Amrita Research Brochure

Drawing its inspiration, guidance, nourishment, energy, and resources directly from our Chancellor and world renownedhumanitarian leader, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA), Amrita University has now grown into a dynamic, 5-campus,multi-disciplinary University with over 15 schools, 100 degree (undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral) programs, 1,500faculty, and 14,000 students (www.amrita.edu), all united in their mission towards solving the monumental scientific andsocietal challenges being faced by the world today.

AMRITA is both young and immensely dynamic, with its fertile environment and ambience for inter-disciplinary research, e.g.,between its schools of engineering, medicine, biotechnology, nanotechnology, management, and the sciences. Amrita’sstudents from these areas are much sought after all over the globe, even as they are finishing their studies. This year, wehave been ranked by National Assessment and Accreditation Council [NAAC] with highest grade “A”.

In the past six years since its founding in 2003, Amrita has been on a steep trajectory to quickly achieve a world-class status.In its second year itself (2004), AMRITA became the Nation’s First Multi-Campus University to be inter-networked via Satellite,enabling live interactive inter-campus classrooms. As a result of this historic launch, Amrita University is strategically positionedto lead the way in multi-disciplinary higher education, research, and technology innovation as they are applied to multifariousdisciplines and societal needs. The Government of India has also awarded AMRITA significant projects in the emerging areaof haptics with applications to vocational training, and virtual laboratories to aid in remote scientific and engineering training.

In 2005, during Prime Minister’s visit to United States, AMRITA University architected and lead a consortium of Indianorganizations including the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Department of Science and Technology(DST) to sign a landmark Indo-US University Initiative, first with five top-ranked US Universities namely, University at Buffalo(UB) – the largest of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, University of California at Berkeley, University ofCalifornia at San Diego, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon University, during the visit of the Indian Prime Minister on July 20, 2005,to Washington, DC, and subsequently with fifteen top-ranked universities including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Purdue, UTAustin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Washington, University of Maryland, etc. at the PresidentialHouse in New Delhi on December 8, 2005. In 2007, AMRITA launched India’s first of its kind full-fledged dual MS program inIT and IT enabled services (“MITES”) jointly with University at Buffalo (SUNY, New York) for eighty industry professionals in thecity of Bangalore, India.

Amrita University also signed a landmark research agreement with one of the largest Universities of the world, namely, theUniversity of California System, in which joint research projects have the potential to receive bilateral funding of up to a totalof $10 MM per year. Noteworthy patents, products, and technologies such as the Amrita university management systems,Amrita Integrated E-Learning System (A-View), Amrita school software (Amrita Learning), Amrita language translation system,and Amrita vertical take-off and landing vehicle (Chakshuyaan), many of them being incubated within AMRITA’s TechnologyBusiness Incubator (TBI), have also started to see the market.

AMRITA is taking a steep trajectory into the galaxy of world class universities and centers of learning & research. This steepascent is largely due to the gigantic contributions of a large number of AMMA’s devotees from all over the world, who arejoining their best minds and hands in a selfless offering for nation building, purely out of their deep gratitude for the immenseshower of joy and lasting happiness that they have received from our most beloved AMMA. In the years to come, Amrita, witha unique holistic approach, is racing ahead to produce the best managers, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, doctors,and societal contributors in a wide spectrum of fields, all under the superb guidance and chancellorship of one of the mostinspiring leaders of the world today, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA). Unbelievable it may sound, but not even aminiscule away from truth, is this secret: each and every one of them draws upon direct guidance, energy, inspiration,happiness, and fruitful fulfillment from AMMA, our Chancellor.

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Through this holding of hands and sharing of knowledge and experience, new horizonsof knowledge will open in the highest realms of science and technology to those thirstingfor knowledge in India and others parts of the world-especially to students, teachersand researchers. Today, we are witnessing the world becoming like a single village.This is due to the efforts nations are putting towards cooperating in all fields. Thus, theyare becoming like one. This venture to collaborate and share knowledge is a giganticstep in this direction. Knowledge is like a river - its nature is to flow. The dharma ofknowledge is to flow to all corners of the world and nourish the cultures there. Weshould never stem its flow and thereby turn it into a stagnant pond. It is said thatknowledge is the greatest gift one can give, for knowledge is imperishable. Even if welight a thousand lamps from one flame, the lustre of the first lamp never diminishes.Similar is the greatness of knowledge. Knowledge does not diminish, no matter howmuch it is shared. In fact, the more you give, the more it develops and expands.

By sharing knowledge and experiences, we can prevent the flower that is this worldfrom ever wilting and ensure that it remains eternally beautiful. By bringing togetherdiverse streams of knowledge, we can create a magnificent river. May this great river ofknowledge flow to caress the countries and communities of the world. May it overflowthe borders between people and countries. May it impart the water of life to all ofhumanity, and thus nurture the blooming of culture throughout the world.

Message from our Chancellor

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA)

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Index

Research Centers @ Amritapuri Campus

Name of Centers Principal Investigators Page

AM.CR.01 WINSOC (Wireless Sensor Networks Maneesha V. Ramesh 00with Self-Organization Capabilities for Dr. P. Venkat RanganCritical and Emergency Applications)- An Indo-European Initiative

AM.CR.02 TIFAC-CORE on Biomedical Technologies Dr. Bipin Nair 00

AM.CR.03 Amrita E-Learning Networks (AEN) Kamal Bijlani, Manoj. P 00

AM.CR.04 TIFAC-CORE on Cyber Security Dr. Nandakumar 00- (Centre for Systems Security ) Jayaraj. P, Vipin Pavithran

AM.CR.05 Amrita Research Labs (ARL) Jayaraj. P 00

AM.CR.06 Amrita Technology Business Incubator Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan 00Brahmachari ShraddhamritaChaitanya, Kailash, Jayaraj.PRaghu Raman

Research Projects @ Amritapuri Campus

Name of Projects Principal Investigators Page

AM.PR.01 Amrita Virtual Private Networking Jayaraj. P 00(VPN) Platform

AM.PR.02 Secured Data Acquisition and Jayaraj. P 00Transmission System for Data Sureshkumar. PCentre (SDATS) Renu. M.R.

AM.PR.03 Secured Data Acquisition and Jayaraj. P 00Transmission System viaVSAT/Internet (Real-time OS Kernel)

AM.PR.04 Developing Secured Wi-Fi Jayaraj. P 00Communication System for Sky Bus Amit. DTest Track

AM.PR.05 Dual Communication Board on Sudharsan S, Rajesh Kannan 00on VME Bus Sriram K, Ramesh B

AM.PR.06 Techniques for Secure Communication Jayaraj. P 00in Emerging Wireless Ubiquitous Networks

AM.PR.07 Intelligent and Interactive Telematics Jayaraj. P 00using Emerging Wireless Technologiesfor Transport Systems

AM.PR.08 Adaptive and Automatic Insulin Pump Dr. Bipin Nair 00K. Guruvayoorappan

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AM.PR.09 Next Generation Secure Internet Jayaraj. P 00Technology for Globally Distributed Dr. NandakumarEnterprise

AM.PR.10 Digital Earth / VRC – Village Resource Brahmachari Abhayamrita 00Centre Chaitanya, Ranganathan R

AM.PR.11 Amrita-IBM SUR Award -Virtual Brahmachari Shraddhamrita 00Computing Lab Chaitanya, Kailash

AM.PR.12 Amrita-TBI Global Connect Kamal Bijlani, Radha 00

AM.PR.13 Optical Computing Using Solitons Dr. Sreelatha K.S 00

AM.PR.14 Medicinal Plant Cultivation Prasanth 00

AM.PR.15 Molecular mechanisms in impaired Prof. Bipin Nair 00wound-healing

AM.PR.16 Bioactive molecules from Seabuckthorn Prof. Asoke Banerji 00

AM.PR.17 GLUT4 and Insulin resistance Dr. Anilkumar G. 00

AM.PR.18 Peptide-based anti-snake Dr. Martin Reick 00venom therapy

AM.PR. 19 Amrita Virtual-Biotechnology Labs Dr. Shyam Diwakar 00Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan

AM.PR.20 Computational Neuroscience and Mathematical Dr. Shyam Diwakar 00Modeling in Biology

AM.PR. 21 Real-time Wireless Sensor Networks for Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, 00Landslide Monitoring Dr. P. Venkat Rangan

AM.PR.22 A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive Kamal Bijlani 00E-Learning World)

AM.PR.23 Interactive Visualisation techniques for Raghu Raman, Raji Nair 00monitoring educators and learners inWeb-based Distance Learning

AM.PR.24 Standardization and Quality of Prema Nedungadi, 00eLearning Content Dr. Sanjeev Singh,

Sheila Nair

AM.PR.25 Amrita Multisite Grant Management System Raghu Raman 00(Amrita MGMS)

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AM. PR.26 Sakshat- Amrita Vocational Education (S.A.V.E.) Ms. Bhavani Bijlani, 00Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan

AM. PR.27 Sakshat- Amrita Vocational Education (S.A.V.E.) Ms. Bhavani Bijlani, 00Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan

Research Center @ Bangalore Campus

Name of Center Principal Investigators Page

BL.CR.01 Amrita Indo-US Centre Shekar Babu 00

Research Project @ Bangalore Campus

Name of Project Principal Investigators Page

BL.PR.01 Development of a Three-phase Dr. Manjula Nair 00Hybrid Filtering System with Digital Control

Research Centers @ Coimbatore Campus

Name of Center Principal Investigators Page

CB.CR.01 Computational Engineering & Dr. K.P. Soman 00Networking

CB.CR.02 TIFAC CORE on Cyber Security Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00

CB.CR.03 Indo-US E-Learning Network Dr. Krishnashree 00Achuthan, Sekhar Babu,P. Manoj, Kamal Bijlani

CB.CR.04 Environmental Sciences Dr. M. Aravindakshan 00

CB.CR.05 Digital Earth / Remote Sensing Dr. K. P. Soman 00

CB.CR.06 Amrita Biomedical Engineering K. Guruvayoorappan 00Research Centre [AMBE] Dr. Bipin Nair

CB.CR.07 Office of the Sponsored Research Programs Dr. Devadoss Eswar 00

CB.CR.08 India 2020 Dr. P. Venkat Rangan 00

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Research Projects @ Coimbatore Campus


CB.PR.01 Development and Scale-up of Plunging Dr. K. M. Mini, 00Hollow Jet, Venturi and Sudden Dr. Narayana PillaiExpansion Type Aerators

CB.PR.02 Method to Control Ultraviolet Radiation Dr. R. Sellamuthu, S Illangovan 00in Welding Processes Sanjivi Arul

CB.PR.03 Digital Multimedia Dr. K. P. Soman 00

CB.PR.04 Development of Fast & Effective Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00Cryptographic Techniques

CB.PR.05 Wavelet Based Analysis of Test / Post Dr. K.I. Ramachandran 00Flight Vibration / Acoustic Data

CB.PR.06 Analysis of PIV / PLIF Images for Dr. K.P. Soman, Mahadevan 00Fluid Flow Visualization

CB.PR.07 Massively Parallel Support Vector Dr. K.P. Soman 00Machines for Target Classification

CB.PR.08 Design & Analysis of Cryptographically Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00Secure Power Generators

CB.PR.09 Development of High-Performance Dr. S.S. Bhagawan 00Polyamides from Renewable Natural Source

CB.PR.10 Ex-situ Cultivation of Selected Medicinal Dr. M. Aravindakshan 00Plants in Semi Arid Regions

CB.PR.11 Video Conferencing Software Dr.K.P.Soman 00

CB.PR.12 Autonomous Mobile Robots Based on Dr. Shyam Diwakar 00Bioinspired Artificial Control - Sanjivi ArulIndo-Italian Initiative

CB.PR.13 Development of Methodologies for Dr. K. P. Soman 00Detection of Digital Contents Plagiarism

CB.PR.14 Elastomer Based Nano Composites for Dr. S.S. Bhagawan 00Control System Bladders Meera B. Sasikumar

CB.PR.15 Amrita-University of Illinois at Urbana Dr. Narayana Rao 00Champaign Collaborative Project onElectromagnetics

CB.PR.16 Synthesis of Novel Lube Oil & Fuel Dr. T. Ramachandran 00Additives from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid

CB.PR.17 Unified Investigation of Fusion, Prof. C.S. Shastry 00Resonance & Scattering in Heavy Ion Collisions

CB.PR.18 Machine Development of Infrastructure Dr. K.P. Soman 00for Remote Sensing Applications

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CB.PR.19 Modernisation of Metallurgy Lab Dr. K. Mohandas 00Dr. R. SellamuthuDr. S. GoshteeswaranDr. K. Rameshkumar

CB.PR.20 Development of Energy Saver for Dr. T. B. Isha 00Induction Motors

CB.PR.21 Video Summarization and Annotation Dr. K. P. Soman 00for Content Based Retrieval Rajathilakam

CB.PR.22 Analysis of Word Based Stream Ciphers Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00

CB.PR.23 Machine Translation from English to Dr. K. P. Soman 00Indian Languages

CB.PR.24 VLSI Development of Finite Field Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00Arithmetic Dr. T. R. Padmanaban

CB.PR.25 Online Testing of IC Engines Sponsor Dr. K. Mohandas 00Dr. S. Thirumalini

CB.PR.26 Development of a Real-time Process Dr. R. Sellamuthu, Sanjivi 00Control Method for Automated Arc Arul & S. IllangovanWelding Processes

CB.PR.27 Polymer Nanocomposites for K. Jayanarayanan 00Inflatable Space Structures Dr. S. S. Bhagawan

CB.PR.28 Development of Image Fusion Dr. K.P. Soman 00Techniques and MeasurementMethods to Assess Quality of Fusion

CB.PR.29 Error Linear Complexity Measures for Dr. M. Sethumadhavan 00Multisequences

CB.PR.30 Analysis and Evaluation of Multi-layer Dr. K. I Ramachandran 00Shear Damped Viscoelastic Treatments Dr. V. Sivakumarfor Launch Vehicle Applications

CB.PR.31 Electrodeposition of Aluminium-Lithium T.G. Satheesh Babu 00Alloys for Cryo and Space Applications

CB.PR.32 Development of Novel Carbon-Inherently Dr. Nikhil Koturkar 00Conducting Polymer[C-ICP] and Prof. R. Subba RaoC-ICP-Metal Nanocomposites with Dr. Tito ViswanathanUnusually High Conductivity forMicrowave Absorption – Indo-US Initiative

CB.PR.33 Classified Image Transmission System Dr. M. Sethumadhavan, 00Gireesh Kumar. T

CB.PR.34 Optimisation Of Nanofiller Loading In Natural Meera B Sasikumar 00Rubber Based Micro Cellular Sheet Using DoE

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CB.PR.35 Synthesis, Characterization and Dr. R. Sellamuthu, 00Liquid Crystalline Studies of Schiff Base Sanjivi Arul, S. IlangovanContaining Porphyrin Complex

CB.PR.36 Hardware Based Network Dr. M. Sethumadhavan, 00Intrusion Detection System for High S. Sajan Kumar,Speed Networks Dr. C. Shunmuga Velayutham

V. Adinarayanan

CB.PR.37 Creation of Tools and Resources for Dr. Soman KP 00Machine translation from English toDravidian Languages

CB.PR.38 Theoretical and empirical investigations on Dr. Sutirth Deythe interaction of asymmetric migration and Nithin Nagarajintrinsic growth rate on the dynamics oflaboratory metapopulations of Drosophilamelanogaster.

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Research Centers @ Kochi Campus

Name of Centers Principal Investigators Page

KO.CR.01 Amrita Center for Nanosciences Dr. Shanti Nair 00

KO.CR.02 Institute of Molecular Medicine Dr. T.S Ganesan 00Ron Gottsegen

KO.CR.03 Center for Digital Health Dr. Ajit Babu, 00Dr. Kumar MenonPradeep Achan

KO.CR.04 Clinical Trials Dr. Prem Nair 00

KO.CR.05 Clinical Research Training Centre Dr.T.S.Ganesan 00

KO.CR.06 Food Analysis Processing and Centre Dr. Shanti Nair 00

KO.CR.07 Amrita Technologies Pradeep Achan 00Raghu Raman, PremaIndramohanRamesh RaghavanAnand Ramani,Pavithra Siva

Research Projects @ Kochi Campus


KO.PR.01 Nanotoxicology and Nanomedicine Dr. Shanti Nair 00Dr. K. Manzoor

KO.PR.02 Development of Chitosan Based Dr. Jayakumar 00Derivatives

KO.PR.03 The Role of Lactic and Bacteria and Dr. Seema Nair 00their Metabolites Inhibition of Dr. Kavitha DineshColon Cancer

KO.PR.04 Cancer Biology Dr. T.S. Ganesan 00

KO.PR.05 Protein Processing Dr. Satish Raina 00

KO.PR.06 Chemical Neuroscience Laboratory Dr. Krishnakumar Menon 00

KO.PR.07 Gastro-Medicine-Improvement Dr. Narayanan 00of S&T Infrastructure

KO.PR.08 Molecular Genetics Analysis of Von Dr. Dilip Panikar 00Hippel Lindau Syndrome in Kerala State

KO.PR.09 Gene Expression Profiling of H&N Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose 00Squamous Cell Carcinoma by DNA Microarray

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KO.PR.10 Lymphoscintigraphy for the Evaluation Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose 00of Nodal Metastasis of Head & NeckSquamous Cell Carcinoma

KO.PR.11 A Pilot Study for Prostate Cancer Dr. Chitrathara 00Screening in Kerala

KO.PR.12 A Pilot Study to Assess the Feasibility Dr. Vijayakumar 00of Evaluation of Markers of Responseto Chemotherapy within 24 hours & at21 days after First Cycle of Chemotherapyin Carcinoma of Breast

KO.PR.13 Processing Compatibilization and Dr. Deepthy Menon 00Targeting of Semiconductor NanoCrystals for Cancer Diagnostics

KO.PR.14 Creation & Evaluation of a Clinical Dr. R. Krishnakumar 00Strategy to Screen for ContingentalHeart Disease in Newborn

KO.PR.15 Chromosome 22q11 Micro Deletion in Dr. M.V.G. Thampi 00Patients with Selected Congenital HeartDisease (Conotruncal Malformations)Study of Prevalence, Phenotype,Genotype, and Mode of Inheritance

KO.PR.16 Role of Medium Chain Fatty Acids of Dr. Prakash Kammath 00Coconut Oil in Atherosclerosis

KO.PR.17 How Common is Essential Amino and Dr. Balakrishnan 00Deficiency in Tropical Pancreatitis

KO.PR.18 Newborn Mass Screening Program for Dr. Kannan 00Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Kerala

KO.PR.19 Effect of Ethanol on Functional & Dr. D. M. Vasudevan 00Structural Aspects of Liver and Rolein Angiogenesis

KO.PR.20 Modeling the Effects of Decreased AIMS 00Levels of GABA and Accumulationof GHB on GABA Receptors and itsEffects on Pediatric / Neonatal Seizures

KO.PR.21 Development of Appropriate Prevention Dr. V. Usha Menon 00and Intervention Strategies forNon-commentable Nutritional RelatedDisorders among Women in Post-reproductivePeriod

KO.PR.22 Molecular Genetics of Locally Advanced Dr. T.S. Ganesan 00Breast Carcinomas - Indo-US Initiative

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KO.PR.23 Sub Study on Anthropometric and Blood Dr. R. Krishna Kumar 00Pressure Measurements among School Children

KO.PR.24 Centre for Nano Technology (Implants Dr. Shanti Nair 00Tissue Engineering Stem Cell Research)

KO.PR.25 Nano Surface Bioengineering of Implants Dr. Shanti Nair 00

KO.PR.26 Self-trackng Nanodelivery Vehicle for Dr. Shanti Nair 00si-RNA Based Oncogene Silencing

KO.PR.27 Electro Nanoprocessing of Semiconductor Dr. Shanti Nair 00Nanotubes Arrays for High Efficiency Photovoltaics

KO.PR.28 Differential Strength Polymer Dr. Ajit Kumar Varma 00on Single Sheet as a Test Specimen for Dr. Nikhil K. KothurkarDiabetic Footwear Prof. R. Subba Rao

KO.PR.29 A Multi Center, Phase II, Randomized, Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose 00Double–Blind, Placebo Controlled,Chemoprevention Study to Determinethe Clinical Efficacy and Safety ofCurcumin in Oral Premalignant Lesions

KO.PR.30 Head & Neck Oncology Research Dr. Moni Abrabam Kuriakose 00Programme under SARD Scheme

KO.PR.31 Assessment of Oral Self-examination for Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose 00Early Detection of Oral Cancers andPrecancers in a High-risk Rural Population

KO.PR.32 Speciality Clinic of Naturopathy & Yoga Dr. Prem Nair 00

KO.PR.33 Proposal for the Establishment of Indian Dr. Prem Nair 00System of Medicine (Ayurveda)

KO.PR.34 Rheumatic Fever / Rheumatic Heart Dr. R. Krishnakumar 00Disease(RF / RHD) RegistryRegistry Project Wayanad, Kerala.

KO.PR.35 Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance Dr. K. K. Haridas, Dr. Paul T.among the Adivasi Population of Francis, Dr. R. Krishna Kumar 00Waynad District Dr. Sanjeev Vasudevan

Dr. Ajitha Kumari

KO.PR.36 Clinico-Epidemiologic and Molecular Dr. Kavitha R. Dinesh 00Charactorization of Extended SpectrumBeta Lactamase (ESBL) ProducingKlebsiella spp.E.col & Enterobacter sppcausing Nosocomial and Community Infections

KO.PR.37 Establishment of Nodal Coordinating Center Dr. R. Krishnakumar 00for Training of Satellite Centers forEstablishment of the RF/RHD Registry(Waynad,Mumbai and potentially Chattisgarh)

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KO.PR.38 Nutritional Recovery after Corrective Surgery Dr. R. Krishnakumar 00for Congenital Heart disease in Children Dr. Balu Vaidyanathan

KO.PR.39 Novel Nano delivery Carrier for Systemic Dr. R Jayakumar 00Control and Release of ParathyroidHormone For The Treatment of Bone Disease

KO.PR.40 Novel Biodegradable Dr. R Jayakumar 00Thermo-Responsive Nano-Vehicles forCancer Drug Delivery Applications

KO. PR.41 Preparation of Novel Biodegradable Chitin Dr. R Jayakumar 00Scaffolds with Hydroxyapatite/ ZnONanoparticles for Wound Dressing Applications

KO.PR.42 Cataract operation/Diabetic retinopathy Dr. Prem Nair 00treatment / Glaucoma management / lowvision services

Glossary of Terms 00

Recent Publications - A partial listing 00

Books by Amrita Authors 00

Introduction to Principal Investigators (PI’s) 00@ amrita

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AM. CR. 01 WINSOC (Wireless Sensor Networks withSelf-Organization Capabilities for Critical and EmergencyApplications) - An Indo-European Initiative

Research Centers@ Amritapuri Campus

WINSOC is a European Commission funded research project composed of11 academic, research institutes, and industry partners based in India andEurope, who are developing a novel new method of wireless sensor networkingthat mimics biological systems. This new two level hierarchical system iscomposed of a lower level of low-cost sensors which collect environmentaldata and generate locally reliable decisions, and an upper level which forwardsthe information on to a remote analysis station. The sensor network can alsodynamically reconfigure itself in the event of any node failure, thereby forming aself-healing and self-organizing network. The application scenarios used forimplementing and validating the WINSOC developed algorithms and wirelesssensor nodes are landslides, for which Amrita is the primary partner, andforest fires.

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One of the most beneficial projects developed by Amrita forsociety to date, WINSOC involves the design, developmentand deployment of a real time wireless sensor network (WSN)for landslide detection. Along with the real-time deployment,large and medium scale landslide laboratory setups havebeen developed for conducting extensive experimentation togain a better understanding of landslide phenomena, in orderto help assess the risk of a landslide at the deployment site.

The real-time network is deployed in Munnar, Idukki District,in the state of Kerala, South India. The deployment locationhas experienced numerous landslides, of which the latest, in2005, caused a death toll of 10 people and an enormousamount of infrastructural damage. The deployment areacovers seven acres of the mountain with the networkconsisting of approximately 25 wireless sensor nodes formingthe two-layer hierarchical network. The data transmitted fromthe WSN is sent via a directional Wi-Fi link to a FieldManagement Center, one km away, from where it is thenforwarded over the satellite link to a sophisticated landslidedata processing and modeling center, located 300 km awayat the Amritapuri campus of Amrita University. Amrita hasdeveloped online data visualization software for real-time dataanalysis and is responsible for the creation and maintenanceof the overall WINSOC project website, www.winsoc.org.Preliminary findings have been presented at Internationalconferences in the US and Europe.

PI’s : Maneesha V. Ramesh* &Dr. P. Venkat Rangan*Research Associates: Rehna Raj, JoshuaUdar Freeman, Sangeeth Kumar,Vijayaselvan, Kailash, Dr. NirmalaVasudevan, Mukundan

Sponsor: European Commission (WINSOCis a Specific Targeted Research Projectco-funded by the INFSO DG of the EuropeanCommission within the RTD activities of theThematic Priority Information SocietyTechnologies).

Start Date: September 2006

Dept./Center: Amrita Research Labs

PI’s whose photos appear are indicated by an *1016

Maneesha V. Ramesh and Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan delivered invited talks on the WINSOC projectand the Indo-US collaboration at many prestigious universities and research institutes, most of themwhich are signatories to the Indo-US Agreement, in the USA during June and July, 2007 and 2008.

Columbia University, New York University of California, Santa Cruz

Eastern Michigan University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Harvard University University of Iowa

Intel Research Labs, Berkeley University of Maryland, College Park

Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan

New York University University of New Mexico

Purdue University University of Southern California

San Diego State University University of Texas, Austin

Stanford University of Texas, Dallas

University of California, Berkeley University of Washington

University of California, Irvine US Geological Survey, Denver

University of California, Los Angeles US Geological Survey, Menlo Park

University of California, San Diego

Maneesha V. Ramesh and Dr. Krishnashree delivered presentations on the WINSOC project inmany universities in Europe during Oct - Nov, 2007:

Eurecom at Sophia Antipolis, France Technical University of Munich, GermanyUniversity of Twente, Holland University of Milano, Italy

Maneesha V. Ramesh presented four papers at the International Conferences on Wireless Networks,2007 and 2008, which were held as a part of WORLDCOMP-07 and -08, in Las Vegas, USA.

Presentations have also been delivered at WINSOC consortium review meetings in Switzerland,Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, and the Czech Republic.

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The Centre for Biotechnology at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, was awarded by TIFAC as a Center forRelevance and Excellence (CORE) in Biomedical Technology inOctober, 2004 and every year since, has consistently received topranking in the nation.

CENTRE’s Vision

TIFAC CORE in Biomedical Technology at Amrita pioneersinterdisciplinary education, research and industrial collaboration inbiomedical technology. The Centre strives to advance research,generate affordable preventive and therapeutic innovations, to stimulateindustrial growth and improve the human condition.

AM. CR. 02 TIFAC-CORE on Biomedical Technologies

Projects

AM.PR. 08 “Adaptive and Automatic Insulin Pump” ofDr. Bipin Nair (TIFAC, GoI/Media Lab Asia)

AM.PR. 15 “Screening Modulators of Intrinsic Activity of GLUT4from Medicinal Plant” of Dr. G. Anilkumar, Kerala Council forScience, Technology and Environment

AM.PR. 16 “Bioprospection of Indigenous Flora with SpecialReference to Kerala” of Dr. Ashoke Banerji, funded byDepartment of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt.of India

AM.PR.17 Seabuckthorn - Problems Prospects and Need forBiotechnological Intervention (DBT) Dr. Bipin Nair

AM.PR. 18 “Phytochemical Investigation on Himalayan(Ladakh) Rhodiola” of Dr. Ashoke Banerji, Defense Institute ofPhysiology and Allied Sciences

Objectives

The Centre in BiomedicalTechnology will aim at excellence inmultiple dimensions:

Extend the frontiers of researchcatalyzing a breeding ground forinnovative research and thetranslation of scientific discoveriesinto practical applications thatenhance patient care.

Enhance undergraduate andgraduate education by providing avibrant center, where science,education and technology transfer gohand in hand.

Generate productive partnershipwith the Industry creating ideas thatwill spawn new technologies leadingto new companies, new productsand new job-creation opportunities.

Provide skilled workforce tomeet the current and future needs ofthe biomedical industry.

PI: Dr. Bipin Nair*

Sponsor: TIFAC

Start Date: October 2004

Dept./Center: Biotechnology

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The objective of the project is to develop a generic e-Learning platformfor connecting various universities in India through EDUSAT networkand to provide a platform for sharing the values, resources andknowledge of excellent teachers. Numerous lectures are conductedby eminent professors and industry experts from all over the world,who visit Amrita regularly through this network. Also severalundergraduate courses in Amrita are offered using this network. Theplatform involves multiple displays, which will give students unhinderedand uninterrupted view of slides, whiteboard and other multimediamaterials apart from teacher’s video/audio. The sessions are recordedand indexed so that it is available to the students for later reference.The project is a joint venture of Amrita University, ISRO, TIFAC India,and the Indo-US e-Learning initiative.

PI’s : Kamal Bijlani* & Manoj P

Sponsors : ISRO, TIFAC

Start Date: May 2004

Dept./Center:Amrita E-Learning Lab, Amritapuri

AM.CR.03 AMRITA E-Learning Network (AEN)

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The Centre for Cyber Security at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,Coimbatore has been identified by The Technology Information,Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) as a Centre ofRelevance and Excellence (CORE) in Cyber Security and was setupin September 2005.

