Dr. Y Vijayalata

About me

Dr.Y Vijayalata , an academician with more than 21 years of teaching and research experience, Dr.Y.Vijayalata, Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology; completed Ph.D. from JNTU Hyderabad. She earned M.Tech. in Computer Science from BITS, Ranchi.

Dr.Y. Vijayalata ’s area of research includes Image Processing, Cloud Computing and Big-Data Analytics. One of her scholar have completed Ph.D. and two are pursuing Ph.D. under her supervision. She have published more than 25 papers in various journals and conferences. She also mentored TCS student internships at GRIET.

She is the HEAD, Department of Information Technology, since August 2013 onwards. Prior to this, she worked as Professor in Department of CSE at GRIET from November 2007 to August 2013. The department of IT is NBA accredited twice under her dynamic leadership. She played instrumental role both at department and institutional level during NAAC and UGC inspection. Under her leadership, the institute is successfully organizing the National Level Technical Fest “PRAGNYA” in association with the professional bodies at GRIET for the past 10 years. Active participant, involved in all the college activities including in-house projects designed for the students. Attended many workshops/conferences (national/international) conducted by JNTUH, NIT (Warangal) etc.,

She is the recipient of “Distinguished Leader in Engineering” Higher Education Leadership Awards-HELA 2018, Venus International Foundation. Also, Recipient of “Best Head of Department (IT)” by ITSR Foundation Award-2017.

She is the Branch Counsellor for IEEE GRIET Student Branch since 2011 onwards. And also Branch Advisor for IEEE Women In Engineering (WIE) at GRIET. She is the advisor for GRIET TEDx 2017.Chief Coordinator Spoken Tutorials IITBombay 2016-2017.

Contact:

Dr.Y Vijayalata

Professor & HOD, Information Technology

Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (500090)

Email: vijaya@griet.ac.in