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Vinay Palaparthy

Vinay Palaparthy
Vinay Palaparthy
 
PhD (Electrical Engineering), IIT Bombay

Contact Details

 
079-68261677
 
# 1208, FB-1, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India – 382007

Biography

  • Vinay Palaparthy is working as the associate professor in DA-IICT. He has received Ph.D degree from Indian institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). During the course of his research, he has developed the soil moisture/ leaf wetness  sensors and system for the in-situ agriculture applications. Micro/Nano soil moisture sensors are developed for the agriculture applications by using carbon nanomaterials like graphene oxide, graphene quantum dots, MOFs, MoS2 and Mxene. He is widely focused on identifying the issues and problem faced in Indian agriculture/space applications and provide an IT/ECE based solutions. He has around 7 years of research experience in the field of MEMS and System design. He has 23 international journals, 11 conference papers and 7 patent filed on his work. He has one best paper award in international journal. He is a co-recipient of Millennium Alliance award for the start-up name Proximal Soilsens Technologies Pvt. Ltd, where he is a co-founder and director.

Specialization

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Physics of Sensors, 2D materials, Self-healing System Design, Embedded System Design, IoT, AI/ML

Publications

Journals:

  1. K. S. Patle, N. Sharma, P. Khaparde, H. Varshney, G. Bhatti, Y. Agrawal and V. S. Palaparthy, "Impact of Electrode Patterns Variation on the Response Characteristic of Leaf Wetness Sensors", Accepted for Publication in IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics, 2024. 
  2. P. Khaparde, K. S. Patle, H. Borkar, J. Gangwar, A. K. Roy, and V. S. Palalparthy. “Investigating an Impact of Leaf Bending Radius and Angle for Flexible Leaf Wetness Sensor”, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024. (IF: 2.8).
  3. D. Maru, J. Pani, H. Borkar, and V. S. Palaparthy. "Soil Moisture Sensing Properties of the Ti3C2T x Mxene-Based Soil Moisture Sensor on Vadose Zone Soils." ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2024. (IF: 4.7)
  4. R. Saini, P. Garg, N. K. Chaudhary, M. V. Joshi, V. S. Palaparthy and A. Kumar, "Identifying the Source of Water on Plant Using the Leaf Wetness Sensor and via Deep Learning Based Ensemble Method," IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024. (IF: 4.3).
  5. P. Garg, P. Khaparde, K. S. Patle, C. Bhaliya, A. Kumar, M. V. Joshi and V. S. Palaparthy, "Environmental and Soil Parameters for Germination of Leaf Spot Disease in the Groundnut Plant Using IoT-Enabled Sensor System," IEEE Sensors Letters, 7 (12), 2023. (IF: 2.8).
  6. S. Gupta, Y. Agrawal, A. K. Roy, A. Kumar and V. S. Palaparthy, "Fractional Derivative Based TVD Smoothening and Baseline Correction for Extracting Leaf Wetness Duration From LW Sensor: A Novel Approach," IEEE Sensors Letters, 7(12), 2023. (IF: 2.8).
  7. N. Alsadun, S. Surya K. S. Patle, V. S. Palaparthy, O. Shekhah, K. N. Salama, M. Eddaoudi, “Institution of metal–organic frameworks as a highly sensitive and selective layer in-field integrated soil moisture capacitive sensor”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023. (IF: 10.383)
  8. P. Khaparde, K. S. Patle, Y. Agrawal, H. Borkar, J. Gangwar, A. K. Roy, and V. S. Palalparthy, "Experimental Investigation of Leaf Wetness Sensing Properties of MoS 2 Nanoflowers-Based Flexible Leaf Wetness Sensor." 7 (2), IEEE Sensors Letters, 2022. (IF: 2.8)
  9. R. Saini, K. S. Patle, A. Kumar, S. G. Surya, V. S. Palaparthy. "Attention-Based Multi-Input Multi-Output Neural Network for Plant Disease Prediction Using Multisensor System." IEEE Sensors Journal 22 (24), pp. 24242-24252, 2022. (IF: 4.325)
  10. A. Kumar, R. Saini, M. Patel, V. S. Palaparthy, “Improved Estimation of Leaf Wetness Duration using Deep Learning based Time-Resolution Technique”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 22 (24), pp. 24276 – 24285, 2022. (IF: 4.325)
  11. N. Kumar, et. al, V. S. Palaparthy J. Gangwar, “Highly Sensitive Hierarchical MoS2 Nanoflowers for In-Situ Soil Moisture Sensing”, Elsevier Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 372, pp. 132572, 2022. (IF: 9.221)
  12. K. S. Patle, V. Panchal, R. Saini, Y. Agrawal, V. S. Palaparthy, “Temperature Compensated and Soil Density Calibrated Soil Moisture Profiling Sensor with Multi-Sensing Point for in-situ Agriculture Application”, Elsevier Measurement, 201, 111703, 2022. (IF: 5.131)
  13. K. S. Patle, B. Dehingia, H. Kalita, V. S. Palaparthy, “Highly sensitive graphene oxide leaf wetness sensor for disease supervision on medicinal plants”, Elsevier Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 200, 107225, 2022. (IF: 6.757)
  14. K. S. Patle, R. Saini, A. Kumar, V. S. Palaparthy, “Field Evaluation of Smart Sensor System for Plant Disease Prediction using LSTM Network”, IEEE Sensors Journal 22 (4), pp. 3715-3725, 2021. (IF: 4.325)
  15. K. S. Patle, R. Saini, A. Kumar, S.G. Surya, V. S. Palaparthy, and K. N. Salama. "IoT Enabled, Leaf Wetness Sensor on the Flexible Substrates for In-situ Plant Disease Management." IEEE Sensors Journal, 21 (17), pp. 19481 – 19491, 2021. (IF: 4.325)
  16. M. Kumar, A. Kumar, and V. S. Palaparthy, "Soil Sensors Based Prediction System for Plant Diseases using Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine Learning." IEEE Sensors Journal, 21 (16), pp. 17455 - 17468, 2021. (IF: 4.325)
  17. S. G. Surya, S. Yuvaraja, E. Varrla, M. S. Baghini, V. S. Palaparthy, and K. N. Salama. "An in-field integrated capacitive sensor for rapid detection and quantification of soil moisture." Elsevier Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 321, 2020, Pp 128542. (IF: 9.221)
  18. S. M. Salman, V. S. Palaparthy, H. Kalita, M. S. Baghini, and M. Aslam. "Graphene Oxide Array for In-Depth Soil Moisture Sensing toward Optimized Irrigation." ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 12, 4111–4121 2020. (IF: 4.494)
  19. H. Kalita, V. S. Palaparthy, M. Shojaei Baghini, M. Aslam, “Electrochemical synthesis of graphene quantum dots from graphene oxide at room temperature and its soil moisture sensing properties”, Elsevier Carbon, 165, 2020, Pp 9-17. (IF: 11.307)
  20. V. S. Palaparthy, Somenath Mondal, M. Shojaei Baghini, D. N. Singh, G. K. Ananthasuresh, “Effect of spatial variations and desiccation cracks on the DPHP and MPHP sensors”, Elsevier Sensors And Actuators A: Physical, 279, 2018, Pp 638-648.
  21. V. S. Palaparthy, M. Shojaei Baghini, D. N. Singh, “Compensation of Temperature Effects for In-situ Soil Moisture Measurement by DPHP Sensors”, Elsevier Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 141, 2017, Pp 73-80.
  22. H. Kalita, V. S. Palaparthy, M. Shojaei Baghini, M. Aslam “Graphene Quantum Dots Soil Moisture Sensor”, Elsevier Sensors And Actuators B: Chemical, 233 (5), 2016, pp. 582-590.
  23. N. Jorapur, V. S. Palaparthy, S. Sarik, J. John, M. Shojaei Baghini, G. K. Ananthasuresh, “A Low-power, Low-cost Soil-Moisture Sensor using Dual-probe Heat-pulse Technique”, Elsevier Sensors And Actuators A: Physical, 233, 2015, pp. 108-117.
  24. V. S. Palaparthy, M. Shojaei Baghini, D. N. Singh, “Review of Polymer-Based Sensors for Agriculture-Related Applications”, ICE Emerging Materials Research, 2(4), 2013, pp.166-180.

