Department of Information Technology

Dr. Solley Thomas
Associate Professor
Designation: Associate Professor & Head of Department
Department: Information Technology
Type of Appointment: Regular
Email Address: solleythomas@carmelcollegegoa.org
Educational Qualifications: M.C.A, M.Phil, Ph.D
Years of Teaching Experience: 31 years
Areas of Interest :

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, OCR, Machine Transliteration 

1. AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENT 

1. Winner of PRISM 2020 (Primal Research Ideas in Science and Management) organised by CHRIST University (Bangalore, India) in collaboration with Indo_Korea Science and Technology Center.

Received a cash award of Rs 60,000 for the best research proposal titled “An Efficient Character Recognition System for Handwritten MODI Script.”

2. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (SCOPUS INDEXED)   

1. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2024), “Machine Transliteration of Handwritten MODI Script to Devanagari using Deep Neural Networks” in International Journal of Computing – June 2024

2. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2022), “A Review of Various Line Segmentation Techniques Used in Handwritten Character Recognition”, Published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol 400. Springer, Singapore (Scopus Indexed), June 2022

3. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2021), “Offline Handwritten Character Recognition of MODI Script using Wavelet Transform and Decision Tree Classifier”, published in Data Science and Security (Springer), July 2021.

4. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2021), “Convolutional Autoencoder based Feature Extraction and KNN Classifier for Handwritten MODI Script Character Recognition”, in Data Science and Security (Springer), Aug. 2021.

5. Solley Joseph, Jossy George and S Gaikwad (2020), “Character Recognition of MODI Script using Distance Classifier Algorithms”, in Springer (Scopus Indexed) Published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS Volume 93), Feb 2020.

6. Joseph, A Datta, O Anto, S Philip, J. George (2020), “OCR System Framework for MODI Scripts using Data Augmentation and Convolutional Neural Network” In Jat D., Shukla S., Unal A., Mishra D. (Eds) Data Science and Security. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol 132. Springer, Singapore, 2020

7. Solley Joseph and Jossy George(2020), “Efficient Handwritten Character Recognition of MODI Script using Wavelet Transform and SVD”. In: Shukla S., Unal A., Mishra D. (Eds) Data Science and Security. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol 132. Springer, Singapore (Scopus Indexed), Aug 2020

8. Solley Joseph and Jossy George Data(2020), Augmentation for Handwritten Character recognition of MODI Script using Deep       Learning Method”, in Springer (Scopus Indexed) published in Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, 2020.

9. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2020), “Handwritten Character Recognition of MODI Script using Convolutional Neural Network Based Feature Extraction Method and Support Vector Machine Classifier," published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in Scopus, Oct 2020.

10. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2019), “Feature Extraction and Classification Techniques Of MODI Script Character Recognition” in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia, ISSN: 0128-7680, e-ISSN 2231-8526, Volume 27(4), Oct 2019

11. Solley Joseph and Jossy George (2017), “A Study of Representation Learning for Handwritten Numeral Recognition Of Multilingual Data Set.” In Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development (pp. 475-482). Springer, Singapore, Nov. 2017.

  PAPER PRESENTATIONS:- 

1. Presented a paper titled “Application of distributed learning model in In-service Teacher Training Programme – A Case study” in the 3-day virtual global conference on “Technology for Blended and Distributed Education” held from August 18-20, 2010 at Christ University, Bangalore
2. Presented a paper titled “Performance Analysis of Representation Learning using RBM for handwritten Numeral Recognition” at the National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science and Application at Khandesh College Education Society’s Institute of Management & Research, Jalgaon 

3. MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL BODIES:- 

1. Member of Academic Council of Goa university (term 2024-2026)
2. Member of Board of Studies (Computer Science) of Goa University, Goa, India (from 2022-’23 to till-date)
3. VC’s Nominee in the Board of Studies (Computer Science) of Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Goa, India (from 2024-‘25 to 2026-‘27)
4. Member of Board of Studies (Computer Science) of Srinivassa Sinai Dempo College (Autonomous), Cujira (from 2024-’25 to 2026-’27)
5. Member of the Review committee of Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, Universiti Putra, Malesia
6. Member of the Review Committee of Springer Nature Journal, Singapore
7. Member of the Review Committee of Soft Computing Journal, Germany
8. Member of the Review Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Trends in Quantum Computing and Emerging Business Technologies.