Dr. M. Sabarimalai Manikandan

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical Sciences

Office : Room 317, Third Floor, School of Electrical Sciences

Phone : +91-0674-713-5726 (O)

Email : msm@iitbbs.ac.in, msm.sabari@gmail.com

Education

Degree	Discipline	Year	School
Ph.D.	Biomedical Signal Processing	2009	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
M.E.	Microwave and Optical Engineering	2002	Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering And Technology
B.E.	Electronics and Communication Engineering	2000	Amrita Institute of Technology & Science

Research Interests

Areas of Research: Electronic System Design; Signal and Image Processing; Machine Learning and Internet of Things -------------------------------------------------------------------- Smart Sensing and Monitoring System Development: Contact and Non-Contact Medical Devices, Soil Health Monitor, Water & Air Quality Monitor, Machine Health Monitor, Power Quality Monitor; Sound Based Event Monitor, Drone Detection and Recognition; Multimodal Surveillance Monitor; Forensic Audio and Visual Analytics; Voice-Enabled Technologies

Teaching

Embedded systems, Signals and Networks, Biomedical Signal Processing, Electromagnetic Engineering, Digital Signal Processing; Introduction to Electronics; Digital Electronics, Electronic System Design Lab, DSP and Embedded System Lab, Signals and Networks Lab, Design and Simulation Lab, Introduction to Electronics Lab, Digital Electronics Lab

Publications

Journals

1G. Narendra Kumar Reddy, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and N. V. L. Narasimha Murty, "On-Device Integrated PPG Quality Assessment and Sensor Disconnection/Saturation Detection System for IoT Health Monitoring," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 6351-6361, Sept. 2020.

2R. Kukde, G. Panda and M. S. Manikandan, "Bio-inspired evolutionary computing approach for distributed active noise control problem," in Cognitive Computation and Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 57-65, 6 2020.

3 P. P. Mishra, C. N. Bhende and M. S. Manikandan, "Islanding detection using total variation-based signal decomposition technique," in IET Energy Systems Integration, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 22-31, 3 2020.

4R. Kukde, M. S. Manikandan and G. Panda, "Incremental Learning Based Adaptive Filter for Nonlinear Distributed Active Noise Control System," in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 1-13, 2020.

5S. Vadrevu and M. S. Manikandan, "Use of zero-frequency resonator for automatically detecting systolic peaks of photoplethysmogram signal," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 53-58, 6 2019.

6S. Vadrevu and M. S. Manikandan, "A New Quality-Aware Quality-Control Data Compression Framework for Power Reduction in IoT and Smartphone PPG Monitoring Devices," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 1-4, July 2019.

7S. Vadrevu and M. S. Manikandan, "Real-Time Quality-Aware PPG Waveform Delineation and Parameter Extraction for Effective Unsupervised and IoT Health Monitoring Systems," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 17, pp. 7613-7623, 1 Sept.1, 2019.

8S. Vadrevu and M. S. Manikandan, "Real-Time PPG Signal Quality Assessment System for Improving Battery Life and False Alarms," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 1910-1914, Nov. 2019.

9U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. S. Manikandan, "A New Automated Signal Quality-Aware ECG Beat Classification Method for Unsupervised ECG Diagnosis Environments," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 277-286, 1 Jan.1, 2019.

10S. Vadrevu and M. S. Manikandan, "A Robust Pulse Onset and Peak Detection Method for Automated PPG Signal Analysis System," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 807-817, March 2019.

11K. A. Babu, B. Ramkumar and M. S. Manikandan, "Automatic Identification of S1 and S2 Heart Sounds Using Simultaneous PCG and PPG Recordings," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, no. 22, pp. 9430-9440, 15 Nov.15, 2018.

12R. Kukde, G. Panda and M. S. Manikandan, "On distributed non-linear active noise control using diffusion collaborative learning strategy," in IET Signal Processing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 410-421, 6 2018.

13U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. S. Manikandan, "A Review of Signal Processing Techniques for Electrocardiogram Signal Quality Assessment," in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 11, pp. 36-52, 2018.

14U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. S. Manikandan, "Automated ECG Noise Detection and Classification System for Unsupervised Healthcare Monitoring," in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 722-732, May 2018.

