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Kishan Kumar Yadav
PhD Research Scholar ยท IIT Indore ยท AgriHub CoE

Kishan Kumar Yadav

Doctor of Philosophy ยท CRDT โ€“ Centre for Rural Development & Technology
Supervised by Prof. Aruna Tiwari ยท Junior Research Fellow (JRF) & Project Staff, AgriHub CoE ยท 1 Paper Accepted at WCCI 2026
UAV / Drone AIComputer Vision Multimodal AICrop Disease Detection Precision Agriculture
Roll No.2501292003
Joined2025
PublishedWCCI 2026 (Accepted)
GATE DA2024
UGC NET2024
Industry1 Year ML Dev
FellowshipJRF
PositionProject Staff

๐Ÿš Research Focus

Research focuses on computer vision, multimodal AI, and precision agriculture. Works on UAV-based crop monitoring, disease detection, and spray decision support โ€” with emphasis on robust and interpretable models for real field conditions. Also studies scene text understanding and cross-lingual image retrieval to connect visual content with language across diverse settings.

Research Details

Research Area (AgriHub Project)

Autonomous Precision Agriculture: Data-Driven Pest Detection, Disease Identification and Prediction, and Growth Analysis Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

Published Paper

Hybrid Late Fusion for UAV RGB Soybean Disease Detection and Spray Decision SupportKishan Kumar Yadav, Aruna Tiwari et al. ยท WCCI 2026 โ€“ IJCNN ยท Accepted 2026
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UAV-based Crop Monitoring

Aerial drone imaging for real-time soybean and crop disease detection, pest identification, and field health mapping.

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Spray Decision Support

AI-driven systems to optimise pesticide spray decisions based on UAV imagery and disease severity maps.

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Cross-lingual Visual AI

Scene text understanding and cross-lingual image retrieval to connect visual content with diverse language settings.

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Interpretable Models

Building robust and interpretable deep learning models suitable for real agricultural field conditions.

Keywords

UAV / DronesComputer VisionMultimodal AICrop Disease DetectionPrecision Agriculture

Education

2025 โ€“ PRESENT
PhD โ€“ CRDT (Centre for Rural Development & Technology)
IIT Indore ยท Roll No. 2501292003 ยท Supervised by Prof. Aruna Tiwari (CSE)
2022 โ€“ 2024
M.Sc โ€“ Computer Science
Central University of Rajasthan

Technical Skills

Programming

PythonJavaSQL

Tools

Git / GitHubLinux / HPC ClustersLaTeX

Achievements & Experience

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Junior Research Fellow (JRF)JRF in the PhD programme under CRDT (Centre for Rural Development & Technology), IIT Indore.
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Project Staff โ€“ AgriHub CoEProject staff on the AgriHub Centre of Excellence, working on autonomous precision agriculture under Prof. Aruna Tiwari.
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Paper Accepted โ€“ WCCI 2026 (IJCNN)Hybrid Late Fusion for UAV RGB Soybean Disease Detection and Spray Decision Support ยท World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2026.
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GATE DA โ€“ 2024Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering โ€” Data Analytics stream.
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UGC NET โ€“ 2024National Eligibility Test qualified in Computer Science.
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Machine Learning Developer โ€“ Vedsu Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (1 Year)Industry experience in ML model development and deployment prior to PhD.
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WiDS Datathon โ€“ ParticipantWomen in Data Science Datathon participation.
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Dept. of Big Data Analytics, CU Rajasthan โ€“ WorkshopAttended Big Data Analytics workshop at Central University of Rajasthan.

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