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Mrs. Poornima N 

Designation: Assistant Professor

Area of specialization: Machine Learning 

Date of Joining BNMIT: 16/09/2021

Nature of Association (Regular/Contractual/Adjunct) : Regular

E-mail Id : poorniman@bnmit.in

No. of years of Experience: 11 Years 09 Months

Qualification

DegreeInstitutionMonth & Year of Passing% of marks obtained
Ph.DVTUPursuing
M. Tech.CMR Institute of TechnologyNovember, 201374.83%
B. E.Jnana Vikas Institute of TechnologySeptember, 201177.32%

Experience: 11 Years 09 Months

SI. No.DesignationInstitutionDuration
1Assistant ProfessorBNM Institute of technology16-09-2021 to Till Date
2Assistant ProfessorVidyavardhaka College of Engineering14-07-2014 to 30-04-2021

Awards and Achievements :

  • Member of BoE at department level, BNMIT for the academic year 2024-2025
  • Member of BoS at department level, BNMIT for the academic year 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
  • Internal Judge for Internship Hackathon on 22nd October 2022, BNMIT, Bengaluru
  • Appreciation for being an Evaluator for Design and Thinking Activities conducted on 7th April, 2022 for 1st semester students, BNMIT, Bengaluru.
  • Letter/Certificate of Appreciation from Principle/ HOD, VVCE for being a resource in
  • Coding Boot Camp on “Problem Solving using C”, 15th -19th February 2021.
  • Five Day FDP on “e-Tools for Online Teaching”, 20th -24th July 2020.
  • One day FDP on “Pedagogical Training”, 8th September 2018.
  • Five day FDP on “Mobile Application Development” for both In-house and External participants, 22nd-26th January 2018.
  • Workshop on “Android Application Development”, 25th-28th October 2017.
  • Workshop on “Wipro-Mission10x Technology Learning Platform- UTLP Practitioner”, 20th-22nd January 2016.
  • Letter/Certificate of Appreciation from Principle/ HOD, VVCE for being a faculty coordinator in
  • FDP on “Advances in IoT” Conducted under Wing, 1st -5th March 2021.
  • Coding Contest conducted by code club, 27th February 2019.
  • “Symposium on Networking” Conducted under Wing, 30th April 2018.
  • FDP on “5G Network & Research Challenges in Networking”, 15th-19th January 2018.
  • Actively involved in organizing the one-week FDP on “Pedagogical training” 13th – 18th August 2018.
  • Letter of appreciation from Principal, VVCE for contributing in setting up the Engineering Exploration Lab under Autonomous Scheme 2020-21
  • Consistent results of  100% in most of the subjects taught

 Invited Talks Delivered: 

  • Nil

Academic Positions and other Responsibilities (University Level):

  • External Lab Examiner for B.E. Lab examination @ Dayanand Sagar Collage of Engineering on 03/12/2025.
  • Moderator for B.E. Examinations conducted @ BMSCE on 11/09/2025.
  • Moderator for B.E. Examinations @ GAT on 02/03/2023
  • Question paper setter
  • External Examiner for M. Tech Lab Examination-Mini Project/Internship @UVCE, Bengaluru on 12/02/2022

College Level

  1. Member of Test Coordination ( Internals Assessment) @ BNMIT for the academic year 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.
  2. Member of Cultural & Nature Club and Sport Coordinator Coordinator, BNMIT, Bengaluru.
  3. Member of Teaching Learning Group/ Innovation Club, Publicity and Exhibition Committee, Function Committee, E-Cell Committee at Institute level.
  4. Resident Warden at Vidyavardhaka Girls Hostel for 6.9 years.

Department Level

  1. Test & Website Coordinator, BNMIT, Bengaluru.
  2. 3rd Sem Internship Coordinator , BNMIT, Bengaluru
  3. NBA Critereon-7 Head (@Departmel Level), BNMIT, Bengaluru.
  4. Counsellor for 2022 and 2025 batch students.
  5. Accommodate with students during SIH Project presentation @ LPU, Punjab, 2022 ( Department Level Co-ordination)
  6. CMS Coordinator,  BNMIT, Bengaluru

Reviewer at National/International Conference/Seminars:

  • Mrs. Poornima N served as a Reviewer for the First Global Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (ISTE Global TechCon 2026), organized by ISTE in association with D. Y. Patil Agriculture and Technical University, Talsande, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. 
  • Served as a Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Innovating Technologies in Computing, Electrical, and Electronics, organized by BNM Institute of Technology, held on 22–23 January 2026.

Session Chair/ Judge:

  • Internal Judge for Internship Hackathon on 22nd October 2022, BNMIT, Bengaluru
  • served as a Judge for the Innovation and Design Thinking Activities held on 05-04-2022.

