Department: Computer Science & Engineering

• Received Project funding for the title “Animal Trespassing Detection System” from KSCSTE in 2021. LETTER No:00718/SPS 65/2021/KSCSTE.
• Published Journal paper titled “Automated Body Temperature, Mask Detection And Face Recognition Based Attendance System” in International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022.
  DOI: 10.36647/ijercse/09.06.art002, Part of ISSN: 2394-2320 .
• Published Scopus Journal Paper for the title “Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Survey of Endangered Species” IN BOOK CHAPTER named Communication and Intelligent Systems, 2023.DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2322-9_30 .
• Published a paper titled” An IoT Based Secure Smart Farming” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuit Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICCPCT58313.2023.10245248
• Presented a paper on ‘ A Comprehensive Analysis of Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms for Securing IoT Data’ in the international conference organized by the Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering held on 18th November 2022 and paper published in AIP Conference Proceedings on OCTOBER 13 2023. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article/2904/1/020001/2916377/A-comprehensive-analysis-of-hybrid-machine
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0170716 [https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/26916 ]
• Presented the paper entitled “A Review on Optimization and Feature Selection Techniques for Data Security in IoT” in third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Social Networking (ICPCSN 2023) organised by Narasu’s Sarathy Institute of Technology, Salem, India on 19-20, June 2023. Paper published in the proceedings of the conferenceIEEE Xplore on 04 October 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10265938. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCSN58827.2023.00217
• Published SCI Journal paper “AUTOMATIKA: Journal for control, measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications” for the title “Unveiling the IoT’s dark corners: anomaly detection enhanced by ensemble modelling” Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on Feb 8th 2024.
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00051144.2024.2304369
• Published Scopus Journal Paper for the title “Deep Learning Model with Normalized Bayesian Optimizer for Anomaly Classification in IoT Security” in SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Volume11 Issue-8, pp.185-199, August 2024.
  https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V11I8P119 https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/
• Published Scopus Journal Paper for the title “Navigating the IoT Landscape: A Deep Dive into Anomaly Classification for IoT Security” in SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Volume-11 Issue-11, pp.153-167, December 2024. https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V11I11P114. https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101150690 .
• Presented a paper titled “Smart Vehicle Parking Management System Using Machine
  Leaming and loT at the 1st International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learming. The conference was organized by the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, CSE (AI & ML), CSE (DS), and AI & DS at Vignan Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, held on August 30th and 31st 2024.
• Published the paper titled Remote Health  Monitoring and Diagnosis Service Platform  Via Wearable ECG Monitor in International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR), Volume 2, Issue 5, ISSN: 1095-1099, May 2013.
• AUTO-LEADING ROBOTIC CONVOY in International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR), Volume 3, Issue 4,ISSN:1047- 1051, April 2014.
•  An Access Control Model for Shared Data in Online Social Networks, International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR), Volume 3, Issue 12, ISSN:3506-3512, December 2014,
•  OpenBot in International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR),Volume 6, Issue 6, pp.1012-1015,ISSN: 2278 – 7798, June 2017,
• COLLEGE BUS TRACKER in International Journal of Science, Engineering and   Technology Research , Volume 7,Issue 5, pp.309-316, ISSN: 2278 – 7798, May-2018
• Published the paper titled ” IoT DEVICE MANAGEMENT USING BLOCKCHAIN ” in International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research , Volume 8, Issue3, pp.79-84, .March-2019
• Published a Paper Title ” PAWTOPIA: A Virtual Animal Sanctuary”, paper ID- IJREAM-V06-I03-63115 in International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management (IJREAM), ISSN : 2454-9150 Vol-06, Issue-03, June 2020.

• Resource person for “Familiarisation and Demonstration of 8086 Microprocessor ” to semester 4 MSc Physics students in the Department of Physics, Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous), Thiruvananthapuram LAST 5 YEARS.
• Organized a 6 days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Robotics and Intelligent Systems” from December 9th to December 14th, 2024. Organised Alumni Meet, Alumni talk series. Reviewer for conferences such as ICEMPS2024,ICSCC2025,NETACT2025.
• Organized Hackathon , IoT workshop, Android App Development workshop, technical talks, Blockchain workshop, Python bootcamp, Online webinars in association with IEEE Computer Society.

• A paper titled “Brush or Algorithm” presented at the International Conference on the Future of Connected Systems – IoT, AI, and 5G (FoCS-2025) and received the Best Paper Award , organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, and Department of Software Engineering at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, Kanyakumari, India, held on May 2, 2025.