15P. S. Deshpande and M. S. Manikandan, "Effective Glottal Instant Detection and Electroglottographic Parameter Extraction for Automated Voice Pathology Assessment," in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 398-408, March 2018.

16P. D. Achlerkar, S. R. Samantaray and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Variational Mode Decomposition and Decision Tree Based Detection and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances in Grid-Connected Distributed Generation System," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3122-3132, July 2018.

17U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Real-Time Signal Quality-Aware ECG Telemetry System for IoT-Based Health Care Monitoring," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 815-823, June 2017.

18U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Noise-aware dictionary-learning-based sparse representation framework for detection and removal of single and combined noises from ECG signal," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 2-12, 2 2017.

19E. Prabhakararao and M. S. Manikandan, "Efficient and robust ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation detection method for wearable cardiac health monitoring devices," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 239-246, 9 2016.

20U. Satija, B. Ramkumar and M. S. Manikandan, "Robust cardiac event change detection method for long-term healthcare monitoring applications," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 116-123, 6 2016.

21M. S. Manikandan, B. Ramkumar, P. S. Deshpande and T. Choudhary, "Robust detection of premature ventricular contractions using sparse signal decomposition and temporal features," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 141-148, 12 2015.

22M. S. Manikandan, S. R. Samantaray and I. Kamwa, "Detection and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using Sparse Signal Decomposition on Hybrid Dictionaries," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 27-38, Jan. 2015.

23M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, S. R. Samantaray and I. Kamwa, "Simultaneous denoising and compression of power system disturbances using sparse representation on overcomplete hybrid dictionaries," in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1077-1088, 6 8 2015.

24S. S. Kambhampati, V. Singh, M. S. Manikandan and B. Ramkumar, "Unified framework for triaxial accelerometer-based fall event detection and classification using cumulants and hierarchical decision tree classifier," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 101-107, 8 2015.

25M. S. Manikandan and B. Ramkumar, "Straightforward and robust QRS detection algorithm for wearable cardiac monitor," in Healthcare Technology Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 40-44, 1 2014.

26M. S. Manikandan and K. P. Soman, "Robust heart sound activity detection in noisy environments," in Electronics Letters, vol. 46, no. 16, pp. 1100-1102, 5 August 2010.

27M. S. Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "Multiscale Entropy-Based Weighted Distortion Measure for ECG Coding," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 829-832, 2008.

28U. Satija, B. Ramkumar, M. S. Manikandan, ``A novel sparse classifier for automatic modulation classification using cyclostationary features," Wireless Personal Communication (Springer), vol. 96, no. 3, 2017.

29Titir Dutta, Udit Satija, Barathram. Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, “Blind Impulse Estimation and Removal using Sparse Signal Decomposition Framework for OFDM Systems”, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp 847–861, February 2018.

30UditSatija, Barathram.Ramkumar, M. SabarimalaiManikandan, ``An automated ECG signal quality assessment method for unsupervised diagnostic systems" Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 38, no.1, pp. 54-70, 2018.

31M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and S. Dandapat, "Wavelet-based electrocardiogram signal compression methods and their performances: A prospective review," Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 14, pp. 73-107, Nov. 2014.

32M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and K. P. Soman, "A novel method for detecting R-peaks in electrocardiogram (ECG) signal," Biomed. Signal Process. Control (Elsevier), vol. 07, no. 02, pp. 118–128, March 2012.

33P. Kathirvel, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, S. R. M. Prasanna, K. P. Soman, "An Efficient R-peak Detection Based on New Nonlinear Transformation and First-Order Gaussian Differentiator" Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (Springer), vol. 02, no. 04, pp. 408-425, December 2011.

34M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "Wavelet threshold based TDL and TDR algorithms for real-time ECG signal compression," Biomed. Signal Process. Control, Elsevier, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 44-66, January 2008.

35M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "Wavelet energy based diagnostic distortion measure for ECG," Biomed. Signal Process. Control (Elsevier), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 80-96, April 2007.

36M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "Wavelet threshold based ECG compression using USZZQ and Huffman coding of DSM," Biomed. Signal Process. Control (Elsevier), vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 261-270, October 2006.

