M.Tech. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Dr. G. Venkiteswaran

Dr. Venkiteswaran obtained his Ph. D in Industrial Mathematics from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUKL), Germany, in the year 2003. After doing a post-doc at the Graduate School in TUKL for close to 18 months, he joined BITS, Pilani as a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics, in 2004. Presently, he is the Associate Dean for Quality Assurance and Assessment in the Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. With over 23 years of teaching experience, he teaches courses in Mathematics and Computer Science. His main research interests are in the area of numerical solution of partial differential equations in high dimensions, Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods.

Prof. Ankur Pachauri

Prof. Ankur Pachauri, is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Science, in WILP, Off-Campus center, Pune, since August 2015 and has teaching experience of over 9 years. He had done his schooling from a missionary school, then higher secondary from Kendriya Vidyalaya in the year 2000. He is a Mathematics Honors Graduate of the year 2003, Masters of 2006 and completed doctorate from Department of Mathematics, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra in January 2013. He had also worked as Assistant Professor from June 2012 till July 2015 in Rajiv Academy for Technology and Management, Mathura. He had taught various courses on Algorithms, and Applied Mathematics courses. He has published a number of research papers in various reputed Journals and National & International Conferences Proceedings and they are cited by a large number of Researchers, from various countries. His area of research is Nature Inspired Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithm, Search Based Software Engineering, Soft Computing and Graph Mining

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna is currently Associate Professor in BITS-Pilani WILP Division. He has been teaching working professionals in Indian IT organizations since 2009. Prior to his current position as faculty member, he has had over 35 years of experience in the IT industry in the design and delivery of products and services for global clients in Embedded Systems and Enterprise Software arena. He is passionate about Science and Electronics and in his spare time loves to dirty his hands building physical models and run thought- experiments on paper when run out of resources. His interests include Teaching-Learning, Design Thinking, Internet-of-Things, Developmental Economics, eGovernance and Digital Organizations. Krishna started his career with typing lines of Fortran code on a punch-card machine after graduating with M.Tech from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Prof. Mohammad Saleem Bagewadi

Prof. Mohammad Saleem Bagewadi is an Assistant Professor with the Compute Science and Information Systems group of WILP Division, BITS-Pilani. He did his M.Tech from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Computer Networks Engineering in 2008. He worked as a QA Network Engineer for 7 years in Juniper Networks and has worked on HighEnd/Core Router network technologies, Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols. He has been actively involved in industry engagement, content development and delivery of course content. He is very passionate about teaching and getting his students inspired in pursing their educational and career goals. His main research interests are in the area of Networks and Security and Educational Research. He teaches courses in the area of Networking, Cyber Security, Software Engineering and related technologies.

Prof. Vijayalakshmi Anand

Prof. Vijayalakshmi Anand is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of computer science at BITS Pilani off campus center,Pune. She has been with BITS pilani since 2008. Before joining BITS , She was working various engineering colleges in chennnai and pondicherry. She completed her master degree in computer science from Anna University,chennai and completed her bachelore degree in Electronics &communication engineering from Manonmaniam Sundarnar university, Tirunelveli. She is pursuing Phd in crowdsourcing and machine computation for social media application at BITS Pilani Hyedarbad campus, Hyderabad. Her academics and research interest are in the area of networking and datascience .

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli is an Associate Professor with the Work Integrated Learning Programmes(WILP) offered by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus. He is based out of the BITS-Pilani Off-Campus Center at Bangalore since August-2014. He also serves as a Group Leader for the EEE-WILP-OffCampus group since July-2021. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications Engg. from the College of Engg., Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; a Master of Technology(M.Tech) in Communications from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-Madras and a PhD in Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) -Bangalore. He has about 20 years of technical work experience with the Bangalore based companies (1) Centre for Development of Telematics, (2) Motorola India Electronic Ltd, (3) Texas Instruments Pvt Ltd, (4) Samsung India R & D, (5) Saankhya Labs and (6) Aureole Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has a passion to design and optimize computationally intensive signal processing algorithms for embedded systems and teach courses which require analytical and computational skills in the electrical engineering domain.