 

Conference:

  1. K. S. Patle, P. Khaparde, S. Jain, S. Shah, Y. Sheth, Y. Agrawal, V. S Palaparthy. "Impact of Annealing on Soil Moisture Sensing Properties of Graphene Oxide." Accepted in In IEEE Applied Sensing Conference 2023.
  2. R. Saini, S. Shah, K. S Patle, A. Kumar, V. S Palaparthy. " Extracting Leaf Wetness Duration Using Baseline Correction Through Group-Sparse Total Variation Method for LW Sensor." In IEEE Applied Sensing Conference 2023.
  3. K. S. Patle, M. Salman, H. Kalita, V. S. Palaparthy, Reduced Graphene Oxide Soil Moisture Sensor with Improved Stability and Testing on Vadose Zone Soils, Proc of  Springer ISED, 2021.
  4. V. S. Palaparthy, J. John, M. S. Baghini, “'Investigating Heater Resistance Tolerance of the Heat-Pulse Sensor for Accurate Soil Moisture Measurements on Vadose Zone Soil”, Accepted in IEEE SAS, 2021.
  5. J. John, V. S. Palaparthy, M. S. Baghini, A temperature compensated soil specific calibration approach for frequency domain soil moisture sensors for in-situ agricultural applications, Accepted in IEEE SAS, 2021.
  6. S. G. Surya, S. Yuvaraja, K. N. Salama, M. S. Baghini, and V. S. Palaparthy. "Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) Capacitive Soil Moisture Microsensor for In-situ Agriculture Applications: Measurement Studies and Temperature Effects." In 2019 IEEE SENSORS, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2019.
  7. J. John, V. S. Palaparthy, G. Kasbekar and M. Shojaei Baghini, “A Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network for In-situ Agricultural Applications”, Proc. of AP-RASC 2019, India
  8. V. S. Palaparthy, S. Sarik, A. Mehta, K. K. Singh, M. Shojaei Baghini , “An Automated, Self sustained Soil Moisture Measurement System using Low Power Dual Probe Heat Pulse (DPHP) Sensor”, , Proc. of IEEE Sensors Conference, 2015, South Korea.
  9. P. Aravind, M. Gurav, A. Mehta, R. Shelar, J. John, V. S. Palaparthy, K. K. Singh, S. Sarik, M. Shojaei Baghini, “A Wireless Multi-Sensor System for Soil Moisture Measurement”, Proc. of IEEE Sensors Conference, 2015, South Korea.
  10. J. John, V. S. Palaparthy, S. Sarik, M. Shojaei Baghini, G. S Kasbekar, “Design and Implementation of a Soil Moisture Wireless Sensor Network”, Proc. of IEEE NCC, 2015, India.
  11. V. S Palaparthy, S. Lekshmi, J. John, S. Sarik, M. Shojaei Baghini and D. N. Singh, “Soil Moisture Measurement System for DPHP Sensors and In Situ Applications”, Proc. of IEEE ISED, 2013, Singapore.

