Mithun Haridas is a doctoral student at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amritapuri campus, pursuing Ph.D. in the faculty of Computer Science and Applications. Dr. Raghu Raman and Dr. Prema Nedungadi are the thesis advisors; and doctoral committee members are Dr. Rudra Raju and Dr. Nirmala Vasudevan. His areas of research interests are in the domains of learning science, cognitive science and educational technology. Presently, his research is focused on the identification of Dyslexic children who commonly show symptoms oflearning difficulty that ensue in problems with reading and spelling, followed by exploring viable options to remediate such handicaps.
Mithun’s investigations are currently zeroed in on early detection, and intervention of dyslexic students,whose mother tongue isMalayalam, as a first language, and studying English as their second language. In particular, he wish to delve into effects of orthographic difference in languages on dyslexic students. Capitalising on the contemporary science of ubiquitous computing technology, he wish to exploit mobile computer technology as a primary tool for timely detection of dyslexic behaviour among students.The exploration will converge at the intersection of cognitive science and technology-assisted enhanced learning.
His studies will characterise the commonly observed dyslexic errors during reading and writing activities, and make use of these errors to understand their reading and writing impairments. With a comprehensive understanding of the dyslexic-error datasets, his plan is to deduce their learning disabilities and develop computer-based activities and games, to help overcome their problems. There has been a noticeable paucity of research on the applicability of multimedia technologies for education of dyslexic individuals. He plan to deploy the principles of cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML), to develop remedial activities to improve their reading and comprehension.
Mithun is keenly interested to pursue early detection of dyslexic symptoms by applying machine learning approaches to analyse student’s written notes.
He obtained a Master of Science (M. Sc.) degree in Bioinformatics from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, preceded by a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) degree in Botany from Kannur University. During pursuit of the M. Sc. degree, he worked on projects involving Computational Neuroscience, under the supervision of Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Lab Director of Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology Laboratory, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. They implemented a tool to automatically distribute the granular layer model into multiple nodes (CPU) by using the parallel computing concept in NEURON simulator.
Year : 2020
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, Ramaraju, R., and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Predicting school performance and early risk of failure from an intelligent tutoring system”, Education and Information Technologies, 2020.
Publisher : Education and Information Technologies.
Year : 2021
Cite this Research Publication : Georg Gutjahr, Chandrashekar, P., M. Nair, G., Haridas, M., and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Comparison of Hidden Markov Models and the FAST Algorithm for Feature-Aware Knowledge Tracing”, in Machine Learning for Predictive Analysis, Singapore, 2021.
Publisher : Machine Learning for Predictive Analysis, Springer Singapore.
Year : 2020
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Dr. Nirmala Vasudevan, Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Comparing English and Malayalam Spelling Errors of Children using a Bilingual Screening Tool”, in Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, Singapore, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Volume 1027, 2020, Pages 427-436
Publisher : Springer Singapore.
Year : 2019
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Dr. Nirmala Vasudevan, Sasikumar, L., Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Inter-Rater Reliability of a Dyslexia Screening Test”, in 2019 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 2019
Publisher : 2019 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E) .
Year : 2019
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Dr. Nirmala Vasudevan, Gayathry, S., Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Feature-Aware Knowledge Tracing for Generation of Concept-Knowledge Reports in an Intelligent Tutoring System”, in 2019 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 2019
Publisher : 2019 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E)
Year : 2018
Cite this Research Publication : Mithun Haridas, Vasudevan, N., G Nair, J., Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Spelling Errors by Normal and Poor Readers in a Bilingual Malayalam-English Dyslexia Screening Test”, in IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2018.
Publisher : IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
Year : 2018
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Vasudevan, N., Gutjahr, G., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Comparing English and Malayalam Reading Difficulties in Children with a Bilingual Screening Tool”, in 3rd Int. Conf. on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, 2018.
Publisher : 3rd Int. Conf. on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems.
Year : 2018
Cite this Research Publication : M. Haridas, Prof. Prema Nedungadi, and Raghu Raman, “Incorporating CTML Principles in Tablet-based Learning”, in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Technological Advancements in Power and Energy: Exploring Energy Solutions for an Intelligent Power Grid, TAP Energy 2017, Kollam, India, 2018.
Publisher : IEEE
Year : 2017
Cite this Research Publication : Mithun Haridas, Vasudevan, N., Iyer, A., Menon, R., and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Analyzing the Responses of Primary School Children in Dyslexia Screening Tests”, in 5th IEEE International Conference on MOOCs, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), Bangalore, India, 2017.
Publisher : 5th IEEE International Conference on MOOCs, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE)
Year : 2015
Cite this Research Publication : Prof. Prema Nedungadi, Haridas, M., and Raghu Raman, “Blending concept maps with online labs (OLabs): Case study with biological science”, in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Kochi, India , 2015, vol. 10-13-August-2015, pp. 186-190
Publisher : ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery,
Year : 2015
Cite this Research Publication : Raghu Raman, Mithun Haridas, and Prof. Prema Nedungadi, “Blending Concept Maps with Online Labs for STEM Learning”, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2015, vol. 320, pp. 133-141
Publisher : Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.
Year : 2016
Cite this Research Publication :
Mithun Haridas, “Developmental Dyslexia, a Neuro-cognitive Disorder, and Smartphone-based Intervention”, in 34th Annual meeting of Indian Academy of Neuroscience, National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, State of Haryana, India, 2016.
