Faculty Profile

Dr.Parvathy.R
Professor

Profile

Dr. 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 scored All India Rank of 43 with an overall percentile of 99.31 for GATE 2000 Examination. She started her career as Lecturer at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Amritapuri on July 1, 2002. Later in 2004, she joined Federal Institute of Science And Technology. She was awarded PhD degree by Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT) for her research in Active Disturbance Rejection Control. She has been selected as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Her areas of interests are Control Algorithms, Disturbance Rejection Techniques, Robotics and Teaching Methodologies. She takes up the duty of KTU coordinator of FISAT.

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 Eelctrical 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 Ranked 15 in University of Kerala for B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1998.
2 All India Rank of 43 with an overall percentile of 99.31 for GATE 2000 Examination.
3 Best Teacher Award FISAT 2018
4 Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
5 Reviewer of Asian Journal of Control published by Wiley
6 Ranked 1% topper in NPTEL exam for Control Systems conducted by IIT Madras during July – Dec 2023
7 Co-investigator of Research Promotion Scheme, by AICTE in the year 2013
8 Selected for KSCSTE funding for Student Project – Design and Development of a two phase buck converter for low power applications during 2021

Administrative & Institutional Support

(a) Present Responsibilites
1 KTU Coordinator of FISAT since 2015
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
(b) Past Responsibilites
1 Head of the Department, EEE, from Feb 1, 2015 to May 31, 2021
2 NBA Coordinator – Department of EEE
3 NAAC Coordinator – Department of EEE
4 Group Advisor – 2005 Batch B.Tech EEE
5 Faculty Co-ordinator of Annual examination of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 2008
6 Faculty Coordinator – GATE coaching classes – 2011 and 2012
7 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
8 Deputy Presiding Officer, GATE 2012 at FISAT
9 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
10 Deputy Presiding Officer, GATE 2013 at FISAT
11 Core team member in framing of Risk Register during the ISO Migration from ISO 2009 to ISO 2015
12 Convenor of Cos PHI Tech Fest organised by Department of EEE during 2016
13 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
14 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
15 Convenor of three day FDP on Role of IoT in Smart Grid during 2 to 4 July 2019 at FISAT
16 Faculty Coordinator of Alumni Webinar Series of Dept. of EEE during 2020
17 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
18 General Chair of International Power and Energy Conference, PECon 2021 organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT from 1 to 3 Feb 2021
19 Faculty Coordinator of Cos PHI Tech Fest organised by the Department of EEE from 13 to 14 June 2022
20 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

Papers in Journals
1 “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.
2 “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)
3 “Battery Charging Systems”, Parvathy R, Journal of Applied Science, Engineering, Technology and Management (e-ISSN: 2584-0371), Vol. 1 No. 01 (2023)
Papers in Conferences
1 “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
2 “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
3 “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.
4 “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
5 “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.
6 “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
7 “A comparitive study on optimal path planning algorithms for a mobile robot”, Aisha Kalam and Parvathy R, National Conference on Emerging Technologies.

