Dr. Sabitha S

Professor

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

College of Engineering, Trivandrum

Mobile: (91) 9497686588

Email: sabitha@cet.ac.in

Date of Joining: 27 Aug 2025

Education:

• PhD, Computer Science & Engineering, 2019, University of Kerala.
• M.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, 2007, NIT Calicut.
• B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, 1996, Mahatma Gandhi University

Professional Experience

• Professor, Dept. of CSE, College of Engineering Trivandrum (August 2025 to till date)

• Professor and Head of the Department, Dept. of CSE, GEC Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad (July 2022 to August 2025, 3 years and 1 month)

• Professor and Head of the Department, Dept. of Computer Applications, College of Engineering Trivandrum (October 2019 to July 2022, 2 yrs and 8 months)

• Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Dept. of Computer Applications, College of Engineering Trivandrum (August 2019 to October 2019, 3 months)

• Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, GEC Sreekrishnapuramm, Palakkad (March 2019 to July 2019, 5 months)

• Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, College of Engineering Trivandrum (July 2011 to March 2019, 7 yrs and 9 months)

• Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, GEC Idukki (June 2009 to June 2011, 2 yrs)

• Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, College of Engineering Trivandrum (June 2008 to June 2009, 1 yr)

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, College of Engineering Trivandrum (June 2003 to June 2008, 5 yrs)

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, GEC Thrissur (November 2000 to June 2003, 2 yrs and 9 months)

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, Model Engineering College (June 1999 to November 2000, 1 yr and 6 months)

 

Research Publications

• Journal Articles

 

1. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Multi-level on-demand access control for flexible data sharing in cloud. Cluster Computing, volume 24, pages 1455–1478. Springer, 2021

2. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Access control schemes in cloud: Taxonomy and performance. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, volume 14, pages 4209 –4220, 2019.

3. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Access control based privacy preserving secure data sharing with hidden access policies in cloud. Journal of Systems Architecture, volume 75, pages 50–58. Elsevier, 2017

4. PS Sreelakshmi and S Sabitha. A review on cloud computing architectures. International Journal of Computer Applications, volume 152. Foundation of Computer Science, 2016.

5. Deepa Maria Polson, S Sabitha, and MS Rajasree. A framework for secure sharing of hierarchical data in cloud. International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, volume 7, 2016.

6. C Keerthy and S Sabitha. Privacy preserved data publishing techniques for tabular data.
   International Journal of Computer Applications, volume 151. Foundation of Computer Science, 2016.

7. P Renjith and S Sabitha. Survey on data sharing and re-encryption in cloud. International
   Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET), volume 2,
   pages 477–480. Citeseer, 2013

8. 2013 Reenu Sara George and S Sabitha. Survey on data integrity in cloud computing. Int. J. Adv. Res. Comput. Eng. Technol.(IJARCET), volume 2, pages 123–125, 2013.

• Conference Proceedings

 

9. M. Mohan and S. S, “Stegomalware: A Comprehensive Survey on Creation and Detection of Malware in Images,” 2024 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Trends and Pattern Recognition (ICAITPR), Hyderabad, India, 2024, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICAITPR63242.2024.10960081.

10. S. T and S. S, “Survey On Next Word Prediction Techniques In Natural Languages,” 2023 International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Muvattupuzha, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICIET57285.2023.10220846.

11. A Thahira and S Sabitha. A survey on online review spammer group detection. In Second
    International Conference on Networks and Advances in Computational Technologies, pages 13–23. Springer, 2021.

12. A Thahira and S Sabitha. Graphical framework for review spammer group detection using
    metadata. In 2021 2nd International Conference on Computation, Automation and Knowledge
    Management (ICCAKM), pages 145–150. IEEE, 2021.

13. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Tunable access control for data sharing in cloud. In Evolutionary
    Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks, pages 927–937. Springer, 2021.

14. Anna V James and S Sabitha. Malware attacks: A survey on mitigation measures. In Second
    International Conference on Networks and Advances in Computational Technologies, pages 1–11. Springer, 2021.

15. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Attribute-based access control schemes in cloud: Performance
    and research directions. Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, pages 235–243. Springer, 2020.

16. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. An efficient framework for verifiable access control based dynamic data updates in public cloud. In International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, pages 147–158. Springer, 2017.

17. Shiji Mariam Mathew and S Sabitha. Arithmetic operations on encrypted data using fully
    homomorphic encryption. In 2017 14th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2017.

