(a) Faculty Achievements

1. The Dept. of ECE has been sanctioned an assistance of Rs. 8.75 lakhs for the modernization of Embedded Systems Lab under the MODROBS scheme of the AICTE, with Prof. C.P. Mrinalini, Professor (ECE) as the Principal Coordinator.
2. The Dept. of CSE has been sanctioned an assistance of Rs. 9.0 lakhs for the modernization of Project Lab under the MODROBS scheme of the AICTE, with Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, Professor (CSE) as the Principal Coordinator.
3. The Institution has been sanctioned an assistance of Rs. 10.0 lakhs by CERD, Trivandrum for setting up of an Innovation Center, with Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, Professor (CSE) as the Principal Coordinator.
4. The Dept. of IT has been sanctioned an assistance of Rs. 30000 for a student project on Wireless Sensor networks, with Sri. Vinayachandran, AP(IT) as the Principal Investigator.
   

Research Projects:

Dr.R. Gopakumar (Asst.Professor, Civil Engineering) has been sanctioned Rs.1.4 Lakhs for his research project on Fuzzy logic based control of Flow on Open channels under the Seed Money Scheme of CERD.

 Extension Lectures by Faculty

• Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj delivered an invited talk on Information Retrieval: Models, Issues, and Trends in the National Seminar on Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval organized by the Dept. of CSE, Vedavyasa Institute of Technology, Karad, Malappuram on 13-12-2011. 
• Dr.K. Najeeb delivered the Keynote address of the Reseacrh symposium on Pervasive Computing and its Underlying Technologies (ReSym-2011)h on the topic " Modern Trends in VLSI Design and Open Source Support', held at Velmmal Engg. College, Chennai during 15-16, Sept. 2011.

• Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj delivered an invited talk on Computational Linguistics: A Gentle Introduction in the MCA Dept, Nehru College of Engg., Pambady on 26-8-2011. 
• Dr.K. Najeeb delivered an invited talk on Python Programming for the staff of Mercy College, Palakkad on Aug-2011. 
• C. Raseek  delivered an invited talk on the topic Introduction Computer Networks, Operating System and Application Software, during the 3- day training programme for college teachers in general informatics at NSS College, Ottapalam on 18-8-2011.
  
• P. Ezudheen  delivered an invited talk on the topic Introduction Computer Networks, Operating System and Application Software, during the 3- day training programme for college teachers in general informatics at NSS College, Ottapalam on 17-8-2011.
  

• Dr.K. Najeeb delivered an invited talk on the current IT Scenario for the staff of Canara Bank, Sreekrishnapuram on 8-7-2011. 
• Dr. K. Najeeb delivered an invited lecture on Python Programming and Perl for BTech CSE students of Nehru Institute of Engineering, Coimbatore on 21 Mar 2011.
• Dr. K. Najeeb handled one day workshop on Python Programming for MSc students at Sree Vyasa NSS College of Engineering, Vadakkanchery  on 23 Mar 2011.
• Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, Professor(CSE) gave a lecture on Technology for Development:Current Trends (Keynote Address),  National Conference at Carmel College,Mala, Thrissur,Nov 2009.
• Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, Professor(CSE) gave a lecture on Trends in Information Retrieval (Keynote Address), Dhruva 2004. Joint Technical Symposium of IETE Palakkad Chapter and IEEE    NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, 2005.
• Dr. P.C. Reghu Raj, Professor(CSE) gave a lecture on  Introduction to Information Retrieval (Inaugural speech), Computer Association, VTB College, Sreekrishnapuram, 2004.

Publications

•  Dr R Gopakumar, and Reena Nair published a paper entitled  "Development of a fuzzy logic based software for automation of a single pool irrigation canal" in the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Engineering Applications' (ICCIEA-2011) at Bhubaneswar (16 Oct 2011) (with Vinuraj R., Sony Davis., Bijeesh V., Jand unil Jacob of 2012 CSE). The paper was presented by Robert Jesuraj (I. MTech, CSE) and was adjudged the Best Content paper.
• The above paper was also adapted to the International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp.38-44, 2011
  

• Bindu Palakkal: CMOS Wideband Low Noise Amplifier with Current Reuse and Noise Cancellation, in Proc. Int. Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, Feb 2011, NIT Calicut (with Dr. P.C. Subramanian)Job Chungath: Enhancing Communication System Efficiency by Wavelet Implementation, in Proc. Int. Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, Feb 2011, NIT Calicut (with Dr. B. Shankarananda)

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• Dr.K. Najeeb: Analysis of On-chip Interconnect Delay for 65nm and beyond. Int. Conference ICRIT-11, RIT Kottayam, Feb 2011 (with Praveen V, Neeraj R, Dayanand V, and Ajith T. S, 2011 CSE)

