About
Vice-Principal, Professor & Head of the Department DSCE
A skilled professional with 22+ year experience in teaching and learning, academic administration, business development, research (novel approach, design and development) and industry. An inherent technologically savvy personality with analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent organizational and management skills, with team building and team leading capabilities comprising of researchers and academicians. Know-how of working and collaborating with multidisciplinary research teams across the globe. Overall a resourceful strategic planner directing towards constant growth amidst competitions and constant change. Currently working as a Director of research foundation with a reputed institution in Bangalore, India that has advanced my collaborative and technopreneurship qualities ResResearch interest areas are algorithms, image processing, computer vision, face recognition, Object recognition.
Skills
I specialize in crafting intuitive digital experiences and implementing intelligent solutions across various platforms which goes as follows:
Experience
After transitioning into engineering, providing a glimpse into my wealth of experience and expertise as...
Professional Experience
Director
2015 – Present
Dayananda Sagar Research Foundation, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
- Overseeing research, innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship strategies of the foundation.
- Research collaboration and networking with research organizations & industries.
- Research proposal preparation and business development.
- Developing institution-wide processes and practices.
Vice Principal & Professor and Head of the Department
2015 – Present
Computer Science & Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
- Administrating the academic affairs of the college.
- Evolving teaching and learning processes.
- Regulating the institution towards autonomy.
- Setting academic and research agendas for staff.
- Effective general management of the college and deputizing for the Principal as required.
Professor and Head of the Department
2007 – Present
Computer Science & Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
- Setting up a sustainable department advancing in various aspects including research grants and incubating a computer vision lab.
Professor
2005 – 2007
Computer Science Department, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
- Responsibilities included academic and research activities.
Professor in Computer Engineering Department
2003 – 2005
Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Responsibilities included academic and research activities.
Research Scholar
2002 – 2003
Aeronautical Development Establishment, DRDO, Min. of Defence, Govt. of India, Bangalore
- Responsibilities included conducting research and development activities.
Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under ISRO project
1999 – 2002
Government of India, University of Mysore, Mysore, India
- Responsibilities included conducting research under the ISRO project.
Lectures, Invited Talks, and Panel Discussions
Workshop on "Image Processing"
Reva Institute of Technology & Management
Lecture on "Image Processing"
Dr. T Thimmaiah Institute of Technology, KGF
Lecture on EDUSAT Programme Series-14
Lecture on 11th Refresh Course on Computer Application in Business Management
Mysore, India
Lecture on Short-Term Course on Document Analysis and Image Processing
Mandya, India
Lecture on "Fundamentals of Image Processing"
PESIT, Bangalore
Judge at State Level Paper Presentation
AIT, Bangalore
Lecture on "Image Processing and its Applications"
SJBIT, Bangalore
Session Chair at National Conference on Image Processing
SJBIT, Bangalore
Achievements
Best Employee Award
PES Institute of Technology [2005]
Best Paper Award
"SIMOR: Single Moving Object Recognition", International Journal of Intelligence Systems [2011]
Member of Local Inspection Committee (LIC)
VTU for the academic year 2012-13
Member of Board of Studies (BoS)
Computer Science Cluster, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore [2011-12 & 2012-13]
Member of Board of Studies (BoS)
Computer Science Cluster, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore [2011-12 & 2012-13]
Chief Coordinator for NAAC
Received 'A' grade from NAAC
NBA Accreditation
Under my leadership, the Computer Science & Engineering Department, DSCE was granted 3 years (2012-15) accreditation
Funding Projects
Block-chain and AI/ML based Healthcare Funding and Seamless Medical claim settlements and Reimbursement Through Data Locker
Funding Agency: IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation
Role: Principal Investigator
Grant Received: INR 50,00,000/-
The objective is to create a credit-worthiness rating for individuals in the lower economic strata with no assets, using a Blockchain-based automated medical record data locker linked to ABHA and other national identification numbers. This will facilitate insurance claim settlements and enhance credit score assessments beyond traditional methods.
Novel Acquisition and Reconstruction strategies to Accelerate Magnetic resonance Imaging using Compressed Sensing
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) under Technology Systems Development (TSD) Programme
Role: Co- Principal Investigator
Grant Received: INR 74,00,000/-
This project aims to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) by developing novel acquisition strategies for region of interest compressed sensing and optimal reconstruction strategies combining compressed sensing and parallel imaging. It includes quantitative MRI and clinical evaluation of the proposed approaches.
Vision Based Way Point Navigation for Unmanned Vehicles
Funding Agency: Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense, Govt. of India
Role: Principal Investigator
Grant Received: INR 15,00,000/-
This research grant involves the development of an image processing methodology for vision-based way-point navigation of UAVs, enabling autonomous navigation of unmanned vehicles.
Developing Technology for Communication between Blind and Deaf
Funding Agency: All India Council For Technical Education, New Delhi, INDIA
Role: Principal Investigator
Grant Received: INR 5,80,000/-
This project aims to develop a communication interface between blind and deaf individuals by creating an algorithm that bridges the communication gap between sign language and speech. This will help improve their interaction and enable them to contribute to society on par with normal citizens.
Research Interests
Sign Language Recognition
Developing a communication interface between blind and deaf. A deaf person uses a sign language to communicate and a blind person uses speech. Since there is no common mode of communication between the two groups, we are making an attempt to develop an algorithm which acts as an interface between the two groups. This project helps them to interact with each other and improve their lives and to enable them to contribute to our society on par with normal citizens.
Finger Print Recognition
The approach uses minutia detection in fingerprint images, binary detection, and direct grayscale detection. Feature extraction includes the determination of local features like ridge ending, ridge bifurcation and global features like core point, delta point etc. Matching is done by comparing template data of the image previously stored with calculated data of input image. Less number of minutiae is sufficient for matching and the whole process of preprocessing, feature extraction and matching takes 8-15 seconds.
Classification of Kannada Characters
The approach makes use of extracting a graph out of each character for classification. The proposed method makes use of closed regions and junction points for constructing graph for each character. The classification is independent of the font and size of the printed text and the system is seen to deliver reasonable performance.
UAV and Medical Image Processing
To develop novel Image Processing algorithms for navigation of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and Medical Image processing.
Algorithm Development
Developed the following algorithms for a variety of applications:
- Designed Robot for object tracking: “JUNIOR” Robot was developed to track the objects.
- Degraded Character Recognition
- Object Recognition
Get in Touch
Location:
Bangalore - India
Email:
hod-cse@dayanandasagar.edu
Call:
+91 9972935935