Assistant Professor

• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  Metaheuristics based optimization methods, Computational tools for image processing

• Medical Image Processing
  Microscopic image analysis, Feature engineering for clinical applications

• Rehabilitation Engineering
  Affordable exoskeleton design, Additive manufacturing and prototyping

• Biosignal Processing
  Electromyography signal analysis in real time for rehabilitation biomechanics

• B.E Medical Electronics: Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, Physiological Modeling, Digital Image Processing Laboratory, Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Medical Instrumentation, Medical Imaging Techniques
• B.E Biomedical Engineering: Signals and Systems, Circuit Theory, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Equipment I & II, Bioinformatics, Sensors and Measurements, Circuits and Devices Laboratory, Hospital Training, Radiological Equipment
• M.E Medical Electronics: Rehabilitation Engineering, Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory

 

• Ph.D Thesis: Analysis of Cellular Shapes in Autoimmune Diseases using Indirect Immunofluorescence Image Keypoints
• M.E Thesis: Design and Development of Powered Upper and Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Hemiplegic Patients
• B.E Thesis: Automated Detection and Classification of Parasitic and Non-Parasitic Diseases

• Co-investigator of External funded Project "3D Prosthetic Limb Design and Characterization" funded by Horizon Engineering Solutions, Canada
• Co-investigator of Internal funded Project "Design and Development of Orthotic Exoskeleton for Lower Limb Rehabilitation" funded by SSN College of Engineering

• Design and Analysis of pediatric Trans-Tibial Prosthetics
• Design and Development of Hand Gesture Controlled Robotic Upper Limb Prosthesis (displayed at Indian Medical Device Expo - 2016 at College of Engineering Pune)
• Portable Nerve Stimulator using Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Episodic Migraineurs

• Design and Analysis of Lower Limb Exoskeleton

• Presented with the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering
• Secured Gold Medal for University First Rank in B.E. Biomedical Engineering
• Received Swami Vivekananda Award for Academic Excellence for the year 2010
• Secured District Third in Matric Board Examination

• Nithyaa A N, Premkumar R, Kanchana D and Krishnan N A (2013) Automated Detection and Classification of Blood Diseases, Recent Advancements in System Modeling Applications, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 188, Chapter 34, pp.393.

• Kanchana D, Kavitha G,and Ramakrishnan S (2021), An Automated Classification of HEp-2 Specimen Shapes using Ant Colony Optimization, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (In Press)
• Kanchana D, Nagarajan G, and Ramakrishnan S (2019) Differentiation of Homogeneous and Speckled Objects in HEp-2 Specimen Images using Keypoint Features and an Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm, IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.36-42
• Nithyaa A N, Poonguzhali S and Kanchana D (2014) Management of Hemiplegia for Adult Survivors: A Review on Therapeutic Procedures, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Research India Publications.

• Kanchana D, Nagarajan G, and Ramakrishnan S (2019), Binary Grey Wolf Optimizer based Feature Selection for Nucleolar and Centromere Staining Pattern Classification in Indirect Immunofluorescence Images, IEEE 41^st conference in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Berlin, Germany, July, 23-27.
• Kanchana D, Nagarajan G, and Ramakrishnan S (2019), Evaluation of Performance of Fitness Functions in Adaptive Cuckoo Search for Differentiation of Indirect Immunofluorescence Images, 45^th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), New Brunswick, USA, March, 20-22.
• Kanchana D, Punitha N, and Ramakrishnan S (2019), Automated Segmentation of Indirect Immunofluorescence Images using Fast Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Keypoint based Differentiation of Homogenous and Speckled Shapes, 4^th Annual Scientific Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (C-MIMI), Texas, USA, September, 22-23.
• Kanchana D, Suhail Parvaze P, and Ramakrishnan S (2019), Effect of Grey Level Transformation Techniques on Keypoint Based Differentiation of Intermediate Indirect Immunofluorescence Images, 56^th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS), Milwaukee, USA, April, 12-14.
• Nithyaa A N, Poonguzhali S, and Kanchana D (2014), Design and Development of Powered Lower limb Exoskeleton for Hemiplegic patients, South Asian Research Center (SARC) - ITR International Conference, Chennai, May, 4 (Presented with best paper award)
• Kanchana D, Eeswar Samhithan, (2020), Lesion Segmentation in Dermascopic Images using Superpixel based Fast Fuzzy C-means Clustering, IEEE ARGENCON, Dec 2020.

