KEYNOTE

  Dr. D. Karthika Renuka

  Associate Dean – Students Welfare,

  Department of Information Technology,

  PSG College of Technology,

  Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

  Dr. D. Karthika Renuka is Associate Dean – Students Welfare and Professor in Department of Information Technology, PSG College of Technology. Her professional career of 15 years has been with PSG College of Technology since 2004. She is a recipient of the Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM)-Women Overseas Fellowship program supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India and implemented by the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF). Her area of specializations includes Data Mining, Evolutionary Algorithms, Soft Computing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Affective Computing, Computer Vision. She has Organized an International Conference on Innovations in Computing Techniques Jan 22- 24, 2015 (ICICT-2015) and National Conference on “Information Processing and Remote Computing” 27th and 28th February 2014 (NCIPRC 2014). Reviewer for Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, Wiley Book chapter, Springer Book Chapters on "Knowledge Computing and its Applications". She is currently guiding 7 research scholars for their Ph.D under Anna University. She has published several papers in reputed National and International journals and conferences.

Research Projects:

• Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM)-Women Overseas Fellowship proposal on - “Cognitive analysis for emotion detection on social media using deep learning techniques” for a duration of 4 months under the U.S. Host Prof. Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton (OH), USA awarded with $17,700 USD.

• "Design and Implementation of E-Learning System using Deep Learning Based on Audio-Video Speech Recognition for Hearing Impaired in Native Language" funded by DST - ICPS, for an amount of Rs.70,00,000/-

• UGC-Minor Research Project (MRP) titled “Multiple Classifier for Email Spam Classification in a Distributed Environment for reducing Network Traffic and improving the Network Performance” for an amount of Rs.3,90,000/-

• AICTE –MODEROBS (Data Analytics Tool) for an amount of Rs. 2,00,000/-