M. P. Sebastian

Education

• Ph.D (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
• M.E (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
• B.Tech (Kerala University, Trivandrum)

Research Areas

• Artificial Intelligence, Text Analytics, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Healthcare.
• Guest Editor: Information Technology and Management (Springer).
• PhD Guidance: 10 (completed), Current Students: 4
• Reviewer: Nature Communications, International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier), Government Information Quarterly (Elsevier), IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), IIMB Management Review (Elsevier), IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review (Sage)
• PhD Examinership: NTU Singapore, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur
• H-index/ Research citations: 11/845

Teaching

• Artificial Intelligence for Business (PGP)
• Enterprise Cloud Computing (EPGP)
• Enterprise Resource Computing (PGP)
• Natural Language Processing(PGP)
• Information Security Management (FPM)
• Mathematics for Information Systems Research (FPM)
• Cyber Security & Privacy (EPGP)
• Information Systems (PGP)
• Machine Learning (FPM)
• Business Computing (PGP)

Other Professional Appointments

• Chairperson, Admissions, IIM Kozhikode (2014-16)
• Mentoring Chairperson, Admissions, IIM Amritsar (2014-16)
• Chairperson, Information Systems Area, IIM Kozhikode (2011-13, 2020-22)
• Chairman, Event Management Committee of IIMK (2013 -15)
• Chairperson, IT Committee, IIMK (2012-14)
• Member, PGP Admission Executive Committee, IIMK (2012-14)
• Member, PGP Executive Committee, IIMK (2014-15)
• Member EPGP Executive Committee, IIMK (2011-13)
• Member, EPGP Kochi Executive Committee, IIMK (2012-13)
• Professor & Head, CSE Dept, NIT Calicut
• Engineer, BEL, Bangalore
• Scientist, SAC (ISRO), Ahmedabad

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership

• Session Chair, International Academic Conference on Management, Economics and Marketing, July 6-7, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
• Session Chair, 19th International Conference on Information Technology in Education, 07 August 2017, Vancouver.
• Session Chair, Symposium on Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks & Security, Dec 15 2016, CSCI, Las Vegas
• Session Chair (Cloud Computing and Multimedia), INTECH 2013 (organized by IEEE ) , London
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 14-15, 2017, Seoul, South Korea.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 15-16 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• Member, International Liaison Committee, 25th ICIS Workshop of Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2015), Fort Worth, Texas
• HBS Participant Centered Case Writing Workshop, Mumbai, 2016.
• Participant Centered Learning Workshop, Harvard Business School, Boston, 2014
• HBS Participant Centred Learning Worshop, IIM Bangalore, 2013
• SAP ERP Asia Pacific Workshop, Hong Kong, 2012
• Program Chairman, ITSM 2011 (organized by IIMK, UTD Texas, GMU Fairfax and ISB Hyderabad), Kozhikode
• Organizing Chairman, ISB 2010 (organized by NITC and IUPUI Indianapolis), Kozhikode
• Keynote Speaker (Trends in Technology), ICACCT 2010 (organized by CUSAT), Cochin
• Keynote Speaker (Spiritual Intelligence for Innovation), International Conference on 3i, 11-12th March 2016, DMS, Pondicherry University.
• Served as Member, National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
• Served as Member, Board of Studies at Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi
• Served as Member, Board of Studies at Kerala University, Trivandrum
• Served as Member, Board of Studies at Calicut University
• Served as Member, Board of Studies at Kannur University
• Intel Asia Academic Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, 2009
• Microsoft Theory Day Workshops, IISc Bangalore & IIT Madras, 2009, 2010
• Indo-French Workshop on Security and Bioinformatics, IISc Bangalore.
• Intel Round Table on Higher Education, Bangalore.
• The Commonwealth Regional (Asia-Pacific) Workshop on E-Learning.

