Name of Faculty: M. Kumara Swamy                      

E-mail: m.kumaraswamy@cmrec.ac.in

 M. Kumara Swamy has completed his PhD from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad popularly known as IIIT-H. He has also completed his MS by Research from the same institution (IIIT-H). He has published around 25 peer reviewed research papers. His core area of research includes Data Sciences, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Artificial Intelligence, and ICTs for Rural Development. He has worked in eSagu, Agro-advisory system, eAgromet, weather based agro-advisory system funded by IMD, CropDarpan projects. He has been an organizing committee member of PAKDD-2021, BDA-2017, AIPA-2012 and PAKDD-2010. Currently, he is working in CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence-Machine learning) for last two years. His teaching interests are Database Management Systems, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Data Science, Python programming, etc.

Area of Specialization

Data sciences, Data analytics, Data mining, Web knowledge discovery, Information retrieval and extraction, Artificial Intelligence, Efficient design of user interfaces, Usability engineering, ICTs for rural development

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Computer Society, (No: 911 959 83)
• Computer Society of India (CSI), (No: 106 05 27)
• International Association of Engineers (AIENG) (No. 220786)

 Awards Received

1. Received best paper award at International Conference on Good Governance in Agricultural Extension, 3-4 September 2015, Center for Good Governance, Hyderabad, India
2. Received best paper presentation award at National Seminar on Futuristic Agricultural Extension for Livelihood Improvement and Sustainable Development, 19 – 21 Jan. 2013, ANGRAU, Hyd.
3. Global fellowship award, National Internet Exchange of India’s $995-fellowship, 20^th International World Wide Web 2011 (WWW 2011), Hyderabad, 2011
4. Research association (IT) award, eSagu, IIIT, Hyderabad, 2004-05.

Research Projects carried out at IIIT-H

1. Title: An IT driven personalized Agri-facilitator for better farming for 25 villages in Ranga Reddy District – 3 years (Jun 2015 – May 2018)

Project cost: Rs. 99.00 lakhs; Funding Agency: Bharat Electronics Limited

Role: Research scientist

2. Title: An IT driven personalized Agri-facilitator for better farming for 15 villages in Ranga Reddy District – 1 year (Feb 2017 – Jan 2018) 

Project cost: Rs. 15.00 lakhs; Funding Agency: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Role: Research scientist

3. Title: An IT Driven Personalized Agri-facilitator for better farming for 30 villages in Medak District – 1 year (Mar 2015 – Feb 2016) 
   Project cost: Rs. 42.00 lakhs; Funding Agency: Bharat Dynamics Limited
   Role: Research scientist
4. Project Title: Village Level eSagu: A Prototype in Karnool District – 1 year (Mar 2012 – May 2013)
   Project cost: Rs.17.75 lakhs; Funding Agency: Centre for Good Governance (CGG), Hyderabad
   Role: Research scientist
5. Title: eAgromet: ICT-enabled Integrated Agro-Meteorological Advisory System– 2 years (Feb 2011- Jan 2013); Amount: Rs. 74.33 lakhs; 

Funding Agency: Indian Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences
Collaborator: Agromet Cell, Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University
Role: Research scientist 

6. Title: Enabling farmers to mango and sweet orange crops through eSagu agro-advisory under

NREGS-Andhra Pradesh – 1 year (Dec 2008 – Nov 2009

Amount: Rs 8.31 lakhs; Funding Agency: Department of Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh
Role: Research associate

7. Title: Investigating eSagu-based-Multi modal service to role-out integrated Agri-services program – 1 year (Jul 2008 – Jun 2009)
   Amount: Rs.30.00 Lakhs; Funding agency: Media Lab Asia
   Role: Research associate
8. Title: Data/Information capture dissemination and Discovery solution to farmers in remote areas – 2 years (Apr 2007 – Mar 2009)
   Amount: Rs. 17.83 lakhs; Funding Agency: NOKIA
   Role: Research associate
9. Title: eSagu – Productization, Optimization, and Developing a Business Model – 1 year (Nov 2006 – Oct 2007); Amount: Rs. 351.05 lakhs; Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia
   Role: Research associate
10. Title: Interim Project on eSagu – 3 months (Aug 2006 – Oct 2006)

Amount: Rs.17.40 lakhs; Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia 

Role: Project associate

11. Title: Building a Cost-effective and Personalized eSagu – 1 year (Aug 2005 – Jul 2006)
    Amount: Rs.145.84 lakhs; Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia
    Role: Research associate
12. Title: Web-based Agricultural Information Dissemination System – 1 year (Apr 2004 – Jul 2005)
    Amount: 62.11 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, New Delhi.
    Role: Research associate

Consultancy Work carried out

1. Title: Crop Darpan (Indo-Japan project) (January 2021-till date)

Description: A farmer can diagnose the crop problems through both web browser and mobile phone.

