Our Faculty

Present Positions

• Provost – Strategic Initiatives, International, Research & Innovation, AI + X

• Dean, School for Sustainable Futures

• Dean, Amrita Centre for International Programs.

• UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development

• Head, World Center of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction

• Nodal Coordinator of ICL IPL WCoE

• Director, Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks & Applications

• Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

• Secretary, ACM-W India Council

• Editor, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier

• Editor, CSI Transactions on ICT, Springer

• Program Chair, International Conference for Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR 2011)

• Reviewer, International Journal of Digital Earth

• Editorial Board member &Advisory Committee member, International Conference on Computing ICC 2010, New Delhi

• Technical Program Committee: SENSORCOMM 2010, ICCAIE 2010, ICOS 2010, ISCI 2011

• Senior Member in IEEE

• Senior Member in ACM

• Vice Chair- IEEE Kerala Section [Communication Society Chapter] [2013]

Positions Held

• Working Group Coordinator Sustainable and Resilient Communities (SRC) – 2023 Civil 20 India (C20)

• Speaker, India Universities Forum 2020-The globalisation of higher education in India:History and prospects for 21st century, New Delhi,India(2020)

• Program Chair, TESCA 2019-The 1st ACM International Workshop on Technology Enablers and Innovative Applications for Smart Cities and Communities, New York, NY, USA (2019)

• Speaker, Indian Smart Grid Forum, New Delhi,India 2019

• Convenor, Tech4Dev 2018 Conference session: People-centered Early Warning Systems for NaturalHazards, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2017)

• Co-Chair, International Workshop on Sensors and Small Satellite Technology for Disaster Management (SSTDM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (2016)

• Vice-Chair ,IEEE Kerala Section (2013)

• Secretary ACM, Indian Council (2013)

• Program Chair, International Conference for Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR 2011)

• Technical Program Committee member (ISCI 2011)

• Editorial Board member & Advisory Committee member International Conference on Computing, New Delhi (2010)

• Technical Program Committee member SENSORCOMM,ICCAIE,ICOS (2010)

• Head of Computer Science Department from August 2004 – December 2006
• WINSOC Principal Investigator for Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from Sep, 2006

• Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (AIRA 2021), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
• Conferred with Elets Water Innovation Awards, instituted in joint partnership with the Ministry of Jal Shakti & National Mission for Clean Ganga, Government of India
• ”One among the Top 2% Scientists in the World” identified by Stanford University
• Invited panelist at the session ”Internationalisation in India:experience and opportunity”
• Mentioned as young researcher and leader in October 2019 Outlook Spotlight issue
• Signed for the ”First Group of Signatories of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020” and presented her work on ”Internet of Things (IoT) for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” and ”Landslide Early Warning System for Enhancing Disaster Resilience of the Community”
• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham won the ’World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction’, from the International Program on Landslides (IPL) at the fourth World Landslide Forum in Ljubljna, Slovenia. The title will be held by the University till 2023.
• Selected for the prestigious ’Young Faculty Research Fellowship’ under the Visveswaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT of Deity for the year 2015-19
• Honored as one of the top 100 researchers in India with the title ”India’s Most Prolific Paper Publishers”, in a survey conducted by Careers 360, India’s leading career planning consultancy services organization. Article published in the Careers 360 magazine in April/May 2014
• Awarded US PATENT for “Network based System for Predicting Landslides and Providing Early Warnings” in January 2014
• Author of more than 130 publications in journals and international conferences
• Principal Investigator of 13 Funded Research Projects and Principal Co-Investigator of another 3 funded research projects
• NABARD AWARD for Rural Innovations – 2012, 2nd Prize, received from Shri. P. Chidambaram, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, Govt. of India
• Honorable mention in the Indian parliament on 21st May 2012 for project on monitoring detection of heavy rainfall induced landslides
• Awarded the ACM-Women Scholarship 2008 by Association of Computer Machinery headquartered in New York
• Presented ’Wireless Communication for Disaster Management’ at UNAI-Amrita Conference at UN in July 2015
• Presented ’Enhancement of the existing Real- time Landslide Monitoring and Early warning System in Western Ghats & Himalayas, India’ at ICL-IPL UNESCO Conference in November, 2016
• Presented poster ’Wireless Sensor Networks for Real Time Monitoring & Early Warning of Landslides: A Real World Deployment in Western Ghats & Himalayas in India’ at ’UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in January 2016
• Best Poster award ’An Adaptive Energy Management Scheme for Real-time Landslide Detection’ in ACM SenSys November, 2014 at Italy
• Best Paper award ’Wireless Sensor Network Security: Real-Time Detection and Prevention of Attacks’ in the 4th International Conference on Advanced Computer Control (ICACC) in November, 2012 held at Shanghai, China.
• CREATE UNAOC Challenge Award: ’Sanskar’, an interactive Android app, developed by Prof. Maneesha was shortlisted among the top five finalist applications in the 2012 Create UNAOC Challenge, an international competition for app developers that sought to introduce new avenues for intercultural dialogue
• Best Paper award at SENSORCOMM 2010 in July 2010 at Venice, Italy
• Best Paper award at SENSORCOMM 2009 in June 2009 at Athens, Greece

