V N 3, I N 2, J 2020 PARIPRASHNA : An NIT Puducherry ...

VOL NO 3, ISSUE NO 2, JANUARY 2020

PARIPRASHNA : An NIT PuducherryNewsletter

Figure 1: NIT Puducherry, Thiruvettakudy, Karaikal, Puducherry U.T. 609 609Courtesy : Dr. Ansuman Mahapatra, NIT Puducherry

"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universalextinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature."

- Don DeLillo

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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

From the Director’s Desk

With pride, I forward the second issue of the third volume of NIT Puducherrybi-annual newsletter, "PARIPRASHNA". It reports on the important events andachievements of the Institute. It also acts as a memoir to relive the silverlining moments and inspires to work towards setting newer milestones forNIT Puducherry, apart from establishing a brand name for the Institute.

With progressive and successful steps towards making the campus greenwith hundreds of saplings, the Institute also witnessed establishment of a newboys hostel; Moyar Hostel within a record time of forty five days. I am proud toannounce that the Institute has signed Memorandum of Understanding(MoU)with industries and international technical Institutes for internships, studentexchange programs and collaboration on mutually beneficial research areas.Clubs like "Bharathidasan Tamil Mandram" is initiated to encourage and pro-mote the local culture. The students have represented at International YouthExchange programs in China and Russia for the first time in the history of theInstitute and made us proud. The research activities and publications fromthe Institute is increasing at a steadfast pace. I thank all the faculty, staff andstudents working untiringly for the development of the Institute. As a closingnote, I congratulate the editorial team and wish that "Pariprashna" reachesa larger audience and puts NIT Puducherry on the global arena of technicalexcellence.

Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector




MoU With Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

NIT Puducherry signed Memorandum of Understand-ing(MoU) with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a network-ing firm which celebrated its centenary year of exis-tence shared their Unified Communication as a Ser-vice(UCAAS) and Unified Platform as a Service(UPAAS),Rainbow, worth more than Rs. 5 Lakhs. The MoU alsoextends internship and job opportunities to M.Tech andB.Tech final year students of the institute. Alcatel-LucentEnterprise represented by Mr. Abhishek Sinha, Senior Di-rector R & D, Mr. Prasath. L. Rao, Country Director, SouthAsia, along with his team members, Mr. Jatin Kumar Pa-tro and Mr. Anurag, signed the MoU with Dr. K. Sankara-narayanasamy representing NIT Puducherry.

MoU with Anavadya Softech Pvt Ltd,Bangalore

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, signed aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU) with AnavadyaSoftech Private Limited, Bangalore. Anavadya Softechis a technical start-up based out of Bangalore, provid-ing Blockchain, Internet of Things and Mobile Appli-cation based solutions and services. Dr. K. Sanakara-narayanasamy, Director, representing NIT Puducherryand Mr. Narayanan, CTO, Anavadya Softech Private Lim-ited, Bengaore, signed the MoU offering internships toundergraduate and postgraduate students and also en-gage in collaborative research and development in the ar-eas of mutual interest with the faculty of NIT Puducherry.Two workshops were conducted on Blockchain at NITPYcampus in which expert lectures were delivered by pro-fessionals from Anavadya Softech Private Limited, Ban-galore.

Initiation of Bharathidasan TamilMandram

NIT Puducherry formalized "Bharathidasan Tamil Man-dram", a club aimed at encouraging and promoting lo-cal culture and literature. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy,Director and Dr. D. Ragupathy, Assistant Professor, De-partment of Chemistry, faculty advisor for the Bharathi-dasan Tamil Mandram appreciated the efforts of the stu-dent participants who exhibited their literary talents withpoems and speech.

Institute celebrates 73rd

Independence Day

The National Institute of Technology Puducherry ob-served the 73rd Independence Day in its institutepremises at Karaikal. The national flag was hoisted at 8a.m by the Director, Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy. The Di-rector paid his tributes to the freedom fighters who laiddown their lives. He urged the students to contributeto the progress and enrichment of the country. He alsostressed upon the students role to enjoy the freedom, butwith responsibilities and moral standards. Mrch past waspresented by NITPY NCC cadets. The Institute premiseswas engrossed with patriotic fervour with the splendidcultural talent display of students and artistic demonstra-tion of the students of "Arts & Craft Club". The Institutenewsletter, Pariprashna Volume 3, Issue 1, was releasedin this event along with prize and certificate distribu-tion to the volunteers who participated in the "SwachhBharat Internship Programme —2019" organized by NITPuducherry.




Fit India Movement

Students of NIT Puducherry witnessed the live telecast ofinauguration of Fit India Movement on 29th August 2019from Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi and address bythe Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the evening, stu-dents took oath on Fit India movement, followed by afitness walk.

International Youth Exchangeprogram

Mr Kushal Nigam and Ms Jayshree visited China as partof International Youth Exchange program organized byMinistry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India. Simi-larly, Ms Manjusha Sridharan visited Moscow, Russia as apart of this event.

NIT Puducherry welcomes the NewUndergraduate Batch

A rigorous one-month induction program was conductedto the First Year B.Tech students between 19th August2019 to 15th September 2019. The event was initi-ated and addressed by the director Prof. K. Sankara-narayanasamy followed by a brief address about the in-stitute and interaction with the parents. The inductionprogram included, Yoga and jogging events conductedby Ms Divyadarshini, Shanmuga Yogashram, Karaikaland Mr Sugan, Chennai in the morning hours everyday,Guest lecture by Dr Arul Murugan, Assistant Professor,Pondicherry university Karaikal Campus on the topic ’Lifeskills for Engineers’, a seminar on topic ’Human valuesrelevant to the Youth’ conducted by Dr. Swaminathan,Program Executive, All India Radio, Karaikal, a seminaron ’Healthy Lifestyle’, delivered by Prof. Mohan, PAJAN-COA, Karaikal, a one-day Workshop on Disaster man-agement, delivered by Mr Manimaran and Mr Karpoora-sundaramoorthy, from Disaster Management cell KaraikalDistrict, Dr. Balaji Karthik , Department of CommunityMedicine, JIPMER Karaikal gave an intensive lecture onHealth and Hygiene and Prof. Ruchi Tewari, Mudra Insti-tute of Communication and Advertising, delivered a lec-ture on Social Responsibility of Engineers.

