Broad Areas of Research:

• Human reliability analysis
• Data Analytics
• Reliability and risk analysis
• Safety analysis and safety management
• Maintenance analysis & design
• Ventilation Planning
• MCDM 

List of Publications 

1. Debasis Jana, Suprakash Gupta, Deepak Kumar and Sukomal Pal, Machine learning approach for studying the influencing factors affecting the operational reliability and remaining useful life, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, (2024),  DOI: 10.1108/IJQRM-11-2023-0345.
2. Debasis Jana, Suprakash Gupta and Deepak Kumar, (2024), Bayesian Approach for Reliability Evaluation and Remaining Useful Life Prediction, In Reliability Analysis of Modern Power Systems, edited by R K Saket and P Sanjeevikumar, IEEE PRESS WILEY, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, pp 17-27.
3. T Verma, S Gupta, C Jain, A Novel Method to Prevent Extreme Whole-body Vibration to Mine Workers in Underground Coal Mine Due to Heavy Earth Moving Machineries, in the proceeding of The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, December 18 -21, 2023, Singapore. DOI: 10.1109/IEEM58616.2023.10406872  
4. Debasis Jana, Deepak Kumar, Suprakash Gupta, Sukomal Pal and Sandip Ghosh, Bayesian Network Approach for Studying the Operational Reliability and Remaining Useful life, Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies, Vol. 16, Issue 2 (2023), 373-392, DOI: 10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1621.
5. Gunda Yuga Raju; Suprakash Gupta; Lalit Kumar Singh, Prediction of human performance using EEG data to improve safety and productivity in the mines, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023, pp 40-54, DOI: 10.1504/IJRS.2023.132946

6. Arra Kumar, Gunda Yuga Raju and Suprakash Gupta, Development of a predictive model for workers’ involvement in workplace accidents in an underground coal mine, Sadhana, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02121-3.

7. Deepak Kumar, Debasis Jana, Suprakash Gupta and Pawan Kumar Yadav, Reliability Assessment of Dragline’s subsystem using Dynamic Bayesian, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2023), DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2023.10054814.

8. Debasis Jana, Deepak Kumar, Suprakash Gupta and Kisan Kumar Gupta, Availability Optimization of a Dragline Subsystem using Bayesian Network, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40033-023-00457-y.

9. Deepak Kumar, Debasis Jana, Suprakash Gupta and Pawan Kumar Yadav, Bayesian Network Approach for Dragline Reliability Analysis: a Case Study Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-023-00729-x.

10. Gunda Yuga Raju; Suprakash Gupta; Lalit Kumar Singh, Assessing human performance and human reliability: a review, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management 14(2), March 2023, pp 817-828, DOI: 10.1007/s13198-023-01893-5.

11. Deepak Kumar, Debasis Jana, Pawan Kumar Yadav and Suprakash Gupta, Reliability Analysis of Dragline Subsystem using Bayesian Network Approach, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, 70(7): 341-353; 2022. DOI: 10.18311/jmmf/2022/31958.

12. Appani Ravikumar, Gunda Yuga Raju and Suprakash Gupta, A Machine Learning Study on the Role of Behavioral and Demographic Factors in Mining Injuries, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (IJRQSE), Vol. 29  No.3, 2022, DOI: 10.1142/S0218539322500073.

13. Pawan Kumar Yadav, Suprakash Gupta and Deepak Kumar, Benchmarking the performance of heavy earthmoving machines – a review, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 69, No. 7, July 2021, pp 225-232.

14. Pawan Kumar Yadav, Suprakash Gupta and Deepak Kumar, Search for a comprehensive performance measurement for mining equipment – a review, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 68, No. 8, August 2020, pp 264-269.

15. Arunava Ray, R. E. S. Chaitanya Kumar, Rajesh Rai and Suprakash Gupta, Risk chart identification of potential landslide due to the presence of residual soil, Natural Hazards, July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04139-w.

16. Aishwarya Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Palei and Suprakash Gupta, Reliability Analysis of Dragline Using Equivalent Aging Model, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, vol.45: issue 8, August 2020 , pp: 6975-6984  DOI: 10.1007/s13369-020-04622-3.

17. Pawan Kumar Yadav, Suprakash Gupta and Deepak Kumar, Measurement and analysis of performance of mining dump trucks, Int. J. Vehicle Performance, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2020, pp 129-150, DOI: 10.1504/IJVP.2020.106984.

