V N 5, I N 1, A 2021 PARIPRASHNA : An NIT Puducherry ...

VOL NO 5, ISSUE NO 1, AUGUST 2021

PARIPRASHNA : An NIT PuducherryNewsletter

Guest House Block, NIT PuducherryCourtesy : Dr. Ansuman Mahapatra

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just themiracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked whenwe got through with it"

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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Vision

To be among leading Indian Insti-tutes for excellent, relevant andvalue based technical educationand research.

Contents

• From the Director’s Desk

• Institute Activities

• Faculty Accomplishments

• Student Accomplishments

• Conference Publications

• Journal Publications

• Graduating Batch GroupPhotos

From the Director’s Desk

I am happy to forward the first issue of the fifth volume of NIT Puducherrybi-annual newsletter, "PARIPRASHNA". During this difficult times of COVID’19with lock down and social distancing, this helps us to stay positive and keepthe positive mindset towards progress despite difficult times. The entire NITPYgrieved for the loss of our young and energetic faculty of the department ofEEE, Dr. K. Chandrasekaran, Associate Dean Planning and Development.

NITPY family has proved yet again to adapt to the testing times by con-ducting classes and assessments online. In order to address the laboratorycourses, the students were recalled to the Institute for a month in staggeredmannerto complete the laboratory sessions and be abreast with the learningprocess. As per the Newsletter reports, the students have excelled both aca-demically and over-all with better campus placement record and contributingto the socially relevant areas. The institute has shown commitment towardspsychological well-being of its staff and students by extending the Memo-randum of Understanding with "Your Dost", an online counseling solutionprovider during this difficult times. We are working towards establishmentof world-class laboratories and infrastructure development. The NITPY familyis strengthened with an addition of twenty eight faculty members in vari-ous departments during this current academic session. The research activitiesare getting stronger as evident from the patents published and filed. I con-gratulate the faculty, staff and students working untiringly and setting highstandards for the youngsters to follow and put NIT Puducherry on the globalarena of technical excellence.

Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector




NIT Puducherry pays homage to Dr.K. Chandrasekaran

The Institute lost a good faculty and researcher in Dr.K .Chandrasekaran to COVID’19 who joined the Insti-tute in the first recruitment of faculty and worked tire-lessly for the development of the Institute. He succumbedto COVID’19 on 28th May 2021, fighting in the Hospi-tal for fourteen days. An online condolence meeting fororganized to express support to the family of the be-reaved with necessary steps towards compassionate ap-pointment.

NIT Puducherry celebrates 72nd

Republic day

NIT Puducherry celebrated the 72nd Republic day, withDr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, hoisting the na-tional flag at NIT Puducherry on 26th January 2021,08.00 am at the Institute premises.The director address-ing the students and staff, described the importanceof sovereign republic and informed to look up to theachievements of Indians with pride. He also emphasizedthe students and faculty to promote and participate in

various schemes implemented by the government of In-dia. NCC cadets under Dr. S. Babu, NCC officer, partici-pated in the parade.

7th Convocation Ceremony on 19th

February 2021

The Institute organized the seventh convocation cere-mony on 19th February 2021. Dr.G.Satheesh Reddy, Chair-man, Defence Research and Development Organisation,Ministry of Defence, Government of India, was theGuest of Honour for the convocation ceremony. ProfessorK.Sankaranarayanasamy, Director and officiating Chair-man, Board of Governor, NIT Puducherry, presided overthe ceremony. Thirty one B.Tech and nine M.Tech grad-uands from the Department of CSE, twenty eight B.Techand six M.Tech graduands from the Department of ECEand twenty two B.Tech, nine M.Tech graduands from theDepartment of EEE, sixteen B.Tech Graduands from Me-chanical Engineering were awarded their degrees duringthe graduation ceremony. Two Ph.D Graduands from theDepartment of ECE and two Ph.D Graduands from theDepartment of Mathematics received their Degrees.

• Mr. S BHARATH KUMAR, Department of ComputerScience and Engineering was awarded institutemedal for over-all topper in Bachelor of Technologyprogramme.

• Mr. S BHARATH KUMAR, Department of ComputerScience and Engineering was awarded institutemedal for Bachelor of Technology programme.

• Ms. VADDI LAKSHMI ANUSHA, Department ofElectronics and Communication Engineering wasawarded institute medal for Bachelor of Technologyprogramme.

• Mr. BARANISWAR TIROUVINGUIDAME , Depart-ment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering wasawarded institute medal for Bachelor of Technologyprogramme.

• Mr.ANAGH S BHANU , Department of MechanicalEngineering was awarded institute medal for Bach-elor of Technology programme.




• ANUSHA K, Department of Electrical and Elec-tronics Engineering was awarded institute medalfor over-all topper in Master of Technology pro-gramme.

• Mr.PRAVEENSANKAR M, Department of ComputerScience and Engineering was awarded institutemedal for Master of Technology programme.

• Ms. ANUSHA K, Department of Electrical and Elec-tronics Engineering was awarded institute medalfor Master of Technology programme.

• Ms. SAI SHWETA S , Department of Electronics andCommunication Engineering was awarded institutemedal for Master of Technology programme.

Farewell event for the Passing-outBatch

Institute reopened for the 3rd year and 4th year B.Techstudents in the month of February and March 2021. Afarewell event for the outgoing batches for M.Tech andB.Tech was organized on 1st April 2021. They were re-minded of the contributions of the Alumni in making theInstitute well known and their responsibility to match it.

