Ms. Merin Cherian completed her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Saint Gits College of Engineering, Kottayam [2010] . She completed her MTech in Computational Engineering and Networking from Amrita Viswa Vidya Peetham ,Coimbatore in 2012 . She has been serving FISAT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, since July 2012. She is currently pursuing part-time research at the Department of Computer Applications, Cochin University of Science & Technology. She is the faculty coordinator of Fisat Free Software Cell.
Area of interest
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing.
                                             
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
| Degree | 
Specialization | 
university | 
Year | 
| Btech | 
Computer Science and Engineering | 
MG University | 
2010 | 
| M. Tech | 
Master of Technology in Computational Engineering and Networking, | 
Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore | 
2012 | 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
| Assistant Professor(Special Grade | 
FISAT | 
| Assistant Professor | 
FISAT | 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
- Ugc Net eligibility for lectureship in Computer Science And Applications
 
- Recipient of GATE Scholarship
 
- Successfully completed NPTEL online certification on  Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence.
 
- Successfully completed NPTEL online certification on Artificial Intelligence with Machine learning by Oracle  Academy
 
- Successfully completed NPTEL online certification on  Deep Learning II
 
- Successfully completed NPTEL online certification on  Deep Learning I
 
- Successfully completed NPTEL online certification on Introduction to Operating System
 
- Successfully completed Coursera course on Machine Learning.
 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    FISAT Free Software Cell incharge
Worked in admission cell in 2021,2022
Member of PAC
 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) – Life Member
 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
- Evaluating the Grammatical Correctness of Malayalam Text using improved Text GCN , Cherian Merin, Balakrishnan Kannan , 2022 , SSRG-International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology Volume 70 Issue 12,160-169,SSRG
 
- Evaluating Word Embedding Models for Malayalam, M Cherian, K Balakrishnan – REVISTA GEINTEC-GESTAO INOVACAO E TECNOLOGIAS 2021 
 
-  Literature Survey on Contactless Palm Vein Recognition, International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology (IJCST) Sep-Oct 2015, Volume Number 3 Issue 5, ISSN: 2347-8578 & ISO 3297:2007
 
- Facial Expression Recognition using PCA and texture based LDN descriptor, Springer Series – Scopus Advances in Intelligent System and Computing 2194-5357, International Conference Soft Computing System, ICSCS-2015
 
- A Literature survey on facial expression recognition using local texture based features , International Journal of Advanced Research Trends in Engineering and Technology 2394-3785, National Conference on Innovative Engineering, NCIE- 2015
 
- A Level-Set Based Binarization and Segmentation for Scanned Malayalam Document Image Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, 2011
 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
| Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python | 
NPTEL | 
July 2023- Sept 2023 | 
| Data Mining | 
NPTEL | 
Jan 2023- Mar 2023 | 
| Artificial Intelligence | 
NPTEL | 
July 2022- Oct 2022 | 
| Artificial Intelligence with Machine learning | 
oracle academy | 
Sept- nov 2021 | 
| Practical Data Science | 
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Palai | 
7/19/2021-7/23/2021 | 
| Deep Learning and Neural networks | 
Mohandas College of Engineering. | 
7/5/2021-7/9/2021 | 
| Data Science and ML using Python | 
SOE , CUSAT | 
3/8/2020- 7/8/2020 | 
| Machine Learning and Applications | 
ATAL, CE Kidangoor | 
24/8/2020-28/8/2020 | 
| Mathematics for DataScience | 
Muthoot Institute of Technology | 
10/8/2020-14/8/2020 | 
| FDP on Deep Learning | 
DCA, CUSAT | 
May 20-24 2019 | 
| NPTEL FDP on Deep Learning II | 
NPTEL | 
Feb-April 2019 | 
| Coursera Google Cloud Platform Specialization | 
Google Cloud on Coursera | 
Oct – Dec 2018 | 
| NPTEL FDP on Deep Learning | 
NPTEL | 
July – Oct 2018 | 
| NPTEL Introduction to Operating System | 
NPTEL | 
July – Dec 2016 | 
| Coursera Machine Learning | 
Coursera – Stanford | 
Mar-16 | 
| FDP ON DataMining and Text Mining | 
TCS | 
3rd May 2016 | 
| FDP ON Internet of Things and Cloud Foundry | 
TCS | 
16th February 2016 | 
| ACM India Annual Event 2016 | 
ACM, Trivandrum Chapter | 
22nd January 2016 | 
| FDP on Artificia Intelligencel | 
TCS | 
8th December 2015 | 
| Python Workshop | 
FISAT | 
9th July 2015 | 
| 5th National Conference on Indian Language Computing | 
CUSAT | 
17th & 18th January 2015 | 
| ISTE workshop on Introduction to Design of Algorithms | 
FISAT | 
25th May 2015 – 30th May 2015 | 
| ISTE workshop on Computer Networks | 
FISAT | 
28th May 2014 – 5th July 2014 | 
| 4th International Conference ICHPC 2014 | 
FISAT | 
19th June 2014 – 21st June 2014 | 
| ISTE workshop on Computer Programming | 
FISAT | 
20th May 2014 – 21st June 2014 | 
| FDP on Software Testing | 
TCS | 
18th December 2013 | 
| NPTEL Workshop | 
FISAT | 
12th December 2012 | 
| Big Data | 
TCS | 
28th November 2012 | 
| A- view Workshop | 
FISAT | 
16th November 2012 | 
| ISTE workshop on Akash for Education | 
FISAT | 
10th & 11th November 2012 | 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    Project Guided
B.Tech
- GAN based Multistyle photo cartoonization
 
- Weed identification and its elimination using CNN and image processing
 
- Fully convolutional networks for weed detection in precision farming
 
M.Tech
- Contactless Palm Vein Recognition
 
- Facial Expression Recognition
 
- Color Image Cryptography Scheme
 
                                                 
                                                                                            
                                                    
                                                    
| COURSE CODE | 
CLASS | 
SUBJECT | 
CLASSROOM/ YOUTUBE LINK | 
| CST 302 | 
S6 CSE | 
COMPILER DESIGN | 
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| EST 120 | 
S2 CSD | 
PROGRAMMING IN C | 
https://classroom.google.com/c/NjU4NjMwOTY4NDYx , https://www.youtube.com/@cprogrammingktu7593 | 
| CSL333 | 
S6 CSE | 
NETWORKING LAB | 
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