Areas of Research:

-Accessible Computing

-Human Computer Interaction

-E Learning and Social Computing

-IoT

-Robotics

Contributions to Teaching/ Research:

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, Kannur University since April 2021
• Joint Director / Scientist ‘E’ at Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore from Jan -2017 to April-2021
• Principal Technical Officer / Scientist ‘D’ at Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore from Jan -2012 to 31-Dec-2016
• Senior Staff Scientist / Scientist ‘C’ at Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore from Nov-2007 to Dec-2011
• Project Engineer at Center For Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, from Jan-2006 to July 2007
• Lecturer, Dept. of Information Technology, University of Mumbai, from Aug-2005 to Jan-2006
• Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, K.V.G College of Engineering, Sullia, From Sep-2003 to Jan-2004.

Other Professional Experiences

• Member LITD 35 Sectional Committee- Active Assisted Living : Electronics and Information Technology, Bureau of Indian Standards
• Member Convener for Drafting committee of Indian Accessibility Standards
• Inventor - Smart Post Box Kiosk (Secured R&D Innovation Award-2016 at C-DAC)
• Expert member for ICT for Special Education Forums

Technical Talk / Resource Person

Delivered more than 30+ Invited Lectures/ Keynote address/ Resource Person for Workshop/ Seminar/ Faculty Development Programs in the area of Human Computer Interaction, e-Learning, Multimodal Computing, AI and Machine Learning.

R&D Funded Projects

• Mobile and IoT Enabled Environment for Special Education

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund : Rs. 21,70,000

Agency : SCERT- govt. of Kerala

• MANAS- Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation system (Joint Project with NIMHANS Bangalore and Armed Force Medical College Pune)

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund : 92 Lakhs

Funding Agency : O/o The Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India

• Knowledge and Resource Center for Accessibility in ICT

Role : Co-Investigator

Fund : 291 Lakhs

Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

• e-Saadhya -An e-Learning System for Special Education - Deployment in North Eastern States

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund : 78 Lakhs

Funding Agency: North-East Grant - GoI

• Early Fire Detection and Safe Exit guidance System (Jointly with IISc Bangalore)

Role : Co-Investigator

Fund : 250 Lakhs

Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

• Web based Platform for VACCIN

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund :12 Lakhs

Funding Agency: CSIR

• Shradha - Multimodal Interface to Desktop for Elderly Users

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund : 28 Lakhs

Funding Agency :DST, Govt. Of India

• NLP @Desktop - Part of NROP Phase II Project

Role : Principal Investigator

Fund : 93 Lakhs

Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

• Trainers Training and Student Talent Transformation for CBSE.

Role : Co-PI

Fund : 909 Lakhs

Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

Research Project Internal funded and Deployed Nation Wide (C-DAC)

• Smart Post Box System for Dept. of Posts. – Deployed for Public use – Role: Inventor
• NAADI- National Analytical Platform for Dealing with Intelligent Tracing, Tracking and Containment of COVID19 Pandemic – Deployed in 3 Union Territories – Role: Chief Architect

