Unsupervised Learning Approaches for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Visualization

Dr. B. K. Tripathy, a distinguished researcher in Mathematics and Computer Science has more than 600 publications to his credit in international journals, conference proceedings, chapters in edited research volumes, edited volumes, monographs and books. He has supervised over 50 research degrees to his credit. He has a distinguished professional career of over 40 years of service in different positions and at present he is working as a professor (Higher Academic Grade) and Dean of school of Information technology in VIT, Vellore. As a student, Dr. Tripathy has won three gold medals, national scholarship for post graduate studies, UGC fellowship to pursue PhD, DST sponsorship to pursue M. Tech in computer science at Pune University and DOE visiting fellowship to IIT, Kharagpur. He was nominated as distinguished alumni of Berhampur University on its silver jubilee and golden jubilee years. For efficient service as a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, he was selected as an honorary member of American Mathematical Society. Besides this he is a life member/senior member/member of over 20 international professional societies including IEEE, ACM, IRSS, CSI, Indian Science congress, IMS, IET, ACM Compute News group and IEANG. Dr. Tripathy is an editor/editorial board member/ reviewer of over 100 international journals like Information Sciences, IEEE transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Based Systems, Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Analysis of Neural Networks, Int. Jour. of Information Technology and Decision Making, Proceedings of the Royal Society-A and Kybernetes. He has so far adjudicated PhD theses of more than 20 universities all over India. He has organised many international conferences, workshops, FDPs, guest lectures, industrial visits, webinars over the years. Dr. Tripathy has to his credits delivered keynote speeches in international conferences, organised special sessions and chaired sessions. Also, many of his papers have been selected as best papers at international conferences. He has received funded projects from UGC, DST and DRDO and published some patents also.

Anveshrithaa Sundareswaran is a final year B. Tech (Computer Science) student at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. Her areas of interest include machine learning, deep learning and data science. She has shown her research capabilities with several publications. Her research on Promoter Prediction in DNA Sequences of Escherichia coli using Machine Learning Algorithms won the best Student Paper award at the IEEE Madras section Student Paper Contest, 2019 and was published later in the International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research. She has presented a paper on ＂Real-Time Vehicle Traffic Analysis using Long Short-Term Memory Networks in Apache Spark＂ at the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering, 2020. Her research on Real-Time Traffic Prediction using Ensemble Learning for Deep Neural Networks has been published in the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT). Also, she has communicated a research paper on Real-Time Weather Analytics using Long Short-Term Memory Networks to the International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering. Her other achievements include the outstanding student award at the 2020 Tsinghua University Deep Learning Summer School where she was the only student to represent India. Achievers Award and Raman Research Award from VIT University are some of the other recognitions of her merit.

Shrusti Ghela

Shruthi Ghela has received her B. Tech (CS) degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore in May 2020. She completed her Capstone project at Iconflux Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India in the field of Machine Learning during. She has completed two summer projects: one in the domain of Data Science from KeenExpert Solution Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India and the other in Web Development from Jahannum.com, Ahmedabad, India. For her excellent academic performance, she received scholarship for all 4 years of under graduation from VIT. She was the winner of the DevJams’19 hackathon for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019. She has proficiency in the languages German and Chinese besides English. In an attempt to increase and intensify her specialisations, she has completed IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (Coursera), Machine Learning A-Z (Udemy) and Machine Learning by Andrew Ng (Coursera). Ms. Ghela has the skill set of Hadoop, Python, MATLAB, R, Haskell, Object Oriented Programming, Full Stack development, Functional Programming and Statistics. Her research area of interest includes Data Science and Quantum Computing. Apart from being a hard-core subject learner, she enjoys Photography, playing Tennis, reading and traveling.