The objectives of the Centre is to attract and foster a core group ofCyber Security experts who systematically and exhaustivelydisseminate knowledge and its application in the ever-expandingfrontiers of Cyber Security, develop and advance the state-of-the-artin secure data handling, trustworthy storage and interchange,verifiable authentication and certification, through a proactive industry-enabled systems research and development agenda and to protectindustries and organizations, which are increasingly dependent ononline information and IT enabled services, by transforming their keyIT personnel into security aware and security-trained professionalsthrough innovative curricula.

PI’s : Dr. Vallath Nandakumar*,Jayaraj P, Vipin Pavithran*Sponsor: TIFAC

AM. CR. 04 TIFAC- CORE in Cyber Security(Centre for Systems Security)

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Amrita Research Labs is an R&D Center of Amrita consisting ofa number of research groups working on the followingresearch topics:

AM.CR.05 Amrita Research Labs(ARL)

1 Amrita RoadWAVE: Amrita RoadWAVE is a research network forexploring research problems and solution strategies related to Vehicularand Roadside Computing (RoadWAVE: Roadside, Wireless, Ad Hoc,and Vehicular Environments). Amrita RoadWAVE is being developed asa part of project, “Intelligent and Interactive Telematics using EmergingWireless Technologies for Transport Systems” (ITEWS), sponsored byTechnology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC),Govt. of India.2 Amrita CUBE: Amrita CUBE is a research network for exploringresearch problems and solution strategies related to Ubiquitous andEmbedded Computing (CUBE: Calm, Ubiquitous, and emBedded,Environments). Amrita CUBE is being developed as a part of the project,“Techniques for Secure Communication in Ubiquitous WirelessNetworks” (TSCWUN), sponsored by Science and Engineering Council(SERC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.3 Amrita MMSec: We are exploring research issues in securingmultimedia systems for emerging applications such as VoIP and IPTV.

PI: Jayaraj P

Sponsors : Various

Dept./Center: Amrita ResearchLabs

Projects:AM.PR.01 Amrita Virtual Private Networking (Amrita VPN) Platform - Jayaraj. P

AM.PR.02 Secured Data Acquisition and Transmission System for Data Centre (SDATS) - Jayaraj. P

AM.PR.03 Secured Data Acquisition and Transmission System via VSAT/Internet - Jayaraj. P

AM.PR.04 Developing Secured Wi-Fi Communication System for Sky Bus Test Track - Konkan RailwaysCorporation Limited (KRCL) - Jayaraj. P

AM.PR.05 Dual Communication Board on VME Bus (GoI) - Sudharsan S, Rajesh Kannan, Sriram K,Ramesh B

AM.PR.06 Techniques for Secure Communication in Emerging Wireless Ubiquitous Networks(DST, HP, DAX Networks) - Jayaraj. P

AM.PR.07 Intelligent and Interactive Telematics using Emerging Wireless Technologies for TransportSystems (ITEWS) (TIFAC-DST) - Jayaraj. P and Amit

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AM. CR. 06 Amrita Technology Business Incubator

PI’s : Dr. KrishnashreeAchuthan*, BrahmachariShraddhamrita Chaitanya,Kailash, Jayaraj P, RaghuRaman

Sponsor: DST

Start Date: March 2008

Dept./Center: Amrita ResearchLabs, Amritapuri

Amrita Technology Business Incubator (TBI) is an initiative ofDepartment of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India,hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to accelerate successfuldevelopment of business by grooming young and dynamicentrepreneurs.

Amrita Technology Business Incubator aims at converting innovativeideas into products and help to ultimately transform into a venturecapital funded company.

Amrita TBI helps entrepreneurs by providing space, guide lines inbusiness plan and brochures preparations, marketing, patenting, IPprotection etc.

List of products/ technologies developed at Amrita that can beimplemented by industry and convert into an product

a. Amrita Safelock – Multimodal electronic locking system with supportfor RFID cards, Smart cards, WiFi handhelds, and bluetooth-enabledmobile phones. Builtin TCP/IP stack and cryptographic messagesecurity. Directly plugs into the LAN and supports sophisticated centralmonitoring and administration. Research supported by Dept. ofScience & Technology. Deployed at Amrita TV and Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham campuses.

b. Single Line PBX – Enables sharing of a single telephone line amongmultiple workstation users in a Small-to-Medium business orlaboratory environment. Supports wired and wireless local-area-networking technologies. Uses in-house implementations of signalprocessing, cryptographic, and compression libraries.

c. WiFi Oximeter – Enables visualization and analysis of Oximetersignals from multiple remote WiFi-enabled laptops, workstations, orhandhelds. In-house design & development of the embedded WiFiinterface as well as the platform-independent visualization software.

d. GSM-controlled Oven – A prototype implementation thatdemonstrates remote control of devices over GSM/GPRS networks.Design & development of the complete hardware and firmwareinterfaces for an oven that enables it to be controlled from a cell-phone located anywhere in the world – with proper authentication.The architecture has been submitted for patenting.

e. X-Ray Digitizer – A device that enables visualization of X-ray imagesremotely over VSAT or Internet. Built as a part of Telemedicine initiative.

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Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runson the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully inuserspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. Ituses open ssl library for strong encryption and authenticationthrough SSLv3. Amrita VPN can be used to connect two privatenetworks through a public network such as the Internet. It requiresonly one end to have a direct Internet connection preferably with apermanent public IP address. The other end could be connectedto the Internet via a masquerading router.

Research Papers referring to Amrita VPN

Scalability implications for Open-Source Linux BasedVirtual Private Networks, Shashank Khanvilkar,Ashfaq Khokhar

Virtual Private Networks: An Overview (IEEECommunications Magazine), Shashank Khanilkar

SANS paper on secure HTTP tunnels

Other Significant Projects include:

Mandatory Access Control enhancements to LinuxKernel

VLSI Crypto chip

AM. PR. 01 Amrita Virtual Private Networking(Amrita VPN) Platform

PI: Jayaraj P*

Sponsors: Various

Start Date: June 2002


Research Projects@ Amritapuri Campus

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Objective of this project is to develop Data acquisition system fromdistributed sensors with capabilities for 16-to-24-bit enhancement,local storage, and local visualization and the Secure transmission ofacquired data reliably to multiple data centres across India over VSATand Internet. Data centres also have the data visualization, archival,and data format conversion capabilities. Remote Monitoring,Configuration, and Administration of distributed data acquisitionstations from data centres are made possible. The final handover ofthe project to GoI was made in Feb 2006. A training program was heldby the ARL team in June 2006 to a team of GoI engineers here inAmritapuri. The system is now being used by GoI.

PI’s: Jayaraj P, Sureshkumar P*,& Renu M. R

Sponsor: GoI

Senior Technical Team: DineshR (Software Development)

Start Date: February 2004


AM. PR. 02 Secured Data Acquisition and TransmissionSystem for Data Center (SDATS)

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The purpose of this project is to develop a special purpose real timeOperating System Kernel with built-in cryptographic capability to be usedfor data acquisition, processing, and real-time transmission. Our dataacquisition Operating System Kernel is composed of a core kernel whichinterfaces with the bare hardware and provides true real-time multitaskingfacility. The kernel provides networking support via built-in TCP/IP stack.The work is based on previous work in building a custom Kernel withTCP/IP stack and several experimental Linux kernel securityenhancements. As per the project’s objectives, the kernel wasdemonstrated and delivered to Govt. of India.

PI: Jayaraj P

Sponsor: GoI



AM. PR. 03 Secured Data Acquisition and TransmissionSystem via VSAT/Internet (Real-time OS Kernel)

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The purpose of this project is to develop a proof-of-conceptimplementation of telematics technologies that would enablemultimedia-rich communication between vehicles andstations in a metropolitan-area rapid transit network. Theproject was aimed at enabling wireless multimedia-richtelematics services for Konkan-Skybus. ARL has successfullydeveloped a secured wireless based media propagation,communication, and location tracking system as a part ofthis project. The technologies were deployed and field-testedat the 1.6 km long Sky Bus test track in Madgaon, Goa. Thestriking features of the system, among others, includewireless video surveillance, push-to-talk over WiFi, real timelocation tracking of the Sky Bus on the track using RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator). All these features arecontrolled centrally at the Sky Bus Control Station.

PI’s : Jayaraj P & Amit D*

Sponsor: KRCL


Dept./Center: Amrita ResearchLabs

AM. PR. 04 Developing Secured Wi-Fi Communication Systemfor Sky Bus Test Track

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The Ethernet Communication board on VME, AMR-B-VE0401 is a state-of-the-art engineering solution,enabling Ethernet data transfer to and from the hostresiding on the VME bus. The board has built-inintelligence to handle the 802.3 Ethernet protocolwith minimum intervention from the host processor.The key features of the board are as follows:

AM. PR. 05 Dual Communication Board on VME Bus

10/100 Mbps Ethernet 802.3 Media AccessController implemented in FPGA. Support forboth full-duplex and half-duplex operations.

Dual Ethernet link support. During normaloperation, one of the links will be active linkand other will function as stand by link.

Logic to detect failure on the active link and toenable the stand by link.

Visual active Ethernet link status.

Auto-negotiation of link speed without firmwareintervention.

Programmable Address filtering schemes onthe receive frames.

Automatic or programmable flow controlmechanism.

Internal 4K Bytes FIFO on transmit and 4K BytesFIFO on receive for increased data through put.

FPGA implements generic local CPU interfacewhich is portable across differentmicroprocessors.

Intel 80186EC CPU and associated firmwareto interface to the Ethernet Controller and theVME host. The on-board processor relieves thehost processor by handling the protocolprocessing.

Dual Port SRAM (DPRAM) used for data anddescriptor storage is shared between the VMEhost, local CPU and the Ethernet DMAController.

Built in DPRAM Access Unit (DAU) enables theDPRAM and Ethernet DMA Controller to operateat speed different from the local CPU bus. TheDAU implements fairness arbitration betweenthe local CPU and Ethernet DMA accesses tothe DPRAM. Serial EEPROM to program theControl and Status registers in the EthernetController. Slave interface on the VME bus for24 bit addressing and 16 bit data width

PI’s : Sudharsan S*, Rajesh Kannan*, SriramK*, Ramesh B*

Senior Technical Team: Anoop Kumar(PLX Technologies)

Sponsor: GoI


Dept./Center: Amrita Research Labs,Amritapuri

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PI’s : Jayaraj P

Sponsors: DST, GoI

Senior Technical Team:Lakshmiprabha (HardwareDesign/Deployment)


Dept./Center:Amrita Research Labs,Amritapuri

AM. PR. 06 Techniques for Secure Communication inEmerging Wireless Ubiquitous Networks

SMARTPERMIT Authorization for Enterprise 802.11 Wireless Network

This project aims to develop new architectures and protocols for securecommunication in ubiquitous and pervasive computingenvironments. Innovative capability-based authorization architecture forweb-services has been developed as a part of the project. In addition, asa part of the project, ARL has developed an electronic locking system thatcan also be securely operated using multiple methods such as smart-card, cell-phone, and web-based interface. ARL is also developing secureActive-RFID technology that can be used for asset monitoring. Once fullydeveloped, these technologies will be deployed in Amrita campuses andalso taken up for productization

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PI’s : Jayaraj P

Sponsors: CAR, GoI

Senior Technical Team: Amit D, Sriram,Dinesh R, Sudharsan, Ranjith P, Hari N


Dept./Center: Amrita Research Labs,Amritapuri

Objective of this project is research and development of wirelesstelematics platform for transportation systems. The platform consistsof Vehicle On-Board Units, Wireless Mesh Network, Gateways,Messaging System, and highly scalable Back-end Systems. Importanttechnologies developed as a part of this project are:

AM. PR. 07 Intelligent and Interactive Telematics using EmergingWireless Technologies for Transport Systems

1 Amrita T-Mesh: A Secure High-performance Wireless MeshNetwork System that can provide connectivity between various typesof mobile and stationary wireless and wired devices.

2 Amrita MiTRA OBU: An On-Board Unit providing MultilingualLocation-Aware Multimedia Infotainment for Transport Systems withautomatic info-fueling capability.

3 Amrita MiTRA TCM System: A web-based application and acollection of web services that can be used to manage routes,route schedules, and location-based media as well as providevehicles with info-fueling data feeds.

4 Amrita Graphical Dynamic Messaging Unit: A wireless LCD-baseddisplay system that can automatically display a configured set of videosand web data feeds in a round-robin fashion.

5 Amrita Text-Mode Dynamic Messaging Unit: A wireless LED-baseddisplay system that can automatically display scrolling messagesfrom live web data feeds

6 Ignition-Aware Power Supply Unit (IGPSU): A Power-Supply-Unitfor powering on-board computers and other devices. Currently thesesystems are undergoing trial deployments at Amrita campuses, afterdeployment at public transport facilities will be pursued.

Patent

Patent Title: “In-Vehicle Appliance and System for ProvidingMultimedia -Infotainment for a Transport Network”

Patent Inventor List: Jayaraj Poroor, Amit Dhar, SriramKarunagaran, Dinesh Ramachandran, Ranjith Pillay, SudharsanSundararajan, Hari Nellikkad Narayanan

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PI’s : Dr. Bipin Nair & K.Guruvayoorappan*

Sponsors : TIFAC, Biocon, MediaLab Asia

Start Date: January 2005

Dept./Center: Center forBiomedical Technologies,Amritapuri

AM. PR. 08 Adaptive and AutomaticInsulin Pump

Diabetes, which is a chronic disease caused by inherited and/or acquireddeficiency in production of insulin by the pancreas, is rapidly emerging as amajor health-care problem in India, especially in urban areas. According tothe World Health Organization (WHO) and the International DiabetesFederation (IDF) the number of people with diabetes in India is likely to be79.4 million by 2030. Diabetes complications include retinopathy, neuropathy,nephropathy, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease etc. Studiesin prominent medical journals show that intensive insulin therapy deliveredwith an insulin pump can help minimize the development of long-termcomplications such as kidney disease, impaired vision and nerve damage.Hence, most diabetic patients would prefer to use an insulin pump. In spite ofbeing a life saving device, the insulin pump is not something that is affordableto a sizeable majority of diabetic patients in India. We at Amrita can proudlyboast to be the first in India to develop an efficient, but highly cost effectiveinsulin pump that matches and/or surpasses its current internationalcounterparts in every respect. The Amrita Insulin Pump project, funded underthe Govt. of India’s TIFAC Mission Reach program and by Media Lab Asia, isdesigned for the precise, personalized and continuous delivery of insulin in asubcutaneous manner for the control/management of diabetes.

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AM. PR. 0 9 Next Generation Secure Internet Technology forGlobally Distributed Enterprise - An Indo-German Initiative

PI’s : Jayaraj P & Dr. NandakumarSponsors : DST, DAAD, TechnicalUniversities of Munich and Berlin

Start Date: April 2006

Dept./Center:TIFAC- CORE in Cyber Security,Amritapuri

The objective of this project is to investigate systems and architecturesfor Virtual Private Networking (VPN) over Internet or other forms ofpublic/ untrusted networks for securing VoIP traffic. Although separatetechniques exists to secure the signaling and bearer traffic for VoIP(SIPS and SRTP, for example), the VPN will provide a unifiedmechanism that can secure VoIP traffic between two sites. In addition,proper authorization techniques for VoIP is important sincevulnerabilities such as Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) and VoIP-based phishing (vishing) exist. The VPN will also enable authorizationof a VoIP session at the entry point into the network. Presently Layer-3VPNs are commonly used to securely transport VoIP traffic betweenmultiple private networks. Layer-3 VPNs have the disadvantage thatthey interconnect two networks at the IP-level, thereby exposing allnetwork hosts and services by default. To limit access, proper firewallconfiguration has to be put into place. We are exploring a VPNarchitecture that allows only the signaling and bearer traffic of VoIPthrough the VPN tunnels, thereby eliminating the need for creatingadditional firewall rules for securing the VPN virtual interfaces. We willdemonstrate the viability of our techniques for real-world VoIPapplications, by enhancing the existing Amrita VPN with our architecture,and releasing it in open source.

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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham collaborated with ISRO, India’s foremostagency for space technology and research, to launch the AMRITA-ISROVRC Satellite Network, a comprehensive Satellite-based RuralTransformation Initiative in July 2005. ISRO’s vision of the VRC (VillageResource Centre) initiative is to create and implement a sustainable,scalable, space technology-supported community infrastructure catalysingthe transformation of rural India. The benefits that VRCs delivers to ruralIndia cover a broad spectrum of Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Tele-Agriculture, Tele-Fisheries, Rural entrepreneurship with the help of micro-financing, etc.

VRC will serve as the window for information – interactively, ondemand, at the village doorstep. Information spanning a variety ofareas of importance to the village community in several fieldsincluding: Education, Healthcare, agriculture Resourcemanagement, Women’s empowerment and E-governance.Each VRC will act as a centre of the functional community forgreater access to information through ICT.Provide Information and help during epidemics & seasonaldiseases leading to improved Disaster Management.Create a force of depicted self-help group entrepreneurs who aremotivated compassionate, and enthusiastic about usingtechnology toalleviate problems of local farmers and villagepeople by providing servicesEmpower local farmers and small entrepreneurs with informationto succeed in their mission and become self-sustainable.

AM. PR. 10 Digital Earth / VRC - VillageResource Centre

PI’s : Ranganathan R* &Brahmachari AbhayamritaChaithanya*

Sponsors : ISRO, Intel,Dhanalakshmi Bank,Microsoft, Cognizant, Oracle,HP, IL&FS, Cisco

DHANALAKSHMI BANK

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PI’s : Brahmachari ShraddhamritaChaitanya*, Kailash*

Sponsor : IBM SUR Grant Award


AM. PR. 11 Amrita-IBM SUR Award - Virtual Computing Lab

Amrita-IBM Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) maximizes the revolutionarypotential of broadband networking. It facilitates the move withineducation’s use of advanced applications from industrial age conceptsof local ownership and control to Information Age grasp of the power offlexibility and shared remote resources at a vastly amplified scale. And,it does so with proven success for an expanding base of users.

Virtual Computing Lab at Amrita is setup by using IBM’s Blade serverHS21, which is sponsored by IBM India. It consists of 36 blades witheach of 4 GB Memory RAM and three TB storage space. One of themost powerful Virtual computing environments among IndianUniversities.

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PI’s : Kamal Bijlani & Radha

Sponsors : DST, NSTEDB, TBI


Dept./Center:Amrita E-Learning Lab, Amritapuri

Amrita-TBI Global Connect is an initiative by the National Science &Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) to connectall the TBIs in a single thread. The project proposes to establish amultimedia collaborative network inter-connecting the various TechnologyBusiness Incubators (TBIs) all over India and prominent venture capitaland other expert resource centers in different parts of the globe. Thus theinitiative will help to leverage on each other’s strengths and learnings, aswell as, opening a direct channel between all of them to grow jointly. Theproject offers multiple modes of communication like video/audioconferencing for joint meetings, and various other collaborative tools andaccess to business information.

AM. PR. 12 Amrita-TBI Global Connect

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AM.PR.13 Optical Computing Using Solitons

Other Projects

AM.PR.14 Medicinal Plant Cultivation (National MedicinalPlants Board) Prasanth (M.A. Math)

PI: Dr. Sreelatha

Sponsor: DST


Dept./Center: Science

An optical computer is a computer that uses light instead of electricityto manipulate, store and transmit data. Photons have fundamentallydifferent physical properties than electrons, and researchers haveattempted to make use of these properties to produce computerswith performance and/or capabilities greater than those of electroniccomputers. Optical computers would transport information ten timesfaster than traditional electronic devices, smashing the intrinsic speedlimit of silicon technology. This project proposes a new physicalmedium for computation: colliding solitons. As particle like nonlinearwaves, solitons can carry and exchange information, thus acting ascomputing agents. Optical solitons have pulse widths measured inpicoseconds or femtoseconds, and this approach could ultimatelyoffer an alternative to electronics.

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AM.PR.15. Molecular Mechanisms inimpaired wound-healing

Diabetic wound healing is a challenging problem to solve as it requiresthe integration of interdependent processes that involve signaltransduction input from inflammation, cell migration, cell proliferation,cell differentiation and production of extracellular protein components.A number of factors including Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF), MatrixMetalloproteinases, as well as Nitric Oxide (NO) play unique rolesindependently, or through cross talk between these factors and therebyhave a profound impact on the wound healing process.

Present efforts in the laboratory are focused on understanding themolecular mechanisms underlying Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP2) and Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) mediated regulation of woundhealing. Studies also involve screening of natural product extracts formodulators of MMP2 activity for potential use as therapeutic entities inthe treatment of Diabetic wounds. Another approach also involvesstudy of In-silico methods of pathway modeling to understandmechanisms involved in Wound Healing. This approach will help inunraveling the molecular effects resulting from the concerted actionsof many modulators by taking into account a detailed dynamicrepresentation of the same.

PI : Prof. Bipin Nair*

Sponsor: Various

Dept./Center : Amrita School ofBiotechnology

Start Date: August, 2008

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AM.PR.16. Bioactive Molecules fromSeabuckthorn

Seabuckthorn (SBT), (Hippophae L.) are deciduous shrubs in the genusHippophae, family Elaeagnaceae. In addition to the nutritionally activeconstituents, many clinically important activities of seabuckthorn (SBT), suchas beneficial effects on skin, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, woundhealing, cancer chemopreventive action, anti-viral activity, sun screen andradioprotection have been established. Unfortunately, most of the reportedstudies have been carried out with ill-defined crude extracts (e g “flavone”,“hydro alcoholic extracts”, “SBT oil”, “aqueous extracts”). Due to non-uniformity, the results are often not reproducible. Therefore there is urgentneed for identification of active principles. Presently, work in the laboratory isdirected towards the isolation and characterization of active principles /fractions from bioactive fractions of SBT. Isolated compounds will be availablefor the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, dermatitis, CVD, pepticulcers, sun-screen and radio protective formulations, wound healing agents.Wherever isolation presents difficulty within a reasonable time frame, theextracts will be standardized with respect to bio-markers and finger-printing.

PI : Prof. Asoke Banerji*

Sponsor : Dept. ofBiotechnology, Govt. of India

Dept./Center: Amrita School ofBiotechnology

Start Date: June, 2009

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AM.PR.17. GLUT4 and Insulin Resistance

GLUT4 is a class I major facilitated glucose transporter, predominantlyexpressed in adipocytes and myocytes.. It is a twelve transmembraneprotein playing an essential role in maintaining blood glucosehomeostasis. In basal state, GLUT4 is present in intracellularcompartments and is translocated to the plasma membranepredominantly in an insulin dependent manner. At the plasmamembrane GLUT4 undergoes intrinsic transporter activation andleads to the transport of glucose inside the cells. Any defect in thenormal functioning of GLUT4 will result in impaired glucosehomeostasis eventually leading to insulin resistance, a hall mark oftype 2 diabetes.

Dr. Anil’s laboratory is using a multifaceted approach to identifybiological and structural features governing GLUT4 function with anultimate aim to develop novel molecules to combat insulin resistance.

PI : Dr. Anilkumar G.*

Sponsor : Dept. of Science andTechnology, Council of Scientificand Industrial Research


Start Date: June, 2009

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AM.PR.18. Peptide-Based Anti-SnakeVenom therapy

Typically snake bite is treated with polyclonal antibody preparationsobtained from immunized animals. This method is suboptimal becausethe neutralizing agents are not tailored towards specific venom componentsand because of batch variability due to turnover of venom donor andantivenom donor animals. We propose to improve potency and reducebatch variability by developing highly specific and defined neutralizingpeptides against relevant components present in the venom of fourimportant venomous snake species of India, cobra (Naja naja), commonkrait (Bungarus caeruleus), Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii), andSawscaled viper (Echis carinatus.) To that end snake venom will befractionated and individual peptide components of the venom will be purifiedby various methods including size exclusion, ion exchange chromatographyetc.. Purified components will be immobilized and used as baits in protein-protein interaction screens based on phage display methods.Subsequently, interacting peptides will be evaluated for venom-neutralizingproperties, and promising leads will be optimized by iterative cycles ofmutagenesis and evaluation of venom-neutralizing properties. Ultimately,optimized peptide sequences will be cloned, bacterially expressed maythen be tested in combination to neutralize the complete venom.

This is a collaborative research project with VINS Bioproducts Limited,Hyderabad, India.

PI : Dr. Martin Reick*

Sponsor : VINS BioproductsLimited, Hyderabad, India.


Start Date : June, 2009

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AM.PR.19. Amrita Virtual-BiotechnologyLabs

Intelligent development of virtual laboratories with state-of-the-artcomputer simulation technology to create real world environmentsand problem handling capabilities is required to bridge the gapbetween institutions (or industries) that retain the physical laboratoryand distantly placed economically challenged educational institutions.

A virtual laboratory is a tool for distance learning and/or experimentationthat allows people to share knowledge, data, voice, video, tools, andmany other resources. It provides a suitable environment to extend,improve, integrate, refine, and assist the learning and/orexperimentation process of many subjects, thus contributing to anincrease of the effectiveness of scientific research and widening theuse of scarce or costly equipments. As key part of the project, theBiotech school will study and use mathematical techniques in biologyto study, hypothesize and demonstrate complex biological functions

As part of the virtual biotechnology lab project pilot, a virtualneurophysiology lab has been developed in the short period. Virtualneurophysiology techniques like brain slicing, patch clamping, actionpotential in neurons, voltage and current clamp protocols have beenimplemented via user-interactive animations and through use ofdetailed mathematical simulators.

PI’s : Dr. Shyam Diwakar,Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan*

Sponsor : Ministry of HumanResource Development, Govt. ofIndia


Start Date : May 15, 2009

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AM.PR.20. Computational Neuroscienceand Mathematical Modeling in Biology

One of the biggest open challenges in understanding, thatmathematicians and engineers face is the function of the brain andthe complex computation that takes place within. Among the mostinteresting parts of the brain, is the ‘little brain’, otherwise known asthe cerebellum. The cerebellum is of critical importance for sensory-motor control and learning and its disruption causes a dramaticneurological syndrome called ataxia. Current research in theoreticalneuroscience studies here at ASBT is the study and modeling ofcerebellar circuitry and its functions.

The activity in neuronal networks originates from the contribution ofmultiple interconnected neurons. Although the investigation on singleneuron properties can reveal important aspects of neural functions,brain circuit computations are thought to emerge from the ensembleactivity of complex networks. Since it would be impractical (if possible)to record from every single neuron in the network, computationalreconstructions of the network activity neuronal models could provideinsight. The main impact of the study will be to be able to reconnectlow-level functions (neuron activity and synaptic plasticity) to large-scale functions of the brain in specific circuits.

PI : Dr. Shyam Diwakar*

Sponsor : Amrita School ofBiotechnology, University of Paviaand University of Milan, Italy.

Dept./Center: Amrita School ofBiotechnology

Start Date : Feb 20, 2009

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AM.PR. 1. Real-time Wireless SensorNetwork for Landslide Monitoring

The project will develop a Wireless Sensor Network for Real-TimeLandslide Monitoring with pore water pressure, tilt meter, and raingauge sensors, along with a large and dense wireless sensor networkto provide a comprehensive matrix of geotechnical data for thedeployment site. In addition, the project will also provide designs oflarge scale data collection algorithms running in the wireless sensornetwork, power optimization schemes, scalability for the fielddeployment, remote network configuration, data fusion for multipledata types, and network heterogeneity. The data will be sent via theZigBee or equivalent wireless sensor network to a network gateway,which will send the data via WiFi to the VSAT network, which will thentransmit the data to the Amritapuri Data Analysis center. There, the riskof landslide will be assessed, and remote command and controlinterface will be given to the Wireless Sensor Network Landslide FieldDeployment to performance-tune the data collection parameters andprovide warnings.

PI’s : Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh*,Dr. P. Venkat Rangan

Sponsor : Dept. of InformationTechnology (DIT), India

Dept./Center : Center for WirelessNetworks and Applications, AmritaVishwa Vidyapeetham

Start Date : September 2008

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PI : Kamal Bijlani*

Sponsor : MHRD

Dept./Center : E-LearningInitiatives

Start Date : May 2009

AM.PR.22. A-VIEW (Amrita VirtualInteractive E-Learning World)

A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive e-Learning World) is a new multi-modal multimedia ELearning system which uses a network of fourhigh-resolution displays to provide an immersive learning experiencethat is almost as good as a real classroom through internet. Thissystem addresses the most pressing issue of higher education inIndia today, namely, the shortage of highly qualified teachers.

Aimed to deliver a comprehensive, state of the art Virtual class roomenvironment for the student community which redefines the traditionalclass room concept into a new highly interactive e-learning platformwhere teacher and students interact and learn avoiding the limitationsof location and time.

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AM.PR.23. Interactive VisualisationTechniques for Monitoring Educators andlearners in Web-based Distance Learning

Driven by the large amount of data in LMS (Learning ManagementSystems), research in this area centers around creating, building,and evaluating computational and visualization tools to extractmeaningful information that is of value to educators, administratorsand students.

Although generic LMS (Learning Management systems) are veryeffective in facilitating the delivery of distance learning courses, theyprovide very little help to instructors to gain understanding of cognitiveand social processes in distance classes.

We wish to explore the use of Information Visualisation to render thedata collected from a LMS into an appropriate graphical manner. Byapplying visualization techniques, data from LMS can be presented ina format suitable for the instructors to gain understanding of theirlearners and become aware of what is happening in their classes.

We propose to build flexible student monitoring and tracking systemfor a generic LMS where the information needed to build a studentmodel is provided by the log data of the students’ activities collectedby the LMS. This can be done by representing LMS’s activities andcommunications students have been engaged in graphicalrepresentations.

