Faculty Profile

Dr.Parvathy.R
Professor

Profile

Parvathy R completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum and post graduation in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Control and Instrumentation from IIT Madras. She started her career as Lecturer at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Amritapuri on July 1, 2002. Later on June 23, 2004 she joined Federal Institute of Science And Technology. She is a Dale Carnegie Certified Faculty. She was awarded PhD degree by Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT) for her research in Active Disturbance Rejection Control in 2019. She has been selected as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Asian Journal of Control. Her areas of interests are Control Algorithms, Disturbance Rejection Techniques, Robotics and Teaching Methodologies. She is a KTU recognized research guide. She has a research collaboration with Dr. Dipak Kumar Giri, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

Educational Qualification

Degree Specialization Institute University Year of completion
PhD Control Systems School of Engineering (CUSAT) CUSAT 2019
M.Tech Electrical Engineering IIT Madras IIT Madras 2002
B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering College of Engineering, Trivandrum University of Kerala 1998

Experience

Designation Institution From (year) To (year)
Professor FISAT Nov 1, 2019 till date
Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) FISAT Oct 1, 2010 Oct 31, 2019
Assistant Professor FISAT Aug 1, 2006 Sep 30, 2010
Lecturer FISAT June 23, 2004 July 31, 2006
Lecturer Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Amritapuri, Kollam July 1, 2002 June 21, 2004

Awards and honours

1 Joint Research with Dr. Dipak Kumar Giri in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
2 KTU Nominated Member – Academic Council of St. Thomas College of Engineering & Technology (STC), Chengannur, Kerala
3 Received selection for Winter Internship under Dr. Dipak Kumar Giri in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
4 Received the Elite + Gold certificate and came out as the topper for the NPTEL course on Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink by Prof. Yogesh Vijay Hote of IIT Roorkee in September 2025
5 Received Elite + Silver certificate for the NPTEL course on The Joy of Computing using Python by Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar of IIT Ropar (NPTEL) in April 2025
6 Received Elite Certificate for NPTEL course on Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using Python by Prof. Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute in September 2024
7 Selected for KSCSTE funding for Student Project – Design and Development of a two phase buck converter for low power applications during 2021
8 Co-investigator of Research Promotion Scheme, by AICTE in the year 2013
9 Received the Elite + Gold certificate and came out as the 1% topper for the NPTEL course on Control Systems conducted by IIT Madras during July – Dec 2023
10 Reviewer of Asian Journal of Control published by Wiley
11 Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
12 Best Teacher Award FISAT 2018
13 All India Rank of 43 with an overall percentile of 99.31 for GATE 2000 Examination.
14 Ranked 15 in University of Kerala for B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1998.

Administrative & Institutional Support

a) Present Responsibilites
NIRF Coordinator 2025, 2026
PALS faculty-in-charge 2024 – 2025, 2025 – 2026
Curriculum Committee Member – Dept. of EEE(Autonomy Batch)
Faculty in charge of Department Newsletter
Representative from EEE to College Newsletter team
Group Advisor of 2024 – 2028 batch
(b) Past Responsibilites
1 KTU Coordinator of FISAT 2015 to 2022
2 NAAC Coordinator – Department of EEE
3 Member – College Council
4 Member – IQAC Core Committee
5 Group Advisor – 2020 Batch B.Tech EEE
6 Faculty Coordinator – GATE coaching classes – 2023 and 2024
7 Head of the Department, EEE, from Feb 1, 2015 to May 31, 2021
8 NBA Coordinator – Department of EEE
9 NAAC Coordinator – Department of EEE
10 Group Advisor – 2005 Batch B.Tech EEE
11 Faculty Co-ordinator of Annual examination of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 2008
12 Faculty Coordinator – GATE coaching classes – 2011 and 2012
13
Convenor of National Conference on Emerging Trends in Energy Trends in Energy Systems and Control organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT during May 20 to 21, 2010
14 Deputy Presiding Officer, GATE 2012 at FISAT
15
National Conference on Current Advancements in Communication, Control and Instrumentation, organised by the Departments of EEE, EIE and ECE, FISAT, during 17 to 18 May, 2012
16 Deputy Presiding Officer, GATE 2013 at FISAT
17 Core team member in framing of Risk Register during the ISO Migration from ISO 2009 to ISO 2015
18 Convenor of Cos PHI Tech Fest organised by Department of EEE during 2016
19
Convenor of two day FDP on Distributed Generation and Smart Grid organised by the Department of EEE from 27 to 28 July 2018 at FISAT
20
Organising Head of National Conference on Recent Advancements in Power Electronics and Power Systems, organised by the Dept of EEE, FISAT from 21 to 22 May 2019
21 Convenor of three day FDP on Role of IoT in Smart Grid during 2 to 4 July 2019 at FISAT
22 Faculty Coordinator of Alumni Webinar Series of Dept. of EEE during 2020
23
Faculty Coordinator of 10 day Industry Oriented Webinar on Transmission SCADA by Muhammed Nadeer T M, Assistant Engineer, 220kV Brahmapuram Substation from 23 July to 12 August 2020
24
General Chair of International Power and Energy Conference, PECon 2021 organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT from 1 to 3 Feb 2021
25 Faculty Coordinator of Cos PHI Tech Fest organised by the Department of EEE from 13 to 14 June 2022
26
Convenor of three day FDP on Hands on Training on Design of Power Electronics Systems organised by the Department of EEE from 30 Jan to 1 Feb 2023

