Elizabeth Sherly, is a Emeritus Visiting Professor  of Digital University Kerala and former Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) and International Center for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS). In a career spanning more than three decades in teaching and research, she has gathered expertise in Pattern Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition System and Image Processing. She travelled Los Angeles- USA, London-UK, Singapore and Malaysia for academic exercises and was a visiting Researcher of University of Yolk, London.

She served as the Chief Investigator of several prestigious MeitY projects under Digital India Corporation and Technology Development in Language Technology of Government of India. She has established and is heading two centers of excellence –Virtual Resource Center for Cognitive and Language Computing (VRCLC) and Center of Excellence in Pattern and Image Analysis (CEPIA). She is also heading and promoting Women Innovation, Startupsand Entrepreneurship (WISE) under IIITM-K and DUK.

She was the recipient of EURECA (UK)fellowship, Rational Certified ( India) Trainer and one among 7 scientists in India for e-Science Grid Group, London. She has received the award from Central Government (eWorldForum 2012) for Best Initiative for language and Localized Application in eGovernance and also received eWorldForum 2011 Best Jury Award for the project” Cloud Computing Initiative” sponsored by MHRD. Dr. Sherly has produced 13 PhDs and has more than 100 papers to her credit, which includes international, national and conference papers.

Sherly was the Director Board Member of several Kerala Government organization including Kerala IT Mission, Kerala Start up Mission, Institute of Management in Government etc. She has been serving of editorial board member of several international and national journals. She is a PhD thesis evaluator of several universities, IITs, NITs and interview panel member and technical committee member of several organizations in INDIA.

• Director(i/c), Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, A Kerala Government Autonomous Institution, Nila, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, June 2009 onwards
• Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Nila, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, May 2011 onwards
• Associate Professor & Faculty, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Nila, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, March 2001 onwards
• Project Manager, US Technology Resources(Head Quarters: California),Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, 1999-2000
• Head of Faculty, Winsoft Systems Pvt Ltd., Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 1997 – 1999
• Sr. Lecturer, Marthoma College of Science and Technology, Ayur, Thiruvananthapuram, 1995- 1997
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 1987-1990

