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Prof.(Dr.) Deepa Elizabeth George

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W8tVRLIAAAAJ&hl=en

Email ID: deepaeg@tistcochin.edu.in
Date of Joining: 23.09.2002
Nature of Association: Regular

Qualification:

  • PhD – Signal Processing: Multi sensor Data Fusion for Target Tracking
  • Tech (Honors)- Applied Electronics
  • MBA-HR and Marketing

Experience:

  • Teaching Experience – 24 Years


Recognitions & Achievements:

  • Served as IQAC Coordinator, successfully leading the institution to achieve an A grade from B+ in the NAAC accreditation process through strategic planning, continuous quality improvement initiatives, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Coordinated the process of for NBA accreditation of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering as HoD for the first-time accreditation in 2017 and for the reaccreditation processes in 2020 and 2023.
  •  Registered design at Indian Patent office no. 438974001, Nov 2024 for AI based Robot for Vehicle Manufacturing.
  • Indian Patent granted for the invention” A System to Clean Waste from Tunnels”, Patent No: 407463, Sept 2022.
  • South African patent in respect of an invention ‘Portable Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Device’ described and claimed in complete specification under the number 2022/01062.
  • Indian Patent Published online for the invention “Traffic Prediction Systems in Small Cities using AI” on 24th Feb 2023 Application No: 202341010033A.
  • Received Young Achievers Award 2024 from InSc Institute of Scholars, registered under ministry of MSME and Corporate affairs, Govt. of India.
  • Best Mentor Award for the student project “Veeksha” at the National Level Technical Project competition “Srishti 2023”.
  • Mentor of the student Project “DEMETER” which received a funding of 1 lakh, for being   one among   the top 10 in the   Samsung – Solve for tomorrow –A Nationwide  Event for  Innovative  Solutions held at  IIT,Delhi.
  • Principal Investigator of the project Neuro Nav Chair which received Rs. 25700/- from KTU under the financial assistance to student projects 2024-25.
  • Principal Investigator of the    Student Project –Offshore Communication and Tracking System, that received a Seed money of Rs. 29000 from Jilla   Panchayath under Local Economic Development Scheme.
  • Co-PI of two projects for Creating an Automated Warning System for Land Slide Susceptible Zones of the Meenachil River Bassin, Kerala, which was sanctioned a budget of Rs. 1,15,500 and Rs. 25000 respectively from ACARR, CUSAT in 2024.
  • Received grant of Rs. 1,88000 from AICTE for STTP on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Control in 2020.
  • Received grant of Rs. 50,000 from KTU for FDP on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in 2021.
  • Mentor of Best   Student Project Award in PROCOMM ’23, an IEEE   Communication Project Competition organized   by IEEE ComSoc Kerala Chapter at CUSAT.
  • Faculty mentor of the student team Emrans which won the first prize in Lifeathon Season 2 organized by Kerala Start up mission and IIC in 2022.
  • Resource Person at ALL INDIA RADIO (AIR) on “Impact of Digital Media on Children.”
  • Resource Person at 2nd International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Materials Energy, Electronics and Information- ICETMEEI-2023” organized in April 2023 at PSN Institute of Technology and Science, Tamil Nadu.
  • Resource person for invited Talk on ‘Speech signal processing and its research scopes’ at BPC college (Govt. aided), Piravom, Kerala in 2019.
  • Resource person for invited Talk on ‘Cyber Security’ at Rajagiri college of Management and Applied Science in 2019.
  • Resource person for the session on “Career Opportunities for Engineering Aspirants” for Higher Secondary students of Sree Narayana Public School, Poothotta in July 2020
  • Recognized PhD Supervisor under KTU.
  • Recognized as a reviewer of InSc International Publishing Platforms and also for Technical events under the stream Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  • Active review member of Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, ISSN 2349-5162, member id 224450, September 2024.
  • Has been instrumental in establishing Toc H as a tie- up institute for setting ATAL Tinkering Lab at Fatima Central School, Piravom, Ernakulam District.
  • Coordinated the setting up of sensory room and sensory garden for the differently abled students of MITRAM Special School, Pulikamaly, Ernakulam District.

