Our Faculty
Dean
Dr. S. Poonkuntran
Professor, Dean
Email: poonkuntran.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. S. Poonkuntran earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. He is having 15 plus years of experience in teaching/research. His research area of interest includes information security, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He executed three funded research grants from the Indian Space Research Organization, Defense Research Development Organization, and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. He received two seminar grants from Anna University, Chennai, and the All India Council for Technical Education-Indian Society for Technical Education. He has 3 patent publications and 70 plus technical paper publications. He has authored 6 books and 1 Chapter. He is a lifetime member of IACSIT, Singapore, CSI, India, and ISTE, India. He received Cognizant Best Faculty Award 2017-18 and served as a State Level Student Coordinator Position for Region VII, CSI, India in 2016-17.
Programme Chairs
Dr. SANDIP MAL
Senior Assistant Professor
Email: pc.bce@vitbhopal.ac.in, sandip.mal@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Sandip Mal is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He served as an Assistant Professor at Central University of Jharkhand before joining VIT Bhopal. At present three research scholars are working under his supervision. He has publications in various international and national journals. He has received fellowships from different government organisations for his academic and research work. His research interests include Image Processing, and Software Engineering. He has also developed study materials on different subjects (sandipmal.wordpress.com).
Dr. Preetam Suman
Senior Assistant Professor
Email: pc.bce@vitbhopal.ac.in, preetam.suman@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Preetam Suman has completed his doctorate from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad and has over eight years’ experience in the field of academics. His core areas of expertise include medical imaging, Big Data analytics, Cloud computing, real-life applications of artificial intelligence and embedded systems. He was involved in a project related to implementing sensor networks in forests to save wildlife and development of technology to identify tumors in the brain using fMRI. Dr. Preetam Suman is currently working as Assistant Professor with Vellore Institute of Technology-Bhopal.Also, he has been nominated by various forums and associations in their committees. He has published more than forty papers in international journals and conferences and various seminars organized by professional bodies and industry associations worldwide. Dr. Preetam, holds professional associations with IEEE Technical Committee, IEEE Young Professionals.
Dr. Sasmita Padhy
Associate Professor
Email: pc.bce@vitbhopal.ac.in, sasmita.padhy@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Sasmita Padhy is a Doctorate from Berhampur University and M.Tech from Biju Patnaik Technical University in Computer Science Engineering. She has an academic experience of 20 years and has worked at various levels up to Associate Professor cum HoD. She has several publications in peer-reviewed International/National journals and Conferences. Dr. Sasmita has delivered guest Lectures in various institutions. Her research interests include Wireless Networks, Network Security, Information Security, IoT. She is a member of ISTE, CSTA, and IAENG.
Dr. J. Manikandan
Assistant Professor
Email: pc.bce@vitbhopal.ac.in, manikandan.j@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. J. Manikandan is a Doctorate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He has done his M.E in Computer Science and Engineering & B.Tech in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai. He has an academic experience of 12 years and has worked at various levels. He has 10 publications, in peer reviewed International/National journals with high impact factor and the publications in various International Conferences held in India. He has received the “Browns level Faculty Award” from Infosys Campus connect, Infosys, Chennai (India), He has received the “Best Young Faculty Award” from Novel Research Academy, Pondicherry. He has publications in renowned International journals, and is a reviewer for Journal of Autonomous Intelligence. His research is in the area of Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Internet of Things (IoT), Deep Learning, Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart City Application. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Scholar, life member ISTE and ISOI.
Faculty
Dr. R. Shriram
Professor,
Email: shriram.r@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Shriram Raghunathan is the Programme Chair of Gaming Technology in the School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He works on Natural Language Processing, Instructional Design and Gaming. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering in 2008 and did his Masters in Instructional Design (online) from Open University of Malaysia. His significant achievements include setting up India’s first Centre of Excellence in Pervasive Computing in 2007 worth Rs. 5 crore and completion of 4 funded projects (mobile Tamil interfaces, mobile keypad standardization and plagiarism checking) in Tamil Computing since 2004.He has published widely in domains of gaming, cloud computing, natural language processing and instructional design and guided 4 Doctoral students for their PhD since 2014. He has published a book on Smart Learning and Gaming (IGI Publications, USA) and contributed to book chapters in the domain.
