Shanmugha Sundaram G. A.

Biography

Dr. Shanmugha Sundaram G. A. currently serves as Assistant Professor at the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. He pursued his Ph. D. from Indian Institute of Science, Karnataka in 2004. Before joining Amrita, he served as Post - Doctoral Researcher in JIVE - ASTRON, Nederland, EU till 2007.Thereafter he had been in the SKA Radio Telescope Design Studies Working Group involved as Research Scientist till 2009 in their Next - Generation Radio Telescopes initiative. Dr. Sundaram had been a recipient of the URSI award for Young Scientists 2008 as principal author for submitted & accepted presentation in Commission J of URSI General Assembly 2008, Chicago, IL, USA. He is a full - time member of several professional R&D organizations like AIAA, URSI, NRAO, IAU, MathWorks and FEMLAB. He has experience in sponsored research and consultancy, STEM publishing, academics and general administration. At Amrita, Dr. Sundaram has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and the Centre for Computational Engineering & Networking (CEN), closely associated with their undergraduate programs of the former and the graduate school academic program of the latter, as well as a CORDIS - EU funded research program.

Research Interest

Metamaterials, Radio Astronomy, Satellite Remote Sensing, HPEC algorithm development for UAS-based SAR and nuclear radiation detectors, Intelligent transportation, Vetronics, Vision-based GNC for robots