PI’s : Raghu Raman*, Raji Nair

Sponsor : National Mission onEducation through ICT, Ministryof HRD

Dept./Center : AmritaTechnologies


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AM.PR.24. Standardization and Qualityof eLearning Content

Amrita is developing the Amrita-National Electronic Accreditation Tool(A-NEAT) to meet the accreditation process for National AccreditationBoard for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) to help HealthCare Organizations achieve accreditation. A-NEAT will be a contentmanagement and work flow system along with a scalable, reliableand feature rich web-portal.

Research provides real-world studies for collecting prospective patient-and provider-reported data. Retrospective Database Studies aredesigned to assess unique differences in health outcomes or level ofresource utilization between groups of interest. A-NEAT will also focuson gathering clinical indicators from the Health Care Organizations(HCOs), analyzing and predicting the data and identifying significanttrends in the quality of Health Care Services.

PI’s : Prema Nedungadi*,Dr. Sanjeev Singh, Sheila Nair

Sponsor : National AccreditationBoard for Hospitals &Healthcare Providers (NABH)

Dept./Center : Amrita Technologies

Start Date : July 2009

AM.PR.25. Amrita Multisite GrantManagement System (Amrita MGMS)

Today’s grant agencies and grantees face a complex challenge -including the selection of grant proposals, timely completion of grantapplications, and tracking the performance and financials of multiplegrants.

Amrita MGMS is an enterprise wide, multi-site, web based solutionthat tracks the entire grants lifecycle process from making theapplication, to receiving funds, to managing the consumption againsttargets. It helps the grantor organization track their resources and thegrantee organization.

PI : Raghu Raman*

Sponsor : Ministry of HumanResource Development

Dept./Center : Amrita Technologies


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AM.PR.26. Sakshat- Amrita VocationalEducation (S.A.V.E.)

The objective of SAVE is to enhance the pace of learning occupationalskills by developing multimedia enriched computerized vocationaltraining programs targeting the illiterate and neo-literate sections ofsociety. Courses include the use of haptic devices, as appropriate, tosimulate skills necessary to attain competency. The haptic devicesare fully interactive, three-dimensional devices that provide sensoryfeedback to the user. The Courses are implemented in remote, tribalareas with the use of a Facilitator who guides the students throughthe various modules. Courses and evaluation modules are virtualand interactive.

The long term vision of SAVE is to outfit a Mobile e-Learning Unit thatcan travel to the target populations in the rural areas, specifically forvocational training.

PI’s : Ms. Bhavani Bijlani*,Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan,Dr. Kumar Rajamani*

Sponsor : Ministry of HumanResource Development

Dept./Center :Multimedia andHaptic Studies

Start Date : June 2009

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AM.PR.27. Theoretical and empiricalinvestigations on the interaction ofasymmetric migration and intrinsic growthrate on the dynamics of laboratorymetapopulations of Drosophilamelanogaster.

The dynamics of spatially structured populations (metapopulations)have been widely studied over the last few decades. For the sake ofsimplicity, most of these studies assume that all the constituentlocal populations (subpopulations) experience similar rates ofmigration (immigration and emigration). Although it is intuitivelyobvious that nothing in nature constrains the migration rates to besymmetric, i.e. same over all subpopulations, this problem seemsto have eluded the attention of theoretical and empirical ecologists.After some preliminary simulation studies, we indeed found that,compared to the symmetric case, asymmetric migration is likely tolead to very different metapopulation dynamics in terms of stabilityand synchrony. More importantly, we realized that the effects ofasymmetric migration might interact with the intrinsic growth ratesof the subpopulations concerned. The present project aims toinvestigate this interaction using a combination of theoretical toolsbased on analytical/computational non-linear dynamics, andexperiments on laboratory metapopulations of the fruitfly, Drosophilamelanogaster.

PI’s : Dr. Sutirth Dey,Nithin Nagaraj*

Sponsor : Various

Dept./Center : Electronics andCommunication Engineering.

Start Date : September 14, 2009

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BL.CR.01 Amrita Indo-US Center

PI : Shekar Babu*

Sponsor: SUNY Buffalo

Start Date: July 2007

Dept./Center: Indo-US

AMRITA - SUNY BUFFALOExecutive Masters Program

Research Center@ Bangalore Campus

Dual Degree Masters Program in IT &ITES Management

AMRITA University and the State University of New York (SUNY) atBuffalo are jointly offering a higher educational post-graduate dual-degree program for IT Professionals at Bangalore. Students who jointhe Collaborative Masters Dual-Degree program will earn two mastersdegrees. The M.S. in Management of IT & IT-Enabled Services(MITES) is a specialized degree that is uniquely designed to provideaspiring professionals with focused knowledge and skills so that theycan grow into executive positions and become effective leaders in theITS & ITES industry. This degree is offered by SUNY at Buffalo, NewYork [students obtain this degree by attending University at Buffalo,New York for a certain duration]. The M.Sc. in Management InformationSystems (MIS) degree is a specialized degree in the area ofManagement of Information Systems that is designed for professionalsto grow into specific executive positions in the IS & IT industry and isoffered by Amrita University. This innovative program would enablestudents to complete both the degree requirements in 18 months in asignificantly cost-effective and time-effective manner. TheCOLLABORATIVE MASTERS DUAL-DEGREE IS A BUSINESSMANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN THE DOMAIN AREA OF IT AND ITES. Theabove clear focus would build outstanding corporate professionalswho would contribute enormously to the productivity of high tech firms.Further, our emphasis on functional, technical, process and soft skillswould also develop employees into entrepreneurs in their own areas,besides giving them a significant career advantage through the two advanceddegrees. The first batch, sponsored by Hewlett Packard (HP), graduatedin 2009.

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Dual Degree Masters Program in Embedded SystemsAMRITA University along with SUNY, Buffalo’s School of Engineering,on the other hand, has uniquely developed a DUAL-DEGREEMasters program to help working professionals learn all aspects ofembedded systems. From hardware to software, from algorithmdevelopment to practical implementation, the program focuses onall aspects. An MS in Embedded Systems degree will be given bySUNY, Buffalo and a M.Sc. in Embedded Systems degree by AMRITA.This weekend program provides training to students with tools,techniques and an overall understanding of embedded systems.Targeting the working professionals in the field of embeddedsystems, we offer courses in the area of hardware design (systemarchitecture), software development (real time embedded programming, Linux based systems), DigitalSignal Processing (DSP) and applications (multimedia and networking). Students will develop anunderstanding of the technology capabilities and limitations and the methods to evaluate design trade-offs between different technologies choices. Several distinguished professors from the US as well fromAMRITA School of Engineering will be traveling to Bangalore to teach in this program. Besides, severalhighly regarded industry experts will also deliver lectures during the courses.

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Certificate Program in Embedded Systems

AMRITA University in alliance with TATA ELXSI and University of Maryland, College Park, USAintroduces an innovative Certificate Programme in Embedded Systems. An embedded systemis a special-purpose computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions,often with real-time computing constraints. It is usually embedded as part of a complete deviceincluding hardware and mechanical parts. In contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as apersonal computer, can do many different tasks depending on programming. Embeddedsystems control many of the common devices in use today. From Automotive to Aerospace,Enterprise to Consumer Electronics, Entertainment to FMCG, Media to Storage, Semicon toTelecom, Embedded systems’ appliactions are there in all aspects of modern life. The CertificateProgram in Embedded Systems provides training to students with high-end tools, techniquesand an overall understanding of embedded systems. Targeting the entry level engineersgraduating as well as the recent graduated professionals, we designed the course focused inthe domain applications such as multimedia, networking, and DSP.

Key Differentiators

Course curriculum designed and delivered by TATA-ELXSI

Industry Approved Certificate Program

Hands-on program with actual live problems

Reputed faculty from TATA-ELXI, AMRITA University, University of Maryland, CollegePark (USA), and from leading Embedded System industries

Domain focus on Multimedia, DSP and Networking

Collaboration with MIND Lab and WIMAX Lab at University of Maryland College Park,USA for various industry and live applications

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The adverse effects of power electronic converters on the quality ofpower leading to many issues such as harmonic injection, poor powerfactor, non-sinusoidal supply voltage (with fluctuations, unbalance andflicker) reactive power burden and low system efficiency, have becomea serious concern for utilities and industries. High power industrialloads such as adjustable speed drives (ASD), uninterruptible powersupplies (UPS) and thyristor converters, and low power domestic orcommercial loads such as TV, fax machines, computers, fluorescenttubes and microwave ovens and other conventional non-linear loadssuch as arc furnaces and single phase welding machines draw highlydistorted currents resulting in non-sinusoidal supply voltages. Theelectric utility is expected to supply sufficiently good quality of electricpower to its customers. In brief, the utility must maintain a sinusoidalload bus voltage at a stipulated magnitude and frequency.

The overall degradation in the electric power quality also often interfereswith many neighboring sensitive loads such as computers, automatedprocessing in industries and other microprocessor-controlled medicalequipments risking the loss of valuable data. Conventionally harmonicdistortion has been dealt-with by establishing banks of tuned passivefilters.

Even though the drawbacks in passive filters are very well attended to inactive power filters, they are still limited by their rating and cost.

In this project, a three-phase hybrid filter with digital control is proposedto be designed and developed to achieve a cost-effective, efficient andfast-responding solution to the above-mentioned problem of poorpower quality.

BL. PR. 01 Development of a Three-Phase Hybrid FilteringSystem with Digital Control

PI: Dr. Manjula Nair*

Sponsor: DST -SERC

Dept./Center: EEE

Start Date: 2008

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PI: Dr. K. P. Soman*

Sponsors : DIT, CDAC, ISROMicrosoft, Cognizant, Oracle,HP, IL&FS, Cisco

Dept./Centre: CEN

Start Date: 2004

Centre of Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN)is working on developing novel computational approaches and tools tosolve some of the pressing problems in science & engineering. TheCentre has developed an automatic clustering tool kit that facilitatesparallel and distributed computing. Currently it is working on developinga massive linguistic engine that can that can translate any documentfrom English to Indian languages. The engine is in its final stage. Otherareas where the Centre is putting effort are software radio and wireless sensornetworks. (http://www.amrita.edu/cen)

Projects:CB.PR.03. Digital Multimedia [ISRO] Dr. K. P. Soman

CB.PR.06. Analysis of PIV / PLIF Images for Fluid Flow Visualization[ISRO]-Dr. K. P Soman

CB.PR.08. Massively Parallel Support Vector Machines for TargetClassification [NPOL]-Dr. K. P Soman

CB.PR.12. Video Conferencing Software [ISRO]-Dr.K.P.Soman

CB.PR.16. Development of Methodologies for Detection of DigitalContents Plagiarism [DIT]- Dr. K. P Soman

CB.PR.25. Video Summarization and Annotation for Content BasedRetrieval [ISRO]-Dr. K. P Soman

CB.PR.27. Machine Translation from English to Indian Languages[Ministry of IT, Govt. of India]- Dr. K. P Soman

CB.PR.32. Development of Image Fusion Techniques andMeasurement Methods to Assess the Quality of Fusion [DRDO]-Dr. K.P. Soman

CB. CR. 01 Computational Engineeringand Networking

Research Centers@ Coimbatore Campus

Postgraduate Program:

M.Tech.in ComputationalEngineering & Networking

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PI: Dr. Sethumadhavan*

Sponsors : TIFAC, IBM, HP, SETS, NTRO

Dept./Center: Cyber Security

Start Date:September 2005

CB. CR. 02 TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security

The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council(TIFAC) of the Department of Science and Technology, Government ofIndia, has been identified by TIFAC as a centre in Cyber Security inSeptember 2005. The TIFAC centre at Amrita is a collaborative allianceof academic and industrial partners. The primary goal and unique aspectof the program is to promote the partnering of industry and academia tocreate innovative educational and research efforts and develop worldclass expertise in Cyber Security.

Projects:

CB.PR.04. Development of Fast & Effective CryptographicTechniques [ISRO] - Dr. M. Sethumadhavan

CB.PR.09. Design & Analysis of Pseudorandom NumberGenerators [DRDO]-Dr. M. Sethumadhavan

CB.PR.22. Next Generation Secure Technology[DST]-Dr. M.Sethumadhavan

CB.PR.26. Analysis of Word Based Stream Ciphers [ADRIN]-Dr. M. Sethumadhavan

CB.PR.28. VLSI Development of Finite Field Arithmetic [NTRO]-Dr. M. Sethumadhavan

CB.PR.33. Error Linear Complexity Measures for Multisequences[ADRIN] -Dr. M. Sethumadhavan


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CB. CR. 03 Indo-US E-Learning Network

Indo-US, Indo-European, International andInterdisciplinary Initiatives

Introduction:

During the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Dr. ManmohanSingh to Washington, DC in 2005, and subsequently in thepresence of the Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in Delhi,a landmark Indo-US MoU was signed to bring faculty of someof the eminent Universities of the United States to Universitiesand Colleges in India for teaching both short-term andsemester-long courses on the EDUSAT Network from a stateof the art E-Learning Studio hosted at Amrita University’sbeautiful hillside campus. More than 20 American andEuropean universities, many of whom are ranked among thebest in the world, are part of this historic agreement led byAmrita, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), TechnicalInformation Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) andGovernment of India’s Department of Science and Technology(DST). Under this initiative many of the eminent faculty fromUS universities have visited and lectured at Amrita. In addition,joint degree programs, student exchange programs, jointundergraduate projects, consortium led research projects andvarious other programs have mushroomed over the last fewyears.

PI’s : Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan*,Shekar Babu, P. Manoj* andKamal Bijlani

Sponsors : ISRO, TIFAC, Microsoft,Cadence, Qualcomm, Hero Honda,Cognizant


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CB. CR. 04 Environmental Sciences

The centre was started to develop technologies which are environmentfriendly, economically sound, socially acceptable, politically viable andcommunity need based for sustainable development and to createawareness among the people regarding equitable use of naturalresources and conserving and nurturing biological diversity, gene pooland other resources for long term food and health security. The centrehas secured a research project from National Medicinal Plants Boardof Government of India for the Amritapuri and Coimbatore Campuses.

PI: Dr. M. Aravindakshan

Sponsors : National MedicinalPlants Board, GoI

Dept./Center: Environmental studies

Start Date: November 2004

CB. CR. 06 Amrita BiomedicalEngineering Research Centre

(AMBE)


M.Tech. in Bio-medical Technology

PI: K. Guruvayoorappan

Dept./Center: ECE

CB. CR. 05 Digital Earth/RemoteSensing


M.Tech. Remote Sensing & Wireless Sensor Networks

PI: Dr. Soman K. P

Dept./Center: Remote Sensing

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Project Title PI’s

Investigation of a Graph Partitioning Algorithm for VLSI Circuits Dr. K. Somasundaram

The Design and Performance Evaluation of a Solar Car Dr. Ganesh Udupa

Ultra-Light Polymer Composites for Inflatable Space Structural [ISS] C. Nirmal and Dr. S. S. BhagawanApplications

static Var Compensator(SVC) for Reactive Power Control in Radial R. Jayabarathi, M.R. SindhuPower Systems

Design and Fabrication of Electrochemical Micromachining Setup P. Raghuram

Integral Equation Method Analysis and Study of Probe Fed Dual Dr. M. JayakumarAnnular Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna for Mobile Systems

Remote Load Control Using Wireless Network Dr. T.N.Padmanabhan Nambiar

Investigate the Co-relation of Science and Spirituality Prof. Sriram Ananthanarayanan

Control of Switched Reluctance Generator Isha T.B., A.Vijayakumari.

Vermicomposting Under Different Experimental Conditions Dr. M. Aravindakshan

Pressure Mapping for the Intake Manifold of a 4-Stroke IC Engine Thirumalini.S / Sanjivi Arul

Welding of Composite Materials S. Ilangovan

Design and Fabrication of Bio Diesel Process Plant Babu Devasenapati.S

Development of a Novel Optimum Polymer Support for the Dr. K. M. SreedharSynthesis of Peptides with Antimicrobial Activity

AGraphically Intensive 3-D Virtual Lab to Simulate Wired and Dr. K. Sangeeta & Dr. A SrinivasWireless Networks for Educational Training

Automatic Shape and TextureBased Face Recognition Dr. A. Srinivas

Development of a micro wind-electric generator through industrial Sasi K.K and Joshi C. Harancollaboration

Power Quality Improvement Prof. A.T Devarajan

CB.CR.07 Office of the SponsoredResearch Programs(Research Initiation Awards)

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“India 2020 Centre for Societal Transformation & Leadership has emergedas an outcome of the World CEO-Summit hosted by H.E. the President ofIndia during Amrithavarsham-50 (AMMA’s 50th Birthday celebrations) at Kochi,Kerala during 26th September 2003. More than one hundred & eight CEOsfrom leading national and international organizations participated in the CEO-Summit and discussed the strategy for the leadership required fortransforming India to be a Developed Nation by 2020. The world CEO Summitfocused on various strategies for providing Quality Education, Healthcare,Reliable Communication Network, Basic Infrastructure, TechnologyAwareness, Grass-root Leadership development programs that can makeIndia a developed country by the year 2020.

PI: Dr. P. Venkat RanganSponsors: Various

CB. CR. 08 India 2020

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CB. PR. 01 Development and Scale-Up of PlungingHollow Jet, Venturi and Sudden Expansion Type Aerators

PI’s : Dr. K.M. Mini* &Dr. N. Narayana Pillai*

Sponsor: AICTE

Dept./Center: Civil Engineering


Aerobic treatment of wastewater requires the continuous replenishmentof oxygen economically in sufficient quantities. Efficient aerators aredeveloped towards this end. Plunging Hollow Jet Aerators consist of acone, which deflects the water at the end of a discharging pipe throughthe annular opening, forming a hollow jet. The thin jet striking the waterin the aeration tank formed a circular wave front creating high turbulenceand entraining large quantities of air. The efficiency of the device washigh (1.5 to 2,25 kg./ kW.h) under standard conditions, for the smallopening between the pipe and the cone. But this method can be used onlywhen the water does not have solids which may clog the openings.

Venturi and Sudden Expansion type Aerators

Waste water from the aeration tank is drawn by a pump and dischargestowards the bottom of the tank after passing through an air aspiratingdevice. It could be a Venturi or sudden expansion downstream of whichair is admitted. Experiments have shown that such devices can havehigh oxygenation efficiencies of 1.5 to 2.25 kg /.kW.h under standardconditions. These devices can be used without fear of clogging due tosolids in the wastewater. The performance in model is shown inPhotograph attached. The devices can be used very efficiently even insmall package wastewater treatment plants.

The sudden expansion air aspirating aerators are being used in a newwaste water treatment plant in the Ettimadai campus.

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PI’s : Dr. R. Sellamuthu*, SanjiviArul, S. Ilangovan

Sponsor: GoI

Dept./Center:MechanicalEngineering


The funded amount received as a grant from GoI was utilized inestablishing a state-of-the-art welding research laboratory at Ettimadaicampus comprising of the following equipments: 1. Lincoln ElectricTIG Welding Machine 2. Lincoln Electric MIG Welding Machine 3. StellarNet UV Radio-spectrometer 4. Linear Manipulator

The research was aimed at measuring the Ultraviolet Radiation (UV)emanating during welding as the UV radiation is an importantconsideration for the health of the welders and adequate data in thisregard are necessary. In this study, the UV intensities as a function ofwelding current and distance from the source were measured for TIGan MIG welding processes. It is generally observed that the UVintensities decrease with the distance from the arc source for bothcases of TIG and MIG welding processes when the current is heldconstant. Similarly, the UV intensities were found to increase withincrease in the current for both TIG and MIG welding processes.Operating under minimum required current is one way of reducing theimpact of radiation in addition to regular use of clothes and goggles.

CB. PR. 02 Method to Control Ultraviolet Radiation inWelding Processes

CB. PR. 03 Digital Multimedia

Objectives of the projects is to develop a system that:

1. Extract objects and motion information

2. Uses an extensible object-relational system for organizing multimedia

3. Incorporates novel query-processing techniques for similarity queries

PI: Dr. K.P. Soman*

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


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CB. PR. 04 Development of Fast and EffectiveCryptographic Techniques

PI: Dr. M. Sethumadhavan

Sponsor: ISRO



A major issue in the security analysis of stream ciphers is the qualityassessment of key streams. In other words, we need to know howclose the key stream is to true randomness. Key stream guaranteeingan adequate security level must meet various requirements such aspossessing good statistical randomness properties and a highcomplexity (in a suitable sense), so that the key stream cannot beinferred from a small portion of its terms. In this project weconcentrated on linear complexity and related complexity measures forkey sequences.

The objective of the project was to conduct thorough investigations toidentify good wavelet-based features and support vector machinebased classification algorithms to characterize the vibration signatures.Using the extracted wavelet based features as inputs, Support VectorMachines (SVM) is used to classify and predict the various faultsoccurring in the mechanical system. An experimental set-up formachinery fault detection was fabricated. Using the experimental set-up, vibration data pertaining to various conditions were acquired, andpreliminary analysis based on traditional Fourier transform wascarried out for diagnosis and prediction of faults. The next step wasthe development of wavelet-based software for analysis of vibrationdata. Using this, extensive experimentation and analysis were carriedout to extract features. Based on the features extracted, the next stepwas the classification and the prediction of various kinds of faults.This was carried out using Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithms.Finally, all the hardware and all the software modules are integratedand tested with flight vibration or acoustic data supplied by VSSC.

PI: Dr. K. I. Ramachandran*

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


CB. PR. 05 Wavelet Based Analysis ofTest/Post Flight Vibration/Acoustic Data

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PI’s : Dr. K. P. Soman, S. Mahadevan*

Sponsor : ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


CB. PR. 06 Analysis of PIV/PLIF Imagesfor Fluid Flow Visualization

This project aims at developing softwares for analyzing laser basedimages captured using particle image velocimetry and planar laserinduced fluorescence imaging techniques. Experimental setups forPIV and PLIF are also being developed.

This project was on developing parallel algorithms for targetidentification using support vector machines. The novelty of thealgorithm lies in adaptive incremental learning in which algorithmadapt to new data sets.

CB. PR. 07 Massively Parallel SupportVector Machines forTarget Classification

PI: Dr. K. P. Soman

Sponsor: NPOL

Dept./Center: CEN


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A Cryptographically Secure Power Generator (CSPRNG) is apower generator with properties that makes it suitable for use incryptography. CSPRNGs are designed explicitly to resistdetermined mathematical reverse engineering. In this project,we are studying the designs of power generators based onnumber theory. We concentrate in fast generation of the followinggenerators: Power generators such as BBS generators.

CB. PR. 08 Design and Analysis of Cryptographically SecurePower Generators


Sponsor: GoI



The project envisages development of novel polymers based oncardanol, a constituent of a natural product, viz.cashewnut shellliquid. Polyamides using diamine have been synthesized andcharacterized. The various steps included preparation ofnitrocompound NDMT [2-nitro-dimethyl terephthalate] followed bycoupling reaction with potassium salt of cardanol leading to 2-(3-pentadecyl) phenoxy dimethyl terephthalate / 2-(3-pentadecyl)phenoxy 1,4 dimethylbenzene; Hydrolysis of this compound byethanolic KOH to produce 2-(3-pentadecyl) phenoxy benzene 1, 4 -dicarboxylic acid. The polyamide was finally obtained by solutionpolymerization technique using m-phenylene diamine [MPDA] and2-(3-pentadecyl) phenoxy benzene 1, 4 dicarboxylic acid. Theintermediate products and polyamide were characterized.

PI’s : Dr. S.S. Bhagawan *&Dr. K. Ajitha

Sponsor: GoI

Dept./Center: Chemical Engineering& Materials Science & Sciences


CB. PR. 09 Development ofHigh-Performance Polyamidesfrom Renewable Natural Source(Cardanol)

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The objective of the project is to evaluate selected medicinal plants fortheir suitability for growing in semi-arid rain shadow regions of theWestern Ghats of Tamilnadu and production of quality planting materials.The financial outlay of the project is Rs 10.00 lakhs (Rupees Ten Lakhsonly) for a period of three years. The project is in the third year ofoperation. A collection of 130 medicinal plants were made whichincluded 14 plants prioritized by the NMPB. Some of the promisingmedicinal plants suited to the agro climate situations of Ettimadai are:

Aloe vera (Kattarvazha)

Withania somnifera (Amukkuram)

Cetella asiatica (Vallarai)

Aegle marmelos (Vilvam)

Tinospora cordifolia (Chitamaruthu)

Glorisosa superba (Gloriosa lily)

Ocimum sanctum (Thulasi)

Andrographis paniculata (Kiriyathu / Nilavembu)

Piper logum (Tipilli)

Curcuma aromatica (Kasthrui manjal )

Kampferia galangal (Kacholam)

Kampferia rotunda (Chenghzuneerkizhangu)

Asparagus racemosus (Satavari)

Caesalpinia sappan (Sappan wood)

CB. PR. 10 Ex-situ Cultivation of Selected Medicinal Plants inthe Semi Arid Rain Shadow Regions of the Western Ghats ofTamilnadu and their Propagation Through Production of QualityPlanting Materials

PI: Dr. M. Aravindakshan

Sponsors : NMPB, GoI

Dept./Center: Environmental studies


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This work aims in developing and investigating the dynamics of thebrain models capable of predicting cerebellar input-outputtransformations; analyzing the mathematical and computationalproperties of the network. Interfaces and mobile robot exploiting theneuronal network to the problem of navigation in mobile robots equippedwith proprioceptive sensory system will be developed to apply theneuronal model and achieve 1.) Intelligent Mobility: Primarily concernedwith the development of sensors and control for mobile robots. 2.) TerrainModeling and Characterization: Investigate their abilities to model terrainand characterize for predicting the mobility. 3.) Behavioral & EvolutionaryRobotics: modeling, analyzing and designing advanced behavioralcontrol schemes for single or multiple mobile robotic systems.

All Terrain Intelligent Robot System

This robot was developed to test to bio-inspired algorithms. It has twosections. The main section moves using a slider-crank walkingmechanism docking with it the wheeled section. The wheeled sectioncan move at 30kmph and be controlled remotely by the walking section.The main section has a serial robot arm for pick and place purpose, anarm to cut/clear any vegetation obstructing its path. It can house a CCDcamera and a laptop to process the scene ahead for navigation. Thecamera can swivel up to 180o. It has obstacle sensing devices and ametal detector too.

CB. PR. 12 Autonomous Mobile RobotsBased on Bioinspired Artificial Control-Indo-Italian Initiative

PI’s : Dr Shyam Divakar &Sanjivi Arul*

Sponsors : DST and Ministry ofScience, Italy

Dept./Center: Mechanical Engg


CB.PR.11. Video Conferencing Software

PI:Dr K.P. Soman

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


The objective of the project is to design, develop and customize a VideoConferencing Software that will be used for Telemedicine and Tele-education. This will help provide a solution for providing improved healthcare and quality education to a large population presently living in remoteareas.

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CB. PR. 13 Development of Methodologies for Detection ofDigital Contents Plagiarism

PI: Dr. K.P. Soman

Sponsor: Ministry of IT, GoI

Dept./Center: CEN


This project aims to study the extent of software piracy and other digitalcontent piracy in India, the methods by which piracy is done, and alsothe common methods adopted by organizations to curtail piracy of theirintellectual properties. The project also aims at finding, developing andintegrating softwares used for detecting digital content plagiarism andsoftware piracy.

CB. PR. 14 Elastomer BasedNanocomposites for Control System Bladders

The project aims to develop elastomer-based polymer nanocomposites[PNC] for use as engine gimbal control system bladders, critical componentsin a launch vehicle. Currently nitrile rubber [NBR] compounds based onmicrocomposites are being used for the purpose. Resistance to crackformation under dynamic conditions and compatibility with oil and gaspermeability are the important characteristics of these bladders. PNCs haveproperties that are superior to conventional microscale composites in thisrespect. (eg. increase in modulus by a factor of three, reduction inpermeability by two orders of magnitude, increase in heat deflectiontemperature by 100 – 170oC etc.). The approach includes selection ofelastomer and study of different methods of incorporation of the nanofiller[viz. nanoclay]. The study variables relate to polymer backbone, filler leveland treatment, additives, etc. Design of experiments [DoE] approach is usedfor analysis of results. The PNCs obtained are characterised for mechanicaland viscoelastic properties, thermal performance, permeability, morphologyand ageing. A suitable formulation selected from the analysis using DoEwill be used for moulding bladders and evaluation of product and relevantproperties.

PI’s Name: Dr. S. S. Bhagawan*,Meera B Sasikumar*

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: ChemicalEngineering & Materials Science


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CB.PR.15. Amrita-University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignCollaborative Project on Electromagnetics

PI: Dr. N. Narayana Rao

Sponsor: University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

Dept./Center: Indo-US

Established by Dr. Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan ProfessorEmeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC, andDistinguished AMRITA Professor of Engineering, at University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to promote collaborationsbetween Amrita University and UIUC in the area of Electromagnetics

The project was an explorative study for the Synthesis, Characterizationand Study of Properties of Cardanol-Polyethyleneamine and Cardanol-Amidoamine Mannich base type condensates as lube and fuel additives.Oil soluble alkyl substituted hydroxy aromatic compounds functionalizedwith amine or substituted amines are commonly used as additives inlube oil and fuel oil, since these compounds have potential activity asoxidation inhibitor (antioxidant), emulsifier and crank case detergent.Out of all these Mannich base derivatives of polyisobutenylsuccinicanhydride (PIBSA) are the most common.

