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Personal Details

Dr. N. Santhiyakumari, BE, M.Tech.,Ph.D.,

Professor & Head of ECE 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem - 637 504. India.

Ph: +91- ​9994053679

Email id: hod.ece@kiot.ac.in ,santhiyarajee@rediffmail.com 

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Areas of Specialization

Digital Image Processing

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Subjects Taught

UG

PG

Digital Image Processing

Neural Networks and its Applications

Wireless Communication

High Performance Communication 

Networks

Signals and Systems

Digital Image Processing 

Communication Theory

Data Communication and Networks

Computer Networks

Digital Imaging

High Speed Networks

Machine Learning Techniques

Telecommunication Switching & Networks

Data Communication

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Academic Background

Degree

Specialization

Name of the Institute

University 

Month and 

Year of Passing

Ph.D.

Bio-Medical Image Processing

K.S.Ransamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode

Anna University

Dec, 2008

M.Tech

Advance Communica

tion Systems

SASTRA,

Thanjavore

SASTRA

University

Dec, 2002

B.E.

Electronics & Communication Engg

Govt College of Engg, Salem

Madras University

May, 1997

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Work Experience as on November 2020

Name of the Institution

Position

From

To

Knowledge Institute of Technology

 Professor & Head

03.05.2010

Present

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology

Professor

01.07.2008

30.04.2010

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology

Assistant Professor

10.07.2004

30.06.2008

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology

Senior Lecturer 

01.07.2003

30.06.2004

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology

Lecturer

02.06.1997

30.06.2003

Total Experience

23 Years

5 Months

Teaching

23 Years

5 Months

Research

16 Years

5 Months

Admini stration

10 Years

5 Months

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Research Publications

Total Number of Publications

International Journal

National Journal

International Conference

National Conference

Total

43

-

49

48

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Recent Publications (Journals)

• Google Scholar profile      :  https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=VU4kn0QAAAAJ&scilu=&scisig=AMD79ooAAAAAXHS-nEbpxzxzAJVSGnlHGugFRKzB2viU&gmla=AJsN F46r64xBwhE86aw PlB4_chYmuSi941d9Z7ncGMfqOC8RHRO_H_HIR7WKLt4MswavtbzU5Y7Jq4ByWEp0oLtG

JozrHCIZcJC4XBId7u18x4B8ByNnKQ&sciund=6659220710334542560

• SSRN                                     : https://hq.ssrn.com/Participant.cfm?rectype=edit&partid=

                                                 3391163&perinf=y

• Research Gate Profile       : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Santhiya_Kumari2

Recent Publications (Conferences)

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Memberships in Professional Bodies

S.No.

Name of the Professional Body

1

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - 90550815

2

Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) – LM42849

3

Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)- M-217687

4

The Institution of Engineers (India) IE(I) – F-1202762

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Programs Organised

1

As a Technical Club Coordinator of ECE conducted Various Events and Value added courses for the students to enhance their knowledge in industry verticals from May 2011 to till date

2

As a IEEE Student Branch Counsellor of KIOT organised Various activities from June 2011 to till date, Very Recent IEEE CBE Hub Congress Conducted @ KIOT

3

As a Women Empowerment Cell Coordinator of KIOT organised programs for lady community of KIOT from 2010 to till date

4

As a INTEC (Association) Coordinator conducted Technical/Nontechnical programs for ECE students and National level Conferences and Symposium, MAP EXPO/FAA/Tech Talk etc., from the Inception of the department (2010)

5

As a HRD Cell Coordinator conducted programs from 2010 to 2018 for faculty of KIOT

6

As a College Cultural Events coordinator conducted different events for all annual days of KIOT 

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Highlights of Major Contributions

1

As a coordinator going to organize the AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Internet of Things, Principles, Paradigms and applications” in Feb 2021

2

Coordinated and organizing the AICTE Sponsored STTP on “Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in overcoming the challenges of Healthcare Industry” in 2020 -2021

3

As a HOD and Supervisor: Department of ECE is Recognized as an Anna University research centre in 2016

4

As a Supervisor for project title  " Hearing Aid through teeth Nerves" Won II Prize in the MSME & ISTE National level Project Contest (2015) and Approved for MSME funding (2016) of Rs.6.5 Lakhs from MSME, IISC COE, Bangalore

5

Acted as NBA and NAAC Coordinator from June 2009 to till Date

6

Coordinated and organized the AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Advances in Medical imaging using Computational Intelligence “ in August 2013

7

Coordinated and organized the AICTE Sponsored Seminar on “Intellectual Key For Engineering Appliances Using Embedded Systems” on ‘Advances in Medical imaging using Computational Intelligence” in Oct 2013.