18. Arra Kumar, Gunda Yuga Raju and Gupta Suprakash, Work-Compatibility Based Accident Prediction Model for the Workforce of an Underground Coal Mine in India, in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Applications   (IHIET – AI 2020), April 23–25, 2020, Lausanne, Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44267-5_82.

19. D. Kumar, S. Gupta and P. K. Yadav, Replacement model for the dragline system, in the proceeding of National Conference on Advances in Mining, February 14-15, 2020, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

20. K. Mohan, D. Kumar, P. K. Yadav and S. Gupta, Prediction of dragline failures using gradient boosting algorithm, in the proceeding of National Conference on Advances in Mining, February 14-15, 2020, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

21. Deepak Kumar, Suprakash Gupta and Pawan Kumar Yadav, Reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analysis of a dragline, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 68, No. 2, February 2020, pp 68-77.

22. Kumar Pramod, Gupta Suprakash, Yuga Raju Gunda, Estimation of human error rate in underground coal mines through retrospective analysis of mining accident reports and some error reduction strategies, Safety Science 123(2020) vol. 123, March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2019.104555.

23. Pawan Kumar Yadav, Suprakash Gupta and Deepak Kumar, Machine performance index (MPI): a method to evaluate the performance of mining dumper, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 67, No. 6, June 2019, pp 320-325.

24. Gupta Suprakash, Kumar Pramod and Raju Gunda Yuga, A fuzzy causal relational mapping and rough set based model for context-specific human error rate estimation International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE), 2019, DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2019.1578114.

25. Thirumala Vivek, Verma Tarun and Gupta Suprakash, Injury Analysis of Mine Workers: A Case Study, in the proceeding of The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, December 10-13, 2017, Singapore.

26. Mohammadi Mousa, Rai Piyush and Gupta Suprakash, Performance Evaluation of Bucket Based Excavating, Loading and Transport (Belt) Equipment – An OEE Approach, Arch. Min. Sci. 62 (2017), 1, 105-120.

27. Yadev Pawan and Gupta Suprakash, Performance measurement of mining equipment–state of the art, in the proceeding of International Conference on Deep Excavation, Energy Resources and Production, January 24-26, 2017, IIT Kharagpur, India.

28. Mishra A., Palei S. K., Gupta S, A Reliability-based Study for Estimating Equivalent Age of Dragline, in the proceeding of International Conference on Deep Excavation, Energy Resources and Production, January 24-26, 2017, IIT Kharagpur, India.

29. Raju Gunda Yuga and Gupta Suprakash, Simulation-based Human Reliability Modelling for Safer Mining Operation, in the proceeding of International Conference on Deep Excavation, Energy Resources and Production, January 24-26, 2017, IIT Kharagpur, India.

30. Upadhyay Rahul and Gupta Suprakash, Equipment Specific Optimum Blast-Design Using Genetic Algorithm, International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research Volume 5, Issue 10, October 2016, PP 12-17.

31. Upadhyay Rahul and Gupta Suprakash, Equipment Specific Optimum Blast-Design using Genetic Algorithm, in the proceeding of Recent Practices & Innovations in Mining Industries, February 19-20, 2016, NIT Raipur, pp 406-411, India.

32. Kumar Pramod, Gupta Suprakash, Agarwal Mudit and Umesh Singh, Categorization and standardization of accidental risk-criticality levels of human error to develop risk and safety management policy, Safety Science 85(2016) 88-98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.01.007.

33. Mohammadi Mousa, Rai Piyush and Gupta Suprakash, Improving productivity of dragline through enhancement of reliability, inherent availability and maintainability, Acta Montanistica Slovaca Volume 21 (2016), number 1, 1-8, DOI: 10.3390/ams21010001.

34. Gupta Suprakash and Bhattacharya Jayanta, Cost-effective indicator - a tool for resource prioritization, Reliability and Safety, 2016, pp 36-52, https://doi.org/10.1080/09617353.2007.11690841.

35. Mohammadi Mousa, Rai Piyush and Gupta Suprakash, Performance measurement of Mining Equipments, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advance Engineering, 2015, Vol. 5, Issue 7, 240-248.

36. Kumar K, Adhikary P, Karmakar NC, Gupta S, Singh RP, Krishnamoorthi S, Synthesis, characterization and application of novel cationic and amphoteric flocculants based on amylopectin, Carbohydrate Polymer, 2015;127:275-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.03.044.