• ”High Performance Resource Provisioning in Cloud Computing”, National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications,NCACC-2013.
• ” Speech Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning Techniques”, Proceedings  of CIS 2020 volume1,Springer-Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.
• ”A Transfer Learning Approach for predicting Alzheimer’s Disease”, Proceedings of the 4th Biennial International Conference on Nascent Technologies in Engineering(ICNTE-2021),IEEE.
• ”Prediction of Parkinson’s Disease from Voice signals using Machine Learning”, International Journal of Engineering.”A study on Modeling the Dopaminergic Pathways of Parkinson’s Disease”,Scopus indexed AIP conference Proceedings.

Journals

• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have the paper titled “An Empirical Research and Comparative Analysis of Clustering Performance for Processing Categorical and Numerical Data Extracts from Social Media” selected for publication in UEM Acta Scientiarum. Technology (ISSN: 1807-8664, SCIE, Scopus), Jan 2022.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “SemRec – An Efficient Ensemble Recommender with Sentiment based Clustering for Social Media Text Corpus” in Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (ISSN: 1532-0634, SCIE, Scopus, Impact factor: 1.536 (2020)), May 2021.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms for Varying Cardinality and Dimensionality of Data Sets” in Elsevier Materials Today: Proceedings(ISSN: 2214-7853, Scopus), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Jan 2020.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “An Extensive Study on the Evolution of Context-Aware Personalized Travel Recommender Systems” in Elsevier Information Processing and Management(ISSN: 0306-4573, SCIE, Scopus, Impact Factor: 6.222 (2020)), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Jul 2019.
• Shini Renjithhas published the paper titled “Detection of Fraudulent Sellers in Online Marketplaces using Support Vector Machine Approach” in International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) (ISSN: 2231-5381), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Mar 2018.
• Shini Renjithhas published the paper titled “B2C E-Commerce Customer Churn Management: Churn Detection using Support Vector Machine and Personalized Retention using Hybrid Recommendations” in International Journal on Future Revolution in Computer Science & Communication Engineering (IJFRCSCE) (ISSN: 2454-4248), Vol. 3 Issue 11, Nov 2017.
• Shini Renjith, Alpana Gopi, Divya P R, LittyRajan and Surya Rajan have published the paper titled “Accident Tracking and Visual Sharing Using RFID and SDN” in International Journal of Computer Engineering In Research Trends (IJCERT)(ISSN: 2349-7084), Vol. 3 Issue 10, Oct 2016.
• Shini Renjithand Dhanya Sudhakaran have published the paper titled “Context Aware Community Detection Scheme for Identification of Community in Multi-dimensional Networks” in International Journal of ICTAK (Convergence) (ISSN: 2454-5848), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jun 2016.
• Shini Renjithand Dhanya Sudhakaran have published the paper titled “Multi Comm_Plus: A Community Detection System for Identification of Community in Multi-Dimensional Networks” in International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJIRCCE) (ISSN: 2320-9801), Vol. 4 Issue 5, May 2016.
• Shini Renjithand Dhanya Sudhakaran have published the paper titled “Survey of Community Detection Algorithms to Identify the Best Community in Real-Time Networks” in International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Applied Science (IJSEAS) (ISSN: 2395-3470), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 2016.
• Shini Renjithand Dhanya Sudhakaran have published the paper titled “Phase based Resource Aware Scheduler with Job Profiling for MapReduce” in International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJLTET) (ISSN: 2278-621X), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Nov 2015.
• Shini Renjithhas published the paper titled “An Integrated Framework to Recommend Personalized Retention Actions to Control B2C E-Commerce Customer Churn” in International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) (ISSN: 2231-5381), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Sep 2015.
• Shini Renjithand K.G. Jijimol have published the paper titled “Load Balanced Optimal Client Server Assignment for Internet Distributed Systems” in International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER) (ISSN: 0973-9769, Scopus), Vol. 10 Issue 69, Jul 2015.
• Shini Renjithand Anjali C have published the paper titled “Fitness Function in Genetic Algorithm based Information Filtering – A Survey” in International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing (IJCSMC), ICMIC13 (ISSN: 2320-088X), Dec 2013.
• Shini Renjithand Anjali C have published the paper titled “A Personalized Travel Recommender Model Based on Content-based Prediction and Collaborative Recommendation” in International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing (IJCSMC), ICMIC13 (ISSN: 2320-088X), Dec 2013.

