Saravana Balaji B
Senior Lecturer, SFHEA, SMIEEE
Almaty
Summary
Senior Lecturer teaches computing and engineering students across machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and IoT. Leads coursework, academic guidance, and applied research using Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch to connect theory with real-world problem solving. Supports interdisciplinary projects that strengthen collaboration between academia and industry.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Lecturer
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY KAZAKHSTAN
09.2023 - Current
Department of Computing
- Developed and delivered engaging curriculum for diverse student populations.
- Mentored junior faculty to enhance teaching methodologies and academic performance.
- Led departmental initiatives to improve student engagement and retention rates.
Assistant Professor
LEBANESE FRENCH UNIVERSITY
09.2018 - 08.2023
Department of Information Technology
- Developed and implemented innovative curriculum aligning with academic standards.
- Guided student research projects, fostering critical thinking and analytical skills.
- Collaborated with faculty to enhance interdisciplinary course offerings and student engagement.
Assistant Professor
JAIN UNIVERSITY
05.2017 - 09.2018
Department of Information Science and Engineering
- Developed and delivered curriculum for undergraduate courses in alignment with academic standards.
- Facilitated engaging classroom discussions to enhance student understanding and critical thinking.
- Mentored graduate students in research methodologies, fostering independent scholarly work.
Associate Professor
S.VEERASAMY CHETTIAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
02.2015 - 04.2017
CSE PG Department
- Developed and delivered engaging course materials in engineering disciplines.
- Led research initiatives, fostering collaboration among faculty and students.
- Mentored junior faculty, enhancing teaching effectiveness and curriculum development.
Assistant Professor
SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
09.2008 - 02.2015
CSE PG Department
- Developed and implemented engaging curriculum aligned with academic standards.
- Conducted research in relevant fields, contributing to scholarly publications and presentations.
- Mentored undergraduate and graduate students, fostering academic growth and research skills.
Research Assistant
PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
09.2007 - 09.2008
Member of Core research team of Smart and Secure Environment funded by DST, India.
Developed security mechanisms for Web Services
Assisted in the design and implementation of experiments, ensuring adherence to protocols and timelines.
Lecturer
SRI RAMAKRISHNA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
06.2006 - 08.2007
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Delivered lectures on advanced engineering concepts, enhancing student understanding and engagement.
- Developed and implemented innovative teaching strategies to improve curriculum effectiveness.
- Led departmental committees focused on improving educational standards and student success initiatives.
Education
Ph.D. - Information and Communication Engineering
04-2018
Highly Commended
M. Eng. - Computer Science and Engineering
06-2006
First Class
B. Eng. - Computer Science and Engineering
04-2004
First Class
Skills
Python
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Docker
Research supervision
Curriculum development
Course design
Scholarly writing
Peer review
Cloud machine learning platforms
Experiment tracking
Feature engineering
Data pipeline orchestration
Scientific writing
Research grant writing
Research proposal writing
Research mentoring
KEY RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS (SCI-E Indexed)
· “Moth-flame optimized UNet++ with self-attention for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease prediction using multimodal input”, PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/ 10.7717/peerj-cs.3586, February 2026 (Q2 – SCI)
· “Real Time Urban Traffic Prediction Using RFID and a Hybrid LSTM Random Forest Model”, Scientific Reports, 15, 43722 (2025) (Q1 – SCI)
· “Enhancing text-to-structured query language translation for seamless electronic medical record access”, PeerJ Computer Science (Accepted), (Q2 – SCI)
· “Design and implementation of a smart earthquake rescue robot to enhance rescue operations”, Scientific Reports, 15, 42287 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16003-7, November 2025 (Q1 – SCI)
· “MSCHF algorithm for minimizing signaling costs and enhancing vertical handover efficiency in wireless communications networks”, PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3283, October 2025 (Q2 – SCI)
· “Label dependency modeling in Multi-Label Naïve Bayes through input space expansion”, PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2093, December 2024. (Q1 - SCI)
· "Efficient design and analysis of secure CMOS logic through logic encryption", Scientific Reports, 13, 1145 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28007-2, (Q1 - SCI), 2023.
· "Machine learning based IoT system for secure traffic management and accident detection in smart cities", PeerJ Computer Science https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1259, (Q1 - SCI), 2023.
· "IoT Integrated Edge Platform for Secured Industrial Application with Deep Learning", Human-centric Computing and Information Science, https://doi.org/10.22967/HCIS.2023.13.019, (Q2 - SCI), 2023.
· "Deep fake detection using cascaded deep sparse auto-encoder for effective feature selection", Peerj Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1040 (Q1 - SCI), 2022.
· "Implementation of Legendre Neural Network to Solve Time-Varying SingularBilinear Systems", Computers, Materials and Continua, Techscience press. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.017836 (Q3 - SCI), 2021.
- "Cross-Layer Hidden Markov Analysis for Intrusion Detection", Computers, Materials and Continua, Techscience press. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.019502 (Q3 - SCI), 2021.
