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Sheba Selvam
Designation : Professor
Area of specialization : Social Media Retrieval
Date of Joining BNMIT : 5th October 2020
Nature of Association (Regular/Contractual/Adjunct) : Regular
E-mail Id : shebaselvam@bnmit.in
No. of years of Experience : 17 Years
Qualification
Degree | Institution | Month & Year of Passing | % of marks obtained |
Ph.D | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli | Mar 2017 | |
M.E (CSE) | Anna University | 2007 | 82% |
B.Tech [Hons] (Information Technology) | SASTRA University, Tanjore, | 2005 | CGPA 7.93 |
Experience
- Total Experience: 17 years
SI. No. | Designation | Institution | Duration | Experience |
1 | Professor & Head Dept. of AIML | BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India | 30 March 2023 – Till date | |
2 | Professor | BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India | 1 Sep 2022 – 29 March 2023 | 6 months |
3 | Associate Professor | BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India | 5 Oct 2020 – 31 Aug 2022 | 1 Years and 7 months |
4 | Associate Professor | RajaRajeswari College of Engineering, Bangalore | 2 Aug 2017 to 29 Sep 2020 | 3 Years and 1 month |
5 | Full time Research Scholar | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT) | 11 Aug 2010 to 16 Mar 2017 | 6 years 7 months |
6 | Assistant Professor | M.A.M. College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli | 11th June 2008 to 10th August 2010 | 2 Years 2 Months |
Invited Talks/ Technical Sessions Chaired
- Resource person for National seminar on “AI & It’s Everyday Use – Leveraging Free AI Tools”, organized by Dr. MGR-Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women on 26th Sep 2024.
- Resource person for National Level Virtual FDP on “Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning” conducted by East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore from 26th March to 1st April 2022.
- As Jury in Internal Hackathon for “Smart India Hackathon, 2020”, RRCE, Bangalore.
- Reviewer for International Conference on “Data Science and Computational Security” (IDSCS 2020), CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus, in association with Springer on 13-14 March 2020.
- Reviewer for International Conference on “Data Science and Communication” (IconDSC’19), CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore on 1-2 March 2019
- Session chair for International Conference on “Recent Trends in Computational Engineering and Technologies” (ICTRCET’18) in association with IEEE Bengaluru Section, on 17th & 18th May 2018, RRCE, Bangalore
Academic Positions and other Responsibilities University Level
- UG Practical Examiner
- PG Project External Examiner
- Deputy Chief Superintendent (External)
- Board of Examinations for CSE dept, in Raja Rajeswari College of Engineering for the years 2024, 2025
- Board of Studies member for AIML dept in Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering 2024, Bangalore
- Board of Examinations for AIML dept, in BNMIT for the years 2023, 2024, 2025
- SPOC KAVACH 2023 Cyber Security Hackathon
- Question Paper Setter – VTU and Other universities
College Level
- Anti-Ragging Committee
Department Level
- BoE Chairperson
- BoS Chairperson
- BoS Member Secretary
- Counsellor
- NBA Coordinator
- IQAC Coordinator
- Timetable Coordinator
- Event Coordinator
- FDP Coordinator
- Institution Innovation Council (IIC) Coordinator
Professional Memberships
- Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
- Life Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
Awards and Achievements
- Dr. Sheba Selvam has received appreciation for the commitment to excellence in contribution and mentorship support in delivering the outcome for the project “Powertool Finder” from Bosch Global Software Technologies on 7th February 2025
- Received appreciation from the management for securing 97.32%, 97.24%, in the self-appraisal for the academic year 2023-2024 and 2022-2023 respectively
- Appreciation Received· Received appreciation from the management for securing 93.7% and 94.3% in the self-appraisal for the academic year 2021-2022 and 2020-2021 respectively.
- Received Honours in B.Tech
Editorial/Technical/Reviewer:
- Reviewer for 3rd International Conference on “Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics”, 16th Jan 2025, BNMIT Bangalore
- Reviewer for “International Conference on Computing and Intelligent Information Systems” organized by Departments of ISE, CSE & AIML, BNMIT Bengaluru during 19th & 20th April 2024.