Professional body memberships

1 Life Member of ISTE
2 Life Member of Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE)
3 Member of IEEE

Research & Publications

1 Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s185QHMAAAAJ&hl=en
2 Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55211217700
3 ORCID ID 0000-0001-5822-5526

Papers in Journals

 

1.Predictive Modeling of Stress Levels Using Physiological and Lifestyle Factors, Parvathy R, Unni Kartha G, in the Journal of Applied Science, Engineering, Technology and Management, Vol. 4, Issue 1, June 2026 pp. 31 – 34 (e-ISSN: 2584-0371), https://doi.org/10.61779/jasetm.v4i1.6

2.Battery Charging Systems, Parvathy R, Journal of Applied Science, Engineering, Technology and Management (e-ISSN: 2584-0371), Vol. 1 No. 01 (2023)

3.Analysis of Extended State Observer and Active Disturbance Rejection Control in the speed control of DC motor system, Parvathy R, Asha Elizabeth Daniel and Muhamed Noufal C, Mechatronic Systems and Control (formerly Control and Intelligent Systems), Vol. 47, No. 2, 2019, DOI:10.2316/J.2019.201-2952, ActaPress (ESCI Indexed)

4.A parametric approach on the convergence of controller parameters in the design of MIT Rule based Model Reference Adaptive Controller, Parvathy R and Asha Elizabeth Daniel, Journal of Innovation in Electronics and Communication, Jan – Jun 2014, ISSN: 2249-9946, Online ISSN : 2455-3514, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp.35-41.

Papers in Conferences

 

1.Comparative Assessment of Battery Energy Storage and Pumped Hydroelectric Storage for Small and Large Scale Renewable Energy Applications, Stany E George, Rinku Scaria, Parvathy R in the Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy (ICRCE 2026), Osaka, Japan, supported by Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer) 6 to 8 March 2026.

2.Design and Development of a Sensor Based Adaptive Robotic Arm for Safe Object Gripping, Aiswarya Sudheer, Anna Martin, Riya Biju, Sebin Poulose, Parvathy R in the  Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies 2026 (ICTEST 2026) organised by Model Engineering College Thrikkakkara on June 17, 2026

3.Data Driven Energy Management: Machine Learning Approaches for Buildings, Parvathy R, Stany E George in the Proceedings of 2026 International Conference on Electric Power and Renewable Energy (EPREC 2026), organised by the Department of Electriclal Engineering, IIT Bhilai.

4.Seismic Data Extraction from Earthquake videos: An AI driven approach, Neeraja Nair, Unni Kartha G and Parvathy R,International Symposium n Collaborative Informatics (ISCI 2025) held at Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. March 2025

5.A Comparitive study on optimal path planning algorithms for a mobile robot, Aisha Kalam and Parvathy R, National Conference on Emerging Technologies,2016

6.Gradient Descent based Linear Regression approach for modeling PID parameters, Parvathy R and Rani Rajini Devi, Proceedings of International Conference on Power, Signals, Control and Communication, EPSCICON 2014, IEEE Xplore, pp.1-5, DOI: 10.1109/EPSCICON.2014.6887482

7.A novel criterion in the design of state observers, Parvathy R and Asha Elizabeth Daniel; Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Instrumentation, Communication, Electrical & Electronics Engineering ICE-ICEE 2014. organised by Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology And Science, Indore.

