Information Technology - Achievements

• Department of IT, for the second time bagged the "AICTE-CII Best Industry linked Engineering Institution award"! Read more>>
• National Cyber Defence Research Centre IoT Security Laboratory Read more>>
• Signing of MoU
  

  Department of IT facilitated the signing of MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Sona College of Technology, Salem and Cyqurex Private Limited, Bengaluru on 4th October 2019

• Department of IT received the Best NSS Programme Officer Award Read more>>

• SONA SWAYAM NPTEL LOCAL CHAPTER secured “AA” rating (33rd Rank) in NPTEL examination held during Apr 2019. Our college has been identified as one of the TOP PERFORMING NPTEL LOCAL CHAPTER among 2500 NPTEL Local Chapters in all over India. SONA is bagging the prestigious “AA” category award for the SIXTH consecutive runs.

  The tribute goes to Dr.J.SenthilKumar, Professor/IT and the NPTEL – SPOC, Sona College of Technology. Around 40 candidates staff and students of IT department bagged Elite + Gold certification.

  

• Share and Mentor Institutions (Margdarshan) is one of the Quality Improvement Scheme by AICTE. The scheme envisages that a Hub’n Spoke system to be established by an institute of repute as mentor within an existing facility to serve as the hub to guide and disperse knowledge to 10 technical institutions to encourage best practices. Sona College of Technology, Salem has been selected by the AICTE to serve as a Mentor Institute for Margdarshan scheme for the period 2019-2022.

  Department of IT congratulates the coordinators Dr.J.Senthilkumar, Professor / IT , Dr.Y.Suresh, Professor / IT and Dr.V.Mohanraj, Professor / IT, for their efforts in receiving a grant of Rs.30,00,000/- under this scheme.

  

  

  

• Dr.P.Iyyanar, Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) received a grant of Rs.10,64,000/- for the establishment of Multi-Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre for SC/ST students in Sona College of Technology, Salem under the scheme Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre for SC/ST students(SPDP).

  

• A consultancy project work titled “Mining and Accounting System” worth Rs.2,00,000/- for Dalmia Magnesite Corporation was successfully delivered during the period Dec’ 2018 to May’ 2019. The system was developed by Mr.U.K.Balaji Saravanan, Assistant Professor / IT and Mr.N.Selvanathan, Assistant Professor / IT.

  

  

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari HOD & Professor / IT bagged the ISTE Periyar Best Teacher Award on 29th April 2021

• Dr. K. Thangaraj Assistant Professor (S.G ) bagged the ISTE Periyar Best Teacher Award on 29th April 2021.

• Dr. J. Akilandeswari, HOD & Professor (Principal Investigator) received a grant of Rs. 80,16,965/- for the project titled as “A proof of concept for indoor navigation using real time image recognition algorithm”, funded by DST-TIDE in the year 2017-18 (3 Years).

NPTEL DISCIPLINE STARS –Jan 2021

Criteria

• Dr. J. Akilandeswari, Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology has been granted Fulbright-Nehru fellowship for International Education Administrator's Seminar from the period 15-10-16 to 31-10-16. The objective of the fellowship is to expose the participants to the administrative aspects of Higher Education system in US.
• Sona college of Technology has been selected as one among the 50 colleges under the category Technology enablement for “Best practice in Technology Enablement" by ICT Academy of Tamilnadu. This compendium was received by Dr. V. Jayaprakash, Director & Dr. P. Shanmugaraja Associate Professor/IT Sona College of Technology on 28th Feb 2017 at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai.

NPTEL – Top Performers

• The following faculty members are emerged as Toppers and secured a Gold medal in Courses conducted by NPTEL during Academic year 2018-2019.
1. Dr. J. Senthilkumar- Cryptography and Network Security- Topper and Gold Medal
2. Dr. Y. Suresh- Cryptography and Network Security- Topper
3. Dr. S. Vasanthi- Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using C -Topper
4. Dr. J. Jeba Emilyn- Database Management System- Topper and Gold medal
5. Mr. S. Lakshmanan- Problem Solving through Programming in C- Topper
6. JANANI I- Data Base Management Systems- Elite
7. SELVANATHAN N- Introduction to Programming in C-Elite
8. P ILANCHEZHIAN- Digital Circuits- Elite
9. S.VASANTH Cloud Computing- Elite
• The following faculty members are emerged as Toppers and secured a Gold medal in Courses conducted by NPTEL during October 2017.
1. Dr.J.Akilandeswari - Fundamentals of Database Systems
2. Dr.S.Vasanthi - Computer Organization and Architecture
3. Dr.J.Senthilkumar – Internetwork Security
• The following faculty members are emerged as Toppers and secured a Gold medal in Courses conducted by NPTEL during September 2016.
1. Dr.V.Mohanraj - Introduction to Cryptology
2. Dr. J. Senthillkumar- Introduction to Cryptology
3. Dr. Y. Suresh- Introduction to Cryptology