Mr. Anand Motwani
Assistant Professor,
Email: anand.motwani@vitbhopal.ac.in
Prof. Anand Motwani is Brilliant academician and researcher with 20+ years’ experience of training, teaching and guiding technical scholars and corporate employees. He is an alumni of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, (M.P., India). He has worked with renowned educational Institutions at good positions. He has been associated with different universities as a guest faculty, a counsellor, an examiner and for other academic assignments. He has experience of planning and developing customized courses and training materials. He is well adept at Data Mining, Machine Learning and analytics tools (Weka, Azure ML.) and languages like Python. He also worked with Cloud Computing Technologies like Virtualization, and is also passionate about applying ‘Machine Learning and Analytics’ over cloud platforms. He
has authored nice research publications and a book with Pearson Education. Prof. Motwani is member of IEEE Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) Society and is working with School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University since May 2019.
has authored nice research publications and a book with Pearson Education. Prof. Motwani is member of IEEE Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) Society and is working with School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University since May 2019.
Mr. Sandeep Sahu
Assistant Professor,
Email: sandeep.sahu@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. Sandeep Sahu received B.E. and M.Tech. degrees in computer science and engineering from SATI, Vidisha, and I.I.T., Guwahati (Assam), India, in 2008 and 2011. He has around 11 years of academic experience and has worked at various institutions and universities. He has also served for around 4 years on the quality improvement project under NPUI-MHRD, New Delhi. He has submitted his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at the University of Technology, UIT-RGPV, Bhopal, India. He leads research activities and projects and teaches undergraduate and post-graduate courses. He published more than 20 reviewed articles in international and national journals and conferences. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and their applications, Mobile Adhoc Networks, and IoT.
Dr. Kamlesh Chandravanshi
Assistant Professor,
Email: kamlesh.chandravanshi@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Kamlesh Chandravanshi is a Doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering from Mewar University, Chittorgarh and M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from VJTI Mumbai. He has an academic experience of 14 years and held academic responsibilities as Departmental NBA Coordinator and smart india hackathon coordinator in the previous institutions. He has 15 publications, in peer reviewed International/National journals with high impact factor and has 08 publications in various International Conferences held in India and abroad. His research interests include Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things (IoT). He has been actively participating as a reviewer in some of the international journals and a Professional Member of the IACSIT. He has received as best faculty award in Srijan 2018 by MPCST for Operating System.
Dr. Varshali Jaiswal
Assistant Professor,
Email: varshali.jaiswal@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Varshali Jaiswal has completed his doctorate from School of Information Technology, RGPV Bhopal and has over eight years’ experience in the field of academics. Her core areas of expertise include medical imaging, Big Data analytics, Image Processing, real-life applications of artificial intelligence. She is currently working as Assistant Professor with Vellore Institute of Technology-Bhopal. She has published more than seven papers in international journals and conferences and various seminars organized by professional bodies.
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Dr. S. Ananthakumaran
Associate Professor,
Email: ananthakumaran@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. S. Ananthakumaran is an Associate Professor Grade-II in the School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He was awarded with Ph.D., in CSE from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu in the year August, 2016, M.E (CSE) from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2006. Also, he has completed M.C.A and
M.Sc., (Mathematics) from VHNSN College, Virudhunagar affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu during 2001 and 1998 respectively. He has nearly 19 years of teaching and research experience from reputed engineering colleges and university. He has published 12 research articles indexed in SCOPUS and SCI journals, and authored 3 book chapters. His research areas include information security, soft computing techniques/algorithms, and mathematical modelling. He has executed funded seminar grants 2 from DRDO and 1 from CSIR and TNSCST. He is a lifetime member of CRSI.