The condensates obtained from our work were similar to PIBSA andPolyamines, not only in appearance and texture but also in structureand properties. The separation, purification and storing of the productsare very simple and do not call for any special condition. The shelf life ofthe products was found to be very high. The noteworthy feature of thework was the utilization of an eco-friendly compound from renewablesource, that is, cardanol for the coupling reaction. Almost all of thecondensates are miscible with petrol, diesel, and kerosene andlube oils.

PI: Dr. T. Ramachandran*

Sponsor: U TeC Corporation,Colorado, USA

Dept./Center: Sciences


CB. PR. 16 Synthesis of Novel Lube Oil andFuel Additives from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid

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CB. PR. 17 Unified Investigation of Fusion, Resonance andScattering in Heavy Ion Collisions

PI:Prof C. S. Shastry*

Sponsor: DST



This project carries out analytical investigations of nuclearprocesses namely resonance, scattering and fusion in low energyheavy ion (HI) collision where the participants can be light as wellas exotic (neutron rich weakly bound radioactive) nuclei. Some ofthe experimental results that are of continuinginterests are:

Resonance in large number in light ion reactions

Anomalous large angle scattering in collision wherelight ion like alpha particle is the projectile

Subtle aspects of fusion cross section like barrierdistribution and average angular momentum.

To investigate these aspects for several cases of nucleus-nucleuscollision, we employ and extend our newly developed methods ofidentification of resonance, asymmetric barrier model and conceptof survival probability for fusion, exactly solvable potentials suitablefor adoption in optical model potentials generating above barrierresonances.

PI: Dr. K. P. Soman

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


The funding is for developing skilled man power in the area of remotesensing. The centre is now conducting an M. Tech course in RemoteSensing and Wireless Sensor Networks.

CB. PR. 18 Machine Development ofInfrastructure for Remote SensingApplications

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The funded amount received from AICTE under MODROB scheme hasbeen utilized to modernize the Metallurgy Laboratory with the followingequipments:

1. Tinius Olsen Computerized Universal Testing Machine Thisequipement is used for mechanical testing of metals and alloys. Acomputer system having both hardware and software aids in acquiringthe data such as stress, strain and elongation and displays in thegraphical form. Data acquired using this system is highly reliable.

2. Image Analyzer for metallurgical microstructure analysis. This systemis capable of capturing micro as well as macro images of metallurgicalspecimens,analyzing and quantifying the information contained in theimage such as grain size, graphite nodule size and count, phasedistribution, particle size. The added facility is currently utilized in studyingthe micro and macro structures, and in testing for mechanical propertiesof high-strength bronze alloys being developed at the Institute Similarly,weldments are studied for micro and macrostructures and tested formechanical properties using these facilities.

CB. PR. 19 Modernization of Metallurgy Laboratory forMechanical Testing, Metal Forming and QuantitativeMetallurgical Microstructure Analysis

PI’s : Dr. K. Mohandas*,Dr. R. Sellamuthu*,Dr. S. Goshteeswaran &Dr. K. Rameshkumar*

Sponsor: AICTE

Dept./Center:Mechanical Engg.


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PI: Dr. T.B. Isha*

Sponsor: GoI

Dept./Center: Electrical andElectronics Engineering.


Induction motors at light load run at low power factor and low efficiency.But if the stator supply voltage is reduced at light load condition, boththe efficiency and power factor can be improved owing to reduction inmagnetizing current and core loss. The proposed energy saver is athyristorized phase control working in feed back mode. The motor hasa unique characteristic of slip-efficiency as well as slip-power factor,which do not vary with supply voltage. Therefore, a method of statorvoltage control based on operating power factor angle has beendeveloped which will make the motor run at a slip that corresponds tomaximum efficiency irrespective of the load condition. The change inload will be sensed as change in power factor and the supply voltagewill be varied by controlling the thyristor firing angle. A three phasechopper control of the induction motor using a different algorithm ofminimizing the input current is also in progress.

CB. PR. 20 Development of Energy Saver for Induction Motors

CB. PR. 21 Video Summarization andAnnotation for Content Based Retrieval

This is concerned with development of video summarization techniqueslike Non negative matrix factorization, singular value decompositionetc.

PI’s : Dr. K. P. Soman, Rajathilakam*

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN


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Sponsor: ADRIN



CB. PR. 22 Analysis of Word based Stream Ciphers

For the assessment of the quality of multisequence for word basedstream ciphers, we need to know the behaviour of joint linearcomplexity profile of random multisequence over a finite field. Thejoint linear complexity and joint linear complexity profile ofmultisequences have received a lot of attention recently. In thisproject we study further the properties of multisequences in thesame line. This is of direct relevance to the analysis of the streamcipher candidates of the eSTREAM cipher project.

CB. PR. 23 Machine Translation fromEnglish to Indian Languages

This project is carried out in collaboration with CDAC, Pune. It is apart of a huge effort to successfully develop an engine that willtranslate English to Indian Languages. The Centre is currentlydeveloping an engine that will convert English text to Tamil withproper grammar and syntax.

PI: Dr. K. P. Soman

Sponsor: Ministry of IT, GoI

Dept./Center: CEN

Start Date: August 2006

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CB. PR. 25 Online Testing of IC Engines

This testing facility is created to modernize the Heat Engines laboratorywith funding from AICTE in the MODROB scheme with the followingequipments:

Indicating Package, Crank Angle Encoder, Combustion Analyser,Eddy Current Dynamometer

The various stages of combustion in IC Engines can be identified andthe effect of speed on the combustion pressure is studied. In cylinderpressure measurements could give an insight into the nature ofcombustion at that particular crank angle. This could be extended togive a feel of the online engine management systems and their utility.This equipment can be used to find out heat release in engines, peakpressures at specific speeds and compression ratios, effects ofinjection pressures on the cylinder pressure, Intake pressurefluctuations and their impact on the volumetric efficiency, optimizationof the injector holes and angles to name a few. Relationship betweenthe cooling water temperature, exhaust temperature and thecombustion pressure are determined. CFD studies for incylinder flowanalysis is also carried out and validated. The effect of injection advanceon the combustion characteristics of an engine with biodiesel /alternatefuels and fuel blends are also tested.

PI’s : Dr. K. Mohandas* &Dr. S. Thirumalini*

Sponsor: AICTE

Dept./Center: MechanicalEngineering


In this project we are attempting to address various VLSI design relatedissues with a special focus on low area and low power implementationof the finite filed arithmetic. We intend to select a few algorithms withthe potential for application in the area. Their realization with FGPA willbe studied, analyzed and compared. The focus will be on theidentification of algorithms and parameter combinations which willdeliver optimum performance.

PI’s : Dr. M. Sethumadhavan& Dr. T. R. Padmanaban

Sponsor : GoI


Start Date : November 2006

CB. PR. 24 VLSI Development of Finite Field Arithmetic

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CB. PR. 26 Development of a Real-time, Process ControlMethod Based on Neural Network Model Using Feedback ofWeld Pool Geometric Parameters Measured by a Vision-basedTechnique and Experimental Verification for Automated ArcWelding Processes

The funded amount received from AICTE under Research PromotionScheme (RPS) will be utilized to create facility with a vision systemand a tri-axial manipulator in the Welding Research Lab. Researchin the area of controlling the welding process with a feed-back ofweld pool geometry has been of interest lately as a way to improvethe quality and the consistency. In this study, weld pool geometry willbe measured using a vision system for various sets of weldingparameters and correlated to weld quality. Experimental data will becollected under various welding conditions such as current andtravel speed for this purpose. A real-time controller based on neuralnetwork model to regulate welding parameters will be developed.

PI’s : Dr. R. Sellamuthu*, Sanjivi Arul*,S. Ilangovan*

Sponsor: AICTE

Dept./Center: Mechanical Engineering


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PI’s : K. Jayanarayanan* &Dr. S. S. Bhagawan

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center:Chemical Engineering & MaterialsScience


Preliminary studies have been carried out using flexible laminatesprepared from different types of PET films and UHMWPE(Dyneema) fabric using polyurethane based adhesive. Peelstrength, Lap shear strength and helium leak rate of the sampleswere studied. The effect of plasma treatment of Dyneema fabric onthe adhesion properties was analyzed. Discussions held with ISROscientists provided focus to the subsequent studies. It was decidedto modify the adhesive used with varied loadings of nanoclay toassess the barrier and mechanical properties of the resultinglaminate

CB. PR. 27 Polymer Nanocomposites for Inflatable SpaceStructures

CB. PR. 28 Development of Image FusionTechniques and Measurement Methods toAssess Quality of Fusion

All the state of the art methods of image fusion techniques werecompiled and implemented as easy to use software.

PI : Dr. K. P. Soman

Sponsor: GoI

Dept./Center: CEN


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PI’s : Dr. K. I. Ramachandran &Dr. V. Sivakumar*

Sponsor: ISRO

Dept./Center: CEN and ChemicalEngineering and Material Science.


The proposal envisages identification of the appropriate combination ofmetal-elastomeric module configuration using multi-layer shear dampedviscoelastic approach, for mitigating the structure bound vibrations on tothe sensitive equipment. The composites will be made of a metal(aluminium) and an elastomer (Natural rubber and silicone rubber).Various combination of metal (1mm - 5mm thickness) and elastomers(1mm to 5mm in thickness and hardness and shore 40A to 80A) will becomposites will be prepared and evaluated to identify the most promisingcombination to achieve desired set of properties such as highest dampingratio, lowest specific weight etc. The objectives of the project are:

Development of a comprehensive theoretical modelrepresenting the given system (under investigating) based oneither classical methods or FEM techniques.

Selection / development of most suitable polymeric materialand its characterization

Finalizing the most suitable treatment type and the feasibilityof implementation.

Configuration, design and optimization of mechanical anddamping elements based on Structural Dynamic Modification(SDM) and Design Sensitivity Analysis (DSA) including areacoverage, placement for multimode requirements etc.

Feasibility of built in damping at design stage.

CB. PR. 30 Analysis and Evaluation ofMulti-layer Shear Damped ViscoelasticTreatments for Launch VehicleApplications


Sponsor: ADRIN



The stability theory of stream ciphers suggests that good key streamsequences must not only have a large linear complexity, but also changeof a few terms must not cause a significant drop of the Linear complexity.This unfavorable property leads to the concept of k-error linear complexity.In this project we propose to extend this to the case of multisequences.

CB. PR. 29 Error Linear Complexity Measures for Multisequences

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Aluminium alloys are becoming industrially important and especiallyAluminium-Lithium alloys find extensive application in space technology.These alloys hitherto not electrodeposited are being tried in this work.Suitable baths consisting of alkylaluminium, quaternary ammonium saltsand organic solvents will be formulated. The reaction profile for plating Alalloys will be studied using Electroanalytical techniques such as CyclicVoltammetry (CV), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) etc.Under potentiostatic/ galvanostatic conditions the deposition will beattempted and optimized. Under the optimized conditions the correlationbetween the composition of the bath and the composition of the depositwill be determined. The effect of the operating variables with the surfacemorphology and the grain structure will be analyzed and suitablemodifications in the bath and/or in the operating conditions will beincorporated. The conditions studied so far will be applied to realtimeelectroforming process to suit a specific application related to ISRO.

CB. PR. 31 Electrodeposition of Aluminium- Lithium Alloys forCryo and Space Applications

PI: T. G. Satheesh Babu*

Sponsor: ISRO



CB. PR. 32 : Development of Novel Carbon-Inherently Conducting Polymer [C-ICP] andC-ICP-Metal Nanocomposites with UnusuallyHigh Conductivity for Microwave Absorption

This project investigates the following:

Synthesis of pure, highly crystalline carbon nanotubes by the RadioFrequency (RF) Catalytic Chemical Vapor Deposition (CCVD) process,which is proven to generate high quality carbon nanostructures.

Preparation of carbon-intrinsically conducting polymer (C-ICP)nanocomposites using highly ordered nanoforms of carbon, viz., graphitenanosheets, single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), double walledcarbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) as well as multi-walled carbon nanotubes(MWCNTs) by the self-stabilized dispersion polymerization (SSDP) ofpyrrole and aniline on the carbon structures.

Characterization of nanocomposites using AFM, spectroscopic,thermal, electrical and microscopicstudies. X-ray diffraction and X-Rayphotoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) will aid in the characterization ofthe metal species in the composites. Electrical characterization wouldinclude generation of I-V curves which should help in deciphering thecurrent transport mechanisms operating in the composites.

PI’s : Dr. Nikhil Kothurkar, Prof.Subba Rao, Dr. Tito Viswanathan(University of Arkansas, LittleRock)

Sponsor: GoI

Dept./Center: ChemicalEngineering and Material Science


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CB.PR.33. Classified Image TransmissionSystem

Summary of the project: Images that contain extremely sensitiveinformation needs uncompromising security during both storage andtransmission. The goal of this project is to develop a scheme thathides hybrid color images using Pixel Value Differecning algorithmbased on vector quantization neural network. The goal is to offer safeexchange of this color stego-image over the internet the strength ofscheme will be tested by subjecting it to standard efficient stegoanalysistechniques.

PI’s : Dr. M. Sethumadhavan*,Gireesh Kumar. T

Sponsor : DRDO

Dept./Center : Centre for CyberSecurity

Start Date: December 2008

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CB.PR.34. Optimisation Of NanofillerLoading In Natural Rubber Based MicroCellular Sheet Using DoE

Nanofillers are now being used in various products to enhanceMechanical properties, barrier properties, ethernal properties etc.Polymer nanocomposites have properties that are superior toconventional micro scale composites. (Eg increase in modulus by afactor of three, reduction in permeability by two orders of magnitude,increase in heat deflection temperature by 100 – 170oC, and reductionof flammability). Notably, the changes are accomplished at low fillercontent (<5%), without changing the resin transparency. Nanofillersare thought to improve the mechanical properties especially theabrasion resistance tear resistance and compression set of themicrocellular sheet.

This project envisages to improve the mechanical properties of naturalrubber based microcellular sheet by addition of nanofillers especiallynanoclay. Nanoclay is proposed to be added to the conventionalmicrocellular sheet formulation at various levels and the mechanicalproperties of the microcellular sheet are to be evaluated. The optimumloading of nanoclay to get best properties is to be finalised. Designof experiments may be used to get a more realistic and accurateanalysis from lesser number of experiments. The optimisedformulation can be passed on to the footwear industry for improvingthe properties of the microcellular sheet.

PI : Meera B Sasikumar*

Sponsor : The Institution ofEngineers (India) Kolkata

Dept./Center : ChemicalEngineering & Material Science

Start Date : January 2009

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CB.PR.35. Synthesis, Characterization andLiquid Crystalline Studies of Schiff BaseContaining Porphyrin Complex

Research in modern chemistry attempts to find materials that can act assuperior switches and transistors. One of the most exciting yet challengingfields of research is the design and synthesis of multifunctional compoundsthat have desirable and predictable properties of luminescence, transportof information, catalytic activity and macroscopic ordering in mesophase.

Porphyrin-based electronic materials have attracted much attentionbecause of their unusual electro-optical and nonlinear optical behaviour.Well-designed porphyrin derivatives can act as molecular switches and beused to make photoelectric devices. In addition, photonic materials havealso attracted attention due to their property of light-induced phasetransitions. Both materials have a lot of potential for applications ininformation processing and technology. In this study, a material with a novelazo-Schiff base that contains porphyrins will be studied. This will be thestudy of its kind in India and will initiate research into the properties of aporphyrin with a azo-Schiff base.

PI’s : Dr. R. Sellamuthu,Sanjivi Arul, S. Ilangovan

Sponsor : Council of ScientificAnd Industrial Research (CSIR),New Delhi.

Dept./Center : Sciences(Chemistry)

Start Date : January 2009

CB.PR.36. Hardware Based NetworkIntrusion Detection System for High SpeedNetworks

Summary of the project: This project proposes to provide a proof of conceptfor building a FPGA based Network Intrusion Detection System for highspeed network environments. The proposed FPGA based NIDS wouldemploy a lightweight Snort detection engine to filter packets based onpredefined rules over packet headers and payloads.

PI’s : Dr. M. Sethumadhavan,S. Sajan Kumar,*Dr. C. Shunmuga Velayutham,*V. Adinarayanan*

Sponsor : ISRO

Dept./Center : Centre for CyberSecurity


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CB.PR.37. Creation of Tools andResources for Machine translation fromEnglish to Dravidian Languages

The objective of the project is to develop Machine Translation (MT)system for English-Indian languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu andKannada), Indian-Indian (Malayalam ó Tamil) languages and linguisticresources, that would facilitate the creation of rich educational contentsin Indian languages. The research effort is to make all the tools andtranslation system to be based on Machine Learning methodologiesso that computer graduates and other such non-linguists are able toimmediately participate in the national mission on literacy bycontributing additional tools for language translation.

PI : Dr Soman KP*

Sponsor: Ministry of HumanResources Development

Dept./Center : CEN

Start Date : April 2009

CB.PR.38. Extension of PlagiarismDetection Engine to Detect Source CodePlagiarism

The project aims to extend the software engine developed by AmritaUniversity to detect plagiarism in source code. The proposed enginecan be very useful in schools and colleges, especially managementschools for detection and prevention of plagiarism in assignmentsand thesis work. The technical schools can further use the engine todetect plagiarism in source code in student projects and labs.

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) can help enhance plagiarism detectionwhen integrated with current plagiarism detection tools. LSA basedengine can be a very useful additional tool that can detect suspicioussource-code files that were missed by other tools and therefore reducethe number of plagiarism cases not detected. In addition LSA basedengine can help with the task of investigating source-code similarity byobserving the relative similarity between source-code fragments and files.

Our objective is to help position India as a trusted source of digital datathrough a process of engagement, education, enactment andenforcement with a strong focus on IP protection and robust legislativeframework, through implementing an efficient method to identify thepiracy in digital media and preventing it. The idea is to have a culture ofdigital security, cyber security and safety.

PI : Dr Soman KP

Sponsor : Ministry ofInformation Technology

Dept./Center : CEN

Start Date : August 2009

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KO. CR. 01 Amrita Center for Nanosciences

Research Centers@ Kochi Campus

This is the first nano-technology centre in the biomedical area in Indiathat has been funded by the Government of India through the Departmentof Science and Technology under the new Nanoscience and TechnologyInitiative. The Nano-technology Centre will showcase advanced state-of-the-art equipment includes an Environmental Scanning ElectronMicroscope (ESEM) for nanometer scale characterization of wet biologicalsamples, an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) that can study the interactionof biological molecules with various materials in a fluid environmentwith atomic resolution, a nanoparticle processing lab, a polymerchemistry lab for processing of polymeric nanoparticles, electro spinningequipment for making fibers with diameter in the nanometer regime, astem cell lab and polymer processing and advanced characterizationequipment. The Nano-technology Centre will conduct research anddevelopment of novel implants for orthopedic and cardiovascularapplications. Scaffolds will be used to generate natural tissues usingstem cells. The Centre represents the first attempt in India to engineernatural tissues for implantable applications. In addition to this a majorfocus of the Centre is on Cancer Nanotechnology. In research on cancernanotechnology the Centre focuses on early detection of cancer usingengineered quantum dots and multifunctional nanoparticles for bothdetection and cancer therapy

PI: Dr. Shanti Nair*

Sponsors : Various

Dept./Center: Nanosciences

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Projects:

KO.PR.01 Nanotoxicology and Nanomedicine - (DST & DBT) - Dr. Shanti Nair andDr. K. Manzoor

KO.PR.02 Development of Chitosan based Derivatives - Dr. Jayakumar

KO.PR.13 Processing compatibilization and targeting of semiconductor nano crystals forcancer diagnostics - (DBT) - Dr. Deepthy Menon

KO.PR.24 Centre for Nano Technology (Implants Tissue Engineering Stem Cell Researach) - (DST) - Dr. Shanti Nair

KO.PR.25 Nano Surface Bioengineering of Implants - (DBT) - Dr.Shanti Nair

KO.PR.26 Self-tracking nanodelivery vehicle for si-RNA based oncogene silencing - (DBT) -Dr. Shanti Nair

KO.PR.27 Electro Nanoprocessing of Semiconductor nanotubes arrays for high efficiencyphotovoltaics - (DST) - Dr. Shanti Nair


M.Tech. in Nanomedical Science (NMS)

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KO. CR. 02 Institute of MolecularMedicine

The Institute of Molecular Medicine has been established at AmritaInstitute of Medical Sciences to promote biological and translationalresearch as applied to human physiology and disease. This is thefirst of its kind in India in the private sector. It is a 30,000 sq ft. facilitywhich has been furnished with state-of-the-art facilities to undertakemodern biological research. There are 20 individual laboratories. Inaddition there are 6 core facilities which have been equipped withmodern equipment such as: DHPLC, sequencer, FACS, centrifuges,PCR machines, tissue culture, microbiological facility, andmicroscopy.

The areas of research which are being focused are broadly cancerbiology, human genetics, immunology, haemopoiesis and stemcells, signal transduction and computational biology.

PI’s : Dr. T. S. Ganesan* &Ron Gottsegen*

Sponsors : Various


Dept./Center: Molecular Medicine

Projects:

KO.PR.04 Cancer Biology- Dr. T.S. Ganesan

KO.PR.05 Protein Processing- Dr. Satish Raina

KO.PR.06 Chemical Neuroscience Laboratory- Dr. KrishnakumarMenon

KO.PR.07 Gastro-Medicine-Improvement of S&T Infrastructure -Dr. Narayanan

KO.PR.22.Molecular genetics of Locally Advanced Breastcarcinomas - Dr. T.S. Ganesan

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Amrita Research Labs has developed this integrated telemedicinesolution for linking various clinics and hospitals located in the remoteareas of Kerala with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and ResearchCentre (AIMS), Cochin. Telemedicine reduced to its simplest form isconnecting geographically separate health care facilities viatelecommunications, video, and information systems. It is the use oftelecommunications technology to provide, enhance, or expeditehealth care services, as by accessing off-site databases, linking clinicsor physicians’ offices to central hospitals, or transmitting x-rays orother diagnostic images for examination at another site.

Wireless Telemedicine

PI’s : Dr. Ajith Babu &Dr. Kumar Menon

Sponsors : Various


Dept./Center: Amrita Technologies

KO. CR. 03 Center for Digital Health

AIMS Telemedicine NetworkIndira Gandhi District Hospital, Kavaratti, Lakshadweep IslandsSri Ramachandra Medical College, ChennaiSankara Netralaya, ChennaiGB Pant Hospital, Port Blair, A&N IslandsSanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,LucknowSNM Hospital, Leh - LadakhKatuah District Hospital, J&KGuwahati Medical College, AssamSHER-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, J&KGovt. District Hospital, J&KSwami Vivekananda Memorial Hospital, Sargur, KarnatakaDistrict Hospital, CarnicobarAIIMS, New DelhiTrivandrum Medical College, TrivandrumAmrita Emergency Centre, Pampa (Now moved to Districthospital - Pattinamthitta)Narayana Hrudayalaya, BangaloreSTNM Hospital, Gantok, SikkimArmy Hospital, Leh LadakhArmy Hospital, Parthapur, J & KDistrict Hospital, Androth, LakshadweepDistrict Hospital, Amini, LakshadweepDistrict Hospital, Agatti, LakshadweepDistrict Hospital, Minicoy, LakshadweepJ.N.M. Medical College, Raipur, ChattisgharDistrict Hospital, Jagdalpur, ChattisgharDr. B. Borooah Cancer Centre, Guwahati, AssamRegional Institute Of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur

District Hospital, Nagarlagun, Arunachala PradeshDistrict Hospital, Jorhat, AssamDistrict Hospital, Shillong, MeghalayaDistrict Hospital, Mokokchung, NagalandRotary Hospital, Sirsi, KarnatakaInstitute of Post. Graduate Medical Hospital Education& Research SSKM)-KolkattaTata Memorial Hospital, MumbaiRamakrishna Mission Hospital, Itanagar – ArunachalaPradeshRamkrishna Seva Prathisthan Medical College,KolkattaSanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of MedicalSciences LucknowAll India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)Trivandrum Medical College - TrivandrumCivil Hospital - ShillongIndira Gandhi Hospital – Lakshadweep Islands,G.B.Pant Hospital - Andaman Nicobar IslandsRamakrishna Mission Hospital, ItanagarRegional Institute Medical Sciences - ImphalCivil Hospital Jorhat Assam

International connections include…

MDAnderson Cancer Institute, Texas,

Case Western University,

West Virginia University

Amrita Telemedicine Satellite Networkreaching 34 locations

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In a synergistic combination arising out of its partnership with MediaLab Asia, Amrita has developed an innovative wireless telemedicinesystem and network for Digital health at Every Doorstep. Amrita’swireless telemedicine instantly enables a variety of commonbiomedical and public healthcare diagnostic devices to capture bodyparameters directly from people’s office or home and immediatelytransmit wirelessly through a combination of ultra high speed WiFiand satellite networks to the 1300-bed all digital, super-speciallyhospital, AIMS, in Kochi. Body parameters can be simple temperatureor blood pressure or sugar levels to more complex, x-ray images orophthalmologic videos. The system uses innovative technologybreakthroughs to separate out inexpensive probes that can be mobilefrom more expensive backend processing units at the remote superspecialty hospital.

Amrita Telemedicine Network is the largest 24/7 digital health networktoday in India, connecting more than 30 sites, including remotelocations such as Leh, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, and Andaman.

Digital Health at Every Doorstep using Integrated HighBandwidth Wireless Communication Networks

PI’s : Pradeep Achan* &Dr. Ajith Babu *

Sponsor: Media Lab Asia



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PI: Dr. Prem Nair*Sponsors : Various

Dept./Center: Clinical Research

There is strong departmental research activity primarily evaluatingissues related to management of patients in all departments withinAmrita Institute of Medical Sciences, with more than 87 clinical trialsbeing undertaken. These trials which are sponsored by the industryare in the following areas.

KO. CR. 04 Clinical Trials

KO. CR. 05 Clinical ResearchTraining Center

KO. CR. 06 Food Processing andAnalysis CenterThis Centre has just been sanctioned by the Ministry of Food ProcessingIndustries of the Government of India. The Centre will address threecomponents: a) conducting safety analysis and testing of processedand fresh foods; b) develop research programs on new test methods,relationships between food constituents and contaminants and health,epidemiology of dietary habits, food and lifestyle diseases etc. andc)develop teaching and training programs in food science, foodtechnology, food testing and food processing. The Centre will serve asa nodal centre for the Food Authority of India for collecting data anddeveloping policies relating to food processing and testing.

Medical research is vital to advance the cause of medical science.However, there are increasing complexities in devices and therapeuticsand with this comes enhanced risk of patient harm. A rigorous, hands-on training program that makes best use of the latest educationalmodalities like clinical simulation and multimedia education can improveresearch skills, operator performance, enhance the work of teams andreduce the incidence of medical errors. In India where there is greatervariation among investigators, practitioners and environments of care,such training has the potential for enormous impact.

PI: Dr. T.S.GanesanSponsor: : DBT, New Delhi


PI: Dr. Shanti NairSponsor: MFPI, GoI


EndocrinologyCardiologyCVTSPaediatric CardiologyNeurologyNeurosurgeryOncology

NephrologyUrologyOphthalmologyGastroenterologyGI SurgeryHead & NeckENTPulmonary

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KO. CR. 07 Amrita Technologies

Amrita Technologies is a leading technology provider to the dynamic world of informationtechnology having varying needs. It utilizes a radical but professional methodology fordeveloping technologies and has in-house research capabilities as well.

Amrita Technologies’s research advances the state of the art in many frontier sciencedisciplines like Healthcare, Telematics, Pervasive Computing, OS/ Real-time Systems,Information Security, FPGA/Embedded Systems, VLSI design, Telematics, WirelessCommunication, Digital Signal Processing, Nano Technology, and Education.

In a world in which technology increasingly touches every aspect of daily life, AmritaTechnologies strive to stratify its consumers with advanced, easy to use products that aredesigned specifically to meet their needs. It provides enterprise-grade software solutions forany kind of organization, any type of user, at a very affordable budget. These fully integrated,end-to-end solutions address all aspects of customer service, from system study to finalinstallation through ongoing support. The result is enhanced business continuity, higheremployee productivity and increased satisfaction to its customers and partners, whilesignificantly reducing operational costs.

Amrita Technologies offer a variety of innovative, hi-tech enterprise solutions like AmritaHealthCare Informatics Suite, Amrita University Management Suite, Amrita Telemedicine,Amrita VoIP, Amrita Security Lock Solutions, and Amrita Telematics.

Amrita Technologies is also a well-known contributor to the Open Source movement, andhas adopted open source standards to provide best possible solution with least “Total Costof Ownership”. Its applications integrate easily and cost-effectively with any set of applications,and they are supported by a comprehensive set of services reflecting our total dedication tocustomer satisfaction.

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Amrita Healthcare Informatics Suite (HIS) is a demonstration of Amrita’sleadership in research and development of state-of-the-art technologies.Amrita HIS is a comprehensive software solution that allows a holisticapproach within and across clinical segments, delivering solutionswith the innovation and synergy necessary to help you move forward intoday’s changing healthcare environment.

It is fully integrated, highly configurable, platform independent EnterpriseInformation System which allows for scalability and performance, whileat the same time ensuring to meet all the needs of a HealthcareOrganization.

The solution developed by Amrita Technologies addresses all theneeds of healthcare domain and provides a fully indigenousimplementation, adopting best-of-the-breed technologies and designtechniques. Amrita Healthcare Informatics Suite is developed usingExtreme Programming Methodologies backed by a vibrant and largecommunity of Domain Experts.

The system not only helps in daily patient care management, but alsoprovides the foundation to foster research and development.