Publications

• Amitha IC , N. S. Sreekanth and N. K. Narayanan, “Collaborative Multi-Resolution MSER and Faster RCNN (MRMSER-FRCNN) Model for Improved Object Retrieval of Poor Resolution Images” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 12(2021), 547-554, ISSN 2158-107X
• Amitha IC, N. S. Sreekanth and N. K. Narayanan, "End-to-End Traffic Monitoring and Management in Real-Time Road Traffic," 2022 IEEE Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI), , pp. 1-5, IEEE-Xplore doi: 10.1109/IATMSI56455.2022.10119300.
• N.S Sreekanth, Nobby Varghese and Sarat Chandra Babu “Virtual Chemistry Lab to Virtual Reality Chemistry Lab”. Resonance , Springer Nature, Vol. 27 issue 8, pp 1371–1385 (2022), ISSN 0971-8044
• N.S Sreekanth, N. K Narayanan “Multimodal Human Computer Interaction with Context Dependent Input Modality Suggestion and Dynamic Input Ambiguity Resolution” - International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology Volume 69 Issue 5, 152-165, May 2021, ISSN: 2231 – 5381
• Ebin Antony, N S Sreekanth , R K Sunil Kumar , Nishanth T “Data Preprocessing Techniques for Handling Time Series data for Environmental Science Studies” International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology Volume 69 Issue 5, 196-207, May 2021, ISSN: 2231 – 5381
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan "Enhanced Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-acoustic Parameters" Signals, Networks, Computing and Systems- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series , Springer Verlag, Volume 395, 2017 , pp-93-104 – ISSN 1876-1100
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan “Audiovisual Techniques for Enhancing Isolated word Speech Recognition system” International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Vol 8, no.3, 2017, pp. 884-888, ISSN : 0976-5697
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan, “Static Hand Gesture Recognition Using Mono-Vision Based Techniques”, International Journal of Innovative Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 4, No.2 , 2017, pp- 33-41, ISSN: 2393-8528
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan "Dynamic Gesture Recognition - A Machine Vision based Approach" Signals, Networks, Computing and Systems- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series , Springer Verlag, Volume 395, 2017 , pp-105-115 – ISSN 1876-1100
• N.S Sreekanth, Nobby Varghese, Pradeepkumar, Vaishali Pal, Supriya Pal, N.K Narayanan "Multimodal Interface for Effective Man Machine Interaction" Handbook on Media Convergence Vol 2. , Springer Verlag 2016. pp. 261-281
• Indu S, Srinivas N.K, N.S Sreekanth, Harish P.J, Supriya Pal, "NLP@Desktop: a service oriented architecture for integrating NLP services in desktop clients" ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 38 Issue 4, July 2013 ISSN : 0163-5948
• N.S Sreekanth, Gopinath P, Supriya Pal, N.K Narayanan, “Gesture based Interaction”, International Journal of Machine Intelligence, Vol 3, Issue 4 (2011) pp. 268-271. ISSN 0975-2927
• TM Thasleema, NK Narayanan, NS Sreekanth, "A robust approach for Malayalam cv speech unit recognition using artificial neural network"Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV), The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp)
• N.S Sreekanth, Ahamad Hassan, Supriya Pal, N.K Narayanan, “Multimodal Interface Fusion of Various Modalities” International Journal of Information studies, Vol 1, Issue 2 .(2009) pp 131-137 ISSN 1911-8408
• Prajith P, N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan, “Phase Space Parameters for Neural Network based Vowel Recognition”, Neural Information Processing – ICONIP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science- Springer Verlag, Vol 1., pp. 1204-1209, – ISSN- 0302-9743
• N.S Sreekanth, Arunjith, Supriya Pal, N.K Narayanan, “Phase Space Point Distribution Parameter for Speech Recognition” IEEE Proceedings of International Conferences on Modeling and Simulations- AMS-09 Held at Bali, Malaysia. IEEE-DOI : 10.1109/AMS.2009.81  pp. 345-347
• N.S Sreekanth, Girish, Supriya Pal, N.K Narayanan, “Performing operations on Graphs through Multimodal Interface” IEEE-Conference Proceeding of International Conference on Applications of Digital Information and Webtechnologies-2008, Held at Czech Republic. IEEE-DOI: 10.1109/ICADIWT.2008.4664321  pp. 74-77,
• N.S Sreekanth, Meera Thomas, Ahamad Hassan, Supriya Pal, “Multimodal Interface to Desktop”, Proceeding of International Conference on Open source Computing – 2008 held at NITTE, Magalore.
• N.S Sreekanth, Babu P Anto, N. K Narayanan, “Study of Pitch Variation in Vowel Sounds of Malayalam Speech and it’s Application for Reconstruction of Vowels” Proceedings of International Symposium on “Frontiers Research in Speech and Music” FRSM -2005 Uthkal University- Bhuvaneswer, Orisa, India.
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan “Computational Linguistics Approach for Continuous Speech Recognition.”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Computer Science & Informatics (2005), St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappally, Tamilnadu, India
• N.S Sreekanth, N.K Narayanan, “Vowel Recognition Using Multi layer Feed Forward Neural Network with Phase Space Point Distribution as Input Parameter”, Proceedings of National Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network (2004).– Union Christian College- Aluve, Kerala, India.

Books Published

"Digital Computer Fundamentals", Published by Distance Education Department, University of Mumbai , Mumbai University Press, 2006.

Patents Filed and Published

• Method And System For Authenticating a User Using a Personal Authentication Device (PAD),  Chinese Patent Application No: 201910585905.2;, Filing date: July 01, 2019- Granted Oct-2022
• Method And System For Authenticating a User Using a Personal Authentication Device (PAD), Indian Patent application Application No: 201841024339 filed on June, 29, 2018
• Device and System for Locating the Text on a Printed Text" Indian Patent Application No 201641000926 filed on 2016
• Method for Dynamic Resolution of Input in a Multimodal Interface Environment", Indian Patent Application No : 5297/CHE/2015
• System and Method for Dynamically Suggesting the Input Method In a Multimodal Human Computer Interface" Indian Patent Application No: 5296/CHE/2015