Dr. J V Gorabal

International Journals:

No of International : 11

Prof. Sudheer Shetty

International Journals:

No of International : 8

Prof. Srinath M

National Journal

No of National : 3

Prof. Prabhakara B. K.

International Journals:

No of International : 6

Dr. Pushpalatha K

International Journals:

No of International : 2

Mr. S. Girish

International Journals:

No of International : 4

Mr. Shailesh Shetty S

International Journals:

No of International : 3

Ms. Shetty Mamatha Gopal

National Journal

No of National : 2

International Journals:

No of International : 2

Mrs. Sadhana

National Journal

No of National : 1

International Journals:

No of International : 4

Mr. Shobhan Kumar

International Journals:

No of International : 3

Mr. Harisha

International Journals:

No of International : 3

Mrs. Ankitha K

International Journals:

No of International : 9

Mr. Manjunath Mulimani

International Journals:

No of International : 2

Mr. Madesha. M

International Journals:

No of International : 4

Mrs. Ronnie Merin George

National Journal

No of National : 1

Mr. Sunil. B. N.

International Journals:

No of International : 2

Mrs. Priya R Kamath

International Journals:

No of International : 3

Mr. Jinto Thomas

International Journals:

No of International : 2

Mr. S. N. Bharath Bhushan

International Journals:

No of International : 6

Ms. Sweekriti M Shetty

International Journals:

No of International : 1

Ms. Pooja N S

International Journals:

No of International : 1

Ms. Suketha

International Journals:

No of International : 1

Mr. Shreenath Waramballi

International Journals:

No of International : 5

Faculty Members Attended Workshop/Seminars

Dr. J V Gorabal

Prof. Sudheer Shetty

Prof. Prabhakara B. K.

Dr. Pushpalatha K

Mr. Shailesh Shetty S

Ms. Shetty Mamatha Gopal

Mrs. Sadhana

Mr. Shobhan Kumar

Mr. Harisha

Mrs. Ankitha K

Mr. Duddela Sai Prashanth

Mr. Manjunath Mulimani

Mr. Madesha. M

Mr. Jinto Thomas

Ms. Biniya Kocharakal Binoy

Mr. Shreenath Waramballi

Mr. Manjunath Mulimani

CLOUDS 2016 - 2017

CLOUDS, the student association for the academic year 2016-17 was inaugurated by Mr. Karthik Bhat, Software Engineer at the UniCourt Inc. in the presence of Professor Sudheer Shetty, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prof. Sudheer Shetty welcomed the gathering and delivered the inaugural address.

Mr. Karthik Bhat stated the importance of learning programming languages and its need in our day to day life. He said, it is very essential in the present era to be well versed with technology. He encouraged the students to take up Mini projects.

The inaugural ceremony was then followed by Cultural activities by students of the department. Ms. Mamatha Shetty, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & engineering coordinated the entire event.

CLOUDS 2015 - 2016

CLOUDS (Computer Legends Of the Unified Department @ Sahyadri), the student association for the academic year 2015-16 was inaugurated by Professor Sudheer Shetty, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In his address he laid importance on health and about how attitude affects the success of a student. This was then followed by Cultural activities by the students.

Various activities for the academic year 2014-15 of CLOUDS (Computer Legends of the Unified Department @ Sahyadri), an association of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CLOUDS 2014-15

CLOUDS 2014-15 was inaugurated by Dr. Antony P. J., Director, PG Studies, KVG College of Engineering, Sullia. Mr. Sudheer Shetty, HoD and the President of CLOUDS, welcomed the Chief Guest, the staff and the second year students of the department. Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, the Principal, in his presidential address, appreciated the association for all its efforts. Prof. Umashankar B. S., Dean-Academic was present during the function. Ms. Kirthi Prasad, General Secretary of the Association, gave an overview of the activities of the Association for the year 2013-14 and the activities planned for the current academic year. 