LEAP Entrance Exam

Second edition of LEAP made its way after successfulcompletion of its last year objectives. NSS student vol-unteers organized JEE Entrance exam for the studentsstudying in Karaikal with the help of Karaikal DistrictAdministration. The registration of students for JEE freecoaching for the year 2019-2020 was done on 24th and




25th (Saturday and Sunday) of August 2019 and the en-trance exam was held on the forenoon of 8th September2019. 460 students from class XI and XII registered forthe coaching, out of which 323 appeared for the exam.120 students were selected for availing free coaching byLEAP volunteers. The classes for the selected students arebeing conducted regularly on weekends. Also, number oftutors for the current year increased to 40.

NSS Activities

NSS unit organized a clean-up drive programme on 24th

August 2019, aimed at developing a sense of responsi-bility among the students in keeping our surroundingsclean. Almost 240 students actively participated in thedrive. NSS volunteers under the guidance of NSS Officer,Dr. V. Govindaraj, also attended the rally to spread theimportance of eye donation, aimed at removing myths inthe minds of people about eye donation, on 09th Septem-ber 2019. The rally was about a two-kilometer walk fromDistrict Collector’s office to Thanthai Periyar GovernmentSchool, Karaikal.

Inauguration of NanoElectrochemistry Research

Laboratory

Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, NIT Puducherry, in-augurated Nano Electrochemistry Research Lab at De-partment of Chemistry. Nano Electrochemistry ResearchGroup led by Dr.D.Ragupathy, Assistant Professor, De-partment of Chemistry, who was awarded with Rs.54.62Lakhs from DST, Government of India, New Delhi.

This lab synthesizes Nanomaterials such as nanofiber,nanoparticles and nanocomposite by electrospinning andelectrochemical methods. These nanofiber membraneand nanomaterials can be potentially utilized for waterdesalination and energy applications. This research grouphas Electrochemical Workstation, Nanospinning Unit, UV-Visible Spectrophotometer and FT-IR Spectrophotometerworth of Rs. 30 Lakhs. Upon the guidelines of Director,NITPY now open its windows for using these equipmentsto the other colleges, researchers and industries.

German Classes at NIT Puducherry

The National Institute of Technology Puducherry startedoffering A1 level German language course as a part ofForeign Language courses, for its students on 26th Au-gust 2019. The Programme was officially inaugurated bythe Director, Prof. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, amidst manyfaculty, staff and students. The Director emphasized theneed for learning new languages and its contributionto the assimilation of global cultures. He also pointedout how the newly introduced German Language coursewould help the NIT students to improve their employabil-ity. Ms. Jyotsna Vaidya, the resource person and Instruc-tor of the German course, persuing Ph.D. in German Stud-ies at the Dept. of Foreign Languages, Savitri Phule PuneUniversity, gave an introduction regarding the course andits expected outcomes.

Interviews with All India Radio

Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, was invited by AllIndia Radio, Karaikal in the month of September 2019 to




share his vision for the Institute and opinion on the evolv-ing technical education system in India. He broadcastedthe various research, social and cultural awareness pro-grammes organized by the Institute. He also shared hiswisdom with the young minds on various technical andnon-technical courses that can be pursued after school-ing. Dr. S. Madappa, Associate Dean-Planning and De-velopment, was also invited by All India Radio on 18th

September 2019, to share his expertise on constructionsand buildings and clarify the doubts of the common peo-ple asking questions through telephonic calls.

ATAL Workshop on IoT

The Department of EEE organized a 5-day workshop on"Internet of Things" from 16th September 2019 to 20th

September 2019. The programme is sponsored by AICTETraining and Learning (ATAL) Academy. Dr. K. Sankara-narayanasamy, Director, inaugurated the workshop. Del-egates from more than 15 states like Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Kerala, Haryana and Tamil Nadu participated inthe workshop. Seven experts from various departmentsand colleges helped in handson lectures and training dur-ing the 14 sessions of the workshop.

National Conference onCommunication Systems

The Department of Electronics & Communication Engi-neering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal in association with TheInstitution of Engineers (India) organized, a one-day Na-tional Conference on Communication Systems on 21st

September 2019. Under the chief patronage of the Di-rector, Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, the Conference was

inaugurated by Dr. M. P. Pillai, The Executive Director ofNational Institute of Electronics & Information Technol-ogy, Calicut, as the Chief guest with the release of a con-ference booklet. Dr. V. P. Harigovindan, Organising Chair,and other organizing secretaries, Dr. R. Boopathi Rani,and Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha were also present. Nearly 100delegates from different states participated in the confer-ence by presenting 35 research papers. Dr. R. Radjaram,Honarary Secretary of Institution of Engineers along withthe Director, inaugurated the Student Chapterof Institu-tion of Engineerings, with an aim to motivate and helpstudents to conduct workshops, conferences and fellow-ships for researchers.

MoU with National Institute ofElectronics and Information

Technology, Calicut

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, signed aMoU with National Institute of Electronics & Informa-tion Technology, Calicut, represented by Dr. M P Pillai,the Executive Director, National Institute of Electronics& Information Technology, Calicut and Prof. K. Sankara-narayanasamy, Director, on collaboration in training, in-ternship and research for the mutual benefits.

