Head of the Department​

Electronics & Communication Engineering

BVCITS ECE DEPARTMET

Head of the Department​

Dr. SIRIGINEEDI A VARAPRASAD M. Tech., Ph. D(NITS)

  WORK EXPERIENCE: 

  • Worked as SERVICE ENGINEER in SS TECHNOLOGIES, Hyderabad from 2008 to 2009. 
  • Worked as a lecturer at SAMHITHA DEGREE COLLEGE, Rajahmundry from 2009 to 2011. 
  • Worked as an Assistant Professor at B.V.C. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING from JAN 2014 to June 2021. 
  • Working as Head of the Department in B.V.C. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING from July 2021 to till now. 

ROLES : 

BoS Chairman, Academic council - Member Secaratry, Anti-Ragging - Convenor,Class teacher, Counsellor, Lab Incharge, Project Coordinator.

  SOFT SKILLS :  

  • MS Office, Xilinx, MAT LAB, PSPICE LAB, AWS Fundamentals.

 ACHIEVEMENTS : 

  • Awarded Ph.D. from NIT Silchar in 2025.
  • Qualified PGECET in 2011.
  • Qualified APRCET in 2019.
  • Selected in KL University as a Research Scholar and attended the course work in 2020.
  • Mentor for YOUNG SCIENTIST Research Excellence Awards 2021 for final year SMART BLIND STICK Project.
  • Attended as Judge for paper presentation and project expo – MEDHA, on apr 2020 at GIER(AUTONOMOUS), Rajahmundry.
  • Attended as Judge for paper presentation – VEDHA at ADITYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Surampalem in 2022 and 2023.
  • Ratified as Assistant professor by JNTUK in April 2022. 

  WORKSHOPS :

  • Attended a six-day workshop at JNTUK from 23-01-2012 to 28-01-2012 on DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING.
  • Participated in two-week workshop from 04-07-2013 to 14-07-2013 on ANALOG ELECTRONICS conducted by IIT-KARGPUR. 

  NPTEL :

  • Successfully completed NPTEL CERTIFICATION on ANALOG ELECTRONICS in march 2018.
  • Successfully completed NPTEL CERTIFICATION on MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING in march 2020.
  • Successfully completed NPTEL CERTIFICATION on MACHINE LEARNING in March 2022.(ELITE)
  • Successfully completed NPTEL CERTIFICATION on DEEP LEARNING in July 2023.(ELITE SILVER).

   COURSERA:

  • Successfully completed ‘Programming For Everybody’.
  • Successfully completed ‘Introduction to Architecting Smart IoT Devices’.
  • Successfully completed ‘AI For Everyone’.
  • Successfully completed ‘Grammar and Punctuation’.

  YOUTUBE CHANNEL:

          https://youtube.com/@savaraprasad6606

  OTHER CERTIFICATIONS:           

  • Successfully completed 21 Days master class on deep learning at Pantech e Learning Pvt Ltd. from 28/9/2023 to 18/10/2023.
  • Participated National level FDP on “CYBER SECURITY organized by CBIT in collaboration with EXCELR EDTECH Pvt Ltd. from 25th Sept to 14th Oct 2023.
  • Attended one week FDP on “Antenna for 5G Communication & Beyond” organized by ADITYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE in association with IETE in august 2023.
  • Attended one week FDP on “Amazon Web Services” organized by BVC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING in collaboration with BRAINO VISION SOLUTIONS INDIA PVTLTD in august 2022.
  • Attended 5 day FDP on “NBA Accreditaion and Teaching Learning Process in Engineering from Swami Keshvanand Institue of Technology,Jaipur.
  • Got certificate from management of Alison on completion of ‘ Fundamentals of Semiconductors’.
  • Got certificate from BIT DEGREE on completion of ‘Secure Coding on Frontend’ in april 2020.
  • Got certificate from BIT DEGREE on completion of ‘Introduction to Python’ in april 2020.
  • Participated in online FDP on ’Machine Learning ’ conducted by Spoorthy Engineering college,Hyderabad on 3rd may 2020.
  • Participated in one day online FDP on ’Cyber forensics’ conducted by Sridevi women’s Engineering,Hyderabad on may 2020 from 4th may 2020
  • Participated in Faculty Awareness Programme on Outcome Based Education (OBE) and NBA Accreditation“organised by Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science,Pune on 5-5-2020.
  • Participated in webinar on ’Artificial Intellegence’ conducted by Mahendra Institute of technology ,chennai on 6th may 2020.
  • Participated in webinar on ’Mobile App and Platform For Monitor Covid’ conducted by M.G.R Educational &Research Institute,chennai on 7th may 2020.
  • Participated in webinar on ’cutting edges in ece’ conducted by GPCET,Kurnool from 14th may-15th may 2020.

  PAPER PUBLICATIONS :

  • Varaprasad, S. A., & Goel, T. (2025). Exploring the significance of the frontal lobe for diagnosis of schizophrenia using explainable artificial intelligence and group level analysis. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 349, 111969.
  • Varaprasad, S.A., Goel, T., Tanveer, M. and Murugan, R., 2024. An effective diagnosis of schizophrenia using kernel ridge regression-based optimized RVFL classifier. Applied Soft Computing, p.111457.
  • Goel, T., Varaprasad, S.A., Tanveer, M. and Pilli, R., 2023. Investigating White Matter Abnormalities Associated with Schizophrenia Using a Deep Learning Model and Voxel-Based Morphometry. Brain Sciences, 13(2), p.267.
  • SupriyaPatro, P., Goel, T., VaraPrasad, S.A., Tanveer, M. and Murugan, R., 2022. Lightweight 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Schizophrenia Diagnosis Using MRI Images and Ensemble Bagging Classifier. Cognitive Computation, pp.1-17.
  • LSB Modification, Correlation, Transform based Digital Image Watermarking Techniques’ S.A.Varaprasad,Palli Srinivas,T. Vidya,Ch. Aruna kumara Vol. 3, Issue 12, December 2015.
  • ‘Improved Version of 128 Bit Binary Adder design using QCA with Area Efficiency and High Speed’ D Veer Raju & S.A.Varaprasad vol :4(2017), issue no:5 ijmetmr.com
  • ‘Design of Dual Redundancy Can-Bus Controller with Very Efficient Memory Controller’ Sravani & S.A.Vara Prasad Vol.04 Apr(2017),Issue 05, ijr.com
  • ‘Design and Implementation of Time and Frequency Synchronization’ K. J. V. Venkatesh , S.A.Vara Prasad vol:8(2018), issue no:3 ijesc.com
  • ‘Area Efficient NR4SD Encoding for Pre-Encoded Multipliers’ B. Gowtam Kumar & Mr.S.A.Vara Prasad vol :5(2018),issue no:6 ijmetmr.com
  • ‘Design of High Speed Fixed and Reconfigurable FIR Filter for Speech Signal Processing’N. Arjun Babu & Mr.S.A.Vara Prasad Vol. 5, Issue 6,June 2018,ijmetmr.com
  • Design and Implementation of Full Adder using Different Styles of XOR Gate Gjnana Pradeep Gudimella Mr. Vara Prasad Volume 11 Issue No.11,Nov 2021 ijesc.com
  • Sirigineedi, A.V., Yamana, S.V., Srinivas, P. And Sailaja, Y.N.V., A Novel Real Time Voice Based Approach For Multilingual Web Data Extraction With Raspberry Pi. Ijfans.Org Vol.9, Iss.2, Feb 2020 

  MEMBERSHIPS :

  • Member of CSTA
  • Member of IAENG
  • Member of ICSES

College Timings : 9.30 A.M to 4.30 P.M