On the occasion, Dr. Antony P. J., the Chief Guest, delivered a technical talk on, “Natural Language Processing." He shared his immense knowledge about Linguistic Computation and its Applications. He gave a glimpse of the scope and advancements in this field. 

The staff co-ordinator, Mrs. Mehanaz Begum, read out the names of the VTU toppers of all semesters of CSE and M.Tech.(CSE) and they were honored on this occasion with a certificate and a gift voucher by the Chief Guest. Mr. Gautham J. Shetty, the Vice-President of CLOUDS, proposed the Vote of Thanks. Mr. Sachin Ganesh, Semester V and Mr. Pratheek Shetty, Semester III were felicitated for the preparation of the association logo and the theme song, respectively. On the occasion, the new CLOUD app was introduced to all. 

Various technical and non-technical events like Treasure Hunt, Cooking without Fire and variety programmes by students and staff were carried out in the afternoon session where they were given an opportunity to showcase their talents.

TOXICS 2013-14

Various activities for the academic year 2013-14 of TOXICS-Technically Outstanding experts of Information and Computer Science and Engineering - a Student Association of the Department of Computer Science Engineering & Information Science & Engineering was inaugurated by Mr. Sudheer Pakkala, Software Test Manager, Timken Engineering Research India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.

Mr. Sudheer Shetty, HoD of CSE and the President of TOXICS, welcomed the Chief Guest, the staff, and the second year students of CSE and ISE. Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, the Principal, in his presidential address said that the association must help the students in developing their skills and this should lead to the overall development of their personality. Dr. Mohandas Bhat, Dean-Academics was present during the function. Dr. Manu A. P., HoD of ISE and the advisor of TOXICS, gave motivational guidelines to the students and wished them the best in the coming events to be conducted by TOXICS. The General Secretary, Mr. Gautham J. Shetty, gave an overview of the Association activities of the year 2012-13 and the activities planned for the current academic year. The HoDs of various departments were present on the occasion.

On the occasion, Mr. Sudheer Pakkala, the Chief Guest, delivered a technical talk on, "Business Process Testing". He shared his immense knowledge about software testing and its application in business process. He gave a glimpse of the scope and advancements in this field.

The staff co-ordinator, Ms. Mehanaz Begum, read out the names of the VTU toppers of all semesters of CSE and ISE and they were honored on this occasion with a certificate and a gift voucher by the chief guest.

Mr. Sagar S. Shetty, the Vice-President of TOXICS, proposed the Vote of thanks. Various technical and non-technical events like Technical Treasure Hunt, Technical Dumb charades, Cooking without fire, and variety programmes by students and staff were carried out in the afternoon session where the students were given an opportunity to showcase their talents.

TOXICS 2012-13

Various activities for the academic year 2012-13 of TOXICS-Technically Outstanding experts of Information and Computer Science and Engineering – a students’ association of CSE & ISE was inaugurated by Dr. U.  B. Pavanaja, Ex-scientist, BARC, Mumbai.

The president of TOXICS, HOD of CSE and ISE, welcomed the chief Guest, the staff, and the second year students of CSE and ISE. The general secretary, Mr. Sagar Shetty, gave an overview of the Association activities of the year 2011-12 and the activities planned for the current academic year.

Dr. U.  B. Pavanaja, the chief guest, addressed the gathering and shared his immense knowledge. He delivered a technical talk on “Software Internationalization/Localization."   He spoke about the necessity of localization and globalization of the languages. He gave a glimpse of the scope and advancements in this field.

Meritorious students and VTU toppers were honoured on this occasion with a certificate and a gift voucher by the chief guest.

Various technical and non-technical events like IT Quiz, Cooking without fire, Super Trios (A mixture of programming and non-programming events) were carried out in the afternoon session where the students were given an opportunity to showcase their talents.

Dr. AnanthPrabhu interacts with PM Narendra Modi

Dr.AnanthPrabhu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering interacted with the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri NarendraModi on the 8th of May 2016 at the international airport at Mangalore. During his interaction, Dr. AnanthPrabhu briefed about project-based learning, research and the various unique initiatives taken up by Sahyadri for the betterment of society in the field of higher education.

