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Name                   :    Tirimula Rao Benala

Date of Birth       :    24-06-77

Email                   :    b.tirimula@gmail.com

                                 btirimula.it@jntugvcev.edu.in

                                 tirimula.it@jntugvcev.edu.in

Ph                        :    9848372692

Address               :   Department of Information Technology, JNTUK-UCEV.

Google Scholar    :    https://goo.gl/1uKbhT

ORCID: 0000-0002-0613-9893

Awards

• Young Engineer of the Year Award- 2012 from Institution Of Engineers(I)-National Award
• National Award for Academic Excellence for Highest Publication in CSIC for the Year 2012.
• National Award for Academic Excellence for International Paper Presentation for the Year 2012.
• Young Engineer of the Year Award – 2011 from Government of Andhra Pradesh & Institution of Engineers (India).
• Best Teacher Award – 2009 from Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Science

• Ph.D. (CSE)  – JNT University Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India

          Supervisor: Prof. Rajib Mall, IIT Kharagpur

           Research Area: Computational Intelligence in Software Development Effort Estimation

• MTech in Computer Science and Technology.

          Department of Computer Science & Systems Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.

• Associate Member In Engineering (AMIE) in Computer Science & Engineering, Institute Of Engineers (India), Kolkata, India.

• Jan 2013 – Present :   Assistant Professor

 Department of Information Technology, University College of  Engineering, Vizianagaram, JNTUK, 535003 Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Aug 2010 – Jan 2013 : Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences (ANITS), Sanghivalasa, Visakhapatnam, India.

• Dec 2007- Aug 2010 : Senior Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences (ANITS), Sanghivalasa, Visakhapatnam, India.

• Dec 2003- Nov 2006 : Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences (ANITS), Sanghivalasa, Visakhapatnam, India.

• Soft Computing, Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Empirical Software Engineering, Data Science

Funded Projects:

• Title of the project: Software Cost Estimation using Genetic Algorithm Classifier.
• Funding Agency: Computer Society of India.
• Sanction order No:  1-14/2010-07 dated 29.03.2010 of CSI Education Directorate.
• Position: Chief Investigator.
• Period : 01-SEP-2010 to 01-SEP-2011

• Theory Of Computation, Design, And Analysis Of Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Database Management Systems, Computer Networks, Cryptography & Network Security, Image Processing, Software Engineering, Software Testing.
• Soft Computing, Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Empirical Software Engineering,

• Senior Member IEEE (Computational Intelligent Society)- 90399816
• Senior Life Member Computer Society of India -00162298
• Professional Member ACM-8855755
• Senior Life Member IE (India)-M-155986-3
• Life Member IETE-

• Delivered a Talk in 2^nd National Workshop on Free and Open Source Software Tools for Software Engineering (FOSSTSE-2016) on 20^th August, 2016 Co-Sponsored by FOSS Project MHRD IIT Kharagpur organized by C.V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar
• Session Chair in “Third International Conference Information System Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2016) organized by Anil Neerukonda Institute Of Technology & Sciences and technically sponsored by Springer from 8^th - 9^th, 2016.
• Session chair in CSI-2013 ICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India. Springer Conference from 13^th – 15^th, 2013.
• Certificate Of Recognition from Infosys for outstanding contribution to Campus Connect Program during January – December, 2011.
• Resource Person for Faculty Enablement Program Conducted Jointly by ANITS & Infosys Technologies; India from 30^th May- 3^rd June, 2011.
• Conferred Best Teacher Award for the year 2007-2008 by Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences.
• Infosys Campus Connect Coordinator at ANITS, Visakhapatnam.
• CSI Student Branch Coordinator at ANITS, Visakhapatnam.
• “Faculty Mentor Award” for year 2007 & 2008 from IBM Academic Initiative for mentoring student projects in National software Development Program by IBM “The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC)”.
• ANITS’ CSI Student Branch got “Best Student Branch Award “in Region –V [AP & Karnataka state] in my tenure as CSI student Branch Coordinator.
• Wipro Mission10x High Impact teaching Skills and Advanced Workshop on Teaching Skills, 2010.
• Faculty Guide for Prestigious iTelant Student Project Competition conducted by CII, Chennai for the year 2006-07.2007- 08, 2008-09.The projects are shortlisted in best 30 projects in India.

