M Sakthi Balan

Teaching Experience

Courses being taken in LNMIIT

1. Social Network Analysis (Piazza link)
2. Discrete Mathematical Structures (shared)

Courses taken in LNMIIT

1. Natural Language Processing - Jul to Nov 2019 (Piazza link)
2. Social Network Analysis - Jan to Apr 2019
3. Discrete Mathematical Structures - Jan to Apr 2019 (shared)
4. Introduction to Data Science - Jul to Nov 2018 and Jul to Nov 2019 (shared)
5. Mathematical Structures for Engineers - Jul to Nov 2017 (shared)
6. Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Jan to Apr 2017 and Jan to Apr 2018
7. Unconventional Models of Computing - Jan to Apr 2016, Jan to Apr 2017 and Jul to Nov 2018
8. Theory of Computing - Jul to Nov 2016, Jul to Nov 2017 and Jan to Apr 2018 (shared)
9. Business Analytics and Big Data Programming - Jul to Nov 2016
10. Big Data Programming - Jan to Apr 2016
11. Learning Business Intelligence - July to Nov 2015
12. Foundations in Business Analytics - July to Nov 2015

Academic Records

• Reviewed research papers for
  • Sadhana
  • The Computer Journal
  • Web Intelligence Conference 2019
  • Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).
  • International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
  • 11th International Meeting on DNA Computing.
  • 12th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata.
  • 3rd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications.
  I have also been involved in technical / organising team of some conferences:
  • Financial Chair, Innovations in Software Engineering (ISEC 2017), LNMIIT, Jaipur, 2017.
  • Workshop on Cognition, Emotion and Computing, Infosys Limited, Bangalore, April 30, 2013.
  • PC member, IEEE conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems, Trivandrum, 2013.
• Recipient of Infosys Technologies, India fellowship for doing PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2000-2004.
• Recipient of Indian Institute of Technology (GATE) Scholarship for doing Masters in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1998-2000. GATE All India Rank - 105.
• Recipient of Best Outgoing Post-Graduate student award in M.Sc Mathematics.
• Recipient of St. Xavier's college scholarship for needy and bright students in 1995-1997.
• Prizewinner for holding rank first in M.Sc, Mathematics.
• Prizewinner for holding rank three in B.Sc, Mathematics.

Academic Visits

• Visited IIIT Hyderabad and ISB Hyderabad as part of Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) from Dec 19 to 21, 2018. Paper presented by my student Arpan Gupta on Temporal Cricket Stroke Localization from Untrimmed Highlight Videos.
• Visited RPI, Troy, NY as part of ACM Conference on Web Science 2017 from June 26 to 28, 2017. Presented a poster presentation on On Social Synchrony in Online Social Networks.
• Visited NIU, Taiwan for signing MoU for students and faculty exchange between NIU, Taiwan and The LNMIIT, July 2017.
• Visited University of Lanzhou, China as part of Brain Informatics held from September 9 to 11, 2011. Also presented our paper on An event-response model inspired by emotional behaviors.
• Visited Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), Budapest, Hungary for presenting paper Non-Determinism in Peptide Computers in the Workshop on Automata for Cellular and Molecular Computing, held on Aug 31, 2007. Also attended 16th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computational Theory, held in Budapest, Hungary from August 27–30, 2007.
• Visited University of York, UK for presenting paper Peptide Computing: Universality and Theoretical Model in Unconventional Computation, held from Sep 4--8 2006.
• Visited EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland for presenting paper Parallel Computation of Simple Arithmetic using Peptide Antibody Interactions in the International Workshop in Information processing in Cells and Tissues, held from September 8--11, 2003 (visit partially supported by Department of Science and Technology, India, Indian National Science Academy, India and contingency grant from Infosys Technologies, India).
• Visiting researcher in University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada for one month (Aug-Sep, 2002) for research discussions in the Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada and for presenting paper Complexity Issues in Binding-Blocking Automata in the Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems held in the University of Western Ontario, Canada from August 21--24, 2002 (visit sponsored by University of Western Ontario).
• Visited University of South Florida, Florida, US for presenting paper Peptide Computing Universality and Complexity in The Seventh International Conference on DNA Based Computers, held from June 10--13, 2001 (visit partially supported by CSIR, India and contingency grant from Infosys Technologies, India).