Dr. Shankar K.


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Assistant Professor, Grade-I

Email: shankar[at]ei.nits.ac.in | shankinits[at]gmail.com

Mobile No.: +91 8870525684

Date of Joining: 12/07/2019

Academic/Industrial Experience: 25 years

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • B.E. from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu
  • M.Tech. from IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu
  • Ph.D. from Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu

EXPERIENCE

  • Worked as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu from Aug 1999 to July 2019.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (6000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 2019 to February, 2021.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (7000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from February 2021 to October 2023.
  • Working as Assistant Professor, Grade-I (8000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from October 2023 to till date.  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Biomedical Instrumentation
  • Pain Measurement
  • Medical Devices
  • Human Factors Engineering / Automation – Exoskeleton
  • Environmental Instrumentation
  • Technology for Societal issues – disposal of condom and sanitary napkin, SEXTING.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Shankar.K., was born in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India on 11th June 1977 and completed his Higher Secondary in St.Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Madurai in 1994. He completed his B.E. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) with First Class at A.K.College of Engineering (Madurai Kamaraj University) in the year 1998 with First class and M.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) with 8.0 CGPA at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai in the year 2006. He was awarded with Ph.D. degree in the broad area of Biomedical Engineering (the title of the thesis is “Experimental Studies on Objective Pain Measurement using Ingenuously developed Pain Inducer”) from Anna University, Chennai in 2017.


PROJECTS

1. “Establishment of Science Technology and Innovation Hub in NIT Silchar, Cachar, Assam, for the socio-economic upliftment of SC/ST population in Assam”, Sponsored by DST, New Delhi. Project duration: 2022-2025. Grant: Rs. 1.44 Crore. Status: Ongoing. Role: Co-PI

2. “Establishment of NewGeneration Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (NewGen IEDC) at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu”, Funded by NSTEDB-DST, New Delhi and monitored by EDII,  Ahmedabad. Total fund Rs. 2.875 crore. Project Duration: 2017-2022. Role: Chief Coordinator (2018-2019), Coordinator (2017-2018).


PATENTS

Sl. No. Title of the Patent Patent filed in Application No. Status
1. A DEVICE FOR ASSISTING RESPIRATION Indian Patent Office 202231035556A Granted
2. A DUAL OUTPUT MULTISTAGE SWITCHED CAPACITOR QUADRATIC BOOST DC- DC CONVERTER DEVICE German Patent Office 202022104672 Granted

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Biomedical Instrumentation 
  • Power Plant Instrumentation
  • Analytical and Optical Instrumentation
  • Modern Biomedical Instrumentation
  • Biosiganl Processing
  • Industrial Instrumentation
  • Sensors and Transducers

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Life Member – ISTE

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  • NSS Program Coordinator – September 2024 to till date
  • NSS Program Officer – May 2022 to September 2024
  • Warden, Boys Hostel 2, NIT Silchar –  April 2024 to till date
  • Associate Warden, Boys Hostel 2, NIT Silchar – April 2023 to April 2024
  • Department Placement Coordinator – August 2023 to Till Date
  • Department Coordinator of “Spoken Tutorial” – August 2020 to Till Date
  • Secretary, Department Postgraduate Programme Committee (DPPC) – August 2023 to Till Date
  • Secretary, Department Examination Committee (DEC) – January 2021 to August 2023
  • Member of Anti Ragging Squad in NIT Silchar 
  • Faculty in-charge of “Athletics and Gymnasium” of Gymkhana – NIT Silchar – August 2019 to July 2022
  • Chief Coordinator of NewGen IEDC of National Engineering College (NEC), Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu, a scheme for entrepreneurship development of 5 years duration (2017-2022) of worth Rs. 2.875 Crore, funded by NSTEDB-DST, New Delhi and monitored by EDII, Ahmedabad
  • EIE Department (NEC) level coordinator of NBA : Preparation of SAR
  • Institute (NEC) level Coordinator of NAAC team visit

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

  1. Boro, N.J., Shankar, K. “Design, Development and Validation of a Novel Mechanical Pain Inducer and the EMG Signal Analysis for the Induced Mechanical Pain”, Arab J Sci Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-024-09732-w
  2. Ramanujam E, Thinagaran Perumal, Shankar K., “A review on fall detection systems in bathrooms: challenges and opportunities”, Multimed Tools Appl 83, 73477–73505 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-18088-6
  3. Ramanujam E, Thinagaran Perumal, Shankar K., “Fall detection systems at night”, IEEE Computer, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 44-51, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/MC.2022.3200404.
  4. Jackson Daniel, A, Abudhahir; K, Shankar; B, Soundrapandi, “Detection and Classification of Defects in Steam Generator Tube using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Magnetic Flux Leakage Technique”, Materials Evaluation, Vol. 76, Issue 6, June 2018.
  5. Shanakr.K., Abudhahir.A., “Development of a system to acquire Radial Artery Pulse for Objective Pain Measurement”, Biomedicine, Vol. 36, No. 3: pp.042-047, Jul – Sep. 2016
  6. Indumathi.C Nivetha, K. Shankar, “Selection of heating element for Napkin Incinerator: A simulation approach using COMSOL Multiphysics”, International Journal of Engineering and Future Technology, Vol.5, Issue5, 2016
  7. Shanakr.K., Abudhahir.A.,Anusha Devi.R, “Design and Testing of Peltier based Pain Stimulator”, Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 8, pp.102-105, Jul. 2015.
  8. Shanakr.K., Manivannan.M., Peter Fernandez, “GSR Analysis of Hypnotic Analgesia”, International Journal for systematic, Cybernetics and Informatics, ISSN 0973-4864, pp.35-38, Jan 08-06.