18. S Sabitha, MS Rajasree, and Deepa Maria Polson. Fine grained key computation scheme for
    secure data sharing in cloud. In 2016 International Conference on Advances in Computing,
    Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pages 1110–1116. IEEE, 2016.

19. S Sabitha and MS Rajasree. Anonymous-cpabe: privacy preserved content disclosure for data
    sharing in cloud. In International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, pages
    146–157. Springer, 2015.

20. P Praveen Kumar and S Sabitha. User authentication using visual cryptography. In 2015
    International Conference on Control Communication & Computing India (ICCC), pages 647–652. IEEE, 2015.

21. Anju Mohandas and Sabitha S. Privacy preserving content disclosure for enabling sharing of
    electronic health records in cloud computing. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM India Computing
    Conference, COMPUTE 2014, Nagpur, India, October 9-11, 2014, pages 7:1–7:7. ACM, 2014.

22. P Renjith and S Sabitha. Verifiable el-gamal re-encryption with authenticity in cloud. In 2013
    Fourth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies
    (ICCCNT), pages 1–5. IEEE, 2013.

23. Reenu Sara George and S Sabitha. Data anonymization and integrity checking in cloud
    computing. In 2013 Fourth International Conference on Computing, Communications and
    Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), pages 1–5. IEEE, 2013.

 

 

PhD Guidance

1. Mili Mohan, Full Time Research Scholar since March 2022, Cyber Security, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU), College of Engineering – Supervisor

2. Rajitha P R, Part Time Research Scholar since March 2022, Network Security, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, College of Engineering – Supervisor

Professional Activities

1. Reviewer at the International Conference on Advancements in Power Communication and Intelligent Systems (APCI 2024) organized by Government College of Engineering, Kannur, June 21-22, 2024

2. Session Chair for the International Conference on E-Mobility, Power Control and Smart Systems (ICEMPS 2024) organized by Mar Beselios College of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), April 18-20, 2024

3. Technical Session Chair, 5^th International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing (IEEE ICCC 2023) organized by College of Engineering Trivandrum, May 19-21, 2023

4. Reviewer of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (IEEE ICETEST 2023), GEC Thrissur.

5. Reviewer of Second International Conference on Next Generation Intelligent Systems (IEEE ICNGIS 2022), RIT Kottayam

6. Reviewer of International Journal IEEE Access

7. Reviewer of International Conference on Control Communication & Computing India (IEEE ICCC 2018), College of Engineering Trivandrum

8. External DC member of 4 Research Scholars (under KTU)

9. Internal DC member of 2 Research Scholars (under KTU)

10. Guided more than 30 M.Tech, B.Tech and MCA projects

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Head of the department-CSE dept., GEC,Palakkad

2. Board of Studies member, KTU-Nominee, Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Pattoor, Alappuzha

3. Board of Studies member, KTU-Nominee, Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Kodakara, Thrissur

4. Chairman, Board of Examiners of S7 B.Tech Computer Science, KTU

5. Head of the department-Computer Applications dept., College of Engineering Trivandrum

6. M.Tech Syllabus Revision Committee member (2022 Scheme)

7. Warden, Ladies Hostel, Government Engineering College College, Palakkad

8. Chairman, Board of Examiners of MCA, Kerala University

9. Chairman, Board of Examiners of Computer Science, KTU

10. Chairman, Board of Examiners of MCA, KTU

11. Question Paper Setter, Kerala University

12. Question paper scrutiny member, Kerala University

13. Coordinated the Signing of MoU between GEC Palakkad and C-DAC TVM

14. Purchase committee member, TEQIP-II, GEC Palakkad

15. Question Paper Setter and Scrutiny member, KTU (B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA)

16. Research Coordinator of the Computer Applications Department, College of Engineering Trivandrum

17. Staff Advisor of 2019-2022 MCA batch, Dept. of Computer Applications, College of Engineering Trivandrum

18. Camp officer for MCA for paper valuation at CET valuation camp

19. Lab in Charge, Project lab, Computer Applications Dept., College of Engineering Trivandrum

20. Lab in Charge, Programming lab, Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., College of Engineering Trivandrum

21. Covid war room committee member, College of Engineering Trivandrum

22. Anti-ragging committee member, College of Engineering Trivandrum

Professional Membership:

ISTE life member

IEEE member

ACM member