Dr. Dipanwita Thakur

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES)
University of Calabria, Italy

BIOGRAPHY::

Dr. Dipanwita Thakur is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems (DIMES) at University of Calabria since July 2023. She is a working group member of the European Cooperation in Science & Technology in the domain of Optimal Security approaches and their impact on the user, as well as an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Working Group member of IEEE Future Networks. Recently, she joined as a visiting research scholar in the Department of Computer Science, at Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA. The primary responsibility is to conduct research and develop innovative optimization strategies and algorithms that enhance energy efficiency in federated learning systems, with a focus on minimizing energy consumption during local model training, quantifying energy usage, and evaluating the trade-offs between energy efficiency, model accuracy, convergence speed, and robustness. Dr. Thakur has achieved the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. In recognition of her impactful contributions, she is the Recipient of the 2025 IEEE HITC Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professional Member of ACM. She actively serves the research community in several editorial and leadership roles. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and Information Fusion (Elsevier). Her recent conference leadership and chairing roles include Associate Chair, CSCW 2025, Organizer & Program Chair, Workshop on Green Federated Learning: Toward Sustainable AI for a Decentralized Future, co-located with IEEE IJCNN 2025, Area Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Session Chair, Special Session on Federated Learning on Big Data, co-located with IEEE BigData 2024, Organizer & Program Chair, 1st AIxIA Workshop on Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence (Green-Aware AI 2024), co-located with the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024), Associate Editor and Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2025), Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on AI and Robotics (AIR 2025). Dr. Thakur is an active member of several prestigious international working groups, including IEEE Future Networks – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) Working Group, IEEE IoT Community - Internet of Wearable Things (IoWT), NVIDIA MONAI Working Groups on Data Quality and Federated Learning,

Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Banasthali University, Rajasthan, for 15 years. She also worked as a Technical Support Engineer in TechMahindra, India, and Project Trainee at the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), India.

She received her Ph.D. from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India. Her primary research specializes in Green Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a focus on federated learning,Smart healthcare using Machine Learning, specifically Performance Evaluation of Human Activity Recognition Systems. Her work aims to make AI more energy-efficient and sustainable by developing decentralized models that reduce the environmental impact of data processing. With several years of experience in smart healthcare, She has concentrated on human activity recognition, leveraging AI to enhance healthcare applications through non-invasive and privacy-preserving techniques. Her interdisciplinary approach combines cutting-edge AI methodologies with practical healthcare solutions, striving to create impactful innovations that support sustainable and effective patient care. She is the author of many scholarly research papers, including reputed journal papers, in the above-mentioned areas.

