Dr. Arunkumar C. currently serves as Assistant Professor (SG) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus. His areas of research include Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning. In addition to the academic activities, to name some of the activities carried out under his leadership,
He is responsible for starting “Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers”(IETE) student forums in all engineering colleges and polytechnics in Tamilnadu under the jurisdiction of IETE Coimbatore center which expands its wings to more than 12 districts in Tamilnadu. He has also inaugurated student forums and delivered technical and non-technical lectures in more than 50 engineering colleges in Tamilnadu including some of the premier institutions like Vellore Institute of Technology, PSG college of Technology, KSR College of Engineering, Tiruchengode, Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Tamilnadu College of Engineering, NGP Institute of Technology, SSK College of Engineering, Easa College of Engineering, Sona College of Technology-Salem, MEPCO-Sivakasi, Oxford Engineering College, Jayaram Engineering College, Saranathan College of Engineering-Trichy to name a few. He also assisted the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in conducting a one day tutorial in the area of Network Security in association with Symantec Corporation at IIT Madras during May 2010 as a part of IFIP-Networking 2010. Under his leadership, IEEE chapter of Amrita received an Award from IEEE Madras Section for organizing maximum number of events in 2011. It is worthy to note that only 6 colleges in Tamilnadu have received this award out of 500 colleges and universities in Tamilnadu. He has also proctored and mentored the IEEE Extreme programming contest, a 24 hour online coding contest during October 2011 in which his team received the All India Ranking of 8 among 1500 teams that took part in the contest across the globe at the same time. IEEE Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore won the Third prize in the IEEE Region 10(Asia Pacific Region) in the website design competition under his leadership. He is also appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking 2014 which is one of the top 10 conferences in the world to be hosted at Amrita in 2014. He is an institutional member of Computer Society of India, Coimbatore chapter and also a member of IETE and Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA.He has published more than 20 papers in leading national and international conferences and journals.