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A seasoned academic leader and researcher with over 33 years of experience in teaching, administration, and research across reputed engineering institutions. Demonstrated excellence in department leadership, curriculum development, quality assurance, research publications, patents, and project grants. Recognized for strong academic governance, innovation, and mentorship. Areas of interest include Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning.

• NPTEL FDP, "Introduction to Industry 4.0 And Industrial Internet Of Things" May 2023
• One week FDP, "Amazon Web Services" - Aug 2022
• 5 Days FDP, "Advanced tools and techniques for best Research"- Sep 2022
• Attended One week National level FDP on "Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)" from 21st to 25th Aug 2023.
• Attended a 5 Day FDP on, "Outcome Based Education" from 25th to 4th Oct, 2023 at RVITM.
• Attended a 5 Day FDP on, "Unity 3D AR/VR Development" organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering from 8th to 12th January, 2024 at RVITM.
• Attended 3-day FDP on "Cyber Security" conducted at RVITM on 1st -3rd April 2024
• NPTEL FDP, "Stress Management"-Sep 2022
• NPTEL FDP, "Patent Drafting for Beginners" -Aug 2022
• NPTEL Course on "Accreditation and Outcome Based Learning" Sep 2019
• NPTEL Course on "NBA Accreditation and Teaching-Learning in Engineering" Jan 2020
• NPTEL Course on "Effective Engineering Teaching in Practice" Mar 2020
• ATAL FDP on "Internet of Things" Aug 2021
• ATAL FDP on "Smart Cities" Sep 2021
• ATAL FDP on "Teachers’ Role in Implementation of NEP" Oct 2021

• T N, Srinivasa, Registrar - Evaluation, 9902489911, VTU Belagavi, As Principal for 6 yrs at AMCEC, Bangalore
• Jayapal, R, Former Principal, 9941515832, RVITM, Bangalore, As Principal for 3 yrs at RVITM, Bangalore

All Forms of Art

• Patent Grant: Title: Smart wearable device for health monitor
• US Patent published Title: “A method and system for load balancing in a distributed computer system”. Pub. No.: WO/2008/14270 International Application No: PCT/IN2008/000283 Date:27.11.2008 International Filing Date:05.05.2008
• Patent Published: Title “Enhanced Radial Basis Neural Network Machine Learning Network For Flood Prediction” Date : 02-04-2022 In Indian patent Office, Publication Number 19/2022

• Life member -Computer Society of India (1992).
• Life member -Indian Society for Technical Education (1993)