Inter-collegiate Cultural festival,LeCiel’19




The annual inter-collegiate cultural festival, "LeCiel’19"was organized under the patronage of the Director,Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, between 26th September2019 and 28th September 2019. All the students of NITPuducherry especially the cultural committee/variousclub student heads, members, volunteers and student’scouncil took initiatives and worked hard for the suc-cess of the event. The inauguration ceremony on 26th

September was presided by the Chief Guest, Mr. Ma-hesh Kumar Barnwal, SSP, Karaikal, and the director.LeCiel’19 witnessed registrations from more than 15 col-leges in and around Karaikal, Pondicherry and Chennai.The festival included many exciting events like singing,dance, music band, art & literature competitions, on-line events, traditional proshows like chitra natyum pro-gramme by Kalaimamani Mrs. Chitra Gopinathan andteam, Tharai Tappatai programme by Karaikal team, Eth-nic walk by students, Bingo Comedy by Mr. Vivek Mu-ralidharan, standup comedy by Mr. Kjeld Sreshth and DJnight.

Celebration of 150th Ghandhi jayanthi

NIT Puducherry observed 150th birth anniversary of Ma-hatma Gandhi on 2nd October 2019, in order to promoteKhadi, exhibition cum sales was organized in the cam-pus with Co-Optex, Karaikal, and Khadi bhavan. The NSSunit organised, "Swachhata Hi Seva" campaign, aimed atpromoting cleanliness. Posters with information on wastedisposal and principles of 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recy-cle) for plastic wastes were put up. Nearly 30 studentsfrom the NSS unit participated in the cleanliness driveand awareness rally in Thiruvettakudy village.

MoU signed with Association ofLeonard De Vinci, Paris La Cedex,

France

National Institute of Technology Puducherry signed aMoU with the academic institute, Association of LeonardDe Vinci, Paris La Cedex, France. Prof K. Sankara-narayanasamy, Director, along with Dr. Vinopraba, Aso-ciate Dean R&C, visited Leonard De Vinci, Paris to meetDr.Alain Ovurieu, director, International relations, on 4th

October 2019, to discussed about the various possibilitiesof collaboration. The under graduate and post graduatestudents of various departments under student exchangeprogram can visit the other institute. Research scholars ofNIT Puducherry can visit the France University for theirresearch work. Prof K. Sankaranarayanasamy also visitedUniversity of Tor Vergata, Rome on 10th October 2019to discuss on MoU for exchange of students between theUniversities and research collaboration.

Self-defence Course for NITPYWomen

National Institute of Technology Puducherry in collabo-ration with police department, Karaikal, conducted self-defense course for women between 2nd August 2019 and22nd September 2019. During the valedictory ceremonypresided by Mr.Makesh Kumar Banwal SSP Karaikaland Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, also at-tended by Mr.Veeravalavan SP Karaikal, Mrs.Agalya SI all




women police station Karaikal, appreciated the trainersMr. A.Varadharajan (Teakwondo Master), Mr.Mahesh.K(Coach), Mr.John Viswanathan (Trainer), Mrs.Vembu.K(Trainer), Mrs.Nithya.G (Trainer) for their effort andcommitment. About sixty student participants benefittedfrom the course. Dr. G. Koperundevi, Associate Dean-Student Welfare, coordinated this program.

Linguistic Harmony Day

NIT Puducherry in association with district collectorateand Education Department of Karaikal, hosted Linguisticharmony Day on 21st November 2019 to mark the conser-vation week. The event was presided by Mr. M. Adarsh,Deputy Collector and Dr. K. Sanakaranarayanasamy, Di-rector and attended by officials from education depart-ment, Karaikal. Through speech, skit, short movie andquiz competition, students demonstrated cultural diver-sity in India. Dr. Amrtha Bhide and Dr. G. Koperun-devi, Associate Deans-Student Welfare, organized thisprogram.

Mini Marathon

NIT Puducherry organized a mini-marathon competitionfrom Karaikal Beach to NIT Puducherry spanning a dis-tance of ten kilometers on the day of Sardar Vallabh BhaiPatel’s birth anniversary on 31st October 2019. The mini-marathon was started by Mr. A. Vikranth Raja, DistrictCollector, Karaikal and Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Di-rector at 7 AM. More than three hundred participants in-cluding school children and girls from various places par-ticipated in the event. Prizes and certificates were givenout to the winners in the closing ceremony at 9.30 AM on

the same day at Institute premises. Dr. S. Babu, StudentsActivities and Sports Officer and his team organized theevent successfully.

Significance of World Standards Day

NIT Puducherry celebrated the World Standards Day inassociation with Institution of Engineers (India). Thedignitaries, Dr. Raman Saravanane Chairman, IE(India),Puducherry state centre and Dr. R. Radjaram, HonorarySecretary of Institution of Engineers, Dr. K. Sankara-narayanasamy, Director and Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head,Department of Mechanical Engineering presided over thefunction. Dr.Narendran Rajagopalan, Head, Departmentof CSE, delivered a lecture on significance of Standardswith the theme "Video standards create a global stage".The dignitaries also inaugurated the Institution of Engi-neers (India) student chapter for mechanical engineer-ing with a motive to help conduct workshops and con-ferences by the students and faculty members of NITPuducherry.

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat -Programme

NIT Puducherry celebrated "Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat"Programme, reflecting the spirit of national integration.Under this initiative, various states are paired and en-couraged to interact and engage in various activities soas to appreciate and learn the diversified cultures mu-tually. NIT Puducherry is paired with IIEST Shibpur andNIT Durgapur, West Bengal. The students of the institutewill be visiting the West Bengal counterparts as part ofthe programme.




Guest Lecture on EnergyEnvironmental Analysis of Biofuel

Production

Prof. Amaro Olimpio Pereira Junior, Department of En-ergy, University of Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visitedour campus to deliver a guest lecture on "Energy Envi-ronmental Analysis of Biofuel Production" on 13th De-cember 2019. Students, faculty and staff of MechanicalEngineering attended and benefited from the guest lec-ture. The lecture was organized by Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar,Head, Mechanical Engineering.

