Dr.Ramanathan.R

Dr.R.Ramanathan received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India in 2004. He received his M.Tech degree in computational engineering and networking and Ph.D degree in electronics and communication from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India in 2011 and 2015 respectively. He is the recipient of Best Outgoing Student in High School in 2000 and Best Outgoing Student in college (undergraduate level) in 2004. He joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in the year 2006, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Vice-Chairperson. Before joining Amrita, he was working as Senior Engineer – Transmissions for Nokia projects in Hutch Essar / Vodafone for two years experience. 

     His areas of research include optimization and signal processing for wireless communication and networks, MIMO and OFDM communications, Bio-inspired Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Physical layer signal design and security and Convex Optimization. He has authored around 65 technical papers in reputed conferences and journals indexed in Scopus. He has co-authored a book “Digital Signal and Image Processing- The Sparse way” published by Elsevier India in 2012 and Cengage Learning in 2016. 

    He is a member of Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Association of Communication, Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACEEE). He has reviewed for the journals IET Signal Processing, IET Communications and Wiley Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Wireless Personal Communications, Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering.