Prof. S. Ravi Chandra

Course Taught Previously

Courses Currently Being Taught

Courses Taught:

• Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering, Service Oriented Architecture and Microservices, Advanced Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Testing, System Analysis and Design, Software Project Management, Computer Graphics, Computer Programming and Problem Solving, Operating Systems, Unix Internals, Systems Programming, Design Patterns, Data warehousing & Data Mining, Data Privacy

1. Sangharatna Godboley, Debasish Dalei, Ravichandra Sadam, Durga Prasad Mohapatra " Agile GUI Testing by computing novel Mobile App Coverage Using Appium Tool" In The 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’23), March 27-March 31, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia. ACM, New York, NY, USA,
2. Golla Monika Rani, Akshay Kumar, Sangharatna Godboley, Ravichandra Sadam, Reporting Code Coverage at Requirement Phase using SPIN Model Checker, 4th ICADCML-2023, Springer, NIT Rourkela, 15th Jan to 16th Jan 2023
3. Rajesh Chilukamari, Ravichandra Sadam, and Sushil Kumar. "An evolutionary U shaped network for Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Binary Teaching Learning Based Optimization." Bio medial Signal Processing and Control 83 (2023): 104669.
4. Sharma Umamaheswara, Sadam Ravichandra, “How far does the predictive decision impact the software project? The cost, service time, and failure analysis from a cross project defect prediction model”, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol :195, Pages 111522, 2023, Elsevier.
5. Sadam Ravichandra. "The Probabilistic Bounds on the Feasibility of the Defect Prediction Models in Real World Testing Environments." arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06303 (2023).
6. Panda Sanjaya Kumar, Rashmi Ranjan Rout, Ravi Chandra Sadam, Bala Venkata Subramaanyam Rayanoothala, Kuan Ching Li, and Rajkumar Buyya, eds. “Computing, Communication and Learning:” First International Conference, CoCoLe 2022, Warangal, India, October 27 29, 2022, Proceedings. Springer Nature, 2023.
7. Singh, Amandeep, Vinay Raj, and Sadam Ravichandra. "Integration of Attribute Based Access Control in Microservices Architecture." ICT Systems and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore, 2022. 681 690.
8. Sadam Ravichandra. "Towards Developing and Analysing Metric Based Software Defect Severity Prediction Model." arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04665 (2022).
9. Raj Vinay, and Sadam Ravichandra. "A service graph based extraction of microservices from monolith services of service oriented architecture." Software: Practice and Experience 52, no. 7 (2022): 1661 1678.
10. Raj Vinay, and Sadam Ravichandra. "Enhanced Service Point Approach for Microservices Based Applications Using Machine Learning Techniques." In Advanced Informatics for Computing Research: 5th International Conference, ICAICR 2021, Gurugram, India, December 18 19, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 78 90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
11. Raj Vinay, and Sadam Ravichandra. "A novel effort estimation approach for migration of SOA applications to microservices." Journal of Information Systems and Telecommunication (JIST) 2, no. 38 (2022): 80.
12. Bhutamapuram Umamaheswara Sharma, and Ravichandra Sadam. "With in project defect prediction using bootstrap aggregation based diverse ensemble learning technique." Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences (2021).
13. Raj Vinay, and Ravichandra Sadam. "Evaluation of SOA Based Web Services and Microservices Architecture Using Complexity Metrics." SN Computer Science 2.5 (2021): 1 10.Based Applications to Microservices Architecture." Journal of Web Engineering 20, no. 5 (2021):1229 1246.
14. Janga Rahul, R. Padmavathy, S. K. Pal, and S. Ravichandra. "A Framework for Filtering Step of Number Field Sieve and Function Field Sieve." IETE Journal of Research (2021): 1 17. 
15. Raj Vinay, and Ravichandra Sadam. "Patterns for Migration of SOA Based Applications to Microservices Architecture." J. Web Eng. 20, no. 5 (2021): 1229 1246.
16. Hemkumar, D., S. Ravichandra, and Durvasula VLN Somayajulu. "Impact of data correlation on privacy budget allocation in continuous publication of location statistics." Peer to Peer Networking and Applications 14.3 (2021): 1650 1665.
17. Raj, Vinay, and Ravichandra Sadam. "Performance and complexity comparison of service oriented architecture and microservices architecture." International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 27.1 (2021): 100 117.
18. Praneetha Sree, Rayanoothala, Durvasula VLN Somayajulu, and S. Ravichandra. "A Novel Approach for Mining Time and Space Proximity based Frequent Sequential Patterns from Trajectory Data." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 19.04 (2020): 2050040.
19. Hemkumar, D., S. Ravichandra, and D. V. L. N. Somayajulu. "Impact of prior knowledge on privacy leakage in trajectory data publishing." Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 23.6 (2020): 1291 1300.
20. Spoorthi, K. S., R. Padmavathy, S. K. Pal, and S. Ravi Chandra. "Linear algebra on parallel structures using wiedemann algorithm to solve discrete logarithm problem." IETE Journal of Research (2020): 1 14.
21. Ayoubi, Majid, and Sadam Ravichandra. "SEDA SOA: A Scalable Event Driven Context Aware Service Oriented Architecture." 2018 9th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT). IEEE, 2018.
22. Raj, Vinay, and S. Ravichandra. "Microservices: A perfect SOA based solution for Enterprise Applications compared to Web Services." 2018 3rd IEEE International Conference on recent trends in electronics, information & communication technology (RTEICT). IEEE, 2018.
23. Ravichandra, S., and D. V. L. N. Somayajulu. "Core Schema Mappings: Computing Core Solution with Target Dependencies in Data Exchange." (2015). 
24. Dikshita Agarwal, Rashmi Ranjan Rout, S. Ravi Chandra, "Detection of Node Misbehavior using Overhearing and Autonomous Agents in Wireless Ad hoc Networks" , 2nd International   Conference (IEEE Sponsored) on "Applications and Innovations in Mobile Computing (AIMoC 2015), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (to be held form 12th Feb to 14th Feb. 2015), Accepted, 2015.
25. S.Ravichandra, DVLN Somayajulu "Relational Database Schema Evolution Using Fragile Watermarking Approach" , Proceedings of 12thInternational Conference for Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP�??12), July 16 19, 2012, Las Vegas (Niveda), U.S.A
26. S.Ravichandra, Suhas.p, Satish.K, Saikrishna.D "Verification of Safety properties of C source code using Predicate Abstraction", Proceedings of National Conference on Software Engineering (NCSOFT), Cochin, April 26 27, 2007 
27. S.Ravichandra, Swagat Mishra, DVLN Somayajulu "Security Vulnerabilities in C using Predicates", Proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing and Communication (ETCC  07), July 27 28, 2007, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (HP). 
28.  Sadam R., How Far the Predictive Decision Impacts the Software Project?: The Cost, Service Time and Failure Analysis from a Cross Project Defect Prediction Model.