ATAL National workshop onBlockchain Application Development

using Hyperledger & Ethereum

The Director, Dr.K.Sankarnarayanasamy inaugurated theFive-Days National workshop on "Blockchain Applica-tion Development Using Hyperledger and Ethereum",organized by the Department of Computer Scienceand Engineering, NIT Puducherry and AICTE Train-ing and Learning Academy (ATAL) on 27th Decem-ber 2019. More than fifty participants from vari-ous parts of India including Delhi, Andhra Pradesh,Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu participated in thisworkshop. Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, presidedover the inauguration ceremony. Dr.Narendran Ra-jagopalan, Head, Department of CSE, Dr. R. Chan-drasekar, Organizer and Assistant Professor, resource per-sons Mr.Narayanan L, Head (Innovation & Technology)

and Mr.Gunanithi, Delivery Head from Anavadya SoftechPvt Ltd., Bengalore, also participated. The workshop con-cluded successfully with issuing the books and certificatesto the participants.

ATAL National workshop on ArtificialIntelligence in Electrical

Engineering Applications

The Department of EEE, organized a five-day nationalworkshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Engi-neering Applications" from 06.01.2020 to 10.01.2020sponsored by AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL)Academy. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, director andDr.Shalabh Bhatnagar, Professor and chair Dept. of Com-puter Science and Automation, IISc, Bangalore andG.Aghila, the Registrar(i/c) presided over the inaugura-tion function. The workshop was graced by six expertsfrom various institutions of Higher learning and R & D or-ganizations. Delegates from different states across India,registered and gained from the workshop. The workshopwas well organized by Dr. S. Thangavel, Associate Profes-sor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering.

A 5-days Faculty DevelopmentProgramme on Recent Advances in

Mechanical Engineering




The Department of Mechanical Engineering, organizeda 5-days Faculty Development Programme between 24th

and 28th June 2019 covering recent advances in Nat-ural Fiber Composites, Applications of Solar Energy,Gear Design, Industrial Safety, Robotics and Automa-tion, Theoretical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Arti-ficial Intelligence, and Developments in the Materials.TheChief Guest and Director Prof.K.Sankaranarayanasamy,presided over the inauguration. The convener, Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar and the Coordinators: Dr.N.M.Sivaram,Dr.M.V.A.Raju Bahubalendruni, Dr.Johnney Mertens,Dr.Vadivukkarasan and Dr.Narendran Rajagopalan coor-dinated the necessary arrangements for FDP-RAM 2019.Delegates from different states across India participatedin the workshop.

Career Guidance Program by NITPYRotaract Club

The Rotaract club established in the Institute, under theleadership of Mr. Mukul, president, Rotaract club, NITPYand guidance of Dr. Narendran Rajagopalan, faculty-advisor, visited government schools to give career guid-ance to the school children and also distributed stationer-ies among the underprivileged students. They also guidedabout Navodaya Entrance Examination and its prepara-tion.

Family Get-together function forFaculty and Staff

The faculty and staff of the Institute along with their re-spective families joined together to celebrate New yeareve on 31st December 2019. This was the first famliy get-to-gether organized in the history of NITPY. The childrenhad a gala time with painting, cultural shows and games.

Placement Activities

Many technical companies visited our campus for place-ments in the academic year 2018-2019 starting in themonth of July 2018 with the arrival of CodeNation. Fol-lowing suit were big corporates and startups, AgilisiumConsulting, Inatech, Virtusa, Mu Sigma, L& T Engineer-ing and Constructions, Tejas Networks Limited, L & TInfotech, Byju’s, Mphasis, Jaro education, Intellect de-sign, Samsung R&D, Technoforte Software, Global Logic,Raam Group, Logic Fruit, Valued Epistemics, Arris, JSWSteels, Wafer Space Semiconductor Technologies, SAPLabs, Optum, Z S Associates, Alcatel Lucent Enterprise,IVL Infoview, MBIT Wireless, ABB India Limited, LakshyaEducare, among others. For the academic session 2018-19, a total of 71 offers were received by the students outof the 81 eligible. The maximum CTC of 10 Lakhs per an-num was bagged by the students. The average CTC wasaround 6 Lakhs per Annum. The placement cell headedby Dr. Narendran Rajagopalan with Ms. Mahalakshmi asoffice assistant and student coordinators is striving to-wards the goal of 100 percent placement for the students.




18th Senate Meeting

NIT Puducherry held the 18th senate meeting on9th December 2019 and approved the results of oddsemester 2019-2020. The senate also approved the in-take increase in under-graduate programs, for admissionsthrough Study in India initiative. Admission to M.Techprograms for armed service officers under post gradu-ate training programme was also approved in the senate.Dr. Boopathirani and Dr. B. Surendiran, Associate Deans-Academic, organized the meeting.

Faculty Accomplishments

• Narendran Rajagopalan, Head, Department of Com-puter Science and Engineering, was invited for aguest lecture on "Latest developments in Informa-tion/Data science and engineering and protectionof the same relevant to Industrial environment",on the observance of Information Security Day, atONGC, Karaikal.

• Narendran Rajagopalan, Head, Department of Com-puter Science and Engineering, delivered guest lec-ture on "Advances in Operating Systems", at Ama-zon Corporate Office, Chennai.

• Narendran Rajagopalan, Head, Department of Com-puter Science and Engineering, delivered a guestlecture on Soft Computing at Anjalai Ammal Ma-halingam Engineering College, Kovilveni, Thiru-varur on 27th July 2019.

• Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head, Department of Me-chanical Engineering was invited in Bilateral Indo-German workshop on 17th -18th October 2019 atInstitute of Solar Energy, German Aerospace Center,Cologne, Germany [Deutschen Zentrums fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Enivhab, Building #10, Lin-der Hoehe, 51147 Cologne] and shared his researchideas on Solar Energy Research at NIT Puducherry.

• Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head, Department of Me-chanical Engineering delivered a talk on Basics ofSolar Energy on 20th September 2019, GovernmentCollege of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu.

• Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head, Department of Me-chanical Engineering delivered a talk on Solar Ther-mal Concentrators in SPARC Workshop, "RecentTechnologies on Waste to Energy Conversion", on5th December 2019, NIT Trichy, Tamil Nadu.

• Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head, Department of Me-chanical Engineering delivered a talk on Renew-able Energy Technologies on 7th January 2020, atKaraikal Polytechnic, Varichikudy, Karaikal.

• Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Head, Department of Me-chanical Engineering has received BRICS Project ,Under BRICS STI Co- operation (BRICS 2019 -154Carbon dioxide): Project entitled "Life cycle assess-ment of CO2 reduction by energy efficient hybridbiomass pyrolysis and gasification" as a Co-PrincipalInvestigator with a project cost of Rs.49,96,800.00

• Dr. Amrith Bhide, Assistant Professor, Departmentof Physics, received a grant Rs.12,00,000.00 underthe scheme UGC_DAE- CSR, IGCAR Kalpakkam asNodal Center for project entitled "‘Cathode materi-als for Sodium Ion battery system".

• Dr. V.Govindharaj, Assistant Professor, Departmentof Mathematics, delivered a lecture on "Mathemat-ical Control and Numerics", at National Workshopon Dynamical Systems with MATLAB and its Com-putations on 10th January 2020, Alagappa Univer-sity, Karaikudi.

• Dr. Boopathirani.R, Assistant Professor, Departmentof ECE, acted as resource person for AICTE Spon-sored Short Term Training Programme on "Design,fabrication and testing of Antennas and Design is-sues in Modern Antennas" at Sri Ramakrishna Insti-tute of Technology, Coimbatore, by delivering lec-ture on "Matching Techniques and Antenna Synthe-sis" on 5th November 2019.

• Dr. Boopathirani.R, Assistant Professor, Departmentof ECE, acted as resource person for Anna Univer-sity Sponsored Six days FDTP on "EC 8651 - Trans-mission Lines and RF Systems" at P S G Institute ofTechnology and Applied Research, Coimbatore bydelivering lecture on "Unit - 4 - Guided Wave Propa-gation, Waveguides, Types" on 4th November 2019.

• Dr. Boopathirani.R, Assistant Professor, Departmentof ECE, acted as resource person for ATAL Academy(AICTE) Sponsored Five day National Workshop on"Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Engineering Ap-plications" at NIT Puducherry by delivering lectureon "Artificial Intelligence in Electrical EngineeringApplications" on 10th January 2020.

• Dr. B.Surendiran, Assistant Professor, Departmentof CSE delivered a guest lecture on 30th Novem-ber 2019 at Sri krishna college of engineering andtechnology, Coimbatore for "AICTE Sponsored Twoweeks Faculty Development Programme on DeepLearning and Computational Intelligence in Bioin-formatics".

• Dr. B.Surendiran, Assistant Professor, Departmentof CSE, acted as as resource person for CSIRsponsored seminar on Recent Trends in CognitiveMachine Learning during 29-30 August 2019 atKarpagam College of Engineering,Coimbatore and




delivered guest lecture on"Dimensionality reduc-tion of mammogram masses using Geometric shapeand margin features"

Students Accomplishments

• K.Srinivasarao Department of ECE, attended theMATLAB Project Course on Design and PerformanceAnalysis of 5G Wireless Systems: mmWave, MassiveMIMO, NOMA, FBMC, Full Duplex and IoT at IITkanpur from 13th to 19th November 2019.

• E.Poonguzhali Research Scholar, Department ofECE, attended the Pre-workshop on " Machinelearning, Deep learning, and Computational Intel-ligence for Wireless Communications", National In-stitute of Technology Tiruchirapalli, from 16th to20th September 2019.

• D.Vijayalakshmi Research Scholar, Department ofECE, attended the Pre-workshop on "Machine learn-ing, Deep learning and Computational Intelligencefor Wireless Communication", held at National In-stitute of Technology Tiruchirapalli, from 16th to20th September 2019.

• Mithun Kumar kar Research Scholar, Department ofECE, attended the national level seminar on (underMinistry of MSME, Govt. of India) " Artificiall Intel-ligence and Machine Learning", conducted by Cen-tral Tool Room and Training Centre, Bhubaneswar,on 8th Nov 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE, at-tended the workshop on "MATLAB for Image pro-cessing,computer vision and Deep Learning", heldat Coimbatore Institute of Technology, from 06th to12th July 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE, at-tended the Tutorial session with hands on train-ing on "Machine learning" held at Indian Insituteof Technology Bombay, on 26th July 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE, pre-sented a paper in the IEEE Bombay Section Signa-ture Conference-IBSSC held at Indian Institute ofTechnology Bombay, on 27th July 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE, at-tended a NPTEL Online certification course on "In-troduction to Learning analytics ".

• D. Vijayalakshmi Research Scholar,Department ofECE, awarded Silver medal for the NPTEL certifi-cation program on "Pattern Recognition and appli-cations", during July-October 2019 .

• Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas Research Associate, De-partment of ECE, achieved Elite + Silver MedalCertification and secured a position in top 5 Per-cent of exam toppers, for NPTEL Online Certifica-tion Course on "Python for Data Science", held dur-ing November 2019.

• Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas Research Associate, De-partment of ECE, achieved Elite + Silver MedalCertification and secured a position in top 5 per-cent of exam toppers, for NPTEL Online Certifica-tion Course on "Patent Drafting for Beginners", heldduring September 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE,awarded a silver medal for NPTEL Online Certifica-tion course on "Remote Sensong and Digital ImageProcessing of Satellite Data" held during August -October 2019.

• G.Rohith Research Scholar, Department of ECE,awarded a silver medal for NPTEL Online Certifi-cation course on "Pattern Recognition and Applica-tions" held during July - October 2019.

• Packia Antony Amalan. A Research Scholar,Departmentof Mechanical Engineering, attended one day work-shop, "Awareness Programme on Intellectual Prop-erty Rights (IPR)" , organized by IPR Cell NITPuducherry.

• Mr. Venkatraman,Department of CSE, defended hisPh.D viva voce on 14th November 2019, on thetopic "Hybrid Intrusion Detection Systems for SmartEnvironments".

Conference Publications

• U.Padmavathi, Narendran Rajagopalan. "Pharma-ceutical Cold Chain using Blockchain 3.0", Inter-national Conference on Multidisciplinary Innova-tions and Research, (ICMIR-2019) on 23rd and 24th

November 2019 at Kualalumpur, Malaysia.

• Chidanandhan.V, Rajershi Gupta, Narendran Ra-jagopalan. "A novel Proposal on applying FlowAware Congestion Estimation to CollaborativeCaching in Content Centric Networks" , Inter-national Conference on Intelligent Computingand Smart Communication Technologies (ICSCT—2019) on 26th-27th July 2019 at Anurag Groupof Institutions, Hyderabad.

• Lenin Solomon.A, Narendran Rajagopalan. "Perfor-mance Analysis of Various Cryptographic Tech-niques", International Conference on Automation,Signal Processing, Instrumentation and Control(ICASIC -2020), Vellore, India.




• Boopathi Rani R. "Design of miniature Triangularmicrostrip Patch Antenna for Multi-Band Operationin Mobile Applications" , 12th International Confer-ence organized by Antenna Test & Measurement So-ciety, pp. 99 —101, 25th to 27th July 2019, HablisHotel, Chennai, India.

• Boopathi Rani R. and Rajasri, S. " A CompactCPW fed Circular Patch antenna with CSRR loadedground plane for WiMAX and WLAN applications", 12th International Conference organized by An-tenna Test & Measurement Society, pp. 111 —113,25th to 27th July 2019, Hablis Hotel, Chennai, In-dia.

• Ramkumar, S. and Boopathi Rani R. "Review on Re-cent Trends in Reconfigurable Microwave Filters" ,TEQIP - III Sponsored International Conference onMicrowave Integrated Circuits, Photonics and Wire-less Networks (IMICPW-2019) 22nd to 24th May2019, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirap-palli.

• Goutham V, Reddy G.K.K, Babu Y.G, Harigovin-dan V.P. "Improving Data Rate Performance ofNon-Orthogonal Multiple Access Based UnderwaterAcoustic Sensor Networks", In: Emerging Trends inComputing and Expert Technology, COMET 2019,Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communi-cations Technologies, Springer, vol 35. Nov. 2019.

• Rasheed Abdul Haq K.P., Harigovindan V.P. "Reviewon Water Quality Monitoring Systems for Aquacul-ture", In: Emerging Trends in Computing and Ex-pert Technology, COMET 2019, Lecture Notes onData Engineering and Communications Technolo-gies, Springer, vol 35. Nov. 2019.

• G. Rohith, LS Kumar, "Performance analysis ofsatellite image Super resolution using Deep learn-ing Techniques", IEEE Bombay Section SignatureConference-IBSSC held at Indian Institute of Tech-nology Bombay, 27th July 2019.

• Malli Mahesh Chandra, Rajkumar S, L. S. Kumar,"Sign Languages to Speech Conversion Prototypeusing the SVM Classifier" International conferenceon Technology, Knowledge, and Society (TENCON2019) organized by IEEE Kerala Section, 17th to20th October 2019, Kerala.

• D.Vijayalakshmi, Malaya Kumar Nath "A Compen-dious Analysis of Advances in HE Methods for Con-trast Enhancement", Second International confer-ence on VLSI, Communication and Signal Process-ing , MNNIT Allahabad 21st October 2019.

• M. Anitha and L.S. Kumar, "Review on Aerosol Mea-surements" National Conference on Communica-tion Systems (NCOCS —2019), NIT Puducherry,Karaikal.

• Satya Yarramsetti, Phani Gannamrajuand and L.S.Kumar, "Smart Library Management using RFIDTechnology and IoT" National Conference on Com-munication Systems (NCOCS —2019), 21 Septem-ber 2019, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

• Manjusha Sreedharan and L.S. Kumar, "A NovelMethod for Digital Signal Conditioning using Ca-pacitance and Resistance Sensors" National Confer-ence on Communication Systems (NCOCS —2019),NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

• Rasheed Abdul Haq K.P., Harigovindan V.P. "A re-view on WSN based energy efficient water qual-ity monitoring and reporting systems for aquacul-ture", National Conference on Communication Sys-tems (NCOCS —2019) NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

• Rajasri, S, and Boopathi Rani, R. (2019) Designand Analysis of CPW fed CSRR Inspired HexagonalAntenna for Multiband operation, National Confer-ence on Communication Systems (NCOCS —2019),NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

• Boopathi Rani, R. Swetha, P., and Reshma P.,(2019) Applications of Antennas in Bio-MedicalField, National Conference on Communication Sys-tems (NCOCS —2019), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

• Muthu Ramya C, and Boopathi Rani, R. (2019) ANovel CPW fed Hexagonal Fractal Antenna for Ul-tra Wide Band Applications, National Conferenceon Communication Systems (NCOCS —2019), NITPuducherry, Karaikal.

