow: IETE (India) (Membership No.130886L).

2. Senior Member- IEEE (USA) (Membership No. 90661785). 

3. Member- IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement (IM) Society.  

4. Member- IEEE Sensors Council.

5. Member- IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. 

6. Member- IET (UK) (membership No. 71000844).

7.  Life Member- Biomedical Engineering Society of India (BMESI) (Membership No. LM1027).

Voluntary Service Rendered in Professional Bodies:

1. Advisor, IEEE IMS Student Branch Chapter, Calcutta Univ. of - Univ. College of Technology (2024-) 

2. Chair, Membership Development Committee, IEEE Kolkata Section (2021). 

3. Chairman, Joint IEEE Control Systems Society -Instrumentation & Measurement Society (CSS-IMS) Chapter Kolkata (2020, 2021).

4. Vice Chair,  Joint IEEE Control Systems Society -Instrumentation & Measurement Society (CSS-IMS) Chapter Kolkata, India. (2018, 2019).

5. Advisor, IEEE IMS student chapter, College of Engineering (A Govt. of Kerala UT), Chengannur, Kerala (2018-2019).

6.  Secretary,  Joint IEEE Control Systems Society -Instrumentation & Measurement Society (CSS-IMS) Chapter Kolkata, India. (2016, 2017)

7. Hony Secretary- IET UK Kolkata Network (2011-2013).

8. Member-South Asia Communities Committee (CC-SA) IET-UK (2011, 2012).

9. Vice Chairman- IET UK Kolkata Network (2016).

10. Execom. Member - IET UK Kolkata Network (2009-2016).

11. Execom. Member-IEEE Kolkata Section (2014-2018).

12. Chair, Membership Development Committee, IEEE Kolkata Section (2021).