Other Recognitions and Achievements

• Author of more than 130 publications in journals and international conferences
• Principal Investigator of 13 Funded Research Projects and Principal Co-Investigator of another 3 funded research projects
• Honorable mention in the Indian parliament on 21st May 2012 for project on monitoring detection of heavy rainfall induced landslides
• Presented ’Wireless Communication for Disaster Management’ at UNAI-Amrita Conference at UN in July 2015
• Presented ’Enhancement of the existing Real- time Landslide Monitoring and Early warning System in Western Ghats & Himalayas, India’ at ICL-IPL UNESCO Conference in November, 2016
• Presented poster ’Wireless Sensor Networks for Real Time Monitoring & Early Warning of Landslides: A Real World Deployment in Western Ghats & Himalayas in India’ at ’UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in January 2016

Courses Taught

Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, Advanced Wireless Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Essentials of Management, Wireless Networks, Computer Networks, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structure and Programming Methodology Lab, C Programming, Software Lab using PASCAL

Doctoral advisor

Four Ph.D scholars graduated, presently supervising 12 Ph.D students in the following research dimensions:

• Edge Computing for IoT Systems
• IoT System for Health Care Applications
• Communication Architecture for SmartGrid
• Machine Learning Algorithms for Real Time Landslide Warnings
• ICT for Sustainable Social Change
• Offshore Communication Networks for Fishing Vessels
• Self organization and Connectivity Analysis of Offshore Communication Networks
• Wearable Wireless System for Remote Patient Monitoring
• IoT System for Sustainable Water Management
• Socio-Environmental Drivers of Water Quality and Waterborne Diseases in Kerala
• IoT System for monitoring Heritage Buildings
• Participatory Systems for Managing Multi Hazards
• Early warning of Multi hazards through Social Analytics
• Personalized Context Aware Systems for Smart Buildings
• Cyber physical Systems for Micro Grid
• Disaster Management Framework
• Evolutionary Approaches in Rural Development
• Diffusion of ICT Innovation, Framework and Models for Personalized Formative Evaluation in Adaptive Learning Systems
• Universal Motherhood Qualities and its Transformational Capabilities

Current Students

Graduated Students

Current DC Member

• “Wireless Technology System to Predict Natural Calamities”, Press Bureau, Govt of India, 21 May 2012, Weblink 
• “WINSOC Project Advances Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in V1 Magazine
• “WINSOC Project Advances Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in GeoConnexion Magazine
• WINSOC has been featured in the newspaper, “The Telegraph”, which is one of the major Indian newspapers. It has been published in its “know HOW” section titled as “Early Warning System”. The online version can be accessed through the link