Conferences

1Yaswanth Chalamalasetti, Sudhir Kumar Sahoo, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and Barathram Ramkumar, "Software Defined Radio Based Multi-Band Audio Broadcasting System for Drone Based Communications," 5th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT), IIT Patna,2020.

2 Sudhir Kumar Sahoo, Yaswanth Chalamalasetti, Barathram Ramkumar and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Deep Learning Based Wireless Module Identification (WMI) Methods for Cognitive Wireless Communication Network," International Conference on Paradigms of Computing, Communication and Data Sciences (PCCDS-2020), NIT Kurukshetra, May 2020.

3Kinjarapu Manojkumar, Srinivas Boppu and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan "An Automated Algorithm for Estimating Respiration Rate From PPG Signals" 2nd Int. Conf. on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data sciences (MIND-2020), NIT Silchar, Assam, March. 2020.

4Ungati. Ganapathi and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, Convolutional Neural Network Based Sound Recognition Methods for Detecting Presence of Amateur Drones in Unauthorized Zones," 2nd Int. Conf. on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data sciences (MIND-2020), NIT Silchar, Assam, March. 2020.

5 Padala Bhaskara Rao, Srinivas Boppu and M Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Performance Study of Ultra Wide Band Radar Based Respiration Rate Measurement Methods," International Conference on Paradigms of Computing, Communication and Data Sciences (PCCDS-2020), NIT Kurukshetra, May 2020

6Priya Das, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and B. Ramkumar, "Detection of Epileptic Seizure Event in EEG Signals Using Variational Mode Decomposition and Mode Spectral Entropy," 2018 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Rupnagar, India, 2018, pp. 42-47.

7G. N. K. Reddy, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and N. V. L. N. Murty, "Integrated Data Compression and Pulse Rate Extraction Scheme Using Differential Coding for Wireless PPG Monitoring Devices," 2018 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Rupnagar, India, 2018, pp. 48-53.

8Shivam Soni, S. Dey and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Automatic Audio Event Recognition Schemes for Context-Aware Audio Computing Devices," 2019 Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), Trabzon, Turkey, 2019, pp. 23-28.

9Pooja Kumawat and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "SSQA: Speech Signal Quality Assessment Method using Spectrogram and 2-D Convolutional Neural Networks for Improving Efficiency of ASR Devices," 2019 Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), Trabzon, Turkey, 2019, pp. 29-34

10M. Sabarimalai Manikandan; Anil Kumar Yadav; Debalina Ghosh, ``Elimination of impulsive disturbances from archive audio signals using sparse representation in mixed dictionaries" TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, pp. 2531 - 2535, 2017.

11Simhadri Vadrevu, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Effective Systolic Peak Detection Algorithm Using VariationalMode Decomposition and Center of Gravity" 2016 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Singapore, 2016, pp. 2711-2715.

12Udit Satija, Barathram. Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "A Robust Sparse Signal Decomposition Framework for Baseline Wander Removal from ECG Signal" 2016 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Singapore, 2016, pp. 2470-2473.

13Eedara Prabhakararao and M Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Detection of Life-Threatening Arrhythmias Using Random Noise and Zerocrossing Information," in Proc. Int. Conf. Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2016.

14Udit Satija, Barathram. Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, ``Low-Complexity Detection and Classification of ECG Noises for Automated ECG Analysis System," in Proc. Int. Conf. Signal Processing and Communication-SPCOM 2016.

15 Udit Satija, Barathram. Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "An Unified Sparse Signal Decomposition and Reconstruction Framework for Elimination of Muscle Artifacts From ECG Signal" In Proc. IEEE ICASSP, March 2016.

16Eedara Prabhakararao, and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "On the Use of Variational Mode Decomposition for Removal of Baseline Wander in ECG Signals" Accepted Twenty Second National Conference on Communications 2016, IIT Guwahati.

17Tilendra Choudhary and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Robust Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Based Biometric Authentication for Wireless Body Area Networks and m-Health Applications" Accepted Twenty Second National Conference on Communications 2016, IIT Guwahati.

