Rajkumar KannanRajkumar Kannan works in the Department of Computer Science since June 1993. He has founded the Department of Data Science and serves as HoD since its inception in 2019. Besides he is the Dean, Deanery International Relations at Bishop Heber College Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli. Previously, Rajkumar worked for King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology where he taught ABET (USA) accredited BS and MS Computer Science as well as BS and MS Computer Information Systems Programmes. He received the BSc Computer Science and MSc Computer Science degrees in the year 1991 and 1993 from Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli. He had also received his MPhil Computer Science from then Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli. Rajkumar graduated his PhD degree in Computer Applications from National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli, India, in the year 2007. Rajkumar visited many countries including UK, USA, Germany, Japan, Slovakia, Thailand, Austria, Malaysia, Indonesia and all Gulf countries in pursuance of teaching and research activities. His research primarily lies at the confluence of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Multimedia and Web Retrieval, Collective and collaborative Intelligence. Rajkumar has published several high impact papers in refereed journals from IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, World Scientific, Taylor and Francis and international conferences. He serves as a referee to journals, including IEEE Trans. MM, IEEE Trans. HMS, IEEE Trans. BME, ACM Trans. MCCA, Springer MTAP and Springer JMUI. Rajkumar is also a Technical Program Committee member of several international conferences and keynote speaker to several reputed events. He is the author of a widely followed book titled, Java Programming, published by Pearson and has edited a volume for Springer Verlag (LNCS 6411) - Germany. Rajkumar has edited a book for IGI Global - USA titled, Managing and Processing Big Data in Cloud Computing. Rajkumar is a senior member of ACM - USA and a life member of CSI - India and ISTE - India. More details can be found at . Read More Read Less