CONFERENCES

  1. Ramanujam. E, Shankar. K and A. Sharma, “Multi-lingual Spam SMS detection using a hybrid deep learning technique,” 2022 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SILCON55242.2022.10028936.
  2. N. J. Boro, K. Shankar and J. Hazarika, “A comparative analysis of EMG signals of the Healthy, Myopathy, and Low Back Pain Patients,” 2022 2nd International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET), 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICEFEET51821.2022.9847832.
  3. Durlov Jyoti Buragohain, Jupitara Hazarika, and Shankar K. “Assessment of Visual Stress Using EEG Signals”, Springer sponsored 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP 2022) organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, India, March 12 – 14, 2022
  4. Shankar Krishnan, Jackson Daniel, Bharathi Subbiah.V., “An Empirical Approach for Objective Pain Measurement using Dermal and Cardiac Parameters”, 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering: ICBME 2008 3–6 December 2008 Singapore (pp.678-681), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92841-6_166
  5. K. R. Chairma lakshmi, K. Shankar ; M. Thangaraj ; A. Abudhahir, “Performance analysis of MPPT algorithms for enhancing the efficiency of SPV power generation system: A simulation study”, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in VLSI, Embedded System, Nano Electronics and Telecommunication System (ICEVENT) 2013, 7-9 Jan. 2013, DOI: 10.1109/ICEVENT.2013.6496530
  6. S. Kausalya Devi ; K. Shankar ; A. Abudhahir, “Acquisition of Radial Artery Pulses (NADI)”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS) 2014, 13-14 Feb. 2014, DOI: 10.1109/ECS.2014.6892756
  7. Jackson Daniel, A.Abudhahir, K.Shankar, Soundra Pandi, “Detection and Classification of Defects in Steam Generator Tube using Magnetic Flux Leakage Imaging”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS IN ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, 09th and 10th December 2016

BOOK CHAPTER

  1. Shankar K., Abudhahir A. (2021) Realization of Objectivity in Pain: An Empirical Approach. In: Patgiri R., Biswas A., Roy P. (eds) Health Informatics: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 932. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9735-0_11
  2. Shankar K., Subbiah B.V., Jackson D., “An Empirical Approach for Objective Pain Measurement using Dermal and Cardiac Parameters” in IFMBE Proceedings (13th ICBME 2008), vol 23. Publisher: Springer. Editors: Lim C.T., Goh J.C.H. Print ISBN 978-3- 540-92840-9, Online ISBN 978-3-540-92841-6. Link : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540- 92841-6_166#citeas

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

  • Coordinator of IIC-NITS sponsored 5 days workshop on “Design Thinking and Product Development at NIT Silchar from 25-29 March 2023
  • Coordinator of IIC-NITS sponsored 5 days online workshop on “Design Thinking, Product Development and Entrepreneurship at NIT Silchar from 27-31 December 2021
  • Coordinator of IEEE Silchar Subsection’s One Week National Level Webinar on “Science & Technology Awareness (S&T-2021) programme for Higher Secondary Students” at NIT Silchar from 22-26 November 2021
  • Coordinator of  IIC-NITS sponsored online motivational talk on “Agro Innovation: A Journey from Engineering to Entrepreneurship”  at NIT Silchar on 27th September 2021.
  • Coordinator of AICTE sponsored AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy online Faculty Development Programme on “Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering Applications (RAISEA-2020)” at NIT Silchar from 26 – 30 October 2020.
  • Coordinator of TEQIP-III One Week seminar on “Recent Research Trends in Control, Instrumentation & Allied Engineering: A Multidisciplinary Approach (RRTCIA)” at NIT Silchar from 4-8 September 2020.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

  • Organizing Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A 2023) held at NIT Silchar, Assam, India – 788010 during 15th to 17th December 2023.

Ph.D. SUPERVISION

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
1 Nayan Jyoti Boro Ongoing Objective Pain Measurement Sole Supervision
2 Santhosh Kumar. R. Ongoing Cancer Diagnosis Main Supervisor
3 Debashis Das Ongoing Image processing technique to avoid Sexting Main Supervisor

M.TECH. SUPERVISION

Sl.No. Student Dissertation Topic Status Year
1 Durlovjyoti Buragohain EEG-based Stress Meter Completed 2019-2021
2 Kandarpa Kumar Design and development of Thermal Pain Inducer Completed 2020-2023
3 Debashis Das EEG Signal Analysis to verify the Impact of Music on Human Emotions Completed 2023-2024

Awards and Recognitions

  • Received International Travel Grant from Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST) to attend International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2008) held at Singapore.

Invited Talks


About Shankar K

Shankar.K., was born in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India on 11th June 1977 and completed his Higher Secondary in St.Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Madurai in 1994. He completed his B.E. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) with First Class at A.K.College of Engineering (Madurai Kamaraj University) in the year 1998 and M.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) with 8.0 CGPA at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai in the year 2006. He was awarded with Ph.D. degree in the broad area of Biomedical Engineering (the title of the thesis is "Experimental Studies on Objective Pain Measurement using Ingenuously developed Pain Inducer") from Anna University, Chennai in 2017.