Dr. Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Dr.Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Name

Dr.Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Designation

Assistant Professor

E-mail Id

kamalika@nitt.edu

Specialization

Theoretical Computer Science

Important Updates:

The Fourth Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT 2025), organized by Cellular Automata India is going to be organized at Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, Ranchi from March 6-8, 2025.

Important Dates:

  • Paper Submission Deadline:  October 25, 2024  November 11, 2024
  • Notification of Acceptance: December 24, 2024
  • Camera-ready Papers: January 3, 2025
  • Conference: March 6-8, 2025

Accepted papers of the conference will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Nature in the book series CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). For more details, please visit: https://conference.bitmesra.ac.in/ascat2025/Home 

 

Past Events:

 

Academic Qualifications :

Examination

Board / University

Year

Division/ Grade

Subjects

Position

PhD

IIEST, Shibpur

2019

 

Theoretical Computer Science (Cellular Automata)

INSPIRE Fellow

M.E.

BESU, Shibpur

2013

First

Information Technology

Gold Medalist

B.Tech

WBUT

2011

First

Information Technology

College Topper

H.S.

WBCHSE

2007

First

Science

Among Top 25 rankers in Board
Secondary WBBSE 2005 First General  Best student of the Academic Year 1999-2005

Employment Profile

Job Title

Employer

From

To

Assistant Professor

NIT Trichy

29-June-2020

Till date

Temporary Faculty

IIIT Ranchi

07-August-2019

23-June-2020

Associate System Engineer

IBM India Pvt Ltd

05-August-2013

10-March-2014

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities within the University:

Position

Faculty/Department/Centre/Institution

From

Social Media Coordinator Institute Innovation Council 01-11-2021

Member

Academic Reform Committee

18-03-2021

Member

Anti Ragging Committee

26-02-2021

Faculty Advisor

Life Style Club

28-07-2021

Program Committee Member Yuva Sangam, EBSB, NIT Trichy Chapter 05-04-2023

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities outside the University:

Position

Institution

From

To

Co-Founder and Moderator

Cellular Automata India

August 2020

Till date

Curriculum Development: BTech CSE BOS coordinator IIIT Ranchi  Jan 2020 June 2020

Fellowships:

Year of Award

Name of the Fellowship

Awarding Organization

From

(Month/Year)

To

(Month/Year)

2014

INSPIRE

DST, Govt of India

Jan/2014

Dec/2018

2011

GATE Fellowship

MHRD, Govt of India

July/2011

June/2013

2007

Peerless Platinum Jubilee Scholarship

Peerless Group

May/2007

April/2008

 Details of Academic Work

Teaching

  • Postgraduate: Mathematical Concepts in Computer Science
  • Undergraduate:
  1. Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  2. Compiler Design
  3. Design Thinking
  4. Randomized Algorithms
  5. Computer Organization
  6. Network Security
  7. Comprehensive Viva Voce
  8. Algorithm Lab
  9. Combinatorics and Graph Theory 
  10. Advanced Algorithms (IIIT Ranchi)
  11. Discrete Mathematics (IIIT Ranchi)

Students

  • PhD Students
Name Title of Thesis Type of Fellowship Date of Joining Status
Vicky Vikrant First Degree Cellular Automata (Tentative) Institute Fellow (SRF) 24 August, 2020 Ongoing
Baby C J Green Machine Learning with Cellular Automata (Tentative) QIP Fellow 17 July, 2023 Ongoing
Bhuvaneswari A. Randomness and Cellular Automata Visvesvaraya Fellow 19 August, 2024 Ongoing

 

  • Projects guided at the Postgraduate level
    • Generation of Isomorphic Cellular Automata, 2023- 2024
    • Cellular Automata based Multiple Stream Parallel Random Number Generation for 64-bit Computing, 2023-2024
    • Hash Based Clustering Using Reversible Cellular Automata, 2022-2023
    • Isomorphic Classification of Cellular Automata, 2022-2023
    • Simulation and Modelling of Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021-2022
    • Creating College Enquiry Chatbot using RASA and Python, 2020-2021

 

  • Projects guided at the Undergraduate level
    • Cryptography using Isomorphic Reversible Cellular Automata, 2023-2024
    • Classification Using Cyclic Spaces of Reversible Cellular Automata, 2023-2024
    • Cellular Automata and Algorithmic Preprocessing to Improve Clustering, 2022- 2023
    • Multiple-Stream Parallel Random Number Generation with Cellular Automata, 2022 - 2023
    • Clustering Using Reversible Cellular Automata, 2021 - 2022
    • An Analysis on the Tessellation of Hyperbolic Cellular Automata to Solve NP-Complete Problems in Polynomial Time, 2021 - 2022
    • Emulating Mersenne Twister with Cellular Automata, 2020 - 2021

Academic Outreach Activities

  • Reviewer for Mathematical ReviewsAmerican Mathematical Society
  • Reviewer of Journals -
    • International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
    • New Generation Computing
    • Nonlinear Dynamics
    • Discrete Applied Mathematics
    • European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Journal of Cellular Automata
    • Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomenon
    • Journal of Supercomputing
    • Advances in Complex Systems

Publications:

 (A) Refereed Research Journals:            

Author(s)

Title of Paper

Journal

Volume  (No.)