News

  • November
    ★Received the 2025 IEEE HITC Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence (ECR Award)
    • November
    ★Achieved the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
  • November
    ★Paper Accepted In IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • October
    ★Special Session “FIRE-AI: Federated Intelligence for Responsible, Evolving AI” has been accepted for inclusion at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2026), Granada, Spain | 8–10 May 2026
  • September
    ★Paper accepted in 7th International Conference on Process Mining, Montevideo, Uruguay, October 20-24, 2025
  • August
    ★Congratulations to Farwa for paper acceptance in ECAI 2025 Workshop, Bologna, Italy, October 25-20, 2025
  • July
    ★Paper accepted in the main track of IEEE SMC 2025, Vienna, Austria, October 5 -8, 2025
  • June
    ★Paper accepted in the main track of IEEE Smart World Congress 2025, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 18 - 22, 2025
  • May
    ★Elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
  • April
    ★Congratulations to Farwa for paper acceptance in IJCNN 2025 Workshop (IEEE), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 5, 2025
  • March
    ★Appointed as an Associate Editor in the Information Fusion, Elsevier
  • February
    ★Paper accepted in the 5th IEEE International Conference on Human Machine Systems 2025 (IEEE ICHMS'25), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 26-28 May 2025.
  • February
    ★Paper accepted in the ACM Computing Surveys
  • January
    ★Appointed as an Associate Editor in the IEEE Sensor Journal
  • January
    ★Research Paper Published in the Journal of Information Fusion, Elsevier
  • January
    ★Workshop Proposal on "Green Federated Learning: Toward Sustainable AI for a Decentralized Future (GFL)," has been accepted for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks is organized jointly by the International Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IJCNN2024 (Rank – B), June 30 – July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy!
  • January
    ★Joined as a Visiting Research Scholar in the Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
  • December
    ★Paper accepted in AAAI FLUID workshop, February 25 – March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • November
    ★Organized the 1st AIxIA Workshop on Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence (Green-Aware AI 2024) co-located with the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024) 25 - 28 November 2024, Bolzano (Italy)
  • October
    ★Become an editorial board member in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature
  • October
    ★Paper accepted in IEEE Big Data, December 15-18, Washington DC, USA
  • August
    ★Full book chapter with Prof. Giancarlo Fortino published in Activity Recognition and Prediction for Smart IoT Environments. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60027-2_4.
  • August
    ★Full book chapter with Dr. Arindam Pal published in Activity Recognition and Prediction for Smart IoT Environments. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60027-2_8.
  • August
    ★Paper accepted in 17th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing 18 – 20 September 2024. University of Brighton – U.K, with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
  • July
    ★Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
  • June
    ★Attended COST Action CA22104: "Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security" Management Committee Meeting from June 24-25, 2024, with Dr. Antonella Guzzo at Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • June
    ★Workshop Proposal on "Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Solutions to Improve AI Sustainability" was accepted at the23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024), 25–28 November 2024, Bolzano, Italy
  • May
    ★Paper accepted in Internet of Things, Elsevier, with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
  • April
    ★Book published by LAMBERT on Efficient and Intelligent Activity Monitoring and Recognition.
  • March
    ★Joined as a working group member in European Cooperation in Science & Technology.
  • January
    ★Paper accepted in Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
  • January
    ★Paper accepted in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier with Dr. Suparna Biswas.
  • November
    ★Paper accepted in ACM Transaction on Computing for Healthcare, 2023.
  • October
    ★Paper accepted in 21st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2023), Abu Dhabi with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
  • August
    ★Paper accepted in 24th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), Bellevue, WA, USA.
  • July
    ★Joined as an Assistant Professor at DIMES Department, University of Calabria (Italy)..
  • July
    ★Paper accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino..
  • August
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas published in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier.
  • July
    Full book chapter with Dr. Suparna Biswas published in CRC Press

    Full book chapter with Dr. Suparna Biswas and Dr. Arindam Pal published in Internet of Things Based Smart Healthcare. Smart Computing and Intelligence. Springer, Singapore
  • June
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas published in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
  • May
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in IEEE Sensors Journal
  • January
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas, Dr. Edmond SL Ho, Prof. Samiran Chattopadhyay published in IEEE Access.
  • November
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, IoT, Smart Cities and Applications (ICMISC) 2021.
  • September
    Paper with Dr. Antonella Guzzo and Prof. Giancarlo Fortino accepted in proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS) 2021.
  • July
    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security IEMIS 2020.
  • May

    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in International Journal of Information Technology, Springer

  • April

    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2021)

  • March

    Paper with Dr. Manas Khatua accepted in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier)



    Paper with Dr. Suparna Biswas accepted in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing(Springer)

  • July

    Paper with Richa accepted in proceeding 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation and Control Technologies : ICICICT-2019

  • November

    Paper accepted in proceeding of 4th International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks (ISCON) IEEE 2019

Research Interests

  • Smart Healthcare
  • Machine Learning
  • Federated Learning
  • Internet of Things
  • Software Defined Networking

My Research Works

ResearchGroup
Human Activity Recognition Framework

Green federated Learning

gfl
Federated Learning Framework

Work Experience

  • Present: Visiting reserach scholar, Dept. of CS, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
  • Present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of CE, University of Calabria, Italy
  • 2008-2023: Assistant Professor, Dept. of CS, Banasthali Vidyapith (Deemed to be University), Rajasthan, India
  • 2007-2008: Technical Support Engineer, Netgear Process, India
  • 2006-2007: Project Trainee, AAI Group, C-DAC, Pune, India

Education

  • Ph.D. (Smart Healthcare) from MAKAUT (Formerly known as WBUT), Kolkata, India
  • M.Tech. (SE) from Banasthali Vidyapith (Deemed to be University), Rajasthan, India
  • MCA from NIELIT, Govt. of India
  • B.Sc. from University of Calcutta (India)

Professional Certification

  • Certification in Google Advanced Data Analytics
  • NPTEL-AICTE certification course in Internet of Things.
  • NPTEL-AICTE certification course in programming in C++.
  • NPTEL-AICTE certification course in Discrete Structures.
  • NPTEL-AICTE certification in Machine Learning.
  • NPTEL-AICTE certification in Deep Learning.
  • DeepLearning.AI certification of Specialization in Deep Learning.
  • Stanford online certification in Machine Learning.
  • HarvardX certification in Python in Research.