M.Sc., (Mathematics) from VHNSN College, Virudhunagar affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu during 2001 and 1998 respectively. He has nearly 19 years of teaching and research experience from reputed engineering colleges and university. He has published 12 research articles indexed in SCOPUS and SCI journals, and authored 3 book chapters. His research areas include information security, soft computing techniques/algorithms, and mathematical modelling. He has executed funded seminar grants 2 from DRDO and 1 from CSIR and TNSCST. He is a lifetime member of CRSI.
Rakesh Bharati
Assistant Professor,
Email: rakesh.bharati@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. Rakesh Bharati is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at VIT University, Bhopal. He is pursuing his Ph.D. from MANIT Bhopal. He obtained his M.Tech (H) in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttrakhand Technical University, Dehradun in 2010 and his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow in 2005. He has 14 years of academic experience as an Assistant Professor at various reputed engineering colleges. In 2007, 2009, and 2015, he qualified for the Gate Exam three times. He has qualified for the UGC/NET exam two times, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He has published more than 15 research papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has guided six M.Tech dissertations and supervised 50 B.Tech projects.
Mr. Rajit Nair
Assistant Professor,
Email: rajit.nair@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. Rajit Nair is pursuing his PhD from MANIT, Bhopal and completed his M.Tech. and B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering. He has an academic experience of 15 years and has worked at various levels in academics. He has 42 publications, including journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. Mr. Rajit Nair has been an expert speaker in various Faculty Development Programmes and has organized many Workshops and Short-term courses. He has also been awarded various awards at the college and university level for his academic contribution. He has authored a book titled FPGA Algorithms and Applications for the Internet of Things under the IGI publication, which is popular for its rich technical content and is referred to by many Universities across the World. His expert area is Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Mr. G. Ganesan
Senior Teaching Fellow,
Email: ganesan.g@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. G. Ganesan graduated Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in 2008. He has an academic experience of 25 years and 3 years in Industry experience. He has worked at various levels up to Associate Professor. He has 9 publications, in peer reviewed International journals and has more than 20 publications in various International/National Conferences held in India. Mr. G. Ganesan has been an expert in Cloud Computing implementation with various frameworks and he is an organizer and trainer in professional certification courses. He delivered in various Student/Faculty Development Programmes and also he is an expert in Skill Development Programmes. He organized a number of Workshops and Short term courses in advanced technology. He has authored a book titled “Blockchain and Bitcoin Security in Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Applications”. He is keen interested to design and implement the social impact projects in various level.
Dr. Mrityunjay Singh
Assistant Professor,
Email: mrityunjay.singh@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Mrityunjay Singh is a Doctorate in CSE (Theoretical Computer Science) from IIT Guwahati, M.Tech in VLSI Design Automation and Techniques from NIT Hamirpur and B.Tech(IT) from JSSATE Noida. He has an academic experience of 2 years. He has 1 publication in SCI Journal and presented a paper in a workshop (without proceedings) named Words and Complexity in University of Lyon France and one journal paper in under review. He has given a talk on “Introduction of combinatorics on words” in a workshop related to Covid in ECC Allahabad. He is also trying to work in the area of cryptography and information security.
Dr. Gaurav Sonini
Assistant Professor,
Email: gaurav.soni@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Gaurav Soni has a Doctorate from Swami Vivekanand University and M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from RITS (RGPV, Bhopal). He has an academic experience of 14 years. He has 6 publications, in peer reviewed International , National journals with good impact factor and has 10 publications in various International Conferences held in India and abroad. He has attended various Faculty Development Programmes & has organized conferences, workshops, and short-term courses. He has published three technical Patents. He has an AWS Certified. He has also taken part in several FDPs on Machine Learning, Sales Force, and Agile at Renowned MNCs. His area of interest is Wireless Networks, IoT, WSN, VANET, DTN and Mobile Ad-hoc Network.
