Sunday 21 April 2013

Prof Rajeev Kumar, the 'supposedly' whistle blower.

Our new post would be touching upon a whistle blower. Dr Rajeev Kumar, IIT professor started this journey of whistle blower after his son failed to crack the IITJEE. He worked tenaciously and finally showed the court how IITs were flouting rules in IITJEE. There were lot of anomalies in the test and due to his petition those got rectified. IITJEE system and future students sitting for the exam would always thank him for the same.

Unfortunately after this success he somehow lost his way. He started finding anomalies in everything. His main target was IIT Kharagpur. (P:S: He had requested IIT Kharagpur to give his son admission after he won the case, which IIT Kharagpur refused. Just to let readers know, the whole maligning campaign against this IIT by Prof Rajeev Kumar started after the same). There are instances where his actions shows a very distinct personal vindictive nature. We'll touch upon all his actions in separate articles as there are many and we don't want readers to get confused.

In this post let us show you all an issue related to IPR.

To grab credit unethically of research papers is a fraud which is not taken in good view by anyone. We have proof to show he did just that.

The original paper was submitted as follows:

Code Compression for Performance Enhancement of Variable
Length Embedded Processors
RAJEEV KUMAR, DIPANKAR DAS, M. SREENIVASULU, S. S. GUPTA and P. P. CHAKRABARTI
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

After revision the paper was resubmitted as follows.

Code Compression for Performance Enhancement of Variable Length Embedded Processors
RAJEEV KUMAR and DIPANKAR DAS
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur


 No one else (including other co-authors) knew the authors list that was finally submitted and how it was done. Information for the same is now obtained by students after corresponding with the journal editorial office to highlight the fraud committed. The paper has since been published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems with only two authors. Rajeev Kumar simply removed names of two students and one colleague without even informing them. Other authors were not even told that a review report came. Complete credit and IPR was grabbed for this work depriving others. The other student author, being a PhD candidate had apparently no say and was given the impression that everything was taken care of which he realized later was wrong. (The last part, concerned PhD student has confirmed).

He tells the world how he was victimized and his IPR grabbed. But we find the story is different. Its actually he who is doing the same.

We leave readers to now decide if this act falls under fraud or not.

Cheers!









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