Manas Kamal Bhuyan

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Manas Kamal Bhuyan
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Born
🎓 Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (Ph.D) University of Queensland (Postdoctoral)
💼 Occupation
Known for	Indian Sign Language recognition Colonoscopic polyp detection Computer vision and deep learning Human–computer interaction
🏅 Awards	National Award for Best Applied Research/Technological Innovation (2012) Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2013–14) Outstanding Achievers' Recognition, Vice President of India (2021) BOYSCAST Fellowship (2006) Most Influential Paper Award, MVA 2023

(M.K. Bhuyan) Manas Kamal Bhuyan is an Indian academic and researcher whose work focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image and signal processing, human–computer interaction, and assistive technologies. He is a Professor (HAG) in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), and a Professor in the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the same institution. He additionally serves as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Chubu University, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and the Institution of Engineers (India).

Bhuyan is the recipient of the National Award for Best Applied Research/Technological Innovation conferred by the President of India in 2013, the Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2013–14), and the Outstanding Achievers' Recognition presented by the Vice President of India in 2021. He has authored over 330 research publications, supervised 30 doctoral scholars, and developed two widely enrolled NPTEL video courses on machine learning and computer vision.

Education and Academic career

He received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati under a UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). He subsequently carried out postdoctoral research in two internationally prominent settings in Australia: as part of the Security and Surveillance group at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Queensland, Brisbane; and as a Researcher with the SAFE (Smart Applications for Emergencies) Sensor Research Group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), Brisbane, where he contributed to the Safeguarding Australia Programme funded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Government of Australia. Bhuyan held faculty positions at Jorhat Engineering College, Assam, and the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Roorkee and served in the Indian Engineering Services. He held a Visiting Professorship at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Purdue University, USA, from 2014 to 2015, under the Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. Since 2020, he has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Chubu University, Japan, a collaboration facilitated through a formal MOU between Chubu University and IIT Guwahati.

Administrative roles

Bhuyan served as Associate Dean of Infrastructure Planning and Management (IPM) at IIT Guwahati from 2019 to 2022, and as Dean of Infrastructure Planning and Management from 2022 to 2025. Since 2026, he has been serving as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Guwahati Chapter.

Research

Bhuyan's research spans machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image and video processing, human–computer interaction (HCI), virtual and augmented reality, and biomedical signal processing. He has authored over 330 peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals and conferences, with strong representation in IEEE Transactions, Elsevier journals and journals of the Nature Publishing Group.

Indian Sign Language recognition and assistive technologies

Bhuyan is one of India's pioneering researchers in Indian Sign Language (ISL) recognition and education, with over 27 years of sustained contributions to this domain. His doctoral work established foundational finite state machine and trajectory-based techniques for recognising dynamic hand gestures from visual images. Following his doctorate, he led a series of funded national projects under India's National Mission for Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT), MHRD, Government of India, to develop an Automatic Indian Sign Language Education and Recognition Platform—a comprehensive system for real-time ISL recognition, including continuous and two-handed gestures, intended to support hearing-impaired students across India. This work was further developed under projects funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The National Award for Best Applied Research/Technological Innovation (2012) conferred by the Government of India recognised these contributions as having significant impact on the lives of persons with disabilities.

Medical image analysis and healthcare AI

Bhuyan and his collaborators have made notable contributions to AI-based medical image analysis. A research team led by him developed an artificial-intelligence-based platform for the early detection of colorectal cancer using colonoscopy images, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports (Nature) in 2021. This work was covered by major Indian news outlets including The Times of India, NDTV, The Financial Express, Deccan Herald, and The Economic Times, and was featured in a dedicated segment on Rajya Sabha Television's Gyan Vigyan News programme.

His broader work in healthcare AI encompasses endoscopic polyp segmentation and 3D reconstruction, semi-supervised GAN-based medical image classification, breast cancer classification using multiscale context fusion, non-contact heart rate estimation, seismocardiogram (SCG)-based cardiac analysis, cuffless blood pressure estimation, and lymph node annotation from CT images.

His research team's earlier work on automatic polyp detection in endoscopic images using a Hessian filter—a collaboration with Prof. Yuji Iwahori at Chubu University, Japan, and Prof. Robert J. Woodham at the University of British Columbia, Canada—was recognised with the Most Influential Research Paper Over the Decade Award at the 18th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2023), held in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Video surveillance and tracking

During his postdoctoral period in Australia, Bhuyan conducted research on intelligent CCTV surveillance within the SAFE Project at NICTA. He proposed a pedestrian classification and tracking system combining blob matching with particle filtering to track multiple people in outdoor environments such as railway stations, including under partial occlusion. He extended this to multi-camera tracking using a two-level approach combining image-level tracking with ground-level particle filter-based tracking. His contributions were acknowledged in the SAFE (Sensors) Strategic Project Review 2007, conducted by National ICT Australia.

Remote sensing and semantic segmentation

More recent contributions from Bhuyan's group include transformer-based SAR image despeckling (published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025), hyperspectral image super-resolution using spectral attention networks, and deep-learning-based satellite image segmentation and roadway extraction. In the domain of real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, his group has developed lightweight networks including DMPNet, SLICENet, DECoDeNet, and CTPNet, with associated FPGA-based hardware accelerators.

