Prof. Sofia Francis

Academic Experience: (Number of Experience: 8 years)

• Working as Assistant Professor in MPSTME since December 2021.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad from June 2019 to June 2021.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in various colleges from 2011 to 2017 for PG & UG courses in Computer Science & I.T.
  • Cosmopolitan’s Valia C.L. college, Andheri(W) Mumbai.
  • M.V.M. college, Andheri(W), Mumbai.
  • M. L. Dhanukar college, Vile Parle(W), Mumbai.
• Worked as Visiting Faculty.
  • SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College, Vile Parle, Mumbai.
  • Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad, Mumbai.
  • Bagarkar Lions college, Andheri, Mumbai

­­­­Non-Academic Experience: (Number of Experience: 2.5 years)

• Neebal Technology, Andheri, Mumbai as Java Programmer
• Askey Systems Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore as Software Engineer

Certifications:

• UGC NET Qualified for Assistant Professor
• CISCO CCNA (Routing & Switching) Certified.
• SCJP, Sun Certified Java Programmer.
• Coursera courses on Foundations data, data everywhere (2022), Neural Networks and Deep Learning (2022), Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization, and Optimization (2022), Convolutional Neural Networks (2022)
• Certification in "Programming fundamentals using Python "(Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Object-Oriented Programming) by Infosys Springboard (FEP) in June 2022

Membership:

• Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India) A 528619-1

Service Activities (Within Organization)

• As a Judge in Data Science Project Competition for B. Tech Computer Science Engineering (Data Science)

Journal Publications

Conference Publication:

• Biju, Sofia & Shekokar N.M. "Optimize the Energy efficiency of RPL based 6LoWPAN By FL Clustering”. IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data, IoT & Data Analytics (2017) Pune. Presented, participated, and published in IEEE digital Explorer.
• Biju, Sofia & Shekokar N.M. "Security Approach on MQTT-based Smart Home”. IEEE Int. Conf. on Power, Control, Signals & Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI-2017), Chennai. Presented, participated, and published in IEEE digital Explorer.