Working Groups

  • MONAI: Data Quality and Federated Learning
  • IEEE IoT Community Internet of Wearable Things (IoWT)
  • IEEE Future Networks Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML)
  • CA22104 / Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security (BEiNG-WISE), WG1 & WG3
  • CA22168 / Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems (6G-PHYSEC)

Invited Talks

  • Keynote Speaker at 9th International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2026), IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Rajarhat, Kolkata, India, January 30 - 31, 2026
  • Tutorial Session Speaker at the FAIR General Conference 2025 of the FAIR Project (PNRR), Rome, Italy, 10–12 December 2025.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Design and Process Science, Dec 7-10, 2025, in Malta.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computing, IoT, and Data Analytics (AICTA 2025), 30th October to 1st November 2025, at Lendi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, India
  • keynote speaker at International Conference on Smart Computing, Communication and Automation (ICSCCA-2K25), August 2-3, 2025, at Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
  • Faculty Development Program on "Empowering Healthcare with Deep learning: from data to diagnosis", organized by the NIT Patna & MAKAUT, June 9 - June 13, 2025, India. Talk Title: Advancing healthcare through multimodal data fusion: Techniques & Applications.
  • Keynote Speaker at 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Human Centered Computing (HUMAN-2025) jointly organized by CSI Kolkata Chapter and JIS College of Engineering on 28th March 2025.
  • AICTE (All India Council for Training Education) Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored Faculty Development Program on “AI in Precision Agriculture and Smart Healthcare for Society 5.0'' organized by the Department of Computer Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, February 3 - February 8, 2025, West Bengal, India. Talk Title: Green Aware AI in Smart Healthcare
  • COST Action CA22104: "Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security" Management Committee Meeting, June 24-25, 2024, Faculty for Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI), ul.Rudzer Boshkovikj 16, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Talk Title: Embracing Sustainability in Cybersecurity: Towards Technical Approach
  • Faculty Development Program on "Autonomous AI for Sustainable Development", organized by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, June 3 - June 8, 2024, Noida, UP, India. Talk Title: Federated Learning in Sustainable AL for IoT Applications.

Academic & Administrative Responsibilities

  • July 2009-2015: Course coordinator for M.Tech., Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • January 2015: Project coordinator for B.Tech. Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • January 2018: Project coordinator for B.Tech. Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • January 2019: Project coordinator for B.Tech. Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • July 2019: Seminar coordinator for B.Tech. Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • July 2023: Seminar coordinator for M.Tech. (AI) 2023 batch, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • March 2023: Online course development on Compiler Design, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • April 2023: Online course development on Discrete Mathematics, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • July 2022: Course coordinator for M.Tech (CS) 2022 batch, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • July 2022: Seminar coordinator for B.Tech. (CS) 2021 batch, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
  • July 2022: Organizing Committee Member of 2nd International Conference on Health Big Data and Smart Sports (HBDSS 2022), held during November 18th-20th, 2022 in Xiamen, China

Editorial Board Member

  • Associate Editor in the Information Fusion Journal

  • Associate Editor in the IEEE Sensor Journal

  • Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Scientific Reports, Springer Nature

Chair

Committee Member

TPC Member

Awards

  • Dr. B.C. Roy Memorial Scholarship for outstanding results in Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board), 1992.

  • Student Science Seminar, Organized by Department of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of West Bengal, 1990.

Professional Membership

  • IEEE Senior Member(ID:91199065)
  • ACM Member(ID:5193906)

Reviewer

  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions Human-Machine Systems
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Access Journal
  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier)
  • Information Fusion (Elsevier)
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)
  • Data in Brief (Elsevier)
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer)
  • Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, Springer
  • Journal of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
  • Sensors (MDPI)
  • Mathematics (MDPI)
  • Remote Sensing (MDPI)
  • Scientific Reports (springer)
  • Cluster Computing (Springer)
  • Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer)
  • Discover Computing (Springer)
  • Computing (Springer)
  • International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer)

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