Page numbers

 

Year

Subrata Paul, and Kamalika Bhattacharjee Non-Uniform Temporally Stochastic Cellular Automata as Model of Contagious Disease Spread Accepted in Special issue of Complex Systems     2024
Vicky Vikrant, Sukanya Mukherjee, Kamalika Bhattacharjee  Isomorphic Classification of First Degree Cellular Automata Accepted in Special issue of Complex Systems     2024
Sukanta Das, Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Mihir K Chakraborty Logical Model of Cellular Automata Complex Systems 33 (1) 87–124 2024
Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Subrata Paul, Sukanta Das Affinity Classification Problem by Stochastic Cellular Automata Complex Systems 32 (3) 271–288 2023
Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Nitin More, Shobhit Kumar Singh and Nikhil Verma Cellular Automaton-Based Emulation of the Mersenne Twister Special issue of Complex Systems 32 (2) 139–169 2023
Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Vicky Vikrant Study of First Degree Cellular Automata for Randomness Special issue of Journal of Cellular Automata 17(1-2) 79-97 2023

Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

A Search for Good Pseudorandom Number Generators: Survey and Empirical Studies

Computer Science Review

45

100471

2022

Sukanya Mukherjee, Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Reversible Cellular Automata: A Natural Clustering Technique 

Journal of Cellular Automata 

16(1-2)

1-38

2021 

Sukanya Mukherjee, Sumit Adak, Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Nonuniform Non-linear Cellular Automata with Large Cycles and Their Application in Pseudo-Random Number Generation 

International Journal of Modern Physics C 

 

32 (07)

2150091

2021 

Sukanya Mukherjee, Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Clustering Using Cyclic Spaces of Reversible Cellular Automata 

Complex Systems 

30(2)

205-237 

2021 

Sumit Adak, Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Maximal Length Cellular Automata in GF(q) and Pseudo-random Number Generation 

International Journal of Modern Physics C 

31(03)

2050037 

2020

Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Random Number Generation using Decimal Cellular Automata 

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 

78

104878 

2019

Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Nazma Naskar, Souvik Roy and Sukanta Das 

A survey of cellular automata: types, dynamics, nonuniformity, and applications 

Natural Computing 

 

19

433–461 

2020

Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

A List of Tri-state Cellular Automata which are Potential Pseudo-random Number Generators 

International Journal of Modern Physics C 

29(09)

1850088 

2018

Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Dipanjyoti Paul and Sukanta Das 

Pseudorandom Number Generation using a 3-state Cellular Automaton 

International Journal of Modern Physics C 

 

28(06)

1750078 

2017

Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Sukanta Das 

Reversibility of d-state Finite Cellular Automata 

Journal of Cellular Automata 

11(2-3)

213–245

2016

 (B)  Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings           

Author(s)

Title of Abstract/ Paper

Title of the Proceedings

Page numbers

Conference Theme

Venue

Year

Baby C. J. &  Kamalika Bhattacharjee 

Reversible Decimal First Degree Cellular Automata for Data Classification

In: Bagnoli, F., Baetens, J., Bandini, S., Matteuzzi, T. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14978. Springer, Cham.  147–162 Cellular Automata and ApplicationsUniversity of Florence, Italy University of Florence, Italy

September 9-11, 2024​

Tarun Lywait,  Kiran Srinivasan,  Krishnadas Nair &  Kamalika Bhattacharjee

 

A Scheme for Symmetric Cryptosystem Using Large Cycle Reversible Cellular Automata

In: Bagnoli, F., Baetens, J., Bandini, S., Matteuzzi, T. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14978. Springer, Cham.  132–146 Cellular Automata and Applications University of Florence, Italy September 9-11, 2024
Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Tarun Dittakavi Generation of Pseudo-Isomorphic Cellular Automata In: Gadouleau, M., Castillo-Ramirez, A. (eds) Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems. AUTOMATA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14782. Springer, Cham. 77–94 Automata Durham University, UK July 22-24, 2024

