Grants

1.  6-days ATAL FDP 23-24 "Data Science Tools for Secure Cloud Computing," Rs. 2.5 Lakhs, Oct 2023.

Courses / Certifications

1. Deep Learning NPTEL, Gold Elite, Jan to April 2025.

2. AWS Cloud Architect, EZ-Learn, 3 months, Feb to May 2024. Active till 30.05.2026

3. Computer Vision in Deep Learning, NPTEL, 12 Weeks, July to October 2023

4. Artificial Intelligence in Search Methods (Elite), NPTEL, Jul-Oct 2022

5. NASSCOM Microsoft Faculty Training Session , AZ-900, AI-900, DP-900, March 2022

6. Analyze Datasets and Train ML Models using AutoML, Coursera, 2 Sept 2021

7. Google Cloud Foundations Course, 8 Weeks, Feb-Apr 2020

 Publications

 Journals

1. Solomon, D. G., Polavarapu, G. R., Hepsiba, P. S., & Gundabattini, E. (2025). Innovative Online Teaching and Learning Methods for a Post-Pandemic Period. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 38(3). (Q3) Impact Factor : 0.56)

2. Devadason, J. R., Hepsiba, P. S., & Solomon, D. G. (2024). Case studies on the applications of the artificial bee colony algorithm. Sādhanā, 49(2), 152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-024-02498-9 (Q2) Impact Factor : 1.214 

3. Darius, P.S.H., Gundabattini, E. & Solomon, D.G. A Survey on the Effectiveness of Online Teaching–Learning Methods for University and College Students. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. B (2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s40031-021-00581-x  (Q3) Impact Factor : 0.784  

4. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Grace Mary Kanaga E. (2020). An Osmosis-Based Intelligent Agent Scheduling Framework for Cloud Bursting in a Hybrid Cloud. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 11(3), 68-88.https://www.igi-global.com/article/an-osmosis-based-intelligent-agent-scheduling-framework-for-cloud-bursting-in-a-hybrid-cloud/256207 (Q3) Impact Factor : 0.449  

5. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Grace Mary Kanaga E. (2019). Intelligent Scheduling of Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Cloud. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 10(5), 473-480. 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100561 https://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume10No5/Paper_61-Intelligent_Scheduling_of_Bag_of_Tasks_Applications.pdf  10.4018/IJDST.202007010 (Q3) Impact Factor : 1.162  

6. Preethi S. H. Darius, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, M.L.Valarmathi, “Coordinated Multi-agent Based Framework for Patient and Resource Scheduling,” International journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Systems, ISSN 0973-4406.

  Book Chapters

1.Darius, Preethi SH, Krishna Sowjanya, V. N. Manju, Sanchari Saha, Paramita Mitra, Pratham Majumder, J. Suneetha, and Shreekanth M. Prabhu. "From Data to Insights: A Review of Cloud-Based Big Data Tools and Technologies." Big Data Computing (2024): 86-110. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781032634050-5/data-insights-preethi-darius-krishna-sowjanya-manju-sanchari-saha-paramita-mitra-pratham-majumder-suneetha-shreekanth-prabhu 

2. Darius, P.S.H., Devadason, J., Solomon, D.G. (2023). Heuristic Scheduling in Automotive, Shipping, Oil and Gas, and Healthcare Domains: A Mini Case Study. In: Sharma, H., Shrivastava, V., Bharti, K.K., Wang, L. (eds) Communication and Intelligent Systems. ICCIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 689. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2322-9_36  

3. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Grace Mary Kanaga E. (2018). Bag-of-Tasks Intelligent Scheduling Agent (BISA) in Cloud Computing. Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Vol. 706, 239–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8237-5_23

4. Preethi S. H. Darius, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, M.L.Valarmathi,”Chapter 27: A Novel 3D Approach for Patient Schedule Using Multi-Agent Coordination”, in Cross-Disciplinary Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition: Advancing Technologies, 2012, http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-429-1.ch027

  International Conferences

1. Reddy, R. R., Darius, P. S., & Rakshith, K. (2025, March). A Vision-Based Behavioral Measurement Using Facial Expression for Detecting Student Concentration in Classrooms. In 2025 3rd International Conference on Smart Systems for applications in Electrical Sciences (ICSSES) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. 