18M. Mohanty, U. Satija, Barathram. Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Digital modulation classification under non-Gaussian noise using sparse signal decomposition and maximum likelihood," 21st National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Bombay, 2015.

19Pranav S. Deshpande and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Improving Accuracy of Glottal Closure Instant Detection Methods in Nonstationary Noise," Int. Conf. Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN), pp.736-741, Feb. 2015.

20Tilendra Choudhary and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "A Novel Unified Framework for Noise-Robust ECG-Based Biometric Authentication," Int. Conf. Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN), pp.186-191, Feb. 2015.

21Udit Satija, Barathram.Ramkumar and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "A Simple Method for Detection and Classification of ECG Noises for Wearable ECG Monitoring Devices," Int. Conf. Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN), pp.164-169, Feb. 2015.

22U. Satija, Barathram.Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, ``Performance study of cyclostationary based digital modulation classification schemes," 9th Int. Conf. Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Dec. 2014

23Sriram Raju Dandu, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and Barathram Ramkumar, "An Automated Method for Detecting Systolic Peaks from Arterial Blood Pressure Signals" IEEE Students' Technology Symposium 2014. IIT Kharagpur. [IEEE TechSym 2014 Best Presentation Award]

24M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman, S. Dandapat, "Quality-Driven Wavelet Based PCG Signal Coding for Wireless Cardiac Patient Monitoring," IEEE International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR2011), ACM Digital Library, pp. 519-526, 2011.

25Britty Baby, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman, "Automated Cardiac Event Change Detection for Continuous Remote Patient Monitoring Devices" IEEE International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR2011), ACM Digital Library, pp. 225-232, 2011.

26N. S. V. Krishna Chaitanya Chaitanya, Anoop Radhakrishnan, G. Rakesh Reddy and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "A simple and robust QRS detection algorithm for wireless medical body area Networks" International Conference on Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC2011), pp. 153-158, IEEE Explore, 2011.

27M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "An effective wavelet-based lossy compression of noisy ECG signals", Proc. IEEE TENCON 2008, 2008.

28M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "Wavelet-based ECG and PCG signals compression technique for mobile telemedicine," in Proc. 15th Int. Conf. Advanced Computing and Communication 2007, IEEE Explore, pp. 164-169, Dec. 2007.

29M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and S. Dandapat, "ECG signal compression using discrete sinc interpolation," in Proc. 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, pp. 14-19, Dec. 2005.

30P. Kathirvel, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, P. Maya, K.P.Soman, Detection of power quality disturbances with overcomplete dictionary matrix and ℓ1-norm minimization, International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPS), IIT Madras, IEEE Explore; December 2011.

31P. Kathirvel, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, S. Senthilkumar, K. P. Soman, Noise Robust Zerocrossing Rate Computation for Audio Signal Classification, 3rd International Conference on Trendz in Information Sciences and Computing (TISC), IEEE Explore, pp. 65-69, 2011.

32C. Manoj, S. Magesh, Aditya Sriram Sankaran, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "Novel approach for detecting applause in continuous meeting speech" 3rd International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology -ICECT 2011, IEEE Explore, vol. 03, pp. 182-186, 2011.

33Publications in Image Processing

34K. Syama, N. George, S. Sekhar, C. S. Neethu, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman, "Performance Study of Active Contour Model Based Character Segmentation with Nonlinear Diffusion," in Int. Conf. Advances in Computing and Communications (ICACC), pp.118-121, 9-11 Aug. 2012

35Nivitha Varghees V, Rolant Gini, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and K. P. Soman, "A New Framework to Automatically Select Noise Model for Rician Noise Estimation in MR Images," in Intl. Conf. Advances in Computing and Communications (ICACC), pp.82-85, 9-11 Aug. 2012

36D. Bharath Bhushan V. Sowmya, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and K. P. Soman, "An effective pre-processing algorithm for detecting noisy spectral bands in hyperspectral imagery," International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), IEEE Explore, pp. 34-39, 2011.

37Nivitha Varghees V, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, and Rolant Gini, "Adaptive MRI Image Denoising Using Total-Variation and Local Noise Estimation" Int. Conf. Advances in Engineering, Science and Management, pp.506-511, 2012

38 V. Sowmya, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman "A Decision Tree Based Land Cover Image Classification Using Color Space and Texture" in Proc. Int. Conf. Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, 2011.

