Dr. Sindhu Chandra Sekharan

Area of Expertise:

Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Epigraphy, Indian Temple Sculpture Iconography, Recommender Systems 

Teaching Experience: 

➢ Associate Professor, Department of Computing Technologies, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, between March 2024 and May 2025 

➢ Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, Kattankulathur between July 2013 and February 2024.

 Industry Experience: 

➢ Systems Engineer, Trained on Mainframes, Infosys Technologies (2010-2011) 

Academic Performance: 

➢ Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (2014-2021) on Sentiment Analysis in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. 

➢ M.B.A in Human Resource Management (2014-2016) from SRM University, Kattankulathur, with CGPA. 

➢ M.E in Computer Science and Engineering (2011-2013) from Velammal Engineering College, Chennai with 8.23 CGPA. 

➢ B.E in Information Technology (2006-2010) from Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore with 7.72 CGPA. 

Research Profile:
➢ Scopus: 57189062128
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➢ Google Scholar: AgePnJkAAAAJ
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=AgePnJkAAAAJ
➢ Web of Science ResearcherID : ABA-4697-2021
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ABA-4697-2021
➢ ORCID: 0000-0001-9899-0046
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9899-0046

Awards and Achievements: 

➢ Received Top Performer Award, ISRO- IIRS Course on Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Navigation Satellite System, Feb 2024
➢ Received the Best Paper Award, Research paper: Sculpture and Deep Learning, March 2024
➢ Certified as a Barefoot Counsellor by Explore Counselling having attended 15 hours of Barefoot Counsellor Training at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur from 18th to 26th April 2022.
➢ Won 2nd prize in Poetry -English Competition at the International Women’s Day Celebration 2021, held in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur.
➢ Received the Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Cross Domain Sentiment Analysis on Amazon Product Critique” in the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT-2020), held in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, between 17th to 21st February, 2020.
➢ Won the Top Performer Award in the Faculty Development Workshop on “RedHat Open Stack Cloud” at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, on 30th January, 2018.
➢ Completed Maths Lab – Professional Level – Coding Practices in eLab (an Auto Evaluation Tool) between 10th December 2017 and 17th January 2018, held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology.
➢Represented the team “WHITE” and won the Quiz competition conducted at Infosys Technologies, Mysore. 
➢ Presented a paper titled “Bio-Informatics” in a National Level Technical Symposium conducted at Saraswathi Velu College of Engineering, Vellore and won the Third prize. 

Resource Person: 

➢ For a Guest Lecture on “Design and Analysis of Algorithms” in Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, 23rd April 2021.
➢ For a National Workshop on “Big Data Analytics and Tools” (NWBAT 2020), organized by Data Mining and Analytics & Tools – SIG in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, between 3rd and 5th Nov 2020.
➢ For a Faculty Development Program on “Data Science” organized by Big Data Analytics – SIG, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, between 28th July 2020 and 31st July 2020.