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Dr. J. M. Nair
Dr. J. M. Nair
Principal
Dr. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram
Dr. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram
Head of Department
Deepti Khimani
Deepti Khimani
Deputy Head of Department
Dr. Nilima V Warke
Dr. Nilima V Warke
Associate Professor
Madhumati Khuspe
Madhumati Khuspe
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kadambari Sharma
Dr. Kadambari Sharma
Assistant Professor
Kader B. T. Shaikh
Kader B. T. Shaikh
Assistant Professor
Prasad Godse
Prasad Godse
Assistant Professor
Amudha Senthilkumar
Amudha Senthilkumar
Assistant Professor
Gopalakrishnan Narayanan
Gopalakrishnan Narayanan
Assistant Professor
Jayasree Ramakrishnan
Jayasree Ramakrishnan
Assistant Professor
Ramya Tirumalasetti
Ramya Tirumalasetti
Assistant Professor
Dr. J. M. Nair
Dr. J. M. Nair

Principal

DesignationPrincipal
Date of Joining01-07-1987
Dr. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram
Dr. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram

Head of Department

AICTE ID1-450311529
DesignationHead of Department
Total Experience21 years
Date of Joining2007-01-08
Office Location105
Industry1 year
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (INST)

PG: M. E. (Electronics and Telecommunication - Medical Electronics)

Doctorate: Ph.D. (Electronics Engineering)

Areas of Interest:

Biomedical InstrumentationMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceStochastic ControlNuclear Data Science

Courses Taught

B.E Instrumentation / Automation and Robotics (UG): Biomedical InstrumentationMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceAnalytical InstrumentationBio-Sensors and Signal ProcessingSignal Conditioning and Circuit DesignPrinciples of Control SystemApplication Software Practices (using Lab ViewElectronics and Digital InstrumentationM.E Instrumentation and Control (PG): Bio-Instruments and ImagingAdvanced Biomedical InstrumentationPrincipals of Tomographic Imaging

Research Publications

International Journals
  1. Phatak, T. S., Nair, J., Prasanna Ram. S., Roy, B. J., "Evaluation of Neutron Cross-Section Data Using Gaussian Mixture Model and Digital Filter", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 198(8), 1583–1606 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2259748.
  2. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, Vivek Singh, Dhanamma Jagli, S Ganesan, and S. V. Suryanarayana, "Application of Machine Learning algorithms for experimental data processing and estimation of 96Mo (n, p)96Nb reaction cross section", EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, 16005 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328416005.
  3. Phatak, Tejashree S., Nair, Jayalekshmi, Ram, Sangeetha Prasanna, Roy, B.J., and Mohanto, G., "Regression analysis of experimental reaction cross-section data of 241Am (n, 2n)240Am", EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, 14016 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328414016.
  4. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, Suryanarayana V S, S Ganesan, "Application of Kalman filtering technique for evaluation of neutron cross section data of 100Mo (n, 2n) 99Mo reaction", Nuclear Instruments and Methods of Physics Research Section A (NIM-A), Article No. 165850, Volume 1020, December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165850.
  5. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, Suryanarayana V S, Laxman S Danu, S Ganesan, "Error Propagation using Extended Unscented Transformation Technique in Micro-correlation method for covariance analysis of efficiency of a HPGe detector", Nuclear Instruments and Methods of Physics Research Section A (NIM-A), Article No. 163057, Volume 953, February 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.163057.
  6. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, Suryanarayana V S et al., "Measurement and covariance analysis of 100Mo (n, 2n) 99Mo and 96Mo (n, p) 96Nb reaction cross sections at the incident neutron energy of 14.54 MeV", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), Pages. 831-840, Volume No. 325, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07213-6.
  7. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, Suryanarayana V S et al., "Measurement of 100Mo (n, 2n) 99Mo reaction cross section and covariance analysis using extended unscented transformation technique at the incident neutron energy of 13.9 MeV", Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics (IJPAP), Pages 351-357, Vol. 58(05), May 2020. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/54754.
  8. Imran Pasha, Rudraswamy Basavanna, Saraswatula Venkata Suryanarayana, Haladhara Naik, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Laxman Singh Danu, Tarun Patel, Saroj Bishnoi, Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, "Measurement of neutron induced reaction cross sections of palladium isotopes at the neutron energy of 14.54 ± 0.24 MeV with covariance analysis", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), Pages. 175-182, Volume No. 325, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07218-1.
  9. Pradnya Jambhekar, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "EOG based Study of Eye Movements and its Application in Drowsiness Detection", International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol.6, Issue 3, March 2017, ISSN (Print): 2320 - 3765.
  10. Rashmi Patankar, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Dr. J. M. Nair, "Analysis of characteristic of neutron shield materials and their effect in reducing the dose amount of different human tissues by simulation using Geant4", IEEE International Conference on Innovation, Information in Computing technologies, Feb 22-23, 2018, ISBN No. 978-1-5386-4778-3.
  11. Kiran Jadhav, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "Biomechanical Analysis of Human Upper Limb", International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Vol.6, Issue 1, March 2017, ISSN (Print): 2320 - 3765.
  12. Varghese, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "Automated Blood Cell Counting and Classification Using Image Processing" , International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Vol.6, Issue 1, March 2017, ISSN (Print): 2320 – 3765.
  13. Harshavardhan Kandevekar, Sana Khan, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi M. Nair, S. Ganesan "A Preliminary Examination of the Application of Unscented Transformation Technique to Error Propagation in Nonlinear Cases of Nuclear Data Science", NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Volume 183, Pg. 356–370, July 2016.
  14. Meenakshi Rane, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "Hardware Simulation of Speech Processor for Cochlear Implant", International Journal of engineering and research, Page No. 942-955, Volume 3, Issue 3, May-June 2015.
  15. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Chaitali Desai,"Discrimination of Epileptic and Normal EEG Using Euclidean Distance Method", International Journal of Advanced Research in Electical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Vol.4, Issue 6, August 2015, ISSN (Print): 2320 – 3765.