Ph.Ds Students Completed:

1. Ms. R. Praneethasree Completed her Ph.D with thesis entitled “Some Approaches for Mining Various Patterns and Influential Trajectories from Spatio-Temporal Data” In AY 2020-21

2.  Mr. Vinay Raj Completed his Ph.D with thesis entitled “Some Studies on Migration of SOA based Applications to Microservices Architecture” In AY 2021-22

3.  Mr. D. Hemkumar Completed his Ph.D with thesis entitled “Study of Data Correlation’s Impact on Privacy Leakage in Privacy Preserving Models”In AY 2021-22

4. Mr. Umamaheswara Sarma  Completed his Ph.D with thesis entitled "Effectiveness of Machine Learning Models in Detecting Software Defects: An Investigative Insights".
5. Mr Chilukamari Rajesh submitted his thesis  entitled " Some Metaheuristic Algorithms to Design Deep Neural Networks for Medical Image Detection" 

Ph.Ds Students Advising:

1. Mr. Sachin Sood Joined Part-Time Ph.D programme in December-2017 and completed his course work.
2.  Mr.Vjay Chekravarthy joined Part-Time Ph.D programme in September -2020.
3.  Mr. Amar Kumar Yadav joined Ph.D programme in July-2021 and completed his course work.
4.  Ms. Srilakshmi joined Ph.D programme as a part-time scholar in July-2021 and completed her course work.
5.  Ms. Shanmukhi Rama joined as part-time Ph.D scholar in December-2021.