37. Gupta Suprakash, Kumar Pramod, Assessment of human error rate in different Underground Coal Mining activities using rough set theory, Journal of Ergonomic Study, 16(2),51-64(2014). DOI: 10.6273/JES.2014.16(1).01.

38. Mohammadi M, Rai P and Gupta S, Analysis Of Digging Time Of Dragline For Enhancement Of Productivity–A Case Study, National Seminar on Problems Of Mining Industry And Technological Advancements March 7-8, 2014, Udaipur, 102-108, INDIA.

39. Mishra Aishwarya, Murari Pranab, Palei Sanjay Kumar and Gupta Suprakash, Modeling of Tolerable Repair Time without Affecting System Reliability, in the proceeding of The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management,  December 09-12, 2014,  Kualalumpur, Malyasia, 1270-1274, DOI:10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058842.

40. Suprakash Gupta, Pramod Kumar, Netai Chandra Karmakar and Sanjay Kumar Palei, Quantification of Human Error Rate in Underground Coal Mines - A Fuzzy Mapping and Rough Set Based Approach, in the proceeding of The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, December 10-13, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962391.

41. Gupta Suprakash, Rahber Anjum, Ahmadi Alireza and Kumar Uday, A vector-dissimilarity-based approach for multi-criteria decision making, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, September 2013, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp 249-261. DOI: 10.1007/s13198-013-0187-0.

42. Gupta Suprakash, Bhattacharya Jayanta, Barabady Javad and Kumar Uday Cost-effective importance measure - a new approach for resource prioritization in a production plant, International Journal of Quality and Reliability management Vol.30, No. 4, 2013, pp 379-386. DOI:10.1108/02656711311308376.

43. Sethi Rabindra, Karmakar N.C. and Gupta Suprakash, Effect of polymeric flocculants on settling behavior of real life coal washery effluents - in the proceeding of Present Technology and Safety Scenario in Mining and Allied Industries February 25-27, 2013, Varanasi, India, pp 229-234.
    
     

44. Mohammadi Mousa, Gupta S. and Rai P, Environmental and Health Hazards of Mining and Processing of Chromite Ores - in the proceeding of Present Technology and Safety Scenario in Mining and Allied Industries February 25-27, 2013, Varanasi, India, pp 263-270.

45. Gupta Suprakash, Patri Rakesh, Agrawal Mudit, Kumar Pramod and Karmakar N.C., Human error rate assessment in different underground coal mining activities using fuzzy modelling - in the proceeding of Present Technology and Safety Scenario in Mining and Allied Industries February 25-27, 2013, Varanasi, India, pp 403-414.

46. Kumar Vishal, Maiti J. and Gupta S, A decision support system to combat underground mine fire using Bayesian networks  - in the proceeding of Present Technology and Safety Scenario in Mining and Allied Industries February 25-27, 2013, Varanasi, India, pp 415-424.

47. Gupta Suprakash and Kumar Uday An AHP guided decision model for underground mining method selection, International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2012, 324–336, https://doi.org/10.1080/17480930.2011.622480.

48. Ahmadi A, Gupta S, Ghodrati B and Galar D, Estimation of Economic Consequences of Aircraft System Failures, Communications in Dependability and Quality Management Volume 15, Number 1, 2012, pp. 39-49.

49. Gupta Suprakash, Palei S K, Karmakar N C and Maiti Jhareswar; Categorization and mitigation of human error to enhance safety in underground mines - in the proceeding of 34th International Conference of safety in Mines Research Institutes, December 7-10, 2011, New Delhi, India, pp 749-760.

50. Karmakar N C, Gupta S and Palei S K; Application of Tracer Gas in the Study of ventilation Systems for Improving Mine safety - in the proceeding of 34th International Conference of safety in Mines Research Institutes, December 7-10, 2011, New Delhi, India, pp 215-220.

51. Gupta, Suprakash, and Bhattacharya, Jayanta (2011),  Aspects of Reliability and Maintainability in Bulk Material Handling System Design and Factors of Performance Measure, In Design and selection of bulk Material Handling Equipment and Systems Vol. – I, edited by Bhattacharya, Jayanta, Wide Publishing, Kolkata , pp 153-188.

