Jayasri Angara

Background

About Jayasri Angara

I have been working as Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, GST, VSP from 2021. I am having 25 years of Experience in industry, academics, and research. Prior to joining GITAM, Worked as an Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE at MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram for 12 years, where I played a pivotal role in enhancing student engagement, coding aptitude, and employability skills. I am having industry background, having worked for 9+ years at Wipro Technologies as a Project Manager, handling global projects for technology leaders such as Microsoft, HP, and Nortel Networks. At Microsoft, she contributed to one of the world’s largest software products, Microsoft Windows OS (till XP versions) Testing, impacting over 360 million users worldwide. As an educator, my goal is to drive Purpose Driven Education. I recognize the fact that students joining institutions are from various aptitudes and attitudes. In the Age of Gen AI penetration in Higher Education, I support an argument that different interventions needed to develop programming mindset across varying student learning curves. In this regard, I have initiated multiple pedagogical innovations like Sikshana, Bhavana, Manana, Program A Day (PADDY) for Advanced Learners, Sadhana for Mediocre Leaners. I recieved HERCULES – Best Individual Contributor Award from the President of Wipro Technologies (2007), the Feather in My Cap Award, Wipro (2009), best presentation award from Chief Technology Officer, Wipro for Testing Services and a Certificate of Appreciation from GITAM University for the use of technology in pedagogical innovations. I also excelled in national-level online courses, ranking in the top 2% in NPTEL Java (2019) and top 5% in NPTEL Design Thinking (2020). I did my PhD on Software Engineering Domain in the context of DevOps, Continuous Testing, and Risk Mitigation Frameworks. The problem statement & critical inputs have been constituted by the industry, esp. Wipro Technologies. Published 14 peer-reviewed papers & 1 Book chapter in Scopus/SCI-indexed and 2 more book chapters accepted. I did M.S. in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani and Ph.D. in Computer Science from KLU.