Prof. Akshaya Ganesan

Prof. Akshaya Ganesan is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has 2 years of experience in the industry and 5+ years of experience in the academia. Apart from effective classroom teaching, she has held various roles and responsibilities including curriculum development, departmental committee works, students counselling, placement training, and recruitment of faculty in various colleges. She holds an M.E Computer Science and Engineering degree from Anna University, Chennai. She teaches courses in the area of Web Development, Service Oriented Computing and Algorithms. Other area of interest includes Full stack software development, cloud computing and Devops.

Dr. Monali Mavani

Dr. Monali Mavani is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has over 16 years of experience in academics and has served in varied roles. She received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SNDT University, Mumbai, India in 2002, M.E. in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University in 2013 and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, in 2019. Her research interests include IoT, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Prof. Ramakrishna Dantu

Prof. Ramakrishna Dantu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems department of Work Integrated Learning Programs, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, off Campus division. Prof. Ramakrishna has a Ph.D. From University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He also holds MS in Information Systems from UTA, USA, M.Tech., IIT Bombay, and an MBA from USA. He has over 16 years of IT industry experience in USA in different domains, including Insurance and Transportation Logistics He joined BITS Pilani, Hyderabad in February, 2020. Prior to joining BITS Pilani, he worked as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento, and as adjunct faculty at University of Texas, Arlington and University of Texas at Austin. He is passionate about teaching and research. His research has been published in Information Systems Management Journal, and several international conferences.

Dr. K. Pradheep Kumar

Dr. K Pradheep Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS PIlani.
He did his B.E. in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras in 2002. He did his M.E. in Embedded Systems Technologies in 2005 and PhD in Computer Science in 2013 both from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
He has published patents in the domain Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing. He has several publications and book chapters in the domain of Data science, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Quantum Computing. His publication in Quantum Computing has secured the Best paper award out of more than 1500 papers received by the “Society for Data Science” in 2021.
During his PhD, he was the recipient of Senior Research Fellow award from CSIR. He is an Active member of professional bodies like ACM and IET.His research interests include Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Quantum Computing.
Dr K Pradheep Kumar worked for two and a half years as Assistant manager (Information Technology) in a PSU bank (Union Bank of India) dealing with banking software, Cryptography and Data Security applications,
He also worked as Assistant Engineer in Chennai Metrowater (a state government undertaking) in the IT department looking after Oracle data base administration for one and a half year.
He has completed seven years as Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and information security in BITS. He has been actively involved in industry engagement, programme and content design, design of lab capsules and delivery of course content.
He has been teaching several courses including Cloud Computing, Software Development for Portable Devices, Data Warehousing, Network Security, Real Time Operating Systems, Computer Organisation and System Software and System for Data Analytics for various programmes.

Prof. Chandra Shekar R K

Prof. Chandra Shekar R K is working as Assistant Professor in the WILP division, CSIS group since 2014. Previous to this, he worked in Academic Institutions (PESIT, TJIT, BTLIT - Bangalore) and IT industry (KALS - Bangalore & Firium, Maxis Communications, KL, Malaysia). He has a total experience of 22 years. He did his B.E in Computer Science and Engg. from UVCE, Bangalore, M.Tech in Computer Network and Engg. from VTU, Belgaum. Currently, he is a Ph.D scholar with BITS, Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus. His research interests are in Cloud Computing and IoT.

Prof. Sugata Ghosal

Prof. Sugata Ghosal is an off campus faculty member in the Computer Science and Information Systems department. Prior to joining BITS Pilani, he was a Senior Manager and Program Director at IBM Research – India, New Delhi.
Sugata has over 20 years of research experience in areas such as computer vision, machine learning, high-performance computing, software and services analytics. He holds over 45 United States patents and has published over 40 papers in international conferences and journals. Sugata obtained a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington in 1993.

Prof. Pravin Y Pawar

Prof. Pravin Y Pawar is an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of BITS, Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. He completed his ME (Software Systems) from BITS Pilani - Pilani campus and PG Diploma in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore - Upgrad. Prior to joining BITS, Pravin has worked with Oracle India Private Limited, Bangalore and Pune, for twelve and half years’ in the area of business software products development. During his tenure at Oracle, he was mostly working on the design and development of Oracle’s Streaming Analytics product with special emphasis on the visualization and dashboard designs along with analytics capabilities of the product.
Pravin leads certificate programme committee as well as Full Stack Engineering programme. He teaches courses related to the Data Science and Software Engineering domain, and is also a key faculty in the M. Tech. (Data Science & Engineering) programme. He is also engaged with PG programmes in the field of AI/ML, Big Data, Business Analytics and IoT where he enjoys simplifying the courses related to the Data engineering.