NCC Camp at NIT Puducherry

The Annual Leadership Training Camp was organizedfrom 4th March 2021 to 8th March 2021 at NCC Unit, NIT

Puducherry. The inaugural ceremony began with light-ing the lamp, followed by the welcome address by Lieu-tenant Dr. S. Babu, NIT Puducherry. Dr. G. Aghila Reg-istrar (i/c) gave the Inaugural address for the ceremonyand the Chief guest address was given by Colonel SudipRoy, Officer Commanding, Karaikal Unit. The formal cer-emony ended with vote of thanks by Cadet. Priyanka Ra-jeev. In this Annual leadership training camp, 131 cadets(84 Boys Cadets and 47 Girls cadets) from different col-leges/universities and regions participated in it.

National Educational Policy Lectureseries at NIT Puducherry

National Education Policy Cell of the Institute, under theguidance of the Ministry of Education Government of In-dia, is planning to conduct a series of online programswith the theme based on National Education policy 2020.The first webinar, after the formation of the NEP cell,was conducted on 12th February 2021, entitled "Introduc-tion to NEP 2020 – Perspective of Higher Education". Thelecture was delivered by Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe, AssistantProfessor, NIT Puducherry. There were about 100 partic-ipants among faculties from various institutes of highereducation in UT of Puducherry.

NITPY organizes workshop for theschool students

The Arts and Crafts club of NIT Puducherry organizeda workshop aimed at students between the classes 5th

to 7th for 4 days on weekends in the month of June2021.The workshop had 08 sessions (each 2 hours), Theywere taught a wide range of skills including working withpastels, making origami, painting with water colours anddrawing mandalas. This workshop conducted by Arts andCraft club reached out to about 75 students from variousschools in Karaikal.




Online Guest Lecture onGeotechnical Engineering Practiceand Soil Erosion Control Using Coir

Geo-textiles

Department of Civil Engineering organized an onlineguest-lecture on the topic "Geotechnical EngineeringPractice and Soil Erosion Control using coir geo-textile"on 9th April 2021. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Balan,Retired Professor, College of Engineering, Thiruvandapu-ram. The lecture was focused on various practical appli-cations of geo-technical engineering and use of coir ma-terials in engineering applications. Participants gatheredknowledge on various geo-technical field practices andtheir application through various case histories.

International Yoga Day, on 21st June2021

NIT Puducherry, NCC Unit, organized a National levelPractical webinar session on “Prosperity of Yogic Culture”on 21st June 2021, from 8.00 am to 9.00 am. The sessionstarted with the welcome address presented by Dr. Am-rtha Bhide, welcoming Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Di-rector, Dr. G. Aghila, Registrar(i/c), Mrs. Rampriya, Yogainstructor, and all the participants. During the practicalsession, the instructors performed 21 yoga postures and 4pranayamas. Dr. S. Babu, Sports officer, NIT Puducherry,handled the Pranayama session. Around 168 Cadets, stu-dents, faculty, staff members from 166 institutions partic-ipated in it. NIT Puducherry, Department of Physical Ed-ucation, organized an online quiz on "Enhancing Knowl-edge of Yoga", 743 students, faculty, staff members from186 institutions, including NIT Puducherry, participatedin this online quiz.

Implementation of coir geo-textilesfor soil erosion control at NIT

Puducherry campus as aneco-sustainable solution

Soil erosion is the process of separating and transport-ing top soil by water, wind, gravity, or other geologicalprocesses which is a serious issue in the campus. Coirgeo-textile is one of the effective natural eco-friendly ero-sion control techniques which can be used in combina-tion with vegetation to provide a composite solution forsoil erosion control. The coir geo-textile with vegetationcover absorbs the impact and kinetic energy of raindropsand reduces the energy transfer to the soil particles whichin turn reduces the surface runoff and control the soil ero-sion. Being a natural biodegradable material, it degradesand improves the vegetation. Once vegetation is estab-lished, the root system act as a soil reinforcement. Thissolution is being implemented in the campus as a solu-tion for soil erosion control.

MoU with Federal University of RioDe Janeiro

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by FederalUniversity of Rio De Janeiro with NIT Puducherry on 12th

May 2021, for the exchange of students and faculty and




also for collaborative research, instructional and culturalprograms, including execution of activities of mutual in-terest.

Five-Days FDP on Recent ResearchTrends in Civil Engineering

A five-days faculty development programme on “RecentResearch Trends in Civil Engineering” was organized byDepartment of Civil Engineering, from 24th May to 28th

May 2021. About 59 participants registered for this fac-ulty development programme from various institutes andindustry all over India. Resource persons from reputedacademic institutions such as University of Queensland– Australia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute – USA, IITMadras, India having expertise in the relevant areas re-lated to the programme delivered their lectures in theFaculty Development Programme.

IEEE Student Branch Inauguration

The IEEE Student Branch was inaugurated in virtualmode on 14th July 2021 at 3.00 pm at NIT Puducherryby the Chief Guest, Dr. N. Kumarappan, Chairman, IEEEMadras Section, Professor, Department of Electrical En-gineering, Annamalai University, in the presence of Prof.K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, NIT Puducherry andDr. G. Aghila, Registrar (i). The inaugural ceremony com-menced with the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries.Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, IEEE Student Branch Counselor,HOD, ECE, welcomed the gathering and Mr. N. Sai Srini-vas, IEEE Student Branch Chair, Ph.D. scholar, ECE, intro-duced the Chief Guest. After the inauguration, the ChiefGuest delivered a talk on “IEEE Membership Awarenessand Benefits” and gave a brief idea about how activelya student branch can work and conduct various activi-ties. He also explained the benefits of IEEE membership& IEEE Society Membership.