39Merin Cherian, Radhika G, Shajeesh K. U, K. P. Soman , M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, "A Level-Set Based Binarization and Segmentation for Scanned Malayalam Document Image Analysis," in Proc. Int. Conf. Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, 2011.

40Praveen Krishnan, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan and K. P. Soman, "A Novel Framework for Automated Skew Detection and Correction in Scanned Document Images" in Proc. Int. Conf. Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, 2011.

Academic Honors & Awards

Top 70 most-cited articles published in the past 7 years (14th position) at A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement: Our paper titled "M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, S. R. Samantaray and I. Kamwa, ''Detection and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using Sparse Signal Decomposition on Hybrid Dictionaries,"
IEEE TechSym 2014 Best Paper Awards, IIT Kharagpur
Session-Best Paper in ICIoTCT2020, IIT Patna
2019 IET Healthcare Technology Letters Premium Award, Journal of IET: Udit Satija, Barathram Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan: ‘ Noise-aware dictionary-learning-based sparse representation framework for detection and removal of single and combined noises from ECG signal’, 2017, 4, (1), pp. 2–12
2019 CVET Most Cited Article Award, by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BME) and Springer Nature, Philadelphia.
Excellence Award-2012 (Outstanding Performer), Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
Employee of the Month –August 2012, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
The heart of the matter-A featured article published in Electronics Letters, vol. 46 no. 16, August 2010.
Amrita University team's algorithm to help doctors in diagnosis- The Hindu, Aug 15, 2010

Completed

Ruchi Dilip Kukde, Development and Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Algorithms for Distributed Active Noise Control, Decemeber 2020

Simhadri Vadrevu, Quality-Aware Photoplethysmographic Signal Processing Methods for Reducing False Alarms and Energy Consumption, January 2021.

In Progress

Gangireddy Narendra Kumar Reddy, Multiparameter Extraction and Pulse Rate Variability Analysis

Y. Sivanjaneyulu, Drone Presence Detection

Thesis Supervised

Year	Thesis Guided at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2013-
2020	Padala Bhaskara Rao	Performance Study of Ultra-wide Band Radar Based Respiration Rate Measurement Methods
2020	Kinjarapu Manojkumar	Signal Processing Methods For Reliable Measurement of Respiration Rate In Contact And Noncontact Sensing Environments
2020	U Ganapathi	Sound Recognition Methods for Detecting Presence of Amateur Drones
2019	Shivam Soni	Automatic Audio Event Recognition Schemes for Context-Aware Audio Computing Devices
2019	Pooja Kumawat	Speech Signal Quality Assessment Schemes for Improving Performance of On-Device and Cloud-Based ASR Systems
2018	Joydip Panja	Environmental Audio Scene Classification
2018	Priya Das	Automated Epileptic Seizure Event Detection from EEG Signals, Co-Supervisor with Dr. Barathram. Ramkumar
2018	Gaurav	Detection of Life-Threatening Arrhythmias Using Convolutional Neural Network
2018	Ugesh Utti	Human Activity Classification System for Health Care Monitoring
2016	E. Prabhakararao	Efficient and Robust Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation Detection Method for Wearable Cardiac Health Monitoring Devices
2016	Chandan Maurya	Heart Murmur Detection and Classification
2016	Mrinal Kanti Boro	A Feasibility Study for Emotion Recognition Using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), Co-Supervisor with Dr. N. N. Murty
2015	Deshpande Pranav	Glottal Instants Detection from Speech and EGG Signals
2015	Tilendra Choudhary	Delineation Framework for PPG and ECG Signals
2014	Anil Kumar Yadav	Sparse Representation Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Detection and Elimination of Impulsive Noise from Audio Signals, Co-Supervisor with Dr. D. Ghosh

