Faculty Profile

Ms. Raji P
Assistant Professor (Special Grade)

Profile

 

Mrs Raji P is currently serving as an Assistant Professor (special grade) in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation FISAT. She is pursuing her PhD at the Karunya Institute of Engineering. She completed her M.Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation in the year 2010 and B.Tech from Mahatma Gandhi University in 2007. 

She started her career in  FISAT in the year 2013 as an Assistant professor. Before that, she served as a lecturer in Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering in the year 2008-2009. 

Mrs Raji P is the co-founder of the start-up Rastelx Technologies Private Limited and holds the position of Director of the company since September 2022. 

At FISAT she is holding the position of the start-up coordinator of the IIC at the institute level. She is actively involved in the entrepreneurship development activities of the institute and coordinates the training and workshops related to it. She is providing internships for students of the FISAT in the area of mobile application development.

Awards and honours

 

      • Smart India Hackathon

    Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving. Mrs. Raji P has mentored the students who entered the grand finale of SIH software edition 2020 under the theme of student innovation. The team also got to interact with the honorable Prime Minister of India during the finale. He congratulated the team and the mentor for guiding such socially relevant projects. The team also entered into the final 5. The team consisted of  Athulya Sreekumar, M Vishnu, Yadu Krishnan K S, Raichu Mary Mathew from the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation (S8 EIE) and Rishad ( S8 CSE ).

      • Lilavati award

    AICTE announced the Lilavati award with women empowerment as the theme, the objective of the award is to create awareness about issues like sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, literacy, employment, technology, credit, marketing, innovation, skill development, natural resources, and rights among women. Mrs. Raji P and Dr Jiji Antony (Civil Engineering) applied for the awards in the sub-theme “Women sanitation and hygiene” and FISAT was the only engineering college from Kerala that entered into the finals under the theme. FISAT entered into the final 10 teams nominated for the award. The team consisted of Athulya Sreekumar, M Vishnu, and Yadu Krishnan K S (S8 EIE)

      • Harvard Grant project

    Mrs Raji P won a grant of Rs 25000 in   Health Care from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital for her research work. Mrs Raji P is pursuing her PhD at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences in the field of Biomedical Engineering

      • Toycathon 2021 evaluator

    Toycathon 2021 is an inter-ministerial initiative organized by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell with support from the All India Council for Technical Education, the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of MSME, the Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Mrs Raji P was the evaluator of the prestigious program and she has evaluated more than ten teams from the school category.

      • UV sanitisation unit for Taluk Hospital

    The UV sanitization unit designed and manufactured by Mrs. Raji P and Mr. Ajay Baby (S8 EIE)  was delivered to the Taluk Hospital Angamaly on 7 July 2020. The device can be used for sanitization of N95 masks as well as the watches, phones, etc used by doctors, nurses, and the healthcare workers there.

      • Best paper award

    Mrs. Raji P has been awarded the Best Paper for her paper “ Machine Learning based diagnosis of diseases associated with abnormal and heavy menstrual bleeding: A Literature Review” in the International Conference on Novel Approaches and Developments in Biomedical Engineering – ICDNABE 2021 Organized by the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore during 22nd and 23rd April 2021.

      • SHE POWER HACKATHON

    Mrs Raji P ,Mrs Arathi E and Ms Lakshmi Nandakumar (Assistant professor, Department EIE) received the special mention award for PINKPAL MOBILE APP FOR WOMEN SECURITY in the year 2020. The hackathon was conducted by KSUM and the US state department for the empowerment of women.

      • Women productization grant of 6 lakhs INR

    Mrs Raji P and Mrs Honey Devassy (Assistant professor, department of EIE) received 6 lakhs grant for their start-up incubated in Federal Labz FISAT. The grant is for the development of their society security mobile app named COMPANION SOS

      • RKVY RAFTAAR grant of 5 lakhs INR

    The startup founded by the team from FISAT was granted 5 lakhs for the development of their mobile app named SEVAFARM from the ministry of Agriculture under the RKVY RAFTAAR program

      • NEC MENTOR OF IITB

    Mrs. Raji P is selected as the mentor of the National Entrepreneurship program conducted by IITB in the year 2023. She is serving as the mentor of two colleges St Aloysius college Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and Symbiosis institute of technology, Pune, Maharashtra. She is guiding the ECELL in the colleges in strategizing and planning their events.

Administrative & Institutional Support

 

  • NSS and Women Cell activities

Mrs. Raji P has associated with NSS for the distribution of posters to health centers all over Kerala for the popularization of the “One Rupee One Pad” scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojna (PMBJP). She has also coordinated the conduct of a webinar by the Women Cell FISAT “Let’s talk about menstruation and menstrual health”, which was attended by more than 300 women. The webinar was conducted to raise awareness among women about the physical, mental and social well being associated with menstruation.

  • Innovation ambassador

She has undergone innovation ambassador training conducted by MOE s innovation cell and AICTE during the period from 30 june to 3o july 2021

  • Organized Impact Lecture series

Ms Raji P and Mr Tom Anto  have organized two Impact Lecture series funded by the Institutions Innovation Cell. The first lecture series was on 25th September and  was attended by more than  90 participants. The second part of the lecture series  was on 12 th October 2021 and was attended by about 120 participants.

