Faculty

Dr. J. Felicia Lilian

 jflcse@tce.edu

33

PUBLICATIONS       

1

SPONSORED PROJECTS

2

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

2

M.E./Ph.D. SCHOLARS

25

SEMINAR, CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP ATTENDED

 Educational Qualification

DEGREE BRANCH INSTITUTE YEAR
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering Infant Jesus College of Engineering 2009
M.E. Computer Science and Engineering Sethu Institute of Technology 2011
PhD Information and Communication Anna University, Chennai 2023

 Experience

PERIOD NO OF YEARS DESIGNATION INSTITUTION
02-06-2011 to 31-12-2011 7months Assistant Professor K.L.N.College of Information Technology
23-07-2012 to 16-02-2018 5 years 8 months Assistant Professor Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology
31-12-2020 to Till date - Assistant Professor Thiagarajar College of Engineering

 Publications

 Journals
  1. Felicia Lilian J, Vetriveeran D, Malini A, Kayalvizhi S. HQA Bot: Hybrid AI Recommender Based Question Answering Chatbot. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering. 2023 Sep 21;11(4):227-33.
  2. Lilian, J.F., Sundarakantham, K. & Shalinie, S.M. QeCSO: Design of hybrid Cuckoo Search based Query expansion model for efficient information retrieval. Sādhanā 46, 181 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-021-01706-0
  3. Felicia Lilian J, Sundarakantham K, Mercy Shalinie S. (2020) Anti-negation method for handling negation words in question answering system. The Journal of Supercomputing, 1-23. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-020-03437-1. ISSN: 0920-8542, 77(6)
  4. Ms. Felicia Lilian .J Roselin Sagaya Mary.V, Annie Majellaa.M, Cloud-Based Encrypted Health Record, GRD Journal for Engineering (Vol.2, No. 03),GRD Journals, 2017
  5. Joseph.C Felicia Lilian .J, Ananthakrishnan.K, AC Care Mobile Application, GRD Journal for Engineering (Vol.2, No. 03), GRD Journals, 2017
  6. Suganthi P, Malini A, Felicia Lilian J, Vetriveeran D. Blockchain-Based Service Oriented Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing over Distributed Data Streams in Asynchronous Environment. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering. 2023 Sep 21
 Conferences
  1. Viswadarshan, R.R., Viswaa Selvam, S., Felicia Lilian, J., Mahalakshmi, S. (2026). Comparative Insights into Modern Architectures for Paraphrase Detection. In: Mercier-Laurent, E., Jayaraman, B., Ravisankar, P., S., A.D., Jayasimhan, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Science. ICCIDS 2025. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/
  2. Mahalakshmi, S., Lilian, J.F. (2026). Domain-Specific Paraphrase Identification for Tamil Using SBert Models. In: Mercier-Laurent, E., Jayaraman, B., Ravisankar, P., S., A.D., Jayasimhan, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Science. ICCIDS 2025. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 750. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98364-1_2
  3. Tamilnilavan, K., Vaishnavi Eswar, J Felicia Lilian and M. Venkatesh. "AI/DL Map-Matching for Highway and Service Road Distinction." In 2025 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), pp. 1729-1734. IEEE, 2025.
  4. Akash, K., J. Joseph Jilvis, J. Felicia Lilian, and R. Subhashni. "Blockchain Technology for Strengthening Content Protection in E-Voting." In International Conference on Smart Trends for Information Technology and Computer Communications, pp. 437-447. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
  5. MSS, Manish Raj, N. Harshini, J. Felicia Lilian, and A. Malini. "Heart disease detection using novel ensemble approach: RF-GB-SVM stacking classifier." Procedia Computer Science 258 (2025): 2647-2658.
  6. Pandiyammal, A., Felicia Lilian J, Viswadarshan, R.R. and Mahalakshmi, S., 2025, December. Domain-Specific Semantic Similarity Evaluation for Tamil and English Word Pairs. In 2025 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN) (pp. 1365-1370). IEEE.
  7. TK, Jothir Adithya, Nithish Kumar, Felicia Lilian J, "Monolingual text summarization for Indic Languages using LLMs." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pp. 94-101. 2024.
  8. K. S. Kumar, S. D. Rathinavel, M. Raghavendharan and F. Lilian, "Enforcing Image Encryption using Cryptographic Algorithms," 2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kamand, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCCNT61001.2024.10724555.
  9. Viswadarshan, R. R., Viswaa Selvam S, J. Felicia Lilian and S. Mahalakshmi. "Enhancing Masked Word Prediction in Tamil Language Models: A Synergistic Approach Using BERT and SBERT." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pp. 472-480. 2024.
