Dr. Gangadharan G.R

Dr. Gangadharan G. R.

Name

Dr. Gangadharan G.R.

Designation

Professor

Landline

0431-2503732

E-mail Id

ganga@nitt.edu

Specialization

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Explainable AI, Cloud Computing

Employment Profile

Job Title Employer From To
Professor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli March 2024 Till Date
Associate Professor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli May 2018 March 2024
Associate Professor Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad Feb. 2016 May 2018
Assistant Professor Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad Sept. 2011 Jan. 2016
Researcher IBM Research, India Nov. 2010 Aug. 2011
Postdoc Researcher Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Mar. 2010 Aug. 2010
Researcher Novay (Telematica Institute), Enschede, Netherlands Jun 2008 Feb. 2010
Postdoc Researcher University of Trento, Trento, Italy Nov. 2007 May 2008

Academic Qualifications

Examination Board / University Year Division/ Grade Subjects
Ph.D. University of Trento, Italy 2008 Information & Communication Technology
M.S. Scoula Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy 2004 First Information Technology
M.Sc. Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli 1999 First Computer Science
B.Sc. Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli 1997 First Computer Science
HSC Board of Hr. Sec. Examinations, Tamilnadu 1994 First Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
SSLC Board of Sec. Education, Tamilnadu 1992 First Mathematics, Science, and Social Science

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities

Position Faculty/Department/
Centre/Institution 		From To
Associate Dean (International Relations) Institute Level March 2021 Sep. 2023
Global Academic and Research Center Member Institute Level Feb. 2023 Till Date
Academic Reforms Committee Member (PG & PhD) Institute Level March 2021 Till Date
Hospital Advisory Committee Member Institute Level Dec. 2020 Till Date
NIRF Data Intelligence Member Institute Level Nov. 2018 Oct. 2021
Secretary, Invitation & Reception, Convocation 2023 Institute Level July 2023 July 2023
Secretary, Invitation & Reception, Convocation 2022 Institute Level July 2022 July 2022
DPEC Member (M.Tech. Data Analytics) Department Level July 2018 June 2023
M.Tech. Data Analytics Coordinator Department Level May 2019 June 2020
M.Tech. Data Analytics Coordinator Department Level July 2021 June 2022
Coordinator, M.Tech. DA BoS & Syllabus Revision Department Level July 2021 June 2022
NIMCET Counselling Committee Member Department Level 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Details of Academic Work

Curriculum Development

  • Masters level courses on Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing

Courses taught at Postgraduate levels

  • Cloud computing
  • Data Science
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Distributed Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Systems

Sponsored R&D Projects

Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Status
From To Ongoing/ Completed
Role of HRM Practices, Psychological Contract and Socioeconomic Factors in Gig Economy DST- SPARC July 2023 June 2025 Ongoing
NLP/Embeddings and Reinforcement Learning Conde Nast India Pvt. Ltd. Nov. 2021 Oct. 2024 Ongoing
ML/AI Hardware/Software framework for Vyomnoids ISRO Oct. 2021 Sep. 2024 Ongoing
Digital Health Records Storage and Analysis for Healthcare Provisioning of Global Patients DST - SPARC June 2019 Sep. 2022 Completed
Next Generation Smart Data Centers Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Government of Netherlands Oct. 2015 Sept. 2019 Completed
Data Security in Cloud Services IBM International Shared University Research (SUR), United States of America Apr. 2014 Mar. 2015 Completed
Security Architecture for Banking Cloud Services IBM India University Relations Dec. 2012 Nov. 2013 Completed

PhDs Guidance

Name of the PhD Scholar Title of PhD Thesis Role(Supervisor/ Co-Supervisor) Year of Award
Gopal Narayan Rai Modeling and Verification of Web Services using Recursive Composition Algebra Supervisor 2017
Deepnarayan Tiwari Authenticated Secure Data Sharing and Storage in Cloud Computing Supervisor 2018
Chandrashekar Jatoth QoS aware Service Composition using Computational Intelligence Methods Supervisor 2018
Dinesh Reddy Vemula Energy Efficient Data Center Management Strategies Supervisor 2019
Lavanya Settipalli A Study on the Significance of Unsupervised Learning and Blockchain in Healthcare Fraud Detection and Prevention Supervisor 2022
Adarsh V Navigating the Neural Nexus through Explainable Artificial Intelligence Supervisor 2024

Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia/ Seminars Organized

Title of Activity Level of Event (International / National / Local) Date (s) Role Venue
2nd IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium National Dec. 20-21, 2012 Organizing Coordinator Hyderabad, India
3rd IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium National Dec. 16-17, 2013 Organizing Coordinator Hyderabad, India
4th IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium National Dec. 11-12, 2014 Organizing Coordinator Hyderabad, India
International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2017) International Jan. 04-07, 2017 Organizing Chair Hyderabad, India
Symposium on IT in Practice (ITiP) (COMPSAC 2018) International July 23- 27, 2018 Program Chair Tokyo, Japan
Cloud and Edge Computing for Big Data Analytics (with a focus on Healthcare) International Dec. 16-20, 2019 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
Computing Models and Data Analytics International April 12-16, 2021 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
National Conference on Business Management and Analytics National April 30, 2021 Organizing Secretary NIT Trichy
KARYASHALA: Statistical Modeling & Computational Intelligence National Dec. 06-12, 2021 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
FPGA Based SoC Design Targeted for Implementing AI/ML Algorithms National Dec. 27-31, 2021 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
National Conference on Business Management and Analytics National January 28-29, 2022 Organizing Secretary NIT Trichy
GIAN: Artificial Intelligence for Social Media Content Extraction, Analysis, and Recommendation Systems International April 18-22, 2022 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
KARYASHALA: Hardware Implementation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms Using FPGA National Dec. 05-11, 2022 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer, & Entrepreneurship (With a Focus on AI & Data Science) National Jan. 30 - Feb. 03, 2023 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
KARYASHALA: High Performance Computing: A Hands-on Approach National May 22 - 28, 2023 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy
Managing Human Resources in the Digital Era and the Future of Work International June 10 - 14, 2024 Organizing Coordinator NIT Trichy

Membership of Learned Societies

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member ) Organization Membership No. with date
Senior Member ACM 90530299
Senior Member IEEE 8065758

Academic Foreign Visits

Country Duration of Visit Programme
Italy 2003 - 2008 For studying M.S. and Ph.D.
Canada 2007 (Feb. -Apr.) Visiting Researcher
Austria 2007 (May -July) Visiting Researcher
Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Czech, USA, Switzerland, The Netherlands 2003 -2010 For several research papers presentations

Patents Granted

Inventors Title Number Country Year
Deepnarayan Tiwari, G. R. Gangadharan SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURE COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SaaS) ATTESTATION SERVICE FOR AUTHENTICATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING 10498537 USA 2019
Subrahmanya Rao, G. R. Gangadharan, Dinesh Reddy SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL SOLUTION IN A SWARM OF SOLUTIONS USING SWARM INTELLIGENCE 11144832 USA 2021