• Judy K George and E. Sherly, “Modeling human attention: Analyzing scanpaths and visual features in fixation prediction with transformer-based deep learning,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 38, no. 5, p. 103, 2026. [SCI indexed, 1.1 Q1, H index 146]
• Leena, G .P, Kavya, M., Bajio, B., Sherly, E., ”Fine-Tuning and Script Normalization for Enhancing Malayalam Automatic Speech Recognition” 1st International Conference on Sustain-able Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS-2025), March 2025 [Scopus AIP]
• Leena G Pillai, Mubarak, D., Sherly, E., Tracking Articulatory Dynamics in Speech with a Fixed-Weight BiLSTM-CNN Architecture. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18099. ,2025 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.18099
• Kavya Manohar, Leena G. Pillai, and Elizabeth Sherly. ”What is lost in Normalization? Exploring Pitfalls in Multilingual ASR Model Evaluations.” in 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024),Florida, 12th – 16th November, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.02449
• Malu, N. Uday, E. Sherly, A. Abraham and N. Kuber Bodhey, ”CirMNet: A Shape-Based Hybrid Feature Extraction Technique Using CNN and CMSMD for Alzheimer’s MRI Classi-fication,” in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 80491-80504, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3408311 Cite score: 9.0 [Q1: SCI Indexed]
• Sabitha Rani, M Harishankar, E Sherly, ”Deciphering Braille: EEG Based Deep Learning for Character Recognition”, International Conference on Brain Computer Interfaces & health care technologies, IEEE, p79-84, 2024
• BS Sabitha Rani, E Sherly, EEG Based Imagined Speech Recognition Using Multi-Feature Ex-traction with DNN-CapsNet International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing, Mosicom-Singapore, IEEE, P 206-211, 2024
• E Sherly, LG Pillai, K Manohar ”ASR models from conventional statistical models to trans-formers and transfer learning”, Automatic speech recognition and translation for low Re-source Languages, 69-112 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.2024 [Scopus]
• Bajiyo Baiju, Kavya Manohar, Leena G Pillai, Elizabeth Sherly, ”Romanized to native malayalam script transliteration using an encoder-decoder framework” – arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.099572024
• LG Pillai, K Manohar, BK Raju, E Sherly ”Multistage fine-tuning strategies for automatic speech recognition in low-resource languages” – arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04573, 2024
• Pavithran, P., Sherly, E. ”An ASR model for Individuals with Hearing Impairment using Hidden Markov Model” . In 2024 IEEE 9th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT) (pp. 1-7). IEEE, 2024 DOI: 10.1109/I2CT61223.2024.10543406
• Sreelakshmi S, Malu G, Elizabeth Sherly, Robert Mathew ” M-Net: An encoder-decoder architecture for medical image analysis using ensemble learning” Results in Engineering 17 (2023)100927, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2023.100927, 2023 [Scopus Q1, SJR – 0.69]
• Rani, Sabitha., Malu, G. and Sherly, E., 2023, February. Kidney Stone Detection from CT images using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and Watershed Algorithm. In 2023 International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Computing and Applications (AICAPS) (pp.1-6). IEEE.
• Sherly, E., Raji G., 2022, November. Visual Attention Score and Fatigue Level Measure of Students through Eye Analysis–Machine Learning Approach. In 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
• Sreelakshmi, G Malu, E Sherly., 2022 Alzhemers’s Disease classification from Cross-Sectional Brain MRI using Deep Learning, IEEE international Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communications and Energy systems. Vol1, 401-405
• BR Chakravarthi, R Priyadharshini, V Muralidaran, S Suryawanshi,Overview of the trackon sentiment analysis for dravidian languages in code-mixed text, Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, 21-24, 2021
• BR Chakravarthi, N Jose, S Suryawanshi, E Sherly, JP McCrae, A sentiment analysis dataset for code-mixed Malayalam-English , arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00210, 2021
• B Rudhra, G Malu, E Sherly, R Mathew A Novel deep learning approach for the automated diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus – Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 2021[SCI indexed SJR 0.459]
• Navya Jose, Anand Kumar M, Thomas Mandl, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Hariharan V, Elizabeth Sherly, and John Philip Mc-Crae ”Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics” 2021
• Renju V R, Malu G, Elizabeth Sherly Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Normal control using sMRI and Deep Learning Proceedings of DeepLearn, 19-20 Feb 2021
• Bharathi Raja, Navya Jose, Elizabeth Sherly, John P. McCrae, A Survey of Current Datasets for Code-Switching Research, International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Systems (ICACCS), 2020
• Chitra M T, Gayatri Menon B, Elizabeth Sherly, Real Time Communication Alert System for Missing Vessels in Deep Sea, International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN’19) 18-21 December 2019, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS).
• Malu, Elizabeth Sherly, Sumod Mathew Koshy, Circular Mesh-based Shape and Margin Descriptor for Object Detection, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, (2018), Volume 84, Pages 97-111, ISSN 0031-3203 – Impact Factor – 4.341 [SCI Indexed]
• Vineetha Vijayan, Elizabeth Sherly – Real Time Detection System of Driver Drowsiness , Special Issue in the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems(JIFS), IOS Press, Netherlands (ISSN print 1064-1246, ISSN online 1875-8967)IF 1.426 [SCI Indexed], 2019
• Terry Jacob Mathew,, Elizabeth Sherly and Jose Carlos R. Alcantud, A mul- timodal adaptive approach on soft set based diagnostic risk prediction system, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 34 (2018) 16091618, DOI:10.3233/JIFS169455 IOS Press, pp 1609-1618 Impact Factor 1.426 [SCI Indexed]
• Anu VR, Elizabeth Sherly, TAR Based Hotspot Prediction in cloud Data Centres,, International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (IJGHPC),ISSN19380267 2018 [SCI Indexed]
• Sreedevi S, Elizabeth Sherly, A new and efficient approach for the removal of high density impulse noise in mammogram, IJCAET Int. J. o f Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, 2018 [Scopus Indexed]
• “Krishna Ramachandran, Lekshmi and Elizabeth, Sherly, “Generation of GMM Weights by Dirichlet Distribution and Model Selection Using Information Criterion for Malayalam Speech Recognition, “Intelligent Human Computer Interaction”, Springer International Publishing, pages=”111–122″ 2018
• “Krishna Ramachandran, Lekshmi and Elizabeth, Sherly, “Generation of GMM Weights by Dirichlet Distribution and Model Selection Using Information Criterion for Malayalam Speech Recognition, “Intelligent Human Computer Interaction”, Springer International Publishing, pages=”111–122″ 2018
• “Krishna Ramachandran, Lekshmi and Elizabeth, Sherly, “Generation of GMM Weights by Dirichlet Distribution and Model Selection Using Information Criterion for Malayalam Speech Recognition, “Intelligent Human Computer Interaction”, Springer International Publishing, pages=”111–122″ 2018
• Chitra M T, Elizabeth Sherly,Modeling the Mobility Patterns for Missing Vessels Identification in Deep Sea, IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis[SCI indexed]
• Chitra M. T., Elizabeth Sherly, UML Behavioral Refactoring for the Specification of Complex Software Systems , Research in Computing Science, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, [DBLP indexed]
• Chitra M. T., Elizabeth Sherly,Code Generation from UML Refactored Behavioral Models,MARC-School of Computing,(MARC 2015), University of Kerala, Dec2015
• Priya R, Elizabeth Sherly, ML Modeling of a Constrained Complex System, Special Issue on Software Reliability Engineering , in Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2016
• Sreedevi S, Elizabeth Sherly,A robust approach for denoising of mammographic images contaminated with high density impulse noise, proceedings of International conference on Robotics and automation, IETE, February, 2016.
• Sreedevi S, Elizabeth Sherly, A New Approach to Microcalcification Detection Using Fuzzy Soft Set Approach, Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 7 No.2, ISSN: 0976-5166, Apr-May 2016
• Malu G, Elizabeth Sherly, Sumod Mathew Koshy,An automated algorithm for lesion identification in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI, Int. J. Computer Applications in Technology(inderscience), 51(1), ISSN:0952-8091, Online ISSN: 1741-5047, pp. 2330 -2336, 2015 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2015.068396
• Priya R, Chitra M T and Elizabeth Sherly, Categorisation of Social Networks based on Multiplicity Constraints IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 9, Issue 2, No 2, March 2012, 533-537