  10. Nandhini, S., Vaishnavi, M.S., Meenaragavi, P., Felicia Lilian, J., Malini, A., "Detecting of Road Signs with Neural Networks”, in the 10th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, UPCON 2023, pp. 642–646, 01-03 December 2023, Amity University, Greater Noida, UP
  11. Arunkumar, S., Thirisha, R., Subarna Kiruthiga, A., Lilian, J.F., Malini, A., "Gender and Age Classification Using Caffe Network", Proceedings of International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics, IC3I 2023, 2023, pp. 950–954,14th – 16th Sep 2023, Amity University, Greater Noida, UP
  12. Devi Padma K, Harshitha P, Nafiza R, J. Felicia Lilian, & A. Malini (2023, May). Exploring The Potential of Machine Learning for Early Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease: A Comparative Study. In 2023 4th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  13. Thirisha R, Kiruthiga AS, Arunkumar S, Felicia Lilian J, SSATS—Enhancement of Semantic Similarity of Abstractive Text Summarization Using Transformer, InInternational Conference on Information Technology 2023 Mar 2 (pp. 87-97). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
  14. Bhagampriyal, M., Gowtham, R., Johnson, J., Felicia Lilian J, & Suganthi, P. (2023, February). Recommendation Systems for Supermarket. In 2023 3rd International Conference on Innovative Practices in Technology and Management (ICIPTM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  15. Sachin, K., Santhosh, K. M. R., Srinivas Karthik D., Vaseekaran, M., Felicia Lilian J, & Suganthi, P. (2023, February). I-PWA: IoT based Progressive Web Application for Visually Impaired People. In 2023 3rd International Conference on Innovative Practices in Technology and Management (ICIPTM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  16. S. R. Leena, V. Divya and J. F. Lilian, "Intelligent Scheduling in Fog Environment based on Improved Hybrid Heuristics," 2020 IEEE/ACS 17th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2020, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/AICCSA50499.2020.9316493.
  17. J. Felicia Lilian, K. Sundarakantham, S. Mercy Shalinie, “SSE: Semantic Sentence Embedding for learning user interactions” in the International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT’19) at IIT Kanpur
  18. J. Felicia Lilian, K. Sundarakantham and S. Mercy Shalinie “DLRCNeg: Deep Learning based Reading Comprehension by handling Negation” at the PhD Forum at Advanced Computing and Communication Conference (ADCOM/ACCS) at IIIT Bangalore on 6th September 2019.
  19. J. Felicia Lilian, K. Sundarakantham, S.Mercy Shalinie, “An Efficient information retrieval mechanism from relevant document”, in International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision by the DCSE, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai
  20. J. Felicia Lilian, S Appavu alias Balamurugan, Sasikala, “The Future of India Creeping up in Building a Smart City: Intelligent Traffic Analysis Platform”, in International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies by Ranganathan College of Engineering, Coimbatore
  21. D.Doreen Hephzibah Miriam, B Prabha, J. Felicia Lilian, “An Efficient Job Scheduling in Isometric HPCloud using ZBLA Optimization”, and was published in Elsevier B.V. Procedia Computer Science 50 (2015) 307 – 315
  22. J. Felicia Lilian, K.Sudarakantham, S Mercy shalinie, “ACA: Attention based Context aware Answer selection system”, in the International Conference on Machine Intelligence And Signal Processing (MISP’19) at IIIT Allahabad
 Books
  1. Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision (Editor), John Wiley, 2026
  2. Sachin, K., Santhosh, K.M.R., Sugindar, A.D. and Lilian, J.Felicia (2025). Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using GCN. In Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision (eds M. Alagarsamy, R.K. Dhanaraj, J.F. Lilian, V. Sharma and G. Ghinea). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394356362.ch9
  3. Thilagavathy, J. J. P., Lilian, J. Felicia, & Malini, A. (2025). Polarizing Sentiments: A Comprehensive Analysis of Social Media Content Using Text Extraction and Sentiment Polarization. In Advanced AI and Data Science Applications (pp. 105-118). Auerbach Publications.
  4. Malini, A., Sharma, V., Lilian, J.F., Dhanaraj, R.K., Sharangapriyan, S. and Shrinivas, S. (2025). Role of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN) in Computer Vision Applications. In Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision (eds M. Alagarsamy, R.K. Dhanaraj, J.F. Lilian, V. Sharma and G. Ghinea). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394356362.ch1
  5. Arun Kumar, Subarna, Thrisha, Felicia Lilian J, chapter "Role of Machine Learning in Renewable Energy", Book "Sustainable Energy Solutions with Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, and Internet of Things", pages: 47-65, CRC Press, 2023, e-ISSN: 9781003356639