Publications

Refereed Research Journals

Author(s) Title of Paper Journal Volume (No.) Page numbers Year Index
Manoranjan Gandhudi, P.J.A. Alphonse, Ugo Fiore, G. R. Gangadharan Explainable hybrid quantum neural networks for analyzing the influence of tweets on stock price prediction Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) 118 109302 2024 SCIE
V. Adarsh, G. R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore, Paolo Zanetti Multimodal Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment using Custom MKSCDDL Kernel Over CNN with Transparent Decision-Making for Explainable Diagnosis Scientific Reports (Nature) 14 1774 2024 SCIE
V. Adarsh, G. R. Gangadharan Mental Stress Detection from Ultra-Short Heart Rate Variability using Explainable Graph Convolutional Network with Network Pruning and Quantisation Machine Learning (Springer) 2024 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G. R. Gangadharan QFBN: Quorum based federated blockchain network for healthcare system to avoid multiple benefits and data breaches IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 13 (2) 24-35 2024 SCIE
Ankur Jain, Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan Bi-level optimization of resource allocation and appliance scheduling in residential areas using a Fog of Things (FOT) framework Cluster Computing (Springer) 27 (1) 219-229 2024 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G. R. Gangadharan, Sivaiah Bellamkonda An extended lightweight blockchain based collaborative healthcare system for fraud prevention Cluster Computing (Springer) 27 (1) 563-573 2024 SCIE
Manoranjan Gandhudi, G. R. Gangadharan, P.J.A. Alphonse, Vasanth Velayudham, Leeladhar Nagineni Causal aware parameterized quantum stochastic gradient descent for analyzing marketing advertisements and sales forecasting Information Processing & Management (Elsevier) 60 (5) 103473 2023 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G. R. Gangadharan WMTDBC: An unsupervised multivariate analysis model for fraud detection in health insurance claims Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier) 215 119259 2023 SCIE
V. Adarsh, P. Arun Kumar, V. Lavanya, G. R. Gangadharan Fair and explainable depression detection in social media Information Processing & Management (Elsevier) 60 (1) 103168 2023 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G. R. Gangadharan Provider profiling and labeling of fraudulent health insurance claims using Weighted MultiTree Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer) 14 3487–3508 2023 SCIE
V. Adarsh, G. R. Gangadharan Applying Explainable Artificial Intelligence Models for Understanding Depression Among IT Workers IEEE IT Professional 24 (5) 25-29 2022 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G R Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore Predictive and adaptive Drift Analysis on Decomposed Healthcare Claims using ART based Topological Clustering Information Processing & Management (Elsevier) 59 (3) 102887 2022 SCIE
Avik Dutta, Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore QoS-aware big service composition using distributed co-evolutionary algorithm Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience
(Wiley) 		33 (19) e6362 2021 SCIE
Lavanya Settipalli, G. R. Gangadharan Healthcare fraud detection using primitive sub peer group analysis Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) 33 (23) e6275 2021 SCIE
Johnpaul C. I., Munaga V. N. K. Prasad, S. Nickolas, G. R. Gangadharan Representational primitives using trend based global features for time series classification Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier) 167 114376 2021 SCIE
Deepnarayan Tiwari, G.R. Gangadharan SecAuth-SaaS: a hierarchical certificateless aggregate signature for secure collaborative SaaS authentication in cloud computing Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (Springer) 12 (12) 10539-10563 2021 SCIE
Johnpaul C. I., Munaga V. N. K. Prasad, S. Nickolas, G. R. Gangadharan Fuzzy representational structures for trend based analysis of time series clustering and classification Knowledge Based Systems (Elsevier) 222 106991 2021 SCIE
Gopal N. Rai, G. R. Gangadharan, Rajkumar Buyya Web Service Interaction Modeling and Verification Using Recursive Composition Algebra IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 14(1) 300-314 2021 SCIE
Gopal N. Rai, G. R. Gangadharan Model Checking Based Web Service Verification: A Systematic Literature Review IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 14(3) 747-764 2021 SCIE
Bhattu Bhaskar, Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore A MapReduce-based modified Grey Wolf optimizer for QoS-aware big service composition Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) 32(8) e5351 2020 SCIE
Johnpaul C. I., Munaga V. N. K. Prasad, S. Nickolas, G. R. Gangadharan Trendlets: A novel probabilistic representational structures for clustering the time series data Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier) 145 113119 2020 SCIE
Deepnarayan Tiwari, Gayatri K. Chaturvedi,
G. R. Gangadharan 		ACDAS: Authenticated controlled data access and sharing scheme for cloud storage International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) 32(15) e4072 2019 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Rajkumar Buyya Optimal Fitness Aware Cloud Service Composition using an Adaptive Genotypes Evolution based Genetic Algorithm Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) 94 185-198 2019 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore Optimal fitness aware cloud service composition using modified invasive weed optimization Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier) 44 1073-1091 2019 SCIE
