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ACHIEVEMENTS

The Department actively promotes research and provides the faculty and students with opportunities to delve into high-quality research projects, and sponsorship projects, leading to research publications, articles and book chapters.

Faculty

2024

  • Remya Ajai and Dr. Gayathri Narayan both successfully received their PhDs from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with the University of Milan, Italy, jointly organized the workshop “Multiscale Brain Function and Neuro-Inspired Devices” at Via Celoria 2, Milan. The workshop bridged themes of neuroscience, data science, and artificial intelligence. It was organized by Prof. Giovanni Naldi and Dr. Thierry Nieus from the University of Milan, along with Prof. Shyam Diwakar, Professor in the ECE department and Director of the Amrita Mind Brain Center, Amritapuri campus. The event was part of the project “Multiscale Brain Function India-Italy Network of Excellence”, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, India, and the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy.
  • Shyam Diwakar delivered a talk at the SPARC workshop organized by IIT Hyderabad on the topic “Multiscale Modelling of the Cerebellum and its Circuits” on December 17, 2024.
  • Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Director of HuT Labs and Professor in the ECE Department, delivered two engaging seminars at Amrita School of Engineering, Nagercoil campus on November 21, 2024.
  • Rajesh Kannan Megalingam delivered the keynote address at Continental’s prestigious TCI Engineering Week held in Bengaluru.
  • The Amrita Research & Innovation Symposium for Excellence (ARISE ‘24), is scheduled to take place at Amritapuri Campus, from 7th to 10th January 2024.

2023

  • Inauguration of the new research center – Sustainable Mobility and Automotive Research Technology (SMART) Center on Jun 29, 2023, at Amritapuri Campus. Shri. Antony Raju, Minister of Transport, Kerala has inaugurated the center and Dr. Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY, GoI, was the Chief Guest.

2022

  • Dr. Shyam Diwakar, ECE faculty and Director of Amrita Brain Center was the invited speaker for the workshop “Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnostics” organized by JIPMER, Puducherry in association with ICMR and MHFW, Govt. of India on 25th and 26th November 2022 in Tamil Nadu.
  • Dr. Shyam Diwakar was the invited speaker for School of Brain Cells & Circuits “Camillo Golgi” Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy during 29th November 2022 – 3rd December 2022.

2021

  • Under the mentorship of Dr. Rajesh Kannan of ECE, the students and research scholars of ECE in collaboration with Megara Robotics, Chennai, (http://megararobotics.com/) successfully built the first product, Prabha – IoT Based UV Sanitizer Robot and delivered two of them to Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri campus on Mar 22, 2021.
  • IEEE HAC & SIGHT has approved the student COVID project “Autonomous wheelchair with negative pressure isolation hood (21-COV1-071)” with a funding of USD 4919 in June 2021.
    This project is in collaboration with Dr. Sandeep Veeraraghavan and Dr. Ravi Sankaran from AIMS, Kochi .
  • Udbodh 2021-IEEE Student Branch together with Megara Robotics, Chennai have successfully completed 25 webinars during this pandemic by Our ECE alumni. Udbodh 2021, a one day event was celebrated to mark the 25 successful webinars by ECE alumni.

Honors/Awards

Award of Excellence- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

  • For the outstanding contributions that are made by our faculty in research and academics, they have been conferred with various recognitions as listed below:
  • Dr. Bhibhu Datta (2015): For having received funding of Rs. 153.7 Lakhs towards research.
  • Dr. Sundar Gopal(2014) and Br. Karthi(2013) received for Journal Publications
  • Dr. Rajesh Kannan : 2013 – ‘IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award’ from IEEE, NJ, USA
    : 2011 – For having received various funded projects.
  • Br. Karthi (2011): Towards coaching students appearing for GATE.

Reviewer/Editor for Reputed Journals and Conferences

  • Dr. Shaikshavali C is a reviewer for many journals and conferences such as:
    • Reviewer for Journals
      • Signal processing,
      • International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Reviewer for Conferences
    • European Control Conference
    • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    • American Control Conference
    • World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  • Dr. Bibhudatta Sahoo is the reviewer for some of the International Journals and conferences such as :
    • Reviewer for Journals:
      • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I (TCAS I),
      • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II (TCAS II)
    • Reviewer for Conferences:
      • 27th International Conference on VLSI Design,IIT Mumbai, 2014,
      • 18th National Conference on Communications (NCC), 2012, IIT Kharagpur.
    • Editor
      • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I (TCAS II)
  • Dr. Purushothaman A is also a reviewer for journals such as:
    • Reviewer for Journals:
      • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.,
      • IEEE Transactions on VLSI
      • Circuits, systems and Signal processing, Springer.