Workshops/FDPs  Conducted/Organized/Worked :   

• Coordinator for two week Faculty Development Programme on Machine Learning for Data Analytics at NIT Trichy from 20-02-2023 to 02-03-2023 through online mode.
• Coordinator for 1 week Induction Programme for Newly Recruited Assistant Professors at NITW from 10-02-2020 to 15-02-2020
• Coordinator for 1 week E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering ” from 11th to 16th June 2019 at Department of CSE, NIT Warangal.
• Coordinator for 1 week E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Orientation Workshop on OER, Content Development,MOOCs, and MOODLE” from 30th November to 5th December 2018 at Department of CSE, NIT Warangal.
•  Coordinator for 1 week E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Security & Privacy” from 3rd December to 8th December 2018 at Department of CSE, NIT Warangal.
• Coordinator for 1 week E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Scientific Computing with Python” from 21st to 25th November 2018 at Department of CSE, NIT Warangal.
•  Coordinator for 2 weeks E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Software Engineering” from 26th May to 04th June 2017 at Gitam University, Hyderabad Campus.
• Coordinator for 2 weeks E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Foundations of Cryptography” from 19th June to 30th December 2016 at NIT Warangal.
•  A-View Coordinator for AICTE approved Four-week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “ Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning conducted by IIT Bombay on 14,15 May; 4,5 June ; 25 and 26 June 2016”
•  Coordinator for 2 weeks E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Software Engineering” from 17th June to 28th June 2016 at JNTUA college of engineering Ananthapuramu.
•  Coordinator for 1 week E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Security & Privacy” from 28th March to 6th April 2016
•  Coordinator for 2 weeks E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal on “Database Security” from 29th Feb to 9th March 2016.
• Co- Coordinator for Two-Week, MHRD Refresher course on Theory and Practice on “Data Mining Techniques”, from 8-20, June 2009.
• Co- Coordinator for a Five Day workshop on “Open Solaris Operating System: A Programmers Approach” Organized by Dept of C.S& E , N.I.T Warangal from June -16-20, 2008. This workshop is sponsored by SUN Microsystems, Bangalore.
•  Co- Coordinator for A Five day workshop on “Object Oriented Software Engineering A Pragmatic Approach” organized by Dept of C.S&E , N.I.T Warangal from May 29th 2006, to June 2nd 2006.
• One of the Coordinators for A Three Day Workshop on “Linux System Administration and Networking” Organized at Engineering Staff College of India , Hyderabad From 30-12-2002 to

