Research Activities – Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology (MCET)

Research Department

Recognized Supervisors

Scholars Completed

Scholars in progress

Grants received

Research Department

The Department of ECE has been recognized as research center by Anna University since 2015.

There are four major research groups in the Department.

Signal Processing
VLSI Design
RF, Networking and Communication
Embedded System Design

The research activities done by our faculty are published in SCI/Scopus indexed Journals (IET, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley etc.) and also submitted as project proposal in various funding agencies

Our faculty members are having expertise in the following areas to do consultancy related work in industry. Based on their experience they can be able to identify the problems pertaining to the process in industry and also they can provide feasible solution for solving real time problems in industry.

Design and Testing of VLSI circuits, Optimization of DFT, DIST architecture.
Design of Machine vision system for detecting the wrong position of chamfer in flywheel with respect to industry benchmark standard
Design of low power digital circuit and high speed analog circuit with a good proficiency in Xilinx ISE Suite, FPGA Boards and Cadence EDA Tool.
Design of Artificial Intelligence techniques to detect and diagnose faults in industrial equipment.
Development of Image processing algorithm for object recognition and classification, Security enhancement using biometric system.
Medical image/signal processing, computer/machine vision, image/video signal processing, data analysis, noise reduction


S.No	Name of the faculty with Designation	University Recognition Number	No of scholars currently under the supervisor	No of scholars completed under the supervisor
1	Dr.R.Sudhakar Professor & Head/ECE	2340376	3	7
2	Dr.V.K.Sudha Professor	2540058	2	-
3	Dr. B.Kannapiran Professor	3540003	-	-
4	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor	2330285	7	1
5	Dr. N. Saravanakumar Associate Professor	2740156	3	-
6	Dr. K. Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar Assistant Professor (SG)	2930013	1	-
7	Dr. S. Bharathi Assistant Professor (SS)	2330285	-	-

External Scholars


Candidate Name & Designation / Supervisor	Presently working Institution / Industry	Year of Registration / Year of completion	Title of the Research Work
Mr.V.Ayyem Pillai Professor / Dr. R. Sudhakar Professor& Head,ECE	Dept. of ECE, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engg. & Tech., Hyderabad.	2007/2014	Investigations into Performance complexity tradeoffs of capacity maximising mimo antenna Selection algorithms
Ms. T. R. Rajalakshmi AP/ECE / Dr. R. Sudhakar Professor& Head,ECE	Faculty School of Engineering, Dhayanandhasagar University, Bengaluru.	2010/2018	Certain Investigations on VLSI Architecture for Two Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform and Entropy Coder
Ms. C. Thirumaraiselvi AP/ECE / Dr. R. Sudhakar Professor& Head,ECE	Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.	2010/2018	Certain Investigations on VLSI Architecture for Two Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform and Entropy Coder
Mr. K. Ragesh Krishnan AP/CSE / Dr. R. Sudhakar Professor& Head,ECE	Amirtha Viswa Vidhyapeetham University, Coimbatore.	2010/2019	Certain Investigations on Classification of Liver Disorders from Ultrasound Images
Mr. A. Senthilvel Assistant Executive Engineer (O&M) / Dr. K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor, ECE	Tamilnadu Electricity Board, Pollachi	2015/2021	Efficient Design of Solar Power Plant Using Soft Computing Techniques and FPGA

Internal Scholars


Candidate Name & Designation	Year of Registration / Year of completion	Supervisor Name	Title of the Research Work
Dr. V. K. Sudha Associate Professor	2008 / 2014	Dr. R.Sudhakar Professor&Head,ECE	Certain algorithms for Compression of Volumetric medical Images
Dr. J. Amudha Assistant Professor(SG)	2009 / 2018		Certain Investigations on Algorithms for Restoration of Digital Images
Dr. S. Bharathi Assistant Professor (SS)	2010 / 2019		Certain Investigations of Hand Vein Based Multimodal Biometrics

External Scholars


1. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr. J. Dhanansekar AP/ECE
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore.
Supervisor	Dr. V. K. Sudha Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2016
Title of the Research Work	ASIC Implementation of RRAM by adiabatic Logic for low power applications.
Current Status	Confirmation Received

2. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.D.Kumar,AP/ECE
Presently working Institution/ Industry	PA College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi
Supervisor	Dr. V. K. Sudha Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2015
Title of the Research Work	Image Encryption with lossless / Lossy Compression
Current Status	Confirmation Received

3. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr. D. Silambarasan
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2015
Title of the Research Work	High speed residue system for cryptography applications
Current Status	Confirmation Received

4. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr. S. Maragatharaj
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Knowledge Institute of Technology Kakapalayam Chennai
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2016
Title of the Research Work	Design of massive input multi output low power variable digital filter banks for ultra wide band spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems.
Current Status	Confirmation Received

5. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.P.Nelson Kingsley Joel, AP/ECE
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Sri Ranganathan Engineering College, Coimbatore.
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2015
Title of the Research Work	Efficient Algorithms for Removal of Noises in Digital Images
Current Status	Confirmation Received

6. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr R. Lenin Raja AP/ECE
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Sri Vidhya College of Engg. & Tech., Virudhunagar.
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2015
Title of the Research Work	An Enhanced switching technique for reducing power consumption using multi dynamic node
Current Status	Doing Course work

7. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.S.Nagarajan Assistant Engineer
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Tamilnadu Electricity Board, Devanurpudur, Pollachi
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2015
Title of the Research Work	Design of Bidirectional Switched Boost Converter for Efficient over Flow in AC/DC Hybrid Microgrid
Current Status	Confirmation Received

8. Candidate Name & Designation	Ms. P. Gnanambikai, Lecturer(SG)/ECE
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Nachimuthu Polytechnic College, Pollachi
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2016
Title of the Research Work	Design of Efficient VLSI architecture for image De-Noising
Current Status	Confirmation Received

9. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr. N. Shankar Assistant Professor II
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam.
Supervisor	Dr.N.Saravanakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2016
Title of the Research Work	Control Techniques to Mitigate the effect of Partial Shading in PV Arrays
Current Status	Confirmation Received

10. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.S.Manivannan Assistant Professor II
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam.
Supervisor	Dr.N.Saravanakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2017
Title of the Research Work	Performance Analysis of Multiphase Multilevel Matrix Converter fed Induction Motor Drive with more Phase legs by using various Pulse width Modulation Techniques
Current Status	Confirmation Received

11. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.K.Sedhuramalingam Assistant Professor
Presently working Institution/ Industry	Sree Sakthi Engineering College, Coimbatore.
Supervisor	Dr.N.Saravanakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2017
Title of the Research Work	Certain Investigations on Network Issues for secured Data Storage in Cloud Computing
Current Status	Confirmation Received

Internal Scholars


1. Candidate Name & Designation	Ms.R.Sherine Jenny Assistant Professor(SS)
Supervisor	Dr.R.Sudhakar Professor&Head,ECE
Year of Registration	2018
Title of the Research Work	Side channel attack resistant secure implementation of block ciphers
Current Status	Confirmation Received

2. Candidate Name & Designation	Ms. T. Sathiyapriya Assistant Professor
Supervisor	Dr.R.Sudhakar Professor&Head,ECE
Year of Registration	2021
Title of the Research Work	Design and Development of Energy Harvesting Rectenna for Batteryless IoT Devices
Current Status	Doing Course work

3. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr.V.Gurunathan Assistant Professor
Supervisor	Dr.R.Sudhakar Professor&Head,ECE
Year of Registration	2021
Title of the Research Work	Blockchain Based Multimodal Biometric System
Current Status	Doing Course work

4. Candidate Name & Designation	Ms.K.Saranya, Assistant Professor
Supervisor	Dr.K.N.Vijeyakumar Associate Professor,ECE
Year of Registration	2016
Title of the Research Work	ASIC implementation of Efficient reversible arithmetic processing units for signal processing and cryptographic applications
Current Status	Confirmation Received

5. Candidate Name & Designation	Mr. J. Senthilkumar Assistant Professor
Supervisor	Dr.K.Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar
Year of Registration	2021
Title of the Research Work	Certain Investigation on Design Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Current Status	Doing Course work

Consultancy


1. Team Members	Dr. R. Sudhakar Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar Mr. E. Vinoth Mr. K. R. Gokul Anand
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Implementation of Image Smoothening and Scaling HDL model on Spartan- 6 FPGA
Year	2019-20
Client Organization	Embdes Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd.,Bangalore
Fund Amount (Rs)	48,000

2. Team Members	Dr. K. Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Machine Vision based Fault Detection System in Fly wheel Machining Line
Year	2018-19
Client Organization	Sakthi Auto Component Limited
Fund Amount (Rs)	80,000