- Reviewer for 2nd International Conference on “Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical and Electronics”, 24th Jan 2024, BNMIT Bangalore
- Reviewer for International Conference on “Data Science and Computational Security” (IDSCS 2020), CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus, in association with Springer on 13-14 March 2020.
- Reviewer for International Conference on “Data Science and Communication” (IconDSC’19), CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore on 1-2 March 2019
Session Chair/ Judge:
- Session chair for 3rd International Conference on “Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical and Electronics”, 16th Jan 2025, BNMIT Bangalore
- General Chair for “International Conference on Computing and Intelligent Information Systems” organized by Departments of ISE, CSE & AIML, BNMIT Bengaluru during 19th & 20th April 2024.
- Session chair for International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Communications 15th March 2024, CHRIST Deemed to be University, Bangalore
- Session chair for 2nd International Conference on “Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical and Electronics”, 24th Jan 2024, BNMIT Bangalore
- As Jury in Internal Hackathon for “Smart India Hackathon, 2020”, RRCE, Bangalore.
- Session chair for International Conference on “Recent Trends in Computational Engineering and Technologies” (ICTRCET’18) in association with IEEE Bengaluru Section, on 17th & 18th May 2018, RRCE, Bangalore
Recognized Research Guide/Supervisor under VTU: YES
Expertise / list of Subjects handled
Under Graduate
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Python Application Programming
- Internet of Things
- Operating System
- Database Management Systems
- Computer Organization
- Data Communication
- Computer Networks
- System Modelling and Simulation
Post Graduate
- Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Advanced Database Management Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
Courses Completed
- Successfully Completed NPTEL Course on “Foundation of Cloud IoT Edge ML” during the Jan-Apr 2023 exams and secured certificate of Elite + Silver.
- Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Learn Machine Learning algorithms, software, deep Learning” Jan 2022
- Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming” Jan 2021
- Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Machine Learning Course with Python” May 2021
- Successfully Completed NPTEL Course on “Foundation of Cloud IoT Edge ML” during the Jan-Apr 2023 exams and secured certificate of Elite + Silver.
- Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Learn Machine Learning algorithms, software, deep Learning” Jan 2022
- Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming” Jan 2021
· Successfully Completed Udemy Course on “Machine Learning Course with Python” May 2021
Research Interest
- Medical Image Processing
- Social media retrieval
- Semantic Web
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Sentiment Analysis
- Ontological Modelling.
Funding received:
- Received 10,000$ from IBM for “Watsonx Faculty Award” 2024
- Received 3 Lakhs fund from VTU TEQIP 1.3 for 5-day Training programme on “Outcome Based Education and NBA Accreditation.”
- Received Rs 5000/- cash prize in Prototype Exhibition 2020 organized by our RR Institution Innovation Council (RRIIC) on 6th August 2020 in virtual platform.
- Received Rs 5000/- cash prize from VTU Belagavi for Innovative Project Work
Product Development
- Dr. Sheba Selvam Completed the development of “Plant Simulator” under NewGenIEDC sponsored by NSTED, DST in 2022-23 with funding of Rs. 2,50,000
- Dr. Sheba Selvam Completed the development of “Fire Drill Simulator” under NewGenIEDC sponsored by NSTED, DST in 2022-23 with funding of Rs. 2,50,000
- Dr. Sheba Selvam Completed the development of “Three-Phase Induction Motor” under NewGenIEDC sponsored by NSTED, DST in 2022-23 with funding of Rs. 5,00,000
Patents / Copyright:
- “Hologram Based VirtualZoo”, Application No: 202441055753, Published Date: 22/07/2024
- Intelligent Loitering Detection System”, Application No: 202441055752, Published Date: 22/07/2024
- “BEAD- Mental Health Analyzer”, Registration No. SW-19234/2024 Date: 08/05/2024
- “FakeOut: Revolutionizing Currency Security”, Registration No. SW-19322/2024 Date: 04/07/2024
- “Natural Language Processing Technique (NLP) Assisted Walking Navigation Device for Visually Impaired”, Design No. 402749-001, Published Date: 21/12/2023
- “Smart Spectacle with Bluetooth Speaker”, Design No. 383391-001, Published Date: 08/04/2023
- “Cryptographic Security of Data Transfers In Computer Systems”, Application No.202041005154 A, Publication Date: 14/02/2020
Journal Publications
SCI/SCIE Journals
- Selvam Blessy, Ravimaran S, Sheba Selvam, “Parallelized root cause analysis using cause-related aspect formulation technique (CRAFT)”. The Journal of Supercomputing. 2019 Sep 1; Vol.75, Issue 9, pp. 5914-29. DOI 10.1007/s11227-019-02893-8 ISSN 0920-8542. (SCI)
- Sheba Selvam, B. Ramadoss and S. R. Balasundaram, “Ontology-Based Event Detection Framework for Journalist”, Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Vol. 17, No.6 (2018) 3583-3598 ISSN 1544-5976 (SCI)
- Sheba Selvam, B.Ramadoss and S.R.Balasundaram, “Ontology With Hybrid Clustering Approach for Improving the Retrieval Relevancy in Social Event Detection”, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Volume 14, Issue 4, (2018):33-56 (SCI) DOI: 10.4018/IJSWIS.2018100102
- Sheba Selvam, Ramadoss Balakrishnan, and Balasundaram Sadhu Ramakrishnan, “Social Event Detection–a systematic approach using Ontology and Linked Open Data with Significance to Semantic Links.” International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol 15, no. 4 (2018): 729-738. (SCI).