Five-Days FDP on "ArtificialIntelligence in Revolutionizing

Healthcare"

The Department of Electronics and Communication En-gineering, organized a five-days online Faculty Develop-ment Programme (FDP) on Artificial Intelligence in Rev-olutionizing Healthcare from 19th July 2021 to 23th July2021, funded by AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL)Academy. The FDP covered trending topics like basicson AI & ML, deep learning, computer aided diagnosis,IoT based health monitoring system, and noise cancel-lation in earphones for hearing aids. The inaugurationof this programme was held on 19th July 2021 at 8.30AM presided by Dr. K. Sankaranarayasamy, Director, NITPuducherry, in the presence of Dr. G. Aghila, Registrar in-charge, NIT Puducherry. Chief Guest, Dr. Manu K. Vora,Chairman and President, Business Excellence, Inc., USAgrace this occasion and deliver a talk on Create Magic inthe Classrooms for Learners Engagement, and LeadershipExcellence. 200 participants across India registered forthe FDP. The sessions were handled by the resource per-sons from the premier institutions in India and abroad.




Pledge on Anti-Terrorism Day

In line with the Government of India theme, the faculty,staff and students of the Institute took Integrity pledge tomark National anti-terrorism on 21st May 2021 on virtualmode.

Faculty Accomplishments

• Dr.D.Ragupathy, Head, Dept. of Science and Hu-manities was invited for a guest talk on “Nanocom-posite materials for Catalytic and Energy Applica-tions” in Six days International workshop on "SmartMaterial Sensor and Energy Devices, organized bySSN College of Engineering, Chennai on 27th May2020.

• Dr.D.Ragupathy, Head, Dept. of Science andHumanities has presented a poster titled on“Nanocomposite Modified Electrode based onPANI/PTA/TIO2 for Energy Applications” in 11thBENGALURU INDIA NANO, Bangalore on 2nd

March 2020.

• Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of Mechanical Engineering,patentedan invention on "Flat Receiver for Solar ParabolicDish Concentrator System and Method Thereof",Application Number: 202041011252 and grantedpatent number : 356665.

• Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of Mechanical Engineering,patentedan invention on "Single Slope Solar DesalinationStill Using Staggered Fins Inserted in Paraffin WaxPCM Bed", Application Number: 202041011253and granted patent number : 356589.

• Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of Mechanical Engineering,patentedan invention on "Solar Powered Electric LiquidSprayer Device and Method Thereof", ApplicationNumber: 202041011254 and granted patent num-ber : 365031.

• Dr.V.P.Harigovindan, Assistant Professor, Depart-ment of ECE, patented an invention on "Restrictedaccess window based method for providing differ-ential services to group of nodes in network", Appli-cation Number: 201941012221 and granted patentnumber :357612.

• Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of Mechanical Engineering, patentedan invention on "Solar desalination using pond fi-bres", Application Number: 202141019442 filed onApril 28, 2021.

• The project entitled "Deep Learning based Effi-cient Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction Sys-tem for Aquaculture", funded by AI for Earth Mi-crosoft Grant with Total Budget Amount of $15,000 USD for 1 year (Microsoft Azure Credits)and project lead by Dr. Harigovindan V P and Dr.Manoj P Samuel, Executive Director, CWRDM, Ker-ala Mr. Rasheed Abdul Haq, JRF, Dept. of ECE, NITPuducherry from April 18,2021.

• Dr.G.LakshmiSudha, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of ECE, patented an invention on "Ageneralized system to perform real time frameblocking on streaming samples of the digital sig-nals", Application Number: 202141002332 filed onJanuary 19, 2021.

• Dr.V.P.Harigovindan, Assistant Professor and Head,Department of ECE, patented an invention on “Vir-tual Sensing based Method and Apparatus for Low-cost Aquaculture Water Quality Monitoring Sys-tem”, Application Number: 202141025833 filed onJune 10, 2021.

• Dr.A Venkadesan. delivered a webinar on “Neu-ral Network applications to Power Electronics " atChennai Institute of Technology, Chennai dated on10th June, 2021.

• Dr.A Venkadesan. delivered a Webinar on “NeuralNetwork applications to Electrical Engineering " atKamaraj College of Engineering and Technology,Madurai District, dated on 29th May, 2021.

• Dr. N. M. Sivaram delivered a Lecture on the topic"Managing risks associated with Foundry work" inlecture series organized by The Institute of IndianFoundrymen, Bangalore Chapter on 21st November2020.

• Dr M V A Raju Bahubalendruni has achieved 1000citations as per his google scholar profile.

• Dr M V A Raju Bahubalendruni delivered a keynotelecture on ““Human-Robot Interaction for assemblySystems” at an International workshop on “RecentAdvancement in Robotics” conducted by MIT-ADTUniversity from 18th - 25th January 2021.

• Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe and Dr. Amrtha Bhide, havebeen awarded with a title “Hindi Ratna” by ONGCKaraikal, on the occasion of International HindiDay. They delivered seminar (in Hindi) on the topic“National Education Policy in Higher education”and “Perspective on online classes” respectively.

• Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE De-partment has delivered a talk on “Antenna Designand Simulation using Neural Networks” on 15th Feb2021 during the SPARC Sponsored One-week Work-shop on “Recent Trends on Metamaterial Antennas




for Wireless Applications and Deep Learning Tech-niques” Organized by Department of ECE, NationalInstitute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.

• Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE De-partment attended "AICTE QIP Short Term Courseon Principles and Advances in Electromagnetics(online) " Organized by Indian Institute of Technol-ogy Madras from 22nd to 27th March 2021.

• Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE De-partment attended “online Advanced Techno Man-agement programme” Organized by AdministrativeStaff College of India, Hyderabad from 15th to 12th

March 2021.

