Dr. Anne Dickson

Associate Professor & Head

Employee Code / ID No. 10208008
Qualifications M.Tech
Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-3740
Industry / R & D Experience 15 years 3 months
Email ID [email protected]
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Network Security, Algorithm Analysis and Design, Nature Inspired Computing
Research,  Consultancy, Publication
  • Ann Emrita C, Aswani A S, Divya Sylvester, Kavery M S, Lydia Sebastian and Anne Dickson, “Security Using Webcam”, MBCET Journal of Research, Vol.2, April 2013. 10) Karthik Raj, Abhinav Dev, Dr.Anne Dickson,”Smart waste water management” in RECYCLE 2025, IIT Guwahati on 5th & 6th June 2025.
  • Anne Dickson. Ciza Thomas,”Attack Detetion Availing Feature Discretion Using Rando Forest”, Computer Science & Engineering, AIRCC Publishers, An International Journal(CSEIJ), Vol 12,2022.DOI:10.5121/cseij.2022.12611.(Best Paper Award from NIT-Trichy).
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Identifying Network Intrusion using Enhanced Whale Optimization Algorithm,Springer series on Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, in the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications ISTA’20, 2020.
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Analysis of UNSW-NB15 using Machine Learning Algorithms, Springer communications in Computer and Information Science in the Symposium on Machine Learning and Meta-heuristics Algorithms and Applications, SOMMA’20, 2020.
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Improved PSO for optimizing the performance of intrusion detection systems, in the International Conference (ISTA’19), Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Metaheuristics Algorithms and Applications, 2019 (Best Paper Award).
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Optimizing False Alerts Using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Method, IEEE Xlore, IEEE SPICES, 2015 (NIT-Calicut).
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Feasibility of Machine Learning Techniques to reduce false alarms in intrusion detection, International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing,ICMIC 2013.
  • Marcia Rajan, Bhavya, Hema Joy,Anne Dickson “Automated car parking system using optical character recognition”, IJSER 2020.
  • Ann Emrita C, Aswani A S, Divya Sylvester, Kavery M S, Lydia Sebastian and Anne Dickson, “Security Using Webcam”, MBCET Journal of Research, Vol.2, April 2013.
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Academic / Professional Outreach Activities
  • Syllabus framing committee member of M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 scheme of KTU in August 2022 with SCT College of Engineering, Computer Science Engg, Head of the Department, Dr.Sonia Bellram (Chairman).
  • Reviewer of International conference IEEE RAICS 2020.
  • Resource person for the topic “OpenOffice Application” in the Department of Physics, Mar Ivanios College, in February 2020.
  • Attended a three day workshop on “Evolutionary Computing” in IISc Bengaluru in 2015.
  • Delivered a lightening talk in the International conference COCONET-19@ IIITM-K.
  • Served as reviewer in the IEEE International conference ICTEST 2026 hosted by Model Engineering College, Ernakulam.
  • Served as external judge of ACM paper presentation on 6th March, 2026 @ Mohandas College of Engg & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Resource person for the “Workshop on Open Source Programs for Scientific Applications organized by PG and Research, Department of Chemistry, Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous),2020.
  • Presented a Lightening talk on the topic “Requisite for framing an optical network structure” in the CoCoNet International Conference 2019.
  • Handled a session on “Machine Learning for Network Security” for CDAC as part of the NetSec research group activity, 2021.
Membership in Professional bodies/ organizations
  • IEEE Membership number-93091471
  • IEEE Membership – Faculty coordinator (102473515)
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Awards / Distinctions / Rank / Other Achievements if any
  • Qualified kerala University PhD Entrance exam in 2010 and qualified eligibility test of CERD from CET and received stiphend from Higher Education Departmetn, GoK in 2013 for pursuing PhD from College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
  • Received a letter of appreciation for securing 99 percent pass, close to centum in the subject “Design and Analysis of Algorithms” which I handled , and for imparting the students by training the college choir from St.Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering in the year 2006.
  • Got PhD from CET under the guidance of Dr.Ciza Thomas(Vice Chancellor, KTU).
  • Qualified UGC-NET exam in 2023.
  • E-patent filing for the guided B.Tech project “Aquacleanse- A smart waterway waste water management system” on 2026 March. This project received appreciation from premier institutions including IIT Bombay and IIT Guwahati, as well as from Dr.Shashi Tharoor and got awarded as Best paper at IIT in 2025.
  • Received Best Paper Award from NIT- Trichy for the paper “Attack Detetion Availing Feature Discretion Using Rando Forest “in the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Paradigms (CLIP ’22).
  • Anne Dickson, Ciza Thomas, Improved PSO for optimizing the performance of intrusion detection systems,  Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 6537-6547, IOS Press, 2019, DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-179734 (SCI Impact factor – 1.891)(Best paper award).
Area of interest
  • Artificial Neural Network
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Interactive Computer Graphics
  • Artificial Neural Network.
  • Network Security
Publications
  • Anne Dickson. Ciza Thomas,”Attack Detetion Availing Feature Discretion Using Rando Forest”, Computer Science & Engineering, AIRCC Publishers, An International Journal(CSEIJ), Vol 12,2022.DOI:10.5121/cseij.2022.12611,2022.
  • “Automated car parking system using optical character recognition”, IJSER 2020
  • “Improved PSO for optimizing the performance of IDS” inJournal of Intelligent& Fuzzy Systems, 2019
  • “Optimizing False Alerts using Multi-objective PSO”, 2015.
  • Ms. Anne Dickson and Ciza Thomas “Optimizing False Alerts Using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Method”, Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES), 2015.Ann Emrita C, Aswani A S, Divya Sylvester, Kavery M S, Lydia Sebastian and Anne Dickson, “Security Using Webcam”, MBCET Journal of Research, Vol.2, April 2013.
Achievements of faculty:
Received best paper award for the research paper published titled “Improved  PSO for optimizing the performance of IDS”in the Coconet International Conference held at IIITMK on December 2019.
Details of Faculty as resource person:
  • Took a class on “Open Source Programs for Scientific Applications” in Department of PG & Research, Mar Ivanios College on February 8, 2020.

Professional Memberships

Experience
Teaching: 12 years, 3 months
Worked as lecturer for one year at St.Xaviers Catholic College of Engineering and Technology