Good morning, Sir. Good morning, Governor and.

Good morning. Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

I am Dr. S Vijayanand. At present working as an associate professor. From Sri Hindu College of Engineering. And technology. Hyderabad. I have 19 years of experience in teaching profession.

Competed by 10th class in. In the year of 1997.

Nineteen years is quite a span. With all that experience, what's one foundational concept or lab exercise in your field that you find especially rewarding to teach, and why?

Later diploma in computer technology. Competed in the air of. 2002.

Okay, so you finished your 10th class back in 1997 and now have nearly two decades teaching as an associate professor. Earlier, I asked about a foundational concept or lab you especially enjoy teaching. Could you share one concrete example—maybe a topic or hands-on experiment—that you believe really helps students grasp the fundamentals of your subject?

Alright, so you went on to complete a diploma in computer technology in 2002 after your 10th. In your 19 years of teaching, what's one laboratory course or hands-on project that you find especially effective for helping students grasp core concepts?

Pedagogy. And the integration of that. New technology. For outcomes, students outcome. Students. Students learning outcomes.

You emphasized integrating new technology and innovative pedagogy for student learning outcomes. Can you walk me through one specific instance where you used a new teaching method or tech in your classroom, and how it impacted your students’ understanding?

Out of that, out of our teaching. Experience in 19 years. I have overcome out of a research experience also for this research experience I have. Seven years of research experience. So far. As I published for. Two people. Two book publications. As I attended for that NPTEL courses for. 4 NPTEL courses introduction to. Internet of Things. Cloud Computing. Intelligent machine learning.

So far I published for that. 19 national and international conferences. Out of 19. 9 international conference and 10 national conferences. And Journal 27. Journal has been published. In that out of 27 national.

Let's shift to your research productivity and funding approach. Given your work in AI for cyber defense and IoT, where do you see the most fundable research directions over the next few years? Which funding agencies or grants would you pursue to support these efforts?

An International Journal. 6 has been the Scopus induced? And two of them from. Above science.

So you mentioned publishing in 27 journals, presenting at 19 conferences, and completing NPTEL courses in areas like IoT, cloud computing, and intelligent machine learning. Given your breadth in research, what's your strategy for choosing projects that are likely to attract external funding—are there specific agencies or industry partners you've targeted, and how do you decide what’s most viable?

So you've published in both national and international journals, with several Scopus-indexed and above science entries—quite a record. Given your experience, if you were building a research group focused on intelligent machine learning or IoT, what specific external funding sources would you target first, and why do you think your work would be competitive for those grants?

In the year of 2017, completed my. Doctorate degree. In the year of 2020, I received. Supervisor resignation. The Department of Information and Communication. Engineering.

Alright, now let's talk about your teaching methods. Suppose you have to teach a core subject to a large class—let's say 200 students—and you can't use slides or traditional lecturing. How would you structure that session to keep everyone engaged and make sure they're learning, not just passively listening?

Etcetera.

You listed a wide range of courses you've taught—like algorithms, IoT, software engineering, and cryptography. Suppose you're teaching Internet of Things to a large group and can't use slides or a lecture—how would you run that session to keep students genuinely engaged with the material?

For my strengthen is. Self motivated. Quick learner. Discipline person.

Right, so you mentioned teaching a lot of core courses like algorithms, IoT, and cryptography, and highlighted self-motivation and discipline as strengths. Let's say you're teaching Internet of Things to 200 students, but you can't use slides or a traditional lecture. How exactly would you keep them actively engaged and make sure they're really learning?

With a good academic. Career for my weakness is.

Sensitive. Once if I. Tech or else assign one job. Still up to that completion of. That job, I never come out of that.

You described yourself as self-motivated, a quick learner, and disciplined, with a strong academic career. Suppose you have to teach a large Internet of Things class—no slides, no traditional lecturing—and you want real student engagement. What exactly would you do in the classroom to get 200 students actively learning the material?

Easily. I can't believe anyone of them. Why I have a shoes for this way? PED Campuses. Vit campus is a place to. To learn.

Right, thanks for sharing all that. Let's shift gears a bit. Accreditation cycles can be demanding—if you joined our department and found that outcome assessment data was inconsistent across courses, how would you approach fixing that?

So, you mentioned VIT is a place you feel drawn to for learning and growth. Given your experience, how familiar are you with accreditation processes and what role have you played in institutional quality assurance or accreditation cycles at your previous institutions?

Huge campus. As well as the infrastructure is. A good flexible. Class Classrooms. Class hours.

We have to update our knowledge for uh. Good environment.

Alright, so you mentioned VIT's campus and infrastructure as big draws for you. Earlier, you touched on being self-motivated and committed to seeing a job through. In terms of departmental responsibilities, beyond teaching and research, what role do you see yourself playing in governance—like curriculum committees or program reviews?

For uh. Management has been supported to the faculty also.

Okay, let's shift to something a bit different. Imagine a situation where a student files a formal complaint, claiming your grading is biased. At the same time, your department head is urging you to improve pass rates in your course. How would you handle that tension between academic standards and administrative pressure?

Alright, you highlighted how important it is to keep learning and adapt, and that the management’s support makes it easier for faculty to grow. I want to give you a scenario: imagine a colleague asks you to co-author a research paper, but when you review the draft, you notice some of their data seems questionable or maybe not fully supported. How would you handle that situation?

In in our lifetime. Career. We have to. Grow up for in the. Teaching Professions. Related to uh. Research. Etcetera.

Okay, thanks for sharing your thoughts on professional growth and research integrity. Now, considering your background in computer technology and your research in areas like IoT and machine learning, do you have any industry partnerships or connections that could help students with internships or placements?

Yeah, for my domain is specifically for network security. Data mining and Internet of. Things for UG as well as the. PG Students. Uh, 3 or 4 Research caller also. As I given a guidance. How to write a paper? How to? Write a research paper. App. How to publish? How to submit the paper in the reputed journal also? For example of. Just I'm going to share our. Paper.

Research paper.

So you've been guiding students in research areas like network security, data mining, and IoT, and you've helped them with publishing papers as well. When you're evaluating student projects or research work, what's your approach to ensuring fair and rigorous assessment?

Here in this data mining.

Alright, so you were starting to explain your work in data mining — you mentioned submitting your IoT idea to Lab to Market and how it's progressing. For data mining, can you share a concrete example of how you guided students in applying data mining techniques to a real-world problem, and what tools or algorithms you had them use?

Intrusion provision. In intrusion prevention. By using that support by using the genetic algorithm. And support vector. Mission. Nowadays each and every users using the Internet. Internet. Here in this Internet. So many of them is going to be misused. For example of these if you are sending the data from source to destination. For this data. Is going to be misused or else do the some modifications or else. Uh update some unwanted informations, Also some deleted some informations. Also how to send the data from the source to destinations? Use with 100 percentage secure. Here in this intrusion provision. Reduction by using the genetic algorithm and Support Vector machines. By using the. KDD 99 Cup. Data site. Data set for this data set already. Predefined. Already predefined data set. We have to send the data. Through test. From one more to another node. As well as. We have to send that. Data from the. Shaw shortest to go? Both. By using the trusted node. From one note to another node. As well as the trusted trusted node as well as the shortest node. We can send the data from source to destination with secure joint algorithm is nothing but. Machine learning. It can be. Takes place of theatre.

Alright, so you used the KDD 99 dataset for intrusion prevention, combining genetic algorithms and support vector machines to secure data transmission through trusted nodes. That’s a solid example of applying machine learning to a practical network security problem. When you’re guiding students or junior researchers on topics like this, how do you ensure they really grasp the underlying theory and not just the tools or code?

Routing technique. By using this. Trust based routing technique. For this. Method by using the. Data mining.

So you tied the trust-based routing technique directly to data mining, using optimization via genetic algorithms and SVMs to secure data as it moves across nodes. When you had students implement or test this method in a lab, what was the biggest challenge they struggled with — was it understanding the algorithms, coding the solution, or something else entirely?

Recording for genetic algorithm. Compute that uh. Unique algorithm we take as a. People, that is the selection. Crossover. And. Next after that we can integrate it for this if it is the condition has been satisfied here in this. Jaidi algorithm again you have to go to that initial stage of that. It takes that selection. Crossover and filtration. Up to that. Condition has been satisfied in the. Here in this genetic algorithm. In support Victor Mission. We have to. Take that for regression. Part as well As for classification. How the data has been classified? How to take that regression for this? Path between the. Classification. And regression. We have to take it further support vector. Mission is one of that heuristic. Search Mission Language. Technique.

Alright Professor, we're coming to the end of our conversation. Is there anything you'd like to ask about the role or the team?

Yeah, once, if you given the opportunity. I think so far maximum here as a doctorates in our institutions giving preference to that. For proposal. Preparation. As well as guiding to students to. For attending the national and international conference as well as the journal also. Sweden's maximum, they are going for that. They don't know what is meant by UGC Care Journal, RSP Review Journal, Scopus Index Rs. Your box signs, I like that. We are going to give the guidance how to publish the paper and that UGC can or else we are going to motivate to publish in the Scopus. Index also. So far. Last year in 2024. Now 2025. I resume that funding from the. Sir Science engineering and research board for ₹2,00,000 for. Conducting that international conference for AQIS, a city quality. Hey, hi my Paul quality scheme. I think for GOC grand for grant of organizing conference received ₹2,00,000 for the conducting the same national conference for category B. Again for. Now release that FDP for offline FDP. For one week, that one also is. Post has been completed. Once you feel. Given the opportunity for any other institutions. 1st I have to. Take off the for teaching. Profession. Mainly for concentrating for the research oriented. For publishing the. Journal in the scope of index Web of Science and SA papers in simultaneously I have to. Go for. So for sending the proposal also I will give assurance for receiving the funding also because last two years full and full in our institutions. Motivated. You have to go. Go ahead for full for research oriented only. Have I received some funding? Funding. I lost in rehab. Ideal lab, also ideal lab as well As for lab to market also AAA city. For 15,00,000 for funding as I applied for that funding also. Once if you view the envo. Give the opportunity. In your organization. Easily I'm going to adopt based on that environment. Definitely I I will show my. Sentan definitely I'm going to cooperate to the to to our. Team. To get success in our. Continuous. Teaching experience.

You mentioned securing funding for conferences and labs, and your focus on helping students publish in Scopus and Web of Science journals, which is impressive. Professor, before we wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to ask about the position or our academic environment?

Project as well as the. Lap next. Come further project. Before go for that major project. Here we are going to be motivated for the skill development lab as well as the real. Research Project. That it is one of the subject. As well as the creditor. In our institutions having for JNU academic. Syllabus. Here there is a. Research real time research project as well as the societal related project. We are giving that basic guidance. Nowadays students not having about. I'm not awareing about the subject. How they are, uh, go for that directly for that, uh, uh. Paper for either national conference or international conference or journal or research related. Paper First we have to motivate. How to take? Choose one. Title. At recent technology. At recent innovations, technology related. Title. How to go for that title? For example of that, how to prepare the abstract? As well as the synapses. How? How? We are going to collect the requirements. After collect the requirements what we have to do that step by step process. Finally. Whether that. Implementation is going to takes place or. Or not. Before that they have to know about that. By using this. Requirements. What we have to do? Talk about come to the conclusion after conclusion also. Next after the conclusion what we have to implemented for? Upcoming. In future enhancement also. To write it by step by step. We have to explain. So related related to the lab related title also we can choose it. Take the title for. Play the national conference. Related content or else international conference related also to write a paper. To summit in third one of the. Journal either UGC or else P Review. Journal or. Scopus index also. Has to be how to? Yeah, get. Give the clarity to the students to support the students how to write up. One paper. After nowadays so many. So many plagiarism checker is there. Hey, whether that free plagiarism checker or else we can go for that paid also with minimum cost. We have to check the uh, check that a tool. A tool also is having that for checking of the grammar as well as that for uh checker. Also we have to give the guidance to students to motivate the students. Slowly. For example, once if we are. Applying for that IA studies. For Ms. For US or UK? Maximum they are asking that. What about the students research Bankrupt. We are giving that research background in that, uh. Command. 0 only. Because of. Students, either UG students or PG students. Their level is only up to the. As well as. John Lap. Next, for that major project also just simply they have to complete the. Presentation. Only for presentation is not enough. Already existing. Titled Existing Project only they are going to take part of a major project title. That what is what. Whatever that content is available in the Google or else in the ChatGPT, that content only is going to be present in that final. Review even for the PG students also. They are not aware about that, what is meant by conference, why they are conducting the conference, how to. Attend the conference. How to write the paper? How to prepare the PPT? For finally, at least for UGC care or else for some peer reviewed journal. For doctorates only, giving the guidance to write the paper. To verify the plug recent checker we we are having that turn it in as well as the checker in our institutions. Well then our faculty support only they are going to. Verify the. Uh, paper. They are going to summit in the journal. At least any one of the journeys is going to be published only for the UGC or pre review. Not for Scopus or Web of Science or SCA.