Mr. AnanthPrabhu G Successfully Defends his Doctoral Thesis

Mr. AnanthPrabhu G Successfully Defends his Doctoral Thesis 

Mr. AnanthPrabhu G, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Performance Improvement of Smith Waterman Algorithm using Parallel Processing”. He has also published 3 international journals and 2 international papers. He registered for his doctoral studies in 2011 at VTU under the able guidance of Dr. Ganesh Aithal. The management and staff of Sahyadri congratulate him and wish him well in his endeavors.

Student projects selected for Unisys Cloud 20/20

• Ms. Sushmitha B, Ms. Saishree K Naik, Ms.Swathi and Ms.Vidyashree students of Semester VIII, Computer Science & Engineering, with their project titled “Online Bidding System For Resource Allocation In Cloud” have made their entry into the All India level Unisys Cloud 20/20 student technical project contest version 7.0 under the guidance of Mrs. Ronnie Merin George, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science& Engineering.
• Ms. PoojaNaik , Ms. JyothiManju Gouda and Ms. Pooja S students of Semester VIII, Computer Science& Engineering ,with project titled “Monitoring And Live Migration Of Virtual Machines Using Open Source For Efficient Resource Utilization” have made their entry into the All India level Unisys Cloud 20/20 student technical project contest version 7.0 under the guidance of Mr. Harisha, Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
  
  Cloud 20/20 Version 7.0 is India’s biggest online technical project contest which gives the platform to showcase student’s innovative and path-breaking technical ideas and take them to the next level. Through Cloud 20/20 Version 7.0, Unisys aspires to reach out to the leading engineering campus all over in India and discover the finest technical talent.

Pooja Selected to Head and Facilitate Google’s Applied CS for Android Program

Putting Sahyadri permanently on the radar of Google, Pooja, Semester VI, computer science & engineering has been selected as the facilitator for the "Applied CS for Android Program" in limited number of campuses in India. Pooja will be heading the program, which will run parallel to the Google Student Ambassador Program scheduled to start next year. She has cleared two rounds of selection (application round and YouTube round) and will now attend a boot camp in Google’s Office at Bangalore on the 5th and 6th of March, 2016.

The "Applied Science for Android" Program will enable students to adopt the algorithms used by engineers at Google and help them develop their technical abilities.

Faculty Member Attends Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing

Mr. ManjunathMulimani, Assistant Professor, Department of ComputerScience & Engineering participated in the "Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP)-2016" organised by SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. WiSSAP-2016 highlighted the concept of "Speech Prosody". WiSSAP-2016 provided a forum for students, researchers and professionals to enhance their knowledge in speech and audio signal processing.

Prof. Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson ,University of Illinois, Prof. Yi Xu, University College London, Prof. Hema Murthy, IIT Madras, Prof. PreetiRao, IIT, Bombay, Prof. V. Ramasubramanian, PESIT, Bangalore, Prof. PriyankooSarmah, IIT, Guwahati and Dr. Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research Lab, Bangalore were the resource persons.

Silver Partner Recognition for Faculty Member by Infosys 

Mrs. Mehanaz Begum, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been recognized as the `Silver Partner Faculty’ under Inspire – The Campus Connect Faculty Partnership Model by the Campus Connect team, Education, Training and Assessment, Infosys Limited, Mangaluru. She was felicitated during the Inspire Excellence award event at the Infosys office in Mangaluru. During the Inspire Excellence award event, an event called Content Guru was held. Mrs. Mehanaz Begum, and Mrs. Sadhana, Assistant Professors, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, actively participated in the event. They had to submit any artifacts which they had created and deployed in order to enhance the course delivery and the student learning effectiveness for all the Campus Connect Partnered colleges who had been selected by the Infosys jury.

