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Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Data Science

College: College of Information

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, Vellore Institute of Technology - India, 2019
    Major: Information Technology
    Dissertation: A Secured Three Tier IOT Framework for Prediction of Heart Disease
  • MTech, Vellore Institute of Technology - India, 2015
    Major: Information Technology
  • BTech, Anna University, 2013
    Major: Information Technology

Current Scheduled Teaching

DTSC 4221.020Applied Data Science and Machine LearningSummer 5W2 2025
DTSC 5505.403Applied Machine Learning for Data ScientistsSummer 5W1 2025
DTSC 4050.020Statistical Methods for Data Science and AnalysisSummer 5W2 2025
INFO 5810.501Data Analysis and Knowledge DiscoverySpring 2025
DTSC 5501.401Fundamentals of Data ScienceSpring 2025
INFO 6900.730Special ProblemsSpring 2025
INFO 6910.027Special ProblemsSpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

INFO 4670.501Data Analysis and Knowledge DiscoveryFall 2024 Syllabus SPOT
INFO 5810.401Data Analysis and Knowledge DiscoveryFall 2024 SPOT
INFO 6900.032Special ProblemsFall 2024
DTSC 4050.020Statistical Methods for Data Science and AnalysisFall 2024 Syllabus SPOT
DTSC 5505.003Applied Machine Learning for Data ScientistsSummer 5W1 2024 SPOT
DTSC 5502.020Principles and Techniques for Data ScienceSpring 2024 SPOT
DTSC 5502.021Principles and Techniques for Data ScienceSpring 2024 SPOT
DTSC 4501.501Principles of Data Science and AnalyticsSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
DTSC 4050.020Statistical Methods for Data Science and AnalysisSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
DTSC 5501.002Fundamentals of Data ScienceFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
DTSC 3020.501Introduction to Computation with PythonFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Rishiwal, V., Kumar, P., Tomar, A., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2023). Towards the Integration of IoT, Cloud and Big Data: Services, Applications and Standards. Springer.
  • Book Chapter

  • Thota, C., Sundarasekar, R., Manogaran, G., R, V., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2018). Centralized Fog Computing Security Platform for IoT and Cloud in Healthcare System. IGI.
  • Conference Proceeding

  • Gudivaka, R., Hussein, L., Aruna, T., Samara Sihman , R., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2024). Cloud based Early Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection Using Deep learning based Improved YOLO V4. In 2024 Second International Conference on Data Science and Information System (ICDSIS). IEEE..
  • Veerappermal Devarajan, M., Al-Farouni, M., Srikanteswara, R., Samara Sihman, R., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2024). Decision Support Method and Risk Analysis Based on Merged-Cyber Security Risk Management. In 2024 Second International Conference on Data Science and Information System (ICDSIS). IEEE.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Korani, W., C, G., Selvaraj, J. (2024). IoT-Powered BGCNet: Thyroid Disease Detection Enhancement in Healthcare with IBESA based Feature Selection. In 2024 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech). IEEE..
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Vedantham, K., Selvaraj, J., kavin , B. (2024). Enhanced Network Intrusion Detection System Using PCGSO-Optimized BI-GRU Model in AI-Driven Cybersecurity. 3rd IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC) 2024..
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Rawal, B., Gao, J. (2022). Blockchain-enabled Privacy Preserving of IoT Data for Sustainable Smart Cities using Machine Learning. 2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). IEEE.
  • Raza, M., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Hung, D., Davis, W., Nguyen, H., Trestian, R. (2020). A Digital Twin Framework for Industry 4.0 Enabling Next-Gen Manufacturing. 2020 9th International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management (ICITM). IEEE.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gokul Nath, C., Vishnu Balan, E., Jeyanthi, R., Rama Prabha, K. (2015). Desktop phishing attack detection and elimination using TSO program. 2015 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM). IEEE.
  • Vishnu Balan, E., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gokul Nath, C., Usha Devi, G. (2015). Efficient energy scheme for wireless sensor network application. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research.
  • Vishnu Balan, E., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gokulnath, C., Usha Devi, G. (2015). Fuzzy Based Intrusion Detection Systems in MANET. Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier.
  • Vishnu Balan, E., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gokulnath, C., Usha Devi, G. (2015). Hybrid architecture with misuse and anomaly detection techniques for wireless networks. 2015 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP).IEEE.
  • Gokulnath, C., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Vishnu Balan, E., Rama Prabha, K., Jeyanthi, R. (2015). Preservation of privacy in data mining by using PCA based perturbation technique. 2015 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM).IEEE.
  • Journal Article

