Faculty

Dr.Neeraj Kumar Goyal is currently serving as Associate Professor in Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability (SCSQR), IIT Kharagpur. He completed his PhD in Reliability Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in year 2006 and since then working as faculty at SCSQR, IIT Khargpur. He completed BE in Electronics and Communication from MNIT Jaipur in year 2000 and also worked as executive for one year in Secure Meters Ltd., Udaipur till 2001. He is continuously engaged in industry sponsored research and consultancy projects from various organizations DRDO, MTRDC, DIC, ISRO, NPCIL, BARC, Secure Meters, Vodaphone, AERB, Ministry of Railways, MHRD, DST, Indian Army etc. He has guided four PhD students and currently guiding five PhD students. He has published number of research papers and coauthored a book (Early software reliability prediction).

Communication Address

Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Pin. 721302

Book

1. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “Early Software Reliability Prediction: A fuzzy logic approach”, Springer, 2013.
2. Bisi M., Goyal N. K., “Artificial Neural Network Applications for Software Reliability Prediction”, Scrivener Publishing, Wiley, 2017.

Journals Papers

1. Sinha S., R. Mall, N. K. Goyal, “An Early Prediction Model for Combined Hardware-Software System Reliability/ Availability on Functional Failures”, Journal of Systems Architecture, Accepted
2. Herrick D., M. Sharma, P. Bhaskaran and N. Goyal, “A Peak-over-Threshold Approach for the Numerical Modeling of 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami at the Kalpakkam coast, Tamil Nadu, India”, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/09715010.2018.1498752, Accepted
3. Datta E., N. K. Goyal, “Sum of disjoint product approach for reliability evaluation of stochastic flow networks” International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Vol. 8, pp. 1734-1749, 2017
4. Sajjade F. M., N. K. Goyal, B.K.S.V.L Varaprasad, R. Moogina, “Radiation Hardened by Design Latches - A Review and SEU Fault Simulations”, Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 83, pp. 127-135, 2018
5. Sajjade FM, Goyal NK, Moogina R and V BKSVL, “Soft Error Rate Assessment Studies of Space borne Computer”, International journal of Performability Engineering, Vol 12 (5), 2016
6. Bisi M. and N.K. Goyal, “An ANN-PSO based approach to predict software Fault-Prone modules”, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 10(3), pp. 243-264, 2016.
7. Chakraborty S. and N.K. Goyal, “An Efficient Reliability Evaluation Approach for Networks with Simultaneous Multiple Node Pair Flow Requirements”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, doi: 10.1002/qre.2097
8. Rajkumar S., and N.K. Goyal, “Multistage Interconnection Network Reliability Analysis”, The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 72, pp. 2310–2350, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-016-1734-7
9. Goyal N.K., and S. Rajkumar, “Multi-Source Multi-Terminal Reliability Evaluation of Interconnection networks”, Microsystem Technologies, DOI: 10.1007/s00542-015-2743-9
10. Rajkumar S., and N.K. Goyal, “Reliability Analysis of Multistage Interconnection Networks”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, DOI: 10.1002/qre.1941
11. Bisi M. and N.K. Goyal, “Software Development Effort Prediction using Artificial Neural Network”, IET Software, Vol. 10(3), pp. 63–71, 2016. 10.1049/iet-sen.2015.0061.
12. Rajkumar S., and N.K. Goyal, “Fault Tolerant Interconnection Network Design”, IETE Technical Review, Vol. 33(4), pp. 396-404, 2016. 10.1080/02564602.2015.1113146
13. Rajkumar S., and N.K. Goyal, “Review of Multistage Interconnection Networks-Reliability and Fault Tolerance”, IETE Technical Review, Vol. 33(3), pp. 223-230, 201610.1080/02564602.2015.1102098
14. Rajkumar S., and N.K. Goyal, “Reliable Multistage Interconnection Network Design”, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Vol. 9(6), pp. 979–990, Nov 2016. 10.1007/s12083-015-0368-5