Kamalika Bhattacharjee and Suraj Kumar

Cellular Automata based Multiple Stream Parallel Random Number Generator for 64-bit Computing In: Dalui, M., Das, S., Formenti, E. (eds) Cellular Automata Technology. Third Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2021. Springer 109-122 Cellular Automata Technology NIT, Durgapur February 29 - March 02, 2024
Subrata Paul, and Kamalika Bhattacharjee. Temporally Non-Uniform Cellular Automata as
Pseudo-Random Number Generator
Third Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. In: Dalui, M., Das, S., Formenti, E. (eds) Cellular Automata Technology. Third Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2021. Springer 56-71 Cellular Automata Technology NIT, Durgapur February 29 - March 02, 2024
Narodia Parth P, and Kamalika Bhattacharjee Gödel Number Based Encoding Technique for Effective Clustering 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI2023) 49–58 Machine Learning ISI, Kolkata December 12-15, 2023
Hanan Abdul Jaleel, Saran Kaarthik B. T., Sailesh S., and Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Multiple-Stream Parallel Pseudo-Random Number Generation with Cellular Automata

29th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (Automata 2023) 90-104 Automata Trieste, Italy August 30 - September 1, 2023
Viswonathan Manoranjan, Ganta Sneha Rao, Subramanian V. V., and Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Optimized Reversible Cellular Automata Based Clustering

29th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (Automata 2023) 74-89 Automata Trieste, Italy August 30 - September 1, 2023
S. Abhishek, Mohammed Dharwish, Amit Das, Kamalika Bhattacharjee

A Cellular Automata-Based Clustering Technique for High-Dimensional Data

In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2023. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1443. Springer 37-51 Cellular Automata Technology IIEST, Shibpur 2023
Subrata Paul, Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Modeling Spread of Contagious Disease by Temporally Stochastic Cellular Automata

In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2023. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1443. Springer 161-175 Cellular Automata Technology IIEST, Shibpur 2023
Sukanya Mukherjee, Vicky Vikrant, Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Isomorphism in Cellular Automata

In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2023. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1443. Springer 193-206 Cellular Automata Technology IIEST, Shibpur 2023

Bhattacharjee, Kamalika

First Degree Cellular Automata as Pseudo-Random Number Generators

In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2022.

122–137

Cellular Automata Technology

Online from IIEST Shibpur

2022

Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Nitin More, Shobhit Kumar Singh, and Nikhil Verma

Emulating Mersenne Twister with Cellular Automata

In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2022.

95–108

Cellular Automata Technology

Online from IIEST Shibpur

2022

Bhattacharjee, Kamalika and Das, Sukanta.  

Computation with Democracy: An Intelligent System 

Intelligence Science III: 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference, ICIS 2020 

273–282

Intelligent Science

Online from NIT Durgapur

February 24-27, 2021 

Mukherjee, Sukanya, Bhattacharjee, Kamalika, and Das, Sukanta. 

Cycle-based Clustering using Reversible Cellular Automata 

In Proceedings of AUTOMATA 2020 

29–42

Cellular Automata

Online, from Sweden and the UK

Aug 10-12, 2020 

Bhattacharjee, Kamalika, Paul, Dipanjyoti Paul and Das, Sukanta 

Pseudorandom Pattern Generation using 3-state Cellular Automata 

International Conference on Cellular Automata, ACRI, 2016 

3-13

Cellular Automata

Morocco

September 5-8, 2016 

Bhattacharjee, Kamalika 

Design of an Adder for Ternary Numbers using a 3- state Cellular Automaton 

Fifth International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT) 2018 

1-4

Information Technology

Kolkata

Jan 12-13, 2018 

Hazari, Raju, Bhattacharjee, Kamalika, and Das, Sukanta 

 

Design of Hardware for Deterministic Nagel-Schreckenberg Traffic Model 

International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED), 2012 

154-156

VLSI Technology

Kolkata

Dec 19-22, 2012 

 (C)  Books & Monographs

Author(s)

Title of Book/Monograph

Name of Publishers

Year of Publication

ISSN/ISBN Number

Mihir K Chakraborty, Sukanta Das, Shubhasis Bandopadhyay, Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Raju Hazari, Sumit Adak, Souvik Roy, Supreeti Kamilya 

A Journey through the Logic Wonderland

 

IIEST Shibpur

2020 

e-book

Sukanta Das, Souvik Roy and Kamalika Bhattacharjee (Editors)

The Mathematical Artist - A Tribute To John Horton Conway

Emergence, Complexity, and Computation (ECC, volume 45), Springer

2022

978-3-031-03985-0

Participation in Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia /Seminars/ Schools etc. (mentioning the role)

Date (s)

Title of Activity

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Role (Participant/ Speaker/ Chairperson, Paper presenter, Any other)

