Biography

Burra Venkata Durga Kumar is a senior lecturer at the School of Computing and Data Science at Xiamen University Malaysia. He received his B.Tech degree from JNTU University Hyderabad India, his M.Tech. degree from Regional Engineering College India, and his PhD degree from Unirazak University of Technology, Malaysia, From 1981 to 1998, Burra held academic positions in AP, India Polytechnic institutes. Since 1998 he has been working as an academic staff and research positions in different universities Malaysia, and currently working at Xiamen University Malaysia.

Research Interest

Cloud Computing, Blockchain Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Image Processing, Big Data Analytics, e-learning technologies

Educational Background

• PhD (Mgt)(Universiti TUN ABDUL RAZAK, Malaysia)

• M.Tech (Computer Science & Technology )(Regional Engineering College, Warangal,AP, India) 

• B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, AP, India)

Working Experience

• Affiliated with the Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM), Malaysia since May 2018.

• Affiliated with the Nilai University Malaysia from Sep 2015 to April 2018.

• Affiliated with the Binary University Malaysia from Sep 2013 to August 2015.

• Affiliated with the Taylors University Malaysia from May 2011 to May 2013

• Affiliated with the Sunway University Malaysia from August 1998 to March 2011.

• Affiliated with Government Polytechnic, AP, India, from August 1981-July 1998

Research Experience

• Research Title: Intelligent Urban Transport Network Management and Design (XMUMRF/2020-C5/IECE/0014)

• Research Title: Physical Theories of Urban Transport Networks via transport data circuit Modelling, Physical System ((FRGS)-Accepted; Application ID:252944) Co-Researcher

• Research Title: Cross Microprocessor Quad Directional Control Flow Integrity Framework for Securing Internet of Things (IoT) Microprocessor Level Software (XMUMRF/2020-C6/IECE/0016) Co-Researcher

• Research Title: Prediction of Cassava disease detection using genetic Deep Learning Convolutional Nural Network (CGDCNN) (XMUMRF/2024-C13/IECE/0051) Co-Researcher

Representative Publications

• Springer “Study an Innovative Smart City System with Blockhain Technology: Provide Better Living”- Co-author

• Distributed Internet of Things Load Balancing using Deep Reinforcement Learning- Co-author

• IJTET- An Analysis on Scheduling of Traffic Light at Urban Traffic Intersection Using Fuzzy Control Algorithm- Co-author
  Conferences:

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China,” Blockchain-based two-layer trusted framework for cold chain IoT: zero-knowledge authentication and Variational Autoencoder anomaly detection”

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China,” AI-Driven Anomaly Detection in Distributed Systems: A Scalable and Sustainable Monitoring Framework“

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China,” Empowering Autonomous Driving: Adaptive AI–Orchestrated distributed system framework for Balancing Perception Accuracy and Latency“

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China, “Holistic Security for Distributed Systems: Blockchain-Based Passport Identity Verification and Al-Driven Dynamic Trust Management”

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China, “ADEPT: A Framework for Adaptive Distributed Efficient Parallel Training of Large Language Models”

• IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China, “A Cloud-Edge-End Collaborative Framework Integrating Scheduling Optimization and Tasks Offload: Achieving Lower Latency for IoMT-based Wearable Health Monitoring Systems”

•  IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2025), 15-8-2025  To 17-8-2025 ; North China University of Technology, Beijing, China, “Edge-Aware Intrusion Detection in distributed healthcare iot via pca and feature engineering”

• IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI 2025). 9-8-2025  To 9-8-2025; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “A Reinforcement Learning-based Intelligent Communication Scheduling Framework for Enhancing Coordination in Distributed Systems”

• IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI 2025). 9-8-2025  To 9-8-2025; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “A Blockchain-Driven Framework for Strengthening Model Ownership and Data Privacy in Federated Learning”.

• IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI 2025). 9-8-2025  To 9-8-2025; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “A Proposed Framework For Consumer Purchase Behaviours Using Feature Selection Based On SVMs And Random Forest”

• IEEE 1st Conference on Computing Innovation, Intelligence, Technologies and Education 2024 (CIITE2024)Xiamen University Malaysia, Selangor, “Insurance Approaches to Tackle Natural Disasters”

• IEEE 1st Conference on Computing Innovation, Intelligence, Technologies and Education 2024 (CIITE2024)Xiamen University Malaysia, Selangor,” Malware Feature Extraction of the Alibaba Cloud Malware Dataset via Machine Learning Algorithms”

• IEEE-ICCSE 2023The 18th International Conference on Computer Science & Education December 1-7, 2023. Xiamen University Malaysia, “A Blockchain-based real estates registration system”

• IEEE-ICSECS 2023 8th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems 2023 held in Penang, Malaysia on 25-27 August 2023,” Emotional analysis based on LSTM-CNN hybrid neural network model”

• IEEE-ICSECS 2023 8th International Conference on Software Engineering & ComputerSystems 2023 held in Penang, Malaysia on 25-27 August 2023,” Optimized Energy Distribution in Smart Grid System Using Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques”

• The 6th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Control Engineering (ICECC 2023), which has been held online during March 24-26, 2023,” Distributed Internet of Things Load Balancing using Deep Reinforcement Learning”

• IEEE- ICCCS 2023 The 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems, held in Guangzhou, China on April 21-24, 2023  ,” Regional Intelligent Traffic Signal Control System Based on Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

• IEEE AISC 2023 :International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Communication, “Face detection and classification of sleep state of humans by Deep learning mechanisms”

• IEEE AISC 2023 :International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Communication,’ Face detection and classification of sleep state of humans by Deep learning mechanisms”

• IEEE AISC 2023 :International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Communication, “Improving quantitative stock trading prediction based on MAD using Q-learning technology”

Honors / Awards

• Best Presentation Award, for CITRA 2007, Conference on IT research & Applications, UNITAR, Malaysia.

• Guided Students in Business Plan Competition 2006, MSC–IHL Malaysia (National award).

• Guided Students in Fusion UX-Hackathon 2021, Competition 2021, One student received Gold Medal, and others Bronze Medals.

• Received SILVER award in EDGII Education Design, Games Invention &Innovation competition 2022 Malaysia. “Effectiveness of AI Security layer in Cloud Based E-Learning in the era of COVID 19 in Malaysia.

• Received GOLD award and 2nd Prize Winner in UX-Hackhaton 2021-Malaysia.” A Real Time Video Based Vehicles Surveillance System” Ng Jing Jie (Student) & Dr. Burra Venkata Durga Kumar (Mentor)

• Received 3 BRONZE award’s Prize Winner in UX-Hackhaton 2021-Malaysia.” 

• Received 3 GOLD awards on title -1, from iVENTEX 2024, Malaysia

• Received FIRST prize award from Malaysia Division Contest of China International College Students’ Innovation Competition- 2024

• Received THIRD prize award from Malaysia Division Contest of China International College Students’ Innovation Competition- 2024

• Received SILVER award on title-1from TECH EXPO 2024 XMU Malaysia

• Received SILVER award on title 2, from TECH EXPO 2024 XMU Malaysia

• Received 2 BRONZE awards on title -1, from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)

• Received BRONZE award from 9th International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2024

• Received SILVER award from Borneo international innovation and invention competition (BIIIC) in Malaysia, 2023

• Received BRONZE award from Borneo international innovation and invention competition (BIIIC) in Malaysia, 2023

• Guided student to achieve Best Presentation award at ICECC 2023 Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

• Guided student to achieve Best Presentation award at ICCCS 2023, Guangzhou, China 

• Received SILVER award in EDGII Education Design, Games Invention &Innovation competition 2022 Malaysia. “Effectiveness of AI Security layer in Cloud Based E-Learning in the era of COVID 19 in Malaysia.

• Received SILVER AWARD from, Graduate Digital Invention, Innovation and Design (GDIID) 2025 competition.

• Received 4 BRONZE awards from, Graduate Digital Invention, Innovation and Design (GDIID) 2025 competition

• Received 6 BRONZE awards from, “Penang International Invention, Innovation and Design (PIID2025).