Rate My Professor Victer Paul

Dr. P. Victer Paul serves as an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, a position he has held since 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pondicherry University in 2015, his M.Tech. from the same institution in 2011, where he received the Gold Medal, and his B.Tech. from Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College in 2007. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Paul was an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research from 2017 to 2019 and an Associate Professor in Information Technology at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College from 2014 to 2017.

Dr. P. Victer Paul's research focuses on Ad Hoc Networks, Soft Computing, Routing, Quality of Service, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Theory of Computation, Distributed Systems, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Distributed Computing. His academic output includes over 70 publications, with more than 1,466 citations on Google Scholar (h-index 19) and 708 citations on Scopus. Key publications feature "A novel ODV crossover operator-based genetic algorithms for traveling salesman problem" (Soft Computing, 2020), "Efficient service cache management in mobile P2P networks" (Future Generation Computer Systems, 2013), "Blockchain Technology in the Food Supply Chain: Empirical Analysis" (2022), and contributions to big data security models in Hadoop and data caching techniques in MANETs. He has earned recognition including Winner of the MSME Idea Hackathon 2022 (Government of India), Evaluator for Toycathon-2021 (Government of India), INSPIRE Fellowship (Department of Science and Technology, 2011), Gold Medal in M.Tech. (Pondicherry University, 2011), and TCS Best Student Award (2010). Dr. Paul is a Lifetime Member of ISTE since 2015 and has served on the Board of Studies for Computer Science at IIIT Kottayam since 2019 and other institutions.