ELIZABETH SHERLY
April 20, 2024 2024-04-29 16:15ELIZABETH SHERLY
Machine Intelligence, Data Analytics, Object Oriented Design Patterns, Natural Language Processing
Prof. (Dr.) Elizabeth Sherly, is a Distinguished Professor of Digital University Kerala and former Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) and International Center for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS). In a career spanning more than three decades in teaching and research, she has gathered expertise in Pattern Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition System and Image Processing. She travelled Los Angeles- USA, London-UK, Singapore and Malaysia for academic exercises and was a visiting Researcher of University of Yolk, London.
She served as the Chief Investigator of several prestigious MeitY projects under Digital India Corporation and Technology Development in Language Technology of Government of India. She has established and is heading two centers of excellence –Virtual Resource Center for Cognitive and Language Computing (VRCLC) and Center of Excellence in Pattern and Image Analysis (CEPIA). She is also heading and promoting Women Innovation, Startupsand Entrepreneurship (WISE) under IIITM-K and DUK.
She was the recipient of EURECA (UK)fellowship, Rational Certified ( India) Trainer and one among 7 scientists in India for e-Science Grid Group, London. She has received the award from Central Government (eWorldForum 2012) for Best Initiative for language and Localized Application in eGovernance and also received eWorldForum 2011 Best Jury Award for the project” Cloud Computing Initiative” sponsored by MHRD. Dr. Sherly has produced 13 Ph.Ds and has more than 100 papers to her credit, which includes international, national and conference papers.
Dr. Sherly was the Director Board Member of several Kerala Government organization including Kerala IT Mission, Kerala Start up Mission, Institute of Management in Government etc. She has been serving of editorial board member of several international and national journals. She is a Ph.D thesis evaluator of several universities, IITs, NITs and interview panel member and technical committee member of several organizations in INDIA.
- Director(i/c), Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, A Kerala Government Autonomous Institution, Nila, Technopark, Trivandrum, June 2009 onwards
- Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Nila, Technopark, Trivandrum, May 2011 onwards
- Associate Professor & Faculty, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Nila, Technopark, Trivandrum, March 2001 onwards
- Project Manager, US Technology Resources(Head Quarters: California),Technopark, Trivandrum, 1999-2000
- Head of Faculty, Winsoft Systems Pvt Ltd., Trivanrum, Kerala 1997 – 1999
- Sr. Lecturer, Marthoma College of Science and Technology, Ayur, Trivandrum, 1995- 1997
- Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 1987-1990
- Received eWorldForum 2011 Best Jury Award for the project” Cloud Computing Initiative” sponsored by MHRD, DIT and Media Labs
- Received the fellowship European Research and Education Collaboration with Asia (EURECA) and Selected as Visiting Researcher of University of York, UK
- Awarded the title of Rational Practitioner and Certified Trainer on Object Oriented Analysis and Design stream for Rational Software Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd. with effect from Sept 2001.
- Chief coordinator for establishing IIITM-K as SUN Regional center of excellence for E-Learning and IIITM-K joined on elite group of four universities worldwide
- Co-chair the session on Distributed Computing at International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Technologies and Applications (PDCAT 05) at Singapore.
- One among 7 Scientists in INDIA, to set up National GRID set up at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi with e-Science group of ICENI, LONDON, , Feb 2004.
- Expert Committee Member, AICTE Appellate and Hearing Committee, Govt of India
- Technical Committee Member, Kerala State Financial Enterprises, GoK
- Director Board Member, Governing and executive Board, Kerala IT Mission, Government of Kerala
- Director Board Member, Planning and Implementation, Technopark, Kerala, Software IT Park
- Director Board Member, Free and Open Source Software(FOSS), Govt of Kerala
- Director Board member, Governing and Executive Board, Institute of Management in Government-IMG-Kerala
- Subject Expert of Technical Committee for project Evaluation KSCSTE, Govt of Kerala, Trivandrum
- Technical Committee Member, Department of Computational Linguistics, Univ. of Kerala
- As an Academic Committee member of Marthoma Church Educational Society, key instrumental person for the Winner of the first Center of Excellence in Computer Literacy Award in National and State Level, to St. Thomas Schools, instituted by Ministry of Information technology, India for the best implementation of Computer Literacy in Schools.
- Principal investigator, Indian Language Corpus Initiative(ILCI), a consortia project of TDIL group of DIT, Govt. of India -grant – 65 lakhs
- Principal Investigator, Indian Language Machine Translation (ILMT), a consortia project of TDIL group of DIT, Govt. of India – 60 lakhs
- Program Coordinator, Kerala Education Grid Project, Higher Education Dept, GoK-Grant – 6 crores
- Principal Investigator, Cloud Computing Testbed for Kerala for State Data Center 2009-11 -grant -17 lakhs
- Principal Investigator, Research in Localization and Adoption of Open standards in e-Governance, Planning Board, GoK – -50 lakhs
- Principal Investigator, Center for Innovation and Technology Incubation at IIITM-K – 100 lakhs
- Web based e-Learning and online Certification programs , Planning Board, GoK ,10 lakhs
- Founder and Chief Investigator, Virtual resource center for language computing, Department of IT, Government of Kerala Rs 40 lakhs. IIITM-Kerala, 2011-2012
Countries Visited : Los Angeles-US, London-UK, Singapore, Kualalumpur- Malaysia