 Projects

TITLE SPONSORING AGENCY AMOUNT RESPONSIBILITY
Generative AI Based Paraphrase Detection for Tamil Language using LLMs TCE – Seed Money Scheme Rs. 16,500 Principal Investigator

 Consultancy

NAME OF INDUSTRY DETAILS PERIOD
Kaiser-Genkare Pharmaceuticals Web development (http:/kaisergenkarepharmaceuticals.com) 01-09-2025 to 28-11-2025
Adithi Neuro Clinic Web development (www.athithineuro.com) 04-03-2024 to 30-05-2024

 Seminar, Conference, Workshop Attended

  1. International Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Text Analytics and Language Modeling Using NLP", Reccsar Pvt. Ltd, 02-02-2026 to 06-02-2026
  2. FDP on Exploring Computational Intelligence,Scope, VIT-AP, Amaravati, 16-07-2024 to 20-07-2024
  3. FDP on "Generative AI Models for Engg Application", DCSE, TCE, 01-07-2024 to 06-07-2024
  4. 5 days Workshop & FDP on N-Hans : from Transformers to LLM, by DCSE, IIIT, Kottayam, 12-12-2023 to 16-12-2023
  5. AICTE, ATAL, Edunet Foundation & Skill India Building Advanced Data Analytics Application with Cloud , by NextGen Employability Program, 11-09-2023 to 15-09-2023
  6. Attended DRDO Sponsored 2 days workshop on Big Data Analytics and Cyber Security Solution by Department of AMCE, TCE , 27-03-2023 to 28-03-2023
  7. Attended 5 days FDP on Integrated AI in Data Science and its Applications in cloud by Govt. College of Technology, Coimbatore with TCE, 06-03-2023 to 10-03-2023
  8. Participated in One Day "Faculty Conclave 2022 - Sharing of Best Practices in Teaching Learning" organized by Academic Process Team, TCE, 19-03-2022 to 19-03-2022
  9. Participated in Ideation and Proposal Writing Workshop, organized by PALS & RuralTechnology Action Group, IIT Madras on 2nd and 3rd March 2022, 02-03-2022 to 03-03-2022
  10. AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on "Internet of Things and Human-Computer Interaction", NIT, Goa, 25-10-2021 to 29-10-2021
  11. Attended "FDP on Mathematical and Statistical Foundation for Business Analytics", by AICTE Teaching and Learning (ATAL) Academy, NIIE, Mumbai, 18-10-2021 to 22-10-2021
  12. AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on "Internet of Things for precision systems" from 13/09/2021 to 17/09/2021 at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing., 13-09-2021 to 17-09-2021
  13. 3 days FDP on Foundations of Deep Learning using Python, DCSE, TCE, 05-08-2021 to 07-08-2021
  14. Attended "5 days FDP on Fundamentals of Machine Learning", by ICT Academy, 16-02-2021 to 20-02-2021
  15. Successful Research Papers: Concept to Submission, Live Webinar, TCE, 05-09-2020 to 05-09-2020
  16. Online FDP on COVID-19 Dataset Analysis Using Pandas in Python, Live Webinar, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, 05-06-2020 to 06-06-2020
  17. Machine Learning, Live Webinar, Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, 27-05-2020 to 27-05-2020
  18. Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Live Webinar, Kasturba Gandhi Degree and PG College for Women, 20-05-2020 to 20-05-2020
  19. Web Science Symposium series by Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, Symposium 1st Series, IIT Bombay, 25-02-2019 to 26-02-2019
  20. Workshop on"Image and Language Processing using Pytorch", DCSE , SSN College of Engineering, 26-09-2018 to 28-09-2018
  21. FDP202x – Two week AICTE FDP on Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching – Learning Process, IIT Bombay, 14-09-2017 to 12-10-2017
  22. FDP101x – Two week AICTE FDP on Foundation Program in ICT for Education, IIT Bombay, 03-08-2017 to 07-09-2017
  23. AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on "Mathematical and Statistical Foundation for Business Analytics" atNational Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai from 18-10-2021 to 22-10-2021, 18-10-0001 to 22-10-0001
  24. FDP on Industry-Assisted Online Lecture Series on Mastering LLMs: Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, And RAG, Pals IBM, India Research Lab Scientists, 4, 7, 11 & 13 Feb 2025, 01-01-0001 to 01-01-0001
  25. FDP On Generative AI, E & ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur, 05 – 16 Aug 2025 (2 weeks), 01-01-0001 to 01-01-0001