• Incorporated a Startup company ATRIEL India Pvt.Ltd. at NIT Puduchery Karaikal 609609, (Reg.No. U74999TN2021PTC142733).by Dr. G LakshmiSutha , Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe , Mr. N S SrinivasRS/ECE on 12th April 2021.

• Dr. V. Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Departmentof Mathematics delivered an invited talk on "Rele-vance of Mathematics in Dynamical Systems" in theNational Seminar on Emerging Trends in Pure andApplied Mathematics organized by PSG College ofArts and Science, Coimbatore on 25th March 2021.

• Dr. V. Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Departmentof Mathematics delivered an invited talk on "Con-trollability vs Trajectory Controllability of Dynami-cal Systems" in the International Virtual Conferenceon Computational Mathematics organized by PPGCollege of Arts and Science, Coimbatore on 25th

June 2021.

• Preethy Mary Arulanandam., S.B. Singh., andMadappa, V.R. Sivasubramanian received best pa-per award of ICJ Best Paper Award – 2020 from In-dian Concrete Journal for the publication “Numeri-cal Analysis of Reinforced ECC Portal Frames”.

• Dr.V.Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Department ofMathematics delivered a talk on "Relevance ofMathematics in Control Systems" in KPR InstituteEngineering and Technology on 7th August, 2021.

Students Accomplishments

• NITPY dance club members G.Subitha Lakshmifrom 4th B.Tech and Hridhya S Chandran from 3rdB.Tech won first place in solo folk dance and soloclassical dance category respectively in PondicherryHeritage Festival dance competition.

• Mr. Bhuvan Sundar and Mr. Duraiswamy won 2nd

prize in Quiz competition conducted as part of Na-tional Voters Day competitions, by district collec-torate of Karaikal.

• Balamahendra, 4th B.Tech, Ms. Umayal, 3rd B.Techand Ms. Saranya, 2nd B.Tech bagged Prizes in statelevel drawing competitions conducted by AIDS con-trol society Pondicherry.

• NIT Puducherry is one of the network institutesof IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme for conduct-ing their courses as nodal centre. Dr. R. BoopathiRani, Associate Dean (Academic), Assistant Profes-sor, ECE department is coordinating these activities.

• Mr. Ankit Kumar, Mr. Mukesh Patel, Ms.Priyadharshini,Ms. Amy Eunice L, and Mr.A. Karuppa Samy of ECE,participated in the IIRS/ISRO Outreach programmeon "Geospatial Technology for Archaeological Stud-ies", organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sens-ing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun during 17th to 21st May2021.

Conference Publications

• Jack J Kennedy, Prof.Dr.K. Sankaranarayanasamy,V. Kalyanavalli, C. Suresh Kumar. Characterizationof indentation damage resistance and thermal dif-fusivity of needle punched Musa Sapientum cellu-losic fiber/unsaturated polyester composites lami-nates using IR thermography, Polymer Composites,41(7): 2933 2946, July 2020.

• J. Ronald Aseer, S.R. Elsen and Prof. K. Sankara-narayanasamy, In the Proceedings of First Interna-tional Conference on Future Technologies in Manu-facturing, Automation, Design and Energy (ICOFT2020), 28 - 30 December 2020, National instituteof Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India, "Exper-imental Investigation on Properties of Acetic AcidTreated Banana Fiber Polymer Composites".

• A Lenin Solomon, Narendran Rajagopalan, "Per-formance Analysis of Various Cryptographic Tech-niques", Advances in Automation, Signal Process-ing, Instrumentation, and Control: Select Proceed-ings of i-CASIC 2021.

• Meera, K. and Boopathi Rani, R. (2021) Compari-son on the Performance of Different Types of MU-SIC Algorithm for the Direction of Arrival Estima-tion, The 13th International Virtual Conference, An-tenna Test and Measurement Society, 18-20 Febru-ary 2021. Publisher: Springer.

• Merlin Teresa, P., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2021)Design of Compact Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for




UWB Applications, The 13th International VirtualConference, Antenna Test and Measurement Soci-ety, 18-20 February 2021. Publisher: Springer.

• S.Sweta , Jiss Mariam Babu , Akhila Palem-pati , Aniruddha Kanhe, "Cepstral Coefficientbased Gender Classification using Audio sig-nals",INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUS-TAINABLE ADVANCED COMPUTING (ICSAC2021), Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engi-neering (LNEE) conference proceeding, 5,6 March2021

• Murali GB, Deepak BB, Muthra RR, Biswal BB,Bahubalendruni MR. Robotic Assembly SequenceGeneration Using Improved Fruit Fly Algorithm ByApplying Gross And Fine Motion As Fitness Equa-tion. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Scienceand Engineering 2021 Apr 1 (Vol. 1123, No. 1,p. 012053). IOP Publishing. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1123/1/012053

• Varupala S.S.V.P., Gulivindala A.K., Bahubalen-druni M.V.A.R. An Efficient Geometrical Feasibil-ity Testing Method for Exploded View Gener-ation to Perform Assembly Sequence Planning.Current Advances in Mechanical Engineering,ICREMED 2020, SOA University, Bhubaneswar. Lec-ture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. 2021:963-973, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3_89. (SCOPUS)

• Varupala S.S.V.P., Gulivindala A.K., Sudhakar U.,Vykuntarao M., Raju Bahubalendruni M.V.A., BiswalB.B., A design for assembly frame work based onsubassembly detection method. Recent Advances inmanufacturing -2021, SVNIT Surat. (SCOPUS)

• S. Abhirami and Smrutisikta Mishra presented apaper on “Folklore as a Medium of Socio-CulturalTransformation in India: A Review and Analysis”in the Two Day National Conference cum Work-shop on “Mapping Oral Traditions: Folklore of In-dia with Special Reference to Vagad Region” organ-ised by the Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur& funded by Ministry of Education (MHRD-RUSA2.0) on February 26-27 2021.

