Areas of Research Interest:

Embedded systems, X-ray Image Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Areas of specialization:

Bio-medical signals Signal processing ,data analysis; Video signal processing; X-ray Image Processing

Research Experience: CSIR-CEERI

• May. 18, 2025 – Present: Principal Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Chennai Centre, Tamilnadu, India
• May. 18, 2021 – May. 18, 2025: Senior Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Chennai Centre, Tamilnadu, India
• May. 18, 2016 – May. 18, 2021: Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Chennai Centre, Tamilnadu, India

Past Experience:

• Dec. 2012 to May 2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JECRC UDML College of Engineering”, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• Nov. 2009-Nov,2010,Junior Research Fellow, Agri Electronics Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
• Nov. 2008-Nov,2009,Project Fellow, Agri Electronics Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan, India.

Academic Details

• Ph.D. Pursuing, AcSIR
  Title: Development of personalized AI system to predict drowsiness among drivers
  Supervisors: Dr. Ravi Saini, Sr. Pr. Scientist , CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India
  Co-Supervisor: Dr. K. Ramesha, Director, CSIR-CECRI Karaikudi, Tamilnadu India.
• M.Tech. (2012)
  Specialization : Electronics Design and Technology, NIELIT, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Second Position in University
• B.E. (2007)
  Electronic and Communication Engineering, MBM Engineering College Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

R&D Projects as Project Coordinator/Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator/Team Member:

2025-2028

• Baseline profiling and ML-based analysis for cognitive differentiation of alertness from a state of fatigue through physiological and neurocognitive profiling. [Co-Principal Investigator (CSIR-CEERI, CSIR-IGIB, and CSIR-CSIO) | 2025-28 | ₹ 200.029 Lakh | CSIR Funded | CSIR-CLAIM (CSIR League for AI-based Industrial Manifestation)-MMP015203 ]

2022-2025

• Human Drowsiness Detection Systems Applicable to Drivers and Industrial Workers. [Principal Investigator (CSIR-CEERI) |CSIR-CRRI | CSIR-CEERI Pilani | 2022-25 | ₹ 151.705 Lakh | CSIR Funded | AI Enabled Technologies and System – AITS]
• Baseline profiling and ML based analysis in three streams of air force through monitoring of physiological parameters [Co-Principal Investigator -CSIR-CEERI Chennai | CSIR-CEERI Pilani | CSIR-IGIB | CSIR-CSIO ||2022-2025 | ₹ 171.20 Lakh |CSIR-Funded | AI Enabled Technologies and System – AITS]
• Development of image enhancement techniques for dual energy x-ray baggage scanning system. [Principal Investigator -CSIR-CEERI Chennai |2022-2025 | ₹ 71.41 Lakh |Industry Sponsored ]
• Development of imaging software for prototype industrial Computed Tomography (CT) machine for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) application. [Principal Investigator -CSIR-CEERI Chennai |2022-2025 | ₹ 71.41 Lakh |Industry Sponsored ]

2018-2020

• Human Fatigue and Drowsiness Detection Applicable to Drivers and Industrial Workers. [Member | CSIR-CEERI Pilani | CSIR-CEEI Pilani | 2018-20 | ₹ 123.64 Lakh | CSIR Funded]
• AI based Healthcare Systems. [Member | CSIR-CEERI Chennai | CSIR-CEERI Pilani | and CSIR-IGIB | 2018-20 | ₹ 191.47 Lakh | CSIR Funded]

Patents/Copyrights/IP/TOT:

1. Dual energy X-ray image analysis technique for material discrimination, Transfer of Technology to M/s. Krystalvision Image Systems Pvt. Ltd. Pune-411 019, Maharashtra
2. Transfer of IP “Image enhancement techniques for dual energy x-ray baggage scanning system”, to M/s. Krystalvision Image Systems Pvt. Ltd. Pune-411 019, Maharashtra
3. Transfer of IP “Imaging software for prototype industrial Computed Tomography (CT) machine for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) application”, to M/s. Krystalvision Image Systems Pvt. Ltd. Pune-411 019, Maharashtra

Publications:

• S. Bindal, S. Deenathayalan, P. Arjuna, R. Saini, M. Deenathayalan and K. Ramesha, “From Alert to Doze off: Insights from ECG-Based Heart Rate Variability among Drivers,” 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/SCES61914.2024.10652409.
• M. Duraisamy, R. Govindaraj, N. Mohan, A. Kamalakannan, S. Bindal and A. Titus, “Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning based Mandarin Fruit Sorting System with Industrial Camera,” 2022 3rd International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC), Trichy, India, 2022, pp. 1238-1243, DOI: 10.1109/ICOSEC54921.2022.9951937.
• Viren Sardana, Rajni Verma, Anmol Mehra, Sanjay Singh, Satish Kumar, Virendra Kumar, Urmila Bhattacharya, Satish Bindal, Kumar deep Chaudhary, Ajay Pratap Singh, Naveen Sharma, Akansha Gautam, Kumari Soni, Sumeet Saurav, Harleen Kaur, Praveena Mishra, Komal Jindal, Kalyani Verma, Himanshu Kumar, Preliminary assessment of aviation personnel for understanding the fatigue onset through neuropsychological cognitive assessment and biomedical signal analysis, 63rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF AEROSPACE MEDICINE (ISAM), Bengaluru 5-7 DEC 2024
• S. Bindal, S. Deenathayalan, P. Arjuna, R. Saini, M. Deenathayalan and K. Ramesha, A Comprehensive Review of HRV Analysis for Detecting Driver Fatigue and Enhancing Road Safety. TRF- Part F. Elsevier Journal-Communicated.
• Satish Bindal, Hemerjit Singh and Shashikant Sadistap “Development of an embedded control system for Reverse Osmosis plant”,International Journal of Embedded system and Computer Engineering,vol3 no.1,page 59-64,2011. ISSN : 0975-4482
• Chandani Anand, Shashikant Sadistap, Satish Bindal, B.A.Botre, K. S. N. Rao “Wireless multi-Sensor Embedded System for Agro-Industrial monitoring and control” published in International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services (ISSN: 1942-2644), Vol 3, no 1&2, pp 1-10,2010.
• Chandani Anand, Shashikant Sadistap, Satish Bindal, K. S. N. Rao “Multi -Sensor Embedded System for Agro-Industrial Applications” accepted in Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2009, June 18-23, 2009 – Athens/ Vouliagmeni, Greece.
• Neha Deshpandey, A.D. Shaligram, B.A. Botre, Satish Bindal, S.S. Sadistap, “Embedded E-Nose Application to Sense the Food Grain Storage Condition”, 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, pp 608-611, 2010.
• Satish Bindal, S.Sadistap and K.S.N.Rao, “Development of embedded auto feeder system for fish pond management”, International conference of Instrument society of India, 2009.

Student Guidance:

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