V. K. Govindan

V. K. Govindan
Born Valappil Kunnumal Govindan
(1950-04-30) 30 April 1950
Vallikunnu-North, Malappuram Dist, Kerala, India
Residence Anupama, P O. Chathamangalam, Via. NIT Campus Pin- 673601, Calicut, Kerala, India.
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Umbichi High School, Chaliyam
Regional Engineering College, Calicut
Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
Scientific career
Fields Medical Imaging
Pattern Recognition
Operating System
Data Compression
Institutions National Institute of Technology Calicut
(Joined 6 July 1980) [1]

Dr. V. K. Govindan (born 30 April 1950) is a professor, retired from [2] the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He has received bachelor's and master's degrees [3] in electrical engineering from Regional Engineering College Calicut (now NIT Calicut) in the year 1975 and 1978, respectively. He has obtained [4] PhD degree from one of the premier institute in India, IISc Bangalore. He has more than 35 years of teaching experience at under graduate and post graduate levels. He served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Calicut during the years 2000 to 2005. He was Dean Academic [5] of NIT Calicut during 2011 to 2014.

Areas of Interest

His research areas include [6][7] Image processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Data Compression, Document Imaging and Operating Systems.

Work

He devoted his life to study, teaching and doing research. He has more than 165 research publications [8] including 90 international Journal papers, and authored [9] 20 books. He has evaluated many PhDs thesis and produced seven [10] PhDs. Currently, he is guiding ten [11] PhD scholars. He has also refereed many papers for Journals and conferences.[12]

Projects Undertaken

He has also served as resource person in the following projects:[13]

  • As Principal Investigator of Project entitled Development of Infrastructure for Image processing and character recognition research.
  • As co-investigator of project entitled Design and Development of an ECG monitoring equipment and diagnostic expert.
  • As Principal Investigator of project entitled Human face recognition from photographs.
  • As Principal Investigator of project entitled As400 mainframe and Application Center, under thrust area.
  • As Co-ordinator of Project entitled Imaging and vision Lab under MODROB.
  • As Principal Investigator of project entitled Design and development of adaptive wavelet compression algorithms, ongoing Research project.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Govindan V K". People.cse.nitc.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Bio | Dr. Govindan V K". People.cse.nitc.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 November 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "National Institute of Technology Calicut". nitc.ac.in.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Current Research Interest - Dr. Govindan V K". people.cse.nitc.ac.in.
  8. ↑ "Publications | Dr. Govindan V K". People.cse.nitc.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  9. ↑ "Publication Details - Dr. Govindan V K". people.cse.nitc.ac.in.
  10. ↑ "PhDs Produced - Dr. Govindan V K". people.cse.nitc.ac.in.
  11. ↑ "Current Research Students - Dr. Govindan V K". people.cse.nitc.ac.in.
  12. ↑ The list of publications and the published books can be downloaded from here .
  13. ↑ "Projects Undertaken | Dr. Govindan V K". People.cse.nitc.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
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