Siva Kumar Gavvala, Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Rajkumar Buyya QoS-aware cloud service composition using eagle strategy Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) 90 pp. 273-290 2019 SCIE
Johnpaul C. I., Munaga V. N. K. Prasad, S. Nickolas, G. R. Gangadharan General representational automata using deep neural networks Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier) 122 159-180 2019 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G. R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore, Rajkumar Buyya SELCLOUD: a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model for selection of cloud services Soft Computing (Springer) 23 (13) 4701-4715 2019 SCIE
V. Dinesh Reddy, G. R. Gangadharan, Subrahmanya Rao Energy-aware virtual machine allocation and selection in cloud data centers Soft Computing (Springer) 23 (6) 1917-1932 2019 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G.R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore, Rajkumar Buyya QoS-aware Big Service composition using MapReduce based Evolutionary Algorithm with Guided Mutation Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) 86 1008-1018 2018 SCIE
Deepnarayan Tiwari, G. R. Gangadharan SecCloudSharing: Secure data sharing in public cloud using ciphertext policy attribute based proxy re-encryption with revocation Int. Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) 31 (5) e3494 2018 SCIE
Gopal N. Rai, G. R. Gangadharan Verifying compositional equivalence between web service composition graphs Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) 30 (16) e4434 2018 SCIE
V. Dinesh Reddy, Brian Setz, G. S. Rao, G. R. Gangadharan, Marco Aiello Best practices for sustainable datacenters IEEE IT Professional 20 (5) 57-67 2018 SCIE
Vemula Dinesh, Brian Setz, Subrahmanya Rao, G R Gangadharan, Marco Aiello Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 2 (3) 290-303 2017 SCIE
G.R. Gangadharan Open Source Solutions for Cloud Computing IEEE Computer 50 (1) 66-70 2017 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G.R. Gangadharan, Rajkumar Buyya Computational Intelligence based QoS-aware Web Service Composition: A Systematic Literature Review IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 10 (3) 475-492 2017 SCIE
Chandrashekar Jatoth, G.R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore Evaluating the efficiency of cloud services using modified data envelopment analysis and modified super-efficiency data envelopment analysis Soft Computing (Springer) 21 (23) 7221-7234 2017 SCIE
M. Verma, G.R. Gangadharan, N.C. Narendra, R. Vadlamani, L. Ramachandran, V. Inamdhar, R. N. Calheiros, Rajkumar Buyya Dynamic Resource Demand Prediction and Allocation in Multi-tenant Service Clouds Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) 28 (17) 4429-4442 2016 SCIE
Shitalkumar Halale, G.R. Gangadharan, Lorna Uden Enhancing Co-creation Process Using Social Media IEEE IT Professional 17 (2) 40-45 2015 SCIE
L. Sangavarapu, S. Mishra, A. Williams, G.R. Gangadharan Indian Banking Community Cloud IEEE IT Professional 16 (6) 25-32 2014 SCIE
G.R. Gangadharan, Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Michael Weiss Managing License Compliance in Free and Open Source Software Development Information Systems Frontiers (Springer) 14 (2) 143-154 2012 SCIE
Hong-Linh Truong, Marco Comerio, Flavio De Paoli, G.R. Gangadharan, Schahram Dustdar Data Contracts for Cloud-based Data Marketplaces International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Inderscience) 7 (4) 280-295 2012 Scopus
G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea Service Licensing: Conceptualization, Formalization, and Expression Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer) 5 (1) 37-59 2011 Scopus
Stefano De Paoli, G.R. Gangadharan, Aphra Kerr, Vincenzo D’Andrea Toward Trust as Result: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the "Future Internet" Journal tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation 9 (2) 702-714 2011 Scopus
G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea Managing Copyrights and Moral Rights of Service-Based Software IEEE Software 28 (2) 48-55 2011 SCIE
G.R. Gangadharan From Legal Code to Digital Code: Making Software Services Rights-aware International Journal of Private Law (Inderscience) 4 (2) 299-314 2011 Scopus
G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Michael Weiss Free/Open Services (F/O-Services) IEEE IT Professional 12 (6) 24-30 2010 SCIE
Michael Weiss, G.R. Gangadharan Modeling the Mashup Ecosystem: Structure and Growth Journal of the R & D Management (Wiley) 40 (1) 40-49 2010 SSCI
G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea Service Orientation: Licensing Perspectives Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology 4 (1) 1-11 2010 Scopus
G.R. Gangadharan Understanding Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing Cutter IT Journal 22 (6&7) 2009 Scopus
G.R. Gangadharan, M. Weiss, Vincenzo D’Andrea, R. Iannella Service Licensing Composition and Compatibility Analysis International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (World Scientific) 17 (3) 301-317 2008 SCIE
A. Ivanyukovich, G.R. Gangadharan, V. D’Andrea, M. Marchese Towards A Service-Oriented Development Methodology Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, (IOS Press) 9 (3) 53-62 2005 Scopus

