Veena Bansal
Associate Professor,
Department of Industrial and Management Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur - 208016, 
Uttar Pradesh, India

Telephone : 09873433042
Fax Number : 011-25099015
Email        : veena@iitk.ac.in



Education
 
January 1999 Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

(Department of Computer Science and Engineering )

Thesis topic: Integrating Knowledge Sources in Devanagari Text Recognition


 

Book Published
Computing for Management,  Prentice Hall of India, 2005
Cover Page
Preface

Publications 
 
  1. Veena Bansal and Tripti Negi, A Metric for ERP Complexity , Business Information Systems, Springer Brelin Heidelberg, 2008
  2. Smriti Sharma and Veena Bansal, Evaluating Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Portugal, Sep 11-14, 2006.
  3. Veena Bansal and Vivek Pandey, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics South Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006.
  4. Veena Bansal and A K Mittal, Mining the Patent Database, Directions, Indian Institute of Technology, vol 7, no 3, pp 62-69, Feb 2006.
  5. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, Time Series:Similarity Search and its Applications, in Proceedings - International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: ICSCI-04, Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd., Jan 7-9, Hyderabad, India,  pp 528-533, 2005.
  6. Avinash Tiwari and Veena Bansal, PATSEEK: Content Based Image Retrieval System For Patent Database, in Proceedings- International Conference on Electronic Business-04, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec 5 - 8, pp 2004.
  7. Vivek Pandey and Veena Bansal, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, in Proceedings - International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: ICSCI-04, Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd., Feb 12-15, Hyderabad, India,  pp 528-533, 2004.
  8. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha,  Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol 4, no 4, pp 269-280, July 2002.
  9. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Segmentation of touching and fused Devanagari characters, Pattern Recognition, pp 875-893, (35) 2002.
  10. Veena Bansal and R. M. K. Sinha, A Complete OCR for Printed Hindi Text in Devanagari Script, Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication,   Seatle, USA, 2001.
  11. Veena Bansal and RMK Sinha, A Devanagari OCR and A Brief Overview of OCR Research for Indian Scripts in Proceedings of STRANS01, held at IIT Kanpur, 2001.
  12. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Integrating Knowledge Sources in Devanagari Text Recognition , IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics , Vol. 30, 4, 2000.
  13. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, On how to describe shapes of Devanagari characters and use them for recognition,  in Proceedings - Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication,   Bangalore from Sep 21-23, 1999.
  14. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha,  Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings, in Proceedings - Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication,  Bangalore from Sep21-23, 1999.
  15. Veena Bansal, Introduction to Information Technology, in Lecture Notes of 6th SERC School on Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineer, IIT Kanpur, Padmini Printers. 1999.
  16. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Segmentation of Touching characters in Devanagari, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP'98), pp. 371 - 376, December 21-23, New Delhi, 1998.
  17. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha,  On Integrating Diverse Knowledge Sources in Optical Reading of Devanagari Script, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS-96), USA, 1996.
  18. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Designing a front end OCR  system for Indian scripts for Machine Translation - A case study for Devanagari, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC-96), New Delhi, India, 1996.
  19.  R.M.K. Sinha and Veena Bansal,  On Devanagari Document Processing, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man  and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, 1995.
 

 
Consultancy Projects
  • Development of an outsourcing decision making model, ITC-IT, Bangalore, India