Event Organized by

Venue

July 22-24, 2024 30th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (AUTOMATA 2024) International Session Chair  IFIP WG 1.5 Durham University, United Kingdom
February 29 to March 02, 2024 Third  Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) 2024 International Session Chair National Institute of Technology, Durgapur  in collaboration with Cellular Automata India NIT, Durgapur
August 12-14, 2023 22nd Annual Conference of the Calcutta Logic Circle 2023 International Invited Speaker Jointly organized by the CLC and Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur
March 02-04, 2023 Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) 2023 International Session Chair Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, in collaboration with Cellular Automata India IIEST, Shibpur

March 15-19, 2021

One Week Online Workshop on Cellular Automata and Secured Hardware Design

International

Session Chair

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, in collaboration with the University of Turku, Finland

Online from IIEST, Shibpur

17-DEC-2018 to 22-DEC-2018.

7th Indian School on Logic and its Applications (Part II)

National

Speaker

IIEST, Shibpur, and Calcutta Logic Circle in collaboration with Association for Logic in India

IIEST, Shibpur

12-JAN-2018 to 13-JAN-2018.

5th International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), 2018

International

Paper Presenter

IIEST, Shibpur, and Computer Society of India

IIEST, Shibpur

25-MAR-2013

A one-day workshop on Non-Uniform Cellular Automata: Theory and Applications

National

Volunteer and Speaker

BESU, Shibpur

BESU, Shibpur

Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia/Seminars Organized (as Chairman/ Organizing Secretary/ Convenor / Co-Convenor):

Title of Activity

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Date (s)

Role

Venue

ACM India Sponsored Research Opportunities in Computer Science (ACM-ROCS) National April 06, 2024 Co-coordinator NIT Trichy

Third Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT 2024)

International February 29 - March 02, 2024 Member of Organizing Committee NIT, Durgapur
Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) 2023 International 02-04 March 2022 Member of Organizing Committee IIEST, Shibpur

Indian Summer School on Cellular Automata 2022

International

May 23 -July 22, 2022

Mentor and Co-organizer

Online

First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) 2022

International

03-05 March 2022

Member of Organizing Committee

IIEST, Shibpur

Indian Summer School on Cellular Automata 2022 - An Internship in Cellular Automata

National

15-June-2021 to 01-August-2021.

Teacher and Co-organizer

Online

Second Webinar Series on Cellular Automata

International

June 2021 - August 2021

Organizer and Host

Online

A Tribute to John Conway: A Lecture Series on the Memory of Prof. John Horton Conway

International

April 2021

Organizer and Host

Online

First Webinar Series on Cellular Automata

International

Aug 2020 - Feb 2021

Organizer and Host

Online

One Week Online Workshop on Machine Learning – Concepts and Applications

National

19 – 23 Apr 2021

Co-Convenor

Department of CSE, NIT Trichy.

 

Invited Talks delivered

Topic

Date

Inviting Organization

Pseudo-Random Number Generators August 17, 2023 Computer Science and  Engineering Association (CSEA), NIT, Trichy
Logical Model of Cellular Automata August 14, 2023 22nd Annual Conference of the Calcutta Logic Circle 2023, Jointly organized by the CLC and Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur

Limits of Computation

December 14-19, 2020

Short-term Training Programme on Formal Languages and Automata Theory  (e-STTP FLAT-2020), organized by SRM University, Kattankulathur

Reversibility, Semi-Reversibility, and Reachability Tree

Randomness in Cellular  Automata

March 15-19, 2021

One Week Online Workshop on Cellular Automata and Secured Hardware Design, organized by the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, in collaboration with the University of Turku, Finland, sponsored by Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India.

 Membership in Learned Societies :

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member )

Organization

Membership No. with date

Member

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Women in Engineering, and IEEE Young Professionals

92196895, 2021

Professional Member

ACM

1409594, 2021

Life Member National Skills Registry (NSR)

701090985015, 2013

Team Member

The Computer Science Laboratory (LCCOMP), Mexico City, Mexico

 

Member IFIP WG 1.5  

Projects:

  • Cellular Automata based High Quality Pseudo Random Number Generation for Hardware Security. SERB Start-up Research Grant, Govt. of India, 13- October-2022 to 12-October-2024. Amount: 676280. Role: PI
  • Secure Random Number Generation using Cellular Automata. NIT Trichy SEED Grant, April,2021 to March, 2023, Amount: 500000. Role: PI

Other Information:

 


Contact:

     Dr. Kamalika Bhattacharjee 
     Assistant Professor
     Department of Computer Science and Engineering
     National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
     Tamilnadu, India - 620015