Er. Veena A Kumar

Er. Veena A Kumar

Designation: Assistant Professor (Sr.)  
Education:  M. Tech (CS), B. Tech, Pursuing Ph.D.

Educational Details

  • Pursuing Part time Ph.D (CSE) – APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala
  • Research Centre: Saintgits College of Engineering (Autonomous).
  • M.Tech(Computer Science) –  College of Engineering, Jawaharlal  Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad- 2011
  • B.Tech (Information Technology) – LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala University – 2005

Professional Experience:
Teaching: 17.3 Years

  • Assistant Professor (Sr.) in CSE Department- SAINTGITS College of Engineering (Autonomous), Kottayam From 17.10.2012 to till date.
  • Assistant Professor in CSE Department- Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, Hyderabad (Affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad) – [Feb 2008 to Oct 2012].
  • Lecturer in CSE Department – Amrita School of Engineering (Affiliated to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala) – [Jul 2005 to Dec 2007]. 

Publications

  1. “Cross Domain Descriptor for Face Sketch-Photo Image Recognition,” 2021 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS), 2021, pp. 228-231, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS51619.2021.9563314.
  2. Fruit Classification Using Deep Learning. In: Mekhilef S., Favorskaya M., Pandey R.K., Shaw R.N. (eds) Innovations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 756, May, 2021 Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-0749-3_62
  3. “Synthesizing Images from Hand-drawn Sketches using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks”, in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and conference proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems(ICESCS 2020) organised by Hindusthan Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India during 02-04 July 2020, doi: 10.1109/ICESC48915.2020.9155550.
  4. “Cross Domain Descriptor for Sketch Based Image Retrieval using Siamese Network”, IEEE Xplore Digital Library and conference proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), Shimla, India, 2019, pp. 591-596, doi: 10.1109/ICIIP47207.2019.8985733. 
  5. “Sketch Based Image Retrieval using Transfer Learning” IEEE Xplore Digital Library and conference proceedings of 3rd International conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA), 12-14 June 2019 at RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu., pp. 642-646. doi: 10.1109/ICECA.2019.8822021  
  6. Offline Handwritten Character Recognition in South Indian Scripts: A Broad Visualization, in (IJCSIT) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, Vol. 6 (3) May – June 2015, 2314-2317, ISSN:0975-9646.
  7. A research article “ A hybrid Dynamic Statistical Maximum Likelihood Alignment Algorithm for sentence Translations in Bilingual Corpora(Malayalam & English)” in ELSEVIER publications  proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Information Science(ACCIS-’14), ISBN: 9789351072478.
  8. A Novel Chunk Alignment Model for statistical Machine Translation on English-Malayalam Parallel Corpus- Published in proceedings of International Conference on Information Science July 4th-5th, 2014, ISBN- 978-93-83459-57-5
  9. Automatic Recognition of facial expressions in Color spaces: A Survey,IJERT vol 2 issue 6 (June 13)
  10. A research article “building a bilingual corpus based on Hybrid approach for Malayalam-English machine translation” published in IJCSI, January 2012 special Issue, ISSN: 2231-5292.
  11. A research article “An Empirical Study on the Practicalities of Sentence Alignment Task in English to Indian Language (Malayalam) Bilingual Corpora and a new hybrid algorithm for English-Malayalam sentence alignment” in IJAICR July-Dec 2011 Issue, ISSN: 0975-3974.

Conferences Attended:

  1. 2021 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS)
  2. The International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems(ICESCS 2020) organized by Hindusthan Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India during 02-04 July 2020
  3. Fifth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), Shimla, India, 15-17 Nov. 2019.
  4. Third International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA 2019), 12-14 June 2019 at RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
  5. International Conference on Information Science July 4th-5th 2014, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Cherthala, Kerala sponsored by TEQIP II.
  6. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Information Science organized by TKM college of Engineering during 26-28 June 2014.
  7. International Conference on Global Innovations in Technology and Sciences by 
  8.             Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam on April 4th to 6th 2013
  9. National Conference on Research Trends in Computer Science and Technology by  Dept of CSE & IT, CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad on January 27th and 28th 2012
  10. National Conference on Knowledge Engineering by Dept of CSE, MGIT, Hyderabad on July 29th and 30th 2011.