Book Chapters

• Shini Renjith, Rohit R.V., Aiswarya D.R., Athulya Roy and Vighnesh M. have the paper titled “A Novel Approach to Predict Success of Online Games Using Random Forest Regressor for Time Series Data” selected for publication in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (ISSN: 1876-1119).
• Shini Renjith, Rahul Sunil, Kesia M. Joies, Abhijeet C. and Bharath T.U. have the paper titled “BitMedi: An Application to Store Medical Records Efficiently and Securely” selected for publication in Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies (ISSN: 2367-4520).
• Shini Renjith and Merlin S. David have the paper titled “Comparison of Word Embeddings in Text Classification Based on RNN and CNN” selected for publication in IOP: Materials Science and Engineering (ISSN: 1757-899X).
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “SMaRT: Social Media based Recommender for Tourism” in Springer Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence(ISBN: 9783030495008, ISSN: 2569-7072), Vol. 5, Feb 2021.
• Shini Renjith, Mable Biju and Monica Merin Mathew have published the paper titled “A Sentiment-Based Recommender System Framework for Social Media Big Data Using Open-Source Tech Stack” in Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (ISBN: 9789811535147, ISSN: 2194-5357, Scopus, Impact Factor: 0.570), Vol. 1245, Oct 2020.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “Pragmatic Evaluation of the Impact of Dimensionality Reduction in the Performance of Clustering Algorithms” in Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (ISBN: 9789811555589, ISSN: 1876-1100,Scopus, Impact Factor: 0.340), Vol. 672, Sep 2020.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper titled “A Comparative Analysis of Clustering Quality Based on Internal Validation Indices for Dimensionally Reduced Social Media Data” in Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (ISBN: 9789811535147, ISSN: 2194-5357, Scopus, Impact Factor: 0.570), Vol. 1133, Aug 2020.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have published the paper “Evaluation of Partitioning Clustering Algorithms for Processing Social Media Data in Tourism Domain” in IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of RAICS 2018 (ISBN: 9781538673362, Scopus), Dec 2018.
• Shini Renjithand Anjali C. have published the paper titled “A Personalized Mobile Travel Recommender System using Hybrid Algorithm” in IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of ICCSC 2014 (ISBN: 9781479960132, Scopus), Dec 2014.

Conferences

• Shini Renjith, Rohit R.V., Aiswarya D.R., Athulya Roy and Vighnesh M. have the paper titled “A Novel Approach to Predict Success of Online Games Using Random Forest Regressor for Time Series Data” selected for presentation at 2021 International Conference on Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies (ICAECT 2021), Oct 2021.
• Shini Renjith, Rahul Sunil, Kesia M. Joies, Abhijeet C. and Bharath T.U. have the paper titled “BitMedi: An Application to Store Medical Records Efficiently and Securely” selected for presentation at 2021 International Conference on Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks (ICECMSN 2021), Sep 2021.
• Shini Renjith and Merlin S. David have presented the paper titled “Comparison of Word Embeddings in Text Classification Based on RNN and CNN” at 2021 Global Conference on Recent Developments in Computer and Communication Technologies (GC-RDCT 2021), Jul 2021.
• Shini Renjith, Mable Biju and Monica Merin Mathew have presented the paper titled “A Sentiment-Based Recommender System Framework for Social Media Big Data Using Open-Source Tech Stack” at 2020 International Conference on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, IOT, Smart Cities & Applications (ICMISC 2020), Mar 2020.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have presented the paper titled “SMaRT: Social Media based Recommender for Tourism” at 2019 International Conference on Networks & Advances in Computational Technologies (NetACT 2019), Jul 2019.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have presented the paper titled “A Comparative Analysis of Clustering Quality Based on Internal Validation Indices for Dimensionally Reduced Social Media Data” at 2019 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering 2019 (AIDE 2019), May 2019.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have presented the paper titled “Pragmatic Evaluation of the Impact of Dimensionality Reduction in the Performance of Clustering Algorithms” at 2019 International Conference on Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies (ICAECT 2019), Apr 2019.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have presented the paper “Performance Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms for Varying Cardinality and Dimensionality of Data Sets” at 2019 International Conference on Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies (ICAECT 2019), Apr 2019.
• Shini Renjith, Sreekumar A. and Jathavedan M. have presented the paper titled “Evaluation of Partitioning Clustering Algorithms for Processing Social Media Data in Tourism Domain” at 2018 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS 2018), Dec 2018.
• Shini Renjithand Dhanya Sudhakaran have presented the paper titled “Context Aware Community Detection Scheme for Identification of Community in Multi-dimensional Networks” in 2016 International Conclave on Skills, Engineering & Technology (ICSET 2016), Jun 2016.
• Shini Renjithand K.G. Jijimol have presented the paper titled “Load Balanced Optimal Client Server Assignment for Internet Distributed Systems” in 2015 International Conference on Computing Paradigms (ICCP 2015), Jul 2015.
• Shini Renjithand Anjali C. have presented the paper titled “A Personalized Mobile Travel Recommender System using Hybrid Algorithm” in 2014 International Conference on Computational Systems and Communications (ICCSC 2014), Dec 2014.
• Shini Renjithand Anjali C have presented the paper titled “Fitness Function in Genetic Algorithm based Information Filtering – A Survey” in 2013 International Conference on Mobility in Computing (ICMiC 2013), Dec 2013.
• Shini Renjith and Anjali C have presented the paper titled “A Personalized Travel Recommender Model Based on Content-based Prediction and Collaborative Recommendation” in 2013 International Conference on Mobility in Computing (ICMiC 2013), Dec 2013. This paper has also secured the Best Paper Award in ICMIC13.