15. Bisi M. and N.K. Goyal, “Prediction of Software Inter-Failure Times using Artificial Neural Network and Particle Swarm Optimization Models”, Accepted to International Journal of Software Engineering, Technology and Applications.
16. Chakraborty S. and N.K. Goyal, “Irredundant Subset Cut Enumeration for Reliability Evaluation of Flow Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 64(4), pp. 1194-1202, 2015.
17. Chakraborty S. and N.K. Goyal, “Subset Cut Enumeration of Flow Networks with Imperfect Nodes”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 11(1), pp. 81-90, 2015.
18. Bisi M. and N.K. Goyal, “Early Prediction of Software Fault-Prone Module using Artificial Neural Network,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 11(1), pp. 43-52, 2015.
19. Chakraborty S., Chaturvedi S.K. and N.K. Goyal, “Comments on: An Efficient Method based on Self-Generating Disjoint Minimal Cut-Sets for Evaluating Reliability Measures of Interconnection Networks”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 10(7), pp. 771-774, 2014.
20. Rajkumar S. and N.K. Goyal, “Design of 4-disjoint gamma interconnection network layouts and reliability analysis of gamma interconnection Networks”, The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 69(1), pp. 468-491, 2014.
21. Patowary P. and N.K. Goyal, “Security Monitoring and Assessment of an Electric Power System”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 10(3), pp 273-280, 2014.
22. Dewal S.M. and N.K. Goyal, “Out of range error probability assessment for any computer program”, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, 7(4), pp 332-357, 2013.
23. Chandrasheker T. and N.K. Goyal, “An approach to evaluate multiple node pair reliability for simultaneous capacity requirements”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 9(4), pp 357-366, 2013.
24. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “A Fuzzy Model for Early Software Quality Prediction and Module Ranking”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 8(6), pp. 689-698, 2012.
25. Bisi M. and N.K. Goyal, “Software Reliability Prediction using Neural Network with Encoded Input”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 47(22), 46-52, 2012.
26. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “Predicting fault prone software module using data mining technique and fuzzy logic”, International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology (Special issue), Vol. 2(2-4), 56-63, 2010.
27. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “Fault prediction model by fuzzy profile development of reliability relevant software metrics”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 11(6), 34-41, 2010.
28. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “A multistage fault prediction model using process level software metrics”, International Journal of Communications in Dependability and Quality Management, Vol. 13(1), 54-66, 2010.
29. Rebello S. and N.K. Goyal, “An extended FMEA approach”, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 4(4), 366-380, 2010.
30. Goyal N.K., “Network Reliability Evaluation with Changes in Layout”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 6(1), 63-76, 2010.
31. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “A Fuzzy Model for Early Software Fault Prediction Using Process Maturity and Software Metrics”, International Journal of Electronics Engineering, Vol. 1(2), 239-245, 2009.
32. Saravana K.K., Misra R.B. and N.K. Goyal, “Development of Fuzzy Software Operational Profile”, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 15(6, pp 581-597), 2008.
33. Goyal N.K., Misra R.B. and S.K. Chaturvedi, “SNEM: A new approach to evaluate terminal pair reliability of communication networks”, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 11(3), pp 239-253, 2005.
34. Goyal N.K. and R.B. Misra, “Optimum link capacity allocation for communication networks”, IE(I) Journal-ET, Vol 88, pp 18-21, 2008.

