Biography

Dr. R. Amirtharajan was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu province India, in 1975. He received B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India in 1997. M.Tech. and Ph. D. from SASTRA Deemed University Thanjavur, India in 2007 and 2012 respectively. He joined SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India (Previously Shanmugha College of Engineering) as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering since 1997 and is now Professor; His research interests include Information Security, Image Encryption, Information Hiding, and Secure Communication. So far, he has filed two international patents (USA & WIPO - PCT/IB2010/054086, US 2011/0228943 A1 & US 8,971,531 B2 (Issued March 2015)) and one national patent; he has published more than 350+ research articles in national and international journals, 111 SCI/SCIE and 111 IEEE conference papers with 5 Best Paper Awards. He assisted 30 PhD Scholars, 30 of whom were completed and Three of whom were still in the process. He has supervised 4 Ph.D. scholars & 20 Master Students and supervising 1 PhD Scholars, guided 100+ UG project. He also holds the Certificate of Appreciation from IBM in 2009 for Great Mind Challenge, Mentor IBM Academic Initiative Program. Recently, he received the Founder Chancellor Award for the best PhD. Thesis for 2013 from SASTRA Deemed University and he received the SASTRA Anukul Puraskar for Higher Involvement in Research and Education Award (SAPHIRE Award) for 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. He serves as a Life Member in CRSI, SSI, IAENG, and IACSIT. He also served as the Associate Editor IET Image Processing Journal, TPC Member and Review Member for more than 100 IEEE and Springer supported international conferences apart from more than 100 peers reviewed journals. He had been working on a funded project in the field of steganography by DRDO, Government of India, New Delhi, India.