Technologies: Rest Framework, Bootstrapping, Git, etc

Client: IIIT-H

Role: Lead

2. Title: Climate Change Adaptation Project (UNDP project) – 8 months (Aug 2016 – Mar 2017)

Description: Development a web-based system using the MVC framework that stores both historical and future climate data. A system helps to uses to query the data and show the data in both tabular and graph formats for scientific uses.  4-person team;

Technologies: CodeIgniter, JavaScript, CSS, MySql

Client: MgtWell Consultancy Services, Afghanistan

Role: Team lead

Invited Speaker/Resource

1. Keynote talk on “Extraction of Diverse Knowledge from Transactional Databases”, UGC Sponsored “National Conference on Current Research Advances in Computer Science” (CRACS17), Kakatiya University, Warangal, March 2017.
2. Experiences of building prototype systems – case study of eSagu, Management students, NAARM (ICAR institute), February 2017.
3. Software training on eAgromet System, Scientists from 22 states of India in Refresher course, Indian Meteorological Department, Pune, 2013.
4. Data Mining – A Research Perspective, Kathmandu University students, IIIT-H, 2013.
5. IT-based Scalable Systems for Location-specific Farm Practices, African delegation team, NAARM (ICAR institute), 2013.
6. Recent Trends in Web Data Mining, Engineering faculty from across India, UGC Academic Staff College, JNTU-H, 2011.
7. Office automation, Resources person, Refresher course to Commerce and Business Administration conducted for AP College Lecturers, CKM PG College, Warangal, March 2004.

Details of Papers Published

Journals (Refereed)

1. Mittapally Kumara Swamy, and P. Krishna Reddy, A model of concept hierarchy-based diverse patterns with applications to recommender system, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics Vol. 10, No. 2, PP. 177-191, 2020, Springer.
2. Mittapally Kumara Swamy, P. Krishna Reddy, R. Uday Kiran, and M. Venugopal Reddy, Temporality-based User Interface Design Approaches for Desktop and Small Screens, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol.7, No.1, 2012, InderScience Publishers, UK, pp. 52-64.
3. Uday Kiran, P. Krishna Reddy, M. Kumara Swamy and G. Syamasundar Reddy, Analyzing Dynamics of Crop Problems by Applying Text Analysis Methods on Farm Advisory Data of eSagu^TM, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 5, No.2, 2010, InderScience Publishers, UK. pp. 154-164.

 Conferences (Refereed)

1. Pooja Gaur, P. Krishna Reddy, Kumara Swamy, and Anirban Mondal, A Revenue-based Product Placement Framework to Improve Diversity in Retail Businesses, BDA2020, pp. 289-307 LNCS Springer.
2. Kumara Swamy, P. Krishna Reddy, and Subhas Balla, Association Rule based Approach to Improve Diversity of Search Query Recommendations, Database and Expert Systems Applications – 28th International Conference, DEXA 2017, France, (II) 2017, pp. 340-350, Springer Verlog.
3. Mittapally Kumara Swamy,  Krishna Reddy, Improving Diversity Performance of Association Rule Based Recommender Systems, Database and Expert Systems Applications – 26th International Conference, DEXA 2015, Spain, (1) 2015, pp. 499 -508, Springer Verlog.
4. Alugubelly Mamatha, Polepalli Krishna Reddy, Mittapally Kumara Swamy, G. Sreenivas, D. Raji Reddy, A Framework to Improve Reuse in Weather-Based Decision Support Systems, BDA 2014, pp.1-13, Springer Verlog.
5. Krishna Reddy, A.V.Trinath, M.Kumaraswamy, B.Bhaskar Reddy, K.Nagarani, D.Raji Reddy, G. Sreenivas, K.Dakshina Murthy, L.S.Rathore, K.K.Singh, N.Chattopadhyay, Development of eAgromet Prototype to Improve the Performance of Integrated Agromet Advisory Service, 9th DNIS-2014, March, 2014, Japan, pp.168-188, Springer Verlog.
6. Kumara Swamy, P. Krishna Reddy and Somya Srivatsava, Extracting Diverse-Frequent Patterns with Unbalanced Concept Hierarchy, The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, May 2014, Tainan, Taiwan, pp 15-27, Springer Verlog.
7. Ammar Yasir, Kumara Swamy Mittapally and P Krishna Reddy, Exploiting Schema and Documentation for Summarizing Relational Databases, First International Conference on Bid Data Analytics (BDA-2012), University of Delhi, India, December 2012, pp. 77-90, LNCS.
8. Ammar Yasir, Kumara Swamy Mittapally and P Krishna Reddy, Enhanced Query-by-Object Approach for information Requirement Elicitation in Large Databases, 1^st Conference on Bid Data Analytics (BDA-2012), University of Delhi, India, December 24-26, 2012, pp.26-41, LNCS.
9. Kumara Swamy, P. Krishna Reddy, R. Uday Kiran, and M. Venugopal Reddy, Interface Tailoring by Exploiting Temporality of Attributes for Small Screens, The 6^th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS 2010), University of Aizu, Japan, March 29-31, 2010, pp.284-295, LNCS, Berlin Heidelberg.
10. Kumara Swamy and P. Krishna Reddy, An Efficient Context-based User Interface by Exploiting Temporality of Attributes, The 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC’09), Penang, Malaysia, December 1-3, 2009, pp. 205-213, IEEE Computer Society.

