Educational Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD in Educational Data Mining from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi
• M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering, Anna University, Coimbatore
• B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology,Kochi

Employment History

• Assistant Professor at SCMS School of Engineering & Technology, Karukutty from 2005 till date
• Guest Lecturer at the College of Engineering, Chengannur during 2004-2005

Key Responsibilities Held

Responsibilities Held

• Part of organising FDP 2019 at SSET Karukutty
• Part of organising ICACCI 2015 at SCMS Muttom
• Part of organising FDP 2013 at SSET Karukutty
• Class Coordinator of various classes from Batch 3 to 13

Present Responsibilities

• Placement Cell - Faculty Representative
• Handling SSET website and social media updates.
• ACM Faculty Sponsor

Teaching Interests

• Theory of Computation
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Discrete Mathematical Structures
• Compiler Design
• Parallel processing
• Data Mining
• Data Science
• Programming Languages

Research Interests

• Educational Data Mining / Learning Analytics
• Machine Learning Algorithms
• Hybrid Recommender Systems
• Personalized and Adaptive Learning

Publications

• Raj, Nisha S., and V. G. Renumol. "A Rule-Based Approach for Adaptive Content Recommendation in a Personalized Learning Environment: An Experimental Analysis." 2019 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E). IEEE, 2019.
• Joy, Jeevamol, and Nisha S. Raj. "An ontology model for content recommendation in personalized learning environment." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Science, E-Learning and Information Systems. 2019.
• Raj, N.S. and Renumol, V.G., 2018, October. Architecture of an Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment (APLE) for Content Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Technology in Education(pp. 17-22). ACM.
• Renumol, V.G., Kumar, G.K., Gopeekrishnan, G. and Raj, N.S., 2017. Effective Teaching Learning Environment through Constructive Feedback: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 30(3), pp.200-205.
• Akkarapatty, N. and Raj, N.S., 2016, February. A Machine Learning approach for classification of sentence polarity. In 2016 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN) (pp. 316-321). IEEE.
• Thomas, J., Raj, N.S. and Vinod, P., 2014, September. Towards filtering spam mails using dimensionality reduction methods. In 2014 5th International Conference-Confluence The Next Generation Information Technology Summit (Confluence) (pp. 163-168). IEEE.
• Jose, G. and Raj, N.S., 2014, November. Lexico-syntactic normalization model for noisy SMS text. In 2014 International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Computational Engineering (ICECCE) (pp. 163-168). IEEE.
• Jose, G. and Raj, N.S., 2014, December. Lexical normalization model for noisy SMS text. In 2014 First International Conference on Computational Systems and Communications (ICCSC) (pp. 57-62). IEEE.
• Jose, G. and Raj, N.S., 2014, April. Noisy SMS text normalization model. In International Conference for Convergence for Technology-2014 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Technical programs attended

• Participated in the 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2018), organized by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, (TCLT) and held in IIT Bombay, Mumbai India, from Jul 9th(Mon) to Jul 13th(Fri) 2018.
• Participated in the 2nd International Conference on Digital Technology in Education (ICDTE 2018) from 10th to 12th October 2018 at Bangkok, Thailand
• Attended International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE 2018) organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering,CUSAT.
• Participated in the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (2017) organized by IUCEE(Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education)
• Participated in the 24th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2016). ICCE 2016 is organized by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE). ICCE 2016 will be held in IIT Bombay, Mumbai India, from Nov 28th(Mon) to Dec 2nd(Fri) 2016.
• Attended International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE 2016) organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering,CUSAT
• Attended SDP entitled “Workshop on LaTeX Report and Article Writing” (LaTeX-RAW2016) at CUSAT on 27 and 28 June 2016.