3. Team Members	Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar
Name of the Consultancy Activity	FPGA Implementation of de-noising algorithms for image processing
Year	2018-19
Client Organization	Kalaignar Karunanidhi Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
Fund Amount (Rs)	4,720

4. Team Members	Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Arithmetic unit design
Year	2017-18
Client Organization	Sri Ranganathar College of Engineering , Coimbatore
Fund Amount (Rs)	1,940

5. Team Members	Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Memory design
Year	2017-18
Client Organization	SRM University, Chennai
Fund Amount (Rs)	9,314

6. Team Members	Ms. D. Reka Ms. T. Sathiyapriya
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Antenna Tuning
Year	2017-18
Client Organization	Emdes Technologies
Fund Amount (Rs)	–

7. Team Members	Mr. K. Dhinesh Ms. T. Sathiyapriya
Name of the Consultancy Activity	Antenna Characterization
Year	2017-18
Client Organization	Emdes Technologies
Fund Amount (Rs)	–

Funded Projects


1. PI/Co-PI	Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar Dr.N.Saravanakumar Ms.S.Kalaiselvi
Name of the Project	High End Analog IC Design
Year	2020-22
Funding Agency	ISRO, Bangalore
Fund Amount (Rs)	20,04,000

2. PI/Co-PI	Dr. M.Senthilarasi Dr. S.Bharathi
Name of the Project	Implementation of a Machine learning technique for enhancing safety at Public Women-only spaces
Year	2021-23
Funding Agency	DST-SEED, Science and Technology for Women
Fund Amount (Rs)	14,37,344

3. PI/Co-PI	Dr. V. K. Sudha
Name of the Project	Green energy based vegetable preservator controlled through IOT
Year	2018-19
Funding Agency	Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Fund Amount (Rs)	28,000

4. PI/Co-PI	Dr. V. K. Sudha
Name of the Project	Raspberry Pi controlled smarth switching through IOT
Year	2017-18
Funding Agency	Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Fund Amount (Rs)	1,940

5. PI/Co-PI	Dr. K. Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar Mr. G. Anand
Name of the Project	Classification of brain wave signals
Year	2017-18
Funding Agency	Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Fund Amount (Rs)	21,680

6. PI/Co-PI	Dr. R. Sudhakar Ms. T. Sathyapriya Mr. V. Gurunathan
Name of the Project	Design of compact microwave circuit components using novel DGS and its application
Year	2017-18
Funding Agency	Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Fund Amount (Rs)	9,115

7. PI/Co-PI	Ms. V. K. Sudha
Name of the Project	Real time signal processing of the Electrical activity of the human brain for early Detection of Alzheimer’s disease (RPS)
Year	2008-10
Funding Agency	AICTE
Fund Amount (Rs)	5.4 Lakhs

8. PI/Co-PI	Ms. T. Sathiyapriya
Name of the Project	Battery-free IOT devices based on RF Energy harvesting technique
Year	2019-20
Funding Agency	TNSCST – Student Project Scheme
Fund Amount (Rs)	7,500

9. PI/Co-PI	Ms. S. Sugunavathy
Name of the Project	Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna
Year	2018-19
Funding Agency	TNSCST – Student Project Scheme
Fund Amount (Rs)	7,500

Other Grants


Faculty Members	Name of the Activity	Year	Funding Agency / Fund Amount (Rs)
1. Dr. K. N. Vijeyakumar	FDP titled “Network Security and CMOS Mixed Signal Architectures”	2019-20	AICTE / 4,74,000
2. Dr.R.Sudhakar Mr.B.Kishore	FDP titled “Acquisition Analysis and Digital Processing of Medical Images”	2011-12	CSIR/ 30,000
3. Dr.R.Sudhakar Mr.B.Kishore	FDP titled “Acquisition Analysis and Digital Processing of Medical Images”	2011-12	DRDO/ 25,000
4. Dr.R.Sudhakar Mr.B.Kishore	FDP titled “Transmission lines and Waveguides”	2010-11	Anna university of Technology-Coimbatore / 30,000
5. Dr.R.Sudhakar Mr.J.Rangarajan	Up-gradation of Networks Laboratory (MODROBS)	2009-10	AICTE / 8.5 Lakhs
6. Dr.R.Sudhakar	SDP Titled “Application of wavelets and soft computing techniques for power quality analysis”	2009-10	AICTE / 1.55 Lakhs
7. Ms.V.K.Sudha	FDP titled “Signals and Systems”	2007-08	Anna university, Chennai/ 25,000