MADAN KUMAR LAKSHMANAN
Principal Scientist
- mklakshmanan@ceeri.res.in
- Phone (o): 044-2254 4591
- Academic Background
- Professional Background
- Areas of Scientific Interest
- Awards and Honours
- Publications
- Technology Transfer/Industry related activities
Academic Background
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, International Research Center for Telecommunications and Radar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
- Dissertation Title: Reconfigurable and Adaptive Wireless Communication Systems based On Wavelets Packet Modulators
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M.Sc. in Telecommunications, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
-Graduated with Honors (CUM LAUDE).
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B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of Madras, Chennai, India.
Graduated with DISTINCTION
Professional Background
Senior Scientist
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai. (December 2015 – Present)
Assistant Professor
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). (April 2012 – Present)
Scientist
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai. (April 2012 - December 2015)
Researcher
International Research Center for Telecommunications and Radar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. (Sep 2006 – July 2011)
Project Officer
Media Lab Asia, Telecommunications And Computer Networks (TeNeT) Group,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-Madras), India. (Dec 2003- August 2004)
Systems Engineer
Polaris Software Labs Limited, Chennai, India. (July 2000 – Nov 2003)
Areas of Scientific Interest
Area of specialization: Multivariate data Analysis; Digital Signal Processing; Vibrational Spectroscopy; Wavelets & Filter Banks; Multirate Communication Systems
Research Interests: Data & signal processing; Embedded hardware & software development; Machine learning; Chemometrics for analysis of consumer products, organic materials and polymers; Development of algorithms for multivariate analysis and their implementation on embedded hardware; Robotics
Awards and Honours
COMMENDATIONS FROM INTERnational INSTITUTIONS
· Recipient of the NETELCOM AWARD 2010. The award is presented to the most innovative scientific contribution of a PhD student, related to telecommunications, in The Netherlands. The 2010 edition jury was chaired by Mr. Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent/BELL Laboratories. A cash award of Euro 5000 was granted.
· Recipient of the ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL CHEVNING Scholarship granted by Shell Corporation, Europe, to conduct Masters Program at the Delft University of Technology.
· Selected as one of the two best papers of IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference-South Asian Satellite (IEEE GHTC-SAS) 2013 held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The paper was nominated to be presented as an INVITED PAPER to the main event, IEEE GHTC conference, held at Silicon Valley, USA. A travel assistance covering the air travel expenses to travel to the conference venue was offered.
· Winner of the PROMOOD PRIZE 2010 for best student essay. Promood is the representative body of PhD candidates at the Delft University of Technology.
· Awarded the BEST STUDENT PAPER at the 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, December 2007, Jaipur, India. The jury consisted of eminent teachers and academics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay and IIT-Chennai.
· Offered the ERASMUS MUNDUS - MOBILITY FOR LIFE scholarship to pursue Post-Doctoral studies. The scholarship was awarded by the European Union.
Awarded STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS to attend conferences and present paper. List of conferences include Dyspan 2011, European Microwave Week 2009 and COGART 2010. The grants are given to technical submissions ranked high in peer reviews.
COMMENDATIONS FROM iNDIAN INSTITUTIONS
· Member of the CSIR-CEERI team which won the Runner Up for the 3RD NATIONAL AWARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION 2012-13 from The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India under the category of Innovation in Polymer Waste Management and Recycling Technology.
· Received a fellowship under the International Travel Support Scheme of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to present papers at the 16th International Conference on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy held at Montpellier, France during 2-7 June 2013. The fellowship covered the expenses incurred towards Air travel and registration.
· Recipient of the Travel Fellowship Programme offered by the Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS), Government of India, to present an Invited Paper at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE-GHTC) held at Silicon Valley, San Jose, USA during 20-23 October 2013.
Recipient of the ON THE SPOT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD at the Polaris Software Lab Limited, India.
Publications
In Refereed Journals
2018
- Sumon Dey, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Bala Pesala, Optimal solar tree design for increased flexibility in seasonal energy extraction, Renewable Energy 125, 1038-1048.
