Dr. Saritha Chakrasali, Head – Training and Placement

• Received Copyright for the work on “Intelligent Art Transformation using Conditional GANs for Image Classification, Sketch to Image Synthesis and Object Detection”, Registration No SW-19705/2024, awarded on 22/11/2024
• Received a design Patent on FOOD GRAIN IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS. Design No 373108-001 awarded on 19/6/2023.
• Received a grant amount of Rs.20 Lakhs from VGST under K-FIST L1 scheme for the project proposal “GPGPU Computing for computationally complex problems” for the duration of two years (2019-2021).
• Received certificate of Appreciation by M/s Zenken for the tireless effort and valuable role in supporting students and helping ZENKEN INDIA LLP for seamlessly conducting Japanese placement events.
• Invited as Chief Guest for the 11th National Conference on Recent Trends & Advances in the Field of Information Technology on 29th January 2026 organized by Karpagum Academy of Higher Education (Deemed University), Coimbatore.
• Invited to deliver online lecture on the topic “Fortifying the Future with AI, Machine Learning and IoT Security” 250 faculty and researchers in the Refresher Course in Computer Science on 21st November 2023(15th Nov to 28th Nov 2023), organized Dept of CSE, & UGC HRDC of Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai.
• Invited as session speaker to address 250 students, faculty and researchers in the International Seminar on Recent Trends in Computing Intelligence and Industry 4.0 on 24th March 2023, organized by Mannar Thirumalai Nicker College, Madurai.
• Invited as guest speaker to participate and address 200 participants during the program of scholarship distribution to students for Academic Excellence on 19th September 2021 hosted by Kumbara Engineer’s Sangha, Bangalore.
• Invited as guest speaker to address around 180 II PU science students of Soundarya Composite PU College on “Future Prospects in Engineering”, to gain insights in careers in engineering and plan their choice of course, on 8-06-2021.
• Invited by Udayabhanu Unnatha Adyayana Kendra to give the Key Note Address to the students graduating and the next batch of students who enrolled on 9-01-2021.
• Invited as resource person to deliver lecture as part of Distinguished Webinar Series organized by IEEE-BNMIT Student branch in association with IEEE Nanotechnology Council from 27th May to 3rd June 2020
• Invited as resource person to deliver lecture in the Faculty Development Programme on Digital Age Transformation by PG & Research Dept. of Computer Science, Sri Meenakshi Govt. Arts College on 5th & 6th June 2020
• Invited as resource person to deliver lecture at the Webinar on Campus Placement Preparation for students of Chettinad College of Engineering & Technology on 26th June 2020
• Invited to conduct workshop on Basic & advanced algorithms by ACE Hackers at Wipro digital, Bangalore, September 16th and 23rd 2015.

Prashant N Nilugal – Training & Placement Officer

• Awarded Best Teacher – Srijan, RGPV Bhopal (2017)
• 1st Position – Technical Paper Presentation, CDGI, Indore Madhya Pradesh (2014)
• Attended FDPs & Workshops – IIT Bombay & NITTTR Kolkata on Teaching Pedagogy, NBA, and PBL.
• Led VTU zonal cricket team as a captain during BE.

N. Bharathi – Training & Placement Officer

• Over 14 years of experience in Career Development, Corporate Relations, Campus Placements, and Student Employability.