Prof. Febin A Vahab

Prof. Febin A Vahab is an Assistant Professor with WILP, BITS Pilani, with 10+ years of experience in industry and academics. During her tenure in IT industry, she worked in Business Intelligence domain and has worked in Customer Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects of major clients like NORDSTROM, WALMART etc. She did her B.Tech from Kerala University and M.Tech from VTU, Karnataka. She teaches courses in DATA SCIENCE ,Technology and Programming domains.

Dr. Chetana

Dr. Chetana is an Associate Professor in the CSIS department at Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has more than 23 years of teaching and industry experience. She did her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from a joint programme of IIT Bombay and Monash University, Australia. She has been working extensively on different state of art research projects and has been awarded the “Best Industry Aligned Research” at the CSI TechNext India 2019 - Awards to Academia. She has published various papers and is also a reviewer at national and international level peer reviewed conferences and journals. Her areas of expertise include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Deep Learning, Text Mining, Big Data Analytics, Information Retrieval and Software Engineering. Apart from teaching above courses at WILP, she is SPOC for practice school program for CSIS

Dr. Saikishor Jangiti

Dr. Saikishor Jangiti believes in “Simplify & Teach Effectively” and has chosen Teaching as his profession after completing his B.Tech in Computer Science & Information Technology from JNTU, Hyderabad and M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He joined the CSIS Group, Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS, Pilani with 12+ years of experience. While teaching at SASTRA Deemed University he got an opportunity to pursue research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing. He has published 17 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences with a cumulative impact factor of 7.6 and awarded with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His subject interests include Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Web Technologies

Prof. Srinath Naidu

Prof. Srinath Naidu is an Associate Professor with the Work-integrated Learning Programme at BITS Pilani. Srinath brings a blend of industrial and academic experience into this role with seven years of industrial experience in Electronic Design Automation companies such as Magma, Synopsys and Cadence and ten years of academic experience with IIIT Bangalore and Amrita University. He has many impactful publications in Electronic Design Automation with one of them winning the 2003 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award from IBM Research. Srinath holds a B.Tech(Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (now IIT Varanasi), M.Sc(Engg) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Srinath's current research and teaching interests lie in the areas of machine learning, deep learning and mathematical optimization.

Prof. Rajavadhana

Prof. Rajavadhana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Work Integrated Learning Programmes division of BITS Pilani, India since 2016. Prior to joining BITS, she was with PSG College of Technology as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She has over 3 years of industrial experience in the field of Enterprise Application Integration as a developer and a consultant in the BFSI domain with HCL Technologies and Larsen & Toubro Infotech. She received her B.E. & M.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University and MBA in Human Resource from Indira Gandhi Open University. Her research interests are in the fields of Graphs, Computer vision and computational Intelligence. She teaches courses in the area of Data Technologies and Intelligence domain.

Prof. Akanksha Bharadwaj

Prof. Akanksha Bharadwaj is an Assistant Professor and coordinator of the WILP programs running with our industry partner CISCO. She is based out of the Bangalore location. Akanksha has worked for around 3 years as a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte. She did her B.Tech in Computer Science from Bharati Vidyapeeths' college of engineering, Delhi, and M.tech from Delhi Technological University, Delhi. She teaches courses in the area of software architecture, databases, data mining, and statistics.

Prof. Vineet Garg

Prof. Vineet Garg is an assistant lecturer with BITS Pilani WILP. He has a postgraduate degree in computer science from BITS Pilani. In WILP he takes courses like Computer Networks, Network Security and Data Structures.

Dr. Lucy J. Gudino

Dr. Lucy J. Gudino received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kuvempu University in 1994, M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2003 and 2010 respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group, at BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. She has over 24 years of teaching experience in the field of Electronics and Communications, and Computer Science. She is a Programme Committee lead for WILP’s Computer Science and Information Systems and is involved in the design and delivery of curriculum, digitization of course and lab contents. Her research interests include Wireless Networks (Wireless Sensor Networks and Adhoc Networks), Array Signal Processing and Digital filter design. She has guided 6 PhD scholars in the areas of Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Adhoc Networks and Antennas for wireless applications.