Invited lectures at conferences & workshops

• Invited online talk in The Cycle of Conferences on Sustainability organised by the Research Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(UPC) – Barcelona Tech, Spain in April, 2021
• The 1st ACM International Workshop on Technology Enablers and Innovative Applications for Smart Cities and Communities
• Delivered a keynote speech at 2019 Ideal Village Conference, Stanford University on the topic ”Science and Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Live-in-Labs,a comprehensive framework for academic engagement in building sustainable Communities”on 25th June 2019
• Talk on ”Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System”for disaster risk reduction to the researcher community at Berkeley Lab,University of California,Berkeley
• Invited to give a talk on Future Skill 2030 – Industrial Revolution 4.0 at India Smart Utility Week 2019,organised by India Smart Grid Forum at New Delhi
• Landslip project team participated in the ”India-UK Workshop: Science for disaster and emergency risk management” on August 29th and 30th at New Delhi
• Invited for a talk by Kerala Government on Fisheries – Effective Implementation of Technologies in Ocean in a high level committee constituted for implementation of International Technologies in Fisheries Sector in February, 2017 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• Invited by the Kerala State Government as an expert for the workshop Urban Flood Management – Challenges and Initiatives organized by the Chief Secretary of Kerala in February, 2016
• Workshop on University Networks for Education and Research in Disaster Risk Management at Bangkok, Thailand in December, 2009
• IEEE workshop on Humanitarian Tech
• IEEE workshop on Humanitarian Technology Challenges of the 21st Century Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in February 2010
• Workshop on geo-spatial technologies organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in December 2009
• The National Workshop “ UbiComp India 2008”
• The Workshop on ’Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology and Roadmap’, sponsored by Government of India’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), and Department of Information Technology (DIT), at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India.
• National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications on December 22, 2005 at IIT Chennai. A paper on ’Medical Image Encryption using Wavelets’ was presented at the symposium.
• Presented a talk on ’Credit Transfer and Transnational Education’ at International Meet being organized by the Kerala State Higher Education Council in January, 2014
• Delivered a talk at Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Hyderabad in March, 2013
• Presentation in ACM annual event in January, 2013 at Chennai

International lectures delivered

Other Conferences & Workshops

• Prof. Maneesha V.Ramesh and Dr. Maarten van Steen, Scientific Director of CTIT, University of Twente spoke on the topic Wireless Communication for Disaster Management during the one day conference “Technology for Sustainable Development” on July 8, 2015 at United Nations, New York that was jointly hosted by United Nations Academic Impact and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
• Prof. Maneesha presented abstract titled as “Wireless Sensor Networks for Real Time Monitoring & Early Warning of Landslides: A Real World Deployment in Western Ghats & Himalayas in India” at United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Science and Technology Conference (January 27 – 29, 2016)
• Prof. Maneesha attended a one day workshop on the topic of ‘Urban Flood Management – Challenges and Initiatives’ organized by the State Government of Kerala on February 19, 2016.
• “Mathematical Transform Methods in Engineering” from February 20 – 25, 2006 organized by Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Ettimadai campus
• Attended Thirteenth International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication – ADCOM 2005 of ACS, on December 14-17, 2005 at Ettimadai Campus
• Attended Intensive Workshop on Linear Algebra conducted by Dept of Mathematics, Amritapuri campus on December 6-11, 2005.
• Attended “Multi Agent System School” conducted by IIIT, Hyderabad, on August 4 – 12, 2004.
• Attended a Workshop on “C Programming” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, May 16 – 21, 2004.
• Attended “Object Oriented Programming Workshop” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, May 10 – 15, 2004.
• “Wireless Technology System to Predict Natural Calamities”, Press Bureau, Govt of India, 21 May 2012, Weblink 
• “WINSOC Project Advances Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in V1 Magazine.
• “WINSOC Project Advances Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in GeoConnexion Magazine
• WINSOC has been featured in the newspaper, “The Telegraph”, which is one of the major Indian newspapers. It has been published in its “know HOW” section titled as “Early Warning System”. The online version can be accessed through the link.

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