2. Ashok. K, P. S. H. Darius and S. G. S. Babu, "Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for resource allocation in Cloud: Review and Prospects," 2024 5th International Conference on Communication, Computing & Industry 6.0 (C2I6), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/C2I663243.2024.10895370. 

3. Darius, P. S., Majumder, P., Manju, V. N., Saha, S., Suneetha, J., & Mitra, P. (2024, February). Multi-criteria Rank Based Geo-distributed Load Balancing for Cloud Computing. In 2024 Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ICETITE) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. 

4.  Darius, Preethi SH, Joshua Rajah Devadason, and Darius Gnanaraj Solomon. "Applications of GA and Hybrid GA in various domains: Design and Prospects." In 2024 4th International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Systems (ICDECS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2024.

5. Preethi S. H. Darius, Darius Gnanaraj Solomon, Joshua Rajah Devadason, "Applications of Neural Networks: Data centers, Predictive Maintenance, Production, Sustainable computing, & healthcare" – Presented in 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies, Dec 2023.

6. Preethi S. H. Darius, Ashok K., Radhakrishnan G., Krishna Sowjanya K., Cellular Automata-Simulation & Modeling, Optimization problems, Cryptography: Prospects in the Indian Context - Presented in MRTM 2023, NHCE in September 2023

7. Darius, Preethi SH, Pratham Majumder, V. N. Manju, Sanchari Saha, J. Suneetha, and Paramita Mitra. "Multi-criteria Rank Based Geo-distributed Load Balancing for Cloud Computing." In 2024 Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ICETITE), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2024. 

8. Darius, Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, K. Krishna Sowjanya, V. N. Manju, Sanchari Saha, Paramita Mitra, S. Aswathi, Bhuvanesh Bhattarai, and Shreekanth M. Prabhu. "Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Services in Popular Cloud Platforms." In International Conference on Computational Intelligence, pp. 271-283. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-2854-5_23 

9. P. S. H. Darius, J. Devadason and D. G. Solomon, "Prospects of Ant Colony Optimization(ACO) in Various Domains," 2022 4th International Conference on Circuits, Control, Communication and Computing (I4C), Bangalore, India, 2022, pp. 79-84, doi: 10.1109/I4C57141.2022.10057938. Scopus Indexed, WOS indexed, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10057938 

10. Gundabattini, E., Solomon, D.G., Darius, P.S.H. (2022). Discomfort Experienced by Students While Attending Online Classes During the Pandemic Period. In: Chakrabarti, D., Karmakar, S., Salve, U.R. (eds) Ergonomics for Design and Innovation. HWWE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_152

11. Nithin Zachariah, Chaitra Ankesh, Aliva Mohanty R., Bhuvaneswari R.D., Preethi Sheba Hepsiba “A Review of IoT Systems and Machine Learning Techniques in Crop Yield”, in Proceedings of ACM/CSI/IEEECS Research & Industry IoT cloud Symposium For Societal Applications (IoT Cloud ’21), pp 16 – 20. http://icentre.iiitkottayam.ac.in/pdfs/IoTCloud/PID113.pdf 

12. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Grace Mary Kanaga E., “Semi-permeable agent for Hybrid Cloud Computing (SPAH)” in 16th International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology, 2,3 April 2018, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

13. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Grace Mary Kanaga E, “Bag-of-Tasks Intelligent Scheduling Agent (BISA) in Cloud Computing” in International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms held, 8-10, September 2017, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India.

14. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, “Harnessing the power of the cloud for scientific Computing”, in Proceedings of TRIC (Technological Revolution in Intelligent Computing),pg.201-2016, 20 Oct, 2014, MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

15. Preethi S. H. Darius, Darius Gnanaraj, “Computer Aided Entire Body Assessment,” in Proc of HWWE, International Ergonomics Conference, 2009.

16. Preethi S. H. Darius, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, M.L.Valarmathi, “Coordinated Multiagent based Framework for Patient and Resource Scheduling” In IADIS Int. Conf. Intelligent Systems and Agents, 2009.

17. Preethi S. H. Darius, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, M.L.Valarmathi, “An auction based coordinated multiagent patient scheduling framework using integer programming optimization,” In Int. Conf on Operations Research (ICOREM), 2009.

18. Preethi S. H. Darius. E. Grace Mary Kanaga, M.L. Valarmathi, “An efficient multi-agent patient scheduling using market based coordination mechanism,” in International Conference on Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems, 2009, pg. 1-4.