Year	Thesis Guided at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2013-
2020	Arpit Bal	VLSI Implementation of PPG Quality Aware System
2020	Chirag Nighut	Classification of forest sounds using MFCC, ACF Spectrogram features for Audio Surveillance
2020	N. Liyanth Raj	Emotion Recognition by EEG Signal
2020	Aditya Terkar	VLSI implementation of ECG Quality Aware System
2019	Sudipta Dey	IoT Cloud Enabled Sound Recognition Based Smart Farm Surveillance Network
2019	Saurabh Arkasali	Exploring Machine Learning based Sound Recognition Methods for IoT - Cloud Enabled Autonomous Hollowness Monitoring Vehicle
2018	Jayanthi S Aniruth	Continuous Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
2018	R J Visruth	Environmental Sounds Classification using Neural Networks
2017	Rayudu Pujitha	Active Speaker Localization in a Meeting Room, Co-Supervisor with Dr. Lalan Kumar
2016	Diptanu D, Lalit K	Event Triggered Surveillance System For Smart-Home Environment
2015	E. V. Nitin	Non-invasive Blood Pressure Estimation Using PPG and ECG, Co-Guide with Dr. R. Jha
2015	K Staya Samyukta and Vishal Singh	Design and Implementation of Wearable Human Fall Monitoring System, Co-Guide with Dr. Barathram. Ramkumar
2015	Sriram Venkatesh and Udya Kiran	Design and Implementation of Wearable Wireless Cardiac Vital Signs Monitor Using Photoplethysmography Sensor, Co-Guide with Dr. Barathram. Ramkumar
2015	R P Naveen Kumar, Sarat Chnadra	Humming Sound Pattern Recognition for Human–Mobile Interactions
2015	B. Lokanath Reddy, N. R. Kumar Reddy	Compressed Sensing System for Wireless Cardiac Signal Monitoring Applications
2015	M. S. R. S. V. Prasad	Sparse Representation based Method for Automatic Detection of Epileptic Seizures in EEG Recordings

Keynote and Invited Speaker and Guest Lecture

Invited Speaker, Internet of Audio Things –Edge Computing and Energy Consumption Aspects, AICTE-STTP on Smart Perspectives of IoT in Green Technologies Organized by Gandhi Institute For Technology (GIFT), Bhubaneswar, 2020.

Invited Speaker, Internet of Environmental Things : AI Powered Climate –Aware Health Prediction Aspects, AICTE-STTP on Smart Perspectives of IoT in Green Technologies Organized by Gandhi Institute For Technology (GIFT), Bhubaneswar, 2020.

Invited Speaker, “Internet of Things for Medical Applications,” TEQIP-III Sponsored Short-Term Course (STC) on Artificial intelligence driven biomedical data analysis for disease diagnosis, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, 2020.

Invited Speaker, “Machine Learning based Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Applications” Six Day Online AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training Program (STTP) on Machine Learning and its Applications, LENDI Institute of Engineering & Technology, Vizianagaram, 2020.

Invited Speaker, “Internet of Medical Things and Their Challenges,” TEQIP-III Sponsored Short-Term Course on Current Trends in Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, organized by Discipline of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, 2020.

Invited Speaker, ``Applications of Deep Learning for Cognitive Radio Networks,’’ TEQIP III Sponsored One week Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Deep Learning for Visual Computing and Communication (DLVCC-20)”, NIT Silchar,2020

Invited Speaker, “How Signal Processing Techniques Empowers Modern IoT and AI Technologies” TEQIP III Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Signal Processing Applications, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, 2020.

Invited Speaker, “IoT Powered Smart Vehicle Condition and Tracking System -Role, Benefits and Challenges”, AICTE Sponsored a One Week STTP on "Automotive Technology for a Sustainable Future, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, 2020.

Invited Speaker, ``Signal Processing Techniques for IoT Enabled Wide-Area Smart Grid Monitoring System,” 2nd National Workshop on Recent Developments in Smart-Grid Technologies (NWSGT-2020), 2020.

Invited Speaker, Signal Processing Techniques for IoT Enabled Wide-Area Smart Grid Monitoring System" IEEE Student Branch of NITT, EEE Seminar Hall, 2020.

Invited Speaker,Two days Workshop on Formal Methods for Safe and Secure Medical Devices, SPARC, MHRD, Govt. of India, 2020.

Deliver Talk, “Signal Processing and Deep Learning Schemes for Energy-Efficient AI Powered Edge Computing Devices” Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, October 15, 2019.