Amrita Hospital Information System (AHIS) & MEDD Project

PI’s : Pradeep Achan,Raghu Raman,Indramohan Sahadevan

Sponsors : Amrita & GoI

Senior Technical Team: Raydu(Product Management), RameshRaghavan (Product Development)


Dept./Center:Amrita Technologies

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Railway Access Protocol (Konkan Railways)

Amrita Technologies has designed and developed a path breakingsoftware for the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL). This softwarecan smoothly and efficiently translate all old Informix 4GL-based softwareprogrammes into Java-based programmes, he said.

The implication of this path-breaking software is far-reaching, which canenable companies, big and small, across the world to switch from theoutdated 4GL-based code, which is no longer supported by any softwarecompany to the Java-based code that are cross-platform, easy to maintainand accessible on web browser.

The newly translated J-RAP has incorporated the look, aesthetics anduser-friendliness as seen in any Graphic User Interface (GUI) programscreens.

Development of Integrated Digitized X-Ray

PI’s : Ramesh Raghavan,Pradeep Acchan

Sponsors : Amrita & Konkan



PI: Ramesh Raghavan*

Sponsors : Amrita & ISRO



Objective of this project is to develop Integrated Digitized X-Ray whichcan capture X rays and MRI pictures. This integrated telemedicineproject consist of linking hospital in remote and inaccessible areas.

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The benefits of individualized instruction is the essence of AmritaLearning. Scientific research states that students who receive one-on-one instruction perform two standard deviations better thanstudents who receive traditional classroom instruction. Animprovement of two standard deviations means that the averagetutored student performed as well as the top 2 percent of thosereceiving classroom instructions.

Intelligent and Adaptive Learning Systems - Amrita Learning

Adaptive LearningUnlike other computer-based training programs, Amrita Learningassesses each learner’s actions and develops a model of theirknowledge, skills, and expertise. Based on this learning model,Amrita Learning tailors instructional strategies, in terms of both thecontent and style, and provide explanations, hints, examples andpractice problems as needed.

Amrita Learning’s unique educational software adapts assessmentand instruction based on child’s response. As the system assessesthe child, it also considers what the child needs to know, which partof the curriculum is to be taught or tested next, and how to presentthe material.

PI’s : Raghu Raman* & Prema*

Sponsors : Various



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Amrita University Management System (AUMS)

PI’s Name : Anand Ramani,Pradeep Achan & Pavithra Siva*

Sponsors : Various



Amrita Technologies has developed an integrated world-classUniversity Management System (UMS) which includes an e-learningplatform AMRITA VIDYA, a web based software for effective managementof learning services. Amrita UMS develops and supports all the majoruniversity-wide administrative and learning management systems.

Amrita UMS practically covers the entire area of operations of theuniversity. It includes admission module, administration module,academics module, accounts module, examination module andalumni Portals.

The advantages of Amrita University Management System is completeeducational service management and effective monitoring and tracking.It can be used for capturing student and faculty records, managingacademic workflow of the university, evaluating the studentperformance, generating grade sheets and certificates etc.

Amrita UMS is currently deployed in the Amrita University campuses atAmritapuri, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Kochi, which brought significantimpact on practically every functional area of the university.

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KO. PR. 01 Nanotoxicology and Nanomedicine

PI’s : Dr. Shanti Nair &Dr. K. Manzoor*

Sponsor: DBT

Dept./Center: Nano Sciences


Research Projects@ Kochi Campus

Under this project different classes of nanoparticles are evaluated for theirtoxicity in a comprehensive fashion to include cytotoxicity, inflammatoryresponses, cancer-causing potential or tumerogencity, biodistribution andexcretion. The project also focuses on methods of pacifying the toxicity ofnanoparticles.

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Aims and objectives of the project are to study the anticancerous activities lactic acid bacterial cultures and theirmetabolites; Mechanism involved in the anticancerous activity; Ability for intestinal adherence and the effect ofLAB and its metabolites on gene expression (marker genes) in normal and colon cancer cell lines.

KO. PR. 03 The Role of Lactic AcidBacteria and their Metabolites Inhibition ofColon Cancer

PI’s : Dr. Seema Nair &Dr Kavitha Dinesh*

Sponsor: DBTStart Date: July 2006

Dept./Center: Microbiology

KO.PR.02 Development of Chitosan based Derivatives

Chitin and chitosan are known to be natural biopolymers and they arenon-toxic, biodegradable and biocompatible. In the last decade, chitinand chitosan derivatives have become the focus of interest in biomedicaland biopharmaceutical research. Being biocompatible polymers, theyfind applications as biomaterials for tissue engineering and woundhealing and as excipients for drug delivery. Introducing small chemicalgroups to the chitin or chitosan structure, for instance alkyl orcarboxymethyl groups can drastically increase the solubility of chitinand chitosan at neutral and alkaline pH values without affecting itscharacter; substitution with moieties bearing carboxyl groups can yieldpolymers with polyampholytic properties. The carboxymethyl derivativesof chitin and chitosan has lot of applications such as, adsorbing metalions, drug delivery systems, wound healing, antimicrobial, tissueengineering, cosmetics, food and antitumour activities.

PI: Dr. Jayakumar

Sponsors : VariousStart Date: 2008


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KO. PR. 04 Cancer Biology

Stem cells are an important part of understanding how normal tissuesdevelop. In cancer most recent research reveal that cancer stemcells do exist and contribute to the development of cancer. It is ofinterest to try and identify cancer stem cells and understand their rolein the pathogenesis of cancer in the larger sense particularly inovarian and testicular cancer.

Genetics is an important part in understanding the pathogenesis ofcancer. Many cancers occur at a much earlier age in India and arealso more aggressive compared to the incidence and prevalence inthe West. It is of interest to try and understand the reasons behindthis by studying host factors primarily genetic analysis of tumours/patients to understand if they are different in terms of profile fromcancer seen at other parts of the world .

PI: Dr. T. S. Ganesan

Sponsor: Amrita



KO. PR. 05 Protein Processing

Protein processing is an important aspect of how proteins aresynthesized and degraded in the cell. This has broad clinicalapplications in the sense proteosome inhibitors have found aclinical role in the management of malignancy. Using E. coli as amodel we try to understand how proteins are processed in the cell.

PI: Dr. Satish Raina*

Sponsor: Amrita



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KO. PR. 06 Chemical Neuroscience Laboratory

PI: Dr. Krishnakumar Menon*

Sponsor: Amrita



KO. PR. 07 Gastro-Medicine-Improvement of S&T Infrastructure

PI: Dr. Narayanan*

Sponsor: DST


Dept./Center: Gastroentrology

The grant-in-aid under “FIST” is to improve the infrastructuralfacilities for research and teaching of Gastro-medicine at AmritaInstitute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre.

Central Nervous System (CNS) is a collection of complex group ofcells that co-exist to carryout the function of impulse conduction tointelligence and cognitive functions. In many disorders affecting theCNS, to name a few, such as alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis(MS), schizophrenia and other demyelinating disorders found in India,either axon or oligodendrocytes or both are affected. Currently ourresearch is focused on the molecular and biochemical mechanismsinvolved in maintenance, repair and damage of myelin and axon; thevery components that are severely affected in many demyelinatingdisorders that affect large number of young adults with more than 2.5million casualties world wide. Based on our findings, the goal is toinvestigate the functional significance of these molecules that can beused to develop clinically relevant therapeutical agents to treat brainrelated disorders that affect axon and myelin.

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KO. PR. 08 Molecular Genetics Analysis of Von HippelLindau Syndrome in Kerala State

Von Hippel Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominantlyinherited familial cancer syndrome characterized by retinal, cerebellarand spinal haemangioblastoma, bilateral renal cell carcinomas(RCC), pheochromocytomas, and renal, pancreatic and epididymalcysts. It has an incidence of one in 36000. Today early detection andmanagement have reduced the death rate from VHL central nervouscomplications. Instead bilateral multiple cystic renal cell carcinoma(RCC) becomes the leading cause of death. The identification of theVHL gene has made it possible to detect responsible mutations inmost VHL families.

PI: Dr. Dilip Panikar*

Sponsor: KSCSTE


Dept./Center: Neurosurgery

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Head and Neck Cancer is a leading cause of death and disfigurementaround the globe and have an annual global incidence of about 9,00,000.The incidence in India is one of the highest at 30%. In Kerala, theincidence of oral cancer is the highest, constituting 14% of all cancers.One of the major concerns in oral cancer, especially tongue cancers, isthe high rate loco-regional recurrence in patients after the use ofcombined modalities of treatment. Identification of molecular markersthat would identify patients at a high risk of recurrence will help in planningcustomized treatments for the different patients. In this project our effortsare towards identifying genes that specify tongue cancer patients with ahigh risk of recurrence using the Microrray technology. The objectives ofthis study are hence, to identify a set of genes, which will be a signatureof tongue cancer and to further delineate a subset of genes that wouldclassify the patients at a high risk of recurrence.

KO. PR. 09 Gene Expression Profiling of H&N Squamous CellCarcinoma by DNA Microarray

PI: Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose*

Sponsor: Council of Scientific andIndustrial Research, New Delhi


Dept./Center: Head & Neck

PI: Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose

Sponsor: DST, Kerala.



The incidence of Head and Neck Cancer in India is one of the highest at30%. The survival rate of the disease is very low,around 35%, which is mainly due to the latediagnosis of the patients. Nodal metastasis isan important prognostic marker, whichdetermines recurrence, development of distantmetastases, and the survival of patients. Attemptstherefore are being made to identify severalclinical, histological and molecular markers thatcan predict nodal metastasis, so that appropriatetreatment can be offered to high-risk individuals.Lymphatic metastasis generally follows anorderly and predictable progression ofinvolvement beginning with the sentinel lymphnode and Lymphoscintigraphy has now beenestablished as a reliable and a less invasivetechnique of identifying the first tumor-draininglymph node (sentinel node). The present studyis designed to compare the effectiveness oflymphoscintigraphy; to assess the effectivenessof frozen section examination for pathologicalevaluation of sentinel lymph node and to identifythe significance of submicroscopic metastasis.

KO. PR. 10 Lymphoscintigraphy for theEvaluation of Nodal Metastasis of Head &Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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PI: Dr. K. Chitrathara*



Dept./Center: Oncology

A pilot study is planned to know the feasibility of screening forprostate cancer in Kerala. Prevalence of CaP in different settings inKerala e.g. General hospital population, community camps, old-age home are assessed based on which further screening isplanned. The general hospital populations mainly include menwho are coming for elective non-malignant non-urologic surgeries.One of main population targeted is asymptomatic male attendantsof patients. They are men coming from different region and differentstrata of life and presumed to represent population trents. Theresults are analyzed to know whether a large study of CaP screeningis feasible which include adequate number of men whereby it willdetect significant number of cancers and have adequate event ratenecessary for evaluation of such approach.

KO. PR. 11 A Pilot Study for Prostate CancerScreening in Kerala

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The main objective of the study is to test the feasibility of chemo radiationin stage III Brest cancer patients in our patient population and to assessthe pathological response rates using neoadjuvant CT followed bychemo radiation in LABC patients. Progression free survival and overallsurvival will also be estimated.

KO. PR. 12 A Pilot Study to Assess the Feasibility of Evaluation ofMarkers of Response to Chemotherapy within 24 hours & at 21 daysafter First Cycle of Chemotherapy in Carcinoma of Breast

PI: Dr. Vijayakumar*



Dept./Center: Surgical, Radiation& Medical Oncology

KO. PR. 13 Processing Compatibilizationand Targeting of SemiconductorNanocrystals for Cancer Diagnostics

The research work in this project funded by the Department ofBiotechnology focuses on the development and functionalization ofsemiconductor quantum dots for targeted cancer imaging. Zinc Sulphide(ZnS) nanocrystals doped with metallic and transition metal ions suchas Mn, Al and Cu have been developed by aqueous chemistry routesand their biocompatibility studied. The quantum dots were surfacefunctionalized with low molecular folic acid that can specifically bind tothe Folate Receptors (FR), which are overexpressed on the surface of

a majority of cancer cells. The in vitro cytotoxicityevaluation of these novel QDs demonstrated that theydo not show any cytotoxic effects for elevatedconcentrations (100 mM) and incubation period (48hr). Thus we have developed a simple, non-cytotoxicZnS: Mn/FA bioconjugate that is capable of bindingdifferentially to FR overexpressing oral cancer cell lines.

Fluorescent microscope images of folic acidconjugated ZnS quantum dots that have beentargeted to cancer cells

PI: Dr. Deepthy Menon*

Sponsor: DBT



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PI: Dr R. Krishna Kumar

Sponsor: Indian Council ofMedical research, New Delhi

Start date: April 2006

Dept./Center: PediatricCardiology

KO. PR. 14 Creation and Evaluation of a Clinical Strategy toScreen for Congenital Heart Disease in Newborn

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common form ofcongenital malformation encountered in pediatric practice. One of thebiggest challenges a pediatrician faces is in the early detection ofthese conditions, especially in the immediate neonatal period. This isparticularly true in developing countries with limited infrastructure totreat children with such problems. The aim of this study is to create aprotocol for screening for CHD in newborns using a combination ofclinical signs and pulse oximetry with bedside echocardiography asthe gold standard. So far, more than 4000 consecutive newborns havebeen screened as per the study protocol. The screening is done priorto the discharge of the baby from the hospital 48 hours after birth asper a pre-determined protocol. Preliminary analysis of the data showedpresence of cardiac murmur and abnormal pulse oximetry result assignificant predictors of CHD in multivariate analysis. The study ispresently ongoing and will complete by June 2009.

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22q11 microdeletion is the most frequently reported interstitial deletion,occurring in 1/4000 live births. It can result in more than 80 differentkinds of birth defects and malformations in varying combinations andvarying severity, collectively called ‘22q11 microdeletion syndromes’.The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of 22q11microdeletion among patients with conoventricular heart defects inour population, study the spectrum of phenotypic abnormalities andthe correlation between the phenotype and genotype, and to study theinheritance patterns. This is a 3-year study, which will be completed inSeptember 2009. So far, 130 consecutive patients (aged less than 2years), with conoventricular heart defects, have been recruitedinto the study.

PI: M.V.G.Thampi*

Sponsor: Indian Council of MedicalResearch, New Delhi.

Start date: September 2006.

Dept./Center: Pediatric Cardiology,Human Cytogenetics, PediatricGenetics

KO. PR. 15 Chromosome 22q11 Micro Deletion in Patients withSelected Congenital Heart Disease (Conotruncal Malformations)Study of Prevalence, Phenotype, Genotype, and Mode ofInheritance

Objective is to study the role of coconut oil in the development andprogression of atherosclerosis, effect on the DNA and oxidativestatus in human subjects.

KO. PR. 16 Role of Medium Chain FattyAcids of Coconut Oil in Atherosclerosis

PI: Dr. Prakash Kammath*

Sponsor: KSCSTE


Dept./Center: Cardiology

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PI: Dr. Balakrishnan*



Dept./Center:Gastroentrology

KO. PR. 17 How Common is Essential Amino and Deficiency inTropical Pancreatitis

Aims and objectives of the project is to determine the levels of all essentialamino acids and Micronutrients (Selenium, copper and zinc), total oxidantstatus & antioxidants (Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, beta carotene,Glutathione, Glutathione peroxidase, lipid peroxidation, Superoxidedismutase and Myeloperoxidase) in patients with tropical pancreatitis;to compare the serum levels of above mentioned essential amino acids,micronutrients and antioxidants between the groups of tropicalpancreatitis patients, alchoholic pancreatitis patients and matchedcontrols; and to determine the rhodanese activity and urinary thiocyanatelevels, marker of cyanogens detoxification, and compare between thesegroups and correlate with cassava intake.

The project is an augmentation project for development ofLaboratory Services under KSCSTE.

The following instruments have been bought under the project -

1. Gas chromatograph (GC) - From Shimadzu. GC has beeninstalled, gas cylinders have been procured and standardizationfor urine organic acid analysis is ongoing. Project has also beensubmitted to ICMR for analysis of organic acids in clinicalsubjects and a PhD student has been taken for this work.

2. Spectrofluorimeter - From Shimadzu. Spectrofluorimetricapplications are multiple. Right now it is being used forfluorimetric analysis of chemicals in the brain, as part of a PhDproject. It has also been used for standardization of enzyme assaysas part of a future project.

KO. PR. 18 Newborn Mass ScreeningProgram for Inborn Errors ofMetabolism in Kerala

PI: Dr. Kannan*



Dept./Center: Metabolic Disorder

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Acute and chronic ethanol consumption is associated with hypoxia.Intrahepatic hypoxia may occur during the inflammatory and fibroticprocesses. As a consequence, new vascular structures are formedto provide oxygen and nutrients. The present study will focus onexamining the expression function of pro-and antiangiogenicmolecules in the setting of chronic alcoholic liver diseases. Thereforewe would like to study on the activity of nitric oxide, vascular endothelialgrowth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor (TGF), collagendeposition, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP), and tissue inhibitor ofmetalloproteinase (TIMP) before and after treatment with ethnol.

KO. PR. 19 Effect of Ethanol on Functional & StructuralAspects of Liver and Role in Angiogenesis

PI: Dr. D. M. Vasudevan*



Dept./Center:Biochemistry

KO. PR. 20 Modeling the Effects ofDecreased Levels of GABA andAccumulation of GHB on GABA Receptorsand its Effects on Pediatric /NeonatalSeizures.

PI: AIMS



Dept./Center: MedicalEngineering

Objectives of the project are to

mathematically model the effect of decreased GABA (gamma aminobutyrate) and the effects of elevated GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate)on GABA receptors (GABAR), to establish the role of SSADH(Succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase) in elevating GHB inpediatric and neonatal population, to find any correlation betweenSSDHD (Succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency) andpediatric/neonatal seizures acting through GABAR, and to study thegenetic frequency of SSADHD in the Kerala population referred toAmrita Hospital.

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KO. PR. 21 Development of Appropriate Prevention andIntervention Strategies for Non-commentable Nutritional RelatedDisorders among Women in Post-reproductive Period

PI: Dr. V. Usha Menon*

Sponsor: DST, New Delhi


Dept./Center: Endocrinology

The aims and objectives of the project are to evaluate health andnutritional profile of women in post reproductive period; to identify thenutrition associated health problems and their contributing factors; todevelop strategies for primary prevention and management of theseproblems and to train health workers within the community for populationbased awareness generation.

This is a collaborative project between NewYork University and Amrita Institute of MedicalSciences to investigate locally advancedbreast cancer. This is funded in part by a grantfrom the Indo-US forum.

KO. PR. 22 Molecular Genetics of LocallyAdvanced Breast CarcinomasPI: Dr. T.S Ganesan

Sponsor: New York UniversitySchool of Medicine, Indo-US S&TForum



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PI: Dr. R Krishna Kumar*

Sponsor: Indian Council ofMedical Research, New Delhi

Dept./Center:Paediatric Cardiology

In connection with the school survey for screening RF/ RHD, a substudy was initiated on the anthropometric and blood pressuremeasurements of school children. A school based cross-sectionalsurvey was done where the height, weight and blood pressuremeasurements of 21,000 students of 5 to 16 years of age were taken.

On analysis, blood pressure in children shows an increasing trend inrelationship with age that continues into adolescence. This relationshipis seen in systolic as well as diastolic blood pressure. Blood pressurealso shows an increasing trend in relationship with height for all agegroups. Diastolic hypertension predominates in children.

KO. PR. 23 Sub Study on Anthropometric and Blood PressureMeasurements among School Children

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PI: Dr. Shanti Nair

Sponsor: DBT, New Delhi


KO. PR. 26 Self-Tracking Nano-DeliveryVehicle for siRNA Based Gene Silencing

The aim of the project is to develop non-toxic (cyto-friendly)nanoparticles based siRNA delivery vehicle which can be targeted tospecific cancer cells and tracked using molecular imaging techniquessuch as magnetic resonance imaging and fluorescence imaging.

KO. PR. 24 Implants Tissue EngineeringStem Cell Research

Under this program, research is being conducted on processing ofbiodegradable polymeric scaffolds with chemical and structuralbiofunctionality so as to be cell-inductive, conductive and proliferative.The primary focus is on bone tissue engineering using stem cells.

PI: Dr. Shanti Nair




PI: Dr. Shanti Nair




KO. PR. 25 Nano SurfaceBioengineering of ImplantsResearch focuses on provided surface nanostructures and combinedsurface nanostructural and chemical modifications to improvebiocompatibility. The emphasis is on Ti surface modification

KO.PR.27 Electro Nanoprocessing ofSemiconductor Nanotubes Arrays for HighEfficiency Photovoltaics

PI: Dr. Shanti Nair

Sponsor: DST, New Delhi

Dept./Center:Nano Sciences


Research is conducted on methods to simultaneously deposit andanodize nanostructure thin films in single step operation so as toobtain nanostructured thin films with novel electrical andelectromechanical properties. The program is also examining theutilization of novel quantum dots and electronic polymers to improvethe efficiency of solar cells.

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KO. PR. 28 Differential Strength Polymer on SingleSheet as a Test Specimen for Diabetic Footwear

PI’s : Dr.Ajit Kumar Varma*, Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar*, Prof. R. Subba Rao* & Dr. K. K. Harish


Dept./Center: Endocrinology, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science


The prevalence of diabetes is increasing rapidly. India is the diabetic capital of theworld. Proper footwear is vital in the prevention and rehabilitation of foot injuries, indiabetic patients. Presently available molded footwear for diabetic patients isinadequate, as plantar pressures do not normalize in the dynamic phase of the gaitcycle, with high chances of foot injuries. The present proposed design of gradedhardness PU sole is expected to provide solution to the problem and enable uniformdistribution of plantar pressures. It may be emphasized that such footwear shouldhave far reaching benefits in preventing foot injuries, reducing the morbidity andimproving the quality of life of diabetic patients. Thus the scope of application of thisfootwear, worldwide, will be immense.

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KO.PR.29 A Multi Center, Phase II, Randomized, Double –Blind, Placebo Controlled, Chemoprevention Study to Determinethe Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Curcumin in OralPremalignant Lesions.

PI: Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose

Sponsors : DBT, DST


The objectives of the study are to evaluate the clinical efficacy andsafety of oral curcumin therapy (3.6 gms/day) for a period of 6 monthsin subjects with oral premalignant lesions (OPL) by Clinical response(reduction in size of all lesions, prevention of growth in the index lesionand of any new lesions) and Histological response (change inhistological grade) and to investigate in-vivo modulation of Nuclearfactor kappa B (NF-kB) and biomarkers, by curcumin

KO.PR.30. Head & Neck OncologyResearch Programme Under SARDScheme

The main objective of this proposal is to seek assistance to develop acore basic research laboratory to facilitate head and neck oncologytranslational research program at the Head and Neck Institute of AmritaInstitute of Medical Sciences.

KO.PR.31 Assessment of Oral Self-Examination for Early Detection of OralCancers and Precancers in a High-RiskRural Population

The objectives of this study are To evaluate the reliability of oral self-examination to detect oral cancers and precancerous lesions in lessdeveloped, high-risk rural areas, to compare the efficacy of oral cytologyand histopathology in the diagnosis of oral precancers and cancers, tocreate awareness among the public about the oral precancers/cancersand the associated risk habits and to estimate the prevalence of oralprecancers/cancers in the community.

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KO. PR. 32 Speciality Clinic of Naturopathy & Yoga

Establishing a new style of treatmentincluding Ayurvedic treatment parallel toallopathic treatment to patients in AmritaInstitute of Medical Sciences

KO. PR. 33 Indian System of Medicine(Ayurveda)

To establish a new style oftreatment includingNaturopathy & Yoga parallelto allopathic treatment topatients in Amrita Institute ofMedical Sciences.

PI: Dr. Prem Nair

Sponsor: Indian System of Medicine


Dept./Center: AIMS

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PI: Dr. R Krishna Kumar



Dept./Center:Paediatric Cardiology

This project is conducted as a part of the second phase of the registrycomponent of the Jai-Vigyan Mission Mode Project on RF/RHD control.It is a satellite Project of the Amrita Institute Medical Sciences, Kochi RF/RHD Registry Project and is being implemented at Wayanad district inKerala. In this phase the project is extended to areas with a relativelypoorer health care infrastructure, hence the district of Wayanad hasbeen selected. A community based survey with both active (Schoolsurvey) and passive (RF/RHD registry) reporting modes was adoptedfor the study as in the nodal centre, Kochi. The strategies used in thenodal centre, Kochi has been adopted here, but the passive surveillanceis done through the entire health care infrastructure available in thedistrict.

KO. PR. 34 Rheumatic Fever / Rheumatic Heart Disease(RF/ RHD) Registry Project, Wayanad

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PI’s : Dr. KK Haridas*,Dr. R Krishna Kumar, Dr. Paul TFrancis, Dr. Sanjeev Vasudevan*,Dr. Ajitha Kumari



Dept./Center: Cardiology

KO. PR. 35 Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance Among AdivasiPopulation of Wayanad District

India faces an impending epidemic of cardiovascular diseases. Majorconcern in this respect to our country is that CVDs are more likely toattack adults in their productive years of life. This has a profound andadverse effect on households, families and society. The prevalence ofvarious cardiovascular ailments in Adivasi population has been poorlydocumented. The health care infrastructure for these people is alsovery limited. A cost effective preventive strategy will need to focus onbringing down the risk factors both in an individual and in population atlarge. With this aim this project was initiated in Wayanad District inKerala which have high proportion of adivasis. Objective is to study thedistribution and determinants of the cardiovascular disease frequencyin the adivasi population and to create a model for performing diseasesurveillance in difficult to reach areas using telemedicine. The projectteam would visit the adivasi hamlets and screen for cardiovasculardiseases The screening include measurement of height, weight,resting blood pressure, heart rate etc. and cardiac auscultation. Basicdemographic data, income source, predominant diet, tobaccoconsumption and nutrition is also collected. Follow up will be done forpatients with risk factors for CVD.

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KO.PR.36 Clinico-Epidemiologic and Molecular Charactorizationof Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) ProducingKlebsiella spp.E.col & Enterobacter spp Causing Nosocomialand Community Infections

ESBLs are enzymes produced by gram negative bacteria that mediateresistance to extended- spectrum (third generation) cephalosporins (e.g.,ceftazidime, cefotaxime and ceftriaxone) and monobactams (e.g.,aztreonam) but do not affect cephamycins (e.g., cefoxitin and cefotetan)or carbapenems (e.g., meropenem or imipenem). ESBL producingorganisms are now a problem in hospitalized patients worldwide withvaried prevalence rates among regions and in countries. Very high rates(worlds largest) of inhibitable ESBL phenotypes with dissemination havebeen observed in Indian hospitals. Longitudinal monitoring of resistancerates in India should continue to address this nation- wide crisis.Detection of ESBLs is difficult and requires standardized procedures. InIndia, no multicentric study exists which has looked at the prevalence ofESBL in hospitalized patients and in infections that are seen in thecommunity. Data from such studies using standardized quantitative andcomprehensive testing will be needed to educate physicians makingtherapeutic choices and plan appropriate antibiotic policies forhospitalized patients.

PI: Dr. Kavitha R Dinesh

Sponsor: Indian Council ofMedical Research

Dept./Center: Microbiology

KO.PR.37 Nodal Coordinating Center for Trainingof Satellite Centers for Establishment of the RF/RHD Registry (Waynad, Mumbai and PotentiallyChatisgrah)

This training proposal is being drafted as a part of the second phase of theregistry component of the Jai- Vigyan Mission mode project on RF/RHD. Thisproposal does not include the laboratory training component at CMC/PGI.During the first phase 3 nodal centers (PGI Chandigarh, CMC Vellore andAIMS Kochi) zone) were established. Using the experience of the nodalcenters, the project is now being extended to areas with a relatively poorerhealth care infrastructure. The district of Wayanad and an urban slumpopulation in Mumbai has specifically been chosen for this purpose.

PI: Dr.R.Krishna Kumar

Sponsor : Indian Council ofMedical Research

Dept./Center: Pediatric Cardiology

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KO. PR. 38 Nutritional Recovery after Corrective Surgery forCongenital Heart Disease in Children

PI’s : Dr R. Krishna Kumar &Dr Balu Vaidyanathan

Sponsor: KSCSTE

Start date: May 2005.

Dept./Center: Pediatric Cardiology

Malnutrition is a very common problem in children with congenitalheart disease. This is particularly the situation in developing countrieswhere late presentation and surgical intervention are very common.The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional status ofconsecutive children below 5 years of age with various forms of CHDundergoing surgical or trans-catheter correction over a one-year periodat our institute. The study concluded that malnutrition is very commonin children with CHD and corrective intervention results in significantimprovement in nutritional status on short-term follow-up. The finalfollow-up of the study is currently on going.

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KO.PR.39. Novel Nano delivery Carrier forSystemic Control and Release ofParathyroid Hormone For The Treatmentof Bone Disease

Nimiety of osteoporotic cases are reported in India caused due tofactors such as hereditary, age, hormones, insufficient intake of calciumand vitamin D. Factors such as tobacco smoking, alcoholism,malnutrition and insufficient physical active also contribute to the same.Though PTH1-34 peptide is available in the market for the treatment ofosteoporosis, method of administration is tedious and painful for thepatient due to daily injections for periods extending from several weeksto months. Hence the proposal is to identify a novel nanovehicle mediatedsystemic or oral delivery method that could result in bioavailability and releaseof PTH1-34 in a sustained and prolonged manner.