Training Programs/ Refresher Courses/Conferences  attended:   14

• Advanced Course on "Operating Systems" at  International Institute of Information Technology -Hyderabad    from  5-07-1999 to 17-07-1999 ( 2 weeks )
• Recent Trends In "Data Warehousing and Data Mining" at  NIT-Warangal from    22-03-04 to 2-04-04 (2 weeks)
• Faculty Development Programme on "Software Engineering" organized by Tata Consultancy Services - Hyderabad from   7-05-05 to 11-05-05 (1 week)
• Education  & Training programme  in "Cyber Security" organized by  Department of Information Technology at TIFR-Mumbai from 23-05-05 to 17-06-05 (4 weeks )
• Developing "Multimedia applications and Deploying over Internet and Mobile devices"  at IIT-Madras  from 20-06-05 to  24-06-05 ( 1 week)
• Training Programme on "AIX operating system" at IBM Bangalore from 19-6-06 to 23-6-06 ( 4 days)
• Training Programme on "Intel Multi Core" conducted by Intel Bangalore from 6-12-06 to 9-12-06.
• Participated in International conference on "Database Engineering and Applications (IDEAS 06)" at IIT-Delhi from 11-12-06 to 13-12-06.
• Participated in International conference on "Managing of Data (COMAD -06) "at IIT-Dellhi from 14-12-06 to 16-12-06.
• Participated in the Faculty Training Programme on" Data Warehousing" held by Accenture under the aegis of the NASSCOM IT Workforce Development from 17-10-07 to 18 -10-07.
• Participated in Third International Conference on "Information Systems Security ICISS -07" at University of Delhi, India from 16-12-07 to 20 -10 -07
• Participated in National Seminar on "Engineering of Software Products: Requirements to Deliverables" under TEQIP at NIT-Durgapur from 9-1-08 to 11-1-08
• Participated in Two-week Refresher course on "Soft Computing" sponsored by MHRD,Govt of India at NIT-Warangal from 28-7-08 to 9 -8-08
• Participated in One Week training programme on "Oracle 11i System Administrator  Fundamentals" at Oracle University, Pune from  15-12-08 to 19-12-08.
• Attended  Two-Week ISTE Workshop on " Effective teaching/learning of Computer Programming" Conducted by IIT Bombay from 28-06-2010 to 10-07-2010,  This Workshop held under national Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD)
• Participated in  Two-Day  ISTE Workshop on " Writing Effective Conference Papers "  Conducted by IIT Bombay from 18-02-2012 to 19-12-2012,  This Workshop held under national Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD)
• Attended the Workshop titled " PMBOK 4th Edition Workshop", Conducted by Project Management Institute, Pearl City Chapter(C270), at NIT Warangal from 22-12-2012 to 30-12-2012

 Research Projects Ongoing

1. 1. Project Title: “Solving Discrete Logarithm Problem over GF(2 ⁿ) using Quasi Polynomial Time Algorithm” Lead-PI: Dr..Padmavathy,  Co-Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra,  Co-Lead-PI: Dr.Y.Srinivasa Rao; Funding Organization: Scientific Analysis Group, DRDO New Delhi, Amount: Rs 24,97 Lakhs, Duration: 2 years, 2022-2024

Research Projects Completed

1. Project Title: Solving Discrete Logarithm Problem over GF(2 n ) using Function Field Sieve Method�??
   Co-Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: Scientific Analysis Group, DRDO New Delhi
   Amount: Rs 23,355000.00
   Duration: March 2016- Ongoing
   Students supported: 2 Post-graduate students
2.   Project Title: Development of an Information Management System for Operationalizing Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) in a CHNC Area�??
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: UNICEF Hyderabad
   Amount: Rs 10,00000.00
   Duration: April 2011 - March 2013
   Students supported: 6 Post-graduate students
3. Project Title: Software Prediction tool development for Schema Changes in Relational Databases�??
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: NITW MHRD-RSM
   Amount: Rs 2,00000.00
   Duration: September 20121 - March 2013
   Students supported: 2 Post-graduate students

Consultancy Projects Ongoing and Completed

1. Project Title: A Package of Software Tutors (off-Line & On-Line) :
   (a) Software Tutor for Experiments with GM Counter�??
   (b) Software Tutor for Experiments with Gamma Ray Spectrometer
   (c) Software Tutor for Experiments with Multi-Channel Analyser
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: Nucleonix Systems Pvt Ltd
   Amount: Rs 100000.00
   Duration: February 2017 Ongoing
   Students supported: 2 Undergraduate students
2. Project Title: Development of Office Automation Software to Jayashankar Bhupalapally
   District Police Offices�??
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: Office of Superintendent of Police, Jayashankar Bhupalapally
   District, Telanga
   Duration: February 2017- Ongoing
   Students supported: 3 Undergraduate students
3. Project Title: Design and Development of an Android App named  "�?Welcome to Medaram�??
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: Office of Superintendent of Police, Warangal
   Duration: February 2015- Completed
   Project Focus: This product is developed for the public visiting by private vehicles to
   Medaram Jatara at Warangal District. This tribal festival is also called as Telangana Kumbha
   Mela. Students supported: 2 Undergraduate students
4.   Project Title: Design and Development of an Android app for �??Sree Rama Temple
   Bhadrachalamï during SreeRama kalyanam�??
   Lead-PI: Dr.S.Ravichandra
   Funding Organization: Office of Additional Superintendent of Police, Bhadrachalam
   Duration: April 2015- Completed
   Students supported: 2 Undergraduate students