Deliver Talk, “Impacts of Intelligent Real-time Signal Processing Systems for Empowering IoT and AI Healthcare Monitoring” Microelectronics Dept., Research Institute of Applied Electronics, National Technical University of Ukraine & Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, 20-23 March 2019

Deliver Talk, “Key Challenges of Internet of Things for Smart Automation Applications” Students of ECE and IEEE society, National Technical University of Ukraine & Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, 20-23 March 2019

Invited Speaker, “Signal Processing and Deep Learning Techniques for IoT Streaming and Big Data Analytics”, “Colloquium on ML with Signal Processing for Data Analytics” IEEE Kerala Section, India, 27th and 28th September 2019.

Keynote Talk "Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges" 2nd International Conference on “Man and Machine Interfacing (MAMI 2017) , C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, 21st - 23rd December 2017.

Tutorial Session Speaker, “Key Developmental Challenges and Research Directions in Internet of Things (IoT) Enabled Monitoring Systems,” International Conference on Microelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICMDCS 2017), VIT University, Vellore, 2017.

Invited Speaker, “Biomedical signal analysis”, Short-term course on “Recent Trends in Medical Signal and Image Processing,” NIT Rourkela, 2017.

Invited Speaker, Advanced Signal Processing Techniques, Short term course on "Recent Trends in Communication, Signal Processing and VLSI” at NIT Silchar, Assam, Feb. 2017.

Invited Speaker, “Introduction to Biomedical Signals and its Applications,” Faculty Development Programme on “Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications (SPBA)”, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, 5th -10th December 2016.

Invited Speaker, “Bio-signal Enhancement and Event Classification” Faculty Development Programme on “Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications SPBA 2016”, Dec. 2016.

Invited Speaker, “Biomedical Signal Analysis Techniques,” Short Term Course on “Linear and non-linear signal processing and its applications on Biomedical signals” National Institute of Technology Raipur, Sept. 2016.

Keynote Speaker, Delivered Talk on Challenges and Opportunities of Research in Wearable Medical Devices for Health and Wellness Monitoring at Finnish-Indian Joint Symposium: Future Opportunities in Health, Drug Development and Diagnostics 2015.

Keynote Speaker, National Conference on Mechatronics, Computing & Signal Processing (MCSP-2016), Centurion University.

Deliver Talk: Embedded Medical System at IEEE Student branch IIIT Bhubaneswar, January 2016.

Deliver Talk: Biosignal Event Detection and Quality Assessment, Gandhi Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, February 2016.

Deliver Talk on “Advanced Biomedical Signal Processing”, Orissa Engineering College, 13th December, 2014.

Guest Lecture on “Feature Extraction Methods for Biometric Applications”, Recent Advances in Biometric Technologies, PSG Technology, Coimbatore, 2011.

Guest Lecture on “Sparse Representation for Signal Classification”, Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE), Madurai, 2011.

Guest Lecture on “Compressive Sensing and Applications”, Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi, 2011.

Patents

Patent Granted

US8954140 B2- Method and System for Determining QRS Complexes in Electrocardiogram Signals

Patent Filed

US 20140086346A1-Method and System for Removal of Baseline Wander and Power-line Interference
US 20140064479A1-Method and Systems for Multilevel data Security
US 20140067388A1-Robust Voice Activity Detection in Adverse Environments
3761/DEL/2012-Method and System for User Authentication.
US20140245463 A1-System and method for accessing multimedia content

Professional Experience

July 2013 onwards - Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar.
December 2011 to July 2013 - Chief Engineer, Advanced Technology Group, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Noida.
January 2010 to December 2011 - Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita University, Tamilnadu.
January 2009 to January 2010 - Lead Engineer, Audio Signal Processing Group, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Noida.
April 2003 to March 2004 - Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Tamilnadu.
June 2002 to January 2003 - Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sudharsan Engineering College, Tamilnadu.

