Dr. Nirmala Devi M.
Vice Chairperson
Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
India
Biography
Dr. M. Nirmala Devi obtained her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in 1990 and M. E. (Applied Electronics) Degree in 1996 from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Bharathiar University. She is currently working as the Professor in Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. During her tenure at Amrita, she received her Ph. D. degree in the area of VLSI Design of Artificial Neural Networks from Anna University, Chennai in 2010. She has been the coordinator for M. Tech. VLSI Design program. She has delivered invited lectures on VLSI Design in AICTE and UGC sponsored faculty development programs and conferences. She has also organized a few in-house workshops on “Analog and Digital VLSI Designs and tools”. Moreover she has organized the “National Symposium on Green Electronics” during December 2014. She has served as Board of Studies member for some institutions. She is the recipient of “Appreciation Award” from Amrita Institute of Technology during the year 2003. Moreover, Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2011 distinguishes her as one of the leading achievers from around the country. Furthermore, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England has chosen her for inclusion in the prestigious publication “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 2011”. Her areas of interest include VLSI Design and Testing, Computational Intelligence, Hardware Security and Trust, Evolvable Hardware and RF CMOS System Design.
Research Interest
Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Design of Artifiial Neural Networks, Soft Computing
Publications
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Dr. Ramesh Bhakthavatchalu and Dr. Nirmala Devi M., “Deterministic seed selection and pattern reduction in logic BISTâ€, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, vol. 10, pp. 7537-7551, 2015.
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R. S. Ranjani and Dr. Nirmala Devi M., “Golden-chip free power metric based hardware trojan detection and diagnosisâ€, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 17, pp. 517-530, 2017.
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S. R. Ranjani and Dr. Nirmala Devi M., “Malicious hardware detection and design for trust: An analysisâ€, Elektrotehniski Vestnik/Electrotechnical Review, vol. 84, pp. 7-16, 2017.