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Date of Joining MEC: 01 September 2005
Professional Experience: Total 15 Years
Educational Profile
M.E. (2008)
Computer & Information Technology
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
First Class with Distinction
B.E. (2005)
Computer Science & Engineering
Anna University
First Class
Courses handled
Computer Organization and Architecture UG 2
Programming Paradigms UG 1
Networking Lab UG 1
Research Interest
Deep Learning
Image Processing
Data mining
Projects / Theses Guided
Rescue Device For Borewell Accidents; Mercy S., Neeraja A. S., Shailesh Kumar S. R., Shehin Shah N.; July 2020.
Soil Analysis and Prediction of Suitable Crop for Agriculture using Machine Learning; Mereena S. Gomez, Roshin J. Bose, Santra P. Koshy, Susan Thomas; July 2020
Clinic + - A Clinical Decision Support System using Association Rule Mining; Sangeeta Santhosh , MEC, Completed April2015.
Mammographic Cancer Detection and Classification using Biclustering and Supervised Classifier; Athira Bivil , MEC, Completed April 2014
Brain Tumour Detection Classification using Fuzzy Clustering approach; Lekshmi S. , MEC, Completed April 2014
Significant Publications
Mercelin Francis, Dr. C. Deisy, "Mathematical and Visual Understanding of a Deep Learning Model Towards m-Agriculture for Disease Diagnosis", Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 1-17, 2020
Mercelin Francis, Dr. C. Deisy, "Disease Detection and Classifcation in Agricultural Plants Using Convolutional Neural Networks - A Visual Understanding", IEEE 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), 2019
Dr. C. Deisy, Mercelin Francis, "Implementation of Data Mining with R" Sentiment Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Contemporary Business, 92-125, 2019.
Dr. C. Deisy, Mercelin Francis, "Image Segmentation for Feature Extraction: A study on Disease Diagnosis in Agricultural Plants", Feature Dimension Reduction for Content-Based Image Identification, 232-257, 2018.
Mercelin Francis, Sangeeta Santhosh, "Clinic + - A Clinical Decision Support System using Association Rule Mining”, International Journal Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified Organization) Vol. 3., Issue 4, April 2015.
FDP'S/ Workshops Attended
Partici[ated in AICTE sponsored Short term training programme (STTP) - Phase I on "Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Control" organized by department of electronics, Toc H Institute of Science & Technology, Ernakulam from 02-11-2020 to 07-11-2020.
Participated in the 6 days AICTE sponsored short term training programme on "BLOCKCHAIN FUNDAMENTALS” organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala from 24th - 29th August, 2020.
Participated and successfully completed the One Week online Short term Faculty Development Programme on "ICT Tools for Teaching Learning Process- Post Pandemic Educational Strategies " which was delivered as MOOC with four quadrants, organised by Department of Physics and IQAC Sree Narayana College Kollam in collaboration with The Kerala State Higher Education Council from August 17-23, 2020. The Grade awarded is 'A'
Participated in AICTE sponsored 6 Days Online Short Term Training Programme on 'Data Analytics and Machine Learning Tools - Phase II' organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Amal Jyothi College of Engineering from 17-22 August 2020.
Participated in FIVE DAY ONLINE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME on "Emerging Trends in Machine Learning and its Application organized by Department of Information Technology", University College of Engineering, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram from 05 Aug 2020 to 10 Aug 2020.
Participated in AICTE sponsored 6 Days Short Term Training Programme on 'Data Analytics and Machine Learning' organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Amal Jyothi College of Engineering from 3-8 August 2020.
Participated in the five days online FDP on "KNOW EVERYTHING RELATED TO RESEARCH" held from 23rd - 28th July 2020, by ILAHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, MUVATTUPUZHA.
Participated in the Five Day Faculty Development Programme on "Research Trends And Challenges In Computer Science" held at Vidyavardhaka College Of Engineering, Mysuru from 13072020 to 17072020 organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
Participated in the Faculty Enablement Program on "Python Programming through INFYTQ Platform" conducted in virtual mode through webinar from 6th to 13th July 2020 by Infosys Limited and has been awarded with "B" Grade.
Participated in a One Week Online Workshop on "Image Processing Using MATLAB" organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Information Technology of St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil from 06th to 11th July, 2020.
