Research

Thrust Area Group (TAG)

Data Mining, Cloud Computing, and Information Security

Objectives

• To develop Big data technology-based fully scalable, parallel P2P Botnet Detection System in dynamic, real-time large-scale networks.
• To develop encryption algorithms to provide security in the cloud, wireless sensor networks, healthcare and to enhance the efficiency of secure computation protocols.
• To provision the resources dynamically in fog/cloud environments for IoT applications
• To detect the SQL Injection attacks and deploy a SECaaS model for the Cloud Applications.
• To develop deep learning algorithms in the detection of physiological conditions in plants caused by unfavorable environmental situations.

PhD Programs and Area of Focus

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering with areas of focus as listed below

• Big Data Mining
• Cloud/Fog computing
• Cyber Security
• Cloud Security
• Internet of Things
• Blockchain
• Threat Intelligence

Sponsored Research Projects

• VGST-SPICE (2014-2015) – Funded Amount Rs. 30,000/-
  Guide: Ms. Supriya M. (Status: Completed)

Research Collaborations

• Saravanan S. collaborated with the Amritapuri campus to execute a Hadoop-based K-mer counter(link is external) using the Amrita Big Data Framework (ABDF), for his research work.
• Anasuya These Innocent and Ms. Priya John have applied to the DRDO-MHRD research fellowship program for Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and is in progress.
• Anil Kumar, Scientist/Engineer ‘SG’ & Head PRSD, IIRS, ISRO, Dehradun has been appointed as the co-advisor for the research scholar, Ms. Megha Sharma.
• Rajkumar Buyya, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has agreed to be the co-advisor for the research scholar Ms. Shinu M. R.

Research Scholars

Ms. Shinu M. R.	Ms. Niharika Panda
Ms. Reena Panwar	Ms. Megha Sharma
Ms. Maria John	Ms. Shyamasree Ghosh
Ms. Anasuya Threse Innocent	Ms. Priya John
Ms. Kavitha Jayaram

Computational Intelligence and Computing Research in Computer Vision

Computational Intelligence and Computing Research in Computer Vision TAG group focuses on various domains like healthcare, education, smart city, industrial automation, ecommerce etc. The research projects undertaken are highly collaborative in nature with health care centers/industries to provide advanced research insight and strive to build AI driven automated next generation systems. Research project have been carried out with industries like Honeywell, ABB, etc., Published patent in the field of Eye tracking to build an intelligent system to understand the eye gaze patterns of medical experts while viewing medical images. 100+ Research articles published in the areas of Human computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Medical Image processing, Machine learning, Deep learning and Computational Intelligence

Research Projects

• Eye Gaze Optic Disc Detection (Patent)
• Stress Analysis with HCG, Bengaluru (MoU)
• Glaucoma Detection with Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru (MoU)
• Eye Data Analytics for Parkinson Patients with NIMHANS, Bengaluru (Joint Research Project)
• Eye Gaze Data Analytics to estimate learning ability in Students (Amrita)
• Industrial use case study with Software Professionals (PG Student Internship ABB, Bengaluru)
• Operator fatigue Detection, Human Computer Interface for easy navigation as assistive tool
• Wild OCR a deep learning model build to extract text from images with Paralaxiom, Bengaluru (Consultancy)
• Project titled” Design of an integrated system for monitoring weather and traffic based on Internet of things” has been funded by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology under 41st series of student project programme: 2015- 16
• Project titled” Solar powered smart aquarium using IoT” has been funded by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology under 41st series of student project programme: 2017-18
• Project titled” Diagnosis of reading disability in dyslexic children using Eye Tracking” has been funded by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology under 41st series of student project programme: 2017-18

Objectives

• Create an ecosystem for interdisciplinary research connecting domain experts from medical, engineering and sciences to provide intelligent solutions for societal needs.
• Establish Collaboration with Research labs, Industries and Health Care centers
• Create awareness among students, faculty and researchers through workshops and conferences.

