Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni

Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni is an Academic Associate of Computer Science at Mahindra University. She is completing her Ph.D. at University of Hyderabad. She also holds a master's degree in computer science from University of Hyderabad.

• Education
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.  (About to submit thesis)
    Thesis Topic: Novel Techniques for Cross-Domain Recommendation
  • M.Tech., Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2014.
    Thesis Topic: Recommender Systems: A Matrix Factorisation based Approach
  • B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, JNTUK, Vijayawada, 2012.
• Research
  • Machine Learning, Transfer Learning, Recommender Systems
• Awards
  • Qualified CSIR - UGC - NET with an All India Rank of 70
  • Qualified UGC - NET
  • Qualified GATE 2012 with 98.57 percentile
     
• Publications

  Publications

  • Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni, Arun K Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Vikas Kumar, A Maximum Margin Matrix Factorisation based Transfer Learning Approach for Cross-Domain Recommendation, Applied Soft Computing, 85:105751, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2019.105751
  • V. Sowmini Devi, Vineet Padmanabhan, Arun K Pujari, A matrix factorisation & clustering-based approach for transfer learning, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Springer International Publishing, pages 77–83, 2017.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69900-4
  • Salman K. H, Arun K Pujari, Vikas Kumar, and Sowmini Devi V., Combining swarm with gradient search for maximum margin matrix factorization. The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), pages 167–179, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42911-3_14
  • V. Sowmini Devi, Venkateswara Rao Kagita, Arun K. Pujari, Vineet Padmanabhan., Collaborative filtering by PSO-based MMMF, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pages 569-574, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2014.6973968

  Journals/Conferences Invited Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Neurocomputing
  • IEEE Access
  • International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE)
• Experience
  • Research cum Teaching Assistant, University of Hyderabad, (July 2015 to July 2020).
  • Lecturer, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT-IIIT), Nuzvid. Andhra Pradesh, (July 2014 – June 2015)
  • Internship, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hyderabad. (January 2014 – May 2014).