PI : Dr. R Jayakumar

Sponsor : GoI, DBT, New Delhi

Dept./Center : Nanosciences

Start Date : October 2008

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KO.PR.40. Novel BiodegradableThermo-Responsive Nano-Vehicles forCancer Drug Delivery Applications

A bottle-neck in the application of thermo-responsive polymers for invivo drug release applications is the difficult for controlling thetemperature of these systems include the body for optional andefficient drug release. We propose to overcome this difficulty usingnovel nanoparticles that can produce heat under irradiation withradio frequency waves. These nanoparticles such as gold or iron-oxide can be incorporated into the thermo responsive polymericparticles by chemical means such that under irradiation with radiofrequency waves (RF) from an external source, the nanoparticleswill heat-up, which in turn sensitize the thermo-responsive polymerto release the embedded drug. As the nanopolymeric vehicle withmetal nanoparticles can be made targeting to the disease site andthe RF field is highly penetrating to the tissue, greater specificity andcontrol of the drug release will be possible.

PI : Dr. R Jayakumar*

Sponsor : DBT, New Delhi

Dept./Center : Nano Sciences

Start Date : October, 2008

PI : Dr. R Jayakumar

Sponsor : DST, New Delhi


Start Date: December 2008

KO. PR.41. Preparation of NovelBiodegradable Chitin Scaffolds withHydroxyapatite/ ZnO Nanoparticles forWound Dressing Applications

Chitin possesses not only excellent wound healing, antibacterial,and anti-inflammatory abilities, but also the bioactive functions ofenzyme immobilization on the amino groups. These properties arebenifical to the biomedical application of the chitin-containing tissue-engineering scaffolds. Deposition of apatite on chitin scaffolds couldfurther promote the mechanical and cell-induced properties. Hence,the primary objective of this project is to develop such gels, scaffoldsbased on chitin with HAp/ZnO nanoparticles for wound tissueengineering applications.

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PI : Dr. Prem Nair*

Sponsor : National ProgrammeFor Control Of BlindnessDirectorate General Of HealthServices

Dept./Center : AIMS

Start Date : November 2008

KO.PR.42. Cataract operation/ Diabeticretinopathy treatment / Glaucomamanagement / low vision services

This is a Tele ophthalmology project to deliver health care services for poor,needy and unreached population by providing cataract operation with IOLimplantation/ diabetic retinopathy treatment/ low vision services/ child hoodblindness.

KO.PR. 43. Self- tracking nano- deliveryvehicle for siRNA based gene silencing

RNA interference (RNAi), a powerful gene-silencing mechanism isconsidered to be one of the most promising discoveries in the area ofmolecular biology in the recent past. Currently gene silencing usingexogenous siRNA is becoming an attractive approach for cancer therapy.However success of RNAi based therapeutics relies on the development ofsafe and efficient delivery of siRNA in the target tumor cells and in this regardall the present days viral and non-viral delivery systems have limitationsassociated with them which hinder their actual human in vivo application. Asan alternative this project aims to develop a cytofriendly self-trackingnanoparticle based siRNA delivery system for targeted cancer diagnosisand therapy.

PI : Dr. K Manzoor*

Sponsor : DBT, New Delhi


Start Date : September 2008

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PI : Dr. T S Ganesan*

Sponsor : Board of Research inNuclear Sciences

Dept./Center : Oncology

Start Date : December 2008

KO.PR.44. Immunoscintigraphy to AssessUptake of 99 TCM Labeled CD 105Antibody in Patients with Solid Tumors

This project aims to use Technetium labeled monoclonal antibody toEndoglin (CD 105 - which is a protein whose expression is upregulatedon vascular endothelium of tumor blood vessels) to assess uptake byblood vessels in solid tumors. So far imaging studies usingradiolabeled anti- CD 105 antibody has been successfully performedin animals and in freshly excised kidneys of humans with renal cellcarcinoma. Both these experiments have demonstrated the ability todetect blood vessels in tumors using the above technique.

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International & Inter-disciplinary projects @ Amrita

Sl No. Name of the Project Principal Investigators

1. AM.CR.01.Indo-European Project - WINSOC Maneesha V. Ramesh

(Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization

Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications)

[European Commission]

2. AM.CR.03 A1. AMRITA E-Learning Network (AEN) Kamal Bijlani & Mr. P. Manoj

3. AM.PR.09.Next Generation Secure Internet Technology Jayaraj and Dr. Nandakumar

for Globally DistributedEnterprise - Indo-German Project

[DST and DAAD, Technl Univ of Munich and Berlin]

4. BL.CR.01.Indo-US Center Shekar Babu

MS in IT Enabled Services & MS in Embedded

Systems with University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York,

HP, and SaskenCommunications, and Certificate

Program in Embedded Systems with Tata Elxsi and

University of Maryland at College Park

5. CB.CR.03.Indo-US E-Learning Network [ISRO, Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan,

TIFAC, Infosys, Cognizant, Microsoft, Cadence, P. Manoj, Kamal Bijlani

Qualcomm, Hero Honda,DST and Indo-US S&T Forum]

6. CB.CR.06 Amrita Biomedical Engineering Dr. Bipin NairResearch Centre [AMBE] K. Guruvayoorappan

7. CB.PR.12.Indo-Italian Project: Autonomous Mobile Dr. Shyam Divakar (Milano

Robots Based on Bioinspired Artificial Control University), Dr. Sanjivi Arul

8. CB.PR.15.Amrita-University of Illinois at Urbana Dr. Narayana Rao

Champaign Collaboration on Electromagnetics

9. CB.PR.32. Development of novel Dr. Nikhil Koturkar,

carbon-Inherently conducting polymer [C-ICP] Prof. R. Subba Rao

and C-ICP-Metal Nanocomposites With Unusually & Dr. Tito Viswanathan

High Conductivity for Microwave Absorption (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

10. KO.PR.22.Indo-US Project: Molecular genetics of Dr. T.S Ganesan

Locally Advanced Breast carcinomas

(with New York University)

11. KO.PR.28 To Develop Differential Strength Dr. Ajit Kumar Varma, Dr. Nikhil K.Polymer on Single Sheet as a Test Specimen Kothurkar, Prof. R. Subba Raofor Diabetic Footwear

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Glossary of Terms

ACNS - Amrita Center for Nanosciences

ADRIN - Advanced Data Processing and Research Institute

AICTE - All India Council for Technical Education

AIMS - Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences

ARL - Amrita Research Labs

CAR - Core Group on Automotive Research

CDAC - Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

CEN - Computational Engineering and Networking

CORE - Centre of Relevance and Excellence

CUBE - Calm, Ubiquitous, and emBedded, Environments

DBT - Department of Biotechnology

DIT - Department of Information Technology

DST - Department of Science and Technology

FIST - Fund for Improvement of S&T infrastructure

GoI - Government of India

ISM - Indian System of Medicine

ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation

ITEWS - Intelligent and Interactive Telematics using Emerging WirelessTechnologies for Transport Systems

KRCL - Konkan Railways Corporation Limited

KSCSTE - Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment

MFPI - Ministry of Food Processing Industries

MIS - Management Information Systems

MITES - Management of IT & IT-Enabled Services

MODROB - Modernization and Removal of Obsolescence in StructuralEngineering Laboratory

NMPB - National Medicinal Plants Board

NPOL - Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory

NSTEDB - National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board

NTRO - National Technical Research Organisation

PI - Principal Investigator

SDATS - Secured Data Acquisition and Transmission System

SERC - Science and Engineering Research Council

SETS - Society for Electronic Transactions and Security

SUNY - State University of New York

SUR - Shared University Research

TBI - Technology Business Incubator

TIFAC - Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council

TSCWUN - Techniques for Secure Communication in Ubiquitous Wireless Networks

VCL - Visual Component Library

VRC - Village Resource Centre

VSSC - Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

WINSOC - Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilities for Criticaland Emergency Applications

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Recent Publications - A partial listing

@ Amritapuri campus• ”Novel Low Power, High Speed Hardware Implementation of

1D DCT/IDCT Using Xilinx FPGA “, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam,Venkat Krishnan.B, Vineeth Sarma.V, Mithun.M, Rahul Srikumar, 2009 International Conference on Computer Technology andDevelopment (ICCTD 2009).

• ”Hardware Implementation of Low Power, High Speed DCT/IDCT Based Digital Image Watermarking”, Rajesh KannanMegalingam, Venkat Krishnan.B, Vineeth Sarma.V, Mithun.M,Rahul Srikumar , 2009 International Conference on ComputerTechnology and Development (ICCTD 2009).

• ”A Dynamical Systems Proof of Kraft-McMillan Inequality andits Converse for Prefix-free Codes”, Nithin Nagaraj , Chaos: AnInterdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, March 2009.

• ”E-Learning in Social Applications, World Conference onEducational Multimedia”, Kamal Bijlani, Chitra Pai, Hypermedia &Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2009), University of Hawaii,Honolulu, USA, June 22-26, 2009.

• ”Real-time Wireless Sensor Network for Landslide Detection”,Maneesha V Ramesh, International Conference on SensorTechnologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2009), Athens,Greece, June 18-20, 2009.

• ”Object Recognition and Obstacle Avoidance Robot”, Br. Karthi,Arun Kumar R, Jinu Jayachandran, Vishnu Jayapal, BibinChundatt, Joshua Freeman, IEEE Chinese Control and DecisionConference (CCDC ’09), Guilin, China, June 17-19, 2009.

• ”Real Time Landslide Monitoring via Wireless Sensor Network”,Maneesha V. Ramesh, N. Vasudevan, and J. Freeman,Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11 EGU2009-14061, (June2009) .

• ”Wireless Sensor Network Localization with ImpreciseMeasurements using only a Quadratic Solver “, Maneesha VRamesh, K. P. Soman, R. Loganathan, The 2009 InternationalConference on Wireless Network, USA, 13-16 July, 2009.

• ”Wireless Sensor Network For Landslide Detection “, ManeeshaV Ramesh, Sangeeth Kumar, Venkat Rangan, The 2009International Conference on Wireless Network, USA,13-16, July2009.

• ”Power Consumption Reduction in CPU Datapath using a NovelClocking Scheme “, Rajesh Kannan M, Shekhil Hassan T, VivekP, Ashwin Mohan and Tanmay Rao M, 2nd IEEE InternationalConference on Computer Science and Information Technology(ICCSIT 2009), Beijing, China, August 2009.

• ”Highly Power Efficient, Uncompromised Performance CacheDesign Using Dual-Edged Clock “, Rajesh Kannan M, NivedKrishnan, Arjun Ashok V and Arunkumar M, 2nd IEEEInternational Conference on Computer Science and InformationTechnology (ICCSIT 2009), Beijing, China, August 2009.

• ”Phased Set Associative Cache Design For Reduced PowerConsumption “, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Deepu.K.B, Iype P.Joseph, and Vandana Vikram, 2nd IEEE International Conferenceon Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT2009), Beijing, China, August 2009.

• ”Low Power Losssless Compression of Real Time MPEG4 VideoEncoding and Decoding using VHDL and MATLAB”, AswathyPrasad, Kamya Krishnan, Karthika, Parvathy, Rajesh KannanMegalingam, 2nd IEEE International Conference on ComputerScience and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2009), Beijing,China, August 2009.

• ”Gating and Serializing the Data Path of CPU for Low PowerConsumption”, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Venkat Krishnan.B,Mithun.M, Rahul Srikumar, Vineeth Sarma.V, Conferences inBeijing (August) and Vienna, August 2009.

• ”Highly Power Efficient, Uncompromised Performance CacheDesign Using Dual-Edged Clock”, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam,Nived Krishnan, Arjun Ashok V., Arunkumar M., Conferences inBeijing (August) and Vienna, August 2009.

• ”Phased Set Associative Cache Design For Reduced PowerConsumption”, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Deepu .K.B, Iype P.Joseph, Vandana Vikram, Conferences in Beijing and Vienna,August 2009.

• ”Power Consumption Reduction in CPU Datapath using a NovelClocking Scheme”, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Shekhil HassanT, Vivek P, Ashwin Mohan, Tanmay Rao M., Conferences inBeijing (August) and Vienna, August 2009.

• ”Mesh-Tree Topology for Vehicular Networks”, SriramKarunagaran, Sudharsan Sundararajan, Jayaraj Poroor, AmitDhar and Ranjith Pillai, Present at Weedev 2009 (Workshop onExperimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences onVehicular Networks) ,Washington DC, April 6, 2009.

• ”Mesh-tree topology for vehicular networks “, Karunagaran,S.; Sundararajan, S.; Poroor, J.; Dhar, A.; Pillai, R., IEEE XploreDigital Library, 6-8 April 2009.

• ”Homology Modeling of GLUT4, an Insulin Regulated FacilitatedGlucose Transporter and Docking Studies with ATP and itsInhibitors “, Suma Mohan S, J Jefferson P Perry, Ninu Poulose,Bipin G Nair, Anilkumar. G, School of Biotechnology, AmritaUniversity & Department of Molecular Biology, The ScrippsResearch Institute, La Jolla, California, 2009.

• ”Multiplexing of Discrete Chaotic Signals in Presence of Noise”,Nithin Nagaraj, and Prabhakar G. Vaidya, Chaos:An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2009.

• ”Fast dual-radio cross-layer handoffs in multi-hopinfrastructure-mode 802.11 Wireless Networks for in-vehiclemultimedia infotainment “, Poroor, J.; Karunagaran, S.;Sundararajan, S.; Pillai, R., IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 15-17December 2008.

• ”Optical computing and solitons”, K.S.Sreelatha, LakshmiParameswar and K.BabuJoseph, Journal of Optoelectronicsand Communication, 2008.

• ”Threshold Based Data Aggregation Algorithm To Detect RainfallInduced Landslides”, Maneesha Ramesh and Usha Kumari P, ,International Conference on Wireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA, 2008.

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• ”Fault Tolerant Clustering Approaches in Wireless SensorNetwork for Landslide Area Monitoring”, Maneesha Ramesh,Rehna Raj. T and Sangeeth Kumar, International Conferenceon Wireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA,2008.

• ”Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Methodfor Wireless Sensor Networks”, Maneesha Ramesh, JoshuaFreeman and Anish Mohan, International Conference onWireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA, 2008.

• ”Nonlinear wave propagation through photorefractive media”,K.S.Sreelatha, Lakshmi Parameswar and K.Babu Joseph, RDND2008.

• ”Enhancing Public Transportation using WiFi”, Jayaraj P, ,Organized by: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers(SIAM), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association ofIndia (ACMA), Confederation of India Industry (CII), InternationalConference on Automotive Infotronics, New Delhi, 2008.

• ”Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Opportunities”, JayarajP, Organized by: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers(SIAM), International Conference At Technex, 2008.

• ”Secure VoIP using VPN”, Vipin Pavithran and Prof.VallathNandakumar, Organized by: Society of Indian AutomobileManufacturers (SIAM), International Conference At Technex,2008.

• ”A Framework for Interactive eLearning in a Virtual World”“, Mr. Kamal Bijlani, Mr. P. Manoj and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, forworkshop on E-learning for Business Needs, 2008.

• ”Fault Tolerant Clustering Approaches in Wireless SensorNetwork for Landslide Area Monitoring”, Rehana Raj T,Maneesha V Ramesh and Sangeeth K, accepted as a RegularResearch Report (RRR) in ICWN, The 2008 InternationalConference on Wireless Networks, 2008.

• ”Long Distance Teaching with Social Environment acrossMultiple Universities “, Mr. Kamal Bijlani, E-Learn 2008—WorldConference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government,Healthcare, and Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,November 17-21, 2008.

• ”Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Methodfor Wireless Sensor Networks””, Joshua Udar Freeman, AnishMohan and Maneesha V. Ramesh, Accepted as a regularresearch report at International Conference on WirelessNetworks (ICWN’08) , WORLDCOM-08, July, 2008, Las Vegas,USA, 2008.

• ”Threshold Based Data Aggregation Algorithm To Detect RainfallInduced Landslides”, Maneesha V. Ramesh, and P. Ushakumari,Accepted as a regular research report at InternationalConference on Wireless Networks (ICWN’08) , WORLDCOM-08, July, 2008, Las Vegas, USA, 2008.

• ”Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Methodfor Wireless Sensor Networks””, Joshua Udar Freeman, AnishMohan and Maneesha V. Ramesh, Accepted as a regularresearch report at International Conference on Wireless

Networks (ICWN’08) , WORLDCOM-08, July, 2008, Las Vegas,USA, 2008.

• “Optical computing and solitons”, K.S.Sreelatha, LakshmiParameswar and K.BabuJoseph, Jounal of Optoelectronicsand Communication, (2008) .

• “Some Structural Results for the Stability of Roots Numbers”,Rajan S, International Mathematics Research Notices, 141,(2008) 22 pages.

• “Threshold Based Data Aggregation Algorithm To Detect RainfallInduced Landslides”, Maneesha Ramesh and Usha Kumari P,International Conference on Wireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA, (2008) .

• “Fault Tolerant Clustering Approaches in Wireless SensorNetwork for Landslide Area Monitoring”, Maneesha Ramesh,Rehna Raj. T and Sangeeth Kumar, International Conference onWireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA, (2008) .

• “Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Methodfor Wireless Sensor Networks”, Maneesha Ramesh, JoshuaFreeman and Anish Mohan, International Conference onWireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-08, Las Vegas, USA (2008)

• “Nonlinear wave propagation through photorefractive media”,K.S.Sreelatha, Lakshmi Parameswar & K.Babu Joseph, RDND,(2008)

• “Enhancing Public Transportation using WiFi”, Jayaraj P,Organized by: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers(SIAM), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association ofIndia (ACMA), Confederation of India Industry (CII), InternationalConference on Automotive Infotronics, New Delhi,(2008) .

• “Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Opportunities”, JayarajP, Organized by: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers(SIAM), International Conference At Technex, (2008) .

• “Secure VoIP using VPN”, Vipin Pavithran and Prof.VallathNandakumar, Organized by: Society of Indian AutomobileManufacturers (SIAM), International Conference At Technex, (2008).

• “Project presentation, “Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilities for Critical and EmergencyApplications”, Maneesh Ramesh, Intel Research Labs,University of California, Berkeley; University of California, SantaCruz; Stanford University; University of California, San Diego;University of California, Los Angeles; University of California,Irvine; University of Iowa; University of Texas, Austin; PurdueUniversity, Indiana; University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign;University of Maryland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), (2008).

• “A Framework for Interactive eLearning in a Virtual World”,Mr. Kamal Bijlani, Mr. P. Manoj and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, forworkshop on E-learning for Business Needs, (2008).

• “Fault Tolerant Clustering Approaches in Wireless SensorNetwork for Landslide Area Monitoring”, Rehana Raj T,Maneesha V Ramesh and Sangeeth K, accepted as a RegularResearch Report (RRR) in ICWN, The 2008 InternationalConference onWireless Networks,(2008).

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• “Long Distance Teaching with Social Environment acrossMultiple Universities “, Mr. Kamal Bijlani, E-Learn 2008-WorldConference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government,Healthcare, and Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,November 17-21, 2008, (2008) .

• “Threshold Based Data Aggregation Algorithm To Detect RainfallInduced Landslides”, Maneesha V. Ramesh, and P. Ushakumari,Accepted as a regular research report at InternationalConference on Wireless Networks (ICWN’08) , WORLDCOM-08, July, 2008, Las Vegas, USA., (2008) .

• “Factors and Approaches for Energy Optimized WirelessSensor Network to Detect Rainfall Induced Landslides”,Maneesha Ramesh, Rehna Raj. T, Joshua Freeman, SangeethKumar and Venkat Rangan, International Conference onWireless Networks, WORLDCOMP-07, Las Vegas, USA, (2007)

• “Pattern recognition in South Indian Classical music using acombination of HMM and DTW”, Sinith S, IEEE Internationalconference on Computational Intelligence and MultimediaApplication, Sivakasi, India, (2007) .

• “Simulation of Image Pre-Processing on Captured Images”, BinuShankar, International Conference on Modelling and Simulation,CIT Coimbatore, (2007) .

• “Modelling of Steganography with audio files using MATLAB”,Binu Shankar, International Conference on Modelling andSimulation, CIT Coimbatore, (2007) .

• “Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilitiesfor Critical and Emergency Applications”, Maneesh Ramesh,Technical University of Munich, Germany; University of Twente,Holland; University of Milano, Italy; Eurecom at Sophia Antipolis,France, (2007) .

• “Factors and Approaches Towards Energy Optimized WirelessSensor Network to Detect Rainfall Induced Lanslides”,Maneesha V. Ramesh*, Rehna Raj, Joshua UdarFreeman,Sangeeth Kumar, and P. Venkat Rangan, The 2007International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN’07: June25-28, 2007) has been accepted as a Short Research Paper(SRP), (2007).

• “Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilitiesfor Critical and Emergency Applications”, Maneesh Ramesh,Intel Research Labs; University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Santa Cruz; Stanford University;University of California, Irvine, (2007).

• “Molecular mechanism of action of plumbagin in BRCA1 blockedovarian cancer cell line by suppression subtractive hybridizationand micro array”, Thasni K A, Rojini G, Srinivas G, Asoke Banerji,Priya Srinivas, Annals of Oncology, Vol 18,(2007).

• “Molecular mechanism of action of plumbagin in BRCA1 blockedovarian cancer cell line by suppression subtractive hybridizationand micro array”, Thasni K A, Rojini G, Srinivas G, Asoke Banerji,Priya Srinivas, 5th International Symposium on TargetedAnticancer Therapies,European Society for Medical Oncology,Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (2007).

• “Targeted anticancer therapy for BRCA1 blocked estrogenreceptor positive ovarian cancers”, Priya Srinivas, Thasni K A,Rakesh S Nair, Rojini G, Ratheeshkumar T, Asoke Banerji,Srinivas G, 5th International Symposium on Targeted AnticancerTherapies,European Society for Medical Oncology, Amsterdam,The Netherlands, (2007).

• “Polar constituents of Himalayan (Ladakh) seabuckthorn leaves(Under Publication), T.V. Sumitha, Chinchu bose and A. Banerji,3rd International Seabuckthorn Association Conference, Instituteof Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods of Universit Laval andby the Quebec Seabuckthorn Grower Association, (2007).

• ”Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Methodfor Wireless Sensor Networks”, Joshua Udar Freeman, AnishMohan and Maneesha V. Ramesh, Accepted as a regularresearch report at International Conference on WirelessNetworks (ICWN’08) , WORLDCOM-08, July, 2008, Las Vegas,USA, (2008).

• “Modified Density Weighted Contrast Enhancement Filter forEmphasizing Breast Masses in Digital Mammograms”, ArbindB.S, Vineeth Menon, Vishnu Mohan Menon C and RameshBhakthavatchalu, International Conference on Signal and ImageProcessing (ICSIP2009), August 8-10, Mysore.

• ”Effects of Substrate Coupling in Mixed Signal ICS”, GayathriGopakumar, Deepthi Luke, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, SCOReD2008, Universiti Teknologi, Johor, Malaysia, Nov 26-27, 2008.

• ”Study of Variation in Process Parameters and Supply Voltagein Various CMOS Technologies”, Arjun Ashok, Vandana Vikram,Aparna Raja, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, SCOReD 2008,Universiti Teknologi, Johor, Malaysia, Nov 26-27, 2008.

• ”A Comparative Study of CMOL Technology and FPNITechnology”, Vineeth Sarma, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam,SCOReD 2008, Universiti Teknologi, Johor, Malaysia, Nov 26-27, 2008.

• ”High Speed and High Responsivity CMOS Image Sensors”,Venkat Krishnan B, Mithun M, Rahul Srikumar, Rajesh KannanMegalingam, SCOReD 2008, Universiti Teknologi, Johor,Malaysia, Nov 26-27, 2008. This paper was awarded the bestpaper award in the conference.

@ Bangalore campus

• “An ANN Controlled Three-Phase Auto-tuned Passive Filter forHarmonic and Reactive power Compensation”, Dr. Manjula G.Nair, International Journal of Power Electronics (JPE), KoreanInstitute of Power Electronics, Korea, May 2009.

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@ Coimbatore campus

• ”Gold Nanoparticles Modified TiO2 Nanotube Arrays fort h eSelective Determination of Ascorbic Acid”, T.G.Satheesh Babu,P.V.Suneesh and T.Ramachandran , International Conferenceon ‘Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, ( 2009).

• ”Highly Sensitive Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensor Basedon Nanoporous Copper oxide/Copper oxalate”, T.G.SatheeshBabu and T.Ramachandran, International Conference on‘Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, (2009).

• “Thermal Analysis of Nanofluids using Modeling and MolecularDynamics Simulation”, Krishnan Namboori P.K , Varun Gopal. K,Vasavi. C.S., Sabarish Narayanan B, Deepa Gopakumar andK.I.Ramachandran, International Conference on ‘AdvancedNanomaterials and Nanotechnology, (2009) .

• “Computational Modeling and Simulation of Nano MolecularSwitch for Alzheimer’s Disease (A Gene Silencing Technique).”,K.U. Radhagayathri, Krishnan Namboori P.K., V.P. Mohandas,T.Subeesh,Deepa Gopakumar and K.I. Ramachandran ,International Conference on ‘Advanced Nanomaterials andNanotechnology, (2009) .

• ”Quantum Mechanical Modeling and Molecular DynamicSimulation of Ruthenium (Ru) Polypyridyl Complexes to StudyFeasibility of Artificial Photosynthesis “, PremKumar.P, KrishnanNamboori.P.K, Sathish Kumar.M, K.I Ramachandran, DeepaGopakumar, Rajasree.P.M., International Conference onAdvances in Computing, Control, and TelecommunicationTechnologies, (2009) .

• ”Rule Based Machine Translation from English to Malayalam”,Remya Rajan, Remya Sivan, K.P.Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Computing, Control, andTelecommunication Technologies, (2009) .

• ”Performance Measures for Fusion of Multiple Input Images “,Arathi.T, Mallika.K, K.P.Soman, Accepted for presentation inInternational Conference on Advances in Computing, Control,and Telecommunication Technologies, (2009) .

• ”Rule Based Reordering and Morphological Processing forEnglish to Malayalam Statistical Machine Translation “, Rahul.C,Dinunath.K, K.P.Soman, International Conference on Advancesin Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies,(2009) .

• ”Framelet based Image Fusion for the enhancement of cloudassociated shadow areas in satellite Images “, Mallika.K,Arathi.T, G.V Krishna Rao,K.P.Soman, International Conferenceon Advances in Computing, Control, and TelecommunicationTechnologies, (2009)

• “Daubechies-Lagarias Algorithm - A Simplified Approach “,K.P.Soman, Arathi.T, Mridula Sara Augustine, Arunima S.V,International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control,and Telecommunication Technologies, (2009) .

• ”Robust feature extraction technique for OCR “, R.Ramanathan,K.P.Soman, International Conference on Advances in Computing,Control, and Telecommunication Technologies, (2009).

• ”OCR for English and Tamil using Support Vector Machines “,R.Ramanathan, K.P.Soman, International Conference onAdvances in Computing, Control, and TelecommunicationTechnologies, (2009) .

• ”Tamil font Recognition using Gabor filter and Support VectorMachines “, R.Ramanathan, K.P.Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Computing, Control, andTelecommunication Technologies, (2009) .

• ”POS Tagger and Chunker for Tamil Language “, Dhanalakshmi,Anand Kumar M, Dr S Rajendran and Dr K.P Soman, TamilInternet conference 2009, Univ. of Cologne, Germany, (2009) .

• ”A Novel Approach to Morphological Analysis for TamilLanguage “, Anand Kumar M, Dhanalakshmi, Dr S Rajendranand Dr K.P Soman, Tamil Internet conference 2009, Univ. ofCologne, Germany, (2009) .

• ”Wireless Sensor Network Localization with ImpreciseMeasurements using only a Quadratic Solver “, Maneesha VRamesh, K. P. Soman, R. Loganathan, The 2009 InternationalConference on Wireless Network, USA, (2009) .

• ”Wireless Sensor Network For Landslide Detection “, ManeeshaV Ramesh, Sangeeth Kumar, Venkat Rangan, The 2009International Conference on Wireless Network, USA, (2009) .

• ”Performance Evaluation of Information Theoretic Image FusionMetrics Over Quantitative Metrics”, Arathi T., K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”An Intriguing Property of Scaling Function in Wavelet Theoryand its Verification Using Daubechies-Lagarias Algorithm “, K.P. Soman, Arathi T, International Conference on Advances inRecent Technologies in Communication and Computing,ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”A Watermarking Algorithm Based on Contourlet Transformand Nonnegative Matrix Factorization”, Silja M.S., K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Wavelet Assignment Graph Kernel for Drug Virtual Screening“, Soumya T. , K. P. Soman, International Conference onAdvances in Recent Technologies in Communication andComputing, ARTCom , (2009) .

• ”Low Frequency Spread Spectrum Image WatermarkingEmbedded Technique”, Truptimayee Sahoo, K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Image Fusion Based on Overcomplete Rational WaveletTransform with Improved IHS Method”, Mallika K., K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Image Fusion Using Support Value Transform (SVT) andCurvelets”, Sulochana S., K.P. Soman, International Conferenceon Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication andComputing, ARTCom, (2009) .

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• ”Berkeley Wavelet Transform Based Image Watermarking”,Remya Ravindran P., K. P. Soman, International Conference onAdvances in Recent Technologies in Communication andComputing, ARTCom , (2009) .

• ”Improving Security of Watermarking Algorithms via ParametricMband Wavelet Transform”, T. Hemalatha, K. Sukumar, K. P.Soman, International Conference on Advances in RecentTechnologies in Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009).

• ”Efficient 3D Representation of Video Sequence”, Nitin Raut,K. P. Soman, International Conference on Advances in RecentTechnologies in Communication and Computing, ARTCom,(2009).