 Seminar, Conference, Workshop Organised

  1. 1 day Workshop on “Exploring Challenges & Solutions for தமிழ் as a Low-Resource Language”, 21-01-2026 to 21-01-2026
  2. 5 days online STTP on “Next generation tools and techniques”, 24-11-2025 to 28-11-2025
  3. Organized a guest lecture on "Cyber Crime Security and Fundamental Rights to Equality" with Women Development Cell & Career Guidance Cell(CSBS), 12-07-2023 to 01-01-0001
  4. Co-Chair for National Conference on Computational Intelligence Systems (NCCIS’17) organized by DIT at LICET, 10-03-2017 to 10-03-2017
  5. Coordinator for Hands on Workshop in "Mobile Application development using Android with an Introduction to Cloud Computing" at LICET, 28-07-2014 to 29-07-2014
  6. Coordinator for One week FDP on Service Oriented Architecture at LICET, 03-06-2013 to 10-06-2013

 M.E./Ph.D. Scholars

NAME OF SCHOLAR COURSE AREA OF RESEARCH STATUS
S. Mahalakshmi Ph.D Tamil Paraphrasing – Natural Language Processing Ongoing
Justina Princy Thilagavathy J Ph.D Sentiment Analysis Ongoing

 Lectures Delivered

TOPIC DELIVERED AT PERIOD
Business Analytics using MS Excel” Topic: Basics of MS Excel for data analytics DCSBS & AMCS, TCE 05-07-2025 to 02-08-2025
Revolutionary Impact of NLP in Data Analytics DCSBS, TCE 06-01-2025 to 10-01-2025
Artificial Intelligence Online, TCS 31-01-2024 to 31-01-2024
Hands on for CNN and RNN Online, DCSE, TCE 05-08-2021 to 07-09-2021

  Awards and Honours

  1. 6th Rank , Anna University Rank holder

 Visits Abroad

PLACE PURPOSE DURATION
ICAM, Lille, France Guided for Summer Programme, Students Internship May 2015

 Membership

NAME OF SOCIETY DETAILS PERIOD
CSI 7021240074
IAENG 521373

  Other Achievements

  1. Reviewer in IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES-2024), June 21-23, 2024
  2. Reviewer in 5th International Conference on Innovative trends in Information Technology , ICITIIT’24), Department of CSE, IIIT, Kottayam, Kerala, March 15 – 16, 2024
  3. Reviewer in 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (ICICSA 2023), Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam,September 22-23, 2023.