8.A PID controller with sliding model transfer characteristics, Parvathy R and Asha Elizabeth Daniel; Proceedings of 11th IEEE India Conference INDICON 2014, Emerging Trends And Innovation in Technology, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/INDICON.2014.7030444

9.A survey on Active Disturbance Rejection Control, Parvathy R and Asha Elizabeth Daniel, Proceedings of the 2013 International Multi Conference on Automation, Communication, Computing, Control and Compressed Sensing, Kerala, India, March 2013, IEEE Xplore, pp. 330-335, DOI: 10.1109/iMac4s.2013.6526432.

10.Effectiveness of Parallel Computation in Load Flow Studies, Parvathy R, Mahesh C, and Dr.K.S.M.Panicker, Proceedings of National Conference on Computing and Communication (NCCC 2011) organised by School of Computer Science, Mahatma Gandhi University

11.Real time estimation of lateral camera movements, Parvathy R and Dr. P.A.Janakiraman, Proceedings of Prastuti – 2002, a paper presentation contest organized by Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, UK), IT – BHU Varanasi

FDPs/Trainings attended

1.A session on “Seeing what is not said (Understanding silent signal in student mental health)” organised by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Counselling Cell & Special Needs Cell FISAT on June 19, 2026

2.Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on “Residential Solar PV System Design” conducted by IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF) at IIT Palakkad from June 7 to 10, 2026

3..Attended Six Day Faculty Development Program on “Sustainable Smart Energy and Mobility” conducted by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, FISAT, 21 to 27 November, 2025

4.PALS Residential Student Workshop at IIT Madras, 3 to 5 December, 2025

5.One day industrial workshop on Basics of Electronics Design conducted by Digital Core Technologies Pvt. Ltd., 2025

6.Attended a 8 weeks FDP on Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink by Prof. Yogesh Vijay Hote of IIT Roorkee, NPTEL,2025

7.Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink by Prof. Yogesh Vijay Hote of IIT Roorkee, NPTEL,2025

8.3 days FDP on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science by the Department of Computer Science, FISAT,2025

9.Attended a 12 weeks FDP on The Joy of Computing using Python by Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar of IIT Ropar,2025 

10.Six day online AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on “AI and Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Climate Adaptation” organised by IIIT Kottayam,2024

11.Attended an 8 week FDP on Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using Python65

12.Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using Python by Prof. Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute (NPTEL),2024

13.Successfully Completed the NPTEL Course on Control Systems conducted by IIT Madras during July – Dec 2023

14..Seven Day National level FDP on ChatGPT & AI Tools for Educators, in-line with OBE organised by St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Irinjalakkuda Trissur in association with The Kerala State Higher Education Council from 19 to 26 July 2023

15.Three day FDP on Hands on Training on Design of Power Electronics Systems organised by the Department of EEE from 30 Jan to 1 Feb 2023 at FISAT

16.Power Converters – An Embedded Systems Based Approach – Department of EEE, FISAT from 22 July to 28 July 2021

17.FDP on Research, Innovation and Techno-Entrepreneurship (RITE-2021) organized by the Research and Development Cell and Students Innovation Club, Vemu Institute of Technology, P.Kothakota, Chittoor, Andra Pradesh from 14 to 18 June 2021

18.10 day Industry Oriented Webinar on Transmission SCADA by Muhammed Nadeer T M, Assistant Engineer, 220kV Brahmapuram Substation from 23 July to 12 August 2020

19.Five days FDP on Real time applications of Power Electronics – Research scope and Challenges organised by ASIET Kalady from 27 to 31 July 2020

20.Three day FDP on Role of IoT in Smart Grid from 2 to 4 July 2019 at FISAT50

Webinar on Power Quality monitoring for harmonics and kVAh control by Mr. Hari Bala Business Development Director, Janitza Electronics,GmbH on 22 May 2020

21.Successfully completed the online course on Python Basics under Python 3 Programming specialization conducted by Paul Resnick, Steve Oney and Jaclyn Cohen, University of Michigan during May June 2019