Certifications:

  • Top Topper 1% with Elite Silver medal in NPTEL online certification program, for the course Manufacturing Automation, IIT Kanpur, April 2026
  • NPTEL Elite Gold medal for successfully completing NPTEL online certification program for the course Foundations of Cognitive Robotics, IIT Kanpur,Sept. 2025.
  • NPTEL Elite Silver medal for successfully completing NPTEL online certification program for the course Sensors and Actuators, IISc Bangalore, April 2025.
  • Topper 2% in NPTEL online certification program with Elite Silver medal for the course Python for Data Science, IIT Madras, September 2024
  • Topper in NPTEL online certification program (Top 1%) on “Embedded System Design” conducted by IIT, Kharagpur, April 2024.
  • NPTEL Elite Gold medal for successfully completing NPTEL online certification program on “Robotics” conducted by IIT, Kharagpur, September 2021.
  • Coursera certification on Introduction to Tensor Flow for AI, ML and DL, February 2021.
  • Coursera certification on Python Data Structures by University of Michigan, 2021
  • Coursera certification on AI for Everyone August 2021
  • Coursera certification on Programming for Everybody by University of Michigan in May 2020.
  • Completed 5 days internship on building a foundational AI project organized by AccelerateX at MACE Kothamangalam from 19th to 23rd October 2024.
  • Completed 30 hours online training program on “Core Python Programming and Data Science” using Python organized by SPAN and ELECTRAA in July 2022.
  • Completed Innovation Ambassador (IA) training Foundation Level (15 sessions of 30 contact hours) conducted by Ministry of Education, MoE’s Innovation Cell & AICTE during the IIC calendar year 2021-22.
  • Participated in workshop organized by AICTE ATAL Academy, Arm Education and STMicroelectronics in August 2022.
  • Participated in IP Awareness/Training program under National Intellectual; Property Awareness Mission organized by Intellectual Property Office, India in July 2022.
  • Participated in AI Builders Lal(Bootcamp), presented by Google for Developers and Hack2skill, October 2024.
  • Completed ATAL FDP on Robotics conducted by NIT Jamshedpur in May 2020.

Major conferences and FDP organized:

  • Organized six days FDP on Next Generation Engineering: Exploring Intelligent and Autonomous Technologies from 17-11-2025 to 22-11-2025 at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology.
  • Convener of the   National Conference on Information Communication & Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) organized at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in association with IETE Kochi Centre in 2023.
  • Convenor of Robocon’23, National level Robotics Conclave organized by IEEE Toc H SB in association with IEEE RAS Kerala Chapter in April 2023.
  • Coordinator of KTU for FDP on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence organized at     Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in 2021.
  • Coordinator of AICTE STTP on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Control organized at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in 2020.
  • Co- coordinator of AICTE STTP on Trends and Technologies in Antenna Design and Research scopes organized at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in 2020.
  • General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovation in Engineering and Technological Research (ICETIETR) organized at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in 2018.
  • Organized of IEEE Kochi Hub Meet at Toc H Institute of Science and Technology in 2018

External conferences chaired:

  • Chaired session at International Conference on Smart Communication and Sustainable Technologies, ICSCST 2026 at St. Gitts college of Engineering.
  • Delivered a technical session and chaired session at ICETMEEI – 2023 at PSN Institute of Science and Technology at Trirunelveli
  • Chaired session ‘Clouds, Convection and Precipitation Processes’ at the International Symposium on Tropical Metrology, INTROMET -2021 on Changing climate, consequences and challenges organized by CUSAT.
  • Chaired session on ‘Network and Communication Systems’ at the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ICACC 2019) at RSET, Kochi.

Professional Societies:

  • Senior Member of IEEE
  • Secretary IETE Kochi Centre (2026-28)
  • Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Member of IETE
  • Executive committee member of IETE Kochi Centre 2018-20 ,2022-24, 24-26
  • Life Member of ISTE
  • Life Member of INSC

Research Publications-Conference /Journal details:

