Dr. Manikandan J
Director, Crucible of Research and Innovation (CORI)
Center for Research in Space Science and Technology (CRSST)
PES University, RR Campus, Bangalore, India
manikandanj@pes.edu
Dr. J. Manikandan received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology (TPGIT), Madras University. He received his M.E. degree in Communication Systems and Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition, both from National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-T) India. Prior to his Ph.D, he served as Project Trainee at ISRO and as Scientist ‘B’ and ‘C’ at Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), DRDO Labs, Bangalore for nearly 6 years.
He is currently a Professor with Department of ECE at PES University, and heads the research wing of PES University called Crucible of Research and Innovation (CORI) and Centre for Research in Space Science and Technology (CRSST) at Ring Road Campus.
He has worked on several funded projects and consultancy projects to the tune of 1 Crore on multifarious research including Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, Electronic Nose, Digital Twin, Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Embedded system design, reconfigurable computing, underwater wireless power, wireless sensor networks and many more.
He has been honored with several prestigious awards for his research work carried out till date which includes Young Engineers Award from the Institution of Engineers, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Board for IT Education Standards, IETE Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award and Best M.Tech Project Supervisor (Second prize) from Indian Society for Technical Education. He is also a recipient of three best paper awards with three of his research papers listed in Top 25 Hottest and Most accessed articles. He has received five Indian patent grants, with five more patents filed and under examination, has published 125+ research papers with nearly 1000 citations for his research work.