• Dr.J.Senthilkumar, Prof/IT has been appreciated for his instrumental role as SPOC for promoting the NPTEL courses effectively in the college and bring the college into "TOP 50" of NPTEL Local Chapter.
• Dr .J. Akilandeswari and Dr. P. Iyyanar completed Online Course "Hadoop Platform and Application Framework" & "C++ for C Programmers " Course conducted by COURSERA during December 2016.
• Dr. P. Iyyanar AP/IT and Mr. P. Jayaprakash AP/IT completed Online Course "Programming Foundation with Java Script, HTML and CSS" & "Data Structures " Course conducted by COURSERA during Sep 2017
• Dr.K.Thangaraj received a Best Faculty Advisor Award from IEI Tamilnadu State Centre on 23 March 2018

Books Publication

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari has authored a book titled “Web Technology – A Developer’s Perspective”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2015.

Research
Funds from Research Agency:

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari and faculty members from IT and ECE have received Rs.76 Lakhs for the funding proposal titled “A Proof of concept for indoor navigation using real time image recognition algorithm” through DST/SEED/TIDE during January 2018.

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari and faculty members from IT, ECE, CSE and FT have received Rs.30 Lakhs for the funding proposal titled “Fabric Defect Detection using Intelligent Image Analytics” through DST-FIST during Nov 2015.

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari and faculty members from CSE and ECE have received Rs.56.35 Lakhs funding project “ICT Interventions to Promote Entrepreneurship Development of Women SHGs in Salem District, Tamil Nadu through Rural Agricultural Support Centers (Agri BPOs)” from SEED Division, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India during 2016-2017.

Publications

• Dr. J. Akilandeswari, K.V. Shanthi, G. Jothi.,”Mining frequent patterns without tree generation”, International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management Inderscience Publisher, Vol. 8, No.3, pp. 265-278 Sep 2016 [Scopus Indexed]

• Dr.J.Senthilkumar and Dr.Y.Suresh” have published a paper titled “Visually lossless compression for Bayer color filter array using optimized Vector Quantization”, in Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Journal Volume 46, Pages 1030-1042, September2016.
• [ImpactFactor: 3.9] [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2015.12.025]

• V.Saravanan and V.Mohanraj, “Maximizing QoS by Cooperative Vertical and Horizontal Handoff for Tightly Coupled WiMAX/WLAN Overlay Networks”, Cluster Computing –The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications”, Springer Journal, DOI: 10.1007/s10586-016-0601-x, 2016. [Impact Factor – 2.0]
• Dr.J.JebaEmilyn, Kesavan Thangaraj, Kadarkarai Ramar And Muthusamy Chitra, “A rough set based rational clustering framework for determining correlated genes”, Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica pp. 185– 201 (2016) DOI:10.1556/0 30.63.201 6.2.4 2016 July [Impact Factor – 0.92]

• S.Anusha and V.Mohanraj, “Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Wireless Sensor Networks using different spectrum sensing techniques”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 4044-4048, 2016. [Scopus Indexed]
• S. Sivanantham and V. Mohanraj, “Review Framework for Hybrid Approaches to Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 1025-1032, 2016. [Scopus Indexed]

• M. Lakshmi,J. Senthil Kumar”, Optimized Vector Quantization for Bayer Color Filter Array”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology ,International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering Vol:9, No:6,pp 1566-1572,Dec 2015 [Scopus Indexed]

• P. Priya and J. Senthil Kumar”, Region Proximity Approximation Based Cluster Head Selection Approach for Lifetime Maximization of Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Printing, Packaging & Allied Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp694-705, December 2016 . [Scopus Indexed]

• Dr.J. Akilandeswari, Anitha Elavarasi S, “Term Frequency based Cosine Similarity Measure for Clustering Categorical Data using Hierarchical Algorithm”, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 11, Issue 7 ,pp 798-805, 2015 [Scopus Indexed]

• Dr.J. Akilandeswari, Anitha Elavarasi S, “Cosine Based Partition Algorithm For Clustering Breast Cancer Data”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No:7 pp. 16769-16785, January 2015 [Scopus Indexed]

• Senthilkumar, J., Chandrasekaran, M., Arumugam, S., Suresh, Y. and Mohanraj, V., “Advertisement Timeout Driven Bee’s Mating Approach to maintain fair energy level in sensor network”,  Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier,Vol.12, No.7, pp.1884-1890,2012.

• Mohanraj, V., Chandrasekaran, M., Senthilkumar, J., Arumugam, S. and Suresh, Y. “Ontology Driven Bee’s Foraging Approach based Self Adaptive Online Recommendation System”, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Vol. 85, No.11, pp. 2439-2450, 2012.

• Senthilkumar, J., Chandrasekaran, M., Arumugam, S., and Suresh, Y.. and Mohanraj,V., “Advertisement Timeout Driven Bee’s Mating Approach to maintain fair energy level in sensor network”, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 11, No.5, pp. 4029-4035, 2011.