Virtual Presence Platform

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bhuyan developed a Virtual Presence Platform that enabled graduates, faculty, and guests to participate remotely in the 22nd Convocation of IIT Guwahati (2020) using virtual avatars. The platform received substantial national media coverage, including in The Times of India and Hindustan Times.

Teaching and educational contributions

Bhuyan is the author of the textbook Computer Vision and Image Processing: Fundamentals and Applications, published by CRC Press, USA, in 2019 (ISBN 978-0815370840), which was reviewed as recommended for upper-division undergraduates, faculty, and professionals in the December 2020 issue of Choice Reviews. He is also the author of Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Fundamentals and Applications, published by CRC Press. He has developed two 12-week NPTEL video courses: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Fundamentals and Applications and Computer Vision and Image Processing – Fundamentals and Applications. He additionally developed a web course on Computer Vision and Applications under the National Mission for Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. Bhuyan has guided 30 Ph.D. scholars, 1 post-doctoral researcher, 45 M.Tech. students, and 53 B.Tech. students. He has delivered over 80 invited lectures, keynote addresses, and faculty development programme talks at institutions across India and internationally, covering topics including deep learning, transformers, GANs, biomedical image analysis, and computer vision. International keynote and invited lectures include talks at the Second International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering and their Applications (Manila, Philippines, 2015), the 6th IEEE Asian Conference on Defence Technology (Bali, Indonesia, 2019), the Indo-French Seminar on Matrix Information Geometries at École Polytechnique (Paris, France, 2011), and the 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Computer Vision (NIT Silchar, 2025). He served as a tutorial speaker at IEEE GCON 2026 on Transformers Beyond Language: The Rise of Vision Transformers.

Awards and honours

• National Award for Best Applied Research and Technological Innovation (2012) – Conferred by the Government of India for contributions to AI-based Indian Sign Language recognition and education for persons with disabilities; presented by the President of India at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 6 February 2013.
• Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2013–14) – Awarded by the United States–India Educational Foundation (USIEF) / Fulbright Scholar Program for a teaching and research visit to Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
• Outstanding Achievers' Recognition (2021) – Conferred by the Vice President of India.
• Most Influential Research Paper Over the Decade Award – Awarded at the 18th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2023), Hamamatsu, Japan, for the paper "Automatic Polyp Detection in Endoscope Images Using a Hessian Filter".
• Best Paper Award – Smart City Workshop 2025, jointly organised by IIT Guwahati, IIT Madras, University of Ibaraki (Japan), and Hitachi Research (Japan), for a paper on a multimodal vision-based hand rehabilitation system.
• Best Research Paper Award – 6th International Conference on Bioimaging (BIOIMAGING 2019), Prague, Czech Republic.
• Best Poster Award – BIOIMAGING 2018, Porto, Portugal.
• Best Paper Award – 9th International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications (PATTERNS 2017), Athens, Greece.
• BOYSCAST Fellowship (2006–07) – Awarded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
• Research Acknowledgment – SAFE (Sensors) Strategic Project Review 2007, National ICT Australia, Government of Australia.
• DST Fellowship – To attend and deliver an invited talk at the Indo-French Seminar on Matrix Information Geometries, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2011; a related book chapter was subsequently published.
• Featured in Who's Who in America (2009) for contributions to sign language research and support for persons with disabilities.
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Engineering and Technology, UGC, Government of India.
• Technical Merit Scholarship, Director of Technical Education, Government of Assam.
• National Merit Scholarship, Assam Higher Secondary Education Council.

Professional memberships

• Fellow (FIET), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), United Kingdom (Membership No. 1122025009)
• Senior Member (SMIEEE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA (Membership No. 92023537)
• Fellow (FIETE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India (Membership No. F-505523)
• Fellow (FIE), Institution of Engineers (India) (Membership No. F-1318736)

Government, policy, and advisory roles

Bhuyan has contributed extensively to national science and technology governance, including through the following roles:

• Member, Programme Advisory Committee on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (PAC-EECE), Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India
• Member, ANRF Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) Committee
• Member, Programme Advisory Committee on Exponential Technologies, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)–DST, Government of India
• Member of the Programme Advisory Committee on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (PAC-EECE), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)–DST, Government of India
• Member, Project Review and Steering Groups (PRSGs), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
• Member, Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC), National e-Governance Division (NeGD), MeitY, Government of India (Digital India Programme)
• Expert Member, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), DRDO, Government of India
• Expert Member, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India
• Adviser, Transport Department, Government of Assam
• Chairperson, Assam Police Committee under the Director General of Police, Government of Assam
• Member, Assam Engineering Service Recruitment Board, Government of Assam
• Thematic Group Member, Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy, Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC), Government of Assam

Academic and institutional advisory roles

• Member, Board of Governors (BoG), National Institute of Technology Meghalaya
• Nominated Member, Senate, Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar
• External Academic Expert and Board of Studies Member, Mahindra University, Hyderabad
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Information Technology, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Electronics Engineering, Assam Skill University
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tezpur University
• Member, Departmental Board of Studies, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Assam Don Bosco University
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Cotton University
• Member, Academic Audit Committee, Gauhati University
• Member, Staff Selection Committee, AIIMS Guwahati

External links

• Official profile at IIT Guwahati
• Faculty profile, Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati
• Publications page at IIT Guwahati
• NPTEL course: Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• NPTEL course: Computer Vision and Image Processing

Category:Indian engineers Category:Indian computer scientists Category:Artificial intelligence researchers Category:Computer vision researchers Category:Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Category:Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Category:Living people

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