Dr. Rajathilagam B.

Biography

Dr. B. Rajathilagam is an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. She completed her Ph.D in 2013 under Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. She has been at Amrita School of Engineering since 2000. Her research interests include Signal Processing, representation of signals, filter design, feature operators, pattern recognition, medical signal processing, thermal imaging and computer vision. She has been a research scholar at University of California, Riverside, USA under Prof. Sathish Tripathi and Prof. Michalis in 2004. She has also visited Birmingham University, UK in 2007. She completed a funded project for ISRO in 2009 and worked as a full time research scholar in Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering during 2007-2009. She received the ‘Senior Woman Educator and Scholar’ award from the organization ‘National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED), 2014, on the occasion of Women’s day.Currently she is working on applications of signal processing and is a reviewer for Pattern Recognition Elsevier Journal. She has been part of organising international conferences including ADCOM 2006, ICONNIAC 2014 and ACM Women in Computing conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She has conducted two national level workshops MADCA 2k14 and MAGS3D 2k14 in 2014 in collaboration with industry. She is working on parallelizing algorithms that develop filters, feature descriptors, segmentation and detection of objects and human and compression for Multimedia signals. The feature descriptors are being tested for Deep learning in identifying human aging. She has also attended the Professors Meet of International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2016 as part of a collaboration with NVIDIA

Research Interest

Signal Processing, Representation of Signals, Filter Design, Feature Operators, Pattern Recognition, Medical Signal Processing, Thermal Imaging, Computer Vision.