 

​​​​​​International / National Conferences:
  1. Phatak, T.S., Nair, J., Ram, S.P., Roy, B.J., Mohanto, G. (2023). Evaluation of Neutron Cross-Section Data of 241Am(n,2n) 240Am Reaction Using Gaussian Process Concept. In: Kumar, S., Hiranwal, S., Purohit, S., Prasad, M. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies. ICCCT 2023. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3485-0_49.
  2. T. S. Phatak, J. Nair, S. P. Ram, B. J. Roy and G. Mohanto, "Non-Linear Unscented Transformation Techniques for Error Estimation of HPGe Detector Efficiency", 2022 5th International Conference on Advances in Science and Technology (ICAST), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 647-653, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAST55766.2022.10039524.
  3. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Jayalekshmi Nair, S Ganesan, “Application of Extension of Unscented transformation technique to the nonlinear case of error propagation“, 2020 Fourth International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC), Coimbatore, India, 2020, pp. 311-315, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICISC47916.2020.9171144.
  4. R. Anchan, A. Pillay, A. Kale, A. Bhadricha and S. P. Ram, “Optimal Bipolar Lead Placement in Electrooculography (EOG): A Comparative Study with an Emphasis on Prolonged Blinks", 2020 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kharagpur, India, 2020, pp. 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCNT49239.2020.9225609.
  5. Rashmi Patankar, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, J. M. Nair, "Analysis of characteristic of neutron shield materials and their effect in reducing the dose amount of different human tissues by simulation using Geant4”, IEEE International Conference on Innovation, Information in Computing technologies, Feb 22-23 (2018), ISBN No. 978-1-5386-4778-3.
  6. Dipesh Solanki, Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, J M Nair, S Ganesan, "A Case Study with 241Am (n, 2n) EXFOR data using Weighted Least Square Method", 2018 Fourth International Conference on Computing Communication Control and Automation (ICCUBEA).
  7. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, Dr. J. M. Nair, S. Ganesan, "A Stochastic Convergence Analysis of Random Number Generators as applied to Error Propagation using Monte Carlo method and Unscented Transformation Technique", IEEE International Conference - SPICES 2017, ISBN No. 978-1-5386-3864-4.
  8. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "EEG Analyzer - Classifier based on Power Spectral Estimation and Neural Network", UGC approved “National Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology” (NCBICB-11), Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, Sept 23-24 2011.
  9. Sangeetha Prasanna Ram, "Development of Automatic Analysis of EEG signal using Spectral Response", International Conference on Communication, Computer & Instrumentation 2009, Proceeding, Page 419, Jan 2-3, 2009.
Deepti Khimani
Deepti Khimani