52. Karmakar, N C, Goyal Abhinav, Sethi Rabindra and Gupta S, Treatment of coal mine effluent using Nonionic, Anionic and Cationic Flocculants - In the procs. of the International Conference on Technological challenges and Management Issues for sustainability of Mining Industries; 4-6 August, 2011, NIT-Rourkela, India, pp 77-86.

53. Gupta S and Nayak Saroj Ranjan, Improvement of Productivity Potential of SDL Operator Bord and Pillar Development Panel Through Enhanced Panel Layout - In the procs. of the International Conference on Technological challenges and Management Issues for sustainability of Mining Industries 4-6 August, 2011, NIT-Rourkela, India, pp 131 – 140.

54. Palei S K, Gupta S and Karmakar N C, Identification of Human Error to Enhance Safety in Underground Coal Mines Through the Study of Accidental Data- A Concept - In the procs. of the international conference on Technological challenges and Management Issues for sustainability of Mining Industries 4-6 August, 2011, NIT-Rourkela, India, pp 343 – 348.

55. Sethi Rabindra, Karmakar N C and Gupta Suprakash, Flocculation of Coal Fines Suspension by Anionic Polymer, Minetech CMPDI, Vol.32, No.1, Jan-March 2011, pp 29 – 33.

56. Gupta Suprakash Importance Measure Based Ranking and Maintenance Scheduling for Heavy Duty Belt Conveyors A Case Study from Underground Coal Mine, International Journal of COMADEM, 14(1), 2011, January, pp 18-25.

57. Saurabh Kumar, Suprakash Gupta, Behzad Ghodrarti, Uday Kumar (2010) An Approach for Risk Assessment of Rail Defects, International Journal of Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering, Vol.17, No. 4, 291-311, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218539310003822.

58. Alireza Ahmadi, Suprakash Gupta, Ramin Karim and Uday Kumar (2010), Selection of Maintenance Strategy for Aircraft Systems Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methodologies, International Journal of Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering, Vol.17, No. 3, 223-243, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218539310003779.

59. Gupta S, and Kumar U., (2010), Maintenance Resource Prioritization in a Production System Using Cost-effective Importance Measure, in the proceeding of the 1st International workshop and congress on eMaintenance, 22-24 June, Luleå, Sweden, pp 196 – 204.

60. Suprakash Gupta, Jhareswar Maiti, Ravi Kumar and Uday Kumar (2009), A Control chart guided maintenance policy selection, International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, Vol.23, Issue3, Sept, pp 216-226, https://doi.org/10.1080/17480930902916478.

61.  D. Ramkrishnan, T. N. Singh, N. Purwar, K. S. Barde, A. Gulati and S. Gupta, (2008) Artificial neural network and liquefaction susceptibility assessment: a case study using the 2001 Bhuj earthquake data, Gujarat, India, Computational Geosciences, Volume 12, Number 4 / December, pp 491-501, DOI 10.1007/s10596-008-9088-8.

62. Gupta Suprakash and Agrawal Anand Kumar, Agrawal Rashi, (2008) Productivity analysis of an LHD equipment using five-state Markov model. Coal International Vol.256, No.1, January/February, pp 24-32.

63. Sethi, Rabindra; Karmakar N C and Gupta Suprakash; (2008) A Review on Effluent Generation in Coal Mines and Its Treatment Methods, The Indian Mining & Engineering Journal, November, pp 15-20.

64. Ahmadi A, Gupta S and Kumar U; (2007) Assessment of the cost of operational consequences of failures in aircraft operation, in the Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Reliability & Safety Engineering, Udaipur, December 17-19, pp 432 - 443.

65. Suprakash Gupta and Jayanta Bhattacharya, (2007) Reliability Analysis of a Conveyor System using Hybrid Data, Quality and Reliability Engineering International Vol. 23, issue 7, pp 867- 882, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qre.843.

66. Singh, A K, Gupta S, Singh, R P and Karmakar N C, (2007) Use of Wollastonite for tailing Waste Management Enriched in Mn(II) and Zn(II), in the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Mineral processing Technology, Mumbai, February 22-24, pp 738 - 742.

67. Sethi, Rabindra; Gupta, Suprakash and Srivastava, Rajeev; (2007) The problems and prospects of utilization of fly ash in India: a review eNREE Vol.4 issue 3&4, September – December, pp 1-8.

