Invited Talks Delivered

• Prof. Pankaja R. delivered a technical session on “Advanced Decentralized Applications and Smart Contracts” at Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, on 22 April 2026. The session provided participants with insights into decentralized application development, blockchain architecture and smart-contract technologies.
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship outreach program in schools/Community, 29th August 2025
• Delivered session on “Cyber security & it’s applications” in Government of Karnataka department of technical education, Bengaluru, on 17th FEB 2020.
• Delivered session on “Network Simulation- NS2” in Atria Institute of technology , Bengaluru, on 21st AUG 2019

Academic Positions and other Responsibilities (Institute and Department Level)

• Internship and Seminar Coordinator.
• IA Coordinator
• Class Teacher
• Library Coordinator
• Department level Class Teacher, Counsellor
• Department NBA coordinator
• Newsletter Coordinator
• Internship and Seminar Coordinator.
• Paper Setter
• Lab Examiner

Academic Positions and other Responsibilities (University Level): –

• External QP Setter for B.E. examination conducted at REVA University on 21/04/2026
• External QP Setter for B.E. examination conducted at DSCE on 21/04/2026
• External Lab Examiner for B.E. Lab examination at MSRUAS on 07/07/2025.
• External QP Setter for B.E. examination conducted at BMSCE on May-June 2025.
• Moderator for B.E. Examinations conducted at BMSCE on Augst 2025.

Reviewer at National/International Conference/Seminars

• Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Innovating Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics, organized by the BNM Institute of Technology to be held on 22-23 January 2026.
• Member of the reviewer committee in the 1st International Conference on networked computing and data analytics (ICNCDA-2025) held on 23 and 24 May 2025 at Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
• Contributed as a reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on communications and computer science-2024

Professional Memberships

Memberships – LMISTE, AMIE

Editorial/Technical/Reviewer:

• Contributed as a reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on communications and computer science-2024

Expertise 

Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Data warehouse, Operating System, Computer Networks, Computer Organization, Simulation and System Modeling, Adhoc Networks, Object Oriented Programming, Software Engineering, Web Applications and its Technologies, Data Mining and Data warehouse, DBMS.

Research Interest 

• NIL

Patents / Copyright:

• Patent titled “AI-Based Device for Chemical Reaction Monitoring and Safety Control”, bearing Patent Number 486501-001. The patent was filed on 16 December 2025, published on 7 January 2026, and granted on 7 May 2026.
• Filed Indian patent on “IOT BASED BLOOD TRANSFUSION WARMER” with patent number 412511-001

Journal

• R Pankaja “A Hybrid CNN-BiLSTM Model for Minimizing Packet Loss in IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Information and Engineering Technology Association, Vol. 30, No. 6, June, 2025, pp. 1483-1490.
• Performance Analysis of Text Classification Algorithms using Confusion Matrix, International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR), 2016/12,6,4, pp- 2454-4698 2.
• IoT Protocols To Manage And Secure Data For The Technological Revolution Springer Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering System, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7868-2_33, volume 668, Print ISBN 978-981-10-7867- 5Pages335-347.
•  “Analysis of Routing Protocols for VANET Using Real City Map Scenarios” International Conference on Current Trends in Advanced Computing, Feb 2014.
•  “On Minimizing Data Delivery Delay in Duty Cycling Wireless Sensor Networks” International Conference on Current Trends in Advanced Computing, Feb 2014.

Conference

• Dr. Sunitha R, Pankaja R, Pavithra H C, Abhilasha P Kumar published a paper “AI-Powered Product Image Optimization” at the Second IEEE International Conference on “New Frontiers in Communication, Automation, Management and Security” organized by SoCSE & IS, Presidency th th University, Bengaluru, held on 11 & 12 July 2025.
• “Skin Cancer Diagnosis using Image Processing and Xception-CNN Model” 2024 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications (ICMNWC), IEEE DOI: 10.1109/ICMNWC63764.2024.10872101
• “AirQ with TGNN: Air Quality Prediction and Carbon Credit Management Using AI” 2025 International Conference on Computing Technologies (ICOCT) Bangalore, India. Jun 13-14, 2025. IEEE – DOI: 10.1109/ICOCT64433.2025.11118648.

Hobbies:

• Reading books

Sports

• Shuttle badminton