• Book, “Programming in C and Introduction to Data Structures”. ISBN:978-93-85868-66-5.
• Kindle version: https://www.amazon.in/Programming-Introduction-Data-Structures-Syllabus-ebook/dp/B019E69C6S
• Book chapter: AI-Driven Digital Twin and Industry 4.0-A Conceptual Framework with Applications Book: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Industry 4.0 | 2 | Application (taylorfrancis.com)
• Book chapter: An integrated water management system for smart cities using IoT and secure Blockchain Framework Book: unleashing the power of block chain and IoT for water informatics Springer nature-Singapore
• “Cost and performance aware scheduling technique for cloud computing environment” International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES) Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2024, pp. 9~19 ISSN: 2089-4864, Q2
• “AgriTrace: Blockchain-based Agricultural Supply Chain with Price Prediction” International Research Journal Tijer , ISSN 2349-9249, July 2023, Volume 10, Issue 7
• “Fuzzy ranking Algorithm with seagull optimization based decision tree for short /long term rainfall prediction” Oct. 2022 International journal of fuzzy systems applications (IJFSA) , IGI publications, DOI:10.4018/IJFSA.306283
• “Effective Load Balancing and Security in Cloud using Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Technique and Enhanced Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithm” December 28, 2021. International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems, Vol.15, No.2, 2022-Q3 DOI: 10.22266/ijies2022.0430.18
• “GSA-based support vector neural network: a machine learning approach for crop prediction to provision sustainable farming.” International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (2022)-Q3 , DOI 10.1108/IJICC-12-2021-0300
• “Flood Prediction Using Machine Learning Models: A Literature Review.” Design Engineering 3540-3552, November (2021), Design Engineering (Toronto) ISSN:0011-9342, Scopus Index-Q4, Ei Compendex
• “Crop recommendation and yield estimation using machine learning.” Journal of Mobile Multimedia (2022): 861-884-Q2. DOI 10.13052/jmm1550-4646.18320
• “Sentimental Analysis of Transliterated Text in Malayalam using RNN-LSTM” Springer Nature Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, ISSN 1868-5137, July 2020(SCI publication)
• “Data Management for the Internet of Things: Architecture, Challenges and Technologies”. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2020, 9(7), pp.255-262.
• “Smart Weather Acquisition, Analysis and Alert system.” Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology 25.6 (2021): 11289-11298.
• “Identification of Language in a cross linguistic Environment” Indonesian Journal of Electrical and Computer Science, ISSN: 2502-4752, Vol No:8.1, 2019.
• “Market Basket Analysis for Retail Stores” Journal IJAMTES, May 2019. 9-ISSUE-05-2019
• “Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem Technique for Data Security in Cloud Computing” International Journal of Management, Technology And Engineering, Volume IX, Issue V, May/2019 , ISSN NO : 2249-7455
• “Sentimental Analysis Using Recurrent Neural Networks” International Journal of Engineering and Technology, UAE. - ISSN: 2227-524X, Vol no:2.27, 2018. (Scopus Indexed)
• “Sentimental Analysis of Movie Reviews in Kannada” IJCST-V4I3P9 International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology, May 2016, Vol. No. 4 Issue 3, ISSN: 2347-8578 & ISO 3297: 2017
• “Comparison of Lexicon and Naïve Bayes classifier in Sentimental Analysis” at International Journal for scientific Research & Development, ISBN: 2321 0613, Volume 3 Issue 4 published in June 2015.
• “Domain Based sentimental analysis for Kannada”. RTCIECT-IEEE International conference 2016 published in the IEEE Xplorer.
• “Performing analysis of Ad- Hoc routing protocols for VANET using NS2 simulation” ISSN: 0976-8491 (Online) | ISSN: 2229-4333 (Print) IJCST Vol. 6, Issue 2, version 2, April-June 2015.
• “Detecting Idle Nodes in Distributed Systems for Load Balancing” ISSN: 0976-8491 (Online) | ISSN: 2229-4333 (Print) IJCST Vol. 5, Issue 1, Jan - March 2014.
• “Job Scheduling in the Grid Computing using Criteria”, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 90 – No 6, March 2014.
• “Leadership Qualities Found In Lord Ram in Ramayan” 20th International Conference on Business Management (ICBM 2024), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. pp 49, ISSN: 2235-9775 E ISSN: 3030-7759 Feb 29th , 2024
• “Utilizing convolutional neural networks to create a wearable sign language detection system with the Internet of Things”, Oct 16th & 17th 2022, IEEE MysuruCon 2022
• “Leadership qualities of Ram in Ramayan” in International Conference on Business Management – ICM 2023, April 14th -15th 2023, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur
• “Scattered Time Aware Energy Efficient virtual machine migration in cloud computing” IICnPro 2021, Oct 22nd to 24th , 2021, UVCE, Bangalore.
• “Comparative Analysis of machine learning approaches for crop and yield prediction: A Survey” International Conference on Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications. August 2021.
• “Survey on the Applications of Sentimental Analysis”, Conference on Information and Computing Systems” ICICS-2019, May 2019
• “Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem Technique for Data Security in Cloud Computing ”, Conference on Information and Computing Systems” ICICS, May 2019
• “Safe ballot system using Blockchain Technology”, Conference on Information and Computing Systems” ICICS, May 2019
• “Domain based sentiment analysis in Regional Language-Kannada”, IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology(RTEICT), Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Bengaluru on 20-21 May, 2016,ISBN: 978-1-5090-0774-5
• “Instrumentation to eliminate outliers in clusters to speed up compute intensive tasks”, Second International Conference, ERCICA-2014 held on 01-02 Aug’ 2014 at NMIT, Bangalore, ISBN-9789351072638, Vol. 3.
• “Clock Synchronization in distributed systems”, IEEE sponsored Fifth International Conference, “Industrial and Information Systems”, pp. (609-614), 29 July-1 Aug 2010 National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, India. Citation Index 7
• “Scheduling the job for an idle computer in distributed system” pp. [22], National Conference, “Information and Communication Technology-2008”, 29 Feb - 1 Mar 2008, NMIMS University Mumbai.
• “Handling deadlocks in distributed systems” International Conference, “MNGSA-2008”, Oct 2008 conducted by Karunya University, Coimbatore, India.
• “Identification of idle computers in Distributed systems” pp. [122-127], International Conference, “Frontier technologies – need for the industry, business and education”, 6-8 Sep 2006, Adhiyamman College of Engineering, Hosur.
• “Searching for idle computers in Distributed systems” pp. [48], National Conference, “Recent trends in computer networking and communication”, 10-11 Mar 2006, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Satyamangala.