Book Chapters

Authors Chapter Book Publisher Year
Dharmesh Singh, Lavanya Settipalli, G.R. Gangadharan An Enhanced Model for Fake News Detection in Social Media using Hybrid Text Representation Emerging IT/ICT and AI Technologies Affecting Society Springer 2023
Dinesh Reddy, Kurinchi Nilavan, G.R. Gangadharan, Ugo Fiore Forecasting Energy Consumption Using Deep Echo State Networks Optimized with Genetic Algorithm Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Technologies: Future Impact and Well-Being for Society 5.0 CRC Press 2022
Dinesh Reddy, G.R. Gangadharan, Subrahmanya Rao, Marco Aiello Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Data Centers Using a Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm Machine Learning for Intelligent Decision Science Springer 2020
Srimanyu Timmaraju, Ravi Vadlamani, G.R. Gangadharan Ranking of Cloud Services using Opinion Mining and Multi-Attribute Decision Making Handbook of Research on Advanced Data Mining Techniques and Applications for Business Intelligence IGI Global 2017
G.R. Gangadharan, Deepnarayan Tiwari, Lalit Sangavarapu, Shakti Mishra, Abraham Williams, Srimanyu Timmaraju Open Source Cloud Software Solutions Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing Wiley 2016
Shaga Praveen, G.R. Gangadharan SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in Cloud Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations, and R&D Solutions Springer 2014
Davide Maria Parrilli, G.R. Gangadharan Legal Implications of Social Networks Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining Springer 2014
Georgousopoulos Christos, Ziouvelou Xenia, Ramfos Antonis, Kokkinakos Panagiotis, Anshu Jain, G. R. Gangadharan and Taher Yehia Applying Open Innovation Strategies to eGovernment for Better Public Services E-Government Success Factors and Measures: Concepts, Theories, Experiences, and Practical Recommendations IGI Global 2013
San Murugesan, G.R. Gangadharan Green IT: An Overview Harnessing Green IT: Principles & Practices Wiley IEEE 2012
San Murugesan, G.R. Gangadharan Green IT: An Outlook Harnessing Green IT: Principles & Practices Wiley IEEE 2012
G.R. Gangadharan, Anshu Jain, Nidhi Rajshree Designing and Assessing Participatory Public Services for Emerging Markets Handbook of Service Science, Management, and Engineering Elsevier 2012
Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Ken Laskey, Romano Trampus, Alan Hartman, G.R. Gangadharan Conceptual Modeling Approaches for Services Science Handbook of Service Description Springer 2012
G.R. Gangadharan, Davide Maria Parrilli Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing: Perspectives of Private Consumers and Small and Medium Enterprises Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures Springer 2011
Hong-Linh Truong, G.R. Gangadharan, Marco Comerio, Schahram Dustdar, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Flavio De Paoli Reconciliation of Contractual Concerns of Web Services Handbook of Research on Non-Functional Properties for Service-Oriented Systems: Future Directions IGI Global 2011
G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Renato Iannella, Michael Weiss ODRL Service Licensing Profile (ODRL-S) Virtual Goods: Technology, Economy, and Legal Aspects Nova Publishers 2011

Editorial Board Membership

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • Associate Editor, Sadhana, Springer

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Contact Address

G. R. GANGADHARAN

Professor
Department of Computer Applications
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli – 620015 INDIA
Phone : 0431-250 3732
E-mail: ganga@nitt.edu / geeyaar@gmail.com