22.Two days FDP on Distributed Generation and Smart Grid organised by the Department of EEE from 27 to 28 July 2018 at FISAT

23.Two week ISTE STTP on Electric Power System organised by IIT Kharagpur from 10 to 15 July 2017 at FISAT

24..Successfully completed the online course on Programming for Everybody conducted by Prof. Charles Severence of University of Michigan during Nov to Jan 2017

25.Successfully completed the online course on Python Data Structures conducted by Prof. Charles Severence of University of Michigan during Jan to Mar 2017

26.Successfully completed the online course on Building Arduino Robots and Devices conducted by Alexey Perepelkin of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology during May 2017

27.Successfully completed the online course on Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris conducted by Prof. Nisan and Prof. Schocken of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during Oct to Nov 2016

28.National Workshop on Advanced LabView from 11 to 12 July 2016 at FISAT38National Workshop on BeagleBone during 14 to 15 July 2016 at FISAT39Makers’ Workshop from 20 to 30 July 2016 at FISAT

29.Internship Deep Learning Neural Networks and Computer Vision during June 2016 at Soliton Technologies, Bangalore

30.Successfully completed the online course on Introduction to Power Electronics conducted by Prof. Robert Erickson of University of Colorado Boulder during May 2016

31..Successfully completed the online course on Algorithms I conducted by Prof.Robert Sedgewick of Princeton University during Aug to Nov 2015

32.Workshop on LabVIEW – The Tool and its Applications by EEE and EC Department of SOE, CUSAT from 27 to 31 Oct 2014 at CUSAT

32.Successfully completed the online course on Control of Mobile Robots conducted by Dr. Magnus Egerstedt of Georgia Institute of Technology during Feb to April 2013

34.Two day ISTE Workshop on Akash for Education conducted by IIT Bombay under MHRD through ICT from 10 to 11 Nov 2012 at FISAT

35.Successfully completed the online course on Machine Learning conducted by Prof. Andrew N G of Stanford University during Oct to Dec 2011

36.FDP on FACTS and Custom Power Controllers for Quality Enhancement of Deregulated Power Supplies organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT from 18 to 29 May 2009 at NIT Calicut

37.Workshop on High Impact Teaching Skills conducted by Dale Carnegie and Associates and Wipro from 20 to 21 April 2009 at RASET Kakkanad

38..Mission 10X, a Dale Carnegie Certification course conducted by Wipro Technologies from 20 to 24 April 2009 at RASET Kakkanad

39.AICTE sponsored National Workshop on Industrial Robots fron 27 to 29 April 2007 at Adichunchunagiri Institute of Technology, Chickmangalore

40.National Seminar on Discrete and Fuzzy Mathematics and their applications in Engineering and Technology organised by Department of Mathematics, FISAT from 22 to 24 Feb 2007 at FISAT

41.Induction training for teachers from 26 to 30 June, 2006 at SCT College of Engineering, TVM9

42.Seminar on Embedded Systems organised by Department of EEE, CET in association with Dynalog India Ltd on 15 Dec 2005 at CET

43.Two day National workshop on Power Quality Issues and Remedial Measures organised by Industry Institute Partnership Cell (IIPC) of NSS College of Engineering and Numeric Power Systems, Chennai, from 12 to 13 Nov, 2005 at NSS College of Engineering , Palakkad

 

Resource Person

1.Reviewer of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies 2026 (ICTEST 2026) organised by Model Engineering College Thrikkakkara May 2026

2.Reviewer of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies 2026 (ICTEST 2026) organised by Model Engineering College Thrikkakkara May 2026

3.Session Chair for 2 Day National Conference on Sustainable Futures: Integrating Technology, Environment and Society, ISTE FISAT April 2026

4.Reviewer of 2 Day National Conference on Sustainable Futures: Integrating Technology, Environment and Society, ISTE FISAT March 2026

5.Reviewer of 3ICT2025 – International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies organised by College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain Nov 2025

5.Reviewer of Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS), hosted by the Department of ECE and EEE, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady June 2025

6.Session Chair for the technical session at the International Symposium in Collaborative Informatics (ISCI 2025) held at Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. March 2025

7.Doctoral Committee member of APJAKTU since 2025

8.Reviewer Second International Conference on “Trends in Engineering Systems and Technologies” (ICTEST-2024) organised by Model Engineering College, Thrikkakkara April 2024