• 2 weeks certificate Course on "Structuring Machine Learning Projects" an online non-credit course authorized by DeepLearning.AI and offered through Coursera; completed on Aug 11, 2020.
• 4 weeks certificate Course on "Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization, and Optimization" an online non-credit course authorized by DeepLearning.AI and offered through Coursera; completed on Aug 2, 2020.
• 4 weeks certificate Course on "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" an online non-credit course authorized by DeepLearning.AI and offered through Coursera; completed on June 11, 2020.
• Three days ACM ISOFT sponsored National Workshop on “Recent Trends in Software Testing (RTSRT-2016)” held during 16^th – 18^th May 2016 at NIT Rourkela.
• Three days short term course on “Refresher course on Software Engineering” held during May 7^th to 9^th 2016 at IIT Kharagpur.
• Four weeks orientation course conducted by UGC-HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, VISAKHAPATNAM, ANDHRA PRADESH from 07-12-2015 TO 03-01-2016.
• One week training program on “PERSONAL EFFECTIVE SKILLS” conducted by Dr MCR HRD INSTITUTE, HYDERABAD from 23-03-2015 TO 27-03-2015.
• Certificate of Participation in the Entrepreneurship Awareness Program “ Exploring Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Andhra Pradesh” on 13^th & 14^th   February, 2015 Conducted by Center for Entrepreneurship Development JNTU Kakinada.
• One week workshop ON “RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND ISSUES IN BIG DATA & CLOUD COMPUTING” conducted by JNTUK-UCEV from 27-01-2015 TO 31-01-2015.
• Attended one  day  workshop  on “TURNITIN- ANTI  PLAGARISM SOFTWARE”  at  JNT University Kakinada  on  24th  January 2014.
• Refresher course on “RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES” conducted by DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT JNTU KAKINADA from 01-05-2014 TO 15-05-2014.
• Refresher course on “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & PATENTS” conducted by DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT JNTU KAKINADA from 16-05-2014 TO 30-05-2014.
• IEEE Colloquium on Computation Intelligence in Computation Biology” Conducted by IEEE and IE (I) from 17^th – 18^th Feb, 2012.
• WIPRO Mission10X certificate in Teaching & Learning is hereby Awarded on March 8, 2011- “In pursuit of Excellence in Engineering Education through Innovation” [ISTE Collaborated program].
• Faculty Enablement Program on “Campus Connect Foundation Program 3.0 “jointly conducted by Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences, Visakhapatnam & Infosys Technologies, Hyderabad from 30^th may – 3^rd June, 2011.
• Participated in Wipro Mission10X workshop conducted at ANITS Visakhapatnam from 17^th May to 21^st May 2010[ISTE Collaborated program].
• WIPRO Mission10X Learning Approach Practitioners Certificate- This certificate is equivalent to 5 days of development program. It is recognition of the effort in planning, preparing, and implementing MxLA in the classroom and for attending the supporting advanced workshop held on 26^th & 27^th August, 2010 [ISTE Collaborated programme].
• AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Computational Intelligence and its Application to Data Mining” from 30^th April-13^th May 2010 (2 weeks )at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam.
• Participated in Faculty Enablement Program held at Pragati Engineering College, Kakinda from 16^th November 2009 to 20^th November 2009 (One Week) conducted by INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED.
• Attended The Course on “Theory of Computation” as part of INDO-US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute (IUCEE) from July 6 to July 10, 2009 (One Week). The course is delivered by Turing Award Winner & Worlds’ one of the highly reputed computer Science Professor from “Cornell University” Prof. John Hopcroft [ISTE Collaborated program].
• Attended Workshop on “Web Application Security” conducted by TechFest-2008, IIT(Bombay)
• Certificate in recognition thereof successfully completing Object Oriented analysis and design using UML with fundamentals of Rational Rose. Course held in MVGR, Vizianagaram from 20^th Jul to 21^st Jul’ 07 by IBM INDIA.
• Workshop on “National Workshop on Information Security” conducted by GMRIT ,Feb 2007.
• Workshop on Digital Image Processing conducted by ANITS, Visakhapatnam September 2006
• Attended NITTR Faculty Development Program conducted by ANITS, June 2006.