Faculty Member Appointed IT Advisor to VTU

Dr. AnanthPrabhu G., Associate Professor, Department of ComputerScience & Engineering has been appointed as the IT Advisor to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, on an honorary basis for one year.

Faculty Members Paper Published at IMCIC-2016, USA

A research paper entitled "A Novel Approach for Performance Improvement in Parallel Processing" by Dr. AnanthPrabhu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science& Engineering has been published in the pre-conference proceedings of the Special Session "Frontiers in Development of Intelligent Applications for Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision and Soft Computing" at the 7th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC-2016), Orlando, Florida, USA.

Alumni and Faculty Member’s Paper Published in Springer International

A Research Paper titled "NEBULA: Deployment of cloud using open source" authored by Anjali Bhandary, AshwiniRai, Nagadeeksha, and Jayashree of the 2014 batch of students of the Department ofComputer Science & Engineering and Mr. ManjunathMulimani, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering has been published in Springer Publishing as part of the proceedings of the international conference on soft computing systems.

Faculty Member Invited as a Judge

Prof. ShaileshShetty S., Department of ComputerScience and Engineering was invited to judge the event `Dubmash’ in YEN SPLASH XVI, an inter-collegiate technical & cultural fest organised by Yenepoya Institute of Technology, Moodbidri.

Faculty Member Invited as judge for Paper Presentation

Mr. ShamanthRai, Assistant Professor, Department ofComputer Science and Engineering , officiated as a judge for RAPBOT- A technical paper presentation competition in “TECHYUVA-2016”, which was hosted by Srinivas School of Engineering, Mukka.

A seminar on Java Application Development & IT Trends organized by CSE Department

Sahyadrians win prizes at Sambhram 2017

Navneeth Krishna	Rumaan Khalander	Musthaq Ahmed
Pallavi K	Pooja	Prof. Bharath Bhushan

Under the guidance and support of Prof. Bharath Bhushan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, fourth semester CSE students had participated and won prizes in Sambhram-2017

• Navneeth Krishna and Rumaan Khalander - 1st Prize in Technical paper presentation
• Rumaan Khalander and Musthaq Ahmed - 2nd Prize in Android App development
• Pallavi K and Pooja - 2nd Prize in Kite Fighting competition.

Student Association CLOUDS Organize ORPH-HELP Event

CLOUDS, (Computer Legends Of Unified Department @ Sahyadri) , Students’ Association of Computer Science and Engineering conducted “Orph-Help;” an intra-departmental activity which is an initiative to help the elderly, orphans and differently-abled people of the society. The function was inaugurated by Dr. J V Gorbal, Dean Acadamics. Co-ordinated by Miss. Shetty Mamatha Gopal, faculty members and office bearers of CLOUDS and all students were present during the function. Competitions like  quiz, variety programmes were conducted for students and faculty members, this paved an opportunity for them to show their talents. As part of ORPH-HELP event Rs 10,000 has been donated to Spandana Oraganization (a Home for Children).

Workshop On Python Application Building

A two-day workshop on Application Building using Python was held for the semester VI students of computer scienceand information science engineering. Forty-two students were part of the workshop. Mr. VinayRaghavan, Tech Lead, Future Focus Infotech was the resource person. Students learnt new python frameworks and will have a chance to intern at Future Focus Infotech.

Alumnus Conducts Training Programme for Students

Karthik Bhat an alumnus of the college and software developer in Unicourt India and his colleague Santhosh K, senior software developer, organized a training session for the students of the third yearcomputer science & engineering and Information Science & engineering on the Basics of Python. Forty-two students gained valuable insight during this training programme.

Guest Lecture on Corporate Life by Perin from ICFAI

                Mr. Perin, Area Manager, ICFAI Business School, addressed final year students of Computer Science & Engineering and InformationScience & Engineering on corporate life. He briefed about time management skill, competition in the corporate world, decision making and problem solving skill.