• ”Polyphase Matrix Factorization - A Simplified Explanation”, D.Bharat Bhushan, K. P. Soman, International Conference onAdvances in Recent Technologies in Communication andComputing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Multi Image-Watermarking Scheme Based on Framelet andSVD”, K. Sukumar, T. Hemalatha, K. P. Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Determining an Efficient Supervised Classification Method forHyperspectral Image”, V. Joevivek, T. Hemalatha, K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Morphological Analyzer for Agglutinative Languages UsingMachine Learning Approaches”, V.Dhanalakshmi,M.Anandkumar, R.U.Rekha, C.Arunkumar, K.P.Soman,S.Rajendran, International Conference on Advances in RecentTechnologies in Communication and Computing, ARTCom,(2009).

• ”Chunker For Tamil”, V. Dhanalakshmi, P. Padmavathy, M.Anandkumar, K. P. Soman, S. Rajendran, InternationalConference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Towards Generating Irrevocable Key For Cryptography FromCancelable Fingerprints”, Lalithamani, K. P. Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Generalised and Channel Independent SVM Based RobustDecoders for Wireless Applications”, Ramanathan, K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”A Novel Technique for English Font Recognition Using SupportVector Machines”, Ramanathan, K. P. Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Investigation and Development of Methods to Solve Multi-ClassClassification Problems”, Ramanathan, K. P. Soman, InternationalConference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009) .

• ”Improved Technique for the Construction of Parametric M-Band Wavelets”, Ramanathan, K. P. Soman, International

Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies inCommunication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009).

• ”A Support Vector Machines Approach for Efficient FacialExpression Recognition”, Ramanathan, K. P. Soman,International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologiesin Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009).

• ”Virtual Market Using Logistics Optimization”, Veerababu Reddy,Nikhil K. Kothurkar, B. Rajathilagam, Murali Rangarajan, K. P.Soman, International Conference on Advances in RecentTechnologies in Communication and Computing, ARTCom, (2009).

• “An Effective Scheme for Generating Irrevocable CryptographicKey from Cancelable Fingerprint Templates”, N. Lalithamani, Dr.K. P. Soman , 2nd IEEE International Conference on ComputerScience and Information Technology (ICCSIT), Beijing, China ,(2009) .

• ”Robust Watermarking of Remote Sensing Images without Lossof Spatial Information “, T. Hemalatha, V. Joevivek, K. Sukumar,K. P. Soman , 10th ESRI India User Conference, Noida , NewDelhi , (2009) .

• ”An Approach to Study the Influence of Fish Abundance inRelation to Temperature using GIS A Case Study of AliyarReservoir, Tamil Nadu.”, P. Geetha, V. Sowmya, V. Vipin, K. P.Soman, 10th ESRI India User Conference, Noida , New Delhi.(2009) .

• ”Prediction of Forest Fires using SVM - A Novel Approach.”, K.Sukumar, V. Joevivek, T. Hemalatha, K. P. Soman, 10th ESRIIndia User Conference, Noida, New Delhi., (2009) .

• ”A Novel Methodology for Designing Linear Phase IIR Filters “,Ramanathan R, Soman K.P., International Journal of RecentTrends in Engineering, (2009) .

• ”Simplified Framework for Designing Biorthogonal andOrthogonal Wavelets “, Soman K.P., International Journal ofRecent Trends in Engineering, (2009) .

• ”Comparative study of Linear and Quadratic ProgrammingVersions of SVM on various Real Life Data Set “, Hemalatha,Sukumar MK, Mithila,Soman K.P., International Journal of RecentTrends in Engineering, (2009) .

• ”A SVM based approach to Telugu Parts of Speech Taggingusing SVM Tool “, Sindhiya Binulal Golla, Anand .P, Soman K.P.,International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, (2009) .

• “Singular Value Decomposition - A Classroom Approach”,Soumya VJ, Soumya T, Soman K.P., International Journal ofRecent Trends in Engineering , (2009) .

• ”Lifting Factorization in Maple”, Sreedevi VP, Arathi V, SomanK.P., International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering ,(2009) .

• ”English to Malayalam Transliteration using Sequence LabelingApproach”, Sumaja S, Loganathan R, Soman K.P., InternationalJournal of Recent Trends in Engineering , (2009) .

• ”Tamil POS Tagging using Linear Programming “, Dhanalakshmi

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• ”English to Tamil Transliteration using WEKA - A Data MiningTool “, Vijaya MS, Shivapratap .G, Ajith VP, Soman K.P,International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering , (2009)

• ”A New Parametric Design of 2-Band Wavelet System”, SomanK.P, Anand P, Sindhiya Biulal Golla, International Journal of RecentTrends in Engineering , (2009) .

• ”Simplified Method of Designing Daubechies Wavelets “, SomanK.P, Anand P, Sindhiya Binulal Golla, International Journal ofRecent Trends in Engineering , (2009) .

• ”Evaluation of SVD and NMF methods for Latent SemanticAnalysis “, Rakesh Peter, Shivapratap .G, Divya .G,Soman K.P,,International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering , (2009) .

• ”Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of In-situ MicrofibrillarComposites Based on PP and PET”, KaringamannaJayanarayanan, Sabu Thomas and Kuruvilla Joseph, Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, (2009).

• ”Effect of Draw Ratio on the Microstructure, Thermal, Tensileand Dynamic Rheological Properties of In-situ MicrofibrillarComposites”, Karingamanna Jayanarayanan, Tomlal Jose, SabuThomas and Kuruvilla Joseph, European Polymer Journal, (2009)

• ”Tamil Part-of-Speech Tagger Based on SVMTool“,Dhanalakshmi V, Anandkumar M, Vijaya M.S, Loganathan R,Soman K.P, Rajendran S , International Conference Proceedingson Natural Language Processing, International Conference onAsian Language Processing 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (2008).

• “English to Tamil Transliteration using Sequence LabelingApproach “, Vijaya M.S, Loganathan R, Shivapratap G, AjithV.P, Soman K.P , International Conference Proceedings onNatural Language Processing, International Conference on AsianLanguage Processing 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (2008) .

• ”Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Microfibrillar Polymer-Polymer Composites”, Jayanarayanan K, Sabu Thomas andKuruvilla Joseph, Journal of Polymer Materials, (2008).

• ”Regularity, Vanishing moment and balancing conditions Multi-wavelets”, . Soman K P and Narayanan Kutty K A,, 2ndInternational Conference on Resource Utilization and IntelligentSystems, (2008)

• ”An Algorithm for k-error Joint Linear Complexity ofMultisequences”, Dr. M. Sethumadhavan & team, Journal ofDiscrete Mathematics and Cryptography, (2008) .

• ”A Flowmeter for Rectangular Irrigation Channels”, N.NarayanaPillai and A. Goel , Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers,UK, Water Management, (2008) .

• ”An algorithm for k-error joint linear complexity of binarymultisequences “, M. Sethumadhavan, Sindhu. M, ChungathSrinivasan and C. Kavitha, Journal of Discrete MathematicalSciences & Cryptography , (2008).

• ”Fault diagnostics of roller bearing using kernel basedneighborhood score multi-class support vector machine”,

Sugumaran, G.R. Sabareesh and K.I. Ramachandran, (2008).

• ”A comparative study on classification of features by SVMand PSVM extracted using Morlet wavelet for fault diagnosisof spur bevel gear box”, N. Saravanan, V.N.S. KumarSiddabattunia and K.I. Ramachandranan, Expert Systems withApplications, (2008).

• ”Unified description of scattering and fusion phenomena inheavy-ion collisions,”, Basudeb Sahu, G. S. Mallick, B. B. Sahu,S. K. Agarwalla, and C. S. Shastry, Physical review C , (2008).

• ”KrFExcimer Laser Ablation of Human Enamel”, Basudeb Sahu,G. S. Mallick, B. B. Sahu, S. K. Agarwalla, and C. S. Shastry,Materials Science Forum, (2008).

• ”Study of Alpha decay of super heavy elements using S Matrixand WKB methods”, Prema, P., S. Mahadevan, , InternationalJournal of Modern Physics E, (2008).

• “Safety Analysis on a vibrating prismatic body: A Data miningapproach”, Sugumaran V, Ajith Kumar R, Gowda B, Sohn C H,Expert Systems with Applications, (2008) .

• “A Novel approach for the identification of frequency hoppingsequence in MB OFDM based Ultra-wide band systems”,Narayanankutty K A and Hareesh R, International EgyptianEngineering Mathematical Society: (2), IeJCE, Vol: 1, (2008) pp9-20.

• “Optimal design and fabrication of single phase capacitor runinduction motor”, S Kumaravel, INCRUIS , (2008) PP: 79-83.

• “Two Step Iterative Algorithm To Extract Genarative VideoParameters From Video Sequence”, R. Karthi, Naga YathindraGupta, Umapathi, Baskar, International Conference onComputation Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, (2007).

• “VLSI Design of Perturbation Learning Algorithm for PulsedNeural Networks”, M.Nirmala Devi, International conference onAdvanced Communication Systems, (2007) .

• “Improved Adaptive Skip Algorithm for Video Shot BoundaryDetection”, S. Sathishkumar, IEEE International conference onSignal Processing, Communications and Networking ICSCN,(2007) .

• “A High Performance and Memory Efficient Pipeline Architecturefor the 5/3 and 9/7 DWT of JPEG 2000 CODEC”, K.Karthikeyini,International conference on Advanced Communication Systems,(2007) .

• “Two Step iterative algorithm to extract Generative Videoparameters from video sequence”, R. Karthi, Naga YathindraGupta, Umapathi, Baskar, the International Conference onComputation Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, (2007) .

• “Estimation of reduction in the rating of a shunt active filter inhybrid”, Manjula G.Nair et al, Journal of Power Electronics,Vol. 7, No. 3, (2007) .

• “ANN based DSPIC controller for reactive powercompensation”, R.Jayabarathi et al, American Journal of appliedsciences, Vol. 4(7), (2007).

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• ”Chronic pancreatitis is associated with hyperhomocysteinemiaand derangements in transsulfuration and transmethylationpathways”, Girish BN, Dr V Balakrishnan, International JournalPancreas - Official Journal of the American PancreaticAssociation and The Japan Pancreas Society, (2009).

• ”The design of novel nanostructures on titanium by solutionchemistry for an improved osteoblast response”, Dr. ShantiNair, Nanotechnology , (2009) .

• ”Synthesis,Characterization and Thermal properties of Chitin-g-Poly(å-caprolactone) Copolymers by Using Chitin Hydrogel”,R. Jayakumar & H. Tamura , International Journal of BiologicalMacromolecules, (2008).

• ”XRD Studies of â-chitin from Squid Pen with Calcium Solvent”,H. Nagagama, T. Higuchi, R. Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura,International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, (2008) .

• ”Novel Biodegradable Chitin Membranes for Tissue EngineeringApplications”, H. Nagahama, N. Nwe, R. Jayakumar, S. Koiwa,T. Furuike & H. Tamura, Carbohydrate Polymers, (2008) .

• ”Preparation of Biodegradable Chitin/Gelatin Membranes withGlcNAc for Tissue Engineering Applications”, H. Nagahama, T.Kashiki, N. Nwe, R. Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura,Carbohydrate Polymers, (2008) .

• ”Characterization and Biospecific Degradation Behavior ofSulfated Chitin”, R. Jayakumar, N. Nwe, H. Nagahama & H.Tamura, Synthesis, Macromolecular Symposia, (2008) .

• ”Preparation of Chitinous Compound/Gelatin Composites andThier Biomedical Applications”, H. Nagahama, N. Nwe, R.Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura, Macromolecular Symposia,(2008) .

• ”All Optical Switching due to state filling in quantum dots”,Elango, E. M., P. R. Ram Mohan, R. Lakshmi and V. Balakrishnan,Novel mutations in Calcium Sensing Receptor Gene in TropicalChronic Pancreatitis in India. Scand J Gasteroenterol, (2008).

• ”Quantification of Myocardial Dysfunction - the Value of TissueDoppler Echocardiography in Endomyocardial Fibrosis, Dr.AjitKumar, Dr.C Rajiv, Dr.Naveen, Dr.P A Sadiq, Dr.M Vijayakumar,Dr.Prakash Kamath,Dr.N Sudhayakumar, Prof.K K Haridas. Dept.of Cardiology, ICCCON 2008 Conference, Cochin, (2008) .

• ”Biomarkers of alcoholism; an updated review “, Das SK, DhanyaL, Vasudevan DM: Scand.J.Clin.Lab.Invest, (2008).

• ”Control of nanostructures in PVA, PVA/Chitosan blends andPCL polymers through electrospinning., May 2008", U.S. Sajeev,K. Anoop Anand, Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V. Nair, Bulletinof Materials Science, (2008).

• ”Role of size scale of ZnO nanoparticles and microparticles ontoxicity towards bacteria and osteoblast cancer cells.”, ShantiV. Nair, Abhilash Sasidharan, Divya Rani V V, Deepthy Menon,Seema Nair, K. Manzoor and Satish Raina, Journal of MaterialsScience: Materials in Medicine, (2008) .

• ”Bioconjugated luminescent quantum dots of doped ZnS: Acyto-friendly system for cancer imaging “, Manzoor K, SebyJohny, Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V Nair, Nanotechnology,(2008).

• ”Preparative methods of phosphorylated chitin and chitosan-An overview”, R. Jayakumar, N. Selvamurugan, Shantikumar VNair, S. Tokura, H. Tamura, International Journal of BiologicalMacromolecules, In Press, (2008) .

• ”A Research Paper entitled “Bio-friendly luminescent Quantumdots for targeted Imaging of Cancer”.”, K Manzoor, Seby Johny,Deepthy Menon and Shantikumar V Nair, international Journalof `Nanotechnology’ (Institute of Physics, UK), (2008) .

• ”Nanofibrous and Microfibrous poly (caprolactone)/Hydroxyapatite Composite Scaffolds for Guided TissueRegeneration”, Shalumon K T, Binulal N S, Deepthy Menon,Manzoor K and Shantikumar V Nair, MacromolecularBiosciences-Wiley, (2008).

• ”Discrete electrical conductivity of TiO2 nanotubes”, Anitha VC, Pramod K, Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V Nair and R.Prasanth, Appl. Phys. Letters, (2008) .

• “Dental Health Care Waste disposal among private dentalpractices in Bangalore city”, Dr. Chandrashekar J, InternationalDental Journal , Vol: 58, (2008) page 51-54.

• “Synthesis,Characterization and Thermal properties of Chitin-g-Poly(å-caprolactone) Copolymers by Using Chitin Hydrogel”,R. Jayakumar & H. Tamura , International Journal of BiologicalMacromolecules, (2008).

• “XRD Studies of â-chitin from Squid Pen with Calcium Solvent”,H. Nagagama, T. Higuchi, R. Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura,International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, (2008).

• “Novel Biodegradable Chitin Membranes for Tissue EngineeringApplications”, H. Nagahama, N. Nwe, R. Jayakumar, S. Koiwa,T. Furuike & H. Tamura, Carbohydrate Polymers, (2008).

• “Preparation of Biodegradable Chitin/Gelatin Membranes withGlcNAc for Tissue Engineering Applications”, H. Nagahama, T.Kashiki, N. Nwe, R. Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura,Carbohydrate Polymers, (2008) .

• “Characterization and Biospecific Degradation Behavior ofSulfated Chitin”, R. Jayakumar, N. Nwe, H. Nagahama & H.Tamura, Synthesis, Macromolecular Symposia, Vol. 264, No.1, (2008).

• “Preparation of Chitinous Compound/Gelatin Composites andThier Biomedical Applications”, H. Nagahama, N. Nwe, R.Jayakumar, T. Furuike & H. Tamura, Macromolecular Symposia,Vol. 264, No. 1, (2008).

• “Effect of self assembly on the nonlinear optical characteristicsof ZnO thin films”, Litty Irimpan, A Deepthy, Bindu Krishnan, L MKukreja, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan, OpticsCommunications Impact factor – 1.48, (2008).

• “All Optical Switching due to state filling in quantum dots”,Elango, E. M., P. R. Ram Mohan, R. Lakshmi and V. Balakrishnan,

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Novel mutations in Calcium Sensing Receptor Gene in TropicalChronic Pancreatitis in India. Scand J Gasteroenterol, (2008)43117-121.

• “Scintigraphic Assessment of Patellar Viability in Total KneeArthroplasty After Lateral Release Corrected Proof.”, UdayPawar, K. Narasimha Rao, P. Shanamuga Sundaram, Jai Thilak,Jacob Varghese , The Journal of Arthroplasty, 2008Elsevier,inc, (2008) .

• “Jowar consumption Predicts the severity of Dental FluorosisIndia selected for Lois-Travel Award in International Academyof Dental Research”, Dr. Chandrasekar J, Associate Professorof Community Dentistry,AIMS, 85th General Assembly meetingof International Conference of Dental Reserach in TorontoCanada, (2008) .

• “Control of nanostructures in PVA, PVA/Chitosan blends andPCL polymers through electrospinning., May 2008”, U.S. Sajeev,K. Anoop Anand, Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V. Nair, Bulletinof Materials Science, 31, (2008) 3, 1-9.

• “Role of size scale of ZnO nanoparticles and microparticles ontoxicity towards bacteria and osteoblast cancer cells.”, ShantiV. Nair, Abhilash Sasidharan, Divya Rani V V, Deepthy Menon,Seema Nair, K. Manzoor and Satish Raina, Journal of MaterialsScience: Materials in Medicine, (2008) .

• “Bioconjugated luminescent quantum dots of doped ZnS: Acyto-friendly system for cancer imaging “, Manzoor K, Seby Johny,Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V Nair, Nanotechnology, (2008).

• “Preparative methods of phosphorylated chitin and chitosan-An overview”, R. Jayakumar, N. Selvamurugan, Shantikumar VNair, S. Tokura, H. Tamura, International Journal of BiologicalMacromolecules, In Press, (2008) .

• A Research Paper entitled “Bio-friendly luminescent Quantumdots for targeted Imaging of Cancer”.”, K Manzoor, Seby Johny,Deepthy Menon and Shantikumar V Nair, international Journalof `Nanotechnology’ (Institute of Physics, UK), (2008)

• “Nanofibrous and Microfibrous poly (caprolactone)/Hydroxyapatite Composite Scaffolds for Guided TissueRegeneration”, Shalumon K T, Binulal N S, Deepthy Menon,Manzoor K and Shantikumar V Nair, MacromolecularBiosciences-Wiley, (2008) .

• “Discrete electrical conductivity of TiO2 nanotubes”, Anitha VC, Pramod K, Deepthy Menon, Shantikumar V Nair and R.Prasanth, Appl. Phys. Letters, (2008) .

• “Effects of Ethanol Consumption on Different Organs”, SukheshMukherjee, Subir Kumar Das and D.M.Vasudevan, Asian Journalof Biochemistry, Vol. 2, No. 6, (2007) 386-394.

• “Hypolipidemic efficacy of Ocimum sanctum in the preventionof Atherogenesis in male albino rabbits”, Geetha Samak,Muddanna S Rao, Rajendra Kedlaya and D.M. Vasudevan,Pharmacologyonline, Vol. 2, (2007) 115-127.

• “Lymphangioma of the Larynx”, Dr. Vaishali Bafna, Dr.NambiarA, Dr. R. Indudharan, J Laryngol Otol, Vol. 121, No. 4, (2007)

• “Internal jugular vein ectacia- a rare cause for paroxymal cough”,Dr.Padmanabhan.K., Cr. Vaishali Bafna, Dr. R. Indudharan, JLaryngol Otol, Vol. 742, (2007) .

• “Why is medical administration run by former C-students, Whyis medical administration run by former C-students”, Dr. V VPillai, (2007) .

• “et lagged individual vis-à-vis local resident and susceptibilityto malaria”, Dr. V V Pillai, Med. Hypotheses, (2007) .

• “Use of “rescue burns” as another term of expression in certainsituations of burns”, Dr. V V Pillai, Burns, (2007) .

• “Self inflicted burn injuries”, Dr. V V Pillai, Burns, (2007) .

• “Use of “rescue burns” as another term of expression in certainsituations of burns”, Menezes RG, Kanchan T, Pillay V V, PantS, Srinivasan R, Burns, (2007) .

• “Routine screening for ESBL production, a necessity of today”,Shashikala Shivaprakasha, Kavitha Radhakrishnan, PrakashKamath, P.M. Shamsul Karim, Internet Journal of Microbiology,Vol. 3, No. 1, (2007) .

• “Cerebral artery mycotic aeurysm with Erysipelothryzrhusiopathiae endocarditis”, K.U.Natarajan, P.M. Shamsul Karim,Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Vol. 15, No. 6, (2007)400-402.

• “Allergic Fungal Rhinosinusitis: A prospective study”, Dr. R.Indudharan, Dr. M. Reddy, Abstract otolaryngology – Head &Neck surgery, Vol. 137, No. 2, (2007) .

• “Synthesis and Characterization of pH-Sensitive Thiol-Containing Chitosan Beads for Controlled Drug DeliveryApplications”, R. Jayakumar, R. L. Reis & J. F. Mano, DrugDelivery, Vol. 14, No. 1, (2007) 9-17.

• “Synthesis and Characterization of N-MethylenephenylPhosphonic Chitosan, Journal of Macromolecular Science”, R.Jayakumar, R. L. Reis & J. F. Mano, Pure and Applied Chemistry,Vol. A44, No. 3, (2007) 271-275.

• “Sulfated Chitin and Chitosan as Novel Biomaterials”, R.Jayakumar, N. T. Nwe, S. Tokura & H. Tamura, InternationalJournal of Biological Macromolecules, Vol. 40, No. 3, (2007)175-181.

• “Effects of BMP-2 and Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMFs) onosteoblastic cell proliferation and gene expression”, N.Selvamurugan, S. Kwok, A. Vasilov, S. Jefcoat, Jr, and N. C.Partridge, Journal of Orthopedic Research, Vol. 25, (2007)1213-20.

• “Parathyroid hormone regulates histone deacetylases inosteoblasts”, E. Shimizu, N. Selvamurugan, J. J. Westendorf,and N. C. Partridge, Annals of the New York Academy ofSciences, (2007) 349-53.

• “IL-18 is regulated by parathyroid hormone and is required forits bone-anabolic actions”, Raggat, LJ, Qin, L, Tamasi, J, Jefcoat,SC, Shimizu, E, Selvamurugan, N, Liew, FY, Bevelock, L, Feyen,JH, Partridge, NC, Journal of Biological Chemistry, (2007) .

• “The process of spermatogenesis liberates significant heat

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and the scrotum has a role in body thermoregulation”, K.P.Skandhan, A. Rajahariprasad, Medical Hypotheses, 68, (2007)303-307.

• “Decompressive hemicraniectomy in malignant middle cerebralartery infarction: an analysis of long-term outcome and factorsin patient selection”, Pillai A, Menon SK, Kumar S., Rajeev K.,Kumar A., Panikar D, J Neurosurg , 106, (2007) 59-65.

• “Nonlinear optical characterization of self assembled thin filmsof ZnO”, Litty Irimpan, V.P.N.Nampoori, P.Radhakrishnan,A.Deepthy and Bindu Krishnan, J. Appl. Phys, (2007) .

• “Size dependent fluorescence spectroscopy of nanocolloidsof ZnO”, Litty Irimpan, V.P.N.Nampoori, P.Radhakrishnan,A.Deepthy and Bindu Krishnan, J. Appl. Phys, (2007) 063524-063530 .

• “Excitation wavelength dependent fluorescent behaviour ofnanocolloids of ZnO”, Litty Irimpan, Bindu Krishnan, A.Deepthy,V.P.N.Nampoori and P.Radhakrishnan, J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys,40, (2007) 5670-5674 .

• “A single-source solid-precursor method for making eco-friendly doped semiconductor nanoparticles emitting multi-colorluminescence”, K. Manzoor, V. Aditya, S. R. Vadera, N. Kumar,T. R. N. Kutty, J. Nanosci. & Nanotechnol. (Impact: 3.1), 7,(2007) 463 .

• “Effect of 8 MeV electron irradiation on the optical properties ofPVP capped CdS nanoparticles”, Manjunatha Pattabi, B.Saraswathi Amma and K. Manzoor, Solar Energy Materials andSolar Cells (Impact: 2.32), 91, (2007) 1403.

• “Photoluminescence study of PVP capped CdS nanoparticlesembedded in PVA matrix”, Manjunatha Pattabi, B. SaraswathiAmma and K. Manzoor, Bullet. Mater. Science (Impact: 1.8), 42,(2007) 828.

• “Studies of luminescence properties of ZnO and ZnO:Znnanorods prepared by solution growth technique”, M.K. Patra,K. Manzoor, M. Manoth, S.R. Vadera and N. Kumar, J.Luminescence, In Press, (Impact: 1.44), (2007) 24 August.

• “Excitation wavelength dependent fluorescence behaviour ofnano colloids of ZnO “, Litty Irimpan, Bindu Krishnan, A Deepthy,V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys,40, (2007) 5670.

• “Photoacoustic investigations on thermal anisotropy in ULMAsingle crystals “, A. Deepthy, S Vanishri, D Ambika, Sajan DGeorge, V P N Nampoori, H L Bhat E de Matos Gomes and M.Belsley, Materials Research Bulletin , (2007) .

• “Juvenile Behcet’s disease: Highlighting neuropsychiatricmanifestations and putative genetic mechanisms”, Panicker JN,Vinayan KP, Ahsan Moosa NV, Elango EM, Kumar AA, ClinNeurol Neurosurg, 109(5), (2007) June,436-8.

• “Role of 99m Tc MDP bone and 67 Gallium imaging in evaluationof diabetic osteopathy”, P. Shanmuga Sundaram, S. Padma,H.Kumar, V.Nair, S.Kumar, The Foot , (17) , (2007) 94-101.

• “A brief review on alcohol induced oxidative stress”, Dr. SubirKumar Das, Life Sciences, (2007) .

• “Lows and Highs The article gives an overall perspective ofthyroid dysfunction and features quotes from Dr Harish Kumaras well as Prof RV Jayakumar of AIMS. “, Dr Unnikrishnan A.G., The Week, June 10, 2007, (National), (2007) .

• “Alcohol-induced Oxidative Stress”, Subir Kumar Das,D. M.Vasudevan, Life Sciences, ELSEVIER, 81 , (2007) 177-187.

• “Biomarkers of alcoholism: an updated review “, S. K. Das ,Dhanya L, D. M. Vasudevan , Scandinavian Journal of Clinicaland Laboratory Investigation (SJCLI ), 24 June 2007 , (2007)

• “Genesis of Hepatic Fibrosis and its Biochemical Markers “,S.K. Das, Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & LaboratoryInvestigation (SJCLI) , (2007) .

• “Evaluation of blood oxidative stress related parameters inalcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease “,S.K Das , Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & LaboratoryInvestigation (SJCLI) , (2007) .

• “Essential Factors Associated with Hepatic Angiogenesis “,Dr.Subir Kumar Das , Life Sciences, (2007) .

• “Essential factors associated with Hepatic Angiogenesis”, SubirKumar Das and D.M. Vasudevan, Life Sciences , (2007)

• “p90 Ribosomal S6 kinases - eclectic members of the humankinome”, Kwok Y. Lee, Paola Bignone, and T.S. Ganesan, SignalTransduction, 7, (2007) 225-239.

• “Tyrosine kinase inhibitors and cancer therapy”, MadhusudanS. and T.S. Ganesan, Recent Results Cancer Res, 172, (2007)25-44.

• “Intraperitoneal gene therapy”, Madhusudan S. and T.S.Ganesan, Cancer Treat Res, 134, (2007) 515-24.

• “Advances and Innovations in Systems”, P. BagavathiSivakumar, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering,Elleithy, Khaled (Ed.) , Volume No. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6263-6Springer, (2007) 578.

• “A Semi-Fragile Image Watermarking Using Wavelet Inter-Coefficient Relations”, Latha Parameswaran and K.Anbumani,International Journal of Information Security & Privacy , 1(3),(2007) 61-75.

• “Modelling of Pulse-Coupled Neurohardware using Simulink”,M.Nirmala Devi and S. Arumugam, Journal of ElectricalEngineering , 7(2), (2007) .

• “Permanents and Graphs”, K.Somasundaram, Journal ofCombinatiorics, Information and System Sciences, Vol.321-4, (2007) 289-296.

• “Star Metrices - Properties and Conjectures AppliedMathematics E - Notes”, K.Somasundaram, Vol-7, (2007) 42-49.

• “Permanent : Multi-Sequential Algorithm for Delay Minimizationof VLSI Circuits”, K.Somasundaram, Journal of Information andComputing Science , Vol. 2 No. 1, (2007) Feb,66-70.

• “Permanent: Evaluation by Parallel Algorithm”, K.Somasundaram,Journal of Information and Computing Science , Vol. 3, No.1,(2007) Feb,69-72.

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Books by Amrita Authors

Amritapuri“Research Methodology”, Mr. K.M. Vineeth and Dr. Dilip Kumar, Kalyani Publishers, 2007.

“A Short Introduction to Biomedical Engineering”, Dr. Sarbadhikari SN, Universities Press India Ltd. Co.2007.

“Marketing Research”, Mr. K.M.Vineeth and Dr. Dilip Kumar, Kalyani Publishers, 2007.

“Research Methodology”, Mr. K.M. Vineeth and Dr. Dilip Kumar, Kalyani Publishers, 2007.

“Graph Theory”, J. Suresh Kumar, Goodwill Publications, Kottayam, 2004.

Coimbatore“Machine learning with SVM and Other Kernel Methods”, Dr. K.P. Soman, R. Loganathan & V. Ajay,Prentice-Hall of India, 2009.

