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Ms Sherin Babu
Dept. of Computer Science
Designation Assistant Professor
Phone (optional) 9846439882
Institutional email ID sherinbabu@assumptioncollege.edu.in
ORCID or other 0000-0002-7214-712X
Area of specialisation Data Analytics, Search Engine Optimization
Date of joining the college 20 September 2010
Academic qualification
  • UGC NET - December 2005
  • MCA from University of Kerala, 2006
  • BSc Computer Science from University of Kerala, 2003
Work Experience
  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, QBurst Technologies, Technopark, Trivandrum, 2009  to 2010
  • Software Test Engineer, Sarfinity Consulting Pvt Ltd, Technopark, Trivandrum 2007 to 2009
Current or previous Positions/Responsibilities (outside the college)
  • Question paper setter for PSC Examinations -  2024
  • Question paper setter for PSC Examinations -  2021
  • Question paper setter - Kannur University, University of Kerala, St Joseph's College, Irinjalakkuda, SB College, Changanassery
  • Member, Board of Studies in Computer Application, Fatima Mata National College, Kollam (2017-20)
  • Presiding officer for the LSG Election - December 2020.
Current Positions/Responsibilities (in the college)
  • Secretary, Curriculum Committee - March 2024 onwards
  • Member, IQAC  - 2022-2023 onwards
  • NAAC - Criterion I - Faculty -in-charge - 2022-2023 onwards
  • Co-Investigator, DST CURIE Project (Sanctioned - October 2023)
  • Member, Curriculum Committee - 2021-2022 onwards
  • Member, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) Committee - 2022-23 onwards
  • Question Bank - College Level Faculty-in-charge – 2018 onwards
  • Head, Department of Computer Science  - May 2021 to April 2024
  • NSS Programme Officer - June 2020 to May 2024
  • Chairman, Board of Studies - 2021-2022 to 2023-2024
  • Member, Academic Council - 2021-2022 to 2023-2024
  • Member, Staff Council - 2021-2022 to 2023-2024
  • Secretary, Assumption College Staff Cooperative Society Ltd No.K829 - February 2018 to February 2023
  • Electoral Literacy Club Coordinator - 2022-2023
  • Certificate Course, Department Faculty-in-charge – 2018 -19 to 2021-22
  • Treasurer, Staff Association of Assumption College : 2015-2016
  • Faculty in Charge, Computer Science Association, COMSAC, Assumption College: (2014-15, 2019-20).
  • Data Collection & Documentation Committee member – 2014 to 2022
  • NAAC Criterion VII Committee member – 2014 to 2022
  • Campus Discipline Committee Member
  • Remedial Teaching Committee Member
Awards and Achievements
  • Best NSS Programme Officer Award for the year 2023-2024 from Mahatma Gandhi University.
  • Contingent Leader of MG University National service Scheme (NSS) Team for the National Integration Camp, held at Central University of Kerala, Kasargod from March 16-22, 2024
  • Best NSS Programme Officer (Certificate of Appreciation) from Mahatma Gandhi University for the year 2021-2022.
  • Sixth rank for MCA from University of Kerala
Projects - Completed projects
  • KSCSTE funded Student Project on the topic “Forecasting air pollutant Particulate Matter PM2.5 in Kerala region using Recurrent Neural Networks” during 2019-2020 (FileNo.:00919/SPS64/2019/KSCSTE)
  • KSCSTE funded Student Project on the topic “Daily DewPoint Temperature estimation in Kerala using XGBoost Algorithm” during 2020-2021. (FileNo.:00129/SPS65/2021/KSCSTE)
Courses attended (Orientation, Refresher, FDP, etc.)
  • Refresher Course on Information and Communication Technology conducted by UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, University of Hyderabad from 06/03/2023 to 18/03/2023.
  • One Week Online FDP on ‘Outcome Based Education; Concepts, Methods and Assessment’ organized under UGC – Scheme for Trans -Disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (UGC – STRIDE) Mahatma Gandhi University, in association with Assumption College Autonomous, Changanacherry from 27th December 2021 to 2nd January 2022.

  • Participated in weekend Online FDP Program on Statistical Machine Learning organized by Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in March 2021.

  • Participated in one week international FDP on Writing research Proposals, organized by Marian college, Kuttikanam, under the Paramarsh Scheme of UGC, from 9-16 September 2020.