• Jisha P Jayan, Elizabeth Sherly Malayalam Tamil Sampark, Proc. Of 24th Kerala Congress, 29-31 Jan 2012, RRII, Kottayam, pp 437-439
• Sangeetha S. Nair, Shaji D.S., Elizebeth Sherly, An Architecture For Application Level Performance Management in Cloud Computing , International Conference EMICS12, Maria College, TN. Feb 2012
• Rajeev R R, Jisha P Jayan, Elizabeth Sherly, Tagging Malayalam Text with Parts of Speech – TnT and SVM Tagger Comparison Proc. of Int. Conf. On Advances in Computer Science 2010,pp 204-209
• Elizabeth Sherly, Md. Meraj Uddin, Technology Enhanced Learning Model for Quality Education in TECH- EDUCATION 2010 and Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag, Volume 73, 446-451, 2010
• Shanker K P S, Turner A, Sherly E and Austin J, Sequential Data Mining using Correlation Matrix Memory, Networking and Information Technology (ICNT), IEEE Xplore Issue 11-12 June 2010, pages 470-472
• Shanker K P S, Austin J, Sherly E,” An Algorithm for Alignment free Sequence Comparison using Logical Match” Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE) IEEE Xplore issue 26-28 Feb 2010 pages 536-538
• Rajeev R.R, Jisha P Jayan, and Elizabeth Sherly, ” Parts of Speech Tagger for Malayalam”, IJCSIT International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, Vol 2, No.2, December 2009, pp 209-213
• Rajeev R R, Rajendran N, Elizabeth Sherly Morph Analyser for Malayalam Language-Suffix Stripping Based
• Approach Dravidian Studies, a quarterly research journal, Vol V -VI, Nos3-4;1-2 pages 61-72 Oct 2008
• Rajeev R R, Elizabeth Sherly, An Affix Stripping based Morph Analyser for Malayalam Language, Proceedings of 20th Kerala Science Congress, p 482-484, 28- 31 Jan 2008
• ELizabeth Sherly, Sanil Shanker K P, ” A Fuzzy Inference Scheme for SNP Identification”, Second IAPR International workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics(Short paper) Singapore, 1-2 October 2007.
• Elizabeth Sherly, Sanil Shanker K P, Storage Method: An Exact Pattern Matching Algorithm for Nucleotide Sequences Proceedings of 19th Kerala Science Congress, p 918-920 Cannanore 29-31 Jan 2007.

• Best Practices in Machine Translation: Deep Learning to Generative AI, CRC Press. Taylor & Francis (Under Press)

• ASR Models from Conventional Statistical Models to Transformers and Transfer Learning, WileyScrivener, 2023

• A New Era of Deep Machine Translation towards Cognitivism, CRC Press, (Under Review)
• Applied Soft computing and Communication Networks Springer ACN 2019
• Book Natural Language Processing(proceedings ICON2015),IIIT-H)
• Book Chapter : Malayalam Computing; Kerala Bhaksha Institute, 2019

Malu G, E.Sherly : AN AUTOMATED LESION DETECTION SYSTEM FOR DCEMRI IMAGES USING CIRCULAR MESH BASED SHAPE AND MARGIN DESCRIPTOR:Patent no:529017 granted on 2024 INDIA

• Principal investigator, Indian Language Corpus Initiative(ILCI), a consortia project of TDIL group of DIT, Govt. of India -grant – 65 lakhs
• Principal Investigator, Indian Language Machine Translation (ILMT), a consortia project of TDIL group of DIT, Govt. of India – 60 lakhs
• Program Coordinator, Kerala Education Grid Project, Higher Education Dept, GoK-Grant – 6 crores
• Principal Investigator, Cloud Computing Testbed for Kerala for State Data Center 2009-11 -grant -17 lakhs
• Principal Investigator, Research in Localization and Adoption of Open standards in e-Governance, Planning Board, GoK – -50 lakhs
• Principal Investigator, Center for Innovation and Technology Incubation at IIITM-K – 100 lakhs
• Web based e-Learning and online Certification programs , Planning Board, GoK ,10 lakhs
• Founder and Chief Investigator, Virtual resource center for language computing, Department of IT, Government of Kerala Rs 40 lakhs. IIITM-Kerala, 2011-2012

Recent journal Editorial activities: Patron-International Journal on Security n Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS’12), Patron- World Congress on ICT (WICT2012), Editorial Board-International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC 2011), First International workshop on Cloud Computing: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications (cloudComp2011), Technical Chair- International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), InderScience