Participated in the Faculty Development Program on "Outcome Based Education and Accreditation" organized by IILM College of Engineering & Technology, from 25th May to 29th May, 2020.
Successfully completed the "Effective and Efficient Online Teaching in the Age of Corona, A Hands On Workshop"on 16 May 2020. Also attended the interaction session and successfully completed both pre and post workshop online activities, involving 3 days of video lectures and hands-on work. This training was organised by the Teaching Learning Centre (ICT) at IIT Bombay. funded by the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, Govt. Of India.
Successfully completed 07 days sessions on "Fundamentals of Python" from 29th April 2020 - 06th May 2020, conducted by Hortari Technologies.
Attended the Five days Faculty Development Program on "Java Programming" conducted by Oracle Academy in associate with ICT Academy of Kerala from 24th February 2020 to 28th February 2020 at Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
Participated in AICTE sponsored 2-week Faculty Development Program on "Role of Machine Learning in Internet Of Things Applications" from 9th December 2019 to 20th December 2019 at Marian Engineering College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Completed a 12 week NPTEL online certification course on “Introduction to Machine Learning”, Jan-April 2018.
AICTE-QIP sponsored 2-week short term course on “Deep Learning with Applications in Language, Vision & Control”, organized by CSE department, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, 4th to 17th Dec 2017.
AICTE sponsored 2-weeks faculty development programme on “Context Aware Recommender System in Cloud Environment”, organized by CSE department, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, 20th November to 3rd December 2017.
Completed Online Python Training offered by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, 27th Nov 2017.
TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on "Research Paper Writing", organized by the Academic Research Section of Thiagarajar College Of Engineering on 15th September 2017.
TEQIP-II sponsored 3-days hands-on workshop on "Image Processing an Embedded Systems using NI LabView", organized by Mechanical Engineering department, Govt. Engineering College, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram from 23rd to 25th March 2017.
TEQIP sponsored 1-week workshop on "Real Time Data Analytics", organized by CSE department, Thiagarajar College Of Engineering, 9th to 15th March 2017.
TEQIP sponsored 3-days Hands-on workshop on "Artificial Intelligence Tools", organized by CSE department, Thiagarajar College Of Engineering, 23rd to 25th January 2017.
TEQIP sponsored 1-day workshop on "Content Management Systems", organized by CSE department, Thiagarajar College Of Engineering on 29th August 2016.
Webinars Attended
Participated in the Power Seminar Series on "IoT & its Industrial Applications" organised by Association of Computer Engineers of St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering on 02/09/2020.
Participated in the Webinar - "Transforming Youth into Responsible Citizens And Engage Them In Developing The Nation", On the 15th day of August 2020, by the Lead India Foundation
Participated in the International Webinar on "HOW TO TURN ENGINEERS TO ENTREPRENEURS" 9, 10 & 11 August 2020 conducted by MBITS in association with KERALA STARTUP MISSION & VSSC, ISRO Organised by: IEDC & COVID 19 CELL, MBITS.
Participated in Webinar Series on "Everyone Can Do Quality Research Talk 04: From Research and Technology Innovation to Entrepreneurship" on 16.07.2020
Webinar for faculty development program on "Outcome Based Education Software" organised by vmedulife software services on 04th July, 2020.
Participated in the International Webinar "COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH SKILLS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND FACULTY", 28th - 30th June, 2020 Conducted by MBITS In association with ASA Coordinated by IQAC & COVID 19 CELL, MBITS.
Participated in the webinar "Artificial Intelligence using Python" hosted by the Electronics & Communications Department, University College of Engineering, Kariavattom on 29th June 2020.
Participated in the webinar on "Mendeley Software for References" Organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. AMC Engineering College on 13.6.2020
Participated in Webinar on "EFFICACY OF AI"organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KMEA Engineering College in association with Computer Society of India on 8th June 2020.
Participated in the webinar on "Web App Development and Hosting using Bootstrap" organised by Sree Buddha College of Engineering and Logix Space Technologies Pvt Ltd. on May21,2020.
FDPs / STTPs / Workshops (As Resource Person)
Reviewed papers in the International Conference on NextGen Information Systems and Technologies (NGIST '18) jointly organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), during July 19-20, 2018.
Delivered a technical talk on "Image Classification using CNN" in ACM sponsored ELIXIR 2K18 technical symposium at Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, September 2018.