Professional Activities (Associate Editor, Reviewer, Conference Committee)

Associate Editor

Healthcare Technology Letters

Reviewer

IEEE and ACM Transactions and Journals

IEEE Journal of Biomedical Healthcare Informatics
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Communication Letters
IEEE Sensor Letters
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurememt
IEEE Tranactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Access
ACM Transaction on Computing for Healthcare
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

IET Journals

Informartion Security
Signal Processing
Biometrics
Image Processing
Smart Grid
Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Healthcare Technology Letters

IETE Technical Review

Hindawi Journals

Journal of Advanced Transportation
Journal of Complexity
Journal of BioMed Research International
Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Organizer, Conference Chair, and Panel Discussions

Panel Discussions "Smart City – Our Industry Preparedness," at IEEE ANTS 2017
Special Session on “Wearable Medical Devices and Healthcare Computing,” IEEE TENCON, November 2016, Singapore.
Session Chair: IEEE TENCON 2016, November 2016, Singapore.
Session Chair, Twenty Second National Conference on Communications, IIT Guwahati 2016.
Session Chair, International Conference on Emerging trends in Computing and Communication May 2015, Centurion University.
Organized 1st National workshop on sparse image and signal processing (SISP-2011), Amrita University, Coimbatore, 2011.
Conference Session Chair, 5th National Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication and Information Technology, KSR Engineering College, India, 2011.
Session Chair, Third National Conference on Recent Trends in Communication, Computation and Signal Processing, Amrita University, 2011
Conference Session Chair, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (2010), Karpagam College of Engineering, India, 2010.
Organized workshop on "DSP architectures Programming and Applications" (2004), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India, 2004.

2019-2021	Prototype of Imaging Radar in UWB, Funding Agency: DST - IMPRINT, Budget INR 72.82 Lakhs, Role: Project Investigator
2019-2022	Light weight, Reconfigurable Cognitive Radio Platform for M2M and IoT applications, Funding Agency: DST - IMPRINT, Budget: INR 81.98 Lakhs, Role: Project Investigator
2019-2022	Cost Effective ICT-Data Analytics System for Efficient Management of Water and Fertilizer in Precision Agriculture, Funding Agency: DST - IMPRINT, Budget: INR 83.66 Lakhs, Role: Project Investigator
2019-2021	E3DCRM: Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems for Data-Driven Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring (IIT BBSR- University of Minnesota, USA), Funding Agency: SPARC, MHRD, Budget: INR 75.5 Role: Principal Investigator
2019-2021	Stochastic Geometry-based Design of UAV-Assisted IoT Network for Ubiquitous Surveillance Applications, (IIT Bhubaneswar- Virginia Tech, USA), Funding Agency: SPARC, MHRD, Budget: INR 75.5 Lakhs, Role: Co- Principal Investigator
2019-2021	Design and Development of Low cost time-synchronized devices for WAMs in Smartgrids (IIT BBSR- Virginia Tech, USA), Funding Agency: SPARC, MHRD, 66. 26 Lakhs, Role: Co- Principal Investigator
2016-2021	Visvesvaraya Ph scheme for Electronics and IT, Funding Agency: DeitY, Budget: INR 50.60 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator
2015-2020	Special Manpower Development Program for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD), Funding Agency: MeitY, Budget: INR 53.15 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator
2017-2020	Development of Speech Interface for Form-filling Application in Five Indian Languages, Funding Agency: MHRD and IMPRINT, INR 45.60 Lakhs (91.20 Lakhs Approved), India. Role: Principal Investigator
2016-2020	Design and Development of Affordable and Movable Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Water Pumping System, Funding Agency: DAFP, RKVY, Odisha, India, and Budget: INR 80.58 Lakhs, Role: Project Investigator
2016-2018	Design development of light weight wearable wireless acoustic wave sensor array based audio-visual digital stethoscope device, Funding Agency: DST, India, and Budget: INR 15.05 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator
2018-2019	Design and Testing of Smart Audio Processing and Communication Systems for Voice Processing and Surveillance Applications, Funding Agency: M/s Trijatta Technologies Pvt Ltd., Budget: INR 2.86 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator
2016-2017	Design and developing a portable wireless air quality monitor, Funding Agency: Pentagon Rugged Systems India (P) Ltd, Budget: INR 2.44 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator
2016-2017	Design and developing a portable wireless air quality monitor, Funding Agency: Pentagon Rugged Systems India (P) Ltd, Budget: INR 1.49 Lakhs, Role: Principal Investigator