• Ramkumar, C., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2019)In Improved Bandpass Filter Design Using L-Shaped Quarter-Wave line and Stepped ImpedanceResonators, National Conference on Communica-tion Systems (NCOCS —2019), NIT Puducherry,Karaikal.

• Mallikarjuna Golla, K Chandrasekaran, "Grid Syn-chronization of Distributed Generation based onMROGI-FLL with Universal Active Power Filter",2020 IEEE International conference on Power Elec-tronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PES-GRE 2020) to be held in Cochin, Kerala, India from2 —4 January 2020.

• Mallikarjuna Golla, K.Chandrasekaran, "CrossWavelet-SVM for Detection and Classification ofPower Quality Problems in Distribution System",2019 International Conference on Power Electron-ics Applications and Technology in Present EnergyScenario (PETPES) held at NIT Surathkal from 29—31 Aug 2019.




Journal Publications

• JJ Kenned, K Sanakaranarayanasamy, JS Binoj, SKChelliah, "Thermo-mechanical and Morphologicalcharacterization of needle punched non-woven ba-nana fiber reinforced polymer composites", Com-posites Science and Technology 185, 107890, 2020.

• SM Kumar, NS Shanmugam, K Sanakara-narayanasamy, "Activated TIG Welding of AISI 321Austenitic Stainless Steel for Predicting", Advancesin Computational Methods in Manufacturing: Se-lect Papers from ICCMM, 2019.

• B Thomas, K Sanakaranarayanasamy, S Ramachan-dra, SPS Kumar, "Power Loss prediction in asym-metric spur gar considering gear tooth dynamicload", IOP Conference Series: Materials Science andEngineering 624(1), 012004, 2019.

• R Duraisamy, S Mohan Kumar, A Rajesh Kannan, NSiva Shanmugam, K Sanakaranarayanasamy, "Reli-ability and sustainability of wire arc additive man-ufactured plates using ER 347 wire-mechanical andmetallurgical perspective", Proceedings of the Insti-tution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal ofMechanical Engineering Science, 2019.

• B Girinath, N Siva Shanmugam, K Sanakara-narayanasamy, "Investigation on the Effect of TorchAngle on the Formability of AA5052 CMT Weld-ments", Transactions of the Indian Institute of Met-als, 2019.

• K Parthiban, Nallathambi Siva Shanmugam, KSanakaranarayanasamy, S Arungalai Vendan,"Studies on spin arc welding process on the behav-ior of C1018 plates-An insight into mechanical andmetallurgical transformation", Materials ResearchExpress, 2019.

• S Mohan Kumar, N Siva Shanmugam, K Sanakara-narayanasamy, "Activated TIG Welding of AISI 321Austenitic Stainless Steel for Predicting Paramet-ric Influences on Weld Strength of Tensile TestâAT Experimental and Finite Element Method Ap-proach",Advances in Computational Methods inManufacturing, Springer, Singapore 2019.

• R Pramod, N Siva Shanmugam, CK Krishnadasan,K Sanakaranarayanasamy, "Finite Element Analy-sis of Potential Liner Failures During Operation inSpherical Pressure Vessel", Advances in Computa-tional Methods in Manufacturing, Springer, Singa-pore 2019.

• A Karpagaraj, N Siva Shanmugam, K Sanakara-narayanasamy, "Experimental investigations andnumerical prediction on the effect of shielding areaand post flow time in the GTAW of CP Ti sheets",The

International Journal of Advanced ManufacturingTechnology, Springer, London 2019.

• U.Padmavathi, Narendran Rajagopalan "A Reviewon Impact of Blockchain in Healthcare", Interna-tional Journal of Innovative Technology and Ex-ploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075,Volume-8, Issue- 9S2, July 2019, [Indexed : Sco-pus].

• Shivam Kumar Giri, Chidanandan V, Narendran Ra-jagopalan, "Research on NOSQL and SQL and De-signing a Better Database Schema for Databas-esâAI , International Journal of Engineering andAdvanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249-8958,Volume-8 Issue-6S, August 2019, [Indexed : Sco-pus].

• Priyadharshini S, Ansuman Mahapatra, "360 DegreeUser Generated Videos: Current Research and Fu-ture Trends", High Performance Vision Intelligence:Recent Advancements, 2020, Springer.

• Ansuman Mahapatra, Pankaj K S, "Video Synopsis:A Systematic Review ", High Performance Vision In-telligence: Recent Advancements, 2020, Springer.

• M. Mahesh and V. P. Harigovindan "Fuzzy basedoptimal and traffic-aware restricted access win-dow mechanism for dense IoT networks", Journalof Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS press. DOI:10.3233/JIFS-182899 [Indexed: SCI, Status: Ac-cepted].

• M.Mahesh, V.P. Harigovindan "ANN based optimiza-tion framework for performance enhancement ofRestricted Access Window mechanism in denseIoT networks", Springer Sadhana Journal [Indexed:SCI, Status: Accepted].

• Pugazhenthi A and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar "Auto-matic Cloud Segmentation from INSAT-3D Satel-lite Image via Improved K-Means and ImprovedFuzzy C-Means Clustering" IET Image Processing[Indexed: SCI, Status: Accepted].

• Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju and Sendhil KumarNatarajan "Performance Analysis of Single SlopeSolar Desalination Setup with Natural Fiber", 4th

International Water Desalination Conference, 24th

to 27th February 2020, organized by InternationalDesalination Association and Egypt DesalinationResearch Center of Excellence (EDRC) Desert Re-search Center Cairo, Egypt.

• Sendhil Kumar Natarajan and Subbarama KousikSuraparaju, "Energy, Exergy, Economic and Envi-ronmental (4E) Analysis of Single Slope Solar De-salination System" accepted in the proceedings ofICITFES 2020 during 10th to12th February 2020 atNIT Rourkela.




