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Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar

Professor  

Research Area

  • Computer Graphics
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Image Processing
  • IoT

Bio

Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Tech. degree in Computer Science from Regional Engineering College, (now National Institute of Technology), Warangal and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute, Dr. MGR University, Chennai. She has also received MBA degree in Operations Management from IGNOU, New Delhi. She has undergone training in different areas and  has participated in various conferences and workshops conducted by different organizations.

After serving ITI Limited, Bangalore for over fifteen years and Infycons Creative Software Private Ltd., Bangalore for a brief period, she has taken up the teaching profession. She has worked as Professor (CSE/ISE), in MVJ College of Engineering and East Point College of Engineering and Technology for over 14 years and is working as Professor(CSE) in  Cambridge Institute of Technology since July 2019.

She has guided B.E. and M.Tech students in their seminars and project dissertations. Two candidates have completed their Ph.D. under VTU under her guidance. Seven other students are currently being guided for Ph.D. under Visvesvaraya Technological University.

 

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute, Dr. MGR University, Chennai, 2010
  • M.Tech., Computer Science, Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Warangal, 1992
  • B.Tech., Electronics and Communication, Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Warangal, 1992
  • M.B.A., Operations Management, IGNOU, New Delhi, 2000

Awards and Honors

  • Best Teacher Award – 2004-05 – Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., MVJ College of Engg., Bangalore – 560067
  • “Best Educationist Award” – 2017 – by International Institute of Education and Management.
  • “National Mahila Gold Medal” – 2017 – by Indian Solidarity Council.
  • 5th Topper in NPTEL Advanced Computer Architecture Course – Sept. 2019.
  • Gold medal in the Workshop on Convolutional Neural Networks for Transfer Learning by Cognitron Techademy – July 2020.
  • NPTEL Online Certification Course “Python for Data Science”, securing “Elite+Silver” certificate and within the top 5% of the candidates who have taken the course – March 2021.
  • NPTEL Online Certification Course “Deep Learning”, securing “Elite+Silver” certificate – Aug. 2021.
  • NPTEL Online Certification Course “Introduction to Machine Learning”, securing “Elite+Silver” certificate – Sept. 2021.
  • NPTEL Online Certification Course “Aritificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation”, securing “Elite” certificate – April 2022.

Webinars

Attended

1)       06.04.2020 – “Emotional Well Being” by  Dr. Surbhi

2)       14.04.2020 – “Health and You” by Dr. Nishant

3)       15.04.2020 – “Training for Editing and Publishing on YouTube” by Mr. Srinidhi and Mr. Jellin

4)       22.04.2020 – “The Engine of Innovation” by Dr. Abraham Zubin, Trane Technologies

5)       23.04.2020 – “Counselling Support to Students” by Ms. Suk Mishraa, Peer Coaching India

6)       24.04.2020 – “Workshop on Creating Video Lecture” by Dr. Satyanarayan Reddy

7)       30.04.2020 – IIC Online Session – “Hangout with Emerging Innovator and Entrepreneur” by Ms. Vandana Thakur and Mr. Amit Lokhande

8)       30.04.2020 – IIC Online Session – “Role and Importance of Pre-Incubators, Incubators and Accelerators in HEIs” by Prof. Muthu Singaram, IIT

9)       04.05.2020 – IIC Online Session – Hangout with Successful Startup Founder and Learn Design thinking Approach for Hardware Innovation

10)   04.05.2020 – NAFEMS – Additive Manufacturing, Healthcare, Medical Devices

11)   05-05-2020 – IIC Online Session – Entrepreneurship, Business Idea, and Business Model Canvas

12)   6.05.2020 – IIC Online Session – How to Identify Right Problems and Solution using the Double Diamond

13)   07.05.2020 – IIC Online – Session 8 : Intellectual Property (IP) Management at Early Stage of Innovation and Start-ups

14)   08.05.2020 – Webinar – “Techniques to Make Computer Science Education More Useful and Interesting” by Dr. Abraham G. Ramade, Prof.-CSE, IIT-Powai, Mumbai

15)   08.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 9 – Understanding Angel and Venture Capital Funding

16)    08.05.2020 – NPTEL: Week 4 Lecture series – Employability – A Startup Perspective

17)    09.05.2020 – Faculty Development Programme on Contemporary tools and techniques for teachers and researchers in higher education: Experience of using virtual classrooms – Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore

18)   09.05.2020 – NPTEL: Week 4 Lecture series: Product Management by Mr. G.Chandramouli, Chief Digital Officer, Travenues

19)   12.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 10 – Legal and Ethical Steps – Productive Entrepreneurship and StartUp

20)   12.05.2020 – NPTEL – 5G A Catalyst to Digital Twin Technology In Manufacturing Industry By Mr/ Anwar Athar Khan, Senior Director, Capgemini.