• S. Abhirami and Smrutisikta Mishra presented a pa-per on “The Traumatized Matriarch of the Kurus inMahabharata: A Study and Analysis of Life Jour-ney of Queen Satyavati” in 1st Bhatter College In-ternational Conference on Recent Advances in En-glish Studies organised by The PG Department ofEnglish, Bhatter College, Dantan, in collaborationwith Yonphula Centenary College, Royal Universityof Bhutan on July 03-04, 2021

Journal Publications

• Narendran Rajagopalan and Lokesh Bommareddy,"Orchestrator for synchronizing network events inSDNs", IEEE Transactions on Network and ServiceManagement.

• C. Bavatharani , E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy,"Novel PDPA-SiO2 Nanosphericals Network Dec-orated Graphene Nanosheets Composite CoatedFTO Electrode for Efficient Electro-Oxidation ofMethanol", Fuel (2020) [Impact Factor: 5.127]

• C. Bavatharani , E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy,"Ultra-High Sensitive, Selective, Non-enzymaticDopamine Sensor based on Electrochemically Ac-tive Graphene Decorated Polydiphenylamine-SiO2Nanohybrid Composite", Ceramics International(2020) [Impact Factor: 3.450]

• Seong Bin Jo, Hyun Ji Kim, Joong Hee Ahn,Byung Wook Hwang, Jeung Soo Huh, Dhanusura-man Ragupathy, Soo Chool Lee, Jae Chang Kim,"Effects of Thin-Film Thickness on Sensing Proper-ties of SnO2-Based Gas Sensors for the Detectionof H2S Gas at ppm Levels", Journal of Nanoscienceand Nanotechnology 20 (2020) 7169-7174 [ImpactFactor:1.354]

• M.SubaLakshmi, E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, "De-velopment and Characterization of Polydipheny-lamine/CuO Nanohybrid Electrode and its Im-proved Electrochemical Properties", Sensor Letters18 (2020) 5 – 11.

• E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, "Improved cyclicretention and high-performance superca-pacitive behavior of poly(diphenylamine-coaniline)/phosphotungstic acid nanohybrid elec-trode", International Journal of Energy Research(In Press; 2020) [Impact Factor: 3.343]

• C. Bavatharani, E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, "Ex-cellent Cyclic Retention and Supercapacitive Perfor-mance of Electrochemically Active NanocompositeElectrode", Sensor Letters (In Press; 2020)

• G.Sivarasan, E.Muthusankar, C. Bavatharani,D.Ragupathy, "Facile and Low-Cost Productionof Lantana Camara stalk-Derived Porous CarbonNanostructures with Excellent Supercapacitanceand Adsorption Performance", International Jour-nal of Energy Research (In Press; 2020) [ImpactFactor: 3.343]

• J.V.C.Sousa, M. Vellappandi, V.Govindaraj andG.S.F. Frederico, "Reachability of fractional dy-namical systems by using psi - Hilfer fractionalpesudo- fractional derivative", Journal of Mathe-matical Physics, 62(8), 082703, 2021.




• Thangavel Subbaiyan and Yuvaraju Venkatacha-lam, “PSO based optimal phasor measurementunit Placement considering measurement re-dundancy,” 3rd IEEE International Conferenceon Energy, Power and Environment: TowardsClean Energy Technologies, pp. 1-6, 2021 doi:10.1109/ICEPE50861.2021.9404456

• A. Kumaresan, H. D. Tafti, N. K. Kandasamy, G. G.Farivar, J. Pou and Thangavel Subbaiyan, "FlexiblePower Point Tracking for Solar Photovoltaic Sys-tems Using Secant Method," in IEEE Transactionson Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 9419-9429,Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3049275.

• Askar, D. Ghosh , P.K. Santra , G.S. Mahapatra, andA.A. Elsadany, A fractional-order SITR mathemati-cal model for forecasting of transmission of COVID-19 of India with lockdown effect. Results in Physics,2021. (SCIE, Impact Factor: 4.019)

• S. Biswas, D. Pal, G. S. Mahapatra, Harvesting effecton Prey–predator system with strong Allee effect inprey and Herd Behaviour in both, FILOMAT 2021,(SCIE, Impact Factor: 0.848)

• Dipankar Ghosh, P.K. Santra, G.S. Mahapatra,and A.A. Elsadany, Predator dependent transmissi-ble disease spreading in prey under Holling type-II functional response, Zeitchrift fur NaturforchungA., 2021. (SCIE, Impact Factor: 1.355)

• Pooja Rani, and G.S. Mahapatra, Entropy basedenhanced particle swarm optimization on multi-objective software reliability modelling for optimaltesting resources allocation, Software Testing Verifi-cation & Reliability, DOI: 10.1002/stvr.1765, 2021.(SCI, Impact Factor: 1.556)

• Milon D. Selvam & N. M. Sivaram (2020) A com-parative study on the surface finish achieved dur-ing turning operation of AISI 4340 steel in flooded,near-dry and dry conditions, Australian Journalof Mechanical Engineering, 18:3, 457-466, DOI:10.1080/14484846.2018.1546363

• A Venkadesan.(Dec 2020), ‘Harmonic Current Esti-mation of a Non-linear Load Using Artificial NeuralNetwork. Intelligent Paradigms for Smart Grid andRenewable Energy Systems (Springer), pp. 337-359(Scopus).

• Kumar, Anil; Bahubalendruni, M V A Raju; Dara,Ashok; K, Sankaranarayanasamy, K., " Challengesand Opportunities in Human Robot Collaborationcontext of Industry 4.0 - A state of Art Review ",Industrial Robot, An international journal, 2021.(SCIE, IF= 1.352).