  • Korani, W., S. S, D., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2024). Early Detection of Brain Tumor Using MRI and Transfer Learning.. Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Kamruzzaman, M., Alfurhood, B., Hossain, B., Nagarajan, H., Sitaraman, S. (2024). Balanced Performance Merit on Wind and Solar Energy Contact with Clean Environment Enrichment. IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society.
  • Sivaparthipan, C., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Chandu, T., Muthu, B., Hasan Ali, M., Tomaš, B. (2023). Classification analysis of burnout people's brain images using ontology-based speculative sense model. Computational Intelligence.
  • Gao, J., Manogaran, G., Nguyen, T., Kadry, S., Hsu, C., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2022). A Vehicle-Consensus Information Exchange Scheme for Traffic Management in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Konstantinou , C., Basheer, S., Manogaran, G., S. Rawal, B., Chandra Babu, G. (2022). Agreement-Induced Data Verification Model for Securing Vehicular Communication in Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24 (1) 980 - 989.
  • C. B. , S., Muthu, B., G., F., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Alazab , M., Díaz, V. (2022). Blockchain Assisted Disease Identification of COVID-19 Patients with the Help of IDA-DNN Classifier. Wireless Personal Communications. 1379 (126) 2597–2620. Springer.
  • Yousafzai, A., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Hong , C. (2022). Blockchain-based incentive management framework for desktop clouds. Journal of Cluster Computing. 26 (383) 137–156.
  • Vincent Paul, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Panchatcharam, P., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Mubarakali, A. (2022). Intelligent Framework for Prediction of Heart Disease using Deep Learning. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Hong, C. (2022). Internet of things for secure surveillance for sewage wastewater treatment systems. Environmental Research.
  • Wei, W., C. B, S., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2022). Online shopping behavior analysis for smart business using big data analytics and blockchain security. International Journal of Modeling and Simulation. 13 (04)
  • Zhao , J., Xi , X., Zhang , L., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2022). Reuse of knowledge by efficient data analytics to fix societal challenges. Information Processing & Management. 59 (1)
  • Zhang, W., Qinb , G., Zhao, Z., Liu, W., Zhang, S., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2022). The role of socioeconomic status gradients for the child's developmental health.. Early Child Development and Care. 193 ((7)) 869-885. London, Taylor & Francis.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Basheer, S., Rawal, B., Afghah, F., Chandra Babu, G., Arunmozhi, M. (2022). Traffic scheduling, network slicing and virtualization based on deep reinforcement learning. Elsevier International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering. 100
  • Liu, Y., Zhou, Z., Wang, A., R., D., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2021). Brain-computer Interaction Enabled AAC for Visual Interactive Paradigm. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.
  • Manimuthu, A., Dharshini, V., Zografopoulos, I., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Konstantinou, C. (2021). Contactless Technologies for Smart Cities: Big Data, IoT, and Cloud Infrastructures. SN Computer Science.
  • He, Y., Nie, B., Zhang, J., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Muthu, B. (2021). Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Cyber-Physical System Using the Computer Vision and Image Processing. Wireless Personal Communications.
  • Manogaran, G., Mohamed Shakeel, P., Baskar, S., Hsu, C., Kadry, S., Sundarasekar, R., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2021). FDM: Fuzzy-Optimized Data Management Technique for Improving Big Data Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
  • Zhen, H., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., R. , D. (2021). Internet of Things Framework in Athletics Physical Teaching System and Health Monitoring. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.
  • Manogaran, G., Balasubramanian, V., S. Rawal, B., Saravanan, V., Montenegro-Marin, C., Ramachandran, V., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2021). Multi-Variate Data Fusion Technique for Reducing Sensor Errors in Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Sensors.
  • Gandhi, U., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Chandra Babu , G., Karthick, G. (2021). Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data by Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). Wireless Personal Communications.
  • Gandhi, U.D., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Chandra Babu, G., Karthick, G. (2021). Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data by Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). Wireless Personal Communications. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Vijayarangam, S., Chandra Babu, G., Ananda Murugan, S., Kalpana, N., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2021). Enhancing the security and performance of nodes in Internet of Vehicles. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 33 (7) 1-1. Wiley.
