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Dr. Prema Nedungadi

Associate Dean, School of Computing, Amritapuri | Professor, School of Computing, Amritapuri | Director, AmritaCREATE | National Coordinator, C20 India, Education & Digital Transformation Working Group

Qualification: Ph.D
prema@amrita.edu
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Research Interest: Digital Transformation for Education, Persons with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties, Preventive Healthcare
Date of Joining: 15/09/2008
Nature of Association: Regular

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Bio

Chancellor Amma’s vision to provide holistic Education in K12 and higher education that integrates both life and living skills along with managing health in rural India was the inspiration for AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Dr. Prema Nedungadi is the Associate Dean of the School of Computing, Amritapuri, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Dr. Prema Nedungadi is a founding Director at Amrita CREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education), the award-winning, educational technology for societal benefit initiative of Amrita. She is the Principal Investigator of the Tribal Ministry’s Center of Excellence at Amrita with a focus on integrative preventive healthcare with Ayurveda, Substance Abuse Awareness, and Nutrition from local resources. She is the India Coordinator of the C20 Working Group on Education and Digital Transformation during the G20 India Presidency.

Dr. Nedungadi has coordinated over 20 research and field projects with over USD 9 million in funding by numerous international and national institutions, such as MeitY, UNICEF, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, DST, India, NCERT, and the AYUSH ministry.

Her research interests include personalized learning environments, emerging technologies, AI for disability studies, Indic languages, and education. She is also interested in the linguistics of Indic languages and the implications it has for language learners and individuals with specific learning difficulties. With over 20 funded projects and USD 9 million in funding, Dr. Nedungadi has contributed significantly to the field of educational technology and has published over 100 research papers.

Dr. Nedungadi has received several prestigious awards and recognitions for her contributions to digital empowerment and education, including the Digital India Award from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the IT Excellence Award for eLearning and Education from the Computer Society of India.

Publications

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Year : 2011

Learning effects of desktop virtual reality (VR) environments in college and career technical training

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Publisher : IAJC-ASEE

Work and Research Experience

YEAR AFFILIATION
2005 – Present Director, Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
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1998 – 2004 Founder, Successful Bay Area Consulting with focus on ERP and Internet Technologies
Clarion Technologies, California, USA
1995 – 1998 Project Manager, Red Brick Data Warehouse for Massively Parallel Systems
Redbrick Data Warehouse (acquired by IBM), California, USA
1991 – 1995 Architect, Parallel Data Server Group
Sybase Inc, USA
Research Projects
  • Principal Investigator: Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education)
    Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    Under Chancellor Amma’s guidance, a unique patent pending tablet technology has been developed in multiple Indian languages with the goal of providing life-changing sustainable development solutions to the disadvantaged. We work with low achieving or out of school students directly in their village settings by using after school tutoring, alternative schools and pre-schools in formal and informal settings.
    In 40 villages, Education Centers have been established, offering holistic education, blending innovative tablet technology with time tested traditional methods including academics, health awareness, social awareness, value education while taking care of their nutrition and health. Selected student Ambassadors help raise health and social awareness in the entire village.
    Impact: 22 states, 140 villages
  • Principal Investigator: eGovernance big data Analytics Platform for CBSE Schools (eGAP)
    Funding: World Bank
    Impact: Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), India with 15000+ schools in India
    World Bank Funding for Amrita CREATE and School of Business for their eGovernance BigData Analytics Platform
  • Principal Investigator: Online Labs for School Practical Science (OLabs)
    Funding: eLearning Division, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India
    The Online Labs (OLabs) for Science Practical Skills (Grades 9-12), offered free to schools, was developed to overcome the limitations faced by schools in India, especially rural schools, due to either insufficient time or instruments in laboratories. The OLabs projects reached a significant milestone in 2012, when it was officially endorsed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for its 15,000 schools.
    Impact: Over 60,000 secondary school students and 4,300 teachers trained.
  • Principal Investigator: Measuring Learning
    Funding: HP Foundation, USA
    Develop methods to assess STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills including innovation, creative and higher-order thinking, global collaboration and the ability to tackle big, open-ended challenges; these are often not evaluated in schools.
    Collaboration: Carnegie Mellon University
    Impact: 28 schools with over50,000 students
    Awarded at HP-Catalyst Summit in Beijing
  • Principal Investigator: AmritaJeevanam – Health Awareness & Monitoring Platform for Rural India
    Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    ChancellorAmma’s vision to provide low cost medical devices to villagers, train them in using it and provide health awareness, monitoring and preventive education,has resulted in AmritaJeevanam, a patent pendinglow cost solution.
    Impact: Health Monitoring & Awareness in Rural India, Health Worker Training in140 villages
  • Principal Investigator: Medical Simulation (MedSim)
    Funding: eLearning Division, DeiTY, Government of India
    MedSim is an innovative Medical Simulation Serious Game Platformthat allows medical students to visualize, learn, practise and experience a variety of medical skills and procedures. We are collaborating with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, CDAC and Trivandrum Medical College
    Impact: 200 Medical and Nursing Colleges in India
  • Principal Investigator: Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation for Schools (CCE)
    Funding: eLearning Division, DeitY, Government of India
    Impact: Teachers and Administrators of Secondary Schools, India.
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Virtual Labs Simulation Labs for Higher Education (Physical and Chemical Sciences)
    Funding: MHRD, Government of India
    Developed over 200 virtual simulations, animations and videos in Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Biotechnology. Our videos selected by prestigious youtube edu channel
    Impact: Higher Education Engineering and Science students in India.
  • Principal Investigator: Career, Soft skills & Language Labs
    Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    Caree, SoftSkill & Language Labs for job readiness for university students.
    Impact: 2000 students in India.
  • Principal Investigator: Amrita Learning Systems for Schools
    Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    Amrita Learning, our flagship product, is an Intelligent Tutoring System with Science, Language Arts and Mathematics
    Impact: 35 schools with over 36,000 students in India
  • Principal Investigator: eLiteracy & Health Awareness using tablets for Tribals in Kerala
    Funding: IT For Masses, DeitY, Government of India
    Computer and Health Awareness using Tablets
    Impact: 1000 Scheduled Tribes in Tribal areas including abused girls.
  • Principal Investigator: Scaling of OLabs
    Funding: eLearning Division, DeitY, Government of India
    Impact: 15000 schools, training of 30,000 teachers and cloud technology for 3.6 million students
Academics
TEACHING STUDENT MENTORING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MENTORING
M. Tech. Computer Science
M. Tech. E- learning Technology		 Rural Internship
Amrita Rural Internships across India		 Live-in-Labs
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Awards & Achivements

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Winner, Computer Society of India, IT Excellence Award for eLearning and Education 2013.
  • Computer Society of India’s Awards for Excellence
  • OECD cited our work multiple times as an innovation that scaled in OECD Education Working Paper Series 
  • New Media Consortium showcases Amrita’s tablet Education in their Annual Horizon report
  • USAID invites Amrita CREATE Labs to Showcase their Rural India Tablet Education (RITE) Program
  • Awarded at HP-Catalyst Summit in Beijing
  • Distinguished Speaker, National Conference on ICT for School Education
  • Amrita CREATE Wins First Prize at the 26th Kerala Science Congress

Conference Organised

  • IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education 2012
  • International Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning For Schools
  • Training Workshops for Village Teachers
  • DST INSPIRE-Science Camp 2012

 

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