FACULTY PROFILE Name of the Faculty: V.R.Balaji Designation: Associate Professor Date of Birth: 13.07.1981 Residential Address: 28-B, Alpha Nagar, Kovaipudur, Coimbatore-42 Mobile Number: 740260 1388 Email Id: balajivr@skcet.ac.in Area of Specialization: VLSI, Speech Signal Processing Total Experience: Academic: 11.6 Years Industry: Nil Date of joining the Institution: 27.12.2007 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION: Category Name of the Degree Speciali - sation Year of Passing Name of the College UG B.E ECE 2003 V.L.B Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology Name of the Bharathiar % of Marks / Grades obtained Class obtained 74% I st Class PG M.E VLSI 2005 Kongu Engineering College Ph.D. Speech processi ng Anna 2015 - Anna 74% I st Class - -
PUBLICATION IN JOURNALS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: 1. Balaji, V R & Subramanian, S 2014, A Novel Speech Enhancement Approach Based On Modified DCT and Improved Pitch Synchronous Analysis, American Journal of Applied Sciences(SciencePub), vol.11, no.1, pp.24-37. 2. Balaji, V R & Subramanian, S 2013, A Discrete Fractional Cosine Transform Based Speech Enhancement System through Adaptive Kalman Filter Combined With Perceptual Weighting Filter with Pitch Synchronous Analysis, International Review on Computers and Software, vol.8, no.9, pp.2288-2295. 3. Balaji, VR & Subramanian, S 2014, A Hybrid Transformation and Filtering Approach For Speech Enhancement with Time Domain Pitch Synchronous Overlap-Add, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Maxwell Publications, vol.8, no.3, pp.321-330 PUBLICATION IN CONFERENCES: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: 1. Balaji, VR & Subramanian, S 2014, A Novel DWT Based Speech Enhancement System through Advanced Filtering Approach with Improved Pitch Synchronous Analysis, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Trends in Engineering and Technology (FORSCHUNG), pp. 274-281. 2. Balaji, VR & Subramanian, S 2014, An Advanced Speech Enhancement Approach with Improved Pitch Synchronous Analysis, Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Authentication - SAPIENCE14, pp. 149-157. NATIONAL CONFERENCES: Presented a paper titled Designing and Pose determination of highly reliable fiducial markers, in National Conference on Signals, Systems & Technologies in Media, organized by Karunya, Coimbatore, India, 2011. Presented a paper titled A Novel Methodology for Quad Detection using Highly reliable fiducial Markers in International Conference on Emerging Technology Trends (ICETT) held at Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kerala, India, 2011. Presented a paper titled Comparison and analysis of logic fault detection techniques for memory applications in National Conference on Recent Trends in Information and
Communication Engineering (NCRTICE-2013),organized by Tamilnadu College of Engineering,Coimbatore,India,2013. Presented a paper titled Speech Enhancement using Binary Mask based algorithm, in National Conference on Information Technology, Communications and Signal Processing (CISP 2013), organized by Government Engineering College Wayanad, Kerala, India, 2013. Presented a paper titled A Binary Mask Estimation approach for Speech Enhancement in DRDO sponsored National Conference on Communication Technology Interventions for Rural and Social Development (NCTIRD 2013), organized by Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, 2013. Presented a paper titled Pipelined Circuit Switching with self adaptive dynamic path set up in an on-chip permutation network in DRDO sponsored National Conference on Communication Technology Interventions for Rural and Social Development (NCTIRD 2014), organized by Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India,2014. Presented a paper titled Design and implementation of self adaptive dynamic path set up in an on-chip permutation network in National Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems(2IES), organized by EASA college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, 2014. Presented a paper titled Design and Implementation of smart sensor interface for environmental monitoring in IOT in International Conference on Electrical, Instrumentation and Communication Engineering Recent Trends and Research Issues, at Sri Krishna college of Technology, Coimbatore, India, 2015. SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: Attended five days Faculty Development Programme on Teaching Learning process conducted by Continuing Education Cell during 8 th to 12 