Deputy Head of Department

AICTE ID1-450311893
DesignationDeputy Head of Department
Total Experience-
Date of Joining2004-09-23
Office Location105
Industry1 year
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (INST)

PG: M.E. (Electrical, Automatic Control & Robotics)

Areas of Interest:

Control SystemsEmbedded Systems

Courses Taught

Structural Programming (FE) Management Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceHuman Computer InterfaceSoftware Architecture

Research Publications

  1. Book Published in association with wiley Publications in 2016 on "Human Machine Interaction" with Dr. D. R. Kalbande and Sridari Iyer
  2. Classification of Students in a Web based Learning Environment Digital Library URL: http://www.ijais.org/archives/volume6/number3/536-1029 ISBN: 978-93-65823-54-4
  3. International journal of computer applications: Paper in a special issue on "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence"
Dr. Nilima V Warke
Dr. Nilima V Warke

Associate Professor

AICTE ID1-450420787
DesignationAssociate Professor
Total Experience27 years
Date of Joining2007-01-13
Office Location105
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E Instrumentation

PG: M.E. Biomedical Engineering

Doctorate: Ph.D. Electronics Engineering

Areas of Interest:

Electronics System DesignVLSI DesignBiomedical and Process Instrumentation

Courses Taught

B.E Instrumentation / Automation and Robotics (UG): Advanced SensorsFunctional SafetyDigital Forensics & IoT SecurityProcess AutomationUnit Operations & ControlBiosensors and Signal ProcessingInstrument & System DesignOperations ResearchResearch MethodologyM.Tech VLSI & Embedded System Design (PG): Electronics System DesignIC FabricationM.E Instrumentation and Control (PG): Advanced sensors and Signal ProcessingAdvanced Process Instrumentation & ControlVirtual Instrumentation (LabVIEW)Analytical Instrumentation
Madhumati Khuspe
Madhumati Khuspe

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450420469
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience36 years
Date of Joining1990-12-11
Office Location105
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (Electrical, Shivaji University)

PG: M.E. (Electronics & Telecommunications, Mumbai University)

Areas of Interest:

Signal ProcessingTransducers

Courses Taught

Digital Signal ProcessingImage ProcessingPower Plant AutomationSensors for Automatio & Robotics
Dr. Kadambari Sharma
Dr. Kadambari Sharma

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450420461
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience23 years
Date of Joining2003-01-20
Office LocationLab No. 106
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (Instrumentation)

PG: M.E. (Instrumentation & Control)

Doctorate: Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering

Areas of Interest:

Process Control and AutomationRoboticsPower Electronics

Courses Taught

Sensors for Automation & RoboticsAutomatic Control SystemIndustrial Process ControlControl System Components for Automation and RoboticsPneumaticsPower ElectronicsDigital ElectronicsData CommunicationIndustrial Data CommunicationSignal Conditioning and Circuit DesignProject Documentation and ExecutionProcess Instrumentation and DrivesBattery Management SystemArtificial IntelligenceFuzzy Control

