Sinnu Susan Thomas received a B.E. (Hons.) degree from Rajasthan University Jaipur and an M.Tech degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal. She received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Subsequently, was hosted as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering KU Leuven Belgium in collaboration with FORD Innovation and Research Centre Germany and USA. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Digital University Kerala (formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala), leading the Image and Vision Computing Lab and the Optimization and Machine Learning Lab.
She has received several awards, including DAAD Post-Doc-Net AI Fellow for 2021-22, Finalist for Falling Wall Labs, Leuven Belgium 2019, and Best PhD Thesis Award at CICT 2018. and Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2018.
She has finished projects with the Department of Science and Technology, the Government of India, the British Council, Google, and the Kerala State Planning Board.
Her interest lies in computer vision, Bayesian optimization, multimedia signal processing, and deep/reinforcement learning.