Professional Memberships:

  • Life time member of ISTE
Expertise / list of Subjects handled

Expertise   Design and Analysis of Algorithms  Data Structures and its Application 

List of subjects handled                             

UG :

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Programming in C and Data Structures, Data Structures and its Applications,                             
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematical Structures, Object                            
  • Oriented Modeling and Design, Software Testing, Operating System.  
  • Automata Theory and Computation

 PG:

  • Multi-Core Architecture and Programming,
  • Advances in Computer Network,     
  • Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, Machine Learning. 

Research Interest:

Machine Learning, Algorithms, Natural Language Processing 

 Projected Guided:

  • The Student Project titled “A Decentralized Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous City-Wide Disaster Response” got shortlisted for UIP Y17 (Project Theme: Agents Unleashed) and received participation certificate for the academic Year 2025-2026.
  • The student project titled “AI-Powered Pharmacogenomic Risk Prediction for Precision Medicine” secured First Place and the Best Project Award, along with a cash prize of ₹8,000, at the National Conference on Emerging Trends and Technologies – 2026 held at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering.
  • The Student Project titled “ AT-powered comic generation system integrating GPT-4” got shortlisted and presented @ UIP Y16 (Unisys Innovation Program Themes) for the academic Year 2024-2025.
  • The Student Project titled “Green Credit Management System” got shortlisted for UIP Y16 (Unisys Innovation Program Themes) and received participation certificate for the academic Year 2024-2025.

Funding received:

Title: “AI BASED SMART IRRIGATION AND CROP DISEASES DETECTION” 

Funding Agency: Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), Karnataka, India 

Amount: 4 thousand  

Duration:  05 months 

Patents / Copyright:

Patent Title:

AI-Based Device for Chemical Reaction Monitoring and Safety Control

Patent Number:

486501-001

Type:

Design Patent

Filing Date:

16-12-2025

Published Date:

07-01-2026

Grant Date:

07-05-2026

Journal:

  • “Identification of Diseases in Tea Crops using a Computational Convolutional Neural Network Model for Enhanced Crop Production”, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE DIGEST – A Research Journal of Agriculture, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, 16, March,2026 (doi18805/ag.DF-714)
  • “Automatic Detection of Crop Diseases and Smart Irrigation using IOT and Image processing”, Springer, 03, Feb 2021 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9651-3_31) 
  • “Electroencephalography Based Brain Computer Interface”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (IJAST), ISSN: 2005-4238, Volume: 29, No. 3, (2020), pp. 13970 – 13979 
  • “Survey on Face Recognition using Neural Networks”, International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET), ISSN: 2321-9653,Volume 8 Issue IX Sep 2020- (DOI:  https://doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2020.31522
  • “Survey on ML Algorithms for Medical Guidance System”, International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT), ISSN No:-2456-2165, Volume 4, Issue 3, March – 2019 
  • “Low-Cost Process Sharing in Android Based Mobile Environment”, Journal of Android, IOS Development and Testing, MANTECH Publications, Volume 3, Issue 2, August 2018 
  • “Secure Network Discovery for Risk-Aware Framework in MANET”, the International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR),e-ISSN: 2278-0661,p- ISSN: 2278-8727, Volume 12, Issue 4(Jul. – Aug. 2013) (DOI: 10.9790/0661-1247983) 

Conference:

International Conference: 
  • “Automatic Detection of Crop Diseases and Smart Irrigation using IOT and Image processing”, proceedings of  the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Data Communication Technologies and Application(ICIDCA-2020), 03-04, September 2020. 
  • “Smart Irrigation and Crop Disease Detection using Machine Learning”, 2nd International Conference on Computer Networks, Big Data and IoT (ICCBI-2019), 19-20, December 2019. 
  • “Applications and Technology in IoT”, International Conference On Emerging Trends in Computing, Electrical and Electronics (ICETCEE- 2019),17, March 2019. 
National Conference: 
  1. “Secure Network Discovery for Risk-Aware Framework in MANET”, National Conference on Decision Science and Big Data (NCDSBD-13), 30th April 2013. 

Book / Book Chapters:

  • NIL 

 

Hobbies:

  • Pencil Sketch
  • Listening to Music
  • Art and Craft 

Sports :

  • NIL  

Music:

  • NIL  

Any other things: 

  • Actively participated in the events organized under BNMIT Clubs like Nature Club, Cultural Club, Sports Club and Blood donation camp. 
  • Actively participated in all events conducted as a part of Women’s day celebration and won prize.  
  • Actively participated in events conducted during Vidyuth (VVCE college fest)- Blood Donation Camp, Marathon and Yoga.