• Dr. K. Najeeb, "SMOIR: Scalable Multipurpose Ontology-based Information Retrieval System", in the International Conference on Information Science And Applications (ICISA 2010) 6th February, 2010, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, Feb 6, 2010. (Won the Best Paper Award) (with Jayan and Jyothish, 2010 CSE)

• Dr. K. Najeeb: Open Source Framework for Verification of Computer Architectural features using CSP. In Proc. Ont. Conference on Embedded Systems (ICES 2010, Bangalore) (with Arun A M, Robert Jesuraj, and Santhosh Kumar, 2010 CSE)

• Dr.K.Najeeb: GAP: Genetic Algorithm-based Power estimation technique for Behavioral Circuits. In Proc. Int. Conference on Computers, Communications and Intelligence- ICCCI'10 (with John Paul, and Elson Paul, 2010 CSE)

• Dr. K. Najeeb: PASE: Framework for Power Aware Scheduling in Cloud: Communicated to the IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSETS 2011), Bangalore (with Ranjith K, Sriram K.V, Jijo Johnson and Rahul , 2011 CSE).

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• Dr. K. Najeeb: Apriori Estimation of Digital Circuit Parameter, National Conference NCRTSC-09, New Horizon College of Engg, Bangalore, Apr 24-25,2009 (with Athira R, Soumya TR, G.Giji, 2009 CSE)

• Asha Prasad: Detection of adulteration in Honey Long Period Fiber Grating Technology. International conference on Sensors and Related Network (SENNET-09), VIT University,Vellore, Dec 09 (with Jinesh Mathew and Dr.P.Radhakrishnan).

• A. Selvakumar: Experimental Analysis of Thermal Dispersion. National Conference NCRIT-09, RIT Kottayam, 26-28,Mar 09.

• Job Chunkath: Achieving higher datarates and allocation density using Wavelets. National Conference NCRIT-09, RIT Kottayam, 26-28 Mar 09 (with Dr.B. Shankarananda).

• Dr. R. Gopakumar: A fuzzy logic based dynamic wave model inversion algorithm for canal regulation Hydrological Processes. Volume 23, Issue 12, Date: 15 June 2009,Pages: 1739-1752(with P. P. Mujumdar, et.al)

• Dr. R. Gopakumar: A fuzzy dynamic Flood routing model for natural channels Hydrological Processes. Volume 23, Issue 12, Date: 15 June 2009, Pages: 1753-1767(with P. P.Mujumdar, et.al).

• A.R. Jayan, Asst. Professor(ECE). Detection of stop land-marks using Gaussian mixture modeling of speech spectrum. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, April, pp. 4681-4684. (with P.C. Pandey, et.al)

• Dr. V.S. Sheeba: Adaptive loading with Principal Component Filter Banks in MIMO Multicarrier Modulation system. Int J. of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering Vol 2, No:1,2009, pp81- 87 (with Elizabeth Elias).

• Dr. V.S. Sheeba: Blind data hiding in integer wavelet transform domain. International conference on Simulation and Modeling AMSE 09, Dec 2009 (with Sudeep P V and K A Navas).

• Dr. V.S. Sheeba: A Novel Datahiding method in spatial domain. National conference on Technological Trends NCTT 09, November 09 (with Sudeep P V and K A Navas).

• R. Gopakumar, Sr.Lecturer(Civil Engg) obtains PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  

• Asha Prasad (Lecturer, ECE) presented a paper titled "Detection of adulteration in honey Long Period fiber grating Technology", in the International conference on Sensors and Related Network (SENNET-09), VIT University,Vellore,710 Dec 09 (with Jinesh Mathew and Dr.P.Radhakrishnan).
  

• Dr.K. Najeeb(AP, CSE) published a paper titled "Apriori Estimation and extraction of Digital Circuit Features" in the National Conference on RTC, New Horizon College of Engg, Bangalore(NCRTC-09), Apr 24-25(with Athira R, Gigi G, Soumya T , Final year CSE)
• Reena Pilakkat (AP,ECE) published a paper titled “Cross Layer Design for Congestion Control in UWB Based Wireless Sensor Networks",    International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2009 Vo.5 (with Lillykutty Jacob).

• A. Selvakumar, Lecturer(Mech.Engg) presented a paper titled " Experimental Analysis of Thermal Dispersion" in the National Conference NCRIT-09 at RIT Kottayam, 26-28,Mar 09.
• Job Chunkath, Lecturer(Ele.& Commn.Engg) presented a paper titled "Achieving higher datarates and allocation density using Wavelets", in the National Conference NCRIT-09 at RIT Kottayam, 26-28 Mar 09.
• Job Chunkath, Lecturer(Ele.& Commn.Engg) published a paper titled "Improvong Performance Parameters in Digital Communication", in the International Conference on Recent Advances in Communication Engineering(RACE 08) at Usmania University, Hyderabad, Dec 2008.