  1. Intelligent Underwater ROV for Real-Time Crack Detection in Marine Structures. In: Mandal, J.K. (eds) Proceedings of the IETE’s International Conference on Smart Mobility Systems. ICSMS 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1669. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-3156-1_18.
  2. An Enhanced Crack Detection System Using YOLOv11 Model for Underwater Marine Structures, 2nd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies, ICTEST 2025 IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICTEST64710.2025.11042878.
  3. AI Enhanced 2.45 GHz Microstrip Patch Sensor for Milk Adulteration Detection, 2nd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies, ICTEST 2025 IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICTEST64710.2025.11042710.
  4. Design and Testing of Circular Patch Antenna at 2.45GHz for Wireless Power Transfer Applications with DGS, 2nd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies, ICTEST 2025 IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICTEST64710.2025.11042803.
  5. Image processing for detecting melanoma skin cancer using an optimized rotation–invariant coordinate convolutional neural network, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (2025).
  6. Ensemble Machine Learning Empowered Energy Optimized Non-Line-Of-Sight Underwater Sonar and Lidar Communication, Educational Administration Theory and Practice 2024,30(5),7904-7908, ISSN:2148-2403.
  7. Intelligent Satellite-Based Deforestation Surveillance Using Enhanced Classification, Educational Administration Theory and Practice 2024, 30(6), 1010-1014, ISSN:2148-2403.
  8. Design and Development of Microstrip Patch Antenna for Communication between Pilot and Air Traffic Controller,  2023 4th International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), Belgaum, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/INCET57972.2023.10170106.
  9. A Novel System for Offshore Communication and Tracking, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication & Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) , ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7.
  10. System for Offshore Communication and Tracking (OCTS),2023 World Conference on Communication & Computing (WCONF), Raipur, India, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/WCONF58270.2023.10234972
  11. Brain wave-controlled wheelchair with obstacle avoidance and smart environment for quadriplegic individuals, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication Intelligent, ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7,2023.
  12. Offshore Communication and Tracking System, 4th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies, INCET 2023, 26-28 May 2023,DOI: 10.1109/INCET57972.2023.10170106
  13. IoT based river water quality monitoring system, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7.
  14. Twitter data balancing using LMOTE and bot tweet detection with BERT embeddings, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7.
  15. Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Delay and Sum Beamforming, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7.
  16. IoT Based Smart Cities Using Raspberry PI, Proceedings of National Conference on Information Communication Intelligent Systems (NCICIS 2023) ISBN 978-81-963849-3-7.
  17. Social media monitoring using ELK Stack, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES) Electronic ISBN:978-1-6654-4940-3 Print on Demand (PoD) ISBN:978-1-6654-4941-0, 2022.
  18. Security improvement in block chain technique enabled peer to peer network for beyond 5G and Internet of Things – Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application 14, 392–402 (2021) (SCIE) ISSN of this journal 19366450.
  19. Design and Simulation of Hybrid Renewable Energy system design by Support Vector Machine approach, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology Vol. 29, No. 3, (2020), pp. 2960- 2970 (Scopus) ISSN: 2005-4238 IJAST.
  20. FARM-COPTER Computer vision-based precision agriculture, 2020 4th International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (IEEE-ICCCSP) Electronic ISBN:978-1-7281-6509-7 Print on Demand (PoD) ISBN:978-1-7281-6510-3,2020.
  21. IoT based Disaster Monitoring and Management System for Dams (IDMMSD), 1st International Conference on Innovations in Information and Communication Technology (IEEE-ICIICT) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIICT1.2019.8741464, 2019.
  22. An efficient WSN based laboratory Environment analysis, IEEE- ICETIETR https://doi.org/10.1109/ICETIETR.2018.8529020, 2018.
  23. Tracking of Maneuvering targets using fuzzy information fusion filter- International journal of Image and Data fusion (Taylor & Francis-Scopus), 2018.
  24. Experimental Analysis of Kalman filter in speech enhancement, IJECT, 2230-7109 (online), 2230-9543 (print),2017.
  25. Tracking of Maneuvering targets using fuzzy information filter employing Chi-square maneuver detection, IEEE-ICIIECS 978-1-5090-3293-8, 2017
  26. On the divergence of information filter for multi sensors fusion Information fusion (Elsevier- SCIE) 1566-2535 Elsevier, 2016
  27. Comparison of Variance based fusion and a model of model of centralized Kalman filter in target tracking – IEEE-ICRTIT https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRTIT32215.2013.
  28. Experimental Comparison of Variance based fusion and information fusion in target tracking, International Journal of Latest Research in Science & Technology 2278-5299(Online) 2013.
  29. Bearing only target tracking using Extended Kalman filter, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering(2013), 2319-5940(Print), 2278-1021(online).

Academic Positions handled & Extension activities:

  • Vice Principal, TIST
  • Head Of the Department, Department of Robotics and Automation
  • Convener, Women’s Development Cell, TIST
  • Convener, Grievance Redressal Committee – Faculty and staff, TIST
  • Presiding officer, Internal Complaints Committee
  • IEEE Student Branch counsellor, TIST
  • IEEE Robotics &Automation Society Chapter advisor, TIST
  • Convenor, Student Council, TIST
  • President, National Digital Library of India (NDLI) club, TIST
  • Institute Innovation Council (IIC) ambassador, TIST
  • Member, KTU Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC), TIST
  • Chief Mentor of Innovative Methods, Projects and Community Technologies (IMPaCT) Lab, TIST
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