Mr. Perin enjoys sharing knowledge and experiences with others for the last 22 plus years. He is a highly experienced facilitator with subject matter expertise in HR, L&D, OD, Marketing, Sales & BD in the domain areas of retail, automobile, BFSI, telecom, IT and thousands of participants have benefited from his insights.

Multi-functional participants from diversified business verticals have ranked him as an excellent facilitator for topics like Sales & Service, Business Communication Skills, Time Management, Customer Centricity, Lateral Thinking, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and Leadership Skills.

Faculty Member Trains Officers of Mangaluru Customs Commissionerate

Mr. DuddelaSaiPrashanth, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering was invited as a resource person to train the officers & staff of Mangaluru Customs Commissionerateoncomputer applications. The officers of the Commissionerate headed by Deputy Commissioner Mr. Praveen applauded the efforts of Mr. DuddelaSaiPrashanth

Alumni interacts at Sahyadri

Faculty Invited as a Resource Person

Prof. B. S Umashankar, Professor and Dean Academics was invited to deliver a lecture on “Latest technologies which are Driving the Web”, at the National Seminar on “Emerging Technology in Computer Science & Information Technology” organized at the St. Philomena College, Puttur.

Dean Academic Delivers Talk on `Future Technologies in Computer Graphics’

Prof. B. S Umashankar, Dean Academic was invited to deliver a technical talk on "Future Technologies inComputer Graphics" for the students and faculty of the Department of Information Science & Engineering, Alva's Institute of Engineering and Technology, Moodbidri.

Chief Minister of UP Shri. Yogi Adityanath releases book authored by faculty Dr. Ananth Prabhu G

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath ji launched the third book of Dr Ananth Prabhu G, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, titled 'I bought the Monks Ferrari'. The book will be in stores in December 2017. The proceeds from the sales will go for the education of Orphans.

Epilogue:
Arnaav is a teenager, like any other boy of his age, filled with visions and aspirations, finds his life revolving around his parents, school, studies and endless hours to turn his visions into reality. His strong will power helps him fight obstacles to achieve his goals.

From being a topper in school, to attaining a seat in IIT, a messed up love life and a dream job at Google.Inc he manages being on track in the journey of life . But one day, he ticks off his wish list by purchasing a Ferrari after which, everything changes .He finds himself in dilemma. Urged by a twist of events, he decides to take a trip to attain inner peace.

What happens next?
Dr. Ananth Prabhu G brings to you an extraordinary story that tugs at the heartstrings he explores with intuition and wisdom.

I bought the monks Ferrari is a tale about a journey that connects the materialistic world to the spiritual world in a simple but profound way.

Sahyadrian wins 1st prize in Classical Solo Singing at NITK Suratkal

Priyanka KP, a student of FourthYear Computer Science Engineering has won 1st prize in Classical Solo Singing (Raagalaya) at INCIDENT 2018 organized by National Institute of technology (NITK) Suratkal. She is also a National Scholarship holder and has also completed her VidwathExam. She is a B Grade Artist in AIR and has been awarded many titles by organizations.

Hands-On session on Salesforce Trailhead for CS & IS Students

Students of Computer Science & Information Science Engineering underwent Hands-on session on Salesforce Trailhead. The resource person was Mr. Rajesh Nambiyar, Programme Manager, Salesforce Trailhead for APAC. Trailhead is a free to access platform to learn salesforce skills. He also addressed the students on the IT evolution & the jobs opportunities in salesforce economy. Salesforce is the fastest growing company with 3.3 million jobs to be created in the salesforce economy (according to IDC report). This means that there is a great opportunity for students to get into this domain. In the next 4 years, there will be more than 3.6 lakhs direct jobs which would be created in Salesforce economy.

Faculty presents paper in an International Symposium at Taichung, Taiwan

Dr. Pushpalatha K, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering presented a research paper titled - “A New Multimedia Documents Clustering Approach based on Feature Patterns Similarity” in the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2017) at Taichung, Taiwan. The paper was co-authored by Prof. Ananthanarayana V S, Dean (R&D), NITK.

