Dr. Kiran Mai, Cherukuri working as Professor in the Department of Computer Science& Engineering, VNR VJIET, has over 31 years of experience in the field of academic research and technological education. She has a multi-disciplinary approach due to varied roles taken up, including but not limited to teaching, research and administration. She was awarded as “Best teacher in Computer Science” in the year 2010, by the professional body—International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She also worked at various administrative positions in the institute (Principal, Dean Academics and Head of the Department) and has an extensive experience in internal administrative tasks and communication. As a Head of the Department, took the prime lead, in setting up the UG and PG laboratories and a research lab in virtual reality and real-time computing. While serving in the administrative positions as Vice-Principal and Principal, she was instrumental in designing the policies and strategies for the institute and also the administrative manuals. Dr. Kiran Mai also administered the processes and could get five departments of the institute recognized as research centres by the JNTUH, the affiliating university. The institute was twice NBA accredited, NAAC accredited with 3.71 CGPA and was also sanctioned UGC autonomous status, while she was in the role of Vice-Principal. As Dean Academics, she played key role in curriculum revision, enhanced the learning by doing component for practical courses and introduced the concept of WIT & WIL (Why I am Teaching, What am I teaching and Why I am Learning, What am I learning). With her industrial experience, where she headed ISO 9002 division – document control, she could frame and document the processes and procedures in the institute with ease. This made the institute also ISO certified. Being a member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), she administers the quality procedures in the institute and performs periodical audit of the academic and administrative processes. Under her leadership, the institute was recognized by UGC as College with Potential for Excellence, got the UG and PG courses re-accredited. She published 36 papers in various reputed national and international journals and conducted faculty development programme in deep learning and intelligent systems and staff development programme in data mining, with the funding from AICTE. She actively participated in the research projects and guided nearly 75 UG projects and 20 PG projects. Currently, four research scholars are working under her guidance. She co-chaired many international conferences. Her research paper on data mining for deforestation using Polyanalyst, presented at the IEEE conference held at Seoul, South Korea, in 2005, was selected as best paper. She was on the editorial board for two Korean journals. Her areas of interest are network communications, data engineering and block chain technologies.
Dr. B.V. Kiranmayee is currently working as an Associate Professor and Heading Department of Computer Science & Engineering at VNR VJIET. She obtained her Ph.D. from JNTU Hyderabad in the area of data mining, M.Tech. in 2007 and B.Tech. in 1995 in Computer Science and Engineering. She has a rich teaching and research experience of 22 years in VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. She has more than 20 research papers published in various reputed national/international conferences and journals which are listed in Scopus, IEEE, Springer Proceedings, etc. She is the member of IEEE and lifetime member of ISTE and CSI. Dr. Kiranmayee’s research interests include data mining, algorithms, image processing, machine learning, deep learning and blockchain technologies. She has rich experience in generating funds from various funding sources like UGC, Consultancies such as organizing Virtual Tour for Warangal Tourism, Developing Educational Videos for School Children and TCS Online examinations. She is the convener for conducting many seminars/workshops/FDPs for the benefit of students and faculty in and out by the eminent personalities from various reputed institutions and industries. She is the Chairman of Board of Studies for the department and also served as BOS member in various other engineering colleges. She has played a crucial role in establishing Center of Excellence in Data Science, Big Data, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. In her leadership, the department has undergone MoUs with various prestigious software industries and academic institutions for reducing the gap between Industry and Academia. She has contributed more towards in successions of getting NBA accreditation, NAAC A++, QS Diamond rating and NIRF ranking. She got Best Paper Award for “Eye state Detection and Analysis for Driver’s Fatigue” in the International Conference of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. She has guided many UG and PG projects in various mezza