• Benala T.R., Bandarupalli R. (2016, December). Least Square Support Vector Machine in Analogy-based Software Development Effort Estimation. In IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE-2016).
• Benala, T. R., Mall, R., Dehuri, S., & Swetha, P. (2014, December). Software Effort Estimation Using Functional Link Neural Networks Tuned with Active Learning and Optimized with Particle Swarm Optimization. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 223-238). Springer International Publishing.
• Benala, T. R., Mall, R., & Dehuri, S. (2013, December). Software Effort Estimation Using Functional Link Neural Networks Optimized by Improved Particle Swarm Optimization. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 205-213). Springer International Publishing.
• Benala, T. R., Mall, R., Srikavya, P., & HariPriya, M. V. (2014). Software Effort Estimation Using Data Mining Techniques. InICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India-Vol I (pp. 85-92). Springer International Publishing.
• Benala, T. R., Chinnababu, K., Mall, R., & Dehuri, S. (2013). A particle swarm optimized functional link artificial neural network (PSO-FLANN) in software cost estimation. InProceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) (pp. 59-66). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala, T. R., Mall, R., Dehuri, S., & Prasanthi, V. L. (2012, December). Software effort prediction using fuzzy clustering and functional link artificial neural networks. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 124-132). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala, T. R., Mall, R., Dehuri, S., & Babu, K. C. (2012, October). Software effort prediction using unsupervised learning (clustering) and functional link artificial neural networks. InInformation and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2012 World Congress on (pp. 115-120). IEEE.
• Benala, T. R., Dehuri, S., Satapathy, S. C., & Madhurakshara, S. (2012). Genetic algorithm for optimizing functional link artificial neural network based software cost estimation. InProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications 2012 (INDIA 2012) held in Visakhapatnam, India, January 2012 (pp. 75-82). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala, T. R., Dehuri, S., Satapathy, S. C., & Raghavi, C. S. (2011, December). Genetic algorithm for optimizing neural network based software cost estimation. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 233-239). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala, T. R., Dehuri, S., Sirisetti, G. S. V., & Pagadala, A. (2011, December). Differential evolution for optimizing the hybrid filter combination in image edge enhancement. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 35-42). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala, T. R., Satapathy, S. C., Vamsi, S. G. S., & Panchumarthy, R. (2011). Cat swarm optimisation for optimizing hybridized smoothening filter in image edge enhancement. InInternational Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The paper  adjudged as Best Paper.
• Benala, T. R., Dehuri, S., Pagadala, A., & Palakonda, A. (2011). Steganography Detection Using Neural Networks. InInternational Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The paper  adjudged as Best Paper.
• Benala T.R.,Sruthi,D., Sujeshna, G., Sandhya Rani, P., & Bhargavi, G. (2011). Software Cost Estimation Using K-Mean and Adaptive dynamic approach for cocomo. InInternational Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
• Rao, B. T., Dehuri, S., Dileep, M., & Vindhya, A. (2010, December). Swarm intelligence for optimizing hybridized smoothing filter in image edge enhancement. InInternational Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (pp. 370-379). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Benala,T.R., Jampalla S.D., Villa, S. H., Chandra Sekhar S., & Sai Praveen B. (June, 2010). A Novel Approach to Image Edge Enhancement using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Hybridized Smoothening Filters. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances and Emerging Trends in Computing Technologies.
• Jampalla, S.D., Benala,T.R.., Satapathy, S.C., Chandra Sekhar, S., & Villa, S.H. (January, 2010).A Novel approach to Image Edge Enhancement using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Hybridized Smoothening Filters”, In Proceedings of Advances in Information and Communication Technology (SRC-2010), held in Visakhpatnam,India. Jan 28-30, 2010 by Computer Society of India Visakhapatnam Chapter.
• Jammi,V.,Benala,T.R.,Putta, S., & Gautami,T.K.S. (January, 2010). A Comparative Study Of Spam Filters:Bayesian To Fuzzy Similarity Approach. In Proceedings of Advances in Information and Communication Technology (SRC-2010), held in Visakhpatnam, India. Jan 28-30, 2010 by Computer Society of India Visakhapatnam Chapter.
• Benala,T.R.,Sumana, S., Avinash, A., & Srivalli, S. (January, 2010). A Novel Approach To Software Cost Estimation Using Genetic Algorithm Classifier. In Proceedings of Advances in Information and Communication Technology (SRC-2010), held in Visakhpatnam, India. Jan 28-30, 2010 by Computer Society of India Visakhapatnam Chapter.
• Benala, T. R., Villa, S. H., Jampala, S. D., & Konathala, B. (2009, December). A novel approach to image edge enhancement using artificial bee colony optimization algorithm for hybridized smoothening filters. InNature & Biologically Inspired Computing, 2009. NaBIC 2009. World Congress on (pp. 1071-1076). IEEE.
• Benala T.R., Peri R., Akella P. (2007) .Major Milestones of Payment System in Electronic Commerce.In National Conference of Soft computing and Applications,(NCSCA-07), Held in ANITS, Visakhapatnam. The paper was adjudged as best paper.