(Impact Factor 2017: 4.9)
- Steffy N Jolly, Vinod Selvaganesh, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Akhila Kumar Sahu, Online monitoring of fuel starvation and water management in an operating PEMFC by a novel diagnostic tool based on total harmonic distortion analysis, Journal of Power Sources Volume 404, 15 November 2018, Pages 81-88. (Impact Factor 2017: 6.945)
2013
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Sandilya Bhagi, T. Chinnu and R. Sridhar, Design and Development of a Robust and Flexible Wireless Sensor Network for Automation of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Based Moisture Sensor, Journal of the Instrument Society of India (ISOI), Department of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science (IISC).
2010
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, Construction of Optimum Wavelet Packets for Multi-carrier based Spectrum Pooling Systems, Special Issue Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 95, June 2010. (2013 Impact Factor – 0.979)
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Dr. H. Nikookar, UWB-IR Interference Mitigation from Wideband IEEE 802.11a Source using Frequency Selective Wavelet Packets, Section C: Design, Part V: Communications, Chapter C-V-11 of the book “Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design”, SciTech Publishing, August 2010, ISBN: 9781891121951.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, D.Karamehmedovic and H.Nikookar, An Investigation on the Sensitivity of Wavelet Packet Modulation to Time Synchronization Error, Special Issue Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2010.
(2013 Impact Factor – 0.979)
2009
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, I. Budiarjo and H. Nikookar, Robust Bases for Spectrum Pooling Systems on Wavelet Packet Multi-carrier Modulation MIMO Architecture, In-Tech book project Cognitive Radio Systems, intechweb.org, November 2009, ISBN: 978-953-7619-25-1.
(5 Year Impact Factor – 0.579)
- I. Budiarjo, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, Cognitive Radio Dynamic Access Techniques for Mutual Interference Reduction and Efficient Spectrum Utilization, In-Tech book project Cognitive Radio Systems, intechweb.org, November 2009, ISBN: 978-953-7619-25-1.
(5 Year Impact Factor – 0.579)
2008
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, Mitigation of Wideband Interference on UWB-IR Transmission Using Multi-carrier Templates in Frequency Dependent Path Loss Environment, Journal of the European Microwave Association (EuMA), February 2008.
(2013 Impact Factor – 0.57)
- D.Karamehmedović, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, Performance of WPMCM and OFDM in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset and Phase Noise, Journal of Communications (JCM 2008).
- I. Budiarjo, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, Cognitive Radio Dynamic Access Techniques, Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications special issue on Cognitive Radio Technologies, March, 2008. (2013 Impact Factor – 0.979)
2006
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, A Review of Wavelets for Digital Wireless Communication, Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 37, Numbers 3-4, May 2006, pp. 387-420(34), Springer. (2013 Impact Factor – 0.979; Cited by over 200 technical articles/papers.)
In Conference Proceedings
2018
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Meera Subramanian, Neeraj Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Akiti Chandan Reddy, Bala Pesala, Optimization of Non-contact based Video Plethysmography Signal Acquisition for Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmia, submitted to IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE-GHTC), San Jose, USA.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Neeraj Kumar, Meera Subramanian, Ravi Kumar, Mohan Krishna Devarapalli, Chandra Prabhakar, Bala Pesala, Person-State Classification Systems using Wearable Smart Devices, submitted to IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE-GHTC), San Jose, USA.
2015
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Kavya Suma, Vishnu Priya Bitra, Sri Harsha, Chinnu Tharmalingam, " Support Vector Machine Classification of Waste Plastics using Near Infrared Spectroscopy Data for Resource Recovery", 5th International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2015), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, 25-27 November 2015.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Hardeep Mor, Giridhar Subramanian, Chandrasekar Venkataraman, Deepak Srivatsav, Chinnu Tharmalingam, "A Statistical Approach for the Classification of Plastic Polymers using Near Infrared Spectroscopy towards Efficient Waste Management", to be presented at the Indo-German Conference on Sustainability (IGCS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras), Chennai, India, 5-6 December 2015.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Beatriz Carrasco, ""Powder Blend Uniformity Characterization Of Food Additives using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy", 17th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy - NIR 2015, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil, 18-23 October 2015.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Beatriz Carrasco, "Study of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectra of Food additives for Batch Homogeneity verification", XV Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, 22-26 June 2015, Changsha, China.
2014
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Pavan Bopanna, Kalyan Pingali, Nirmal Savio Paul and T. Chinnu, “Design of an Embedded based Control System for efficient sorting of Waste Plastics using Near Infrared Spectroscopy”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, 6-7 January 2014.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Gopal Aruvamudan, "A Review of Techniques based on Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis for the Authentication of Honey", 5th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2014), 8 - 12 July 2014, Trivandrum, India.
