Department of Computer Science
Raji S Pillai
Designation : Assistant Professor
Qualification : MPhil
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An academician and researcher with expertise in Data Mining and Natural Language Processing, with over two decades of experience in academia and industry. She previously served at St. Teresa’s College (Autonomous), Ernakulam, and has also worked as a Technical Writer and Computer Science Faculty in various organizations. Her research contributions include publications and conference presentations in transfer learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and legal hate speech annotation. She holds a South African patent, an Indian Design Registration, and a software copyright. She has served as a resource person for several invited lectures, workshops, and webinars, and has contributed to academic governance as an Expert Committee Member for Mahatma Gandhi University’s B.Voc programmes in Emerging Technology and Digital Proficiency.
- MPhil (CS & IT), Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham
- MSc. Information Science & Management, CMS College of Science & Commerce, Coimbatore
- BSc. Computer Science , IHRD , College of Applied Sciences , Mavelikkara
- Rajagiri College of Social Sciences Faculty, Department of Computer Science June 2026 – Present
- St. Teresa’s College (Autonomous), Ernakulam Faculty, Department of Computer Applications 2014 – May 2026
- Suntec Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Technical Writer November 2006 – December 2007
- iSMART Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Technical Writer June 2005 – November 2006
- Seventh Day Higher Secondary School, Tiruvalla Faculty in Computer Science July 2004 – May 2005
- Small Entrepreneur Promotion and Training Institute Trainer’s Trainee in Computer Applications September 2003 – July 2004
- Data Mining / Natural Language Processing
- Served as Resource Person for the Industry Integrated Programme (IIP) conducted by Syllabox and SPIMS in July 2022, delivering expert sessions and mentoring students in industry-relevant technologies.
- Resource person for the webinar conducted by Department of Computer Applications , Mercy College , Palakkad on the topic, “Machine Learning and its Applications” held on 8th October 2022.
- Resource person for the webinar conducted by IQAC and Department of Computer Science of MES College, Erumely on the topic “Machine Learning and its Applications” held on June 9th 2020.
- Resource person for the webinar series ‘AVENIR’ conducted by Department of Computer Science, Bharata Mata College of Arts and Sciences, Aluva on the topic “Machine Learning – Introduction and Applications” held on May 22nd 2020.
- Resource person for ‘Darshan – Fine Tuning Research with online Research tools’ , five day online workshop conducted by TLC and Department of Computer Applications, St. Teresa’s College (Autonomous), Ernakulam during 12-10-2020 to 17-10-2020.
- Resource person for “Opportunities in AI for MBA aspirants “as part of the webinar series “The New Normal” conducted by Marian Academy of Management Studies on August 10th 2020.
- Pillai, R. S., & Sreekumar, K. (2020). Classification of fashion images using transfer learning. In Evolution in Computational Intelligence: Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2020), Volume 1 (pp. 325-332). Springer, Singapore.
- Pillai, R. S., & Sreekumar, K. (2021). Imbalanced Dataset Visual Recognition by Inductive Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978 981-16-3246-4_27
- Presented the paper titled “ Effect of Contrastive Learning and Adversarial Training Components in a Semi Supervised Annotation Framework for Multidimensional Legal Hate Speech annotation “ at International Conference on Recent Advances in Electronics, Communication, Computing, Automation, and Power (RECCAP 2026) organized by IEEE Malabar Subsection & IEEE Kerala Section at IIT Palakkad.
- Presented the paper titled “Imbalanced Dataset Visual Recognition by Inductive Transfer Learning” in the International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies held during February 2021.
- Presented the paper titled “Classification of Fashion Images Using Transfer Learning” at 88th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing : Theory and Applications (FICTA 2020) organized by NIT Surathkal, during January 2020.
- Expert Committee Member – Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), B.Voc Programmes in Emerging Technology and Digital Proficiency