th December 2008 at V.L.B.Janakiammal College of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore. Participated in VI Mantra 2009 an annual technical paper contest for research scholars conducted by National Instruments at Chennai Trade centre, Chennai. Attended one day seminar on RRC Peer Leaders Convention conducted by Anna Coimbatore on 4 th March 2009 Attended three days workshop on Algorithm Engineering in Instrumentation Control conducted by P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore in association with National Instruments during 17 th to 19 th March 2009. Attended one day workshop on Engineering Measurement Practices for Industry ready Engineers conducted by Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology on 29 th July 2010
Attended one day workshop on ARM and RTOS conducted by Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology on 19 th August 2010. Attended one day workshop on District Level Dissemination Workshop conducted by Indian Red Cross Society on 19 th December 2011. Attended one day workshop on Introduction to Research methods conducted by Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology during 9 th and 10 th November 2012. Attended one day workshop in Design of Nano-Scale CMOS VLSI Circuits conducted by ni2, Pune during 22 nd January 2013. Attended three days workshop on Cell Phone servicing conducted by New Technology, Coimbatore on March 2013. Attended one day national Workshop on Software defined radio for engineering education-a hands on Experience conducted at SKCET on 9 th January 2015. Attended a seminar on How to get your projects funded from agencies by Shakeel Ahmed, Joint Secretary, Grant Commission conducted at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology on 12 th September 2015. Attended a seminar on How to get your projects funded from agencies by Dr.Sethumadhavan, Professor in Mathematics Department and Head of TIFAC- Corein Cyber Security, Amrita conducted at SKCET on 20 th October 2015. Attended a workshop on Unleashing Your Hidden Potentials by Dr.D.Visagamoorthi, Professor, School of Management, SKCET conducted at SKCET on 30 th October 2015. SEMINAR, CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP ORGANIZED: Organized two day workshop on Hands on training in Robotics during 27 th & 28 th August 2012 with the technical support from Li2 Innovations Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. Organized two day workshop on Robotics during 19th & 20 th September 2013 with the assistance from Virscent Technologies, Hyderabad. Organized two day workshop on Autonomous Robots during 16 th &17 th October 2015 with the assistance from Virscent Technologies, Hyderabad. To get insight into basic electronics, organized three day workshop on Cell Phone servicing with technical support from New Technology, Coimbatore.
Conducted a workshop in Design of Nano-Scale CMOS VLSI Circuits along with NI2, Pune during 22 nd January 2013. Organized many rural development programmes and seminars in NSS, YRC, RRC activities. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS (IF ANY): Awarded Best Faculty Award for the year 2012-13 in ECE Department. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INSTITUTION, DEPARTMENT AND SOCIETY: Served as Autonomous Exam cell coordinator for a period of 1 Year. Served as Deputy Controller of Examination for a period of 6 Months to administer the Autonomous Examinations. Played a vital role in the ISO certification preparation. Acted as the DMR for the ISO certification in the college. Served as NSS Programme officer for the college National Service Scheme and conducted three special camps for rural area development. Served as Programme officer for the college YOUTH RED CROSS, RED RIBBON CLUB and conducted several activities for the underprivileged. Acted as Nodal Officer for TN Election for the Institution. Served as Nodal Officer for BSNL EETP Program in association with AICTE. Acted as Time Table coordinator in ECE department for the previous Institution. Served as the overall Purchase coordinator for Sri Krishna Institutions. Appointed as Admission In-charge for Sri Krishna Institutions. Acted as EMS Coordinator for Anna Examinations. Served as Class Advisor and mentor for two Batch of ECE students. Served as Virtual Instrumentation Lab Incharge. Appointed as Chief Examiner for the conduct of Autonomous Examination at SKCET. Placement & Training co-ordinator for ECE department for the past 8 years. Presently one of the Deputy Warden for Men s Hostel in the Institution.