21)   13.05.2020 –  IIC On line Session 11 – Innovating Self Screen and Identify Right Opportunities

22)   13.05.2020 – Webinar –  Samgacchadhwam Series – Network Security and Application Security

23)    14.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 12 – Understanding Role and Application of Marketing Research at Idea to Startup Stage – Foundation Level 1 of 2 by Dr. Preet Deep Singh, AVP, Invest India

24)   15.05.2020-20.05.2020 – Six Days FDP – “Green Manufacturing – the Present and Future – Organized by Santhiram Engineering College, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh

25)    15.05.2020– IIC Online Session 13 – Innovation Risk Diagnostic – Product Innovation Rubric (PIR)

26)   16.05.2020 – NPTEL Special Lecture Series – Innovative Idea Generation using Design Thinking by Mr. Dilip Purohit, Director, Capgemini

27)   18.05.2020 – Webinar – Grapheme The Future Material – Organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engg., Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore

28)    19.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 14 – Idea, Entrepreneurship Opportunities Business Model and Business Plan

29)   20.05.2020 – Webinar – Gain a Competitive Edge with Funding Insights, Discovery and Decisions through SCOPUS – Elsevier’s Research Intelligence

30)   20.05.2020 and 21.05.2020 – FDP – Migration of IT Infra Using Cloud by Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology

31)   19.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 15 – Use of Market Data, Application of Marketing Research Tools and Methodology

32)   21.05.2020 – Webinar – “RHEL8- driving force of DevOps”, By Mr.Nived velayudhan,RHCI-level2, from Redhat-India, arranged by Sambhram Institute of Technology, Bangalore and IETE Bangalore chapter

33)   21.05.2020 –  NFAEMS  – Webinar on Engineering Simulation for Aerospace and Defence Domains

34)   19.05.2020 – IIC On line Session 16 – Frugal Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship

35)   22.05.2020 and 23.05.2020 – FDP – IoT and Cyber Security – an Industry Perspective –  Organized by Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore

36)    22.05.2020 – IIC Online Session 17 -Interaction with Student Innovators and Entrepreneurs Emerged from Smart India Hackathon (SIH)

37)   22.05.2020 to 26.05.2020 – One Week FDP – Artificial Intelligence Organized by  and Brain O’Vision

38)   23.05.2020 – Webinar – Machine Learning – Organized by Narayana Engineering College, Gudur

39)   26.05.2020 – Webinar – “Technology platforms to harness true potential of 5G”, By Mr.A.T.Kishore.CEO of VidyaSangha technologies pvt.ltd.,  arranged by Sambhram Institute of Technology, Bangalore and IETE Bangalore chapter

40)   26.05.2020 – Webinar – “IOT STACK-END TO END SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS” –  Organized by Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore

41)   28.05.2020 – Webinar – “5G Technology and Its Applications” – Organized by Vasavi Institute of Technology

42)   28.05.2020 – Webinar – “Deep Learning Model Deployment with Open VINO Toolkit for Computer Vision Applications” – .,  arranged by Sambhram Institute of Technology, Bangalore and IETE Bangalore chapter

43)   28.05.2020 –  “Making an Effective Research Proposal – The Winning Way” – Organized by  Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

44)   03.06.2020 – Webinar – “Applications of IoT”

Publication

  • Journal Publications:

