Dr. John Kenny

• Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surat, specialized in Data Mining
• Over 14+ years of experience in higher education
• Experienced academic leader with strong administrative and academic coordination skills
• Expertise in curriculum design and academic planning aligned with NEP and industry requirements
• Proven experience in research guidance and mentoring postgraduate and undergraduate students
• Strong background in faculty mentorship and academic development initiatives
• Successfully integrated innovative teaching practices and outcome-based education strategies
• Focused on industry–academia collaboration and skill-oriented program development
• Strong foundation in programming and software engineering principles
• Enhanced student learning outcomes through engaging pedagogy and practical learning approaches
• Committed to fostering academic excellence, research culture, and continuous improvement
• Dedicated to building high-quality, future-ready academic programs

1. MJK Kumar et al: “ High Average Utility Itemset Mining: A Survey, Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering, 2021

2. MJK Kumar et al: “Detection of COVID-19 using Hybrid ResNet and SVM”, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Dec, 2020.

3. MJK Kumar et al :”Implementation of the 3D Digitalized Brochure using Marker-based Augmented Reality for Real Estates”, 2020 Second International Conference on Inventive Research in Computing Applications (ICIRCA), July 2020.

4. MJK Kumar et al :Data Security in cloud computing using Hierarchical CP-ABE scheme with scalability and flexibility, 2018 International Conference on Smart City and Emerging Technology (ICSCET) January, 2018.

5. MJK Kumar et al:: “Automatic Pothole Detection” In International journal of advanced Research Development” Volume 5, Issue 04, April (2018).

6. MJK Kumar et al:: “Bus arrival time prediction system based on participatory sensing with smart application” In International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 3 March (2018).

7. MJK Kumar et al::” Secured Authorized De-duplication in cloud storage” In International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Volume 5, Issue 3, March (2017).

8. MJK Kumar et al:” Real time Traffic light Controller” In International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Research Technology, Volume 6(3), March (2017).

9. MJK Kumar et al:” High Average Utility Itemset Mining”, Proceedings of International conference on computational Intelligence”, December 2020.

10. Kumar, Mathe John Kenny, and Dipti Rana. “HARUIM: high average recent utility itemset mining, International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management 16.1 (2024): 66-100.

11. Kenny Kumar, Mathe John, and Dipti Rana. “RSPHUIM: Recent Short Period High Utility Itemset Mining, SN Computer Science 4.5 (2023): 485.

12. Kumar, Mathe John Kenny, and Dipti Rana. “Hauopm: high average utility occupancy pattern mining, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 49.3 (2024): 3397-3416.

13. D-HUP Tree: Distributed HUP Tree for Mining Scalable High Utility Itemsets , International journal of Data Mining Modelling and Management, Inderscience Publishers.

1. C Programming

2. Java/Object Oriented Programming

3. Web Technologies

4. Operating Systems

5. Advanced Java

6. Data Structures

7. Python Programming

8. Data Mining

9. Design and Analysis of Algorithms

1. Head of Technical Club, Universal College of Engineering.

2. Head of Criteria 4, NAAC.

3. Conducted Workshop on “Mathematical Modeling”, for students of First Year Engineering.

4. Single Point of contact for “Smart India Hackathon”, 2020 for Universal College of Engineering.

5. Mentor for the winner of “Smart India Hackathon”, 2020 who won the first prize of one lakh rupees for the project “Prediction of Crop Yield using Machine Learning”.

6. Single Point of contact for “Smart India Hackathon”, 2021 for Universal College of Engineering.

7. Mentor for the winner of “Smart India Hackathon”, 2021 who won the first prize of one lakh rupees.

8. Conducted Workshop on “Machine Learning using Python, August 2018.

9. Conducted Workshop on “Advanced Java”, July 2017.

10. Mentor for the winners of Hackathon in IIT, Hyderabad, November, 2017.