Conference Papers

1. Datta E. and N. K. Goyal, “Reliability Estimation of Stochastic Flow Networks Using Pre-ordered Minimal Cuts”, MicroCom 2016, Jan 23-25, 2016, 10.1109/MicroCom.2016.7522572
2. Manjubala Bisi and N. K. Goyal, “Predicting Cumulative Number of Failures in Software using an ANN-PSO based approach,” 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE 2015), pp 9-14, Bhubaneshwar, India, Jan 12-13, 2015.
3. Datta E. and N. K. Goyal, “Security attack mitigation framework for the cloud”, IEEE Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Jan 2014.
4. Patowari P. and N. K. Goyal, “Dynamic Thermal Rating and Allowable Operating Time under Transient Conditions”, 18th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2014), Dec. 2014
5. Patowari P. and N. K. Goyal, “Security Assessment of Bus Voltages in Electric Power Systems”, 2nd International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES 2012), IPCSIT, Vol. 56, pp 35-40, 2012.
6. Pandey A.K. and N. K. Goyal, “Software Reliability Improvement by using a Cost Effective Test Case Prioritization Techniques”, International Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability, Optimization and Modelling (ICPQROM - 2011), Delhi.
7. Pandey A. K. and N. K. Goyal, “Test Effort Optimization by Prediction and Ranking of Fault-prone Software Module”, Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Hazard, Mumbai (India), pp 136-142, Dec 2010.
8. Pandey A.K. and N.K. Goyal, “An Early Software Fault Prediction Model Using Process Maturity and Software Metrics”, International Joint Conference on Information and Communication Technology (IJcICT-2010), Bhubaneswar, India
9. Dewal S.M. and N.K. Goyal, “Out of range error probability assessment for software codes”, 4th International Conference on Quality Reliability and Infocom Technology (ICQRIT), New Delhi, India, 2009.
10. Saravana K.K., Misra R.B. and N.K. Goyal, “Development of Fuzzy Software Operational Profile with Uncertainty Assessment”, Proceedings of International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, INDIA, pp 385-394, Dec 2006.
11. Goyal N.K., “Network Reliability Evaluation: A new modeling approach”, Proceedings of International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, INDIA, Dec 2005, pp 473-488.
12. Goyal N.K., Misra R.B. and S.K. Chaturvedi, “SNEM: A new approach to evaluate terminal pair reliability of communication networks”, Proceedings of Asian International Workshop on Advanced Reliability Modeling (AIWARM 2004), Hiroshima City, Japan, 2004, pp 141-148.

Awards:

Doctoral Scholarship: MHRD, New Delhi, INDIA

1. Developing a Reliability Engineering Framework for Indian Railways Rolling Stock Department of Science & Technology(DST), Status Ongoing
2. Reliability Assessment of L40 Stage Assembly and Integration Process KCSTC, Status Ongoing
3. Reliability Analysis of Electronics Power Conditioner (EPC) for Space Application Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre (MTRDC), Status Ongoing
4. Reliability Assessment and Reliability Improvement of Products Designed, Secure Meters Ltd, Udaipur (2016-2017), Status Ongoing
5. Standard Based Reliability, Prediction of Submarine Degaussing System, L&T-EAIC, Mumbai, Status Ongoing
6. Reliability Studies on Electronics Power Conditioning (EPC) of Microwave Power Module, MTRDC, DRDO, Bengaluru,Status: Completed
7. Reliability Work Package for Project LR-SAM DRDL, Hyderabad (2015-2016), Status Completed
8. Reliability Assessment and Reliability Improvement of Products Designed, Secure Meters Ltd, Udaipur (2015-2016), Status Completed
9. Application of RAMS concepts for HHP (4500HP) Diesel Locomotives Diesel Locomotive Works,Varanasi, Status: Completed
10. Flood (Internal and External) Probabilistic Safety Assessment of MAPS MAPS,NPCIL, Madras, Status: Completed
11. Preliminary Risk Analysis of Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle DRDL, Hyderabad, Status: Completed
12. Reliability Assessment and Improvement Secure Meters Ltd, Udaipur, (2014-2015), Status Completed
13. Reliability Modeling and Prediction of Process Control System, DRDO, Panagarh, Status: Completed
14. Advance Studies on Human Reliability Analysis, NPCIL, Mumbai, Status: Completed
15. Assessment of Residual Reliability of Armored Fighting Vehicles through CBM, MCEME, Hyderabad, Status: Completed
16. Accelerated Life Testing of Connectors BARC, Mumbai, Status: Completed
17. Flood PSA of KAPS NPCIL, Mumbai, Status: Completed
18. Reliability Assessment of the Large Complex Computer Code, AERB, Mumbai, Status: Completed
19. Shutdown PSA of KAPS, NPCIL, Mumbai, Status: Completed
20. Design of Minimal Cost Backbone Network Layout for Given Capacity and Reliability Requirements, VICET, IIT Kharagpur, Status: Completed
21. Reliability Work Package of LRSAM, DRDL, Hyderabad, (2007-2008), Status: Completed
22. RAMS Model for Project ASTRA, DRDL, Hyderabad, Status: Completed