Dr. Minirani S

Education

·B.Sc. in Mathematics from Malabar Christian College, University of Calicut in 1997 with 94.3% of marks (First Class with distinction).

·M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) in 1999 with 75.6% of marks ((First Class with distinction and First rank).

·M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, University of Calicut in 2006 with 93.6% of marks ((First Class with distinction).

·PhD in Mathematics from National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) in July 2015.

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Department of BSH, MPSTME, SVKM's NMIMS Mumbai Campus. Feb 2017- Present

• Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, NITC. Dec 2010 - Jun 2013
• Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Don Bosco Institute of Technology (Engg. College), Mumbai. May 2007 – Jan 2017

• Vice Principal/Lecturer in Mathematics, Global Institute of Technology & Management (GITM), Mumbai. Aug 2006-Apr 2007

• Subject Matter Expert (Mathematics), ‘Praxis Technologies’ (Software firm), Mumbai. Jan-Feb 2006

• Research Fellow, "Determination of Sea water Use Classification”, National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Kerala. Jan 2000 -Oct 2001

Current Membership or Professional Organizations

·Life Time Member- Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Indian Science Congress, ISTE, American Mathematical Society, IAENG International Association for Engineers, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM), Indian Mathematical Society, Association for Women in Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers Association(India).

Honors and Awards

·First Rank-MSc. Physical Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and Technology- 1999

·Best paper award, National Meet of Research Scholars, IITBHU 2012

·Outstanding Woman in Science –Venus International Women Awards 2018

·IMRF Best Scientist Award in Mathematics-IMRF 100^th Conference at Goa (Govt. of India Approved)

·Bharat Excellence Award in Mathematics- Friendship Forum 2019

Conference sessions chaired

·International Conference on Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICTSD), February 4-6 2015, organised by Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT) Mumbai.

·National Conference of Discrete Mathematics and Computing (NCDMC), February 20-21 2017, organised by College of Engineering, Vadakara, Calicut.(Sponsored by TEQIP Phase II-A project by Govt. of India)

Invited talks

• A lecture on "Women in Mathematics” at NIT Calicut as a part of Mathematics day and Department day celebrations on 27 December 2018.

Service Activities

At MPSTME

• Department level responsibilities – Workshop Coordinator (Organised 05 workshops), Syllabus setting Committee, Timetable and Mentoring Committee
• School level responsibilities – Interview panel member for Ph.D. admissions and Faculty in Mathematics.
• University level responsibilities – Ph. D guide in Mathematics

Positions Held:

·Reviewer - "Mathematical Reviews", American Mathematical Society.

·Content Developer for Undergraduate Programs/ MooCs / Short lecture series- UGC.

·Course coordinator – "Discrete Mathematics” on SWAYAM.

Books published

"Fractal Space: Introduction and Applications", LAMBERT Academic Publishing, December 2015.

Research Publications in the Last Five Years:

•Minirani S and Sunil Mathew, On the Convergence of Sequence of Attractors in Fractal Space, International Journal of Advanced Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 60-73.

•Minirani S and Anagha Shastri, Performance Analysis of Single Key Block Ciphers, Mathematical Sciences International Research Journal, Volume 5, Issue. 2 (2016), pp. 219-221.

•Minirani S, On Separation Properties of IFS generating Sub and Super Self Similar Sets, International Journal of Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 5, May 2017, pp. 182-188.

• Minirani S and Sunil Mathew, Some properties of Hausdorff partial metric, Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (Accepted for publication).

• Minirani S, Generalised iterated function system containing functions of integral type, Int. Conf. on Applied Science and Tech. (ICAST2018).

• Minirani S, "Fixed points of iterated function systems containing weak C-contractions”, paper presented in ICAAMMCT2018 at Gandhigram Rural Institute, Tamil Nadu.

•Minirani S, Fixed points of iterated functionsystems consisting of Meir Keelerintegral type contractions, Mathematical Sciences International Research Journal, Volume 7, Issue. 1 (2018), pp. 391-395.

• Minirani S, Generalized iterated function systems containing functions of integral type,International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE), Volume 7, (3.31), 2018, pp. 126-128.

• Mahesh Kale, Minirani S, On multiplicative Zagreb Indices of graphs with a deleted edge, Proceedings of International Conference of Emerging Trends in Graph Theory, Christ University, Bangalore.(Paper presented by Mahesh Kale – February 27-28, 2019)

Recent Professional Development Activities (Past 5 Years)

·NPTEL-Online Certification with silver medal on "MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation”, (Jan-March 2019)

·TEQUIP III sponsored one day workshop on "Mathematics and its Engineering Applications”, NITC –(26 October 2018)

·FDP on Statistical Methods and Scientific Applications (SMASA2018), NITC-(14-19 May 2018)

·FDP on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, IISc., Bangalore –(April 29-May 03, 2019)

·Two day Workshop onR-tool Programming, S K Somaiya College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Vidyavihar – (26-27 February 2016)

·Two day Workshop on Outcome Based Education, BMS college of Engineeering , Bangalore-(2-3 August 2015)