  National Conference

1. Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, E. Grace Mary Kanaga, “Harnessing the power of the cloud for scientific Computing”, in Proceedings of TRIC (Technological Revolution in Intelligent Computing), 2014.

Patents

• Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Multi-modal Thought Board System, Application ID : 202541060043

• Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Apparatus for chess board variant using cellular automata, Application ID : 202441050578

• Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Sreedevi N, 3D visualizer apparatus with software system for 3D computer generated graphics Application ID : 202341041464

• Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Sreedevi N, Smart teaching assistant for empathetic teaching in classrooms, Application ID: 202241036069

• Preethi Sheba Hepsiba, Jhansi Rani P, Smart online teaching tool, Application ID: 202041040246 

Awards & Achievements

• Service Award - 5 years CMR Institute of Technology, 2024

• Cloud Edge Domain-CSE, Department of CSE,  CMR Institute of Technology, 2021-2022

• Project Coordinator-CSE, Department of CSE, CMR Institute of Technology, 13 August 2022.

• Faculty Award toward ‘Initiatives of Excellence’, CMR Institute of Technology, 15 July 2019.

• Longest continuous Student Branch Coordinator, Computer Society of India, 2012-2013, Region V

• Qualified GATE 2011 Score: 497. All India Rank : 5079 , 96.3 percentile.

• Rank Holder in semester II and III during M.E. (CSE), Karunya University, Coimbatore. 

• Dean’s List Student, all 8 semesters during BIT (Hons.) in Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia.

Events Attended

• 5th International Conference on Communication, Computing &Industry 6.0 - 2024 (C2I6-2024), CMR Institute of Technology, 6,7 December 2024

• Techno-Meet for Society Nov 2024, 23.11.2024, CMR Institute of Technology

• VTU MOOC Coordinators workshop, VTU Regional Office, Nagarabhaavi, 10.09.2024

• India HCI Sysmposium, VIT Vellore, 10 August 2024

• 2024 4th International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Systems (ICDECS), RNSIT Bangalore, 23 March 2024.

• VTU MOOC Coordinators Workshop, BNM Institute of Technology,16.02.2024

• 2024 Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ICETITE), VIT, Vellore, 23 February 2024

• IEEE International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research in Technology and Management, NHCE, Bangalore, 22 Sept 2023.

• 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, IIIT, Pune. 30 Dec 2022 (Online),

• 4th International conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems, ICCIS 2022, NIT Delhi (Online), December 19-20 2022

• International Conference on Circuits, Control, Communication, and Computing, I4C - 2022, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23 December 2022

• Microsoft Ignite, Virtual Event, 12 - 14 October 2022

• 16th International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology, Venue: VIT, Vellore, April 2018

• First International Conference on Advanced Computation and Communication Paradigms. Venue : SMIT, Sikkim, September 2017.

• FDP on mobile Application Development, CMR Institute of Technology, 20th to 26th March 2021. 

• Patent Drafting and Filing Workshop CMR institute of Technology, 13th to 15th July 2020.

• Workshop on Design Thinking, CMR institute of Technology, 10th July 2020 

• Review paper writing workshop, CMR institute of Technology, 24th to 26th June 2020. 

• Webinar on R&D Proposal Writing, Sri Sairam College of Engineering on 12 June 2020.

• An International Great India Developer Summit organized by Saltmarch Media Production on April 2012.

• An International workshop on work related musculoskeletal disorders and participatory Ergonomics: How to ensure everyone has a say… in University of Calcutta, India on 20/12/2009

Roles and Responsibilities

• • Editor, Tech Bytes, CSE Department Newsletter, 2025

  • Finance Chair, 5th International Conference on Communication, Computing &Industry 6.0 - 2024 (C2I6-2024), 24-25

  • VTU MOOC Coordinator, CMR Institute of Technology, 2023,2024,2025

  • Academic Enhancement Cell Head, CMR Institute of Technology, 2022,2023,2024,2025

  • Cloud-Edge Domain Head, Department of CSE, CMRIT, 2022,2023

  • Final year UG student Project Coordinator: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

  • Resource Person for Visualization in Python for AICTE sponsored two weeks FDP on Big Data Analytics and Python Programming from 1st July to 13th July 2019.

  • Organizer of National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing and Communication (NETC2 2019), CMR Institute of Engineering, Bangalore, 17, 18 May 2019.

  • Editor, Techbytes CSE Department Newsletter, CMRIT - 2019