• Benala, T.R., Tantati, K. (2022). Efficiency of oversampling methods for enhancing software defect prediction by using imbalanced data. Innovations Syst Softw Eng . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-022-00457-3. Full-text access:https://rdcu.be/cOM0i
• Benala1, T. R., & Mall, R. (2018). SEET: Software Development Effort Estimation Using Ensemble Techniques. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 43(3), 17-17.
• Benala, T. R., & Mall, R. (2017). DABE: Differential evolution in analogy-based software development effort estimation. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. SCI Indexed Journal. The Impact Factor of this journal is: 7.177, ranking it 9 out of 110 in Computer Science, Theory & Methods
• Benala, T. R., Dehuri, S., & Mall, R. (2012). Computational intelligence in software cost estimation: an emerging paradigm.ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 37(3), 1-7.
• Benala T.R., Dehuri S., Mall R. (March 2012). Computational Intelligence In Software Estimation: A Perspective. CSI Communications (CSIC), ISSN: 0970–647X, Vol. 35 (12) .
• Benala T.R., Dehuri, S., & Mall, R. (2012). Functional link artificial neural networks for software cost estimation. International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), 3(2), 62-82.
• Benala T.R., Sameet, B., Swathi, G.K., & Ramya, P. (December, 2009). A Novel Approach to Image Edge Enhancement Using Genetic Algorithm Optimized Hybridized Smoothening Filters: Journal Of Data Engineering and Computer Science,1(1), July-December 2009, ISSN: 0975-8372.
• Benala T.R., Sameet, B., Swathi, G. K., Gupta, K. V., RaviTeja, C., & Sumana, S. (2009). A novel neural network approach for software cost estimation using Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN).International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, 9(6), 126-131.
• Benala T.R., Dileep,M., Vedavalli,E., Aditya,K., & Bindu,D.R.S. (2009).Major Milestones Of Modern Payment Systems. International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security,9(9), 123-132.
• Benala, T. R., Srinivasu, P., Anantha Rao, C., Vardhan, V., Satya, K., & Vidyadhari, J. (2009). PGP Using Chebyshev Polynomial.IUP Journal Computer Science, India.
• Rao B.T., Rao K.V., Swathi G.K. Shanthi G.P., Durga J.S. (2009). A Novel Approach to Image to Image Edge Enhancement Using Smoothing Filters.  IUP Journal Computer Science, India.

• Benala T.R. (2022) Value of Random Vector Functional Link Neural Networks in Software Development Effort Estimation. In: Dehuri S., Chen YW. (eds) Advances in Machine Learning for Big Data Analysis. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 218. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8930-7_7.

Reviewer:

• SCIENCE DIRECT
• IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man & Cybernetics
• IET SOFTWARE
• JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
• Inderscience

Visiting Fellow

• Visiting fellow in Centre for Theoretical studies at IIT Kharagpur from 30-MAY-2017 to 05-JUN-2017.
• US-India 21st Century Knowledge Initiative grant to Chicago State University from 15 September-23 September 2018,