RESEARCH GRANTS

1. A grant of 9 Lakh Indian Rupees (20,000 $ approx) from All India Council of Technical Education for a Research project at B.V.B College of engineering under RPS Scheme 2003-2004.

2. Consultancy /Project work for M/s Checktronics India Pvt Ltd , A subsidary of Burning glass Pvt Ltd ,USA.

HONORS AND RECOGNITION

1. Biography accepted to be published in Dictionary of International Biography 2008 by International Biographical Center , Cambridge , England.

2. Profiled in Marquis Whos who in science and engineering , 10th aniversary edition , 2008 

3. The project guided & titled " A Robot for Visually impaired people " bagged the first prize at the project competition held by Directorate of Technical Education, Karnataka and NITTE, Mangalore. India.
 
TEACHING 
06CS45 Microprocessors
IF043 E-commerce
IF032 Distributed Computing
 
PUBLICATIONS 
TEXT BOOK /CHAPTERS

1. A Chapter in the textbook on Professional Ethics, Published by Sonaversity, Sona College of Technology, August 2005.

INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. A Paper titled " Web Video Based Agrisoft Content Management System for Improved Agricultural Productivity " in the proceedings of National Conference , Kongu Engg College Sponsored by DST , India, March 27-28, 2005.

2. A Paper titled "A GIS Based Web Enabled Crisis Helper For Immediate Medical Help" in the proceedings of National Conference , Kongu Engg. College Sponsored by DST, India, March 27-28, 2005.

3. A Paper titled "An Improved GUI Based Information Site For Agriculturalists Across India " in the proceedings of National Conference,Kongu Engg. College Sponsored by DST, India, March 27-28, 2005.

4. A Paper titled " A Robust approach to aerial image Restoration using Grid Computing" in the proceedings of ICOL2005, Dehradun, India, December 12-15, 2005.

5. A Paper titled " An self adaptive model for denoising medical X ray images " in Proceedings of National Conference on Vision Graphics and Image Processing, Shimoga, India, March 2-3, 2005.

6. A Paper titled "Implementation of PACS for image acquisition for improved health care in hospitals"in Proceedings of National Conference on Vision Graphics and Image Processing, Shimoga, India, March 2-3, 2005.

7. A Paper titled" A soft computing approach to Aerial Image Restoration"in Proceedings of 8th Annual International Conference Map India 2005, New Delhi, India, February 7- 9, 2005.

8. A Paper titled "Adaptive Regularization in Color Image Restoration Using Neuro Fuzzy Model"in Proceedings of 22nd International Conference of EuroPACSMIR2004, Eds: P.Inchingolo & R.Pozzi-Mucelli, Trieste, Italy, September 16 - 18, 2004, pg365-368, ISBN 88-8303-150-4

9. A Paper titled "Anticipating where to look and move: predicting the behavior of the software agent in complex terrain" in Proceedings of International conference on software agents 2003, Davangere, India.

10. A Paper titled "Image Restoration Using Neural Network Learning approach" in Proceedings of National Conference on Document analysis and Recognition NCDAR 2003,Mandya, India.

PAPERS ACCEPTED AT INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. A Paper titled " A Neural Network based restoration of a super resolution image from several under sampled measured aerial images " selected for poster presentation at International Conference on Optics & Opt electronics (ICOL 2005), Dehradun, December 12-15, 2005.

2. A Paper titled "A Fuzzy Logic Based Expert Geographic Information System for Improved Immunization and Healthcare" selected for oral presentation at First International symposium on Health GIS; held at Thailand, December 1-2, 2005.

3. A Paper titled "A Proposed National Medical Grid Approach For Implementing Informing Healthcare Programme and PACS For Improved healthcare in Rural Hospitals for oral presentation at the e-Government conference, CONFLUX 2005, New Delhi, October 17- 19, 2005.

4. A Paper titled " Knowledge Management Using LAMP Environment for Healthcare " selected for oral presentation at BIOMEDICINE 2005; 6th International Conference on Modeling in Medicine and Biology, to be held by Wessex Institute of Technology at, Bologna-Italy, September 7-9, 2005.

5. A Paper titled " A system on Chip For Medical Image Restoration & Filtering Using a Neural Network Model " selected for poster presentation & plenum talk at 2nd International Conference on Reconstruction of Soft Facial Parts, to be held at the Rheinahr Campus, Remagen -Germany, March 17 - 18, 2005.

6. A Paper titled " Adaptive Regularization in Color Image Restoration Using Neuro Fuzzy Model"selected for oral presentation at GSPx (The Embedded Signal Processing Conference) held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, September 27 - 30, 2004.

7. A Paper titled " Adaptive Regularization in Color Image Restoration Using Neuro Fuzzy Model" selected for oral presentation at OR 46 annual conference held at University of York, 7 - 9 September 2004. 