68. Gupta Suprakash (2006), A Reliability Assisted Guidance To Frame Maintenance Policy For A Production System, in the Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Reliability & Safety Engineering, Chennai, December 18-20, ,  pp 113-121.

69. S. Gupta, N. Ramkrishna and J. Bhattacharya (2006), Replacement And Maintenance Analysis Of A Longwall Shearer Using Fault Tree Technique, Mining Technology, Vol. 115, No. 2, 49 – 58, https://doi.org/10.1179/174328606X111433.

70. Gupta, Suprakash and Agrawal Anand Kumar, Agrawal Rashi, Karmakar, N C, Determination of Productivity Potential of LHD Equipment Using Markov Model. In fifth symposium on New Equipment – New Technology Management & Safety in Mines & Mineral Based Industries, 11th - 12th May, 2006, Bhubaneswar, India 57-63.

71. Karmakar N C and Gupta S (2005), Spontaneous combustion – a multivariate analysis, in the procs. of International Symposium on Advances in Mining Technology and Management, organized by the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT KGP, November 30th – December 2nd, Kharagpur, pp 487-490.

72. Ratan S, Karmakar N C, Jain A K and Gupta S (2005), Mitigating Flyash Problems in India through Clean Coal Technology – An Approach, in the procs. of International Congress of Fly Ash Utilization, December 4 - 7, New Delhi 1 9.1 – 1 9.4.

73. Rai Rajesh, Gupta Suprakash and Ratan S, Determination of dust generation potential number using rock parameters. Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 53, No. 3&4, March-April 2005, pp 65-68.

74. Bhattacharya Jayanta; Gupta Suprakash and Saha Roshmik. Fault tree analysis of a coal handling plant in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd – evolution of a maintenance management tool, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2004, pp 305-313.

75. Bhattacharya J, Gupta S and Saha R (2004), Fault Tree Development and Analysis of a Coal Handling Plant in India. Bulk Solids Handling, Vol. 24 No.4-5, pp.252-263.

76. Gupta S, Nath R and Bhattacharya J (2001), Application of fuzzy set theory for selection of mine fan, In Mine Environment and Ventilation, eds. Panigrahi, D. C., A.A. Balkema, Netherlands, , pp 249-254.

77. Suprakash Gupta and J. Bhattacharya (1999), Discrete Markov chains – An analytical tool for productivity analysis of surface mining system, International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Environment 13:111-116, https://doi.org/10.1080/09208119908944226.

78. Gupta Suprakash and Bhattacharya Jayanta, Drivers of change in the development of technology and management of Mining Machinery. Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Vol. XLVII, No. 4&5, April-May 1999, pp 97-103.

79. Bhattacharya J, Gupta Suprakash and Srivastava C, Maintainability analysis for productivity improvements. In the procs. of Platinum Jubilee Symposium on Productivity Improvement in Indian Mining Industry, organized by the Department of Mining Engineering, I.T; B.H.U., January 29-30, 1999, Varanasi pp-50-54.

80. Bhattacharya J and Gupta Suprakash, Productivity Analysis of Surface Mining System Using Markov Chain. In the procs. of National Seminar on Outlook for fossil fuels, non-metallic Mining & Mineral based industries, organized by the Department of Mining Engineering, Anna University, 20th - 21st August, 1998, Chennai, pp 33-41.

81. Bhattacharya J, Gupta Suprakash and Banerjee S, Determination of reliability associated parameters of a LHD equipment for medium scale mining operation – a case study in the procs. of 8th National Convention of Mining Engineers, organized by the Institute of Engineers, 24th - 26th November, 1995, Udaipur, pp 124-129.

82. Bhattacharya J, Banerjee S, and Gupta Suprakash, Determination of Production Potential of Surface Mining System Using Markov Modeling Technique. In the procs. of V-th National Surface Mining Seminar, organized by the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT KGP, 4th - 5th October, 1995, Kharagpur, pp 70-75.

83. Bhattacharya J and Gupta Suprakash, Quantification of quality of manpower engaged in maintenance operations of LHD equipment at a coal mine based on field investigation. Transactions of the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India, Vol.91, No.1, 1994, pp 109-124.

84. Gupta Suprakash and Bhattacharya Jayanta, and Bhattacharjee A, Maintenance Practices in an LHD Operated Coal Mine at Central Coalfields Limited – A case study.  Minetech CMPDI, Vol.15, No. 5&6, Sept-Dec 1994, pp 36-41.

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