8

Completed AICTE sponsored Research Promotion Scheme under the title of “ Implementation of Medical Decision Making System for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Analysis” as a Principal Investigator from May 2013 to May 2016

9

As a Board of Studies Member for Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai for Regulation 2013

10

As a head for Knowldege Business Incubator : KIOT is Recognized as Business Incubator (BI) / Host institute (HI) for implementation of the scheme “Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of SMEs” through Incubator in the year 2016 with an approval of Rs.66.5 lakhs for 10 ideas for the duration of 4 Years

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Training Programmes Attended

1

E-Sim Faculty workshop “IOT series” conducted by IIT-B

2

ATAL Incubation Centre and Pondicherry Engineering college foundation organized online webinar on “How to conduct online class to students”

3

Webinar on “Introduction to ML & ML Pipeline Publication”

4

Webinar on “Virtual Interview on J.Sujith Kumar” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem.

5

Webinar on “Use of Technology in Education & Content development Organized by Yogendra Paul.

6

Webinar on “Business Marketing and Branding Organized by Sathish Krishnan Muthu. 

7

Webinar on “Sustainable development Goals.

8

Webinar on “Understand your Personality and make your Career Choice” Babu Rangarajan Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem.

9

Webinar on “Developing and Thinking Ability” Dr.Babu Rangarajan Organized by Knowledge "Institute of Technology,Salem on 17.04.2020.

10

Webinar on “A Brand New Lecture Series from NPTEL” Organized by NPTEL on 13.04.2020.

11

Webinar “Digital Personal Branding for MBA”  Organized by Knowledge Business School on 17.04.2020

12

Webinar on “How to crack the Personal Interview” Organized by FACE Pulse on 22.04.2020.  

13

Webinar on “Understanding your Children at 15-22 age” Babu Rangarajan Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 26.04.2020.

14

Webinar on “Development Thinking Abilities Relevant for Engineering” Organized by FACE Pulse on 28.04.2020.  

15

Webinar on “CONFIDENCE-A Complete Mental Health Program during Pandemic COVID-19” Dr.Babu Rangarajan Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 29.04.2020 & 30.04.2020.

16

Webinar on “SIX SUTRAS TO BECOME MARKETING SUPER HERO” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 02.05.2020

17

Webinar on “Introduction to Machine Learning” Organized by Amazon web Services (AWS) on 04.05.2020.

18

Webinar on “Dos and Don'ts During Recruitment Process After Covid-19

” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem on 04.05.2020 .

19

Webinar on “Design Thinking for Engineers-How do you teach these principles in your class for Engineeers?” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 08.05.2020

20

Webinar on “Industry expectations and IT REVOLUTION after covid'19

” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 07.05.2020 .

21

Webinar on “SEE YOU on TOP”S.Mohan,Academy Excellence Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 07.05.2020

22

Webinar on “Future business & Scope of engineering jobs” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 08.05.2020 

23

Webinar on “Core Industry expectations after covid'19” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 09.05.2020 

24

Webinar on “Basics of Business and finance of Core Industry” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 11.05.2020 

25

Webinar on “Exploring outcome based education and NBA Process” Organized by KIOT,Salem from 07.05.2020 to 13.05.2020

26

Webinar on “AICTE Exam Reforms” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 14.05.2020 to 18.05.2020

27

Webinar on “From Caterpillar to Butterfly” Mr.C.K.Kumaravel Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 21.05.2020

28

Webinar on “Agility as Leadership Competence of the Turbulent Times” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 23.05.2020

29

Webinar on “Knowledge Outreach 2020(Digital Marketing)” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 25.05.2020.

30

Webinar on “Come out Comfort Zone Hit the Target” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 25.05.2020.

31

Webinar on “Opportunities & Challenges in the Disruptive World for the Budding Professional” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem from 27.05.2020.

32

Webinar on “E-Content Development Awareness Workshop” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 28.05.2020 to 31.05.2020.

33

Webinar on “Covid 19 Post Lock Down Safety & Hygine Measures” P.Rajamohan Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 30.05.2020.

34

Webinar on “Happiness” Dr.Babu Rangarajan Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 31.05.2020.

35

Webinar on “Restructing Engineering Education for Atmanirbhar Bharat” Prof.Anil Shasrabuddhe Organized by AICTE,New Delhi from 07.06.2020.

36

Webinar on “Material Preparation for Online Teaching and Online Delivery Strategies” Dr.S.Bhaskar Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem from 16.06.2020 to 24.06.2020.

37

Webinar on “Let it Burn” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology-Women Empowerment Cell,Salem on 28.06.2020.

38

Webinar on “NIRF 2020-What does it take to Excel?” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 27.06.2020.

39

Webinar on “Campus to Coporate” Shasikanth Jayaraman Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 29.06.2020.

40

Webinar on “ICT Academy-Virtual book launch Future of Education Nine Mega trends” Organized by Sri M Venkayanayudu on 30.06.2020.

41

Webinar “Learn to Design your own Solar Home System” Organized by Energy Swaraj Foundation on 25.06.2020.

42

Webinar “Passion is the Difference between having a Job or having a Career – Emerging Trends and Engineering Job Opportunities” S.Chellakumar Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 03.07.2020

43

Webinar “Everyone can do Quality Research-Instrumentation for Research in Thermal Engineering” Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 04.07.2020

44

Webinar “Time to Protect Ourselves from COVID-19”  Organized by Knowledge Institute of Technology,Salem on 05.07.2020

45

Ui Path -Skill-A-Thon 2020 on “Step into Robotic Process Automation”,GUVI Tech.

