• 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.

• Member, Institute Innovation Cell (IIC) since 2023.
• Member, Admission Cell during 2021 and 2022.
• Associate Editor, TechToday (Technical Magazine, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) during 2020 and 2021.
• Staff-in-Charge, FISAT Free Software Cell since August 2019.
• Faculty Point of Contact for the ACE Circuit Program (Google Cloud Platform), a student add-on course offered through Coursera, during October–December 2018.
• Member, Anti-Ragging Squad, contributing to student discipline and welfare during 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
• Associate Editor, ICON (Annual Newsletter, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) during July 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2025.
• Member, Exam Cell during 2013–2014.

Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) – Life Member

1. 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
2. Evaluating Word Embedding Models for Malayalam, M Cherian, K Balakrishnan – REVISTA GEINTEC-GESTAO INOVACAO E TECNOLOGIAS 2021 
3.  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
4. 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
5. 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
6. A Level-Set Based Binarization and Segmentation for Scanned Malayalam Document Image Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, 2011

Project Guided

B.Tech

• Guided the Honors Project DeepSentinel: A Lightweight Explainable Transformer-Based Network Intrusion Detection System (IDS) (2026).
• Guided the Mini Project Programming Learning Website (2026).
• Guided the Mini Project Part-Time Job Finder (2026).
• Guided the Mini Project ElderEase (2026).
• Guided the Mini Project AI Sign Language Translator (2026).
• Guided the Mini Project FLUX: Automated Campus Access Control and Travel Support (2026).
• Guided the project PhishDetect: A Hybrid URL-DOM Based Phishing Detection Framework with Explainable AI (2025–2026); the work resulted in a paper published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in AI, Department of CSE, Bharata Mata College, December 2025.
• Guided the project Ingrain: Revolutionizing Farmer–Consumer Synergy with Credit Empowerment and AI-Powered Crop Intelligence (2025, Even Semester).
• Guided the project OffEase (2025, Even Semester).
• Guided the project Rev Up – VR (2024–2025).
• Guided the project EcoBite: Rescue Food, Reduce Waste (2024–2025); the work resulted in a paper published in NCIACC 2024.
• Served as a Reviewer for ICRASST 2024, held on December 3–4, 2024, at St. George’s College, Aruvithura, Kerala.
• Guided the development of a VR Shooting Game (2024, Even Semester).
• Guided the project Scene Text Recognition (2022–2023); the work resulted in a paper published in NCIACC 2023.
• Guided the project Weed Density Identification and Weed Elimination using CNN and Image Processing (2021–2022).
• Guided the project Fully Convolutional Networks for Weed Detection in Precision Farming (2020–2021), which received KSCSTE funding of ₹8,000.
• Guided a project on Contactless Palm Vein Recognition (2015, 6 months).
• Guided a project on Facial Expression Recognition (2014, 6 months).
• Guided a project on Color Image Cryptography Scheme (2013, 6 months).
• 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

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