C. Arun Kumar

Biography

Arun Kumar C. currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus. His areas of research include Bioinformatics and Machine Learning. He is responsible for starting “Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers”(IETE) student forums in all engineering colleges and polytechnics in Tamil Nadu under the jurisdiction of IETE Coimbatore center which expands its wings to more than 12 districts in Tamil Nadu. He has also inaugurated student forums and delivered technical and non-technical lectures in more than 50 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu including some of the premier institutions like Vellore Institute of Technology, PSG college of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology and so on. He also assisted the Amrita University in conducting a one day tutorial in the area of Network Security in association with Symantec Corporation at IIT Madras during May 2010 as a part of IFIP-Networking 2010. He has also proctored and mentored the IEEE Extreme programming contest, a 24 hour online coding contest during October 2011 in which his team received the All India Ranking of 8 among 1500 teams that took part in the contest across the globe at the same time. IEEE Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore won the Third prize in the IEEE Region 10(Asia Pacific Region) in the website design competition under his leadership. He was also appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking 2014 which is one of the top 10 conferences in the world to be hosted at Amrita in 2014. He is a life member of IETE and Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA. He has published more than 15 papers in leading national and international conferences and journals.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics, Machine Learning