Dr.Ravi Verma
Senior Assistant Professor,
Email: ravi.verma@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Ravi Verma working as Senior Asst. Prof. School of Computing Science and Engineering. I received PhD in 2016 from Singhania University Rajasthan. I Published 30 articles in various repute and highly indexed international journal of computer science. I Contributed book chapters as a main author
in internationally recognized books of IoT, Big Data, Cyber Security, Blockchain. I have 12-year experience of teaching and training in various repute institutions for UG & PG courses. I am a member of IEEE, ISTE, IACSIT & IAENG technical society.
in internationally recognized books of IoT, Big Data, Cyber Security, Blockchain. I have 12-year experience of teaching and training in various repute institutions for UG & PG courses. I am a member of IEEE, ISTE, IACSIT & IAENG technical society.
Dr.Prabu .M
Senior Assistant Professor,
Email: prabu.m@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Prabu M is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT Bhopal University. He is an alumnus of VIT University, Vellore, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Distributed Satellite Data Processing with support from ISRO-SAC, Ahmedabad. Dr. Prabu M has an academic and research experience of 12 years and has worked at various levels. During his career, he has also worked on ISRO-SAC and DST-funded projects. Dr. Prabu M has filed patents and published papers, book chapter in various peer-reviewed International Journals, and Conferences indexing with Scopus, SCI, and WoS. He is also one of the book editors entitled Outcomes of Best Practices in Classroom Research and also he is a reviewer in several reputed International Scopus and SCI-indexed journals. Dr. Prabu M has been an expert speaker in various Faculty Development Programmes and contributed to several International Conferences, Workshops. He is an active member of various international bodies like Life Member of ISDS -International Society for Development and Sustainability, IAENG- International Association of Engineers, ISTE-Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education, Internet Society, IFERP-Institute for Engineering Research, and Publication. His research interests include Computer Vision, Distributed Computing, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, and GIS.
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Dr. Nitin Kumar Mishra
Senior Assistant Professor,
Email: nitin.kumar@vitbhopal.ac.in
Nitin Kumar Mishra is a Doctorate in Information Technology from Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior, and M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal. He has 16 years of academic experience. As a researcher, designing, developing, and optimizing machine learning algorithms for Multi-label Classification problems is his area. He has published four research papers in SCIE journals and presented five papers in various national and Scopus indexed international conferences. He is a reviewer of various SCIE/Scopus indexed journals such as Information Sciences, Information Processing & Management, Computers & Electrical engineering, Expert System with Applications, and Artificial Intelligence Review.
Dr. George Chellin Chandran
Professor,
Email: george.chandran@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. J. George Chellin Chandran has more than 26 years of Administration, Teaching, and Research experience. Apart from teaching assignments, he worked as a Principal in Engineering Colleges across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Telungana for more than 16 years. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering, and Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering. He authored 26 articles in National and International Journals. He was appointed as an expert in setting question papers for the Karunya University and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for BE, B.Tech Degree Programme. He has supervised around 30 M. Tech. Thesis and 03 of his Ph.D. students have successfully defended their thesis and were awarded Ph.D. Degree under his guidance. He was appointed as an examiner for Ph.D. thesis evaluation by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, and Mother Teresa Women’s University, Kodaikanal. He is a Life Member of ISTE, Senior Life Member of IACSIT, Associate member of IE, Associate Life member of CSI, Member of IAENG. His current research work includes Biometrics, Computer networks, Cloud Computing and Wireless Networks.
Dr. Rajdeep Ghosh
Assistant Professor,
Email: rajdeep.ghosh@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. R. Ghosh is a Doctorate from National Institute of Technology, Silchar and an M.Tech in Information Technology from Assam University, Silchar. He has an academic experience of 3 years and has worked as an Assistant Professor at Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology, Guwahati. He has 6 publications, in peer reviewed International journals with a high impact factor and has 3 publications in various international conferences held in India. Dr. Ghosh has expertise in the field of Quantum Computing, Brain Computer Interface, Soft Computing and Machine Learning. He has successfully completed 2 sponsored research projects funded by NPIU-MoE.
Dr. Dheresh Soni
Assistant Professor,
Email: dheresh.soni@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Dheresh Soni is a Doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering from Mewar University, Chittourgarh, and an M.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from RGPV Bhopal. He has an academic experience of 13+ years and has worked as Assistant Professor in renowned Universities/Colleges like Chandigarh University, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Sagar Group of Institute (Now known as SAGE University), & Patel Group of Institute (Now known as Madhyanchal Professional University). He has published 04 patents of which 01 German patent has been granted (03 Published, 01 Granted). He has published nine articles in peer-reviewed International/National journals with high impact factors and has 10 publications in various International Conferences held in India. Dr. Dheresh Soni has attended a number of Conferences, FDP, Seminars, Workshops, and Short term courses. He has supervised 03 M.Tech students and active member of Computer Societies like CSI, ACM, IAENG, ICST, and IACSIT. He has good skills in Cloud Computing, Security, and IoT. Many students have completed their projects in the field of web development, and IoT under his supervision.
Mrs. Nivethitha V
Teaching Fellow
Email: nivethitha.v@vitbhopal.ac.in
Nivethitha V pursuing her Doctoral Research at VIT Chennai Campus, Master’s Degree (M.E-CS) from Anna University, and Bachelor’s degree (B.E-ECE) from Anna University, Coimbatore. Nivethitha V has served in different reputed academic institutes for more than 8 years and she has participated and organized a number of STTP’s & Workshops. She has filed 1 Patent and 5 Publications in Journals and various Int./National, Conferences. Nivethitha V holds online certification in Reinforcement Learning, AI for Everyone, Smart Mobile Communications, IoT courses from NPTEL & Coursera streams. Nivethitha V is an active researcher in the field of Optical Communication in 5G and Machine Learning.
Dr. Kamal Kant Verma
Assistant Professor
Email: kamal.verma@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Kamal Kant Verma is a doctorate from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajasthan, India, in 2022 and 2012 respectively. He received undergraduate degree (B.Tech) in IT from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow in 2006. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at school of computing science and engineering, VIT Bhopal University from 20 th April to till date. He has an academic experience of 15 years in various engineering institutes such as University of Engineering and Technology Roorkee (UETR), Quantum University (QU) Roorkee etc. He has published 22 research papers in national and international journals and conferences of repute, out of them 04 are indexed in SCIE, 05 are indexed in Scopus database and 02 book chapters. He has also published 02 patents. He received 110 google citations with 6 h-index and 5 i-10 index. He is a reviewer of several international journals like Taylor and Francis and Springer etc. His current research includes is Human Activity Recognition, Video Processing, Pattern Recognition and Deep Learning. He has attended various Faculty Development Programmes and has organized short- term courses
Dr.A Usha Ruby
Associate Professor
Email: usha.ruby@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. A. Usha Ruby is a doctorate from Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research University, M.E in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharathidasan University. She pursued her Master of Business Administration from Periyar University. She has academic experience of 25 years and has worked at various levels up to Professor. She has various publications in peer reviewed International/National journals and has publications in International Conferences held in India. Dr. A. Usha Ruby has been an expert speaker in various Faculty Development Programmes and has organized several Conferences, Workshops and Short-term courses. Her research interest includes Computer Networks, Digital Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
Mr. Jay Prakash Maurya
Teaching Fellow
Email: jay.prakash@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. Jay Prakash Maurya is currently pursuing Ph.D in CSE from SATI Vidisha (Autonomous), and M.Tech in CSE, from RGPV, Bhopal (M.P). He received the Engineering degree, B.Tech. in (CSIT) from, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. He has academic experience of 09 years. He has published more than 25 scientific papers in International reputed Journals and conference proceedings. He has Published 03 Book Chapter in the field of data mining and Network security. He also has the experience of conducting workshops with collaboration of IIT-Bombay for the project “SMART CLASSROOM” and “BODHI TREE”, & Spoken Tutorial Project. Nominated as expert, reviewer and jury in different events like Smart India Hackathon, Toycathon, MPCST Project. He is associated member of Member of AMUACEE, MTERA, MSDIWC.