 

Patent

Indian patent granted:

  1. Mohammed Aslam, Hemen Kumar Kalita, Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy, “ELECTROCHEMICALLY SYNTHESIZED GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS BASED SENSOR”, Indian Patent No: 328091.
  2. Mohammed Aslam, Hemen Kumar Kalita, Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy, “Method for synthesis of graphene quantum dots”, Indian Patent No.: 399982.
  3. V. S. Palaparthy et. al. Automated Multi-Sensor and Multi Technique Measurement System for Agriculture Related Applications, Indian Patent No.: 468917. (This patent is licensed to the Proximal soilsens technologies Pvt. Ltd. for the commercialization)

Indian patent filed:

  1. Kamlesh S. Patle, Shivangni Jain, Priyanka B. Khaparde, Vinay S. Palaparthy, INTEGRATED MOISTURE SENSORWITH SELF-CALIBRATION MECHANISM, Application No. 202321067926, Date of filing 10-10-2023 INDIA.

  2. Kamlesh S. Patle, Vivek Aswani, Naisargi D. Desai, Vinay S. Palaparthy, SENSOR SYSTEM FOR FAULT DETECTION AND CORRECTION MECHANISM, Application No. 202321065768, Date of filing  29-09-2023 INDIA.

  3. M. Aslam, H. K. Kalita, M. S. Baghini, V. S. Palaparthy, “CAPACITIVE BASED HUMIDITY AND SOIL MOISTURE MICRO-SENSOR USING GRAPHENE OXIDE”, Indian Patent Application No: 201621019123, Filing date: 02/06/2016.
  4. M. Salman, M. Aslam, H. K. Kalita, M. S. Baghini, V. S. Palaparthy, Monitoring in-depth soil moisture for advanced agriculture application, Indian Patent Application No: 201921043074, Filing date: 23.10.2019.

Teaching

  • Introduction to MEMS
  • Sensors and Instrumentation 
  • Internet of Things
  • Embedded Hardware Design
  • Digital Logic Design

Sponsored Projects

Ongoing Projects (7)

  • TIH-IoT CHANAKYA Fellowship (IIT Bombay) 2022-2026,
  • TIH-DRISHTI CHANAKYA Fellowship (IIT Indore), 2023-2025
  • ISRO-RACS, 2023-2024
  • DST-SERB (CRG), 2024-2026
  • Climate Change Department, Govt. of Gujarat, 2024-2026
  • MeitY, 2024-2029. Muti-Institute Project (IITGN,SVNIT, DAIICT and NIRMA)
  • DST-GUJCOST (As Co-PI) 2022-2024
  • ICMR (As Co-PI), 2024-2027

 

Completed projects (2)

  • DST-SERB (SRG) 2020-2021
  • DST-GUJCOST 2020-2023

News

Professional Recognitions, Awards and Fellowships

Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme Fellowship, Nodal Officer for DAIICT, 2024
TIH-DRISHTI CHANAKYA Fellowship, TIH IIT Indore, 2023.
TIH-IoT CHANAKYA Group Fellowship, TIH IIT Bombay, 2022.
Best Paper Award, Springer ISED Conference, 2021.
DST-SERB Start-up research grant (SRG), 2020
Co-recipient of Millennium alliance Award, Taj Enclave, New Delhi. (2018)
Co-recipient of DBT-BIRAC Award (2018)
Co-recipient of Richard Feynman Prize for the best journal paper, ICE (UK) Journal of Emerging Materials Research (2014).
Awarded with DST INSPIRE Fellowship for pursuing PhD degree in IIT Bombay (2013).
University Topper in M.Sc. Electronics (2011)

Openings

1) Opening for the PhD positions in the following area

  • AI/ML model to study the impact of climate change on germination of plant disease
  • Detection of  VOC sensors in Human space flight for ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission 
  • Synthesis of 2D materials for agriculture applications 
  • Self-diagnosing and Self-healing sensor systems
  • Hardware accelerators for Edge computing (ASIC Design)
  • Nanomaterial based Memristors

  

2) JRF openings in the following funded projects

  • MeitY
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