• Chair, Institution Innovation Council (IIC), St Aloysius (Deemed to be) University

• Institution Ambassador (IIC), St Aloysius (Deemed to be) University

• Co-Principal Investigator for Major Applied Research Projects

• Teaching Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning courses using industry-aligned pedagogy

• Curriculum design, syllabus framing, and Outcome-Based Education (OBE) implementation

• Research supervision and mentoring in AI, ML, and Generative AI

• Student mentoring, project guidance, and career counseling

Current

Organisation: School of Engineering, St Aloysius (Deemed to be) University, Mangaluru
Designation: Assistant Professor (Stage III)
Start Date: August 2025
End Date: Present

Previous

1. Organisation: Yenepoya Institute of Technology, Moodbidri
   Designation: Assistant Professor
   Start Date: November 2023
   End Date: July 2025

2. Organisation: Karavali Institute of Technology, Mangaluru
   Designation: Assistant Professor & Head of the Department (CSE)
   Start Date: February 2020
   End Date: October 2023

3. Organisation: UGC – MANF (Government of India)
   Designation: Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
   Start Date: March 2017
   End Date: February 2020

4. Organisation: UGC – MANF (Government of India)
   Designation: Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
   Start Date: March 2015
   End Date: February 2017

5. Organisation: P.A. Polytechnic, Mangaluru
   Designation: Lecturer
   Start Date: September 2011
   End Date: November 2017

6. Organisation: P.A. First Grade College, Mangaluru
   Designation: Lecturer
   Start Date: July 2010
   End Date: August 2011

• Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Deep Learning and Neural Networks

• Natural Language Processing

• Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis

• Autonomous AI Agents and Reinforcement Learning

• AI Applications in Healthcare and Agriculture

Mohammed Siraj B, and Zahid Ahmed Ansari. "ParaLeafNet-Severity: A Parallel Deep CNN with Squeeze-and-Excitation Attention for Automated Plant Disease Severity Assessment and Agricultural Health Monitoring." International Journal of Drug Delivery Technology, vol. 16, no. 15s, 2026, pp. 62–71. IJDDT, doi:10.25258/ijddt.16.15s.8. Scopus Q3.

Mohammed Siraj B, and Zahid Ahmed Ansari. "ParaLeafNet: A Lightweight Parallel CNN for Efficient Plant Disease Identification in Precision Agriculture." International Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 11, no. 9s, 2025, pp. 135–152. IJES, ISSN: 2229-7359. Scopus, 2025. doi:10.64252/t271ak96.

• UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) – Government of India

• UGC Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) – Government of India

• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) – UGC, Government of India

• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) – UGC, Government of India

Mohammed Siraj B, and Zahid Ahmed Ansari. "Soft Computing Based Mining of Agricultural Data for Quality Judgement and Identification of Defects in Plants." Proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ETET-2016), Hyderabad, India, 2016. Conference Proceedings.