Posters (Refereed)

1. Kumara Swamy and P. Krishna Reddy, An Approach to Extract Diverse Patterns from Transactional Databases, Poster, 1^st Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI-2014) Symposium, Bangalore, India, Mar. 2014.
2. Ammar Yasir, Kumara Swamy Mittapally and P Krishna Reddy, Enhanced Query-by-Object Approach for information Requirement Elicitation in Large Databases, Invited poster, 18^th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD2012), India, December 14-17, 2012.
3. Ammar Yasir, Kumara Swamy Mittapally and P Krishna Reddy, Enhanced Query-by-Object Approach for information Requirement Elicitation in Large Databases, Poster, IBM I-CARE 2012, IISc, Bangalore, India, October 20, 2012.
4. Kumara Swamy and P. Krishna Reddy, An Improved Context-based User Interface by Exploiting Temporality of Attributes, Poster, I-CARE, IBM-IRL Collaborative Academia Research Exchange Program, IBM Research India, Delhi, October 26, 2009.
5. Uday Kiran, P. Krishna Reddy, M. Kumara Swamy and G. Symasundar Reddy, Analyzing Dynamics of Crop Problems by Applying Text Analysis Methods on Farm Advisory Data of eSagu^TM, Poster, I-CARE, IBM-IRL Collaborative Academia Research Exchange Program, IBM Research India, Delhi, Oct. 26, 2009.

Oral Presentation

1. Kumara Swamy, and P. Krishna Reddy, Concept of Diverse Frequent Patterns: Improving the Diversity of Recommender Systems, 10^th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, ACM India Annual Event 2016, Jan. 21-22, 2016, Trivandrum, India.

PUBLICATIONS (Others)

Conferences

1. Krishna Reddy, B.Bhaskar Reddy, P.Gowtham Sreenivas, M.Kumara Swamy, D.Raji Reddy, G.Sreenivas, M.Mahadevaiah, L.S. Rathore, K.K. Singh, N.Chattopadhyay, eAgromet: A Prototype of an IT-based Agro-Meteorological Advisory System, 8^th Asian Conference for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA/WCCA-2012), National Training Institute of Farmers’ Organization Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2012.
2. Krishna Reddy, B.Bhaskar Reddy and M. Kumara Swamy, Village-Level eSagu: A Scalable and Location-Specific Agro-Advisory System, 3^rd National Conference on Agro-Informatics and Precision Agriculture (AIPA-2012), IIIT-H, August 2012, ISBN. 978-81-8424-772-5, pp.69-74.
3. Bhaskar Reddy, P. Krishna Reddy and M. Kumara Swamy, A Framework of Crop Specific Virtual Labs to Impart Applied Agricultural Knowledge, AIPA-2012, IIIT-H, August 2012, ISBN. 978-81-8424-772-5, pp.47-52.
4. Krishna Reddy, A. Sudarshan Reddy, B. Venkateswar Rao, M.Kumara Swamy, The Application of ICT in Agriculture – eSagu Model of Web-based Agricultural Expert Advice Dissemination System, The 2nd International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Hyderabad, Dec., 2005.
5. Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsundar Reddy, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, B.V. Ratnam, P. Vasudeva Reddy, and M.Kumara Swamy, IT-based Agricultural Extension System: Experiences with One Thousand Cotton Farmers Prototype, AISECT 2004 International Conference on ICT for Education and Development, Bhopal, India, Dec., 2004, pp. 39-46.
6. Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsundar Reddy, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, B.V.Ratnam, P.Vasudeva Reddy, and M .Kumara Swamy, e-AgriClinic: An IT-Based Approach for Cost-Effective and Personalized Agriclutural Extension System, AISECT 2004 International Conference on ICT for Education and Development, Bhopal, India, Dec., 2004, pp. 97-105.
7. Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsunder Reddy, J. Tirupathi, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, M. Anitha, and M. Kumara Swamy, An IT Based Personalized Agricultural Extension System to Improve Corp Productivity: Preliminary Experiences with One Thousand Cotton Farmers Prototype, The National Seminar on ICTs for Agricultural and Rural Development, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, India, Sep., 2004, pp. 236-244.
8. Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsunder Reddy, J. Tirupathi, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, M. Anitha, and M. Kumara Swamy, Towards Building IT-based Cost-effective and Personalized Agricultural Extension Systems, The National Seminar on ICTs for Agricultural and Rural Development, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, India, September 09-10, 2004, pp. 219-235.