College Code : SCM

Faculty

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Dr. Sonal Ayyappan

Associate Professor

Specialisation: Computer Science & Engineering

Room: 4th Floor, Administrative Block

sonal@scmsgroup.org

0484 – 2450330 ext-120
09447747061

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Information Security at SRM University,Chennai
  • MTech in Computer Science & Engineering, BIT, Trichy
  • BTech in Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Chengannur

Employment History

  • Associate Professor at SCMS School of Engineering & Technology, Karukutty from 2004 till date
  • Guest Lecturer at College of Engineering, Adoor Chengannur during 2000 – 2004
  • Programmer At CyberPrism International, Ernakulam during 1999-2000

Key Responsibilities Held

Responsibilities Held

  • Class Co-ordinator (2002 Admissions Onwards till date)
  • Part of Organising Committee ICACCI 2015 at SCMS Muttom
  • Part of Organising Committee FDP 2013 at SSET Karukutty
  • Resident Tutor ,SCMS Ladies Hostel (2007-2008)
  • External and Internal Examiner for BTech and MTech University Lab Exams
  • Evaluator in the CV Camp for BTech and MTech University Exams
  • Faculty coordinator in Student Chapter, Synergy
  • Part of research and development activities of the department.

Present Responsibilities

  • IEEE Students Branch Counsellor
  • Faculty In charge Coordinator of Computer Lab -1
  • Part of the Antiragging squad and Antiragging committee at SSET
  • Maintainer of University Mark Register for CSE Dept
  • Maintainer of ISO files for CSE Dept
  • Part of the TimeTable Committee for the Department
  • Core member in Infosys Campus Connect Programme at SSET
 

Teaching Interests

  • Data Structures
  • Computer Organization
  • Operating Systems
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Compiler Construction
  • Computer Networks
  • Network Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • High Performance Computing
  • System Software

Research Interests

  • Image Processing
  • Cryptography
  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Pattern Recognition

Publications

  • Sonal Ayyappan, C Lakshmi, Varun Menon (2019), “A Secure Reversible Data Hiding System for Embedding EPR in Medical Images”, Current Signal Transduction Therapy,Vol.14, No:1. DOI: 10.2174/1574362414666190304162411 [SCOPUS]
  • Sonal Ayyappan, Dr. C Lakshmi published paper titled “A Review on Reversible Data Hiding Techniques” in International Journal of Applied Engineering Research , Volume 13, Number 5 (2018) pp. 2940-2947
  • Comparison of Digital Watermarking Techniques – IEEE International Conference for Convergence of Technology, Pune, India, April 5th to 7th2014 2014
  • Comparison of Digital Watermarking Techniques – Third IEEE sponsored International Conference on Computation, Power, Energy, Information and Communication, April 2014 2014
  • Handwritten Character Recognition – IEEE International Conference for Convergence of Technology, Pune, India, April 5th to 7th2014
  • Robust Feature Extraction Scheme for Handwriting Recognition – 4th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology (ICAET 2014) , Nagapattinam, 2-3 May 2014 2014
  • Off-line Handwritten Character Recognition Using Hidden Markov Model – 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Great Noida, September 24th – 27th 2014
  • Relevant Features Cognitive Lip Reading – IEEE International Conference for Convergence of Technology, Pune, India, April 5th to 7th2014 2014
  • Ranking Relevant Features Cognitive Lip Reading -International Conference on Information Science 2014 (ICIS’14), Cochin, Kerala, July 4-5, 2014 2014
  • Investigation of Effectiveness of Ensemble Features for Visual Lip Reading – 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Great Noida, September 24th – 27th 2014
  • JBot: Java Based Botnet – 1stInternational Conference on Advances in Information Technology & Networking (ICATN 14), Coimbatore, 22nd January, 2014 2014
  • GrayBot: Java Based Botnet – 4th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Engineering & Technology-2014, Nagapattinam (ICAET) may 2nd and 3rd 2014 2014
  • GrayBot: Java Based Botnet – 4th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Engineering & Technology-2014, Nagapattinam (ICAET) may 2nd and 3rd 2014 2014
  • A reversible crypto-watermarking system for secure medical image transmission –INDICON 2015 from 17-20 th December 2015 New Delhi
  • A novel technique for LiDAR data segmentation and three-dimensional space projection- INDICON 2015 from 17-20 th December 2015 New Delhi

Book chapter

  • Vinod P, JikkuKuriakose, Ansari T.K, Sonal Ayyappan, Optimal Features for Metamorphic Malware Detection, In the IGI Edited Book Chapter of Data mining and Data Engineering, pages 1-32, 2014.

Professional Activities

  • Graduate Member – IEEE
  • Life Member – ISTE

Technical programs attended

  • Foundation Programme –Infosys Campus Connect at Infosys, Mangalore, 2008
  • Workshop on Image Processing Techniques organised by St Joseph’s College of Engineering, Palai with ISTE, July 2009
  • Seminar on High Performance Computing at Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly, February 2011
  • FDP Program on Machine Learning at SCMS School of Engineering & Technology Karukutty, June 2013
  • Seminar on Pattern Recognition at SRM University, Chennai, June 2014
  • Workshop on image analysis at IIITK-M, Trivandrum, Jan 2015
  • Conferenece- ICACCI 2015 at SCMS Muttom
  • Android Workshop –Infosys Campus Connect at ASIET, Kalady20`6