Name

P.R.SASEENDRAN PILLAI

 

Designation

Professor , Department of Electronics,                                          Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin‑682 022.

Date of Birth

28.10.1953

 

Official Address

Department of Electronics

Cochin University of Science & Technology

Kochi – 682 022

Tel: (0484) 2576418

Academic Qualifications

M.Sc.(spln: Electronics), Kerala University (1977)

 

Ph.D. (Underwater Communication), Cochin University (1982)

 

Title of Ph.D. Thesis

“ Studies on Underwater Propagation: Development of Programmable Arrays”

 

Area of Research

Sonar Transducer Systems

Underwater Communication

Computer Simulation Studies

Microprocessor Based  Systems

Spread Spectrum Communications, CDMA Communication Systems

 

1.      Professional Experience

 

Sl. No.

Positions held

 Period

Employer

Nature of work

1.

Scientific Officer,

ECE Department, IISc, Bangalore

Jan 1982 to

Mar 1983

ECE Dept, IISc,

Bangalore

560 012

Research in sound Transmission in

Coastal seas (STIC)

2.

Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics,

CUSAT,Cochin-22

Mar 1983 to

Feb 1989

Registrar, CUSAT,

Cochin – 22

Teaching and carrying out  research projects on Sonar Transducers, sponsored by STEC and DOE & guiding Research Scholars for Ph.D.

3.

Reader, Dept. of Electronics,

CUSAT,  Cochin – 22.

Feb.  1989 to

June 1994

Registrar, CUSAT

Cochin – 22

Teaching and carrying out research projects and guiding students for Ph.D.

4.

Professor, Dept. of  Electronics, CUSAT,

Cochin – 22.

June 1994  to

April  1998

Registrar, CUSAT

Cochin – 22

Teaching and carrying out research projects and guiding students for Ph.D.

5

Professor & Head,

Dept. of Electronics

CUSAT,  Cochin-22

May  1998 to April 2001

Registrar

CUSAT

Cochin- 22

Teaching, Administration and carrying out research projects and guiding students for Ph.D.

6

Professor, Dept. of Electronics

CUSAT,  Cochin-22

May 2001 – to date

Registrar

CUSAT

Cochin- 22

Teaching, Administration and carrying out research projects and guiding students for Ph.D.

 

 

1.      Experience as a Research Guide: (Approved Research Guide since 24-03-1985)

 

Details of Ph.D. produced:

 

Name of Research Scholar

Date of Award

Title of thesis

(i) P.M. Joseph

6-11-93

Design Considerations of sonar  Projector Arrays with Improved Performance

(ii) Jagannatha Bhat

31-05-96

Investigations on Low Frequency Piezo film Hydrophones with Improved Performance

(iii) R. Sumangala

19-11-97

Investigation on Ultrasonic Transducer Array for NDE of Underwater Pipelines.

 

 

1.      Membership in Scientific and Professional bodies

 

1.      Life member Acoustical Society Of India

2.      Member, Acoustical Society of America.

3.      Member , IEEE(OES & UFFC)

 

   

2.      Research Publications

 

  1. Tuning of Transducer Elements in a Transducer Array “: Elect. Lett, 16(15), pp.606, (1980).    

 

  1. “ Side lobe Suppression in a Directional Transducer Array: Design Considerations”: Acoust.Lett.,591), pp.5-8, (198

 

  1. “ Development of Programmable Arrays “: Acoust.Lett.,5(8),pp.123- 128,(1982).

 

  1. “ Array Gain Control for the Loosely Packed Array “: Presented in the Symposium on Underwater Transducers, Cochin, 1983.

 

  1. “ Development of an automated Array Gain Control System “: Acours Lett., 9(3), PP.37-40, (1985).

 

  1. “ Wide band Acoustic Absorption Characteristics of Rubberised Coir for Underwater Applications “: Ultrasonics, 24(6), pp.363-366, (1986).

 

  1. “ An Approach Towards Improving the Efficiency of Sonar Projector Arrays “: Proc.Int.Con.Acoustics Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSPj88), pp.2697-2700, (1988).

 

  1. “ Design of Planar Projector Arrays with Improved Performance “: Acoust. Lett., pp.190-193, (1989).

 

  1. “ Maximisation of the Performance of Sonar Projector Arrays at Higher Drive Levels “: Proc .of OCEANS – 89, PP.1205 – 1207, (1989).

 

  1. “ Random Linear Projector Arrays with Reduced Acoustic Interactions “: J. Acoust .Soc., Suppl.1, Vol.85,S91, (1989).

 

  1. “ Maximum Achievable Efficiency of a Ceramic Transducer “: Acous .lett. 12(8-0, pp.137 – 140, (1989).

 

  1. “ Design Consideration of Non-Uniform Planar Arrays with Reduced Acoustic Interaction”: J. Acoust Soc. India, XVIII(3&4), pp.192 – 195, (1990).

 

  1. “ Design and Development of a Highly Sensitive Piezo film Sensor “: J. Acoust. Soc. India, AXVIII(3&4), PP.188 – 191,(1990).

 

  1. “ Optimum Element Configuration for High Efficient Linear Projector Arrays “: Proc. of SYMPOL –91,pp.22 –25, (1991).

 

  1. “ Design Considerations of Uniform Circular Projector Arrays for High Power Applications “:, Proc. of OCEANS’91 held at Honolulu, 1991.

 

  1. “ Design Considerations of Modified Flexural mode Piezo film Sensor “: Proc.of 5th National Symp. On Ultrasonics, Delhi, pp.8, (1992).