Other Category

  • Best paper award: Dr. Rajesh Kannan won the Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Soft Computing (CISC-2017) at VBIT, Hyderabad from 20th to 21st December 2017. The paper was co-authored by S5 ECE bachelor students- Souraj Vishnu, Vishnu Sasikumar and Sreekumar S.
  • Under the leadership of Dr. Rajesh Kannan, IEEE Student Branch of our campus has won the international “The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award” for the year 2017 under GOLD category.
  • Best Student Chapter Award : Dr. Rajesh Kannan received the Best student chapter award in the world for IEEE IES Student Chapter of Amritapuri Campus in Yokohama city, Japan, at IEEE IECON Nov 11, 2015.
  • In 2015, two of our faculty members, Mr. Athul Shaji and Ms. Gayathri N have received Vishwesaraya Scholarship for research offered by Department of Electronics and Information Technology and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
  • Dr. Shaikshavali C is a member of a couple of Local organizing committee such as IEEE International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, 2013, Nice, France. IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, 2014, Antibes, France.
  • Dr. Nithin Nagraj received the prestigious award – “Rapid Grant for Young Investigators” (RGYI), from Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Tech., Govt. of India during 2010-2013.
  • Dr. Nithin Nagraj, has the prestigious position of Adjunct faculty (Honorary), School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore (July 2012 – current).
  • Dr. Nithin Nagraj is also the reviewer for numerous International Journals and Transactions such as:
    • IEEE Transactions (Image Processing; Information Forensics & Security)
    • European Physics Journal
    • International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
    • Journal of Theoretical Biology, of Information Sciences (Elsevier)
    • CSIT (Computer Science and Information Technology)(Springer)
    • CHAOS (American Institute of Physics)
    • CNSNS (Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation) (Elsevier),
    • International Journal of Imaging
    • EURASIP Journal of Information Security
    • ActaApplicandae, Mathematicae (Springer)
    • Computers and Mathematics with Applications (Elsevier)
    • Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Hindawi)
    • Journal of Franklin Institute (Elsevier) and
    • Journal of Information Sciences (Elsevier)
  • Mr. Rajesh Kannan was appointed as the reviewer of the conference GHTC (Global Humanitarian Technology Conference)-2012. He was been also awarded the “Outstanding Branch Counselor” given by IEEE Kerala Section in 2012.
  • Dr. Sundar Gopal, Dr. Nithin Nagraj, and Bri. Remya, were awarded the “Certificate of Recognition” by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for publishing in International Journals during the academic year 2011 (July 2011 – May 2012) .
  • IEEE Kerala Section has bestowed a “Special Recognition Award” on Mr. Rajesh Kannan in 2011. Dr. Sundar Gopal, Dr. Nithin Nagraj, Mr. Karthi B. and Mr. Ramesh Bhakthavatchalu received “Certificate of Recognition for contribution to research” in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2011.
  • Mr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam received the “Outstanding Contribution to Technical Projects Award” given by IEEE Kerala Section in 2009.

Coordinator/ Invited Speaker

  • Dr. Purushothaman A was the co-ordinator for the workshop on “ CMOS Mixed Circuit RF VLSI Design” at IIT, Kharagpur during 19-25 September.
  • Dr. Purushothaman A was also an invited speaker for the FDP on “VLSI Design Fundamentals and Advanced” at College of Engineering, Perumon during July 20-25.
  • Dr. Ramesh B was an invited speaker for the FDP on “VLSI Design Fundamentals and Advanced” at College of Engineering, Perumon during July 20-25. He delivered a talk on “ VLSI Tesing”.

Funded Projects

  • “Bandpass Delta-Sigma – ADC for Multi-standard Wireless Application”, funded by Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India with project grand of Rs. 8 Lakhs, PI : Dr. Bibu Dutta Sahoo .
  • “Development of a high resolution Hybrid Superconductor and Semiconductor ADC”, funded by HypresInc, New York, USA, with an assistance of Rs. 43 lakhs, PI : Dr. Bibu Dutta Sahoo .
  • “Mathematical modeling of population dynamics of Drosophila Melanogaster”, funded by Department of Bio-technology, Govt. of India. The project is being carried out by Dr. Nithin Nagraj (in collaboration with IISER Pune) with a funding amount of Rs. 6.38 Lakhs, PI : Dr. Nithin Nagraj.
  • IEEE Standards Education Committee, NJ, USA funded prjects, PI : Mr. Rajesh Kannan
    • Comparative Study and Implementation of JPEG & JPEG2000 Standards for Satellite Meteorological Imaging Controller in HDL.
    • Wireless Gadget for Home-bound Patients (using IEEE standard1073 for Medical Device Communications).
    • Intelligent Home Navigation System (IHNS) for the elderly and the physically challenged (with a grant US $7520).
    • Assistive Technology for Pregnant Women Health Care: Rural, Mobile Ultrasound Scan System ($800).
  • Along with this Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has funded a project named “Robo Coconut Tree Climber”.

Patents

  • Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Head of HuT Labs and Associate Professor in the Department of ECE at Amritapuri Campus, along with Dr. Ravi Sankaran, Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the School of Medicine, Kochi Campus, were granted an Indian patent titled “Hand Orthosis Control using Electrooculography.”
  • Anuraj K filed a patent on “Integrating Graph Signal Processing and Deep Learning for Parkinson’s Disease Detection,” with her guide, Dr. Vivek Menon from the CSE department.
  • “Graph extraction labelling and visualization”, US PAT# 7, 719, 533, issued on May 18, 2010, Lead-inventor: Dr. Nithin Nagraj.
  • “Method and apparatus for segmenting structure in CT Angiography” , US PAT# 7, 676, 257, issued on March 9, 2010, Co-Inventor: Dr. Nithin Nagraj.
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