Dr Rahul Antony

Education: 

• PhD (Engineering: Area: Microfluidics)

• ME (Control & Instrumentation Engineering)

• MBA (Personnel Area)

• PG Diploma in Disaster Management (IGNOU, On Going)

• B. Tech (Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering)

Professional Experience:

• Teaching (Full Time)- 9 Years (Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Kannur & Saintgits College of Engineering Kottayam)

• Research (Full Time)- 4 Years (National Institute of Technology Calicut)

• Industry (Regular)- 6 Months (Hindusthan News Print Ltd. Vellore)

Administrative Experience:

• Head of the Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering at Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Kannur during 2010 June to 2011 Dec and Dec 2015 to Feb 2016)

• Valuation Chairman (B. Tech Applied Electronics & Instrumentation)- MG University Exams

• Additional Chief Superintendent- MG University Exams May/ June 2017

• Chief Coordinator of SRISHTI 2018 (National Level Project Competition)

• Syllabus revision Committee- Kannur University for B. Tech Applied Electronics & Instrumentation (2011)

• Curriculum Development Committee (Head)- B. Tech and M. Tech Robotics & Automation (Saintgits College of Engineering- Autonomous)

Associated Socially Relevant Program:

• Program Officer of NSS KTU Cell Unit No 632 (2019 April to till the date)

• Coordinator- Rudhirasena (APJAKTU Blood Donation Cell) Idukki-Kottayam- Alappuzha Region (2019-till the date)

Research Interests:

• MEMS- Microfluidics

• Robotics & Automation

• Intelligent Devices

Publications & Citations:

Please Check Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=DlTv9DoAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Funds:

1. Received CERD RSM funding by KTU for research in MEMS related technology in November 2019 (Work Ongoing)

Research Group:

1. PhD Supervisor for Ms. Remya Revi (Registered under KTU in 2016 July). Her research topic is “Machine Learning Techniques to Detect Tampered Images and AI-generated Fake Face Images” (Thesis Submitted)

2. PhD Supervisor for Mr. Vinay Kumar B (Registered under KTU in 2017). His area of research is Control & Automation. (Completed first Seminar on 01/08/2020) (Scholar funded by CERD KTU)

3. PhD Supervisor for Mr. Harinarayanan Nampoothiri MG (Registered under KTU in 2017). His area of research is Robotics & Control. (Completed first seminar on 25/07/2020) (Scholar funded by CERD KTU)

4. PhD Supervisor for Ms. Veena A Kumar (Registered under KTU in 2017). Her research area is Image processing)

5. PhD Supervisor for Mr. Vinu Koshy Abraham (Registered under KTU in 2018). His area of research is MEMS- Microfluidics (Scholar funded by CERD KTU)

Programs Organized/ Coordinated:

1. Workshop on Patents rules and drafting funded by Patent Cell, KSCSTE in 2017

2. National Science Day funded by KSCSTE in 2017

3. National Technology Day funded by KSCSTE in 2018

4. Workshop on LabVIEW Core 1 & 2 sponsored by NI in 2018

5. Coordinated Srishti: National Level Project Competition organized by Saintgits College of Engineering in 2018

6. National Technology Day funded by KSCSTE in 2019

Self-Skilling:

1. “BioMEMS and Microsystems” (8 weeks Program), NPTEL, Feb/ Apr 2019.

2. “A Crash Course in Data Science”, by Coursera, April 2020.

3. “The Data Scientist’s Toolbox”, by Coursera, April 2020.

4. “Building a Data Science Team”, by Coursera, April 2020.

5. “Data Science in Real Life”, by Coursera, April 2020.

6. “Basic Image Classification with Tensor Flow”, by Coursera, April 2020.

7. “Introduction to Personal Branding”, by Coursera, April 2020.

8. “Use Canva to Create Social Media Marketing Designs”, by Coursera, April 2020.

FDP’s Attended (Last 3 Years):

1. FDP on “Machine Learning”, Organized by Saintgits College of Engineering Kottayam during 18/06/2018 to 22/06/2018.

2. Workshop on “AI and DL”, Organized by Saintgits College of Engineering Kottayam during 25/06/2018 to 27/06/2018 sponsored by LeadingIndia.ai

3. FDP on “System Design using MATLAB” Organized by Mangalam College of Engineering during 18/12/2017 to 22/12/2017 sponsored by APJKTU.

4. “Matlab Expo” organized by Mathworks on 25/04/19

5. “Creative teaching and Makers Workshop” Organized by FISAT Ernakulam and Sponsored by KTU during 10/07/19 to 12/07/19

6. “America with Kerala (Disaster Management)” Organized by CPPR, KSDMA and US Consulate Chennai on 25/07/19

Subjects Handled:

1. Instrumentation in Process Industries (2016, 2017)

2. Signals and Systems (2011, 2016)

3. Fuzzy Logic (2016, 2017)

4. Data Acquisition Systems (2016)

5. Process Control Instrumentation (2017)

6. Fluid Power Automation for PG (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)

7. Virtual Instrument Design (2018)

8. Optical Instrumentation (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

9. Analytical Instrumentation (2019, 2020)

10. PLC & CNC for PG (2020)

Professional Body Memberships:

1. ISTE

2. ISOI

3. IAENG

Reviewer:

• Microsystem Technologies

• Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology

• European Journal of Engineering Research and Science

• Various IEEE Conferences

Labs Associated:

• LeadingIndia.ai Deep learning Lab

• LabVIEW- Quanser Robotics Lab

• Fab Lab (During 2017-2019)

• Automation Lab (Hydraulics/ Pneumatics)- HiTech Pvt Ltd

Resource Person:

1. Talk on “Recent Developments in Micro Sensors in the Last decade”

2. Talk on “Devices for our Daily Life Automation”

3. Workshop on Adruino Programming

4. Workshop on LabVIEW CLAD 1 & 2

Address:

Room: ANT 301, Amenity Block

Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam

Email: rahul.antony@sintgits.org

Ph: +91- 9562512025