- "Enhancement of Security and Handling the IoT Inconspicuousness in using a Simple Size Extensible Blockchain", Energies, Volume 13, No 7, https://doi.org/10.3390/en13071795 (Q3 - SCI), April 2020.
- "FCO – Fuzzy constraints applied Cluster Optimization technique for Wireless Adhoc Networks", Computer Communications (Elsevier), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.02.079 (Q1 - SCI) March 2020.
- "An improved migration scheme to achieve the optimal service time for the active jobs in 5G cloud environment", Computer Communications, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.06.014, (Q1 - SCI), June 2020.
- "An Efficient Hybrid Computing Environment to Develop a Confidential and Authenticated IoT Service Model", Wireless Personal Communications (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07056-0 (Q3 - SCI) Jan 2020.
- "Fuzzy Service Conceptual Ontology System for Cloud Service Recommendation", Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.09.013 (Q2 - SCI) June 2018.
Scopus Indexed Publications
- "HNTSumm: Hybrid text summarization of transliterated news articles", International Journal of Intelligent Networks, Volume 4, Pages 53-61, 2023.
- "The Impact of a Collaborative IoT Framework for Smart Cities and Environmental Monitoring", International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, Volume 17, Issue 11, 2023.
- "Collaborative Filtering Method with the use of Production Rules", 2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2019, pp. 387-391. doi: 10.1109/ICCIKE47802.2019.9004257 (IEEE eXplore) Feb 2020
- "Service Profile based Ontological System for Selection and Ranking of Business Process Web Services", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, No 1, 2019, pp. 18 – 22.
- "VSA – Vocal based Smart Phone Authentication System", International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, Volume 12, Issue 6, 2019, pp. 726-735.
- "Speech Intelligence Using Machine Learning for Aphasia Individual", 2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2019, pp. 664-667. doi: 10.1109/ICCIKE47802.2019.9004244 (IEEE eXplore) Feb 2020.
- "An Efficient Routing and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attack Detection Technique for Centralized Control Plane", International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2019, pp. 124-130.
- "Minimum Energy Broadcasting Problem in Wireless Sensor Network: A Review", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, No 1.2, pp. 80-90.
- "Bio-inspired Dependability Analysis of Security in Software Development Life Cycle Process", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, No 1.2, pp. 116-121.
- "Semantic Service Matchmaking Technique for IoT based Services", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, No 1.2, pp. 122-125.
- "Semantically enriched Tag clustering and image feature based image retrieval system", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 8, No 1.2, pp. 138-141.
- "Prediction-based Lossless Image Compression", Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (Springer), Volume 30, No 1, 2019, pp.1749 – 17961.
- "Epsilon-Fuzzy Dominance Sort Based Composite Discrete Artificial Bee Colony optimization for Multi-Objective Cloud Task Scheduling Problem", Int. J. of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Inderscience, DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2017.10004803
- "Semantic Web Service Selection System for Supporting Natural Language Processing", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 10, Number 21, 2015.
- "Description Logic Program and Fuzzy Logic based Web Service Selection", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 10, Number 9, 2015.
- "A Framework design for Conceptual Similarity based Web Service Recommendation System", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 10, Number 21, 2015.
- "Service – Query Concept Similarity Based Service Recommendation System for Cloud Services using Cloud Service Ontology", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 9, Issue 22, 2014.
- "SACoSS – Semantic Agent based System for Cloud Service Suggestion using Cloud Service Ontology", Journal of Computational Information Systems, Volume 8, No 21, November 2012.
Patents
- A System for Transfer Learning-based Skin Cancer Diagnosis and Classification – Patent ID 2024/03100 – South Africa
- IAP- Recommender System:Items Selecting Recommender System Using AI-Based Programming (Recommender Dataset) – Patent ID: 2020104032 (Granted) - Australia
- Data Science in Supply Chain Analysis using Blockchain Technology – Patent ID 2021100984 (Granted) - Australia.
COURSES TAUGHT
- Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Network Security
WEB REFERENCES
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=mCALgsEAAAAJ&hl=en
- Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saravana_Balaji_B
- Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/O-2769-2014
PERSONAL DETAILS
- Nationality : Indian
- Marital Status : Married
- Permanent Address : 3/115 B, Ayyanar Colony, Vembakottai Road, Sivakasi – 626 123. India.
- Date: 10/08/2026
- Place: Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Dr. Saravana Balaji B
Timeline
Senior Lecturer - DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY KAZAKHSTAN
09.2023 - Current
Assistant Professor - LEBANESE FRENCH UNIVERSITY
09.2018 - 08.2023
Assistant Professor - JAIN UNIVERSITY
05.2017 - 09.2018
Associate Professor - S.VEERASAMY CHETTIAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
02.2015 - 04.2017
Assistant Professor - SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
09.2008 - 02.2015
Research Assistant - PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
09.2007 - 09.2008
Lecturer - SRI RAMAKRISHNA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
06.2006 - 08.2007
ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI - Ph.D., Information and Communication Engineering
ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI - M. Eng., Computer Science and Engineering
MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY - B. Eng., Computer Science and Engineering