• P.G. Dileepkumar, Lecturer (Civil Engg) secures II Rank in M.Tech(Structural Engg)-July 2008, VTU Karnataka.
• Reena Nair, Lecturer (Computer Sc&Engg) won the Best Project Award of Dept. of CSE,IIT Madras(2007-08)
  
• K. Najeeb,Asst.Professor (Computer Sc&Engg) published a paper titled "Controllability-driven Power Virus Generation for Digital Circuits" in VLSI Design 2007: 407-412 (with V. Kamakoti et.al)
• K. Najeeb, Asst.Professor (Computer Sc&Engg) published a paper titled "Power Virus Generation Using Behavioral Models of Circuits", in VTS 2007: 35-42 (with V. Kamakoti et.al)
• K. Najeeb, Asst.Professor (Computer Sc&Engg) published a paper titled "Delay and peak power minimization for on-chip buses using temporal redundancy" in ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2006: 119-122 (with V.Kamakoti et.al)
• K. Najeeb, Asst.Professor (Computer Sc&Engg) published a paper titled "Temporal Redundancy Based Encoding Technique for Peak Power and Delay Reduction of On-Chip Buses" in Intl.J. Low Power Electronics 2(3): 425-436 (2006) (with V.Kamakoti, et.al)
  

• Dr. P. C. Reghu Raj, Professor(Computer Sc&Engg) published a paper titled "A Phrase Grammar-Based Conceptual Indexing Paradigm" in the International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor&Francis, 19(6):559-599 (2005) (with S. Raman)
  

• P.C. Reghu Raj , Professor(Computer Sc&Engg) won the Nedumpally Memorial Award for the best poem in 2002, Kavanakauthukam Magazine

(b) Students Achievements

(1) Recognition to Student Projects

• A student project entitled "Design of a Real Time Scheduler for the ARM Processor" submitted by Tony Lijo Jose and team (2011 CSE) has been selected for funding from the Centre for Engineering Research and Development(CERD), Trivandrum (Guide: Smt. Reena Nair)
  
• A student project entitled "An Ultrasonic Dog Repellent" submitted by Sreeraj and team (2011 ECE) has been selected for funding from the Centre for Engineering Research and Development(CERD), Trivandrum (Guide: Smt. Bindu palakkal)
• A student project entitled "Mains power conditioner using DSP" designed by 2010 ECE students appeared in the July 2010 issue of Vyavasayakeralam Magazine published by the DSept. of Industries, Govt. of Kerala (Guide: Sri. Job Chunkath)

• A student project entitled "SANJEEVANI: Hospital Management System" designed by 2010 CSE students, led by R. Harikrishnan, appeared in the July 2010 issue of Vyavasayakeralam Magazine published by the DSept. of Industries, Govt. of Kerala (Guide: Sri. Sijo S Vadakkan)
  

(2) Student Paper Publications:

• Vinuraj R., Sony Davis., Bijeesh V., Jand unil Jacob of 2012 CSE) published a paper entitled  "Development of a fuzzy logic based software for automation of a single pool irrigation canal" in the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Engineering Applications' (ICCIEA-2011) at Bhubaneswar (16 Oct 2011) (with Dr R Gopakumar, and Reena Nair). The paper was presented by Robert Jesuraj (I. MTech, CSE) and was adjudged the Best Content paper.
• The above paper was also adapted to the International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp.38-44, 2011.
• Praveen V, Neeraj R, Dayanand V, and Ajith T. S, 2011 CSE.  Analysis of On-chip Interconnect Delay for 65nm and beyond, accepted for presentation in the Int. Conference ICRIT-11, RIT Kottayam, Feb 2011 (with Dr.K. Najeeb)

• Jayan and Jyothish, 2010 CSE.  "SMOIR: Scalable Multipurpose Ontology-based Information Retrieval System", in the International Conference on Information Science And Applications (ICISA 2010) 6th February, 2010, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, Feb 6, 2010. (Won the Best Paper Award) (with Dr. K. Najeeb)

• Arun A M, Robert Jesuraj, and Santhosh Kumar, 2010 CSE. "Open Source Framework for Verification of Computer Architectural features using CSP". In Proc. Int. Conference on Embedded Systems (ICES 2010, Bangalore) (with Dr.K. Najeeb)
  

• John Paul, and Elson Paul, 2010 CSE. "GAP: Genetic Algorithm-based Power estimation technique for Behavioral Circuit"s. In Proc. Int. Conference on Computers, Communications and Intelligence- ICCCI'10 (with Dr.K.Najeeb )

• Athira R, Gigi G, and Soumya T (2009 CSE) published a paper titled "Apriori Estimation and extraction of Digital Circuit Features" in the National Conference on RTC, New Horizon College of Engg, Bangalore(NCRTC-09), Apr 24-25(with Dr.K.Najeeb).
  

(2) University Ranks