• IBM Skills Academy Overall Program Coordinator and Data Science Instructor since 2020.

• Computer Society of India (CSI) Student Branch Coordinator/Counselor since 2020
• AI Research Club  and Openlabs.ai coordinator since 2020.

• Resource Person on “Python for Machine Learning” in the 5 day Workshop at University College of Engineering, Thodupuzha, Kerala (Jul 2021).

• Invited Speaker in Kaleidoscope IT Talks” conducted by Computer Society of India (CSI) Trivandrum Chapter, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (Mar 2021).
• Resource Person for the AICTE sponsored FDP on ” Role of Machine Learning in IOT Applications” conducted by Marian Engineering College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (Dec 2019).
• Resource Person for the Talk Series by Data Analytics Group at Dept. of CSE, MBCET (Dec 2019).

• Coordinator and Resource Person of 4 day Workshop with hands-on sessions for students on Machine Learning and Deep Learning at Dept. of CSE, MBCET (Sep and Nov 2019).

• Resource Person on “Machine Learning” in the 3 day Residential Camp of Gender & Technology Programme of International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (Oct 2019).

• Resource Person for 2 week Internship on Deep Learning at Dept. of CSE, MBCET during (Nov 2019).
• Staff Coordinator of the First Edition of TEDx Event held at MBCET
• Staff Coordinator of the Maiden Inter-Collegiate Tech Fest, Hash 2018 and 22 Hour Hackathon Event, organized by Department of CSE, MBCET
• Coordinator for the Baselian Computing Workshop 2017
• Organizer for Career Guidance Talk on” What After B.Tech” on behalf of ACM Chapter, MBCET
• Staff Coordinator of Association of Computer Engineers (ACE) at MBCET during 2017-2019
• Student Branch Coordinator and Faculty Advisor of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Chapter at MBCET during 2017-2019

• Recognized Reviewer in Elsevier Information Processing and Management Journal (SCIE, Scopus)
• Invited Reviewer in following journals:
  • Elsevier Materials Today: Proceedings (Scopus)
  • Springer Artificial Intelligence Review (SCIE, Scopus)
  • Taylor & Francis Journal of Spatial Science (SCIE, Scopus)
  • Taylor & Francis Applied Artificial Intelligence (SCIE, Scopus)
  • Taylor & Francis Connection Science (SCIE, Scopus)
  • IEEE Access (SCIE, Scopus)
  • UEM Acta Scientiarum. Technology (SCIE, Scopus)
  • World Scientific International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (SCIE, Scopus)
  • Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Editorial Team Member of the following journals
  • International Journal of Management and Data Analytics
  • Advances in Wireless and Mobile Communications
• Designated Reviewer on the Technical Program Committee for the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held at SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Aluva, Kochi, Kerala.

• Technical Program Committee Member and Reviewer for ISTE Convention, 2021 held at MBCET.

• Member of the Organizing Committee for two editions of the National Conference on Indian Language Computing (NCILC-2018 & NCILC 2019) held at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi, Kerala.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for two editions of the International Conference on Networks & Advances in Computational Technologies (NetACT17 & NetACT19) held at MBCET

• Conducted seminars for teachers- Topic- ” Bharatheeya Shaastras and Samskritham”. Involved in education-Working in association with Mission Better Tomorrow(NGO) for the empowerment of students.
• YouTube videos on Data Structures, Operating Systems etc…

Journals:  

• Integrating Hybrid Neural Networks and Domain-Specific Embeddings for Detecting Hate Content in Code Mixed Social Media Comments  ISSN: 2182-2069 / E-ISSN: 2182-2077 published in Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), volume: 14, number: 3 (August), pp. 316-329.
• Hierarchical Structure Generation for Malayalam using Hybrid Approach” by Dr. Elizabeth Sherly, Dr. L.K. Dhanya, and Dr. Rajeev R.R. was published in the International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM), Volume 4, Issue 9, in September 2015, spanning pages 108-112.

International Conferences :  

• “Hate Speech Detection in Asian Languages: A Survey” was published in the 2021 International Conference on Communication, Control and Information Technologies and published in IEEE explorer.
• “Survey on the Design and Development of Indian Language Chatbots”, which was published International Conference on Communication, Control and Information Technologies  conference in 2021 and published in IEEE explorer.
• “Comparative Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Detecting Offensive Speech in Malayalam-English Code-Mixed Data” was published in Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (2022)  and Published in Springer.
• “Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting the Suitable Career After High School”, which was featured in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Communication, Computing, and Networking Technologies  and Published in Springer.

National conference :

• “S-O-V based Parser for Malayalam using Hybrid Approach” with Dr. Rajeev R.R., which was presented at the UGC-sponsored National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology.