Good day, Midde Venkata Siva. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Yeah.

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Yeah, uh, hi, myself, uh, Mithya Venkateshwara, uh.

I submit my. I submitted my thesis in.

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Hello, Professor. How are you today?

Great to hear that, Professor. Let’s proceed with the interview. To begin, could you walk me through your academic and research background, emphasizing the key achievements and milestones of your career so far?

So my uh, basic research area is uh wireless design for UH.

So almost, I submitted my, uh, I published UH-4 research papers and UH-5 conference papers, uh, throughout my research journey. And, uh, I joined as adult faculty in.

Image browsing.

And I thought the course like come to architecture and organization course for the.

5th semester students and again I assisted lab sessions for.

For the VLSI design course for the H word, yeah, that's all regarding my academic genuine, I almost worked.

Three years and Accenture.

Before like after my meeting and after that I did my M Tech 980K Calicut that that's all you got my academic journey.

So I can teach like a digital system design and computer architecture, uh then verification of Wellness system.

And real estate design.

Oh, that's up.

Yeah.

Understood, Professor. Now let's dive into specific aspects of your experience. Can you elaborate on how you approach guiding student projects and research? For example, how do you ensure students understand the fundamentals while also fostering innovation?

Basically when I give any project, I will ask the students to just go through it.

So I will ask them to explain how much they have understood that further they.

If they're explaining something, I will be asking uh, questions on top of that saying like, uh, basic fundamental question, how it is working, why it is required.

So based on that I can evaluate how much the students can understand. Further I will be asking a few more questions like how much research they have done whether like strictly they have read any like if I give any problem just they have gone through it or whether they have done research or not. Like I will be asking basic question like suppose if we if they are mentioning about any counters.

So you'll be asking like inside contest what?

For the building box that are required further I will be asking like they say something like or. I will ask so again how deeply block will be working?

So further, I will be going into like, uh, I'll be asking like, uh, what is the build basic building block like, uh, Sr. large like that. Thank you.

Thank you, Professor. That provides a clear sense of your approach to guiding students systematically while emphasizing fundamentals and innovation. Now, could you explain how you evaluate and grade student projects or exams to ensure fairness and consistency?

So when I'm evaluating any project.

Plugin we need to check how this how much like whether they're doing actual like whether the project is done by done done by the students or whether they they're taking help of the AI or other or other their their friends or their colleagues like that. So when we are asking we need to ask a question such that.

They we need to like again. We need to ask basic questions only.

So how it is working? Why they why it is working like that?

Show on the When we need to evaluate grades, we need to be very familiar with uh, like, uh.

Make a grading is in a like in the same way to the all the students.

For me, the first we need to understand what was the presentation that they are giving then uh.

Oh, again, we need to ask like how much they understood the concept. Like, uh, sometimes, uh, they may understood the very basic part, but uh, they're unable to explain how much it was done. And again, we need to look at their, their presentation skills, like sometimes even though they have done the good work, but they are unable to explain it properly.

Uh, they're able to, uh, present the properly again, uh, there, uh, how much they're answering for our each question. Suppose one student can take like a, he may have done the work very well, but uh, he's, sometimes he may, he can't explain it properly. And sometimes some other students, they have done very good work and they can present well. So at that time, uh, we can graduate students based on their presentation also, instead of just how much the work they have done.

Show me to see whether.

There is like, uh, in this case, uh, we felt like some uh.

So.

Will it be in a fairway with the students? That's all, Thank you.

Thank you for your detailed explanation, Professor. It’s clear you take a thorough and balanced approach to evaluation, considering both understanding and presentation. Moving on, could you share an example of a specific research publication or project you've worked on, and explain how it contributes to the field of image processing or a related domain?

One of my contribution to my research work is designing a wireless architecture for Ms. Processing like.

Super resolution so basically the Super resolution is like if you take an image like nowadays you can see if you heard about movies like releasing movies in the 4K resolution. So where they will be taking like the live examples of movies are like releasing in 4K resolution like so they will be having a copy of some old version of.

Movies. So now they are upscaling it to 4K registration where you will be getting very good clarity of movies.

So in that case.

Uh, in my research, I have worked on a like images where we'll be taking very low work or, uh, low resolution images and we'll be upscaling into 4K resolution. Suppose I may be taking like 1080P resolution and that will be, uh, scaling it to 4K resolution. Like usually we will be calling it as a super resolution. So in my research I have used almost like. Convolutional environmental networks like it may be having around.

4 to 5 layers and after that we'll be performing like 3 by 3 convolution and three by three convolution of that we will be having like softmax function or some function will be there. After that again we will be using only to reduce the hardware complexity. I'll be using only one by one calculation. So like again my basically in the real world example as I said.

Some 4 to 5 layers of networks.