• Recognized Research Supervisor under VTU
• Three scholars have been awarded Ph d under my guidance
• Guiding 2 Research scholars.

• Advanced Technologies for Smarter and Secured Life (ATSSL), Bangalore for a project,” “IoT Based Child Monitoring System” Feb 2021for AMCEC, Bangalore.
• For 2 winning Projects of Toyota Hackathon May 2024 for TOYOTA Kirloskar.
• Mr. Dev Vats & Mr. Eshaan Godbole: “Vehicle Accident prevention system embedded with alcohol detector”
• Mr. Anay Lohani & Mr. Angad S.K: “Evoking timely medical assistance after accident detection”

• Till 31st June Headed Information Science and Engg. Dept. in RVITM has an intake of 60 and started just 4 years back. Joined in Oct 2021. Since then trying to bring some changes.
• SPOC for Infosys Campus Connect
• Signed MOU with six reputed companies
• Initiated 6 Clubs running very successfully
• Initiated IPR cell and instrumental in Publishing/ Grant of 9 patents till date
• Chief coordinator for RVITM- ASHC
• Chief coordinator for VTU-CICC
• Chief Coordinator for MHRD_UBA
• At AMCEC, dept. of CSE runs BE (CSE) with 240 intake and MTech (CSE) with 18 intake.
• After I took over as HOD in Jan’ 2016, till Sep’ 2021, had initiated and successfully accomplished the following:
• Signed an MOU with Tequed Labs Pvt. Ltd., as a part of it they have established a Centre of Excellence On Internet of Things in September 2019 in AMCEC
• Signed an MOU with Cisco Networking Academy, as a part of MOU they have established a Centre of Excellence in Networking in August 2019 in AMCEC.
• Signed a MoU with Eduskills for Global Certification Courses for both faculty and students. (Along with Academic courses, department also runs, global certification courses that are offered at free of Cost to the students). Each student must take up one of these courses mandatorily.
• Amazon Web Services
• Cisco networking
• Cyber security
• Red hat Linux
• Robotic Process Automation
• University Ranks during tenure of HoD
• VTU 3rd rank for BE( ISE) 2023 at RVITM
• VTU 9th rank for BE (ISE) in 2017 at AMCEC and
• VTU 4th rank MTech. (CSE) in 2018 at AMCEC.

• Chief coordinator for Women Empowerment Call at AMCEC and RVITM (till date)
• Chief coordinator for Anti Sexual Harassment Cell at AMCEC and RVITM (till date)
• MHRD- Unnath Bharath Abhiyan Coordinator for RVITM till date
• Successfully coordinated AMCEC VTU examinations in 2019 December and 2017 August for AMCEC Bangalore
• Coordinator as SPOC for AICTE Margadarshan Scheme as mentee institute of RVCE since 2018
• Coordinator as SPOC for BITES programmes from 2017 to 2021 for AMCEC, Bangalore
• IQAC Coordinator from 2016 to 2018 for AMCEC, Bangalore
• NBA Coordinator at institute level in AMCEC, for 2016-17 and for 2015-16 at GAT, Bangalore

• VTU nominee for Board of Studies member for AI- ML Board of NHCE for AY 2024-26
• Board of Examiners member for AI- ML Board of NHCE for AY 2021-22
• Three times Board of Examiners member for CSE & ISE Board of VTU for AYs 2014-15, 2017-18 and 2019-20
• Board of Examiners member for CSE & ISE Board of Dayananda Sagar University for AY 2016-17