  • Son, L., Ngan, R., Ali, M., Fujita, H., Abdel-Basset, M., Long Giang, N., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2020). A New Representation of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Systems and Their Applications in Critical Decision Making. IEEE Intelligent Systems.
  • Bi, D., Kadry, S., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2020). Internet of things assisted public security management platform for urban transportation using hybridised cryptographic-integrated steganography. IET Intelligent Transport Systems.
  • Selvaraj, A., Selvaraj, J., Maruthaiappan, S., Chandra Babu, G., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2020). L1 norm based pedestrian detection using video analytics technique. Computational Intelligence.
  • Jegadeesan , S., Azees, M., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Manogaran, G., Chilamkurti, N., Varatharajan , R., Hsu, C. (2019). An efficient anonymous mutual authentication technique for providing secure communication in mobile cloud computing for smart city applications. Sustainable Cities and Society.
  • Manogaran, G., Shakeel, P.M., Hassanein, A.S., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Chandra Babu, G. (2019). Machine Learning Approach-Based Gamma Distribution for Brain Tumor Detection and Data Sample Imbalance Analysis. IEEE Access. 7 12-19. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Ahilan, A., Chandra Babu, G., Senthil Murugan, N., Parthasarathy, Manogaran, G., Raja, C., Kadry, S., Kumar, S.N., Agees Kumar, C., Jarin, T., Krishnamoorthy, S., Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (2019). Segmentation by Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization Based Multilevel Thresholding and Improved Lossless Prediction Based Compression Algorithm for Medical Images. IEEE Access. 7 89570-89580. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Manogaran, G., Varatharajan, R., Lopez, D., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Sundarasekar, R., Thota, C. (2018). A new architecture of Internet of Things and big data ecosystem for secured smart healthcare monitoring and alerting system. Future Generation Computer Systems.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gandhi, U. (2018). A novel three-tier Internet of Things architecture with machine learning algorithm for early detection of heart diseases. Computers & Electrical Engineering.
  • Varatharajan, R., Vasanth, K., Gunasekaran, M., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gao, X. (2018). An adaptive decision based kriging interpolation algorithm for the removal of high density salt and pepper noise in images. Computers & Electrical Engineering.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., G, U., Manogaran, G., Sundarasekar, R., Chilamkurti, N., Varatharajan, R. (2018). Ant colony optimization algorithm with Internet of Vehicles for intelligent traffic control system. Computer Networks.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Lokesh, S., Varatharajan, R., Chandra Babu, G., Parthasarathy, P. (2018). Cloud and IoT based disease prediction and diagnosis system for healthcare using Fuzzy neural classifier. Future Generation Computer Systems.
  • Gandhi, U., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Varatharajan, R., Manogaran, G., Sundarasekar, R., Kadu, S. (2018). HIoTPOT: Surveillance on IoT Devices against Recent Threats. Wireless Personal Communications.
  • Sundarasekar, R., Thanjaivadivel, M., Manogaran, G., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Varatharajan, R., Chilamkurti, N., Hsu, C. (2018). Internet of Things with Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform for Remote Health Monitoring of Abnormal ECG Signals. Journal of Medical Systems.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Usha Devi, G. (2017). Energy efficient node selection algorithm based on node performance index and random waypoint mobility model in internet of vehicles. Journal of Cluster Computing.
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Gandhi , U. (2017). Enhanced DTLS with CoAP-based authentication scheme for the internet of things in healthcare application. Journal of Supercomputing.
  • Manogaran, G., Vijayakumar, V., Varatharajan, R., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Sundarasekar, R., Hsu, C. (2017). Machine Learning Based Big Data Processing Framework for Cancer Diagnosis Using Hidden Markov Model and GM Clustering. Wireless Personal Communications.
  • Varatharajan, R., Manogaran, G., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Balaş, V., Barna, C. (2017). Visual analysis of geospatial habitat suitability model based on inverse distance weighting with paired comparison analysis. Multimedia Tools and Applications.
  • Varatharajan, R., Manogaran, G., Malarvizhi Kumar, P., Sundarasekar, R. (2017). Wearable sensor devices for early detection of Alzheimer disease using dynamic time warping algorithm. Journal of Cluster Computing.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., "Travel Grant," sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Grant - Research

  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P., "Transforming Healthcare Operations with IoT and Predictive Analytics for Patient Flow Optimization," sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2025 - 2026).
  • Malarvizhi Kumar, P. (Principal), Xiao, T. (Co-Principal), Korani, W. (Co-Principal), "Cohort II of the Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions: Infrastructure Research Readiness," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $3000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
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