    1. Josephine Prem Kumar (2007), ‘Entrusted to Excel’, Campus Link, Jan-Feb 2003, pp. 14.
    2. Jawahar and Josephine Prem Kumar (2007), ‘Software Applications in Surface Representation’, Bulletin of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Vol. No. 6, Serial No. 4, April-June 2007, pp.13-24 & 55.
    3. Josephine Prem Kumar (2007), ‘Adversity’, Campus Link, Nov-Dec 2007, pp. 20-21.
    4. Josephine Prem Kumar (2008), ‘Meshing Algorithms For Surface Representation’, International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISSN 0973-4864), Pentagram Research Centre (P) Limited, Jan 2008, pp. 54-61.
    5. Josephine Prem Kumar, D. Jawahar, Dr. K.V. Ramakrishnan (2008), ‘Application of Finite Element Methods in Surface Representation’, Civil Engineering and Construction Review, Computer Software Special, March 2008, pp. 28-35.
    6. Josephine Prem Kumar, D. Jawahar, Dr. K.V. Ramakrishnan (2008), ‘Models for Surface Representation’, Bulletin of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), No. 7, Serial No. 4, April-June 2008, pp. 41-44 & 47-51.
    7. Josephine Prem Kumar, D. Jawahar, Dr. K.V. Ramakrishnan (2008), ‘Improved Models for Surface Representation’, accepted for publication in Civil Engineering and Construction Review, in the first half of 2009.
    8. Josephine Prem Kumar, D. Jawahar, Dr. K.V. Ramakrishnan (2009), ‘Enhanced Models for Terrain Modelling’, International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISSN 0973-4864), Pentagram Research Centre (P) Limited, Jan 2009, pp. 42-48.
    9. Ganashree T.S., Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar (2014), ‘A Prototype Modelling of EBERS for Video Transmission in Wireless Adhoc Network’, Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Global Journals Inc. (USA), Volume 14, Issue 8.
    10. Ganashree T.S., Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar (2014), ‘Estimation based Error Reduction Scheme (EBERS) for Scalable HEVC to Support Real Time Video Communication in Wireless AD-HOC Networks’, International Journal of Emerging Science and Engineering (IJESE), ISSN: 2319-6378 (Online), Volume 3, Issue 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 30-38.
    11. Graceline Abigail P., Josephine Prem Kumar (2016), ‘Study of Content Based Image Retrieval Techniques’, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, ISSN: 2277 128X, Volume 6, Issue 2, Feb. 2016, pp. 543-548
    12. Nanda P, Josephine Prem Kumar (2016), ‘A Survey on QOS Improvement in Wireless Mesh Network’, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering™ (IJITEE)’, ISSN: 2278-3075 (Online), Volume-5 Issue 11, April 2016, Page No.:27-29.
    13. Nanda P, Josephine Prem Kumar (2016), ‘Aggregating Mesh Network to Increase Throughput in Collision Rate and Reduce Energy Consumption”, International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology, ISSN: 2231-2803, Volume 39, Number 1, September 2016.
    14. Nanda P, Josephine Prem Kumar (2016), ‘Safe and Protected Data Propagate in Wireless Mesh Network’, International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Engineering, IJITC, E-ISSN 2455-5290, Volume No. 1, Issue No. 5, September 2016.
    15. Mathiyalagan R , Saravana Balaji B , Josephine P (2019), ‘An Efficient Routing and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attack Detection Technique for Centralized Control Plane’, International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology. ISSN 0974-3154, Volume 12, Number 1 (2019), pp. 124-130 © International Research Publication House. http://www.irphouse.com, Jan 2019.

     

     

  • National / International Conference Papers Presented:

    1. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘3D Visualization’, Proceedings of the National Conference on “Recent Trends in Information Technology”, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 2-3, 2005.
    2. a) Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Meshing Algorithms for Surface Representation’, Souvenir – 19th National Convention of Aerospace Engineers, Jaipur, Nov 19-20, 2005, Technical Session III – S.No. 1.
    3. b) Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Meshing Algorithms for Surface Representation’, Proceedings of the National Seminar on “Indian Aerospace Engineering Perspective – 2020” at the 19th National Convention of Aerospace Engineers, Institution of Engineers (India), Rajasthan State Centre, Jaipur, Nov 19-20, PP Technical Session III – S.No. 1, 2005.
    4. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Meshing Algorithms and Data Structures’, Proceedings of the National Conference on “Advanced Multimedia Processing & Applications, NAMA-2005”, V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Oct 28-29, PP 49-59, 2005.
    5. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Meshing Algorithms & Data Structures For Surface Representation’. Paper presented and published in the Conference Proceedings of ICSCI 2006, “International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Hyderabad, India”, Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, Jan 04-08, 2006, Volume 1 of 2,PP 896-901.
    6. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Computer Applications in Terrain Modeling’, Seminar Document of National Seminar & Exhibition REDECON 2007 – Recent Developments in Design & Construction Technologies, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Bangalore Centre, January 18-20, PP 200-213, 2007.
    7. Josephine Prem Kumar, D. Jawahar, Dr. K.V. Ramakrishnan, ‘Analysis of models in Terrain Modelling’, Conference Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics Communication Engineering and Information Technology (NACTECIT – 2008), Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Aug 26-27, 2008.
    8. Ganashree T.S., Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Algebraic Code-Excited Linear Predictive Coding Mechanism for 3GPP Codec’, International Conference on Recent Trends in Signal Processing, Image Processing & VLSI, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Feb 21-22, 2014.
    9. Nanda, Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘Optimal Gateway Placement in Mesh Network using Artificial Fish Swarm Technique’, International Conference on Communication and Computing, Computer Networks and Security, ICC 2014, Bangalore, June 12-14, 2014, pp. 439-445.
    10. Ganashree T.S., Dr. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘A Comparative Study on Different MPEG Standards’, Fifth National Conference on Information Sciences – NCIS 2014, School of Information Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Sept. 26-27, 2014.
    11. Josephine Prem Kumar, ‘An Approach for Fast Retrieval of Images by Deploying CBIR on Cloud’, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing (EECCMC) – 2018, catalog “CFP18037-PRI:978-1-5386-4303-7”, Priyadarshini Engineering College, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, Jan 28-29, 2018.

Seminars conducted

  1. ‘CDMA’ at the Workshop on ‘Trends in Global Communication’, conducted by the Telecommunication Dept., MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore on 26th April, 2005.
  2. “Insertion Algorithm” at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore in Nov. 2005.
  3. “Divide and Conquer Algorithm” at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore in Feb. 2006.
  4.  “Different Data Structures being used to represent surfaces” at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore in June 2006.
  5. “The Digital Surface Model” in Oct 2006 at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  6. “Surface Computations – Area, Shortest Distance, Volumetrics” in Jan 2007 at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  7. “Surface Computations – Visibility, Interpolation, Runoff calculation” in March 2007 at Infycons Creative Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  8. “Meshing Algorithms” at East Point College of Engineering for Women, Bangalore in June 2016.
  9. “How to do research” at the Faculty Development Program conducted by the Dept. of Information Science and Engg., East Point College of Engg. And Tech., Bangalore in January 2017.
  10. Keynote address on “Be Bold For Change” at the Women’s Day celebration at ITI Ltd., Bangalore Complex on 8th March, 2017.
  11. “Basics of Computer Graphics”, First Year Orientation Programme, Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 12th Aug. 2019.
  12. “Cryptography”, First Year Orientation Programme, Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 13th Aug. 2019.
  13. Resource person for Two-week webinar on ‘Data Analytics Using Python’ at Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore from 1st to 16th July 2020.
  14. Keynote address in two phases of AICTE Sponsored 6 Days Online STTP on “Python and Mobile Application Development” – September 2020 organized by Department of Information Science and Engineering, HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore.
  15. Review Committee Member in the Two-day National E-Conference on New Advances in Computing and Communication Technology-2021, 12-12 July 2021
  16. Session Chair in the Two-day National E-Conference on New Advances in Computing and Communication Technology-2021, 12-12 July 2021
  17.  Evaluation of Projects presented in Innovative Project Expo ’21 on 6th August 2021
  18. NEP 2020 – Multidisciplinary Approach on 25-11-2021 – Speaker
  19. Keynote address in Virtual FDP on Academic Research held between 28th to 30th April 2022 organized by HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore
  20. Boot Camp for Programming Tenacity in C – Workshop – Resource Person
  21. Web Development – Skill Lab – Resource Person
  22. Session Chair in the Two-days National Conference on “Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology” held on 17-18 June 2022 and INTUIT ’22 held on 20th June 2022

