Announcements

News from the lab.

Publications, positions, talks and everything else worth a note. Add new items to the top of the timeline in this file as they happen.

2026
Award

Lab Maintenance Competition

On 15 August 2026, the Soft Computing Lab at IIT Roorkee was honored with the Best Maintained Laboratories Award in recognition of its outstanding contributions to research and innovation in computational intelligence
2026
Publication

New papers in Applied Soft Computing & Information Sciences

The group's work on multi-criteria group decision-making for reverse logistics providers and rankability-based feature selection has been published this year — see the Publications page for full details.

2026
Book

Machine Learning and Its Applications to Healthcare

An edited volume by M. Pant, K. Deep and A.K. Nagar, published by Springer Nature, bringing together recent work on ML for medical imaging, mental health and clinical decision support.

Ongoing
Recruitment

Prospective PhD & MTech students

We welcome enquiries from students interested in evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, optimization and applied machine learning. Reach out with a CV and a note on your research interests.

2025
Conference

SocProS 2023 proceedings published

Volumes from the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2023), co-edited by Prof. Pant, continued to appear through Springer Nature.

2025
Publication

Work on medical image analysis and forecasting

New results on FCD lesion segmentation in MRI, skin cancer detection, and sugarcane yield forecasting via ensemble learning were published across Frontiers in AI, Information Fusion and IEEE Access.