PhD Awarded

Patent

• Dr.J.Akilandeswari applied a patent on “Securing Routing Protocol” and it is published during the year 2016

Industry

• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Sona College of Technology, Salem and VMware,an industry-leading Virtualization Software Company @ ECE Conference Hall by 11am on April 3, 2018. Mr.R.S.Sachin Kumar, Regional Program Manager, VMware IT Academy, Bengaluru was the guest of honour representing VMware.
• SONA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY has been felicitated by IBM for the 6th consecutive year for the best performance in The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC - 2015).
1. Our college has been adjudged as a winner from a group of over 1100 participating colleges comprising of over 99000 teams with over 133000 students. The award ceremony of TGMC - 2015 was held on Thursday 15th December, 2016 at BV Raju Institute Technology (BVRIT), Narasapur, Hyderabad.
• The following faculty member received the award from INFOSYS in the INSPIRE FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARD for contributions towards INFOSYS Campus connect programme in the college.
1. Dr. J. Jeba Emilyn , Associate Professor/IT – SILVER level
2. Mr. V. Vijay, RA, IT Dept – Bronze
• Mr. P. Manikandan technician has completed CISCO-CCNA certification examination during December 2016.

Student Achievements [2020-2021]

1. K. S. Susmitha, 3rd Year IT student got internship in a product company "NGGAWE NIRMAN TECHNOLOGIES, BANGALORE" to carry out project in Block chain. She is getting paid internship of 20000 INR per month.

NPTEL MOTIVATED LEARNERS - Jan 2021

NPTEL learner must have been present for 8 or more NPTEL exams in the last 4 semesters .The learner must have passed in 75% or more of the exams appeared for. (For eg: if he/she has appeared for 8 exams, he/she should have passed in 6 atleast)

The learner must have appeared for atleast one exam in each of the 4 semesters.They were certified in atleast 4 exams in which they have appeared and NPTEL DOMAIN SCHOLAR

3. Ms. V. Aishwarya- B Tech IT IV Year Student bagged the Best Student Advisor Award ISTE Tamilnadu Section on 29th April 2021.

4. The following Student members are emerged as Toppers and Elite in “NPTEL” Online Course 2021

The following students members are emerged as Elite + Gold in “NPTEL” Online Course Nov 2019

• Dhanasekar.P of III year IT won II place in a coding event “Error Recovery” at the National Level Technical Symposium conducted by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on 27/09/2019.
• M.Sheik Faaruk of III year IT won III place in a coding event “Error Recovery” at the National Level Technical Symposium conducted by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on 27/09/2019.
• Muthukkumaar.C , final year - IT student received “The ISTE Chapter Best Student Award for the year 2018”, during the 21th ISTE TN/P Annual Student Convention held at Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai on 1st March 2019.
• Dhivya.M third year IT received first prize in “Coding Contest” and Mr. Vinu Anand S third year Mechanical Student received first prize in “Design Contest” during the 18th ISTE Tamilnadu Annual Student Convention held at Sri Sai Ram Engineering College , Chennai on 1st March 2019.
• Ms.Sowmaya has undergone  Internship at National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, AP, India
• Trailhead Students Championship 2018 - Largest Learnathon of India Orghanized by ICT Academy and Powered by Salesforce- 2nd & 3rd March 2018
  
  • Mr. S. Dheenadhayalan - II -Year ‘A’
  • Mr. R. Dharani Dharan - II -Year ‘A’
  • Mr. S. Lokeash- II -Year ‘B’
• Ms. S. Sajetha - B Tech IT III Year Student Best Student Advisor Award IEI Tamilandu State Centre 10 April 2018

• Students Speaker FORUM Activities
  
  • R.Dharani dharan -B Tech IT Department II year Student Topics “Love is not harassment” Comments by the student Helped to Improve stage presence in First prize. March 2018
  • S. Sajetha -B Tech IT Department III year Student Topics “Youths of present generation” Comments by the student helped to get rid of stage fear in Second prize. March 2018
  • K. Sriram -B Tech IT Department III year Student Topics “Youths of present generation” Comments by the student helped to get rid of stage fear in Second prize. March 2018
• Students Placed On Campus Japanese Company Name “Human Resosia Co Ltd” 16/04/2018
  
  • Abirami C- B Tech- IT III Year
  • Arjun S - B Tech- IT III Year
  • Sridharasudhan S -B Tech- IT III Year
  • Soundharya R - B Tech- IT III Year
• Chairman Mr.C.Valliappa along with Faculty members honouring students who got placed with 14 Lakhs CTC in Commvault Systems, USA.
  
  • Vairavaprakash S R- B Tech -IV Year
• Mohamed Irfan P 3rd year B.Tech IT Students obtained internship in a Singapore based “Axelerat In”.
• Ms.Shanmugapriya P.K has won the Third place in Anna University Inter zonal Tournament for Weight lifting during Jan 2016.