Conference and Seminar Presentations 
 
  • A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, IABE, Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-18 Oct 2006
  • Evaluating Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Portugal, Sep 11-14, 2006.
  •  Evaluation, Rating and Certification of Web Documents, International conference on Tehnology, Knowledge and Society, organized by Common Grounds, Melbourne, Australia, at Hydarabad, Dec 12-15, 2005
  • PATSEEK: Content Based Image Retrieval System For Patent Database, International Conference on Electronic Business-04, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 2004.
  • Evaluation, Rating and Certification of Web Pages, IIITM  Tiruvanathapuram, Kerala, 2004
  • IT scenario at IIT Kanpur, IIIT, Hyderabad, 2004
  • Evaluation, Rating and Certification of Web Pages,  IIIT Hyderabad, 2004
  • An Enhanced Analogy based Model for Effort Estimation of Software Projects, Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, 2001
  • Integrating Knowledge sources in Devanagari Text  Recognition,  Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1999
  • Integrating Knowledge sources in Devanagari Text  Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay,  June 2000
  •  Integrating Knowledge sources in Devanagari Text  Recognition, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, April 1999
  • On how to describe shapes of Devanagari characters and use them for recognition, presented at  Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Bangalore, Sep 1999
  • Integrating Knowledge sources in Devanagari Text  Recognition,  Solution Research Center,  IBM, IIT Delhi,  March 1999
  • Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings,  presented at  Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition,  Bangalore, Sep 1999
  • Designing a front end OCR  system for Indian scripts  for Machine Translation - A case study for Devanagari,  Presented at Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC-96), New Delhi, 1996
  • Introduction to Information Technology, an invited talk at SERC School on Advanced Manufacturing Technology,  Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1999
  • Information Technology: an overview, an invited talk at DST sponsored Contact Program for young scientists,  Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2000


Workshops and Training Seminars 
  • Conducted a SAP workshop for ICFAI business schools faculty, Gurgaon, Dec 2005

  • Organized a two day workshop on Role of patent literature in technology development, at IIT Kanpur, Dec 1-2, 2005, sponsored by MCIT

  • Taught Software Project Management to Faculty of AICTE approved Engineering and Management colleges from July 1 -7, 2005 at IIT Kanpur


Research Interests 
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Information Technology
  • Software Project Management
  • Document and Image Processing
 

 
Teaching Interests
  • ERP
  • Data Base Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Data Structures
  • Information Technology
  • Management Information System
  • Document and Image Processing

Courses Taught 
 
At Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Managing Software Projects
At IIM Lucknow
Introduction to Information Technology

At Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HBTI Kanpur

Compilers
Computer Organization
Operations Research
Data Structures
Simulation
Numerical Methods
Formal Languages: Fortran,    Pascal, C, PL/I, Cobol, Basic

At Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA

Pascal
At Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, IIT Kanpur
Enterprise Integration with IT-MBA646
Management information systems-MBA645
Computing for management-MBA641
Introduction to computing-IME603
Managing Software Projects-IME671
Mathematical Statistics- BSO209 (Tutorial)
Computer Aided Decision Systems- IME624

QIP Course Organized

Short-Term Course on Software Project management, from July 1 - 7, 2005. 28 Faculty members from various colleges and institutes attended the course. Dr. Keshav Nori, Prof. H Karnick, Prof. TV Prabhakar, Prof. Jayanta Chaterjee and Prof. Y N Singh supported the course through their teaching. 


PhD students Under Supervision
Tripti Negi, Joined in July 2004

MTech Theses Supervised
  1. Insia Fatima, Automated classification of E-mails , June 2007
  2. Abir Mukherjee, IT Outsourcing Decision Making Defying AHP Limits and Underlying Assumptions , May 2006
  3. Smriti Sharma, Measuring Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, May 2005
  4. Tripti Negi, Time Series: Similarity Search and its applications, June 2004
  5. Vivek Pandey, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, May 2003
  6. Mayank,  Evaluation, Rating and Certification of Web Documents, March 2003
  7. Himanshu Sadana, IT Scenario in IIT Kanpur, Feb 2003
  8. Himanshu Kumar Mishra, COCOMO Model: A study and web enabled data collection, Feb 2002
  9. S. V. Rao, An Enhanced Analogy based Model for the Effort Estimation of Software Projects, March 2002
  10. Punit Kumar Mishra, Efficient Mining of Association Rules in Large Database,  March 2001

Sponsored Projects
  •  In Progress: Development of Text and Image Based Tools for Technology Mapping from Patents Literature with a Specific Application to Language Technology, CRM And Molecular Structure, MCIT sponsered project, 2005-2007
  • Completed: Post Processing for Devanagari OCR, DST project, 2000-2002.