Research Publications

  1. Sonal Narvekar, Kadambari Sharma, "Precision Design and Fabrication of noise free high frequency Amplifier Board for Enhanced Signal Processing", ITM Web of Conference, Vol 57, EDP Sciences, 2023, DOI: 10.1051/itmconf/20235702004.
  2. Sharma Ishaan, Kadambari Sharma, "Efficient and Accurate Optical Signal Processing and Digitization system for High speed Data Acquisition and Analysis", ITM Web of Conference, Vol 57, EDP Sciences,2023, DOI: 10.1051/itmconf/20235702003.
  3. Kadambari Sharma,J,M,Nair,P.P.Vaidya, "A System Design Perspective for MEasurement of Parameters using different Scattering Associated with Fibre Optic Sensors", Chapter 52, Lecture notes in electrical Engineering Series by SPRINGER(LNEE vol 844) pp 793-813.
  4. Kadambari Sharma, J. M. Nair, P. P. Vaidya, "Design and Construction of analog signal Processing System for Distributed Fibre Optic Sensors", Lecture notes in electrical Engineering Series by SPRINGER (LNEE vol 881) pp 469-481.
  5. Kadambari Sharma,J. M. Nair, P. P. Vaidya, "Electronic system for Optical Signal Processing and Amplification", International Journal of Advanced Research in electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE), Vol. 10, No. 09, September 2021, pp 7167-7172.
  6. Kadambari Sharma, J. M. Nair, P. P. Vaidya, "A research grade Computer Controlled Light Source", IEEE International Conference on smart City and Emerging Technologies ICSCET2018. Doi 10.1109/ICSCET.2018.8537239.
  7. Swapnil R Chilap, Kadambari Sharma, "Fiber Optic Sensor Technology for Non optical parameter measurement", International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science Vol3, issue 5. Sept-Oct 2015.
Kader B. T. Shaikh
Kader B. T. Shaikh

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450311897
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience21 years
Date of Joining2004-08-02
Office Location104
Industry3 years
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (INST)

PG: M.E. - Instrumentation and Control

Doctorate: Pursuing

Areas of Interest:

Audio Anomaly DetectionArtificial Intelligence & Machine LearningEmbedded SystemsProcess Automation

Courses Taught

Instrumentation Project Documentation & ExecutionAnalog ElectronicsElectrical Networks Ananlysis and SynthesisSignal Conditioning Circuit DesignBasic Electrical EngineeringFeedback Control SystemElectronic Instrumentation and ControlBatch Process Automation

Research Publications

  1. Tajuddin Shaikh, Kader Basha, Naresh P. Jawarkar, Vasif Ahmed, & Nadir Nizar Ali Charniya. "Inverse-Mel scale spectrograms for high-frequency feature extraction and audio anomaly detection in industrial machines". IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) [Online], 14.5 (2025): 3656-3666. DOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijai.v14.i5.pp3656-3666
  2. Kader B.T. Shaikh, Naresh P. Jawarkar, Vasif Ahmed, Nadir N. Charniya, Audio anomaly detection in industrial machines using inverse-Mel scale spectrograms, Systems and Soft Computing, Volume 7, 2025, 200398, ISSN 2772-9419, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sasc.2025.200398.
  3. Shaikh, K.B.T., Jawarkar, N.P., Ahmed, V. (2024). Sound Database of Industrial Machine for Audio Anomaly Detection. In: Pant, M., Deep, K., Nagar, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving. SocProS 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 995. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3292-0_48.
  4. Govilkar, G., Shaikh, K.B.T., Gopalkrishnan, N. (2024). Multi-environment Audio Dataset Using RPi-Based Sound Logger. In: Challa, R.K., et al. Artificial Intelligence of Things. ICAIoT 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1929. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48774-3_6.
  5. K. B. T. Shaikh, N. P. Jawarkar and V. Ahmed, "Machine diagnosis using acoustic analysis: a review", 2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/21CW48944.2021.9532537. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9532537.
  6. K. B. T. Shaikh, "Smart sensor using function approximation", 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT), Bangalore, India, May 2017, pp. 1223-1226. doi: 10.1109/RTEICT.2017.8256793
Prasad Godse
Prasad Godse

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-497286109
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience20 years
Date of Joining2005-01-06
Office Location105
Industry5 years
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. - Instrumentation

PG: M.E. - Instrumentation and Control

Areas of Interest:

Process InstrumentationProject EngineeringProcess AutomationErection & CommissioningTraining & Placements

Courses Taught

TransducersControl System ComponentsProcess Instrumentation SystemIndustrial Process ControlProcess AutomationInstrumentation Project Documentation & ExecutionInstrument System DesignProject Planning Engineering