Dr. Anindya Neogi

Dr. Anindya Neogi is an Associate Professor with the Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. He has PhD and MS, Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook and B.E. (Computer Sc. and Engg.) from Jadavpur University. After PhD, he has worked at IBM Research and subsequently IBM Software Labs for 16 years as a Research Lead for Distributed Systems Management group and Chief Architect of new products on Operations Analytics in the IBM Cloud division, respectively. Anindya was an IBM Master Inventor with 27+ issued patents responsible for IP development across IBM teams. He was also an elected Member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has 25+ research papers with 3000+ citations. His work on virtualisation management in 2008 was awarded an ACM Middleware 10 year Test of Time award in 2018. Anindya has also worked at Rether Networks, a start-up in Berkeley, CA on real-time networks, besides a short-stint at Cadence Design Systems. Recently, he was Co-Founder and CTO of a start-up in the Cloud-based data analysis space, an initiative that he continues to mentor. He currently teaches courses in Big Data and Distributed Computing areas.

Dr. Y V K Ravi Kumar

Dr Y V K is an Associate Professor with the Compute Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS - Pilani. He did his M.Sc (Applied Mathematics) from Sri Venkateswara University, A.P and PhD from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He Qualified CSIR JRF/NET examination. He has published about 50 research papers in various national and international journals. Two students have been awarded PhD under his guidance.

In addition to 25 years of teaching experience, he also worked as Group 1 gazetted officer (State Civil Services) in the Ministry of Finance, Government of A.P.

As a faculty with WILP, he teaches courses like Introduction to Statistical Methods, Advanced Statistical Techniques for Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for various programmes.

Prof. Chennupati Rakesh Prasanna

Prof. C Rakesh Prasanna is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. he has 10 years of experience in academia. Before joining work-integrated learning programs, he was faculty at the BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus.He has been actively involved in industry engagement, content development, and delivery of course content He holds an M.Tech GITAM University Vishakapatnam. He teaches courses in the area of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence. Another area of interest includes machine learning.

Prof. Swarna Chaudhary

Prof. Swarna Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor in CSIS department at Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. She has more than 10 years of teaching and industry experience. She did her B.Tech from BIET Jhansi, a Government college affiliated to UPTU and M.Tech from DTU (earlier DCE), Delhi. Prof. Swarna Chaudhary has contributed towards designing digital content for Big Data Engineering Program (in collaboration with Upgrad), Full Stack engineering certificate programme, and IDS (Introduction to data science) course. Her research and teaching interests are in the domain of Machine Learning and Data Science

Prof. Preeti N G

Prof. Preeti NG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Work Integrated Learning Programmes division of BITS Pilani, India since Jan 2014. Prior to joining BITS, Prof Preeti has worked in CMRIT, HKBK Bengaluru and MGIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor. She has an overall experience of 16+ years in Academics and Software Industry. She has earlier worked as a Software Engineer in Misys Software Solutions for about 2.5 years and as a Research Intern for an year in Intel India Software Technologies. She received her B.E. & M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University and VTU respectively . She is passionate about teaching and strongly believes in the motto “Teaching is learning”.She has received excellent feedback for all the courses from her students and takes it to be her biggest driving force and source of satisfaction. Her research interests are in the fields of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Statistics.
Professor Preeti has been a part of the Computer Science and Information Systems group of WILP and is involved primarily in delivery of courses in the areas of Data Technology, Intelligence and Applied Mathematics. Professor Preeti has been the Program Coordinator of Wipro, WASE programs for about 3 years since 2014 and has been coordinating SAP Labs specific MTSE program after that.

Dr. Jyotsana Grover

Dr. Jyotsana Grover is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. She did Ph.D, M.Tech.(Computer Applications) and M.Sc(Maths) all from IIT Delhi. She has published various papers in renowned international journals like Applied soft computing, Applied Intelligence, Pattern Recognition letters, Engineering applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Subjects Handled:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advanced data mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Introduction to Data Science
• Big Data Systems
• Machine Learning