Training Undergone

  1. Training course on ‘Voice Switch’ in May 1989.
  2. Programme on ‘Quality tools and techniques’ conducted by ISI from 03.08.92 to 06.08.92.
  3. Training programme  ‘Introduction to OCB-283-33101’ at Delhi in July  ’93, by CIT ALCATEL
  4. Training programme  ‘CSN Final testing   and Diagnostics’ at CIT ALCATEL, France from 14.02.94 to 29.04.94.
  5. Training programme on ‘Software Engineering and Application Programming’ at IISc., Bangalore from 17th to 30th November ’94.
  6. Two day training programme on  ‘Synchronous Digital Hierarchy’ conducted by HP in Aug 98.
  7. Three days’ training programme on ‘ISDN Technology’ conducted by HP in June 99.
  8. Three days’ training programme on ‘WLL- CDMA’ conducted by HP in July 99.
  9. Three days’ training programme on ‘Understanding CDMA’ conducted by Lucent Technologies in June 2000.
  10. Two days’ training programme on ‘Flexent / Autoplex – Wireless Networks System Overview’ conducted by Lucent Technologies in June 2000.
  11. Three days’ training programme on ‘CSN-MM Detailed Description’ conducted by CIT, Alcatel, France in July 2000.
  12. Three days ISO 9000 Internal Auditors Training in Dec 2000.
  13. One day training programme on ISO 9000 – 2000 version for Internal Auditors in Oct 2001.
  14. Two days programme “Internal Audit of Quality Systems” conducted by ITI-T&D in Jan, 2004.
  15. “Software Engineering and Project Management” by Mr. D.N. Sheshadri, Bangalore from 11th to 13th Feb, 2004.
  16. “Finance for Non-Finance Executives” conducted by ITI-T&D from 24th to 26th Feb, 2004.
  17. “Quality Control and Management” conducted by ISTE from 16th to 27th Aug. 2004.
  18. ‘Faculty Development Programme’, East Point Group of Institutions, Bangalore, from 12th to 16th July, 2010.
  19. “Cloud Computing and Big Data”, VTU-VGST sponsored Faculty Development Programme, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore, from 15th to 18th July, 2013.
  20. “Cyber Security and Forensics”, Faculty Development Programme organized by the Departments of Computer Science & Engg. and Information Science & Engg., HKBK College of Engg., Bengaluru in association with mPower IT Solutions, Bengaluru on 9th and 10th January 2018.
  21. “Data Science and IOT Applications”, Faculty Development Programme organized by the Department of Information Science & Engg., East Point College of Engg. and Technology, Bengaluru from 28th and 30th January 2019. 
  22. One day Workshop on “Information Security” conducted by the Department of Computer Science and Engg., East Point College of Engg. and Technology, Bengaluru on 22nd March 2019.
  23. Two days Workshop on “Embedded Systems using ARM-7” organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engg., East Point College of Engg. and Technology, Bengaluru in association with Jyoti Embedded Labs on 15th and 16th April 2019.
  24. Five days Faculty Development Programme on “TLP and NLP” at Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore held from 20th to 26th July 2019.
  25. All India Council for Technical Education Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored One Week FDP on “Cyber Security” from 9th to 13th December 2019.
  26. Five Days FDP on “Insights into Modern Technologies on Teaching Learning Processes” held from 27 to 31st Jan 2020.
  27. Two Weeks Online Summer FDP Courses 2020 on “Data Science for All” from 27 July 2020 to 07 August 2020 conducted by Electronics and ICT Academy @ NIT Warangal, the conducting institutes being NIT Warangal, IIIT Jabalpur and participating institute is NIT Patna.
  28. Technical Training on Deep Learning and AI conducted by IETE-Mumbai.
  29.  Attended several webinars, IIC Online Sessions, NTPEL Live Sessions, FDPs, STTPs and All India Council for Technical Education Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored FDP by different colleges on various topics in AI, Data Science, Deep Learning, 5th Generation Technology, etc.
  30. Bootcamp on Python and Data Visualization conducted by Shape AI, Microsoft Learn, from 14 to 20th April 2021.
  31. PyImageSearch University Certification – Object Detection 101 – Easy Object Detection – May 2021.
  32. PyImageSearch University Certification – Object Detection 201- Fundamentals of Deep Learning Object Detection – May 2021.
  33. PyImageSearch University Certification – Object Detection 202 – Bounding Box Regression – May 2021.