Dr. Kingshuk Srivastava

Dr. Kingshuk Srivastava

Assistant Professor (SG)

Profile Summary

Dr. Srivastava has 15+ years of experience in Management, Teaching, Research, in academic field. He is working as a faculty for the last 13 years in “School of Computer Science” UPES, after a short stint in the industry with “Planman Technology”. He was the topper and Silver Medallist in M.Tech Information Technology. He has earned his Ph.D in Computer Science Engineering from UPES.  His field of research has been in AI, Data Science and NOSQL databases. 

 He has conducted workshops on Big Data Hadoop, AI and Machine Learning under Management Development Program as well as conducted workshops on Image Analytics & Big Data in Goa Institute of Management. Has designed, developed, and delivered diploma certification course for HPCL professionals. Has also conducted workshop on hydrocarbon value chain and the IT application to Birlasoft professionals. 

Work Experience

Dr. Srivastava has worked as a Junior Geologist in Planman Technologies before joining UPES. He has been in the initial team of faculties who were instrumental in designing and developing the courses with collaboration with IBM and Xebia. He has extensively participated in placement, internship and industry collaborations for UPES. He was also the chief product officer and technical advisor to CREDFIC Technologies.

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence I Data Science I Big Data I GIS I NoSQL Database

Teaching Philosophy

Dr. Srivastava believes in knowledge by practice. He believes that actual implementation of the theoretical knowledge enable better understanding of the different concepts. He encourages innovation and thinking out of the box by different assignments and workshops.

Courses Taught

Dr. Srivastava has delivered lectures to B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D. MBA scholars on the topics of Machine Learning, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Data warehousing, application of analytics in the field of Oil & Gas, and Power Industry. He has conducted workshops on Big Data and AI.

Awards and Grants

Dr. Srivastava has received silver medal in M.Tech.

Scholarly Activities

Dr. Srivastava has been a part of multidisciplinary teams on government projects, has led teams in industry projects. He has guided 4 PhDs and numerus masters research projects. He has written 8 books on AI, Analytics and Big Data. He also has multiple international publications to his name.