 Administrative Activities

• Assigned an Additional Responsibility as Professor in-charge for HPC and Cyber Security from 14-07-2023.
•  Nominated as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Institute from 29-03-2023 to till date.
• Nominated as Head, IT Services Group as additional responsibility from 28-03-2023 to 11-05-2023.
• Nominated as Head, Computer center from 15-06-2022 to 11-05-2023.
•  Nominated as Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering from 1-1-2022 to 30-06-2023.
• Nominated as Head, Center for Information and Software Services from 16-02-2021 to 04-01-2023.
•  Nominated as Associate Dean Faculty Welfare as an additional responsibility from 03-01-2019 to 30-3-2021.
•  Member of Institute Electrical Works Committee from 19-01-2018.
• Faculty In-Charge Telecom Centre, Internet, Email and Nodal Officer for NITW website from 02-08-2016
• Faculty In-charge for NMEICT Remote Centre Coordinator from 25-06-2016
• Nominated as institute coordinator for a Repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations Maintained by UGC-INFLIBNET Center under Shodhganga Project from 05-05-2016.
• Core Member in Administering the Campus LAN.
• Core Member in college WEB and MIS committee.
• Treasurer for Computer Science and Engineering Association from 2006-2013.
• Faculty In-charge Telecom centre, Internet, Email and NIT Website.
• Remote centre coordinator for NIMCET workshops.
•  Technical member in Developing and Deployment of NIMCET-2013 Web Portal for conduction of MCA admissions into NITs
• Technical member in Developing and Deployment of NIMCET-2013 Web Portal for conduction of MCA admissions into NITs
• Technical member in Developing and Deployment of ICET-2012 Web Portal for conduction of MCA & MBA admissions for Universities and Post Graduate Colleges in Andhra Pradesh.
•  Technical Member in “Central Counselling Board(CCB)-2009 Secretariat” Conducted by NIT Warangal for Admissions into B.Tech programme in NITs, IIITs, Central Universities and Autonomous Institutes.

Department Level Activities

•  Member of Department Academic Anomalies Committee (DAAC) from 02-01-2014 to till date.
•  Faculty Advisor for Web and Software Development Center (WSDC) from 29-10-2012 to 29-11-2013
•  Member of Post Graduate Department Academic Committee (PG-DAC) - from 01-06-2016 to till date
• Member of Under Graduate Department Academic Committee (UG-DAC) - from 04-076-2011 to 03-01-2016
• Faculty Advisor for M.Tech II Year (CSE,CSIS) for the year 2017-2018
•  Faculty Advisor for M.Tech I Year (CSE,CSIS) for the year 2016-2017
•  Faculty Advisor for B.Tech II , III, IV (CSE) for the year 2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
•  Computer Science and Engineering Department Secretary from 2006-2009
• Treasurer for Computer Science and Engineering Association.
• In-charge for Department Purchases and Department Operational Costs (DOC).
•  Systems In-charge for Open Source Development Laboratory.
•  Time Table In charge , Dept of C.S & E for 3 years.
• Executive Council member , NIT ISTE local Chapter & TWANITW( Teachers Welfare Association of NIT Warangal).
• Accompanying Faculty Member for Educational Tours in the year 1999-2002.
•  Secretary for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Warangal

Professional Activities

1.   Nominated as External Member of Board of Studies in Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology Courses under Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana State, India.
2.   Nominated as UG Board of Studies in Faculty of Information Technology at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur. Andhra Pradesh State, India
3.   Honorary Secretary for Institution of Engineers Warangal Local Centre from December 2014-2016, Telangana State

Professional Affiliation

1.  Member IEEE,
2. Member ACM,
3. Member ISTE,
4. Member Institution of Engineers(MIE)