Faculty attend Five-Day GIAN course

Prof. Mamatha Shetty, Prof. Sadhana and Prof. Sweekrithi Shetty from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering attended a Five-Day GIAN course in Visual Object Recognition organized by Mangalore University in association with MHRD during 15th January – 19th January 2018. Global Initiative of academic Network (GIAN) is an initiative approved by Union Cabinet in Higher Education which aims at tapping the talent pool of Scientist and Entrepreneur Internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country’s existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India’s scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.

Dr. Joachim Denzler, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany visits Sahyadri

Dr. Joachim Denzler Professor in Computer Science and Head of the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University visited Sahyadri and presented a technical talk on “Machine Learning and its various applications”. His research interests comprise of automatic analysis, fusion, and understanding of sensor data, especially development of methods for visual recognition tasks and dynamic scene analysis. He contributed in the area of active vision, 3D reconstruction, as well as object recognition and tracking. He is the author and co- author of over 250 journal and conference papers as well as technical articles. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE computer society, DAGM, and GI.

Dr. Ananth Prabhu G interacts with the Mayor of Birmingham at the SDPS 2017

Dr. Ananth Prabhu G, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering had an opportunity to interact with Mr. William A Bell, Honourable Mayor of Birmingham at the SDPS conference 2017 at Birmingham, Alabama.

William A. Bell Sr. is an American politician who is the 28th mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office in 2010. Bell previously held the office on an interim basis in 1999.

Dr. Prabhu discussed about the various research & academic activities undertaken at Sahyadri and even invited the Mayor to visit the institution. Dr. Steven Fernandes, Assistant Professor in the Dept of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Sahyadri and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Alabama Birmingham is the coordinator of SDPS 2017. Dr. Varadaraj Gurupur, Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida and Organizer of the SDPS was also present.

SDPS was incorporated in the State of Texas on September 6, 1995. The corporation is organized for educational and scientific purposes and shall be dedicated to the study, understanding and use of design and process science for the benefit of all people throughout the world. It is the vision of this Society to be a catalyst for change, enabling the discovery of new approaches that lead to alternative solutions for the increasingly complex problems that face civilization.

Faculty Member Trains Officers of Mangaluru Customs Commissionerate

Mr. DuddelaSaiPrashanth, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering was invited as a resource person to train the officers & staff of Mangaluru Customs Commissionerateoncomputer applications. The officers of the Commissionerate headed by Deputy Commissioner Mr. Praveen applauded the efforts of Mr. DuddelaSaiPrashanth

Alumni interacts at Sahyadri

• Mr. KarthikBhat, software developer Unicourt India, alumnus of SCEM, 2015 batch interacted with students of computer science engineering. In this interactive session he stressed on the importance of basic knowledge of computer programming. He also shared his experience in the IT field and expressed the importance of Programming on part of IT Engineers.
• Mr. ShivaprasadShetty, Senior Software Engineer, Symphony Teleca, Bangalore and Mr. Vasudevan, Associate Software Engineer, Tech Mahindra, alumni of Sahyadri College, interacted with the students of Semester III of the department of Computer Science & Engineering.The alumni were eager to share their knowledge about the interview process and work culture in the corporate sector. They inspired the students by sharing with them the importance of projects and internships in academics. Students greatly benefitted from their interaction.

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Faculty Invited as a Resource Person

Prof. B. S Umashankar, Professor and Dean Academics was invited to deliver a lecture on “Latest technologies which are Driving the Web”, at the National Seminar on “Emerging Technology in Computer Science & Information Technology” organized at the St. Philomena College, Puttur.

Dean Academic Delivers Talk on `Future Technologies in Computer Graphics’

Prof. B. S Umashankar, Dean Academic was invited to deliver a technical talk on "Future Technologies inComputer Graphics" for the students and faculty of the Department of Information Science & Engineering, Alva's Institute of Engineering and Technology, Moodbidri.