PhD Programs and Area of Focus

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Smart City
  • Smart Health
• Human computer Interaction
• Computer Vision
• Medical Image processing
• Machine learning
• Deep learning
• Computational Intelligence
• Reinforcement Learning
• Federated Learning

Sponsored Research Projects

Consultancy Work

• “AutoDiagnosis and Auto Description Tool” -Paralaxiom Technology Solution -Co-PI Dr. Amudha J., -6-8 months
• “Optical Character Recognition in the Wild”, Consultancy work- Parlaxiom Technology Solution, PI- Dr. Amudha J., 6-8months

Completed Ph. D. Project

• Eye Gaze System for Optic Disc Detection
  Patent Details: Provisional Specification No. 201641037789AMRT006300INP Title: System And Method For Detection Of Features In An Image Using Knowledge Of Expert’s Eye Gaze Pattern, Amudha J, Nilima Kulkarni

Research Collaborations

ABB India Limited, Bengaluru

• One year internship for the research scholar in ABB usability Research Lab
• Experiment conducted in ABB using the Eye Tracking Device
• Joint Publication Chandrika K R, Amudha J, Sithu D. Sudarsan, “Recognizing Eye Tracking Traits for Source Code Review” at 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies And Factory

Automation [ETFA 2017], September 12-15, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus , IEEE Xplore

• The Research scholar is offered a scientist position in ABB, India

Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru

• MOU Signed with Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru
• Glaucoma Detection using eye gaze measures

Health Care Global (HCG) Enterprises Ltd, Bengaluru

MOU signed with HCG

Research work on Eye gaze as an indicator for stress level Analysis

NIMHANS, Bengaluru

Other Details

• No. of B.Tech. Projects: 40+
• No. of M.Tech. Projects: 30+
• No. of Ph.D. Scholars Currently Working: 14
• No of Completed Ph.D.: 1

Research Scholars

Robotics

Objectives

To facilitate research and development in cutting-edge Robotics and its allied areas.

Ph. D. Programs and Area of Focus

• Service Robotics
• Humanoid Robotics
• HRI
• Industrial Manipulators
• Swarm Robotics

Research Scholars

• A. A. Nippun Kumaar
• Pranav B. Sreedhar

Computer Networks and Internet of Things

Objectives

• To disseminate and address micro level problems in the area of Networks and Internet of Things (IoT).

PhD Programs and Area of Focus

• Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud computing & Data Analytics
• Soft computing techniques
• Ontology & Interoperability of IoT Systems
• Web Technologies for the IoT
• IoT architectures, protocols, and algorithms in smart cities
• Enabling technologies for IoT-cloud integration in smart cities
• IoT – Networked applications for healthcare sector
• Graph theory solutions for Network applications and’
• Robotics

Research Collaborations

Collaborators

External

• Subramanian Ganesan  – Oakland University, USA.
• Vishwas Lakkundi  –  Principal Architect – IoT Practice, Incedo Inc Bengaluru, India
• Pankesh Patel – University of Maryland, USA.
• Raj Kumar – Robert Bosch, Bangalore.

Internal

• Shanthappa .S, The Member Secretary Pollution Control Board Karnataka State Pollution Control Board [KSPCB].
• Got approval from Karnataka Pollution Board for getting Data sets to perform Air pollution and Water Pollution analysis.

Sponsored Research Projects

As Co-PI for one of the proposal titled – “UAV Communication System Simulator for User Defined Terrains, Trajectories and its Testing” Selected for AR & DB ADE-Sigma panel (10 Lakhs) funding, yet to receive the funds. The panel informed to us to try some other agency due to lack of funds

Sponsored Research Lab

Cisco Networking Lab

• Few IoT kits which were used for UG & PG projects in “IoT & Networks” domain are under the custodian of Mr. Ullas .S
• Few sensor nodes and gateways are kept in Robotics Lab, for demonstration as part of “Sensor Networks” course for M.Tech students.

Other Details

Submitted budget for Centre of Excellence(CoE) for the Internet of Things(IoT)

Research Scholars

• Kalamani P. – Part Time scholar
• Mohamed Shakir – Part Time scholar