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Dr. PREETHI HARRIS

Associate Professor

Dr. PREETHI HARRIS

Department of Information Technology

Associate Professor

B.E., M.E., Ph.D.

2001-07-25

Faculty Description

Dr. Preethi Harris holds her PhD from the faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, M.E. in Software Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, and B.E. in Computer Science Engineering from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 

Her teaching experience spans over 20 years and areas of interest include: Robotic Process Automation, Software Testing, Cloud Computing and Web Technology. She is Mission 10X certified in Teaching and Learning by Wipro Ltd. Bengaluru. She has published papers in International journals and conferences in Software Testing and recent IT trends.  She is the reviewer for international journals, project awards and also the convener for the SREC Alumni magazine. She was instrumental in setting-up: UiPath Academic Alliance, Salesforce Trailhead Academy, VMware IT Academy and Oracle IT Academy at the institution. Was the coordinator for the Industry Institute interaction through Information Communication Technology Academy of Tamilnadu (ICT Academy)

FDPs/Student workshops in collaboration with IT industries have been organized by her that include grants from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). She has delivered invited talks at Engineering colleges and co-chaired sessions in International conferences. Her professional membership includes: CSI, ISTE and IACSIT.


Achievements:

  • Globally certified UiPath advanced RPA developer
  • Winner of Techgig’s Code gladiator IBM CallForCode 2020
  • Recipient of the Salesforce Best Educator award - 2018
  • 3X Salesforce Ranger rank with 6 superbadges
  • Recipient of the UiPath best mentor Award - 2024

 

Industry Hackathon Mentoring:

  • Team won the first runner-up place at Power-up Automation by UiPath & Tech Mahindra in 2019
  • Team won first runner-up place at Tech-gig’s Code gladiators by Reliance Jio & UiPath in 2019
  • Team won third runner-up place at Think-A-Hack by UiPath & KGISL in 2018
  • Team won first runner-up at RPA tools hackathon hosted by Wonder Bots and UiPath Community in 2022