NIT Warangal

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Room No: CS114, Dept of CSE, Ground Floor +91-870-2462739 usnraju@nitw.ac.in https://wsdc.nitw.ac.in/facultynew/facultyprofile/id/16337 Bio Sketch

Key Notes

Journal(s): 10
Educational Package(s): 1
PhD: Current - 5 Awarded - 4

11

PUBLICATIONS

9

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

4

PROJECTS

Research Areas

1. Computer Vision and Image Processing

2. Quantum Image Processing

3.Digital Olfaction(Research Interest)

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Degree	Institute	Year
Doctor of Philosophy	Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada	2010
Master of Technology	Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad	2002
Bachelor of Engineering	Sir M Visveswaraya Institute of Technology	1998

COURSES HANDLED

Course	L-T-P	Credit	Degree Level
Python Programming(CS37001)	3-0-2	4	PG
Programming and Data Structures(CS1101)	3-0-0	3	UG
Machine Learning( CS2204)	3-0-2	4	UG
Image Processing(CS37030)	3-0-0	3	PG
Quantum Technologies I(CS2M02)	3-0-2	3	UG
Quantum Computing(CS366)	3-0-0	3	UG
Problem Solving and Computer Programming(CS181)	3-0-2	4	UG
Python Programming(CS5355)	3-0-0	3	PG
Fundamentals of Data Structures(CS395)	3-0-0	3	UG
Computer Vision & Image Processing(CS5113)	3-0-0	3	UG, PG
Image Processing(CS5364)	3-0-0	3	PG
Problem Solving and Computer Programming(CS101)	3-0-0	3	UG

RESEARCH IDs

PUBLICATIONS

Journal(s)

Distributed compression and decompression for big image data: JPEG and CCITT Group-3, By Barman, H., Kishor, N. R., Kothuri, S. S. K., Kukudala, M., & U.S.N.Raju, Springer, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol.83(17), pp.50783-50823, 2024

DSM-IDM-YOLO: Depth-wise separable module and inception depth-wise module based YOLO for pedestrian detection., By Panigrahi, Sweta, and U. S. N. Raju., World Scientific Connect, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol.32(04), pp.2350011, 2023

Shuffled-Xception-DarkNet-53: A content-based image retrieval model based on deep learning algorithm., By Pathak, D., & U.S.N.Raju, ScienceDirect, Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol.107, pp.108647, 2023

InceptionDepth-wiseYOLOv2: improved implementation of YOLO framework for pedestrian detection, By Panigrahi, Sweta, and U. S. N. Raju, Springer, International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, vol.11.3, pp.409-430, 2022

MS-ML-SNYOLOv3: A robust lightweight modification of SqueezeNet based YOLOv3 for pedestrian detection., By Panigrahi, Sweta, and U. S. N. Raju., Elsevier, Optik , vol.260 , pp.169061, 2022

Content‐based image retrieval for super‐resolutioned images using feature fusion: Deep learning and hand crafted., By Pathak D. & U.S.N.Raju, Wiley, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol.34(22), pp.e6851, 2022

Distributed compression and decompression for big image data: LZW and Huffman coding., By Netalkar, R. K., Barman, H., Subba, R., Preetam, K. V., & U.S.N.Raju, SPIE, Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol.30(5), pp.053015-053015, 2021

Content-based image retrieval using feature-fusion of GroupNormalized-Inception-Darknet-53 features and handcraft features., By Pathak, D., & U.S.N.Raju, Elsevier, Optik , vol.246, pp.167754, 2021

Scale-invariant histogram of oriented gradients: novel approach for pedestriandetection in multiresolution image dataset., By Panigrahi, Sweta, and U.S.N.Raju, TÜBİTAK, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, vol.29(7), pp.3053-3073, 2021

Pedestrian detection based on hand-crafted features and multi-layer feature fused-ResNet model., By Panigrahi, Sweta, and U. S. N. Raju., World Scientific Connect, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol.30(05), pp. 2150028, 2021

Educational Package

Compiler Design- Digital Lab Record By Dr.U.S.N.Raju and Dr.Ch. Sudhakar, 2020

PROJECT / CONSULTANCY

Short Term Training Programme: "Essentials of Computer Science:Basics to Quantum"--Open to All--Every Year (since 2025), will be conducted mostly around one week after JEE Advanced Exam; Details will be published two months before the conduction of the Programme.

Role: Principal Developer
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: Self Sponsor Training Program, R & C, NIT Warangal
Project Cost (INR): 100000
Date of Commencement: 18-08-2025
Duration: 189 Months
Status: Ongoing

SMR Human Solutions Private Limited

Role: Director
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: Startup Company
Project Cost (INR): 100000
Date of Commencement: 04-04-2025
Duration: 193 Months
Status: Ongoing

Quantum Computing & Applications

Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Type: GIAN Course
Sponsor: Ministry of Education, Government of India
Project Cost (INR): 700000
Date of Commencement: 16-12-2024 Date of Completion: 27-12-2024
Duration: 0 Months
Status: Completed

Compiler Design-Digital Lab Record (https://nitw.ac.in/tlc/cdlab/index.html)

Role: Principal Investigator
Type: Consultancy
Sponsor: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on .(PMMMNMTT)
Project Cost (INR): 125000
Date of Commencement: 01-09-2017 Date of Completion: 31-07-2020
Duration: 34 Months
Status: Completed

RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS

Current PhD Students

Ahmed Shahebaaz

Area of Research: Image Processing using Deep Learning

Harika Ala

Area of Research: Image Super-Resolution

Jyotsna Garikipati

Area of Research: Medical Image Processing

Shanthi Chilakala

Area of Research: Image Noise Removal using Deep Learning

Yerramsetti Srinivasarao

Area of Research: Quantum Image Processing

Previous PhD Students

Debanjan Pathak (2022)

Area of Research: CBIR using Deep Learning

Suresh Kumar Kanaparthi (2021)

Area of Research: Content Based Image Retrieval

Sweta Panigrahi (2021)

Area of Research: Pedestrian Detection

Mahesh Kumar Morampudi (2020)

Area of Research: Reliable and Privacy-preserving Iris Remote Authentication

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Last updated on August 19, 2025

Prof. U S N Raju

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Current PhD Students

Previous PhD Students