- P. Praveen Samuel, T.Chinnu and Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, "Multi-parameter Analysis of Corn using Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy and Chemometrics", 5th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2014), 8 - 12 July 2014, Trivandrum, India.
- Unnikrishnan.S.Prasad, C.K. Shriram and Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, "Open Source Implementation of Chemometric Algorithms for Analysis of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy Data", 4th Asian NIRS Symposium (ANIRS) 2014 Daegu, South Korea, 17-20 June 2014.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, Beatriz Carrasco, S. Unnikrishnan and C.K. Shriram, "Analysis of batch consistency of Food additives using Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy and Chemometric Techniques", 4th Asian NIRS Symposium (ANIRS) 2014 Daegu, South Korea, 17-20 June 2014.
2013
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, K. Shankar, Karan H. Shah, T. Chinnu and V. Venkataraman, “Embedded Wireless-enabled Low Cost Plastic Sorting System for efficient Waste Management”, INVITED PAPER, IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE-GHTC), Silicon Valley, California, USA, October-2013.
The same paper was presented at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference –South Asian Satellite Conference (IEEE-GHTC-SAS) held at Trivandrum 21-22 August, 2013,where it won the BEST PAPER AWARD.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, R.Sridhar, T. Chinnu and V.Venkataraman, "On the viability of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Online measurement of Oil Content in Coconut cake", 16th International Conference on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS-2013), 2–7 June 2013, La Grande-Motte, France.
- R.Sridhar, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan , T. Chinnu and V.Venkataraman, "On-line Assay of Moisture Content in Copra Chips through Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy", 16th International Conference on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS-2013), 2–7 June 2013, La Grande-Motte, France.
- S. Shankari, T. Chinnu and Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, "Authentication of Kumkum (Sindoor) Through Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis – A Health Care Review", National Seminar on Traditional Knowledge and practises for Sustainable Development, Bhuvaneshwar, Orissa.
2011
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, D.D.Arianand and H. Nikookar, "A Reconfigurable Wavelet Packet Filter Bank Transceiver for Spectral Analysis and Dynamic Spectrum Access ", Fifth IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks 2011 (IEEE DySPAN 2011), 3–6 May 2011, Aachen, Germany.
- H. Lu, T. Xu, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H. Nikookar,"Cooperative Wavelet Communication over Multi-relay, Multi-scale and Multi-lag Wireless Channels", IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Spring), 15–18 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
- D.D.Arianand, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, "A Wavelet Packet Transceiver for Spectral Analysis and Dynamic Spectrum Access", IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Spring), 15–18 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
2010
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, D.D.Arianand and H. Nikookar, “On the Edge Based Artifact Mitigation in Wavelet Packet Transform for Enhancement of Spectral Estimation", INVITED PAPER, 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (COGART) November, 2010, Rome, Italy.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, “Construction of Optimal Bases for Wavelet Packet Modulation under Phase Offset Errors", 3rd European Wireless Technology Conference, Paris, France, September 2010.
- B.Torun, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, “Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction of Wavelet Packet Modulation by Adaptive Phase Selection", 21st International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, D.D.Arianand and H. Nikookar, “A Study on the Performance of Wavelet Packets for Spectral Analysis", International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications 2010 (SPCOM-2010), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H. Nikookar, D. Karamehmedovic, and D. D. Ariananda, “A Unified Framework to Design Orthonormal Wavelets Packet Bases for Multi-Carrier Modulation", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) 2010, Cape town, South Africa, May 2010.
2009
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “Best Bases Selection for Wavelet Domain Communication Systems", International Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD) Conference, February 2009, Orlando, USA.
- D.Karamehmedović, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, “Phase Noise Effects on the Performance ofWavelet Packet Multi-carrier Modulation”, Wireless VITAE'09, Aalborg, Denmark.
- D.D.Ariananda, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, “A Survey on Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio”, Wireless VITAE'09, Aalborg, Denmark.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, I.Budiarjo and H. Nikookar, “Wavelet Packet Multi-carrier Modulation MIMO Architecture for Spectrum Pooling Systems”, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (IEEE CROWNCOM), Hannover.