• Kumar GA, Bahubalendruni MR, Prasad VV, AshokD, Sankaranarayanasamy K. A novel Geometricfeasibility method to perform assembly sequenceplanning through oblique orientations. EngineeringScience and Technology, an International Journal.2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.jestch.2021.04.013 (SCIE,IF=4.36)

• Kumar GA, Bahubalendruni MR, Prasad VS,Sankaranarayanasamy K. A multi-layered disas-sembly sequence planning method to support deci-sion making in de-manufacturing. Sadhana. 2021;46(2):1-6. DOI: 10.1007/s12046-021-01622-3(SCIE, IF = 1.188)

• Gulivindala A.K., Izaz A., Bahubalendruni MR,Chandrasekar R., Mustufa haider abidi, Abdul-Rehman al-ahmari., An enhanced genetic algorithmto validate iot related information in disassem-bly production, Computers, Materials & Continua,2021. (SCIE, IF= 3.772).

• Dara A, Bahubalendruni MR, Mertens AJ. DoesTopology Optimization Exist in Nature? NationalAcademy Science Letters. 2021 :1-5. 0017 DOI:10.1007/s40009-021-01050-1 (SCIE, IF= 0.788)

• Bahubalendruni MR, Varupala VP. Disassembly se-quence planning for safe disposal of end-of-lifewaste electric and electronic equipment. NationalAcademy Science Letters. 2021 ;44(3):243-7.. DOI:10.1007/s40009-020-00994-0 (SCIE, IF= 0.788)

• Gunji BM, Pabba SK, Rajaram IR, SorakayalaPS, Dubey A, Deepak BB, Biswal BB, Bahubalen-druni MR. Optimal disassembly sequence gener-ation and disposal of parts using stability graphcut-set method for End of Life product. Sadhana.2021;46(1):1-5. DOI: 10.1007/s12046-020-01525-9 (SCIE, IF= 1.188)

• Suraparaju Subbarama Kousik, and emphSendhilKumar Natarajan. "Performance analysis of singleslope solar desalination setup with natural fiber."Desalination and Water Treatment 193 (2020): 64-71.(SCI Journal Impact Factor: 0.854)

• Sahu Susant Kumar, and emphSendhil KumarNatarajan. "Design and development of a low-costsolar parabolic dish concentrator system with man-ual dual-axis tracking." International Journal of En-ergy Research (2020). (SCI Journal Impact Factor:3.741)

• Kumar, K. Ravi, NVV Krishna Chaitanya, and em-phNatarajan Sendhil Kumar. "Solar Thermal EnergyTechnologies and its Applications for Process Heat-ing and Power Generation–A Review." Journal ofCleaner Production (2020): 125296. (SCI JournalImpact Factor: 7.246)




• Suraparaju Subbarama Kousik, and emphSendhilKumar Natarajan. "Experimental investigation ofsingle-basin solar still using solid staggered fins in-serted in paraffin wax PCM bed for enhancing pro-ductivity." Environmental Science and Pollution Re-search (2021): 1-14. (SCI Journal Impact Factor:3.306)

• Elangovan Elavarasan, and S emphendhil K.Natarajan. "Effects of pre-treatments on quality at-tributes, moisture diffusivity, and activation energyof solar dried ivy gourd." Journal of Food Pro-cess Engineering (2021): e13653. (SCI-Expanded -Journal Impact Factor: 1.703)

• Madaswamy Suba Lakshmi, Asma A. Alothman,Murefah mana AL-Anazy, Ahmad A. Ifseisi, KhadraaN. Alqahtani, emphSendhil Kumar Natarajan, Sub-ramania Angaiah, and Ragupathy Dhanusura-man. "Polyaniline-based nanocomposites for directmethanol fuel cells (DMFCs)-A Recent Review."Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry(2021). (SCI Journal Impact Factor: 5.278)

• Suraparaju Subbarama Kousik, and emphSendhilKumar Natarajan. "Productivity Enhancement ofSingle Slope Solar Still with Novel Bottom FinnedAbsorber basin inserted in Phase Change Mate-rial (PCM): Techno-Economic and Enviro-EconomicAnalysis." Environmental Science and Pollution Re-search (2021): 1-14. (SCI Journal Impact Factor:3.306)

• Elangovan Elavarasan, and emphSendhil KumarNatarajan “Experimental Investigation of DryingCharacteristic of Red Banana in a Single Slope So-lar Dryer Based on Natural and Forced Convec-tion”. Vol. 59 (2), Food Technology and Biotechnol-ogy (2021), (SCI-Expanded Journal Impact Factor:2.115)

• Elangovan Elavarasan, and emphSendhil K. Natara-jan. "Experimental Study on Drying Kinetics of IvyGourd Using Solar Dryer" Journal of Food Pro-cess Engineering (2021), (SCI-Expanded JournalImpact Factor: 1.703)

• Sahu, S.K, Arjun Singh K. and emphSendhil Kumar,N., “Impact of Double Trumpet Shaped SecondaryReflector on Flat Receiver of a Solar Parabolic Col-lector System”, Energy Sources Part A: Recovery,Utilization, and Environmental Effects (2021)(SCI)(Impact Factor- 1.184).

• Arivazhagan Sampathkumar, emphSendhil KumarNatarajan “Experimental Investigation on Produc-tivity Enhancement in Single Slope Solar Still UsingBorassus Flabellifer Micro-Sized Particles”, Materi-als Letters (2021)(SCI) (Impact Factor- 3.204).

