Dr. K. P. Soman

Professor and Head

Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering
and Networking

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham



Current Fields of Research

  • Software Defined Radio
  • Statistical DSP on FPGA
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • High Performance Computing
  • Machine learning using Support Vector Machines
  • Signal Processing, Wavelets and Fractals

Projects Undertaken at CEN

Sponsored :

  • Software Radio applications in implementing Virtual labs for MHRD, New Delhi, India
  • Particle Image Velocimetry and Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence studies for flow visualization and characterization funded by ISRO)
  • Massively Parallel Support Vector Machines for target identification(funded by DRDO)
  • Fault simulation and analysis of spacecraft structures using wavelets(funded by ISRO)
  • Study of methodologies for detection of digital contents plagiarism and other piracies (funded by DIT), New Delhi, India
  • Implementation of Image Fusion Algorithms for ADE, Bangalore
  • Video summarization for ISRO, Hyderabad
  • English to Tamil Translation system for IT ministry, New Delhi, India
  • English to Dravidian Language Translation system for MHRD
  • Source Code Plagiarism Detection Engine for IT ministry, New Delhi, India

Books Published

  • Dr. K.P. Soman and Dr. Ramachandran K.I., "Insight into Wavelets - From Theory to Practice", Prentice-Hall India

  • Dr. K.P. Soman, Shyam Diwakar, Ajay V., "Insight into Data Mining - From Theory to Practice", Prentice-Hall India

  • Dr. K.P. Soman, Ajav. V, Loganathan R., "Machine Learning with SVM and other Kernel Methods", Prentice-Hall India

  • Contributed a chapter of the book, "Fuzzy sets and probability theory in reliability and safety related problem", edited by Takshian Onisawa and Janusz Kacprzyk

Recent Publications

List of International Journal Publications

  • Anand Kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Rekha R. U., Soman K. P, Rajendran S., "A Novel Data Driven Algorithm for Tamil Morphological Generator", International Journal of Computer Applications(IJCA) - Foundation of Computer Science, 6(12):52,56, 2010.

  • Anand Kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "A Sequence Labeling Approach to Morphological. Analyzer for Tamil Language", International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 02, No. 06, 2201-2208, 2010.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand Kumar M., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "A Natural Language Processing Tools for Tamil Grammar Learning and Teaching", International Journal of Computer Applications(IJCA) - Foundation of Computer Science, October 2010.

  • Antony P. John, Anand Kumar M., Soman K. P., "A Paradigm Based Morphological Analyzer for English to Kannada using a Machine Learning Approach", Research India Publication(RIP), October 2010.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand kumar M., Shivapratap G., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Tamil POS Tagging using Linear Programming", International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, ISSN 1797-9617, 2009.

  • M. S. Manikandan, Soman K. P., Robust Heart Sound Activity Detection in Noisy Environments, IEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 46 (16), 5th August 2010.

  • R. Gandhiraj, Silpa. S. Prasad, K. P. Soman, Multi-User Spectrum Sensing Based on Multitaper Method for Cognitive Environments, International Journal of Computer Applications - Foundation of Computer Science, July 2010.

  • R. Ramanathan, K. P. Soman , A Novel Methodology for Linear Phase IIR Filters, ACEEE International Journal on Communication, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan 2010.

List of International Conference Publications

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand kumar M., Rekha R. U., Arun kumar C., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Morphological Analyzer for Agglutinative Languages using Machine Learning Approaches",Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing( ARTCom 2009), Kottayam, India, 2009.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand kumar M., Padmavathy P., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Chunker for Tamil", Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing( A R T Com 2009), Kottayam, India, 2009.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand kumar M., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Postagger and Chunker for Tamil Language", Proceedings of the 8th Tamil Internet Conference, Cologne, Germany, 2009.

  • Anand kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "A Novel Approach for Tamil Morphological Analyzer", Proceedings of the 8th Tamil Internet Conference 2009, Cologne, Germany, 2009.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Padmavathy P., Anand kumar M., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Chunker for Tamil using Machine Learning", 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2009 ( ICON 2009), IIIT Hyderabad, India, 2009.

  • R. U. Rekha, Anand kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Morphological Generator for Tamil a New Data Driven Approach", 9th Tamil Internet Conference, Chemmozhi Maanaadu, Coimbatore, India, 2010.

  • Dhanalakshmi V., Anand kumar M., Rekha R. U., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Grammar Teaching Tools for Tamil", Technology for Education Conference (T4E), IIT Bombay, India, 2010.

  • Rekha R. U., Anand kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "A Novel Approach to Morphological Generator for Tamil", 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering and Management (ICDEM 2010), Trichy, India, 2010.

  • Abeera V. P., Aparna S., Rekha R. U., Anand kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Morphological Analyzer for Malayalam using Machine Learning ", 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering and Management (ICDEM 2010), Trichy, India, 2010.

  • Kiranmai G., Mallika K., Anand kumar M., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "Morphological Analyzer for Telugu using Support Vector Machine", International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT 2010), Kochi, India, 2010.

  • Anand kumar M., Rekha R. U., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., Rajendran S., "A Novel Algorithm for Tamil Morphological generator", 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing ( ICON2010), IIT Kharagpur, India.(Best second Paper award)

  • Rajendran S., Shivapratap G., Dhanalakshmi V., Soman K. P., "Building a WordNet for Dravidian Languages", 5th International Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWA2010), Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.

  • Saravanan S., Menon A. G., Soman K. P., English to Tamil Machine Translation System, INFITT 2010, at Coimbatore.

  • Antony P. J., Ajith V. P., Soman K. P., Kernel Method for English to Kannada Transliteration, International Conference on-Recent Trends in Information, Telecommunication and Computing (ITC 2010), March 12-13, 2010.

  • Antony P. J., Santhanu P Mohan, Soman K P, SVM Based Parts Speech Tagger for Malayalam, International Conference on-Recent Trends in Information, Telecommunication and Computing (ITC 2010), March 12-13, 2010.

  • Antony P. J., Ajith V. P., Soman K. P., Statistical Method for English to Kannada Transliteration, International Conference on Recent Trends in Business Administration and Information Processing (BAIP 2010), March 26-27, 2010.

  • Antony P. J., Soman K. P., Kernel Based Part of Speech Tagger for Kannada, Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2010 (ICMLC 2010), July 11-14, 2010.

  • Kathirvel P., Murugesan, Manikandan S, K. P. Soman, Visual Based Pronunciation Dictionary for Indian Languages, The Second International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E'10), at IIT-Mumbai.


Research Publications

More than 200 publications in various International Journals and Conferences