• Elavarasan E and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan "Experi-mental Investigation of Drying Cucumber in a Dou-ble Slope Solar Dryer Under Natural Convectionand Open Sun Drying" accepted in the proceedingsof ICITFES 2020 during 10th to12th February 2020at NIT Rourkela.

• Susant Kumar Sahu, N. Sendhil Kumar and Ar-jun Singh K, "Design and Development of Concen-trated Solar Cooker with Concentrated parabolicDish Concentrator", 7th International Conferenceon Advances in Energy Research, 10th to 12th De-cember 2019, IIT Bombay.

• Sivaram, N.M., Gopal, P.M. and Barik, D., "ToxicWaste from Textile Industries", In Energy from ToxicOrganic Waste for Heat and Power Generation, pp.43 —54, Woodhead Publishing, 2019.

• Sivaram, N.M. and Barik, D., "Toxic Waste fromLeather Industries"’, In Energy from Toxic OrganicWaste for Heat and Power Generation, pp. 55 —67,Woodhead Publishing, 2019.

• Gopal, P.M., Sivaram, N.M. and Barik, D., "Paper In-dustry Wastes and Energy Generation from Wastes",In Energy from Toxic Organic Waste for Heat andPower Generation pp. 83 —97, Woodhead Publish-ing, 2019.

• Dennison, M.S., Sivaram, N.M., Barik, D. and Pon-nusamy, S., "Turning operation of AISI 4340 steelin flooded, near-dry and dry conditions: a com-parative study on tool-work interface temperature",In Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, 23(1),pp.172 —182, 2019.

• Venkatraman, S., B. Surendiran, "Spam E-mail clas-sification for the Internet of Things Environment us-ing Semantic Similarity Approach", Autosoft Jour-nal Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, ISIPress, pp 1-21 , 2019, [Index SCIE] Impact Factor0.652.

• Venkatraman, S., B. Surendiran, "Hybrid NetworkIntrusion Detection System for Smart Environmentbased on Internet of Things", The Computer Jour-nal, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Index SCIE]Impact Factor 0.792.

• P. R. Joe Dhanith & B. Surendiran, "An ontologylearning based approach for focused web crawl-ing using combined normalized pointwise mutualinformation and Resnik algorithm", InternationalJournal of Computers and Applications, Taylor &Francis, pp:1 —7, 2019.

• SAF SJ, S Shankar, B Surendiran, K Saranya, "Ad-vent of Augmented Reality Experience In Retail andOnline Shopping and Its Influencing Significance

in future, matter", International Journal of Scienceand Technology, Volume 5 Issue 2, pp. 35 —47,2019.

• Aniruddha kanhe and G. Aghila, "Watermarking ofElectronic Patient Record in Parkinson Disease Af-fected Speech: A Robust and Secure Audio Hid-ing Technique for Smart e-healthcare Application",Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity vol.9,No.4, 2020.

• E Muthusankar, D Ragupathy, "Supercapacitive re-tention of electrochemically active phosphotungsticacid supported poly(diphenylamine)/MnO2 hybridelectrode", Materials Letters 241 (2019) pp. 144—147 [Impact Factor: 3.019]

• Muthusankar Eswaran, Ragupathy Dhanusuraman,"One-Step Preparation of Graphitic Carbon/ Ni-tride/ Polyaniline/ Palladium Nanoparticles basedNanohybrid Composite Modified Electrode forEfficient Methanol Electro-Oxidation", Fuel, 251(2019) 91 —97 [Impact Factor: 5.128]

• Hyun Ji Kim, Dhanusuraman Ragupathy, Soo ChoolLee, Jae Chang Kim et al, "SnO2 nanowire gas sen-sors for detection of ppb level NOx gas", Adsorp-tion, 5 (2019) 1 —11 [Impact Factor: 1.829]

• E Muthusankar, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy,D Ragupathy, "Electrochemically sand-wiched poly(diphenylamine)/phosphotungsticacid/graphene nanohybrid as highly sensitive andselective urea biosensor", Synthetic Metals 254(2019) 134 —140 [Impact Factor: 2.526]

• N. Prakash, C. Narendhar, E.Muthusankar,D.Ragupathy, "Supercapacitive Performance of Sur-factants Wrapped KIT-6/MCM-48 Template BasedMesoporous Co3O4", Journal of Nanoelectronicsand Optoelectronics 14 (2019) pp. 1759 —1765[Impact Factor: 1.069]

• E Muthusankar, D Ragupathy, "Graphene/Poly(aniline-co-diphenylamine) nanohybrid for ultrasensitiveelectrochemical glucose sensor", Nano-Structuresand Nano-Objects, 20 (2019).

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

• Sankar Selvakumar, Mohanty Madhusmita, Chan-drasekaran Koodalsamy , SishajPulikottil Simon,and Yog Raj Sood, "High-Speed Maximum PowerPoint Tracking Module for PV Systems", IEEE Trans-action on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 66 , No. 2,2019, pp. 1119 —1129.




• Mohanty Madhusmita, Sankar Selvakumar, Chan-drasekaran Koodalsamy , Sishaj Pulikottil Simon,"Global Maximum Operating Point Tracking for PV

System using Fast Convergence Firefly Algorithm",Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Com-puter Sciences, 2019.

Editorial TeamWe take immense pleasure and consider it our proud privilege to work for this suc-

cessive issue of the Newsletter from the NIT Puducherry’s editorial board. We arehumbled for having been entrusted with the responsibility to duly plan and bringout this Newsletter. We take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to thehonourable Director for his endearing encouragement and support. We would like tothank all the HODs, the faculty and staff for providing us with the necessary infor-mation and timely help as and when required.

Dr. Narendran RajagopalanAssistant Professor & Head

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Mr. R.Rajesh VaithiyanathanSenior Lab Assistant

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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