Seminars, Workshops & FDPs Attended:

  1. UGC Sponsored Refresher Course by Academic Staff College, University of Kerala from 29-11-2005 to 19-12-2005
  2. FDP on Network Security byDept of CSE, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus on December 15th and 16th 2006
  3. Workshop on Advanced Web Technologies by Dept of CSE, College of Engineering JNTU Hyderabad on 25th March 2009
  4. FDP on Computing Freedom in Engineering Education, A Free Software Perspective by Dept of IT, MGIT, Hyderabad on December 3rd 2010
  5. FDP on Recent Trends in Data Mining by Dept of CSE, MGIT, Hyderabad on December 30th and 31st 2010
  6. National Seminar on Intelligent Systems by Dept of CSE, CBIT, Hyderabad on November 10th 2011
  7. National Workshop on Speech Processing by Dept of CSE, MGIT, Hyderabad on Februvary 17th and 18th 2012
  8. ISTE Workshop on  “Aakash for Education” by IIT, Bombay on November 10th and 11th 2012
  9. ISTE Workshop on  “J2EE MVC Framework” by Dept of CSE, College of Engineering, Kidangoor from November 26th to December 1st 2012
  10. Workshop on “Effective Document Writing using LATEX” by Dept of CSE, SAINTGITS Colege of Engineering, Kottayam on January 11th and 12th 2013
  11. Train the Trainer Workshop on “Mobile Application Development using Android”  by Infosys Limited at Lourde Matha College of Engineering, Trivandrum on February 13th to 15th 2013
  12. ISTE Workshop on “Database Management Systems” by     IIT, Bombay from May 21st to 31st 2013
  13. TEQIP sponsored STTP on “Data Mining Techniques” by   Dept of IT, College of Engineering, Kidangoor on December 2nd, 3rd, 4th 2013
  14. Two weeks ISTE workshop on Computer Programming by  IIT, Bombay from  June 16th  to June 21th , 2014.
  15. Two weeks ISTE workshop on Computer Networks by  IIT, Bombay from June 30th  to July 5th , 2014.
  16. Two weeks ISTE workshop on Cyber Security by  IIT, Bombay from  July 10th  to July 20th , 2014.
  17. Conducted 2 day workshop on Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python held on 9th and 10th july 2015 organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with Computer Society of India(CSI).
  18. One week National hands-on workshop on Bigdata Analytics using R held on 19th to 23rd April 2016 organised by MCA department, Saintgits College of Engineering.
  19. One week FDP on Essential Mathematics for Engineering conducted by APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in association with ICT Academy of Kerala from 29th Nov 2016 to 3rd Dec 2016.
  20. One week Faculty Development Programme on “Theory of Computation” from 22nd May 2017 to 27th May 2017 conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering. 
  21. Five days FDP on “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” from ​9th January​to 13th January 201​8 conducted by  Department of Computer Science and Engineering of MITS, Ernakulam.
  22. One day FDP by Dr. K Mani Chandy,Simon Ramo Professor at California Institute of Technology  who devised the famous Chandy-Lamport Algorithm in Distributed Computing on 20 April 2018.
  23. One week Faculty Development Programme on “Machine Learning” from 18th June 2018 to 22nd June  2018 conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering. 
  24. One week Faculty Development Programme on “Deep Learning” from 25th  June 2018 to 27th June 2018 conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering. 
  25. One week Residential Research Workshop  from 9th July 2018 to 13th July 2018 conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering. 
  26. Two weeks AICTE sponsored FDP  on ”Predictive  Analysis” during 9th October 2019 to 19th October 2019, conducted by the Department  of Computer Applications, Saintgits College of Engineering.
  27. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence” October 5-9, 2020, RAJKIYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE KANNAUJ
  28. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence”November 9-13, 2020, Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Kalaburagi.
  29. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence”            November 23-27, 2020, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Kolkata
  30. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence” December 14-18, 2020, CANARA ENGINEERING COLLEGE.
  31. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence”January 11-15, 2021, Amity University , Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus.
  32. One week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence”February 22-26, 20,21 Model Engineering College, Kerala.
  33. AICTE sponsored Short Term Training  Programme on “HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGE AND TEXT ANALYSIS SESSION-2” organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology scheduled from 21 March 2022 to 25 March 2022.

Online Courses attended:

  1. Completed Udemy Deep Learning A-Z Hands-on Artificial Neural Networks online course on May 6, 2019
  2. Completed Coursera course on  Neural Networks and Deep Learning on April 13th, 2020
  3. Completed Coursera course on Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization  April 6th, 2020
  4. Completed Coursera course on Structuring Machine Learning Projects, April 8th 2020.
  5. Completed Coursera course on Convolutional Neural Network, April 4th 2020.    
  6. Completed Coursera course on Sequence Models, April 8th 2020.
  7. Completed Coursera course on Introduction to Tensor Flow for AI, ML and DL, March 28th 2020.
  8. Completed Coursera course on Deep Learning, April 8th 2020.
  9. Completed Coursera course on Python for Data Science NPTEL, June 2020.

Professional Body Memberships:

  • ISTE : LM-90579
  • International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Member No. 110036 
  • ACM: 4482644

Areas of Interest/Specialization & Subjects Taught :   

Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Digital Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining,  Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Data Structures, Computer Networks, Operating System, DBMS, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Principles of  Programming Languages, Java & Web Technologies, Object Oriented Programming, C Programming, Python, R Language.

Contact Details

Ph: 9946259888

Email: veena.kumar@saintgits.org