“Graph Theory and its Applications”, Dr. K. Somasundaram, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics,Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 2009

“Insights into Data Mining - From Theory to Practice Chinese Edition Printed “, Dr. Soman K.P., ShyamDiwakar, V. Ajay, Prentice Hall of India, 2009

“Computation Chemistry & Molecular Modelling - Principles & Applications”, Prof. K.I. Ramachandran,Dr.Deepa Gopakumar and Mr. P.K. Krishnan Namboodiri of Centre of Excellence in ComputationalEngineering and Networking (CEN), Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Springer Verlag, 2008

“Fundamentals of Electromagnetics for Electrical and Computer Engineering”, Dr. N. Narayana Rao,Distinguished Amrita Professor of Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2008

“Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Science and Software Engineering”,Narayanan Kutty K A, K Elleithy, Springer 2008, 2008

“Investment Management”, Dr. E. Meera, Associate Professor, Vikash Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Noida,2008

“An Introduction to Commodity Derivatives “, Prof. Sunanda Muralidharan, 2008 Amrita School ofBusiness, India’s first comprehensive text in this subject

“Fundamentals of Electromagnetics for Electrical and Computer Engineering”, Dr. N. Narayana Rao,Distinguished Amrita Professor of Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2008.

“Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Science and Software Engineering”,Narayanan Kutty K A, K Elleithy, Springer 2008, 2008.

“Introduction to Microcontrollers and their Applications”, T. R. Padmanabhan, Narosa PublishingHouse, 2007.

“Engineering Mathematics”, Dr. P. Kandasami, Syllabi of Kerala University in June 2007 (1st Edition),2007.

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“Total Quality Management”, Dr. R.K.Suresh and Prof. K.Pandian, Sooraj Publications, Chennai - 18,2006.

Kochi“Chitin and Chitosan in Biomaterials Science: Current Research and Developments (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)”.Dr. R. Jayakumar & Dr. M. Prabaharan, Research Signpost, 2009

“Recent Advances in the Management of Lung Cancer”, Pavithran .K, Boban .T, In Medicine Update -17,(Ed. SK Bichili). Association of Physicians of India, 2008, Cochin, 2008

“Management of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Post graduate Medicine (Ed. Munjal YP)”, Thomas M,Pavithran K, Association of Physicians of India, 2008, Cochin., 2008

“Textbook on Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy”, Dr. K.G. Revikumar and Dr. B.D. Migtam, CareerPublishers, Pune, 2008

“CPAP Bedside Application”, Dr. P K Rajiv, Head of Newborn Services, AIMS, 2008 Reviewed byinternational experts and rated as an excellent resource book.

“Pulmonary Hypertension”, S.G. Hauworth, R. Krishna Kumar , Elsevier, Volume 1 Issue 6, November-December 2008, 2008

“Recent Advances in the Management of Lung Cancer”, Pavithran .K, Boban .T, In Medicine Update -17,(Ed. SK Bichili). Association of Physicians of India 2008, Cochin, 2008.

“Management of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Post graduate Medicine (Ed. Munjal YP)”, Thomas M,Pavithran K, Association of Physicians of India 2008, Cochin, 2008.

“Textbook on Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy”, Dr. K.G. Revikumar and Dr. B.D. Migtam, CareerPublishers, Pune, 2008.

“JP’s Gold Standard Mini Atlas Series, Biochemistry”, D.M. Vasudevan and Sreekumar. S, JaypeeBrothers, New Delhi, First Edn 2007, 2007.

“Variants of Multiple Myeloma”, Pavithran. K, Prasad. N, In Hematology Update (Eds Tripathy AK). IndianSociety of Hematology and Blood transfusion 2007, Lucknow, 2007.

Mysore“Constructivism in Science Education”, Dr. K.V.Sridevi, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2008.

“Constructivism in Science Education”, Dr. K.V.Sridevi, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2008.

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Introduction to Principal Investigators (PI’s) @ Amrita

Amritapuri CampusAmit D has more than 11 years of industry and R&D experience, working in companies such as Agfa Healthcare(Canada), Biztravel (part of Rosenbluth International) USA, and is currently pursuing his Research Career insponsored R&D projects at Amrita Research Labs, Amritapuri.

Dr. Anil Kumar, Associate Professor. M.Tech.in Biotechnology from Anna University, Madras & Ph.D. MolecularBiology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Kumar joined Amrita from University of California, LosAngeles, USA.

Dr. Ashoke Banerji, Distinguished Professor.. M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Delhi University and DICBiochemistry, Imperial College, London. DAE Raja Ramanna Fellowship awardee as well as the former Headof Bioorganic Division, at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay.

Dr. Bipin Nair, Professor and Dean, School of Biotechnology. Formerly at MDS Pharma Services, USA, for over12 years as the Research Manager in the Lead Discovery Group. Was responsible for the coordination of NewAssay Development and High Throughput Screening. He has been responsible for generating several milliondollars in revenues over the past decade at MDSPS.

Dr. Ganesh Udupa, Associate Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering. Dept. M.Tech in Prod EngineeringSystems Technology and Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering (Precision Engineering and Metrology ). ResearchFellow, School of MPE, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Presently as SMA Fellow, SMPE, NTU.

Jayaraj Poroor has more than 13 years of industry and R&D experience, working in companies such as PacificBell (now AT&T), Califronia. His primary research interests are wireless networking and information security.He is currently pursuing his Ph.D.

Kailash. Researcher. Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Industrial; experience at IT industries,Satyam, Ford (IT Division) Detroit and Deloitte Chicago. He is currently working for the WINSOC project.

Kamal Bijlani, Head of E-Learning Initiatives, Led and consulted at advanced software startup companies fromMIT and Stanford. An expert in software, multimedia, and video, also won an award for a documentary, and led severalmultimedia productions. BE in Electronics from BITS Pilani and Masters in Computer Science from Michigan.

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Maneesha V. Ramesh, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science. B.E. in Mechanical Production Engineering,Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. MBA from Amrita University, Coimbatore. Doing her Ph.D. (expected in2008). She has a dual specialization in Systems Management and Finance Management. Amrita’s projectcoordinator for WINSOC project. PhD scholar at Amrita University.

Dr. Martin Reick, Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology. Ph.D., Molecular Biology, MIU, Fairfield, IA,USA 1996. Dr. Reick joined us from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.

Dr. Nandakumar.V , Professor & Director, TIFAC Center for Cyber Security. M.S. and Ph.D. in Superconductingfrom University of California at Berkeley. He was a researcher at Tektronix Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices(AMD).

Nithin Nagaraj, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communications Engineering. Received hisM.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY and Ph.D. from National Institute ofAdvanced Studies, IISc. Campus, in the area of applications of chaos theory to coding and cryptography. Afterbriefly serving as a Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Pune hejoined Amrita in December 2008. He has more than 100 citations in peer reviewed international journalpublications, 6 pending US patents.

Radha has done M.C.A from R.E.C., Warangal. Has 8 years of teaching experience and is currently working inAmrita Research Labs on E-learning project.

Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Sr. Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering. B.E fromCollege of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy. Has extensive industry experience in Bay Area, California withcompanies like ST Microelectronics, Phoenix Technologies etc.

Ramesh Bhakthavatchalu, Assistant Professor – ECE Department. M.E (Applied Electronics) from College ofEngineering, Guindy. Extensive experience in India and USA including companies like Cirrus logic, SyntestTechnologies.

Ranganathan. R, Coordinator, Amrita VRC. M.A Kerala University, Former Accounts officer of Kerala State RoadTransport corporation. Experience in administrative as well as accounts branches of the public sector undertakingin managerial cadre.

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Renu M. R., Asst. Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg. M.Sc. (Engg.) from Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore. Research scholar at Indian Institute of Science .

Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Ph.D. in Computational Neurocience,University of Milan, Italy Dr. Diwakar joins us from Neurophysiology Labs, University of Pavia, Italy.

Dr. Sreedhar K.M., Assistant Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry, M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry andPh.D. in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University.

Dr. Sreelatha .P, Assistant Professor & Chair Person, Department of Physics. M.Phil degree in Physics & Ph.Din Physics. More than ten years experience in research and seven years experience in teaching Graduate andPost Graduate level.

Sriram Karunagaran, Bachelors Degree from University of Madras. Sr. Design Engineer at AllianceSemiconductors, California. He is current working with Amrita Research Labs for the past three years onWireless Telematics.

Sudharsan. S, ASIC Design & Verification Engineer. Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics), in 1998from University of Madras. Verification & Product Engineer with ATI Research Silicon Valley Inc, SantaClara CA.

Sureshkumar. P, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Electronics and Communications. ME from IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore in System Science and Automation. Worked at Center for Research in Intelligentsystems laboratory, University of California, Riverside.

Vipin Pavithran, Researcher TIFAC CORE Cyber security. Over 10 years of industrial experience. Involved inguiding students for IBMs TGMC (students won 5th prize) and Sun Microsystems Code For Freedom Contests.

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Bangalore Campus

Dr. Manjula Nair, Associate Prof., Electrical & Electronics Engg. Received Ph.D in Power Quality Improvementfrom IIT Delhi & M.Tech in Power Systems from Calicut University.

Dr. K. Sangeeta, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science. Received Masters in Science inMathematics from Bhopal University, Bhopal and Ph.D from IISc Bangalore.

Shekar Babu, Chairman, INDO-US Center. Managing INDO-US Center at AMRITA Bangalore Campus sinceJanuary 2006. Prior to AMRITA was working as Director, Software Global Business Unit, HP, Cupertino, CA, USA.Worked for 11 years in HP. Prior to HP, worked 5 years as a Technology and Business Consultant in PriceWaterhouse, LA, CA, USA. Have a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA, CA, USA and B.E.Bangalore University in Electronics and Communications. On board for several start-up companies in SiliconValley, CA

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Dr. Aravindakshan.M, Coordinator, Centre for Environmental Studies. Ph.D., from the University of Madras andPost-Doctoral programme at the University of Hawaii, USA. Has over 40 years of experience in teaching, research,extension and research Management in Tropical Horticulture. He was a visiting faculty in the University ofParaiba, Brazil.

Dr. Bhagawan S.S, Professor , Chemical Engg. and Material Science. M.Sc. in Chemistry from Indian Instituteof Technology, Kharagpur, D.I.I.T in High Polymer & Rubber Technology and Ph.D., from IIT, Kharagpur.

Brahmachari Abhayamrita Chaitanya, Chief Operating Officer. Engineering Degree from REC KurukshetraUniversity. Leading role in the establishment of Amrita University and looks after large scale humanitarianprojects of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

Prof. Devarajan A.T., Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engg. Post Graduate from IIT Bombay. Head ofPower Electronics Group at the R&D center of Kerala State Electronics DevelopmentCorporation, Trivandrum.

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Dr. Goshteeswaran .S, Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.E.in Industrial Engg. from Thiagarajar College ofEngineering, Madurai and Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering.

Guruvayurappan.K, D.M.E in mechanical Engineering from the CPT ,Chennai and having 20 Years Industrialexperience.

Ilangovan.S, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering . M.E. in Production Engineering from Bharathiar University.His areas of interest is Production Engineering.

Dr. Isha T.B, Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engg. M.Tech in Power Electronics from Calicut University andPh.D. from IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Jayakumar. M, Associate Professor & Vice Chairman, Electronics & Communication Engg. PhD. in MicrowaveElectronics from the University of Delhi. He was a recipient of Dr. K.S.Krishnan Research fellowship in Engineeringby Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.

Dr. Joshi C. Haran, Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.Sc. in Thermal Power from Regional EngineeringCollege, Calicut and Ph.D from University of Huddersfield, UK.

Dr Krishnashree Achuthan, Program Co-Director, Indo-US & International Initiatives. Received Ph.D. inSemiconductor Fabrication from Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has over 26 USPatents to her credit.

Mahadevan .S, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Sciences. M.Tech in Microwave and Radar Electronics. Currentlypursuing Doctoral degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Amrita.

Manoj .P, Head, Indo US Department. BE from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. MBA in ITManagement, University of Surrey, UK and MS in Information Systems from Nanyang Technological University,Singapore with industry experience in Singapore and Australia.

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Meera B. Sasikumar, Asst. Professor, Chemical Engg. and Material Science. Received M.Tech in PolymerTechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Mini K.M, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering. Ph.D in Structural Engineering from AnnaUniversity, Chennai.

Dr. Mohandas.K, Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering. Received M.Tech.and Ph.D. (Reliability Engineeringand Maintenance) from I.I.T,Madras.

Dr. N.N.Pillai, Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering, Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur, 1965., Post Doctoral Fellow atUniversity of Waterloo, Canada, RMHL Colorado, and University of Connecticut, USA, Served as facultymember at University of Connecticut.

Dr. Narayana Rao.N, Distinguished AMRITA Professor of Engineering, Received M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees inElectrical Engineering from University of Washington, United States. He served as the Associate Head of theDepartment for 19 years, during his tenure of 42 years.

Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engg. & Material Science. Ph.D. from University ofFlorida in Solid State Cadmium Sulfide-Polymer Nanocomposites. Postdoctoral research associate in theSolar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory, University of Florida. Research Scientist in the Clean EnergyResearch Center, University of South Florida.

Dr. Padmanabhan T.R. Professor Emeritus, Doctorate in Control Systems from IIT Kharagpur; was in IIT facultyfor 15 years -Research in nonlinear systems; 20 years in Industrial R & D - heading teams in dev. of products inIndustrial controls & Power Electronics, was Dean of Amrita School of Engg for 5 years.

Dr. Padmanabhan Nambiar T.N., Professor and Chairman,Electrical & Electronics Engg. Ph.D from IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore.

Raghuram.P, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering. M.E. in Production Engineering fromAnna University.

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Dr. Ramachandran K.I., Professor. Received M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. from IIT Madras. As 19 yearsof experience in Teaching & Research.

Ramesh Kumar .K, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering. ME - Production Engineering from BharathiarUniversity. Areas of Inerest are Optimization, Simulation Modeling, CAM.

Sanjivi Arul, Asst. Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Received MS in Systems and Information, from BirlaInstitute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan.

Dr Sasi K Kottayil, Professor and Vice Chairman, Electrical & Electronics Engg. Ph.D. from Jadavpur University,Kolkata in Wind Electricity Generation.

Satheesh Babu T.G., Lecturer, Dept. of Sciences. M.Sc.in Chemistry from Gandhigram Rural Univeristy. Currentlyhe is working towards his PhD in the area of biosensors.

Dr. Sethumadhavan. M, Associate Professor in Dept. of Information Technology and is currently working inTIFAC CORE in Cyber Security. He as a Ph. D in Number Theory from Calicut RegionalEngineering College.

Dr. Shastry C.S., Professor Emeritus & Chairman, Dept. of Sciences. Ph.D from Saha Institute of NuclearPhysics, Calcutta University and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Louisiana State Univeristy. Worked as faculty memberat BITS and NEHU, Shillong. Dean of School Physical Sciences in NEHU.

Dr. Soman K.P., Professor & Head, CEN. Received M.Tech (Reliability engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur andPh.D in Reliability engineering from IIT, Kharagpur.

Dr. Somasundaram. K, Associate Professor in Mathematics, M.Phil in Mathematics from St, Joseph’s College,Trichy and Ph.D in Mathematics. International Educator, Cambridge BiographicalCentre, England.

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Prof. Subba Rao. R, Chairman, Chemical Engg. and Materials Science. B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineeringand PG Diploma from Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. Has 30 years of industrial and 11 years ofacademic experience.

Dr. Thirumalini.S, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. M.E. from Coimbatore Institute of Technology,Coimbatore and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering by Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

Dr.Venkat Rangan (Ph.D., Berkeley),Vice Chancellor , Amrita University. AMMA appointed Dr.P.Venkat Ranganas Vice Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in July, 2003. He was Professor, Computer Science andEngineering at the University of California, San Diego and founder and director of multimedia lab at the university.Recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai in 1984. His Ph.D.research work at UC Berkeley, California was judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM. Won severalprestigious awards including the NCR Research Innovation Award in 1991, the US National Science Foundation(NSF) National Young Investigator Award in 1993, and 25 best entrepreneurs of US Award in 2000. He was thefounder CEO of Yodlee Inc., a multi-national leader in online aggregation services. He has to his credit over 15US patents and has published over 75 international research papers and is an elected Fellow of ACM.

Dr. R. Yamuna, Assistant Professor, Department of sciences (Chemistry), Received her Ph.D. in Chemistryfrom IIT Kanpur, India in 2005. She has about 6 international journal publications, out of which three from ACSpublications. Her current research interest is in “porphyrin related liquid crystalline studies.

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Dr. Ajit Kumar Varma, Endocrinology, Diabetic lower limb and Podiatric Surgery. Recieved his M. S in GeneralSurgery from University of Pune in 1990, he has immense experience in trauma surgery, major elective andemergency general surgeries.

Dr Ajit N. Babu, Director Center for Digital Health & Professor & Chairman for the Institute of Medical Informaticsand Multimedia Education. Postgraduate Residency in Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital ofCornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Masters in Public Health (MPH)from Saint Louis University (SLU) and Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).Trained in medicalinformatics through the National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Hole,Massachusetts. Faculty at Saint Louis University.

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Dr. Ajithakumari K, MBBS, DA, Senior Specialist, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine. Diploma inAnesthesiology at Goa University and Palliative Medcine at the International School of Cancer Care at Oxford,UK. Medical Officer at the Amrita Kripa Charitable Hosptial in Kalpetta, Wyanad, a hospital dedicated to the tribesof Wyanad .

Anand. R, Amrita Technologies. M.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,Ohio.Worked in Oracle Corp, Redwood City, California ,Server technologies division for over seven years Specializingin databases, synchronization technologies.

Prof. Balakrishnan.V, Professor of Gastroenterology & Former Chairman of Dept. of Gastroenterology. MD,Delhi University, DM (Gastroenterology)- PGI,Chandigarh. Was Director and Professor of Gastroenterology,Medical College, Trivandrum, HoD. 48 years of Undergraduate and 46 years of Postgraduate TeachingExperience.

Dr. Balu Vaidyanathan, Paediatric Cardiology PG in Pediatrics from All India Institute of Medical Sciences andcardiology training (DM) from Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology. Responsiblefor the feotal cardiology program at AIMS. Awarded Commonwealth fellowship by the Government of India.

Dr. Chitrathara. K, Professor, Surgical Oncology. MD in Resident Training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, DelhiUniversity and MCh in Genito-urinary Surgery. Trained in Gynaecologic Oncology, LEEP for Managing CIN,Genito - Urinary Surgery & Renal Transplantation. Worked as Sr. Consutant in Surgical Oncology, LakesshoreHospital, Kochi. ICRETT fellowship. Introduced Loop Electrosurgical Excisional Procedure at Retional CancerCentre, Thiruvananthapuram, First lady Urologist of Kerala, Started Genito-Urinary Endoscopy (Diagnostic andTherapeutic).

Dr. Deepthy Menon, Assistant Professor at Centre for Nanosciences. Ph.D in Physics from Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore, with five years of post-doctoral experience, in Technical University of Eindhoven, and at theInternational School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology. Recipient of the “Best ThesisAward” constituted by the Indian Laser Association in 2002. Young Research Award from International Union ofMaterials Research Societies (1999), Young Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology,Govt. of India 2002, and Rapid Young Investigator Grant from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India 2007.

Dr. Dilip Panikar, Professor and Head of Dept. of Neurosurgery. M.S. in General Surgery from M.S.University,Baroda in 1986 & M.Ch. (Neurosurgery) SCTIMST, Trivandrum in 1989.

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Dr. Ganesan T.S, Chairman – Cancer Centre and Chairman – Institute of Molecular Medicine MD(Gen.Medicine)from JIPMER. Was at UK. Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS). Fellow of the RoyalCollege of Physicians and has specialized training in Medical Oncology accredited by Joint Committee onHigher Medical Training (JCHMT-UK). Senior Registrar at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, Royal London Hospital,London and was a Visiting Fellow in Medical Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston & Fox ChaseCancer Institute, Philadelphia. His Ph.D was in the study of bcr and abl genes and their products in Philadelphiachromosome positive leukaemia’s from University of London. His teaching experience include lectures oncancer for MRCP, M.Phil, Ph.D and undergraduate & post graduate students. He has been an Examiner atUniversity of Oxford (DM)(D.Phil), Melbourne (Ph.D), Manchester(MD), Glasgow (MD), etc, has more than 100publications and has handled extramural scientific research grants exceeding 1.2 million pounds.

Dr. Haridas Kottaram Krishna Das, MD, DM, DNB (Card), Clinical Professor, Chairman & HOD of Departmentof Cardiology. MD in General Medicine from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal,. DM in Cardiology from SreeChithra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science & Technology, Trivandrum. Rotary Vocational Excellence Award andEMEX Traveling award for professional excellence in Cardiology.

Dr. Jayakumar R.V, Professor of Endocrinology. MD in Medicine from Trivandrum Medical College in 1973. D.M.in Endocrinology, 1976-77 from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh. MRCP from theU.K.Royal College of Physicians in 1982. Fellow (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ofGlasgow. Awarded the Best Clinical Research Doctor Award( Dr P.A.Alexander Award) by the IMA Academy ofMedical Specialities in 2001. Best Professional Doctor award by Indian Diabetes Education Association in 2008.

Dr Kannan Vaidyanathan, Head - Metabolic Disorders Laboratory. MD (Biochemistry) from Medical College,Trivandrum, Post doctoral fellowship DBT-PDF, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dept of Microbiology andCell Biology, Under Dr Kumaravel Somasundaram.

Dr. Kavitha Radhakrishnan Dinesh, MD, Microbiology. MD in Medical Microbiology, from Kasturba MedicalCollege,Mangalore. Worked as Clinical Microbiologist and teacher at Father Muller’s Medical College,Mangaloreand at Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram.

Dr. Krishna Kumar.R, MD, DM, FACC, FAHA, Professor and Head of Department of Pediatric Cardiology.Fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. Expertise in congenitalheart disease management in developing countries with limited resources, development of inexpensive devicesand strategies for non-surgical closure of heart defects and, education through development of teaching/trainingsoftware for cardiovascular imaging.

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Dr. Krishnakumar N. Menon, Neuroscience Laboratory. Master of Science Preliminary, Biochemistry fromMonash University, Ausralia (1991) and Doctor of Philosophy, Neuroimmunology from Latrobe University, Australia(1996). Was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Neuroimmunology Laboratorhy, Australia (1996), JSPS Post DoctoralFellow at the Neural Information Laboratory, Japan (1997-99),CREST-JST Research Fellow, Japan(1999-2000),Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S.A.(2000-02),Research Investigator, University of Iowa, USA (2002-05),Senior Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia .

Dr Manzoor K, Associate Professor in ACNS and specializing in the area of Nanotoxicology, Nanomedicine andCancer-nanotechnology. Served as Staff-scientist in Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO),Ministry of Defense Awarded Technology Developer of the Year 2006, National Science Day Award for NanoResearch 2005, Young Scientist of the Year 2004, and Best Laboratory Scientist of the Year 2003. 25 internationalpublications on functional nanomaterials and international patents (PCT) on nanotechnology.

Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose, MD, FDSRCS, FFDRCS, FRCS, FRCS Ed, Professor and Chairman, Head andNeck Institute. Trained in dentistry from University of Mysore, India, Medicine from University of Bristol, UK,General surgery from University of Bristol, Maxillofacial surgery from University of Newcastle, head and necksurgical oncology from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York. Has American Head and Neck Society accreditedtraining in advanced head and neck oncology, fellowships of Royal college of surgeons of Ireland, England andEdinburgh, Board certified by American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. From 1999 to 2003 he served asAssistant Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at New York University and was the Director ofHead and Neck Oncology Translational Research Program of New York University. He continues his affiliationwith New York University as a part-time Associate Professor. He is editorial review board member of sixinternational journals.

Dr. Narayanan V.A, DM,Professor and Head of Department, Gastroenterology. Received M.D. in General Medicinefrom Pune University and DM, Gastroenterology from PGI, Chandigarh. Served as Professor of Medicine andGastroenterology in Armed Forces Medical College, Chief of Medical Division and Consultant Gastroenterologyat Army Hospital Referral & Research and was the Professor & Head Gastroenterology in Sree RamachandraMedical College, Porur, Madras. He was a Post Graduate teacher for 36 years in Pune University and DelhiUniversity. He guided several DM & Ph.D students. Notable Projects are: Nutritional requirements of soldiers athigh altitude, Survival rations, Physical efficiency and Caloric deprivation. He was given Amir Chand ResearchAward in the year 1991. He also was the President of Kerala Chapter of Indian Society of Gastroenterologyduring 2004.

Pradeep Achan, 14 years of experience in software development and deployment of enterprise applications onvariety of platforms. Worked for organizations in USA like Sun Microsystems, Network Associates, Nortel Networksand Tata Unisys. Currently Chief Technology Officer, Amrita Technologies and Project Leader of Amrita HospitalInformation System, a complex ERP application covering Clinical, administrative and financial areas. Experiencein developing Operating System level software led to the design and development of Health Care MiddlewareOperating System, a Patent Pending technology for Amrita Technologies. Primary research inclinations are inBioinformatics; guided several UG and PG Projects.

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Dr. Prakash Kamath, Clinical Professor in Cardiology. Received MD from Mysore University, DM (Cariology),AIIMS, New Delhi. Prior to this, was Consultant Cardiologist & Chief of Adult Cardiology, AIMS, Kochi. He received“MIROWSKI FELLOWSHIP” at Unviersity of Southern California -Good Samaritan Hospital. Established Cardiacarrhythmia and Electrophysiology service at AIMS, Kochi.

Dr. Prem Nair is Medical Director , AIMS, Kochi. Dr. Prem Nair received his Post Graduate Degree in Medicinefrom the United States and subsequently specialised in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and liver diseasesat the University of Southern California. Formerly Professor of Medicine at the USC College of Medicine, anddirected the Gastroenterology Program at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles.

Prema Nedungadi founder of the e-Learning software package from Amrita Learning. She has 14 years ofmanagement experience in the software industry and a Masters degree in Computer Science from JNU, New Delhi.Previously an owner of a successful software consulting corporation in Pleasanton, California.

Raghu Raman with more than 17 years of Technology and Leadership experience in the development anddelivery of Enterprise-class Software applications. CEO of Amrita Technologies. Previously an Entreprenuer withNEC Research Labs, USA . Former Vice President of Engineering at Saltare Inc. and Promptu Corporation,Executive Director of Product Development at Informix and IBM. He holds a MCA from JNU, New Delhi and a MBA.from the Haas School of Business at the University of California , Berkeley.

Ramesh Raghavan , Chief Software Architect, has done his M.Sc Computer Science at Bharathidasan University,Trichy. He has over 18 years of experience in designing and developing complex enterprise applications. He hasarchitected software systems for various industries including Telecommunications, Healthcare and Finance.

Dr. Sanjeev Vasudevan, MBBS, MD, DA -Additional Professor, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine.Certificate in Palliative Medcine from International School of Cancer Care at Oxford, UK.

Dr. Satish. Raina, Ph.D., (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi), Professor Institute of MolecularMedicine. Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for his research on genetics of heat shock response and continuedon theme of protein folding and heat shock regulation in the University of Utah and University of Geneva.

Dr. Shantikumar Nair is the Director, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences (ACNS). He received his Ph.D. at ColumbiaUniversity in the city of New York in 1983. He was a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA,in the School of Engineering, since 1985. He received the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award forresearch in composite materials from the President of the United States in 1986. He was involved in research innanocomposite materials for the last decade. He has two books and about a 100 international publications inthe field of Materials Science.

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Dr. Thampi M.V., Consultant Cytogeneticist and HoD of Dept. of Human Cytogenetic. Received M.Sc. Zoologyand has registered his Ph.D in the Dept. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.Previously at Biomedical Group of Bhabha Atomic Resarch Centre, Head, Low Level Radiation ResearchLaboratory (LLRRL),Kerala (1992-05). He has 33years of Clinical Research Experience.

Dr. Usha Menon .V, Clinical Assistant Professor, Endocrinology & Diabetes. MRCP (UK) in 1996 and Fellowshipin Diabetology in 2002. SHO in General Medicine in The Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom 1995-1997. Physicianin General Medicine, Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly, Kerala (1997-99), Physician in Gneral Medicine with aspecial insterest in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji Islands 1999-2001.

Dr. D.M. Vasudevan, MBBS, MD, FAMS, FRCPath - Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry. Previously FounderHead, Cancer Research Laboratory at Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum (1979 to 82),Founder Head, CancerResearch Laboratory at Amala Cancer Research Centre (1982 to 87),Founder Dean, Sikkim Manipal Institute ofMedical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, Founder Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi. He received hisM.D.(Biochemistry) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1971 and Post-doctoral Research atthe Department of Immunology, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland,1972-1974. Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists (FRC Path),1994. he has 40 years of teaching and researchexperience in Medical College and was Professor of Biochemistry for 23 years. He is Referee and Advisor ofBoard of Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, University of Calicut, Cochin University ofScience and Technology, Academic Council, Amrita, Editorial Board J. OF EXPER. AND CLIN. CANCERRESEARCH., Europe. Guided 29 Ph.D., Authored Two Books.

Dr. Vijaykumar D.K., Professor and HoD, Dept. of Surgical Oncology. Received M.S. (General Surgery) fromPoona University (1989), and M.Ch Surgical Oncology from Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Madras (1995). PreviouslyLecturer in Cancer Surgery, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, Asst. Professor Surgical Oncology, KMC,Manipal, Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Saumya Apollo Hospital.

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