Dr. Manikandan J
Professor
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About
He is currently the Dean of Research at PES University. He also heads CORI (Crucible of Research and Innovation), a center for interdisciplinary exploration and CRSST (Center for Research in Space, Science and Technology) and is also a Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), at PES University. He gained rich exposure to design related to avionics and spacecraft systems during his stints as Project Trainee at Indian Space Research Organization and as a scientist at Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), DRDO Lab. He received Best Ph.D Supervisor Award from the Board for IT Education Standards for the year 2023, Best M.Tech Supervisor Award (Second Prize) from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) for the year 2021, IETE Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award in 2015, BITES Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Board for IT Education Standards in 2015, Young Engineer Award in the year 2013 from the Institution of Engineers (India). He has six patent grants and seven patents are under examination. He has published 135+ papers in International Journals/Conferences and has received nearly 1150 citations with h-index 17 and i10-index 31 for his research papers and has received six best paper awards too. Three of his research papers published in reputed International Journals were listed in the Top 25 hottest articles ranking 3rd(IET Signal Processing), 8th (Elsevier Microprocessor and Microsystems), and 22nd(Elsevier Neurocomputing).
Research Scholar, National Institute of Technology, Trichy
Scientist 'B' and Scientist 'C, ADA, DRDO Labs, Bangalore
Project Trainee, ISRO Satellite Center, Bangalore
Project Trainee, LPSC, ISRO - Bangalore
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Board for IT Education Standards.
Best M.Tech Thesis Award Supervisor (Second Prize) from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
IETE Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).
IEI Young Engineers Award 2013 from the Institution of Engineers (India).
Best Ph.D. Research Supervisor Award from the Board for IT Education Standards for the year 2023.
Signals and Systems
Digital Electronics
Pattern Recognition
Research Methodology
Machine Learning
Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Principal Investigator - Funded Projects
Mentoring students on projects and offering internships
Director (CORI & CRSST)
Wireless Power Transfer Systems
FPGA and C based Embedded System Design
Pattern Recognition Algorithms and Systems
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Contactless Underwater Lithium Ion Battery Charging funded by Naval Research Board (2014-16).
Design and Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Nodes for Various Applications funded by AICTE (2014-17).
Design of Reconfigurable Algorithms for Naval Applications funded by Naval Research Board (2014-17).
Study and Evaluation of Reconfigurable Computing concepts funded by AICTE (2013-16).
Study, Design and Development of Model based programming for FPGA based System Design funded under ISRO RESPOND Program (2018-20).
Study, Design and Development of Electronic Nose for Early fire detection funded under ISRO RESPOND Program (2021-2023).
Design of an AI and ML based cocoon sorting machine
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Patent Title: Fast Support Vector Machine (FSVM) Classifier for Streaming Data. Status : Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 24/08/2018 Page No. 32023.
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Patent Title: Circuit Emulator using Support Vector Machine Classifier. Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 19/02/2016 Page No. 8495.
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Patent Title: Speech based Scriber for Visually Impaired Students. Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 07/02/2020 Page No. 7365.
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Patent Title: Digital Circuit Realization using Simulated Annealing. Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 13/03/2020 Page No. 13784.
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Patent Title: Digital Circuit Realization with Partitioning. Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 22/05/2020 Page No. 19495.
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Patent Title: Smart Suitcase. Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 05/06/2020 Page No. 21119.
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Patent Title: Smart Container with a Portable Weighing Plate Status: Published in Indian Patent Office Journal dated 12/06/2020 Page No. 21947.
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Xw--zsIAAAAJ
Education
Ph.D (ECE), NIT Trichy
ME in Communication Systems (ECE), NIT Trichy
BE (ECE), Thanthai Periyar Govt. Institute of Technology, Vellore (Madras University)