Research Publications

  1. Active contribution in state of the Art Process Instrumentation Laboratory Development Project @ VESIT Instrumentation Dept.
Amudha Senthilkumar
Amudha Senthilkumar

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450311525
DesignationAssistant Professor
Date of Joining2005-07-23
Office Location307
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. - Computer Engineering

PG: M.E. - Instrumentation and Control

Areas of Interest:

Control SystemSignal Processing

Courses Taught

Control System DesignDigital Image ProcessingDigital Signal ProcessingSignals and SystemSignal Conditioning and Circuit DesignElectrical Network and Anyalsis

Research Publications

  1. Presented project "Low level signal Generator" at IEEE & IEEMA INTELECT conference and exposition, Jan 2015.
  2. Paper titled "Digitally Controlled Low Amplitude Signal Generator" by Mrs. Amudha Senthil Kumar, Dr. P.P. Vaidya, Mr. N. Gopalkrishnan, at IEEE sponsored international conference for converges for Technology, Pune.
Gopalakrishnan Narayanan
Gopalakrishnan Narayanan

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450311521
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience-
Date of Joining2007-01-08
Office Location308
Industry3 years
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (INST)

PG: M.E. (Instrumentation and Control)

Areas of Interest:

IoTEmbedded SystemsMicrporocessorsMicrocontrollers

Courses Taught

Embedded Systems For InstrumentationTransducers 1Objected Orienetd Programming Computer Organisation and ArchitectureImage Processing

Research Publications

  1. Presented a paper titled "Low cost High Performance Computer controlled system for Measurement of Ultracapacitor characteristics" by Mrs.Jayassre Ramakrishnan, Dr. P.P. Vaidya, Mr. N. Gopalkrishnan, Dr. (Mrs) J.M. Nair at International meeting on Energy Storage devices, IIT Roorkee on 10 December 2018.
Jayasree Ramakrishnan
Jayasree Ramakrishnan

Assistant Professor

AICTE ID1-450172997
DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience18 years
Date of Joining2007-09-24
Office Location106
Industry1 year
Academic Credentials

UG: B.E. (EXTC)

PG: M.E. (Electronics & Telecommunication)

Areas of Interest:

ElectronicsUltracapacitorsWireless Communiction

Courses Taught

Digital ElectronicsPrinciples of CommunicationElectrical Networks Ananlysis and SynthesisIndustrial Data CommunicationDigital Signal ProcessingElectrical Networks & MeasurementsAnalog & Digital CommunicationBasic Electrical & ElectronicsElectronic Instrumentation & Measurements

Research Publications

  1. Presented a paper titled "Low Cost High Performance Computer Controlled System for Measurement of Ultracapacitor characteristics" by Mrs. Jayassre Ramakrishnan, Dr. P. P. Vaidya, Mr. N.Gopalkrishnan, Dr. (Mrs) J. M. Nair at International meeting on Energy Storage devices, IIT Roorkee on 10 December 2018.
  2. "Measurement of Parameters of Ultracapacitor" - Mrs. Jayassre Ramakrishnan, Dr. P. P. Vaidya, Published in: 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT) DOI: 10.1109/RTEICT.2017.8256915.
  3. "Digital Meter for Measuring Capacitance of an Ultra-capacitor" by Mrs. Jayassre Ramakrishnan, Dr. P.P. Vaidya published in International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science, Nepal, ISSN-20912730 Volume 4, Issue 1, January-February, 2016.
Ramya Tirumalasetti
Ramya Tirumalasetti

Assistant Professor

DesignationAssistant Professor
Total Experience11 years
Date of Joining2014-07-07
Office LocationHashu Adwani Memorial Complex, Collector's Colony, Chembur, Mumbai.
Industry3 years
Academic Credentials

UG: B.Tech (Mechanical)

PG: M.Tech (Machine Design)

Doctorate: -

Areas of Interest:

Engineering MechanicsStrength of MaterialsMechanical Vibrations

Courses Taught

Strength of Materials Engineering MechanicsFundamentals of Additive Manufacturing TechniquesFundamentals of Robotics

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