8. A Paper titled "Adaptive Regularization in Color Image Restoration Using Neural network Model " selected for oral presentation at Special Session on "Soft Computing in Image Processing" at the 6th FLINS 2004 Conference held at Blankenberghe (Belgium), September 1-3, 2004.

EVENTS ATTENDED 
ACM ICPC 2007

Problem Setter and one of the Judges for the The 32nd Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - (ACM ICPC 2007) Asia Region , Amritapuri , India, December 21-22 2007.

IBM UR DAY 2007

A Talk on Cell BE Architecture on 5th October @ MSRIT. Bangalore , India, 

ACM ICPC 2006

Problem Setter and one of the Judges for the The 31st Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - (ACM ICPC 2006) Asia Region , Coimbatore , India, December 16 2006.

TUTORIALS ACCEPTED

1. A talk on " An Open source approach for Improved rural health care in India ." at Linux ASIA 2006 , New Delhi , India.
2.A Tutorial on " Improved Rural Healthcare using PACS and Visualization" at Second World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC 2005),Bangalore,India, December 16-18 2005
3.A Tutorial on "Image Restoration -problems and solutions" at 8th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 05), Bhubneswar, India, December 20-23 2005.

INVITED LECTURES

1. An lecture on " Presentation Skills and Teaching " at HRD Department , Sona College of Technology as Pedadogy training of new recruits.

2. An Guest lecture on " Interview Techniques" at Sona School of Management.;

3. An invited lecture on " Image Restoration " at ISTE sponsored short-term course on Recent Trends in Image Processing at J.N.N. College of Engineering, Shimoga.
 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

1.Co Editor of a Book on Advanced Multimedia Processing Using High Performance Computing: Next Generation Design and Applications to be published by IGI,USA in 2009

2.ECKM 2008  MINI TRACK CO-CHAIR

Feature Editor

1. Academic Exchange Quarterly {Teaching Sciences} (2005-06).'
 

Member of Editorial Board

1. Informing Science Journal.
2. Journal of Information Technology Education.
3. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and learning Objects.
4. Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organization

Reviewer

Text Book Chapters

1. Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet - Sharing and Exchanging
Knowledge in Networked Environments being published by IGI .

Journals /Conferences

1. Image and Vision Computing - Elsevier Publication (2007,2008)
2. International Journal of Signal Processing (2004,2005).
3. IIorin Journal of Education. (2007)
4. International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJIST)
5. International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering
6. Journal of Information Systems Education(JISE)(2006,2007,2008).
7. HCI 2008 : Culture , Creativity , Interaction , 1-5 spetember 2008 , Liverpool John Moores university, U.K
8. HCI 2006: Engage ,11-15 September 2006 ,Queen Mary, University of London
9. The 10th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2006), July 16-19 2006, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
10..AIB 2006 Annual Meeting ,Beijing, China ,June 23 - 26, 2006
11. CHI 2007: Reach Beyond , 28 April - 3 May, 2007,San Jose, California, USA.
12. ACM SIGCHI CHI 2006 Conference , Montreal ,Quebec, Canada 22-27 April 2006.
13. The 9th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005), July 10-13 2005, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
14. The 6th European Conference on Knowledge Management University of Limerick, Ireland (ECKM2005), 8-9 September 2005.
15. The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI2005) Napier University, Edinburgh, UK 5-9 September 2005.

International Program Committee Member

1. IS 2008 : June 22-25 2008 ,Varna , Bulgaria 2. IS 2007 : June 22-25 2007 , Ljubljana ,Slovenia
3. InSITE 2006 , June 25-28 2006 , Sal ford (Greater Manchester, England)
4. ECEL 2006 : The European Conference on e-Learning ,11-12 September 2006,University of Winchester, UK.
5. ECKM 2006 : The 7th European Conference on Knowledge Management ,Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary ,4-5 September 2006
6. IRMA International conference 2007 : May 19-23 2007 ,Vancouver, Canada
7. ECKM 2007 : 6-7 September 2007 ,Consorci Escola Industrial de Barcelona (CEIB), Barcelona, Spain 8. Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference (InSITE2005), June 16-19 2005, Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A

 
CAREER 

M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology ,Bangalore           Asst.Professor       
               Aug 2007 - Tilldate 
Sona College of Technology                                      Asst.Professor       
               May 2004 - Aug 2007 
B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engg & Tech ,Hubli             Lecturer             
               Sep 2002 - May 2004 
Sri Krishna College of Engg., Coimbatore                      Lecturer             
               May 2002 - Aug 2002 
J.N.N College of Engineering, Shimoga                         Teaching Assistant   
               Oct 2000 - Jan2001 
College of Engineering, Ambajogai                               Lecturer             
               Aug 1998 - Sep 2000 
Vasavi Computer Academy                                        Executive