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

• Christina Sanchita Sha and M P Sebastian, Trust Evaluation in Online Social Networks,14th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2021, Portugal, pp.97-104.
• Christina Sanchita Sha and M P Sebastian, Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modelling of Indian Government?s Twitter Handle #IndiaFightsCorona, Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation- In Proc IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2020, Springer, pp. 339-351
• Ben Krishna and M P Sebastian, Examining the relationship between e-government development, nation?s cybersecurity commitment, business usage and economic prosperity: A cross-country analysis, 51st Annual DSI Conference, San Francisco,2020.
• M P Sebastian, Blockchain for Business: Opportunities and Future Directions, Seventeenth AIMS International Conference on Management 2020, pp.1627-1631.
• M P. Sebastian, Artificial Intelligence for Business: Opportunities and Challenges, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Business Management and Information Technology (ICABMIT), Melbourne, Australia, 24th-25th September, pp.12-17, 2019.
• M. P. Sebastian, 'Smart Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities,' in Proc. International Academic Conference on Management, Economics and Marketing, July 06-07, 2018, Vienna, Austria, pp. 396-403.
• Piyush Kumar and M P Sebastian, IoT to Deliver Operational Efficiency in Healthcare- A Literature Review, XXII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2018), December 20-22, 2018, IIM Kozhikode.
• Piyush Kumar and M P Sebastian, Adoption of Internet of Things for a Healthy Society, National Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Society, December 13-15, 2018, Shillong.
• M. P. Sebastian, 'High-Value Health System for All: Technologies for Promoting Health Education and Awareness,' in Proc. 19th International Conference on Information Technology in Education, August 07-08, 2017, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 13-18.
• Nikunj Agarwal and M P Sebastian, 'IS Budgeting for Healthcare Innovations: Insights for Developing Countries,' 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Dec 14-17, Las Vegas, USA.
• Piyush Kumar and M P Sebastian, Role of Information Systems/Technology in the Success and Failure of Post-Merger Integration, 4th Annual Winter Global Business Conference, pp 88-89, February 1st-5th, 2016, Tignes, France.
• Piyush Kumar and M P Sebastian, Understanding Digital Innovation in the Context of Developing Economy, 4th Annual Winter Global Business Conference, pp 90-91, February 1st-5th, 2016, Tignes, France.
• Supriya, K. K., & Sebastian, M. P. (2014). 'Towards a Model for User Technology Readiness in ICT4D Initiatives,' Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 8th - 10th December, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Supriya, K. K., & Sebastian, M. P. (2014). 'ICT for Education in India: Challenges and Readiness,' IPID 9 Symposium, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Nikunj Agarwal and M P Sebastian, 'Technology investment determinants for usage patterns in different sized healthcare institutions,' 2014 IEEE Technology Management Conference (ITMC14), June 12-15, 2014, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Nikunj Agarwal and M P Sebastian, 'Wireless infrastructure setup strategies for healthcare,' The 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 14), May 27-30, 2014, Island of Rhodes, Greece. ACM Digital Library.
• Manu J. Pillai, M. P. Sebastian and S. D. Madhukumar, 'Dynamic Multipath Routing in MANETs - A QoS Adaptive Approach,' in Proc Third International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2013), pp.308-313, London, UK, 29-31 August 2013 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Nikunj Agarwal, M. P Sebastian and Asharaf S., 'A Decision Support Framework for Innovation and Sustenance of Enterprises,' International Conference on Management Innovation and Business Innovation (ICMIBI 2013), pp. 121-126, 21-22 April, 2013, Singapore.
• Supriya K K and M. P Sebastian, 'E-governance Readiness: Challenges for India,' International Conference on Global Strategies for an Emergent India, 27-28 December 2012, IIM Kozhikode, India.
• K R C Pillai and M P Sebastian, 'A Novel Threshold Public Key Certificate Scheme for Integrated Heterogeneous Network,' International Conference on Information Technology, Systems and Management (ITSM2011), pp. 219-229, 17-18 December 2011, IIM Kozhikode, India.
• Vinodu George and M P Sebastian, 'Implementing the Secure Remote Poll Station Voting: Challenges and Opportunities,' International Conference on Information Technology, Systems and Management (ITSM2011), pp. 95-106, 17-18 December 2011, IIM Kozhikode, India.
• G. P. Sajeev and M. P. Sebastian, 'Comparing the Performance of Multinomial Logistic Regression and Neural Network Models in Web Cache Content Classification,' 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011), pp. V1 53-58, 26-28 February 2011, Singapore.
• K A Abdul Nazeer, M P Sebastian and S D Madhukumar, 'Enhancing the k-means Clustering Algorithm by Using a O(n logn) Heuristic Method for Finding Better Initial Centroids,' 2nd International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2011), pp. 261-264, 19-20 February 2011, Kolkata, India (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• G. P. Sajeev and M. P. Sebastian, 'Building a Semi Intelligent Web Cache with Light Weight Machine Learning,' 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS 2010), pp. 420-425, 7-9 July 2010, London (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• V. S. Anitha and M. P. Sebastian, 'Connected Dominating Set-based, Weighted Clustering Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks,' 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Theory (WCNIS2010), pp. 530-534, 25-27 June 2010, Beijing, China (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• G. P. Sajeev and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Scheme for Adaptive Web Caching Based on Multi-Level Object Classification,' The Third International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS2010), pp. 1-6 (10.1109/ICIAS.2010.5716243), 15-17 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• S. Sreejesh and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Revised