Uh, which image can we can upscale And, uh, like when we're taking any image, uh, like in terms of like server security or security terms. So we need a very good client app feature like, uh, when, if you take any CC cameras, like, uh, sometimes we'll be getting very low resource images. So, so at that time, uh, when we capture, identify a person in CC cameras, we need to zoom it, zoom the image and we need to get.

The like very nice image from there. So in that case the Super violation is worked again when it comes to my work.

I'll be designing in hardware where it produces very good quality of images.

How come, uh, with the very lesser hardware? So that's all regarding the, uh, my work related to, uh, image browser.

Thank you.

Thank you, Professor. Your research on super-resolution using convolutional neural networks, particularly its application to producing high-quality images with reduced hardware complexity, is both impressive and impactful. It highlights a strong contribution in practical fields like movie restoration and security systems. Next, since communication and teaching are vital aspects of a professor's role, how do you ensure clarity and structure in your teaching, especially for complex topics like digital system design or VLSI verification? Can you share your approach?

So first or when we.

Talking any course like a digital system design. So we need to explain it to students like.

Why the digital system is required?

Please

So we need to introduce a student as a subject or course such that why it is relevant to the parent or what is going on to the real time scenarios.

At the same time, we need to make sure that, uh, so when we give a very good clarity about like why it is required, then only, uh, the students are very interested to know about that particular subject. If you take, uh, suppose in digital system design, when we start a course, we need to introduce like, what are the different types of signals there in the, like, uh, in the real time scenario. So what are the drawbacks when we, if we are using only, uh, the real time?

That's like it kind of unlock signal or how we will be converting into digital system.

When we're using unlock signal on our digital signal, why we'll be going for distance with this request? What are the advantage and what are the drawbacks that we need explained first movements and?

Mainly, uh, where this distance system design will be, uh.

It is record like. Suppose that you're going for any wireless system. The basic building block is. So we'll be building a digital system.

Show from there we need to start about explanation about our real estate and how designing a system how like how.

Why it is required at the same time? If you take any verification of VLR system, once the system is built, we need to well pay system such that it doesn't have any bugs. Suppose I build a system like. Suppose building a system for counters like which is a four is 4 bit counter like. It may be counting up to maximum for 15 but we need to verify systems such that it is.

No such that it is working properly.

We need to explain a student problem is that while the subject is very important in the current times like we can give a live examples like the basic building block for any cheap is a digital system region like the OR a block.

So we need to go there in detailed way like the abstraction level and we can explain it to students why it is required and how.

How it is said in the current times? Thank you.

Thank you, Professor, for elaborating on your teaching methodology. It's evident that your approach emphasizes foundational understanding while connecting concepts to real-world applications, which is critical for engaging students effectively. Now, shifting focus slightly, could you discuss your experience with embedding and communication systems, particularly in terms of research or teaching? How do you tailor such complex topics for students or industry stakeholders?

Can you repeat once?

Again, when it comes to the embedded system, Sir, uh, again we need to tell to the students like uh, what is an embedded system?

Certainly, Professor. Could you discuss your experience with embedding and communication systems, whether in research or teaching? How do you simplify and present such complex topics to students or industry professionals?

Uh, especially designed to make your systems, I mean, explaining it properly and, uh, we need to go through the very basic details to make the student to interest. Thank you.

How it is different from like normal?

Thank you, Professor. Your emphasis on starting with foundational concepts and gradually building interest clearly underscores your structured approach to teaching. To conclude, can you explain how your research, teaching methods, and industry experience collectively prepare you to mentor future scholars and professionals effectively?

So like, uh, when it comes to make my teaching, uh, uh.

I give uh, like, uh, I thought a subject like computer architecture. So which is, uh, very, uh, which is a very required for the students, uh, because they have to understand how the process will be working.

How they can build a process?

Hey, when it comes to my, uh, like investor experience, I've worked in Accenture for three years.

So, uh, I can delete your students like suppose when I'm teaching the accountable architecture.

Or if it I think tell like if suppose if you build any website or something.

Then it will be having a more steps like in our testing level quality is going to uh.

Into the real time production. Thank you.

Thank you, Professor. Your blend of academic and industry experience, combined with a focus on practical applications, certainly reflects a strong capacity to mentor and inspire future scholars and professionals.

Thank you.

You're welcome, Professor. Would you like to conclude the interview at this point, or is there anything else you'd like to discuss?

MMM. I think uh, like, uh, I like the interview process, uh, and uh.

It is very nice to meet with this kind of experts like so again, we will further help us to improve the, our teaching, uh, methods and, uh, we can gain.

When good exposure like uh, the current trends in uh.

I interview also. Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words, Professor. It has been a pleasure speaking with you. Just to confirm, would you like me to end the interview now?

Yes, you can understand a little.