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Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex

Professor

Email: jsranialex@vit.ac.in

PhD: VIT, Chennai

Research Area: Speech Processing; Applications of biosignal(speech/EEG) and image(MRI/Fundus)processing; Deep learning applications for healthcare; Embedded system design for healthcare

 

Employee ID 50131
Salutation (Prof./ Dr.)    Dr.
Name John Sahaya Rani Alex
Designation Professor
School/Centre SENSE
Intercom 1222
Educational details (Please mention all the degrees with latest first)
Degree Passed out year Specialization Institute/University/ College
Ph.D 2018 Electronics Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
M.E 1994 Electronics Engineering MIT Campus, Anna University,Chennai
B.E 1991 Electronics Engineering MIT Campus, Anna University,Chennai
Post-Doctoral Experience if any/Industry Experience She has 12 years of Indian and Overseas industry experience  prior to join VIT. She had played a role of senior embedded engineer and senior system analyst. Few of the companies in which she worked as consultant are The World Bank, Washington-DC, USA, The  Boeing Inc, Seattle ,USA.

 

Research Details
Areas of Specialization Speech Technology and its Applications; Bio-Medical Image processing- Brain MRI, Fundus Images; Brain Computer Interface for Assistive Living; Point of Care Device Design[Heath care] ; Machine learning/Deep learning and its Applications
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0373-976X
Scopus ID 56157749700
H-index (scopus) 8
Google Scholar ID https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56157749700
i10 index 12
On-going Consultancy Project Details
On-going Consultancy Project Title
Completed Consultancy Project Details               
Virtual VISN Rs 3 Lakhs , Sankara Nethralaya Hospital, Chennai

 

Home Automation Rs. 86,400/- Samsung PRISM, Bangalore
AI, ML | Context aware response and prioritization in Multiparty conversations

 

Rs. 86,400/- Samsung PRISM, Bangalore
Ongoing Funded Project Details              
Project Title Amount Funding Agency
Principal Investigator:

Deep learning-based multitask and multimodal study to assess the progressive nature of Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Rs 38.41Lakhs , DST-GITA(Indo- Taiwan)- International
Founder&CTO – Wireless Maternal Monitoring Rs 20Lakhs , Startup Fund – Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge-2020-MeiTY,GOI-National
Co -PI: 5G Lab ( Use case Lab) Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), GOI – National
Co_PI: DiMatrix Printer with flexible substrates DST/FIST-National
Completed Funded Project Details
Completed Funded Project Title Funding Agency
Early discovery and administration of Parkinson’s disease using biosignals Rs 2.5Lakhs, SEED FUND, VIT,Chennai
IEEE-SPS-MDI $1000 IEEE,SPS,NJ,USA
Patent Published Details
Patent Published Title
DISEASE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION FOR COCONUT PLANTATION 202041045426
Drowsiness Detection for Taxi Drivers/long haul drivers 202041040736
AMBULATORY PRENATAL OBSERVATION USING CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY, UTERINE ACTIVITY FINDINGS AND AI METHODS 202141054137
SYSTEM FOR EARLY EYE DISEASE DETECTION USING EDGE COMPUTING 202341048060
Patent Granted Details
Patent Granted Title Patent No
OPTIMAL SUB-BAND WAVELET CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT TECHNIQUE FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION 36963
WIRELESS MATERNAL BELT 404845-001
Book / Book Chapter Published Details
Title Publisher Year
Automatic Segmentation of Optic Cup and Optic Disc Using MultiResUNet for Glaucoma Classification from Fundus Image Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing. Springer 2022
Anomaly Detection in Drones using Machine Learning Algorithms Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer 2022
Anomaly Detection in Drone-Captured Images Using Machine Learning Techniques and Deep Learning Architectures Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer 2022
Deep Learning Approaches for Fall Detection Using Acoustic Information, Advances in Smart Grid Technology, Springer 2020
Industrial IoT-Based Gas Pipe Leakage Detector Robot Advances in Electrical Control and Signal Systems, Springer 2020
Experimental Evaluation of CNN Architecture for Speech Recognition Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer

 

2020
Evaluation of cepstral features of speech for person identification system under noisy environment Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer 2018
An IoT-based smart shopping cart using the contemporary barcode scanner Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer 2018
A comparative study of isolated word recognizer using SVM and WaveNet Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer. 2018
Awards & Recognition Details (only national and international awards and recognitions)
Name of the award, awarding agency, year of award
4th prize winner of Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge-2020, MeiTy, India Dec 2021 received 20Lakhs as Start-up fund, 5 Lakhs cash prize
Jury Award, Combat Domestic Violence with Data & Al- WaiDATATHON & WaiTALK WAI,APAC Region
Jury Award, TECHgium-7th edition, LTTS, Bangalore, India.
Major International Collaboration Details  – Academic Collaboration Details
Type of collaboration (Research & publication/Funded Project/consultancy etc.), collaborating institute, year of collaboration
Research, Publication  &Funded project – 1.National Central University, Taiwan.

2. Asia University,Taiwan. 2021- till now

Consultancy, Patent  – 1. Liverpool University,UK . 2022
Type of collaboration (Research & publication/Funded Project/consultancy etc.), collaborating industry, year of collaboration
Consultancy, Patent – 1.Sankara Nethralaya hospital, Chennai -2022
Corporate Training – 1. Sona Comstar, Chennai
Other Details
Editorial Experience (if any) Editors : Nandi, A.K., Sujatha, N., Menaka, R., Alex, J.S.R. Computational signal processing and analysis – select proceedings  of ICNETS2 Volume 1(2018) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering.

 

Personal Website Link (if any) Founder and CTO , Quinproc LLP, Chennai https://quinproc.co.in

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