Secure Authentication Protocol for IEEE 802.16 (e),' International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering (ACE2010), pp.34-38, 21-22 June 2010, Bangalore (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• P.P.Abdul Haleem and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Layered Architecture For Checking Rewriting Attacks in Resource Constrained Networks,' 2010 International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2010), 9 - 10 February 2010, Bangalore, pp. 270- 274 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• K.R. C. Pillai and M. P. Sebastian, 'A hierarchical and decentralized key establishment scheme for end-to-end security in heterogeneous networks, IEEE International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Application (IMSAA-09), pp. 1-6, Bangalore, 9-11 December 2009 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• V. S. Anitha and M. P. Sebastian, 'Scenario-based Diameter-bounded Algorithm for Cluster Creation and Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,' 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2009), pp. 97-104, Singapore, October 2009 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Vinodu George and M P Sebastian, 'An Efficient Homomorphic Coercion Resistant Voting Scheme Using Hierarchical Binary Search Tree,' in Proc World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering 2009 (CSIE 2009), Los Angeles, USA, pp. 502-507 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Abdul Nazeer K A and Sebastian M P, 'Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of the k-means Clustering Algorithm,' in Proc World Congress on Engineering 2009 (WCE 2009), pp. 308-312, London, UK.
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'Fully Distributed Cluster based Routing Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', in Proc IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob
• V. S. Anitha and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Dominating Set Based Adaptive Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,' in Proc International conference on Sensor, Security, Software and Intelligent Systems, Coimbatore, January 8 -10, 2009
• V. S. Anitha and M. P. Sebastian, 'SCAM: Scenario-based Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,' in Proc The First International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNET09), Bangalore, pp. 1-8, January 2009 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Manu J. Pillai and M. P. Sebastian, 'An Adaptive Energy Efficient and High Data Rate MAC protocol for Heterogeneous Networks,' in Proc Second UKSIM European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation (EMS 2008), pp.542-547, Liverpool, UK, 8-10 September 2008 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• P.P.Abdul Haleem and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Method for optimizing the size of wireless Mobile Messages', in Proc International Computer Science and Technology Conference 2008 (ICSTC 2008), San Diego, USA, pp. 40-47, April 2008.
• P.P.Abdul Haleem and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Method for the Improvisation of Messaging in wireless Mobile Devices', in Proc IET International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Mumbai, pp. 109-112, January 2008 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Vinodu George and M P Sebastian, 'An Efficient Homomorphic Coercion Resistant Voting Scheme Using Binary Search Tree', in Proc. of the VI International Conference on Applied PKC ( IWAP07), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp. 56-64, December 2007.
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'Hierarchical Multicast Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Network', in Proc 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC2007), Goa, Springer-Verlag, pp. 464-475, December 2007.
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'Dynamic Security Scheme for MANET,' in Proc IRMA International Conference on Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology, Vancouver, Canada, IGI Publishing, pp. 1489-1492, May 2007.
• A. Gafur and M. P. Sebastian, 'Enhancing the performance of IEEE 802.11 WLAN using multi rate backoff algorithm,' in Proc The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Wirelss Multimedia Networking and Performance Modelling (ACM WMuNeP 2007), Crete, Greece, pp. 82-87, October 2007(available online on IEEE Xplore).
• Sabitha S. and M. P. Sebastian, 'GOS-AODV: A Gossip based sleep ad hoc on demand distance vector routing protocol,' Proc. 6th IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Spain, August 2007, pp.13-18
• M. P. Vijaya Krishna and M. P. Sebastian, 'HMAODV: History aware Multicast Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing,' in Proc Intl Symposium on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, ISAHUC 2006, NITK, IEEE Press, Piscataway, USA, pp. 27-32, December 2006.
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'Distributed Security Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', in Proc IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition (IEEE ICIA 2006), Shandong, China, pp. 166-171, August 2006 (available online on IEEE Xplore).
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'A Cluster Based Security scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', in Proc 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006)
• Ghirmay Desta and M.P. Sebastian, 'A Binary Tree-based Auto Configuration Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks' in Proc 4th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (ICCSA- 2006), San Diego, USA, PP. 43-50, June 2006.
• G. P. Sajeev and M. P. Sebastian, 'Popularity-Aware Renewal of Dynamic Web Documents with Zipf Law,' in Proc 13th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communications, Coimbatore, December 2005.
• A. Shajin Nargunam and M. P. Sebastian, 'Fully Distributed Cluster based Routing Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', in Proc IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2005)
• M. P. Sebastian, P. S. Nagendra Rao, and Lawrence Jenkins, 'Properties and Performance of Some Direct Networks,' International Conference on Information Technology, Katmandu, Nepal, May 2003.

Academic Positions

• Professor, Information Systems
• Chairperson, Information Systems Area