• Paper titled “Rehabilitation Robots: Need and Design” in International Conference on Design and Manufacturing (IConDM) at IIITDM, Kancheepuram
• Paper titled “Automated Classification of Blood Diseases” in 36^th National Systems Conference, at Annamalai University, Chidambaram
• Presented paper titled  “Diagnosis  of  Alzheimer’s  Disease  by  measuring  the  Theta Activity of Brain”,  at Adhiyamaan Engineering College, Hosur

• Organized IEEE EDS Technical webinar on "Career Opportunities and Skill Certifications for Engineers" for undergraduate students
• Organizing head for AICTE sponsored One week STTP on “Implementation of Medical Image Processing using Advanced Green Computing Technology”
• Organizing Secretary of the second “International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation” ICBSII-2015
• Seminar talk on “Understanding Biomedical Device Industry” for undergraduate students
• Lecture talk on “Restoring Hearing through Technology” as part of National Biomedical Lecture Series for undergraduate and postgraduate students
• Seminar talk on “Advancements of Biomedical Engineering and Role of Biomedical Engineers in a hospital” for undergraduate students

• Attended Online Scillab training organised by the Teaching Learning Centre (ICT) at IIT Bombay, funded by the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MoE, Govt. of India
• Attended National Seminar on Computer Vision and Image Processing 2020, organized by IEEE Gujarat Section
• Attended 5^th Annual International Healthcare Technology Conference “CAHOTECH 2020”
• Attended 4-Day “International Technology Data science Bootcamp” organized by IEEE SSIT Madras Section
• Teaching Assistant Training Programme at Teaching Learning Centre, IIT Madras, Chennai
• GIAN Course on “Pediatric Biomechanics – Deformities, Treatment and Injury Prevention” at IIT Madras, Chennai
• “Summer School on Neuroimaging: Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches in Cognitive Neuroscience” at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
• IEEE Mini-POCO -2016 at Hotel Deccan Plaza, Chennai
• Workshop on “Emerging Trends in Bio-signal and Image Processing”, at Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
• Symposium on “Present and Future of Healthcare Instrumentation: Clinical and Technological Perspective” at Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai
• Workshop on “Additive Manufacturing: 3D Printing”, at Shiv Nadar University, Noida
• Workshop on “Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Pattern Recognition” at M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore
• Participated in 19^th National Symposium on Radiation Physics, organized by Indian Society of Radiation Physics, at Radisson Blue Resort Temple Bay, Mamallapuram
• “International Workshop on Biomedical Sciences” at Anna University, Chennai
• Workshop on “Image Processing using LabVIEW” at Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai

• Presented Guest Lecture on the topic “Real time applications of Digital signal Processing” for B.E third year students at S.M.K Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai

• Attended AICTE sponspored One week STTP on “3D Printing merges with Nanomaterials in Medical Applications” virtually organized by Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Telengana
• Attended International Short-Term Course (STC) on "Recent advances of 3D printing and its Bio-medical Engineering Applications" jointly organized by the Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam in collaboration with the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India and the National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKUH), Taiwan
• Attended TEQIP-II sponsored One week STTP on “Bio signal Processing for Telemedicine Applications” at Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry
• Attended One week STTP on “Learning and Teaching Robotics: Modeling, Simulation and Practice” at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kancheepuram

• Attended FDP on ”Deep Learning Networks and Applications”, organized by organized by IEEE Madras Section
• Attended FDP on “E-content Development and Delivery” organized by Saveetha Engineering College
• Attended FDP on “Academic Writing and Publishing” and “Data Analysis using R”, organized by Birla Global University (formerly BIMTECH), Bhubaneswar

• One week training at the Ophthalmological Equipment Manufacturing division at Appasamy Associates, Puducherry
• One week training on Medical Equipment maintenance and troubleshooting at Stanley Medical College, Chennai

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
• Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM)

• Mentor for undegraduate student team participating in IEEE Technergize 2.0
• Mentor for Covid-Move 2.0 Hackathon Conducted by IEEE
• Member of IEEE P2933: Data and Device Validation and Interoperability Subgroup
• Member of IEEE 11073: Health informatics - Device interoperability Standards Commitee

• MATLAB, Scilab,
• Weka, LabVIEW,
• Origin, CATIA,
• LaTeX
• LMS Platforms: Moodle, Canvas, Google classroom

• Completed “IUCEE Online Teaching Course” with distinction, which was conducted by Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education
• Completed E-shodh Sindhu “Web of Science Certification Series”

Saveetha Engineering College:

• II Year mentor
• AU/ AICTE Coordinator
• Autonomous coordinator
• Medical Instrumentation Lab Incharge
• Department ISO coordinator
• Guest Lecture Incharge
• STTP/ FDP Incharge

• Acted as NPTEL Translator for “Energy conservation and waste heat recovery (112105221)” offered by IIT Kharagpur in Tamil language
• Member of CoEdu, a team of IITM scholars who actively participated in teaching school children during the COVID-19 pandemic
• HTRA (Half Time Research Assistant) fellow in IIT Madras from July 2012 to December 2019 - Sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India
• Teaching assistant for Biomedical signal processing during July 2017 to November 2017
• Organizing Committee of the Workshop on “An Overview of Medical Device Regulation”
• Part of proposal writing and submission for various National and International funding schemes

• Class In-Charge and Class Committee Chairman during the year 2015-2016
• Department Mentoring Activity In-charge
• NBA coordinator
• Department Exam cell coordinator
• Professional Society Activities In-charge
• Result analysis coordinator
• Bioelectronics Lab in charge
• Department Intranet and E-learning In-charge

• Member of “Rotaract Club” in the college
• Coordinator of Extracurricular activities in “Biomedical Engineering Association” in the college