Head of the Department, ECE - College of Engineering Trivandrum

Dr. Ciza Thomas

Email: cizathomas@gmail.com

Phone No.: 9496204380
Office: Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg., College of Engineering, Trivandrum-695016

Educational Qualification
B.Tech & M.Tech from College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Experience
 Date of joining service: 21-06-1991
 Total Experience in Govt. Engineering Colleges in Kerala (includes Research Experience of three years and Administrative experience as Head of Department for one year): 25 years 11 months
1. Experience as Assistant Professor: Nine Years Four months
2. Experience as Associate Professor: Eleven Years Four months
3. Experience as Professor: Five years Six months
Awards / Honours
1. Appreciation Award in 2010 by the Higher Education Department, Government of Kerala, for implementing Kbase project for all Government Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics in the State of Kerala.
2. E-learning IT Award for year 2014 by Government of Kerala
Highlights
1. Recipient of an India Government scholarship to undergo training at Carnegie Melon
University and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Pittsburgh, USA
2. Collaborator of the MapleSAT project of Waterloo University, Canada
3. Ph.D with a good contribution to the research field of Network Security and Sensor Fusion
from the best Institute (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) in India
4. Visiting faculty for collaborative research work at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
since 2011
5. Guiding seven PhD scholars in the field of Network Security, Sensor Fusion, Intrusion
Detection, Botnet Detection, Video Summarization, Image Processing, Injector Spray
characterization and Computer Vision.
6. 40 International Conference and Journal publications, and book chapters
7. Edited Four International books
8. Member of various technical committees in the State of Kerala
Book Edited
1. Sensor Fusion and its Applications, Sciyo books, Sept. 2010
2. Sensor Fusion: Foundation and Applications, Intech Books, Jun. 2011
3. Complex Systems, Sustainability and Innovation, Intech Books, Nov. 2016
4. Ontology in Information Science, Intech Books, Jun. 2017
5. Data Mining (in progress)
Government Level Activities (National)
1. Invited speaker to various academic and research organizations.
2. Organized training for various defence and research organizations and is an active resource person.
3. Resource person for the Govt. of India sponsored courses held annually at the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore on Information Security from 2005 to 2011.
4. Visiting faculty for collaborative research work at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
since 2011
Government Level Activities (State)
1. Research sub-Committee member of Kerala State Higher Education Council.
2. Business Advisory Committee member of the ASAP project in the telecom sector
3. Member of Engineering Research Council of the Kerala Technological University
4. Member of Planning Board of Directorate of Collegiate Education, Govt. of Kerala
5. Steering Committee member for the preparation of proposal for the IT@College project of the Higher Education Council of Government of Kerala.
6. Technical Committee member of the e-Governance Project implementation of the
Corporation of Trivandrum
7. Curriculum committee convener of the Higher Education Department’s project on
Additional Skill Acquisition Programme on Electronic Product Testing for the degree
students of Kerala.
8. Purchase Committee member of various computer and Electronic equipment purchases in various Govt. of Kerala departments.
9. Set up the Kbase project for all the Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics under the
Directorate of Technical Education of Kerala State
10. Co-coordinator of IMPACT Project which is a Indo-Swiss collaboration project.
11. Technical expert in various Purchase committees.
12. Panel member for SLEEK 2015
13. Curriculum Committee Chairman of the B.Tech Electronics and Communication course at the Kerala Technological University
14. Question paper setter for various tests (recruitment and promotion) in Public sector
organizations.
Professional Society Membership and Activities
1. Member of IEEE Computer Society
2. IEEE ComSoc Executive Committee Member
3. Member of International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF)
4. Nominated to Indian National Science Academy
5. Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
6. Co-coordinated ISTE course and attended ISTE courses.
7. Executive committee member of ISTE for two years in the College of Engineering
Trivandrum chapter and conducted/ attended short term training programmes
8. Registration Convener for the National Conference of the Indian Society of Technical
Education, Kerala chapter held at College of Engineering, Trivandrum in 2002.

Research Promotional Activities
1. Served as Technical Program committee member of more than 70 International Conferences of high repute.
2. Reviewer of many International journals including IEEE Networks, IEEE Transactions on
Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Security and Privacy, International Journal of Network Security, Journal of the Network and Systems
Management, International Journal of Information Management Systems.
3. Reviewed more than 300 papers for various International Conferences.
4. Session chair of five International Conferences and many National Conferences.
5. Steering Committee member, Industry chair, Keynote and tutorial Chair, and Publication chair of various International Conferences held world-wide.
6. Presented a research paper at the Microsoft Techvista Symposium in Oct. 2007.
7. Presented two research papers at the SPIE International Symposium held in March 2008 at Orlando, Florida, US.
8. Chair of the Keynote, Plenary and tutorials and workshops for the International Conference ICCC 2013
9. Recommended for nomination as member to the Indian National Science Academy
10. Reviewed several PhD and MS theses from reputed institutions in India.
11. Collaborative work with Prof. N. Balakrishnan of IISc Bangalore
12. Collaborative work with Prof. Vijay Ganesh of Waterloo University, Canada
13. Member of Engineering Research Council of the Kerala Technological University
14. Research sub-Committee member of Kerala State Higher Education Council
15. Steering Committee member of International Conference (e-Policy 2016) held in UK.
16. Steering Committee member of International Conference (Cyber Security 2015) held in UK
17. Industry Chair (co-chairing with a Professor of MIT, USA) of International Conference
(AppSecurity 2016) held in UK.
18. Co-ordinator (co-cordinated with Prof. Chandra Mouli of Stevens Institute, USA) of
International Workshop on Trusted Systems 2015.
19. Keynote and Tutorial Chair of IEEE ICCC 2013 (Keynote speaker Prof. Theo Gevers from Netherlands and Tutorial Chair Prof. Vijay Ganesh from Waterloo University, Canada).
20. Publication Chair of IEEE ICCC 2015 (Published the accepted papers in IEEE Xplore ).
21. IEEE security and Privacy Guest Editor.
22. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Information Warfare and Cyber Forensics.
23. Member of the Editorial Board of the American Association for Science and Technology http://aascit.org.
24. Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Science and
Information Technology http://www.hrpub.org.
25. Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, University of Bahrain, Scientific Publishing Center.
26. Technical Programme Committee Member of more than 70 International Conferences held all over the world
27. Research Committee Member, Centre for Engineering Research and Development, Govt. of Kerala, from 2010-2014
28. Research Supervisor for PhD programmes of the University of Kerala in the branches of Electronics and Communication Engineering and also Computer Science and Engineering.
29. Permanent member of the Doctoral Committee in the subjects Electronics and
Communication Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, of the University of
Kerala.
30. Authoring a book on “Network Security” for Oxford International Press.
31. Visiting faculty for collaborative research work at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore since 2011.
32. Session chair of five International Conferences and many National Conferences.
33. Invited speaker to various academic and research organizations like Indian Space Research Organization and Defense Research and Development Organization.
34. Organized training for various defense and research organizations and is an active resource person.
35. Organizing Secretary of the 18th National Conference on Technological Trends NCTT 2017.Rank: Professor