  • Awareness programme on Innovation and entrepreneurship

Mrs Raji P, Mr Tom Anto, Mr Anoop E G has organized and conducted an awareness programme on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the students of FISAT 

  • Project exhibition EXPONENTS 2K21

Dr Anish Mathew and Mrs Raji P coordinated and conducted the project exhibition of 2017 2021 EIE batch. The projects were evaluated by experts from the industries and best projects were identified and prizes were distributed as part of the event.

  • Young innovators program

Mrs Raji P served as the mentor for the Young Innovators program from 2019 to 2021. She is a certified trainer for the YIP and has given training for various schools in the district. This includes residential training for the ideators of YIP at BRC kothamangalam for the higher secondary and vocational students

  • Startup founder

Mrs Raji P, Mrs Aarthi E (alumni EIE department) and Mrs Honey Devassy ( Assistant professor, EIE) are the co founders of Rastelx technologies private limited

  • Entrepreneurship development programs

She attended Entrepreneurship development programs for two months which was conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture RKVY RAAFTAR in the year 2022. She also received certification for entrepreneurship from Google start-up school in the year 2023. She was a semi-finalist of the TiE women Global Pitchfest Competition 2023. She participated in the accelerate her program of AWS and won an AWS credit of 2000$ in the year 2023. She participated in the HUDDLE GLOBAL startup expo in the year 2023 and TiECON Kerala event 2023. She is a cohort member of the Wadhwani Liftoff program for 2023 2024.

Research & Publications

 

  1. ‘Real Time Water Contamination Monitor using Cloud, IoT and Embedded Platforms, DOI: 10.1109/ICOSEC49089.2020.9215276.’ in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC) with Ms.Lakshmi Nandakumar. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcpNcQKgxCSiuokWN1wIsIqAU4QMQYx_/view?usp=sharing
  2. Literature review on sleep APNEA analysis by machine learning algorithms using ECG signals’ in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1937/1/012054/pdf

FDPs/Trainings attended

 

1 Two week ISTE wokshop on

Analog electronics

4/6/2013 to 14/6/2013 Ekalavya, IIT Kharagpur
2 Research in education technology 2/8/2014 IIT Mumbai,
3 FDP on soft skill 6/4/2014 Career Launchers, tvc, FISAT
4 Engineering Education and beyond 14 oct 2015 FISAT
5 Two week ISTE wokshop on

Engineering Physics

8th to 18th December 2015 Ekalavya, NMEICT
6 W112 Week NPTEL course on “Problem Solving through programming in C” Jan 2018 to April 2018 IITM
 

7

Robotics and iot 16/7/2018 TO 20/7/2018 FISAT
 

8

NPTEL course on problem solving through programming in c JAN-APRIL 2018 online course by NPTEL
 

9

NPTEL course on introduction to iot AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 2018 online course by NPTEL
 

10

NPTEL course on effective engineering teaching in practise JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 2019 online course by NPTEL
 

11

Creative teaching and makers workshop 10-12 JULY 2019 FISAT
12 Software engineering-an industry perspective 24 OCTOBER 2019 FISAT

Resource Person

 

Conference Organized/WS Date Participants Remarks
Coordination committee for training of polytechnic teachers Teachers from various polytechnic colleges
Mentor for I2P Makers workshop 5th to 22nd October 2016 Teachers from various Engineering colleges
Core committee for the conduct of TECHATHON Students from various schools and Engineering colleges all around Kerala
Coordinator of I2Q quiz competition as part of TECHATHON January-February 2017 Students from various schools all round Kerala
Coordinated Professional Enhancement program for UKF engineering college 22/7/2018 to 23/7/2018 Faculty of UKF Engineering College
NPTEL online certification course “Problem solving through in C” January-June 2018 TOP 5%
Mentor for NPTEL online certification course “Problem solving through in C” January-June 2018 21 students from S4EIE 20 students certified by NPTEL
Conducted Workshop on “Introduction to IoT” July 25 to 30 2018 Students of S7EIE
Co-ordinated the project exhibition at NSCAGE MAY 2019 Students of S8EIE
Mentor for NPTEL online certification course “Problem solving through in C” January-June 2018 14 students from S4EIE 13 students certified by NPTEL
Mentor of YIP 2019-2022 2019-2022 4 students from S5EIE Selected as finalists in YIP

Consultancy

 

  • COMPANION SOS

COMPANION SOS is a society security management app founded by Mrs Raji P and Mrs Honey Devassy in the year 2023. The app is currently installed in several residential associations in Kerala and is named the life-saving app in Kerala. 

  • SEVAFARM MOBILE APP

Sevafarm is an e-commerce platform for cottage industries and small-scale farmers. The portal was run as a pilot in Manjapra Forane church agricultural market and was successfully run by Mrs Raji P and Mrs Honey Devassy

Contact

 

Mrs. Raji P

Asst. Professor (Special Grade), Department of Electronics and Instrumentation.

Room No: SB 203

rajiarun@fisat.ac.in