- D.D.Ariananda, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, “A Study on the Application of Wavelet Packet Transforms to Cognitive Radio Spectrum Estimation”, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (IEEE CROWNCOM), Hannover.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, I.Budiarjo and H. Nikookar, “Wavelet Packet Multi-carrier Modulation based Spectrum Pooling Systems with Low Mutual Interference”, 70th IEEE Vehicular Technology (IEEE VTC Fall) Conference, 20-23 September 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska.
- D. Karamehmedovic, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, and H.Nikookar, “Optimal Wavelet Design for Multicarrier Modulation with Time Synchronization Error”, 52nd Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), November’09, Hawai, USA.
- D.D.Ariananda, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “An Investigation of Wavelet Packet Transform for Spectrum Estimation", 12th Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), September 2009, Sendai, Japan.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, D.D.Ariananda and H.Nikookar, "Cognitive Radio Transmission and Spectrum Sensing using a Wavelet Packet Transceiver", 20th Memorial Symposium of Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC),Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.
- D.D.Ariananda, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, "Design of Best Wavelet Packet Bases for Spectrum Estimation", 20th Memorial Symposium of Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, B. Torun and H. Nikookar, "Peak-to-average Power Ratio Studies for WaveletPacket Modulation", European Wireless Technology Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2009.
- D.D.Ariananda, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, H.Nikookar, "A Study on Application of Wavelets and Filter Banks for Cognitive Radio Spectrum Estimation", European Wireless Technology Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2009.
2008
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, I. Budiarjo and H.Nikookar, “Wavelet Packet Multi-carrier Modulation MIMO Based Cognitive Radio Systems with VBLAST Receiver Architecture", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), March-April 2008, Las Vegas, USA.
- D.Karamehmedovic, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, “Performance of Wavelet Packet Modulation (WPM) and OFDM in the Presence of Time Synchronization Error”, 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, September 2008, Lapland, Finland.
- H. Nikookar and Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, “Comparison Of Sensitivity Of OFDM And Wavelet Packet Modulation To Time Synchronization Error”, INVITED PAPER, 19th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), September 2008, Cannes, France.
- I.G. Tarsa, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, M.Ruggiano, H.Nikookar and P. van Genderen, "A Study on the Synchronization Problem of OFDM Coded Radar Signal for Communication", 15th Annual Symposium of the IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter, Antwerp, Belgium.
- D.Karamehmedovic, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H. Nikookar, “Performance of Wavelet Packet Modulation (WPM) and OFDM in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset and Phase Noise”, European Wireless Technology Conference, October 2008, Amsterdam.
2007
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “Mitigation of Interference from Wideband IEEE 802.11a Source on UWB Wireless Communication using Frequency Selective Wavelet Packets", International Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD) Conference, June 2007, Pisa, Italy.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “Wavelet Packet Based Strategy to Mitigate Wideband Interference On Impulse Radio", 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), September 2007, Athens, Greece.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, I. Budiarjo and H.Nikookar, “Maximally Frequency Selective Wavelet Packets Based Multi-Carrier Modulation Scheme for Cognitive Radio Systems", 50th Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), November 2007, Washington DC, USA.
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “Optimum Wavelet Packet Construction for Multicarrier-based Cognitive Radio System", The 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), December 2007, Jaipur, India. (WON THE BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD)
- Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “UWB-IR Interference Mitigation Using Multi-carrier Templates in Frequency Dependent Path Loss Environment", European Conference Wireless Technology, October 2007, Munich, Germany.
2006
Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and H.Nikookar, “UWB Interference mitigation using multi-carrier templates", European Conference Wireless Technology, September 2006, Manchester, UK, pp.115 -118.
Technology Transfer/Industry related activities
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Sl. No |
Technology |
Industrial Partner |
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Plastic Waste Sorting system for five type of plastics |
M/s. Spectrum Industries Private Limited, Mangalore |
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2. |
Solar tree application for estimation of energy and power |
Central Electronics Limited, Sahilabad |
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3. |
Multi modal fatigue detection |
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi |
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4. |
IoT enabled Solar Tree |
M/s. Star Rising Private Limited, Jaipur |
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5. |
Non-intrusive Healthcare Analytics |
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi |
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6. |
Chronic Disease Detection |
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi |
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7. |
Development of Software algorithm using IR and Fluorescence spectroscopy for crude oil and other downstream fluids in refinery property measurement |
M/s. Lambda Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Pune |
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8. |
Installation & evaluation trials of an On-line moisture transmitter system for crushed Copra |
M/s. Marico Pvt. Ltd., Puducherry |