Dr A CHITRA

Present Designation                         Professor

Dept. of Computer Sc and Engineering

PSG College of Technology

Educational Qualification                     BE ,ME, Ph.D     

Teaching and Research Experience      25 years 

Outstanding Awards

1.     Recipient of MN Saha Award and Gold medal for the best application oriented paper published in IETE Journals during the year 2006-2007

2.     Recipient of National Award for Outstanding Academician - 2006

3.     Recipient of Tamilnadu State Award for Young Women Scientists - 2005

Technical Achievements

Sponsored / Research / Consultancy Projects

Ongoing

1.     Principal Investigator – UGC Sponsored Project – “Information Retrieval for visually challenged” – Rs 8.77 Lakhs

2.     Investigator – IBM Shared University Research Project – “ICT-enabled Model of Healthcare Education, Research and Delivery (IMHERD) in Translating High-level Policy Vision into Effective Public Health Programs” – USD 25000 ≈ Rs 12,000 lakhs

Completed

1.     Investigator – AICTE – “Code Optimization in middleware Based Embedded Systems”  - Rs 6 Lakhs – 2004-2006

2.     Principal Investigator – VSSC - "Automatic Test Pattern generation for VLSI Circuits" - Rs 3.16 Lakhs – 2002 -2004

3.     Principal Investigator – AICTE - “Design of a Sociable Robot” - Rs  5  Lakhs – 2002 -2004

4.     Coordinator of  Project IMPACT - a project for manpower development in the area of Computers and Electronics - funded by Government of India and Swiss Government  -1998-2002

5.     Co-coordinator of Project for manpower development in VLSI and related software ≈  – 1998 - 2005

6.     Investigator – AICTE - "Multimedia Classroom development Facility"  - Rs. 3 Lakhs -1998-2000

·         Ongoing

o    IETE Award for the ME Project on Sign Language to Text Translator

·         Completed:

o    TN State Council for Science and Technology Award for the ME Project on Use of Neural Network for face recognition

Industry - Institute Interaction

·                  Conducted corporate training for the recruits of IT companies

·                  Organized seminars in collaboration with Industries.

·                  Organized Industry Attachment Programmes for Pre-final year Students at Industries.

·         Fellow Member in Institution of India  (FIE)

·         Senior Member of Computer Society of India (CSI)

·         Life Member of Advanced Computing and Communications Society(ACCS)

·         Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE)

Ph.D and MS(By Research) Guidance

·         3 Ph.D Research candidates have completed research and have been awarded the degree

·         3MS(By Research) candidates have been awarded the degree

·         7 Ph.D candidates are working for their Ph.D under the guidance

1.      R. Bremananth, Andy W. H. Khong, and A. Chitra, “Localizing Acoustic Touch Impacts using Zip-stuffing in Complex k-space Domain”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 60, 2011

2.      Anupriya Rajkumar, A. Chitra, “Paraphrase Recognition using Neural Network Classification”, International Journal of Computer Applications, No.29 Article 7, 2010

3.      A. Chitra, D.Indumathi, “Personalized Information Retrieval System using Temporal ranking”, The Indian Journal of Technical Education (IJTE-ISTE), Vol.32, No.3. pp 75-82, July-Sep 2009

4.      Anupriya Rajkumar, A. Chitra, “Analysis of Paraphrase Recognition techniques”, CSI Communications, Vol 33, Issue 9, pp 12-14   December 2009

5.      A. Chitra, D.Indumathi, “Use of Intelligent Agents in IR”,  National Journal of Technology,  Vol.6, No.1, pp:31-38          March 2010

6.      A. Chitra, Nageswara Guptha, “Data Sourcing using Federated Database System in Service Oriented Architecture”, CSI Communications, Vol 33, No. 1, pp. 12-18. April 2009

Organizing Chair - Organized 3 International Conferences and 4 National Conferences

Programme Committee Member of several International and National Conferences

Member of Board of Studies of various colleges

Examiner of PhD viva voce examinations andthesis evaluator