Objective: To excel in teaching and research activities in the field of Digital VLSI Design and reconfigurable architectures for wireless communication systems Educational Qualifications: Ph. D in Electronics Thesis Title: EFFICIENT TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER ARCHITECTURES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS Department of Computer Science Cochin University of Science and Technology (2009) M.Tech Electronics Specialization: Digital Electronics Cochin University of Science and Technology (1999) Score: 80.8%, CGPA: 3.24/4 - First class with Distinction B. Tech Electronics and Communication M.A. College of Engineering, Kothamangalam Mahatma Gandhi University (1997) Score: 85.6% - First class with Distinction and Third Rank Work Experience: 23 years of teaching experience from 25-02-1999 onwards as faculty in Division of Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Communication Systems, Multi-standard Wireless Designs, Semiconductor device optimization, VLSI System Design

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PAPR reduction using constrained convex optimization for vector OFDM, Annals of Telecommunications, Springer 2022

High Throughput and Energy Efficient Linear Phase FIR Filter Architectures, Microprocessors and Microsystems, ELSEVIER, ELSEVIER Vol. 87, 2021

High Gain Isolated Quasi Switched Boost Converter Embedded with Switched Capacitor Cell, Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis 2021

Effect of active layer thickness variation on scaling response in a-IGZO thin film transistors under Schottky limited operation, Semiconductor Science and Technology, IOP Publishing 2021

New Results in Biclique Cryptanalysis of Full Round GIFT”, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press 2020

“Design and synthesis of filter bank structures based on low order constrained least square and minimum phase methods for audiogram matching in digital hearing aids,” , Health and Technology, Springer, Springer 2020

“ACT: An Ultra-Light Weight Block Cipher For Internet of Things “ , International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, Vol. 9, 2020

New results in Reduced Round AES-256 Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis, International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems , Vol. 9, 2020

Efficient modular hybrid adders and Radix-4 booth multipliers for DSP applications , Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier , Elsevier 2020

An efficient architecture for signed carry save multiplication, IEEE letters of computer society, IEEE computer society Vol. 3, 2020

Design and Analysis of a Novel Space-Time-Frequency Block Coded Vector OFDM Scheme Robust to Rayleigh Fading I, EEE India Council International conference (INDICON 2020), 2020

“Design and synthesis of Filter Banks using area and power efficient stochastic computing,”, IEEE World conference on smart trends in systems, security and sustainability, London, 2020

"Influence of active layer thickness on the cut-off frequency of a-IGZO thin film transistors." 2020, In Journal of Physics: Conference Series , IOP Publishing,, Vol. 1495 , 1, 2020

High throughput and energy efficient FIR filter architectures using retiming and two level pipelining, Third International Conference on Computing and Networking Communications (COCONET), Thiruvananthapuram, 2019

Isolated Switched Boost DC-DC Converter with Coupled Inductor and Transformer, TENCON 2019,IEEE Region 10 conference at Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatti, Kerala, India, 2019

New Biclique Cryptanalysis on Full Round PRESENT- 80 Block Cipher , International Conference on Adaptive Computational Intelligence(ICACI-2019) Mysore , 2019

A New Efficient Sbox for Strengthening PRESENT Like Block Ciphers Against Linear Cryptanalysis , 2nd International Conference On Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation And Control Technologies (ICICICT-2019), Kannur IEEE Xplore, 2019

Lowpass MASH DQEFM for 4G wirless receivers, 7th International Conference on Smart Computing & Communications (ICSCC 2019), going to be held in Curtin University, Malaysia , 2019

Lowpass MASH DQEFM for 4G wirless receivers , 7th International Conference on Smart Computing & Communications (ICSCC 2019), Curtin University, Malaysia , 2019

Threshold voltage engineering in a-IGZO thin film transistors through active layer doping and thickness control., AIP Conference Proceedings, 2019

RESEARCH PROJECTS

"System level Analysis and Design of Reconfigurable Multistandard Sigma-Delta ADCs for Next Generation Wireless Transceivers*, 2013-2016" (KSCSTE- -0001 --0001 , Total outlay Rs.948000)

"Design and Optimization of Organic Thin Film Transistors" (TEQIP III- 2019 -2020 , Total outlay Rs.100000)