  • Participated in one week FDP on Online Education in Higher Education Institutions, conducted by Faculty Development Centre, KSHEC, Trivandrum, 13-17 July 2020

  • Refresher Course on Citation Network Analysis and Exploratory Data Analysis using R for University/College Teachers conducted by UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, University of Kerala from 18/02/2020 to 02/03/2020

  • Refresher Course on Computer Science and Information Technology for University/College Teachers conducted by UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, University of Kerala from 07/02/2018 to 27/02/2018

  • Refresher Course on Environmental Sciences for University/College Teachers conducted by UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Kerala from 09/01/2015 to 29/01/2015

  • Orientation Programme for University/ College teachers conducted by UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Kerala from 31/10/2012 to 27/11/2012
Paper presentation in Seminars
  • "An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach Based on Extra Tree Regressor Model for Predicting Daily Dew Point Temperature", American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting at Washington DC - Dec 9-13, 2024 (Online)
  • "Time Series Forecasting of Dew Point Temperature Using Facebook Prophet Model",  21st Annual Meeting of theAsia Oceania Geosciences Society - AOGS 2024 held at Gangwon-do, South Korea, from June 23-28, 2024.
  • "A Multi-layer Perceptron Approach For Estimating Daily Surface NO2 In Thiruvananthapuram City", The 13th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR 2023), held at  Brunel University, London, United Kingdom on August 9-11, 2023. (Online)
  •  "Prediction Model of Pan Evaporation in Kerala Using XGBoost Algorithm", The 1st International Electronic Conference on Land : Towards Land System Science, May 17-19, 2022 (Online)
  • "Modeling Daily Pan Evaporation Using Tree-Based Regression Methods", Second International Conference on Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision (ICICV-2021), August 5-6, 2021.

 

Publications
  1. Shaju, K., Babu, S., & Thomas, B. (2023). Analysing effectiveness of grey theory-based feature selection for meteorological estimation models. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 123, 106243. (SCIE and Scopus, IF – 7.5)

  2. Babu, S., & Thomas, B. (2023). A survey on air pollutant PM2. 5 prediction using random forest model. Environmental Health Engineering And Management Journal, 10(2), 157-163. (ESCI and Scopus, IF-1.3)

  3. Babu, S., & Thomas, B. (2022). Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Scientific Literature on Random Forest Regression. Scientific Visualization14(5). (Scopus Indexed)

  4. Sherin Babu, Binu Thomas, Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Works on Global Solar Radiation based on Web of Science and VOSviewer, Dogo Rangsang Research Journal : ISSN 2347-7180, Vol. 12, Issue. 09, No. 01, September : 2022 (UGC Care Group1 journal)
  5. Sherin Babu, "Analysis of the Search Engine Optimization level of an academic website", International Journal of Basic and Applied Research, UGC Approved Journal, ISSN 2249-3352, Mar 2019, pp 286-294. (http://www.pragatipublication.com/assets/uploads/doc/63a86-286-294.16380.pdf)
  6. Sherin Babu, "Cloud Computing: An Effective Approach To Lessen E-Waste Accumulation", Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Research (JET), Assumption College, Dec 2015.
  7. Sherin Babu, "Relevance of Search Engine Optimization in Promoting Online Business", Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering- IJCSE, Vol. 3 No.3, Jun-Jul 2012.(https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.300.8674&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

    Conference proceedings
  • Sherin Babu and Binu Thomas. "Modeling Daily Pan Evaporation Using Tree-Based Regression Methods." Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision. Springer, Singapore, 2022. 605-614. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0475-2_53
  • Sherin Babu and Binu Thomas, "A recurrent neural network forecasting technique for daily PM2.5 concentration level in Southern Kerala", Conference Proceedings IOP: Materials Science and Engineering, Annual International Conference on Emerging Research Areas, 2020. (10.1088/1757-899X/1085/1/012012)
  • Automated Estimation of Ripeness level of Mangosteen using Fuzzy Logic, Proceedings of the National Seminar on Image Processing Techniques and Applications, Assumption College, Sep 2015
  • Integration of Operations Research Techniques in Data Mining, Proceedings of the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Operations Research, Assumption College, Jan 2014, pp.41-45.
Seminars and workshops organized
  • Convenor of National workshop on Deep Learning organized by Dept. of Computer Science, Assumption College Autonomous on December 13, 2022
  • Convenor of National workshop on Machine Learning organized by Dept. of Computer Science, Assumption College Autonomous on December 5-6, 2019
  • Organizing Committee Member of UGC Sponsored Two Day National Seminar on Image Processing Techniques And Applications, organized by Dept. of Computer Science, Assumption College  on September 3-4, 2015
  • Organizing Committee Member of UGC Sponsored National Workshop on Working with SPSS organized by Dept. of Computer Science, Assumption College on July 14- 16, 2011.

Number of seminars and workshops attended- 25

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