SCOPUS Journals
- Ramya, K., and Sheba Selvam, “Prediction of COVID-19 pneumonia using Convolution Neural Network (CNN).” Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology (2022): 3585-3600.
- Ramya K, Sheba Selvam, “Automatic Personality Recognition In Interviews Using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)”, Special Education, (2022), vol.1, pp. 43.
- Naveen, J., Sheba Selvam, and Blessy Selvam. “FO-DPSO Algorithm for Segmentation and Detection of Diabetic Mellitus for Ulcers.” International Journal of Image and Graphics, World Scientific (2022): 2240011. (Scopus)
- Monalika Padma Reddy, Sheba Selvam, Meghana AC, Ashwitha NA, “Human Activity Recognition using 3D CNN”, Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12 No. 7 (2021), pp. 12898 – 12908. ISSN 1309-6591
- Gagana S, Sheba Selvam, Priya G, Preethi H, Seema D, “Student Behaviour Detection in Eductation Training Institution”, Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12 No. 7 (2021), pp. 11708 – 11719. ISSN 1309-6591
- Sheba Selvam, Suchithra K, Ranjitha C, Sahana B S and Sangavi S K, “Garbage Detection for Cleanliness Assessment in Urban Areas Using Fast Region Convolutional Neural Networks”, Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020, Vol. 7, No. 14, pp. 1755 – 7496 ISSN: 2394-5125
- Sheba Selvam, Aparna.N, Deepika.V, Bhoomika.K.M, Gunashree.S. “Career recommender system using random forest algorithm”, Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020, Vol. 7, No. 14, pp. 1234-1240 ISSN: 2394-5125
- Sheba Selvam, Megaldon Jasper K, Prashanth N, Preetham M and Manoj V, “Handwritten Digit and Character Recognition Using Neural Networks”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2020, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 7497 – 7507. ISSN 2207-6360.
- Blessy Selvam, S Ravimaran, Sheba Selvam, “Heterogeneous Weighted Voting based Ensemble (HWVE) for Root-Cause Analysis”, Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), 2020 Vol. 13, Issue 4, pp. 63-74. ISSN: 1938-7857. DOI: 10.4018/JITR.2020100105, ISSN: 1943-023X (WoS)
- Blessy Selvam, S Ravimaran, Sheba Selvam, Enhanced Root Cause Analysis using Rule based Aspect Extraction and RNN (RAER)”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 11, 04-Special Issue, 2019. pp. 332-338. (Scopus)
- Sheba Selvam, B. Ramadoss, and S. R. Balasundaram (2015), Geo distance-based event detection in social media. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, Vol. 4(1), pp. 87-101, Inderscience Publisher.
