Jisna V. A.

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Professional Experience: 

1. Dec 2024- Till date: Assistant Professor, NITK Surathkal
2. Feb 2023- Dec 2024: Assistant Professor, IIITDM Kurnool

Contact Details

E-mail: 

jisna[at]nitk.edu.in
jisnava[at]gmail.com

Mobile: 

+91 9744832370

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hGnYgbgAAAAJ
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-9583
Academic Background

Ph. D. (Computer Science), National Institute of Technology Calicut, 2022
M. Tech (Computer Science). Calicut University, 2012
B. Tech (Computer Science) Calicut University, 2009

Areas of Interest
  • Bioinformatics
  • Deep Learning
  • Medical Imaging Informatics
Significant Projects

1) Project Title: “To develop and deploy a machine learning–based condition
monitoring system for lifts that analyses electrical and mechanical parameters to enable predictive diagnostics and early fault detection”, Funding Agency: Vation Digital Private Ltd. on behalf of Schindler Management AG, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Funding Amount: 25.7 Lakhs, Duration: 22 weeks (from 2026 Jan).
2) Project Title: “Deep Learning-Based Structural Damage Segmentation and Severity Assessment for Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring”, Funding Agency: Faculty Seed Grant, NITK, Role: Principal Investigator, Funding Amount: 9.4 Lakhs, Duration: (2025-2027)

Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing: 1
Supervision of MTech (Research): Ongoing: 02

Achievements

Qualified NET Computer Science and Applications (December 2018 and July 2018, AP) and GATE 2010 (Computer Science)

Significant Publications
1) V. A. Jisna, P. B. Jayaraj, Protein Structure Prediction: Conventional and Deep Learning Perspectives, The Protein Journal (SCIE), Volume=40, Number=4,  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10930-021-10003-y, May 2021.
2) V. A. Jisna, P. B. Jayaraj, An End-to-End Deep Learning Pipeline for Assigning Secondary Structure in Proteins, Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry (SCIE), Volume=21, Number=03, https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2737416522500120, January 2022.
3) Jisna Vellara Antony, Prayagh Madhu, Jayaraj Pottekkattuvalappil Balakrishnan, Hemant Yadav, Assigning secondary structure in proteins using AI, Journal of Molecular Modeling (SCIE), Volume=27, Number=9, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00894-021-04825-x, August 2021.
4) Jisna V. A., Roosafeed Koya, Pournami P. N., Gopakumar G, Jayaraj P. B., Protein Secondary Structure Assignment using Residual Networks, Journal of Molecular Modeling (SCIE), vol. 28, no. 09, pp. 1-10, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-022-05271-z, August 2022.
5) V. A. Jisna, Abhaysing Pawar Ajay, and P. B. Jayaraj, Using Attention-UNet Models to Predict Protein Contact Maps, Journal of Computational Biology 31 (7), 691-702, July 2024.
 
International Conferences:
 
1) Sumathi, P. S. S., & Jisna, V. A. (2025, June). A Study of ResNet-Enhanced CNN Versus State-of-the-Art Models for Fake News Detection. In 2025 5th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT) (pp. 1–8). IEEE.
2) Jisna V. A., B. Krishna Sri, Echuri Pragna, and Aarushi Sahasra Reddy. Advancing Protein–Protein Interaction Analysis with Graph Convolutional Networks. In the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (AIHC 2025), December 10–12, 2025, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India.
3) Jisna Antony, Akhil Penikalapati, J. Vinod Kumar Reddy, P. N. Pournami, P. B. Jayaraj, Towards Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction Using LSTM/BLSTM, CoCoNet 2020-ACN 2020, The Fourth International Conference on Computing and Network Communications, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6987-0_6, October 2020.
4) Jisna Antony, Vishnu Sreenivas, Jayaraj P B, Towards Building a Coordinate Clustered Library for Template-Based Modeling of Protein Structures, 2018 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), KTDC Mascot Hotel, Cantonment House Road, PMG, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/RAICS.2018.8635068, December 2018.
 

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Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences,
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