46

AICTE ISTE sponsored Refresher program on global environmental issues and challenges monitoring using geo graphic information 25th June 2018 to 30th June 2018

47

AICTE Sponsored FDP on Adaption of Computational Intelligent in Wireless communication systems and Network security 4th Dec 2017 to 17th Dec 2017

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As a Workshop Coordinator for

• Foundation Program in ICT for Education 3rd Aug 2017 to 19th Sep 2017. 

Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching-Learning Process 14th Sep 2017 to 8th Oct 2017

49

FDP on CMOS, Mixed Signal RF, VLSI Design from 30th Jan 2017 to 4th Feb 2017

50

IEEE FDP Medical informatics extraction using soft computing techniques in 2016

51

Short Term Training Program on  Technical Communication 8th Oct 2015 to 5th Dec 2015 

52

FDP on Signals and Systems from 2nd Jan 2014 to 12th Jan 2014

53

Completed the "Academic Leadership Workshop" organized by Wipro Technologies, Bangalore in 2014

54

FDP on Analog Electronics 4th Jun 2013 to 14th Jun 2013

55

E-Sim Faculty workshop “IOT series” conducted by IIT-B

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Role & Responsibilities

1

Department Administration & Academic Activities

• UG Programme

• PG Programme M.E. [VLSI Design]

2

Department Overall Coordinator for all Clubs and Forums

3

Research Proposals & Funding

4

College NAAC Coordinator & Department NBA Coordinator

5

Coordinator for Industry Supported Laboratory : Texas Instruments Innovation Lab, Gill Instruments Lab, National Instruments Lab, MTLC and Reliance Jio Info Commn

6

Women Empowerment Cell Coordinator of KIOT

7

IEEE Student Branch Counselor of KIOT

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Awards

1

Received Certificate of Appreciation for the tremendous effort and contribution as the Session Chair of Track : Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics  at the Full Virtual Conference IEEE REGION 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2020 held during 5t h -7t h June, 2020

2

Received Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding Contribution, Coordination and Participation during the “Global Student Solar Ambassadors“ Workshop organised globally on OCT 2, 2019 to Commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

3

Received Best IEEE Student Branch Counsellor award 2016 and 2017 from IEEE MAS, Chennai

4

Received Best Women Engineer Award 2016 from IE(I), Salem Chapter

5

Received Maharashtra State National Award for the best research work done by Teachers of Engineering Colleges - 2015 and Cash prize  in recognition of outstanding work done in the area of Biomedical image Processing organized by ISTE at 45th annual national convention  of ISTE on 10th January 2016 at HVPM's college of Engineering and Technology, Amravati, Maharashtra

6

Received Certificate of Appreciation from Texas Instruments for the contribution in TI design contest (2015)

7

Won outstanding faculty award by Venus International Faculty Award organized by   Venus International for the academic excellence in  2015

8

Recognized as an Anna University research centre for the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem in the year 2016 as a HOD and Supervisor.

9

Received Certificate of appreciation from IEEE MAS for conducting many activities for the consecutive 8 years (2011 – 2019) as a IEEE Student Branch Counsellor

10

Every year one Project proposal have been selected as one among top 8 proposals from all over Tamilnadu and won appreciation award with cash prize from IEEE MAS from 2011 to 2018 as a supervisor of the project.

11

Received Achiever award from KIOT (2014, 2015, 2016 , 2017 and 2018) for contribution towards the growth of students career  

12

Received certificate of recognition from Neuroradiology journal (Springer) as an expert peer reviewer in 2012

13

Awarded as a TOP 2% Student award in SASTRA University in the year 2001(PG)

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Research Projects and Grants

   1

Received grant of Rs. 10,63,650/- from AICTE MODROBS – RURAL under the title of “Modernization and Removal of Obsolescence in Embedded laboratory Using Internet of Things ” as a Coordinator from Sep 2019 to May 2022

 2

Received grant of Rs. 12,93,210/- from AICTE sponsored Research Promotion Scheme under the title of “ Implementation of Medical Decision Making System for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Analysis” as a Principal Investigator from May 2013 to May 2016.

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Countries Visited 

Visited Thailand in 2016

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Professional Activities 

Editor in Journal

1

i-manager’s Journal of Electronics Engineers

2

i-manager’s Journal of Pattern Recognition

Reviewer in Journal

1

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Information

2

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Springer)

3

Computer Methods In Biomechanics  And Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (Springer)

4

Journal of Electronic Imaging (Springer)

5

Signal, Image And Video Processing (Springer)

6

IET journal of computer Vision

7

Journal of Medical Systems (Springer)

8

Journal of Electronics and Electronics Letters (Springer)

9

Journal of Neuroradiology (Springer) 

10

i-manager’s Journal of Electronics Engineers

11

i-manager’s Journal of Pattern Recognition

12

Journal of International Medical Research

Reviewer in International Conferences

    1

IEEE REGION 10 Symposium (TENSYM) 2020 - Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics - the Full Virtual Conference - 2020

    2

IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (IEEE WIECON-ECE) 2016

    3

IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT)-2015