Conference
International Conference
- Shreedevi S Ronihal, Sheba Selvam, Kusuma P, “Enhancing Crop Yield: A Deep Learning Approach to Detect Tomato Leaf Diseases”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics (ICIITCEE2025)”, BNMIT, Bangalore, Karnataka. (Accepted)
- Kusuma P, Sheba Selvam, Shreedevi S Ronihal, “Multiclass deep learning approach using crelu-to enhance the brain tumor identification” 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics (ICIITCEE2025)”, BNMIT, Bangalore, Karnataka. (Accepted)
- Nischala G.S, Sheba Selvam, Divya M.S, Pavan Deshpande, Praveen Kumar, “Cradle- A Simplified Decentralized Finance Platform”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics (ICIITCEE2025)”, BNMIT, Bangalore, Karnataka. (Accepted)
- Aishwarya S, Ayush S, Sourabh B, Selvam S. Facial emotion recognition: A deep learning approach for emotion detection in human faces. Computer Science Engineering. 2024 Dec 20:695-702.
- Rakshan Radhakrishna, Sheba Selvam, Rn Arjun, Riddhi Katarki, “Image-Based Plant Classification and LLM Query Resolution for Ayurvedic Nature”, PROCEEDINGS OF IEEE CONECCT 2024 12 – 14 July, 2024 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 10Th International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies. (Accepted)
- Priyanka Padki, Sheba Selvam, Prediction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Susceptibility Using Gene Mutation Rate, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Communication, Computing and Intelligent Information Systems 2023.
- Mital Tanya, Sheba Selvam, V. Tanisha, Rajdeep Chauhan, and Dewang Goplani. “Abstractive Text Summarization of Biomedical Documents.” In Third Congress on Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of CIS 2022, Volume 2, pp. 581-593. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.
- Tanya Mital, Sheba Selvam, Tanisha V, Rajdeep Chauhan, Dewang Goplani, Abstractive Text Summarization for Biomedical Documents, 3rd Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS) 2022, Springer. (Accepted)
- Vinod Kumar k, Sheba Selvam, Suraj S and Chandra Shekar SS (2019). Prediction of Fine-Grained Air Quality for Pollution Control, International Conference on Innovations in Computing, Automation and Intelligent Information Systems (ICAIIS)
- Gaurav Kumar, Sheba Selvam, Meghana R. salmagundi and Aastha Mishra (2018). Data Noise Reduction and Analysis for Domain based Lead Generation, International Conference on Recent Trends in Computational Engineering and Technologies (ICTRCET’18).
- Rashmi. N, Sheba Selvam, Prathap. R and Sushmitha. M (2018). Threat Modeling for Commercial Website – A Tool based approach using OWASP Standards, International Conference on Recent Trends in Computational Engineering and Technologies (ICTRCET’18)
- Blessy Selvam, S Ravimaran, Sheba Selvam (2018). Hybrid approach for root cause analysis of aspects using online reviews, International Conference on Recent Trends in Computational Engineering and Technologies (ICTRCET’18)
- Sheba Selvam, B. Ramadoss, and S. R. Balasundaram (2015). A Combined Clustering Approach for Social Event Detection in Flickr, 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Systems, RNS Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India, 28-29 December 2015. Proceedings in the International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 10, Number 86 (2015) Special Issues, pp.168-171. (Scopus)
- Sheba Selvam, B. Ramadoss, and S. R. Balasundaram (2013)., In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced
Computing, Networking, and Informatics, Springer, Raipur, India, 12-14 June 2013, Vol. 243, pp. 369-375. (Scopus). Cited by 6.
National Conference
- Presented a paper titled “Face region analysis using Embedding Techniques”, at ACENET ‘06, PSNA College of Engineering & Technology, Dindigul.
- Presented a paper titled “Security for Commercial Grid Environment”, at National Conference on Engineers Meet in Emerging Trends, April 5th 2007, Oxford Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli.
- Presented a paper titled “Voice Security for Grid”, at National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Technologies & Applications, 11th-12th October 2016, Pavendar Barathidasan College of Engineering & Technology, Trichy.
Book Chapter
- Sheba Selvam., Blessy Selvam., Naveen J. (2020) “Root-Cause Analysis Using Ensemble Model for Intelligent Decision-Making”. In: Rout J., Rout M., Das H. (eds) Machine Learning for Intelligent Decision Science. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. First Online 03 April 2020. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-3689-2_5
Book
- Advanced Genetic Algorithms in AI and ML, Scientific International Publishing House, ISBN: 9789356252929
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