 

  1. “Design of Ring Array for Ultrasonics NDE of underwater Pipelines”: Proc. of SYMPOL 91, pp.36-38 (1991).

 

  1. “ Formation of Non-Uniform Circular Projector Arrays with Improved Performance “ : Proc.OCEANS’92,  pp.337 – 339, (1992).

 

  1. “ Design Considerations of Transducer Arrays System for Ultrasonic Testing of Underwater Pipelines “: Acoust. Lett.,  pp.135 –139, (1992).

 

  1. “ An Optimised Design Approach for Minimising the Interaction Effect in Planar Arrays “: Acoust          - Lett.,15(9), pp.183-186, (1992).

 

  1. “ A Modified Flexural Mode Piezo film Hydrophone “: Proc. of SYMPOL-93, pp.30 – 33(1993).

 

  1. “ A Simple Method Towards Minimising the Acoustical Interaction Effect in Planar Project   Arrays”: Proc. of  SYMPOL-93, pp.34-38,(1993).

 

  1. “ Computation of Effective Acoustic Pressure of a Ring Array for Pipeline Testing” : Proc. of SYMPOL-93, PP.39-42,      (1993).

 

  1. “ Development of (3,1) Drive Low Frequency Piezo film Hydrophones with Improved

Sensitivity “: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94(6),pp.3053-3056(1993).

 

  1. “ Design and Development of refined (3,1) Drive Low-Frequency Piezofilm Hydrophones “:J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,97(2), pp.1019-1022(1995).

 

26.  “ Development of a (3,1) Drive Multi film Piezo polymer Hydrophone “ : IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelec. Freq. Cont. Vol.UFFC,42. pp.146-147(1995).

 

  1. “ Acoustic Pressure field  Evaluation of an annular Cylindrical Array for Underwater Pipeline Inspection “.J.Acoust.Soc.Am.Vol.48,No.5, pt2 pp 2903(1995).

 

  1. “ A Modified Multi film Piezo film Piezo polymer Hydrophone “: Proc. of  SYMPOL-95, pp 29-33 (1995).

 

  1. “ Ultrasonic Transducer Arrays For Underwater Inspection “ : Proc. of SYMPOL –95, pp.34-38, (1995)

 

  1. “ Transient Pressure Variation of Pulse Exited Ring Array for Pipeline Testing “: IEEE Tran.on UFFC, Vol.42(1), pp.146-147.(1995).

 

  1. “ Computation of Axial Pressure of an Annular Ring for Pipeline Testing”: Proc. of SYMPOL-97, Cochin, pp.24-28 (1997).

 

  1. “ Optimally Formulated High Efficient Planar Projector Arrays”. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Suppl.1, 89(4),1858,(1991)

 

  1.  “Design and Implementation of a Computer Controlled Transducer Positioning system for an acoustic tank”, National Conference on Technology Convergence for Information Communications & Environment (NICE 2001) conducted by  IETE ,Cochin, pp    ,Feb 2001.

 

  1. “Development of an Automated Transducer Positioning System for an Underwater Test Facility”, SYMPOL 2001 (National Symposium on OCEAN ELECTRONICS, Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

 

  1. “Studies of Target Strengths of Fishes Under Captive Conditions”, SYMPOL 2001 (National Symposium on OCEAN ELECTRONICS, Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

 

  1. “Implementation of an Intelligent Target Classifier”, ICONS 2002 (International Conference on Sonar Sensors and Systems 2002), vol 1 pp 313 – 318, December 2002.

 

  1. “Concepts in processing for Fish Biomass Estimation” , ICONS 2002 (International Conference on Sonar Sensors and Systems 2002), vol 1 pp 33 – 41, December 2002.

 

  1. Development of an Underwater Target Classifier Using Target Specific Features” , The 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 28th 2003 – May 2nd 2003.

 

  1. “Studies on Geometrical Backscattering Models of Marine Bodies” , The 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 28th 2003 – May 2nd 2003.

 

  1. “Rain Parameter Estimation Using Impact Generated Low Frequency Acoustic Signals”, The 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 28th 2003 – May 2nd 2003.

 

 

  1. “Development of a spread spectrum communication system for underwater telemetry applications”Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 55-61,2003, Allied Publishers PVT. Lmited, New Delhi.

 

  1. “Implementation of an estimation processor for the extraction of spectral components”Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 117-123,2003,Allied Publishers PVT. Limited,  New Delhi.

 

  1. “Development of an algorithm for biomass estimation” Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 150-156,2003, Allied Publishers PVT. Limited,  New Delhi.

 

  1. “Numerical analysis for geometrical backscattering of selected marine specie”Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 157-161,2003, Allied Publishers, PVT. Limited,  New Delhi.

 

  1. “Backscattering models of Sardines” Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 146-149,2003,Allied Publishers, PVT. Limited, New Delhi.

 

  1. “Rain Estimation using the energy generated during the drop impact” Proc. National Symposium on Ocean Electronics, 146-149,2003,Allied Publishers, PVT. Limited, New Delhi.

 

  1. “A novel technique for measuring the rainfall from the rain noise.”, The 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; New York, USA, May 24th -  28th 2004.

 

  1. “An echo analysis technique for estimating the fish population” The 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; New York, USA, May 24th -  28th 2004.

 

  1. “Implementation of algorithms for extracting tonal components in underwater noise” The 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; New York, USA, May 24th -  28th 2004.

 

  1. “Doppler compensated underwater acoustic communication system” The 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ; New York, USA, May 24th -  28th 2004.