9.Reviewer of International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology organised by Ilahia College of Engineering and Technology July 2023

10.User awareness program on NDLI and NDLI Club organised by NDLI Club, Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT) in association with MHRD and IIT Kharagpur on 26 Nov 2022

11.A technical talk on Application of compensators in electronic circuits organised by the Department of ECE, FISAT on 22 March 2022

12.User awareness program on NDLI and NDLI Club organised by NDLI Club, PA Holkar Solapur University, Solapur, in association with MHRD and IIT Kharagpur on 27 Aug 2021

13.User awareness program on NDLI and NDLI Club organised by NDLI Club, Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT) in association with MHRD and IIT Kharagpur on 26 June 2021

14.Outcome Based Education – Vidya Academy of Science And Technology Technical Campus, Kilimanoor on 24 Feb 2021

15.Reviewer of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Science and Technology (ICETEST2020) organised by Government Engineering College Trissur Dec 2020.

16.Add on Program on Documentation Software LaTeX for EIE and ECE students from 10 to 13 Aug 2020.

17.Reviewer of STAGE 2020 – International Conference of NSS College of Engineering,  July 2020.

18.Syllabus Committee member APJAKTU B.Tech 2019 Regulation (2018) 

19.Autodesk Eagle Workshop as part of IEEE Tech Fest on 24 Feb 2018

20.Faculty Development Program on Arduino and Robotics for the faculty of Department of EEE on 15, 17 and 23 May 2017

21.Arduino and Robotic Workshop for 6th Semester EEE 2014 Admissions from 3 to 4 April 2017

22.A lecture on Blooms Taxonomy for faculty as part of QP Setting of KTU during Oct 2015

23.Arduino and Robotic Workshop for 5th Semester EEE 2013 Admissions on 6 Aug 2015

24.Latex Classes for B.Tech and M.Tech Students 2015

25.Control Systems – Ekalavya Project by IIT Bombay during Nov 2014

26.Machine Learning for final year B.Tech students in 2012 at FISAT

27.Session Chair International Conference at Amal Jyothi College, Kanjirappally on 25 July 2014

28.Teaching Assistant for the two week ISTE Workshop on Introduction to Research Methodologies conducted by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD) from 25 June to 4 July 2012 at FISAT

29.Robotic Workshop for I year students from 9 to 10 October 2010 at FISAT

30.MATLAB for S4 and S6 classes of EEE and ECE students in 2009 at FISAT

31.MATLAB for Faculty of Mathematics in 2009 at FISAT

Projects Guided

1.SMART ROB: A Robotic Arm for Safe Object Handling (2022 – 2026)
2.Assessment of occurrence of landslide using image processing (2021 – 2025)
3.Active Disturbance Rejection Control – A Simulation Study (2020 – 2024)
4.Enhancing Buck Converter Control using Active Disturbance Rejection Control (2020 – 2024)
5.Vibration Measurement with video processing based on alternating optimization of frequency and phase shifts (2019 – 2023)
6.Performance Analysis of a two phase buck converter (2017 – 2021)
7.Rubik’s Cube Solver (2015 – 2019)
8.Stabilization of inverted pendulum (2015 – 2019)

Courses offered

1 Advanced Control System
2 Advanced Control Theory
3 Basic Electronics
4 Control and Power Eelctronics Lab
5 Control and Simulation Lab
6 Control Systems
7 Control Systems I
8 Control Systems II
9 Control Systems Lab
10 DC Machines and Transformers
11 Digital Circuits
12 Digital Electronics
13 Digital Electronics and Logic Design
14 Digital Lab
15 Digital Electronics Lab
16 Digital Signal Processing
17 Dynamics of Linear Systems
18 Electrical and Electronic Measurements
19 Electrical Machines I
20 Electrical Machines Lab I
21 Electrical System Design
22 Electrical Technology
23 Electromagnetics
24 Linear Control System
25 Microprocessors and Applications
26 Microprocessors and Micro controllers
27 Modern Control Theory
28 Network Ananlysis and Sythesis
29 Power System Analysis
30 Project and Seminar
31 Robotics
32 Signals and Systems
33 Solid State Electronics Lab
34 Systems and Control Lab
35 Systems Lab
36 Systems Theory
37 Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
38 Soft Computing
39 Computer Organisation