• Gulivindala AK, emphBahubalendruni MR, Varu-pala SV, emphSankaranarayanasamy K. A heuris-tic method with a novel stability concept to per-form parallel assembly sequence planning by sub-assembly detection. Assembly Automation. 2020Aug 28.40 (5), 779-787. DOI:10.1108/AA-01-2020-0017 (SCIE, IF=1.896)

• Kumar GA, emphBahubalendruni MR, PrasadVV, Ashok D, emphSankaranarayanasamy K. Anovel Geometric feasibility method to performassembly sequence planning through obliqueorientations. Engineering Science and Tech-nology, an International Journal. 2021. DOI:10.1016/j.jestch.2021.04.013 (SCIE, IF=3.249)

• emphM.V.A. Raju Bahubalendruni, VP Varupala,“Disassembly Sequence Planning for safe disposalof End of Life waste electric electronic equipment”,(National Academy of Science Letters), ISSN: 2250-1754, July 2020 [Indexed: SCI].

• emphMVAR Bahubalendruni, AK Gulivindala, SSVPVarupala, KSN Samy, “A Heuristic Method with anovel Stability concept to Perform Parallel Assem-bly Sequence Planning by Subassembly Detection”,ISSN: 1758-4078, May 2020, [Indexed: SCI].

• emphM Vadivukkarasan, “Transition from absoluteto convective instability in a compound jet”, (Euro-pean Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids), [Indexed:SCI/SCIE], 6 June 2020.

• emphM Vadivukkarasan and Mahesh V Panchag-nula, “Destabilization characteristics of three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor mechanism on a cylin-drical interface, MECCANICA [indexed:SCI/SCIE],ISSN: 15729648, 00256455, Volume: 55, Issue No:1, Doi: 10.1007/s11012-019-01086-0, 2020.

• emphM Vadivukkarasan, Transition from absoluteto convective instability in a compound jet, EU-ROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS / B FLU-IDS [Indexed: SCI/SCIE], ISSN: 0997-7546, Vol-ume: 84, Issue No. 1, Pg. No. 186 – 192, 2021,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2020.06.005

• emphM Vadivukkarasan, Dhivyaraja K and Ma-hesh V Panchagnula, Breakup morphology of ex-pelled respiratory liquid: From the perspectiveof hydrodynamic instabilities (*FEATURED arti-cle and funded by the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) for Open Access), PHYSICS OF FLU-IDS, [Indexed: SCI/SCIE], ISSN: 1070-6631, Vol-ume: 32, Issue No. 9, Pg. No. 94 – 101, 2020,https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0022858.

• emphM Vadivukkarasan, Temporal instabil-ity characteristics of Rayleigh–Taylor andKelvin–Helmholtz mechanisms of an inviscid




cylindrical interface, MECCANICA, [Indexed:SCI/SCIE], ISSN: 15729648, 00256455, 2021,https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-020-01275-2.

• Suraparaju, Subbarama Kousik, Arivazhagan Sam-pathkumar and emphSendhil Kumar Natarajan “Ex-perimental and Economic Analysis of Energy Stor-age based Single Slope Solar Still with HollowFinned Absorber Basin”. Heat Transfer – Wiley(2021). (SCOPUS)

• R. Karuppasamy, Debabrata Barik, emph N.M.Sivaram, Milon Selvam Dennison, “Investigationon the effect of aluminium foam made of A413aluminium alloy through stir casting and infiltra-tion techniques”, (International Journal of Materi-als Engineering Innovation) ISSN: 1757-2754, Vol-11, Issue-01, 2020 [Indexed: Scopus].

• Kolur DK, Tejas GD, emphRaju Bahubalendruni MV.Design and Development of a Novel Pneumatic Cer-vical Traction Device. International Journal of Per-formability Engineering. 2020 Apr 1;16(4). 520-527. DOI: 10.23940/ijpe.20.04. p3.520527 (SCO-PUS)

• Kolur DK, Yadav S, Gulvindala AK, emphBahubal-endruni MV. A Framework to Facilitate AutomatedAssembly Sequence Planning in Design Strate-gies. International Journal of Performability En-gineering. 2020 Oct 1;16(10).1517-1524. DOI:10.23940/ijpe.20.10. p3.15171524 (SCOPUS)

• Gulivindala AK, emph Bahubalendruni MR, Varu-pala SP, Ravi C. Exponential Moving Average Mod-elled Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm forEfficient Disassembly Sequence Planning towardsPractical Feasibility. International Journal of Per-formability Engineering. 2021 Mar 27;17(3):289.DOI: 10.23940/ijpe.21.03. p4.289298. (SCOPUS)

• Murali GB, Deepak BB, Muthra RR, Biswal BB, em-phBahubalendruni MR. Robotic Assembly SequenceGeneration Using Improved Fruit Fly Algorithm byApplying Gross and Fine Motion As Fitness Equa-tion. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Scienceand Engineering 2021 Apr 1 (Vol. 1123, No. 1,p. 012053). IOP Publishing. DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/1123/1/012053

• Kolur DK, Tejas GD, emphRaju Bahubalendruni MV,“Design and Development of a Novel PneumaticCervical Traction Device”, (International Journalof Performability Engineering), Vol 16, No. 4,2020[Indexed: SCOPUS].

• Sahu, S. K., emph Kumar, N. S., & Singh, K. A.(2021). Design and Development of ConcentratedSolar Cooker with Parabolic Dish Concentrator. InProceedings of the 7th International Conference

on Advances in Energy Research (pp. 621-631).Springer, Singapore.

• Elavarasan E, Y. Kumar, Mouresh R, andemphS. K. Natarajan. Study of Drying Ki-netics of Tomato in a Solar Dryer. In Cur-rent Advances in Mechanical Engineering.2021:349–358.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3-33.