FDPs/Trainings attended

1 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
2 Seminar on Embedded Systems organised by Department of EEE, CET in association with Dynalog India Ltd on 15 Dec 2005 at CET
3 Induction training for teachers from 26 to 30 June, 2006 at SCT College of Engineering, TVM
4 One day seminar and hands on training in Electronics Design and Automation organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT on 16 Sep 2006 at FISAT
5 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
6 AICTE sponsored National Workshop on Industrial Robots fron 27 to 29 April 2007 at Adichunchunagiri Institute of Technology, Chickmangalore
7 International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies for High Performance Applications organised by Department of CSE, FISAT from 24 to 26 Sep 2008 at FISAT
8 Lecture programme by Prof. Richard Mathew Stallmann on 7 Dec 2008 at MG University Kottayam
9 Workshop on Robotics conducted by a venture of alumni of IIT Bombay from 30 to 31 Jan 2009 at FISAT
10 Mission 10X, a Dale Carnegie Certification course conducted by Wipro Technologies from 20 to 24 April 2009 at RASET Kakkanad
11 Workshop on High Impact Teaching Skills conducted by Dale Carnegie and Associates and Wipro from 20 to 21 April 2009 at RASET Kakkanad
12 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
13 Faculty Development Program on Empowering Emotional Intelligence, conducted by Mr. Chandramohanan, HR Consultant on 6 June 2009 at FISAT
14 National Conference on Emerging Trends in Energy Trends in Energy Systems and Control organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT from 20 to 21 May 2010 at FISAT
15 National Conference on Computing and Communication (NCCC 2011) organised by School of Computer Science, Mahatma Gandhi University from 26 to 27 May 2011 at MG University Kottayam
16 Successfully completed the online course on Machine Learning conducted by Prof. Andrew N G of Stanford University during Oct to Dec 2011
17 Two day ISTE Workshop on Akash for Education conducted by IIT Bombay under MHRD through ICT from 10 to 11 Nov 2012 at FISAT
18 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
19 IEEE – International Multi Conference on Automation, Computing, Communication, Control and Compressed Sensing – 2013, on 23 Mar 2013 at St. Joseph’s Pala.
20 Half day session on Mendeley – A Tool for managing research papers organised by Centre for Continuing Education, FISAT on 27 Nov 2013 at FISAT
21 Workshop on ISO Awareness on 12 Dec 2013 at FISAT
22 International Conference on Power, Signals, Control and Communication (EPSCICON 2014) organised by Vidya Academy of Science And Technology on 8 Jan 2014 at VAST
23 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Instrumentation, Communication, Electrical & Electronics Engineering ICE-ICEE 2014 organised by Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology And Science, Indore from 23 to 25 Jan 2014 at Indore
24 Workshop on LabVIEW – The Tool and its Applications by EEE and EC Department of SOE, CUSAT from 27 to 31 Oct 2014 at CUSAT
25 Workshop on Awareness of ISO 9001-2015 on 12 June 2015 at FISAT
26 Kerala Road Safety Hackathon – Open Eye. from 22 to 23 August 2015 at Technopark, TVM
27 Successfully completed the online course on Algorithms I conducted by Prof.Robert Sedgewick of Princeton University during Aug to Nov 2015
28 One day workshop on Open GL organised by the Department of CSE, FISAT on 25 Jan 2016 at FISAT
29 National Conference on Emerging Technologies organised by MES Kunnukara on 8 April 2016 at MES Kunnukara
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 Internship Deep Learning Neural Networks and Computer Vision during June 2016 at Soliton Technologies, Bangalore
32 National Workshop on Advanced LabView from 11 to 12 July 2016 at FISAT
33 National Workshop on BeagleBone during 14 to 15 July 2016 at FISAT
34 Makers’ Workshop from 20 to 30 July 2016 at FISAT
35 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
36 Successfully completed the online course on Programming for Everybody conducted by Prof. Charles Severence of University of Michigan during Nov to Jan 2017
37 Successfully completed the online course on Python Data Structures conducted by Prof. Charles Severence of University of Michiganduring Jan to Mar 2017
38 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
39 Two week ISTE STTP on Electric Power System organised by IIT Kharagpur from 10 to 15 July 2017 at FISAT
40 Two days FDP on Distributed Generation and Smart Grid organised by the Department of EEE from 27 to 28 July 2018 at FISAT
41 Workshop on Fire Hazards and Fire Fighting Equipments by Mr. T.B.Ramakrishnan, Station Officer, Fire Station, Angamaly and Mr. Rahul V, Fire Guard, Angamaly organised by the Department of EEE and ME, FISAT on 25 Jan 2019 at FISAT
42 National Conference on Recent Advancements in Power Electronics and Power Systems, organised by the Dept of EEE, FISAT from 21 to 22 May 2019 at FISAT
43 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
44 Three day FDP on Role of IoT in Smart Grid from 2 to 4 July 2019 at FISAT
45 Webinar on Power Quality monitoring for harmonics and kVAh control by Mr. Hari Bala Business Development Director, Janitza Electronics,GmbH on 22 May 2020
46 Webinar on Biodiversity and Civil Engineering, by Mr. Jawahar Saud, AP, Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT on 5 June 2020
47 Five days FDP on Real time applications of Power Electronics – Research scope and Challenges organised by ASIET Kalady from 27 to 31 July 2020
48 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
49 Webinar on Role of teachers at the present time organised by Department of Mathematics, SRM Institute of Science And Technology, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai as part of Teacher’s day celebrations on 5 Sep 2020
50 International Power and Energy Conference, PECon 2021 organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT from 1 to 3 Feb 2021
51 Webinar on AI based Object Detection organised by Khalsa College for Women, Sidhwan Khurd, Punjab in association with Pantech E learning, Chennai on 5 June 2021
52 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
53 Power Converters – An Embedded Systems Based Approach – Department of EEE, FISAT from 22 July to 28 July 2021
54 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
55 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
56 Attended the second lecture in the APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Lecture series by Dr. Amal Chandran, Head of the small satellite division at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado and coordinates NASA’s AEPEX, DynaGLO, SunCET and MANTIS cubesats at LASP on 27 July 2023
57 Successfully Completed the NPTEL Course on Control Systems conducted by IIT Madras during July – Dec 2023

Resource Person

1 MATLAB for S4 and S6 classes of EEE and ECE students in 2009 at FISAT
2 MATLAB for Faculty of Mathematics in 2009 at FISAT
3 Robotic Workshop for I year students from 9 to 10 October 2010 at FISAT
4 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
5 Session Chair International Conference at Amal Jyothi College, Kanjirappally on 25 July 2014
6 Machine Learning for final year B.Tech students in 2012 at FISAT
7 Control Systems – Ekalavya Project by IIT Bombay during Nov 2014
8 Latex Classes for B.Tech and M.Tech Students
9 Arduino and Robotic Workshop for 5th Semester EEE 2013 Admissions on 6 Aug 2015
10 A lecture on Blooms Taxonomy for faculty as part of QP Setting of KTU during Oct 2015
11 Arduino and Robotic Workshop for 6th Semester EEE 2014 Admissions from 3 to 4 April 2017
12 Faculty Development Program on Arduino and Robotics for the faculty of Department of EEE on 15, 17 and 23 May 2017
13 Autodesk Eagle Workshop as part of IEEE Tech Fest on 24 Feb 2018
14 Add on Program on Documentation Software LaTeX for EIE and ECE students from 10 to 13 Aug 2020
15 Outcome Based Education – Vidya Academy of Science And Technology Technical Campus, Kilimanoor on 24 Feb 2021
16 Hands on Workshop on Documentation Software LaTeX for 2020 batch M.Tech students organised by the Department of EEE, FISAT on 12 and 19 March 2021
17 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
18 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
19 A technical talk on Application of compensators in electronic circuits organised by the Department of ECE, FISAT on 22 March 2022
20 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
21 Doctoral Committee member of APJAKTU
22 Syllabus Committee member APJAKTU B.Tech 2019 Regulation
23 Reviewer of STAGE 2020 – International Conference of NSS College of Engineering
24 Reviewer of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Science and Technology (ICETEST2020) organised by Government Engineering College Trissur
25 Reviewer of International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology organised by Ilahia College of Engineering and Technology

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