• Anagh S. Bhanu, E. Elavarasan, emphSendhil Ku-mar Natarajan, A. Anandu, H. M. Senin. Experi-mental Investigation of Drying Kinetics of PoovanBanana under Forced Convection Solar Drying.In Current Advances in Mechanical Engineer-ing. 2021:621–631.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3-56.

• Sahu, Susant Kumar, emphN. Sendhil Kumar, andT. Ganapathy. "Experimental Investigation of SolarPowered Vapor Compression Air Conditioner withIndian Climatic Condition." In Advances in Mechan-ical Engineering, pp. 1291-1302. Springer, Singa-pore, 2020.

• Uppada, Sudhakar, Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju,emphMVA Raju Bahubalendruni, and emphSend-hil Kumar Natarajan. "Optimization of Process Pa-rameters in Resistance Spot Welding Using ArtificialImmune Algorithm." In Innovative Product Designand Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, pp. 477-485. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

• Aarif Ahamed S. and Chandrasekar Ravi. "Studyof Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for OptimizingDeep Neural Network for Bitcoin Prediction." In-ternational Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research(IJSIR), Vol.12, No.2, pp:22-38, 2021.

• S Shanmuga priya, S Saran raj, B Surendi-ran, Arulmurugaselvi N, Brain Tumour Detec-tion in MRI Using Deep Learning,Evolutionin Computational Intelligence Frontiers inIntelligent Computing: Theory and Appli-cations (FICTA 2020), 395-403, Springer,https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811557873

• Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba T., Radhakrish-nan T. K., Sivakumaran N., Design of the fractionalorder internal model controller using the swarm in-telligence techniques for the coupled tank system,Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Com-puter Science, 2021.

• Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba T., Tuning ofthe two degree of freedom FOIMC based on theSmith predictor, International Journal of Dynamicsand Control, Springer, 2021.




• Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba T., Analyticaldesign of the fractional order controller and ro-bustness verification, IAES International Journal ofRobotics and Automation, 10(1), 10-23, 2021.

• Jambulingam Jawahar Babu , Vinopraba Thiru-mavalavan,” Variable Duty Cycle Control with PSO-PI Controller for Power Factor Correction and FastRegulation”, Institution of Engineers-series B, 2021,(Accepted).

• Jambulingam Jawahar Babu , Vinopraba Thiru-mavalavan,” Fixed frequency control with mod-ified PSO-PIλDµfor Power Factor Correction andFast Regulation”, International journal of Engineer-ing systems modeling and Simulation 2021, (Ac-cepted).

• "Nath, Malaya Kumar; Kanhe, Aniruddha; ",A De-tailed Study on AI-Based Diagnosis of NovelCoronavirus from Radiograph Images, Com-putational Modeling and Data Analysis inCOVID-19 Research (1st ed.). CRC Press.https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003137481.

• Sanket S Kulkarni, Ansuman Mahapatra, "360°Video Summarization: Research Scope and Trends",in special session on Blockchain 4.0: Artificial Intel-ligence and Industrial Internet of Things Paradigmin New Advanced Society Challenges, Applications,International Conference on Microelectronics, Elec-tromagnetics and Telecommunications, 2021 (Ac-cepted).

• Velmurugan, K. and Smrutisikta Mishra. (2021).Enhancing the Reading Skills of the Technical Stu-dents Through Mental Modelling. Psychology andEducation Journal, 58(3), 1302-1312.(Scopus In-dexed)

• Geetha, S and Smrutisikta Mishra (2021). Asser-tion of Queer Identities and Complexities WithinFamily Relationships: An Analysis of Fire, Margaritawith a Straw and Evening Shadows paper publishedin PalArch Journal of Egypt/Egyptology Vol 4, 18,6204-6211. (Scopus Indexed),

• Jeyasakthi V., Velmurugan K., SmrutisiktaMishra.(2021) “The Intervention of Physical Gamesin Teaching English Grammar to Secondary SchoolStudents: A Review with Special Reference tothe Secondary School Pupil in Puducherry, In-dia.” Psychology and Education Journal,Vol no. 2,.176–85.(Scopus Indexed),

• Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh,S.B., 2021. Serviceability analysis and in-creased axle load performance of heritage archgallery railway bridges. Journal of Construction,doi.org/10.7764/rdlc.20.1.178. Pontificia UnivCatolica Chile. [SCIE, SCOPUS indexed]

• Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh, S.B.,2021. Seismic Vulnerability and Fragility Curvesfor Bridge No. 541 Of UNESCO Recognized KalkaShimla Mountain Railways. SN Applied Science,doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04652-y, SpringerNature [ESCI, SCOPUS indexed]

• Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh, S.B.,2021. Present day status and numerical modellingof heritage masonry bridges of Kalka Shimla Moun-tain Railways. International Journal of Masonry In-novation and Research – Inderscience [Accepted forpublication– ESCI, SCOPUS indexed]

• Thyagaraj, T., Julina, M., 2021. Effect of physico-chemical interactions and cyclic wet-dry processon behaviour of compacted expansive soils. IndianGeotechnical Journal, doi.org/10.1007/s40098-021-00518-7. Springer [SCOPUS Indexed]

• Julina, M., Thyagaraj, T., 2021. Effect of gra-dient on swell and hydraulic response of des-iccated expansive soil-an experimental study, In-ternational Journal of Geotechnical Engineering,doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2021.1902117. Taylorand Francis. [SCOPUS Indexed]

• U Padmavathi, Narendran Rajagopalan, "TacklingCOVID-19 Using Blockchain Technology", Hand-book of Research on Library Response to theCOVID-19 Pandemic, IGI Global.

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