Dr. E. Selvam
B.E, M.E, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department Of Computer Science and Engineering
Selvam E is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. He has over nine years of teaching experience and five years of research experience. His primary research interests include aerial robotics perception and navigation, SLAM, deep reinforcement learning and low-altitude wireless networks.
He has completed his Ph.D. thesis titled “Adaptive Learning Architectures for Intelligent Navigation and Coordination in Autonomous Multi-Agent Aerial Systems” from Anna University, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) Campus, Chennai, India. He earned his M.E. degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Tiruchirappalli, where he secured First Rank and was awarded the University Gold Medal. He completed his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai.
As part of his research journey, he has undertaken international research fellowships at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, under the Erasmus+ Mobility Program, and at Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule, Jena, Germany, under the DST-DAAD Fellowship. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Anna University Centenary Research Fellowship awarded by the Centre for Research, Anna University, Chennai.
Autonomous Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, SLAM
- Selvam Essaky, Gunasekaran Raja, Kapal Dev, and Dusit Niyato, “ARReSVG: Intelligent Multi-UAV Navigation in Partially Observable Spaces Using Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 74, no. 10, pp. 15429-15440, 2025.
- Selvam Essaky, Gunasekaran Raja, Harun Siljak, “Graph Attention-Driven Adaptive Distributional Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Swarm Navigation”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 75, no. 9, pp. 19216-19233, Sept. 2026.
- G. Raja, Selvam Essaky, A. Ganapathisubramaniyan and Y. Baskar, "Nexus of Deep Reinforcement Learning and Leader–Follower Approach for AIoT Enabled Aerial Networks," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 9165-9172, Aug. 2023.
- Selvam Essaky, Surya Raj M, Sujaudeen Nannai John, Om Jee Pandey, Mahendra Kumar Shukla, Nexus of LLM-Driven Planning and Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Collaborative UAV Navigation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2026 (Under Review).
- Selvam Essaky, Niveditha Subramanian Girivel, Lekshmi S Nair, Sathishkumar V E, and Harun Siljak , AI-Driven Spatio-Temporal Mobility Modeling for Delay-Tolerant Routing in 6G Vehicular Networks, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2026 (Under Review).
- Gunasekaran Raja, Aakash Lakshmanan, Selvam Essaky, Kalimuthu Karuppanan, Om Jee Pandey, TDI-CardiotoxNet: A Zone-Conditioned Gated Cross-Attention Multimodal Network for Cardiotoxicity Risk Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2026 (Under Review).
- Gunasekaran Raja, Selva Ragul Kumar, Mugundh Jambukeswaran Bhooma, Selvam Essaky, Ganesh Veeramani, Kapal Dev, “FLAIR: Fuzzy Logic-Based Aerial Intelligent Routing for Efficient Disaster Relief Operations”, IEEE ICC 2026 International Conference on Communications, Scotland, UK, May 2026, (Accepted).
- Sahana S, Aparna Santhosh Kumar, Lekshmi S Nair, Selvam Essaky, “TrendSpotter: A Graph-based Real-Time Topic Detection System for Context-Aware Trend Discovery in Social Media”, 9th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science (ICCIDS 2026), Jan 08-10, 2026, (Accepted).
- Selvam Essaky, Surya Raj Muthu, Palaniswamy Shanmugam, Kaushal Kishore, “Graph-Temporal Actor-Critic: A Hybrid Architecture for UAV Navigation in Dynamic Environments”, 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy, and Control (STPEC 2025), 10–13 December 2025, NIT Goa, (Accepted).
- Gunasekaran Raja, Selvam Essaky, Surya Raj M, Jawaharlal Nehru N, Christ Joe, Kapal Dev, Waleed Ejaz, “CPP-OTPO: A Cognitive Multi-UAV System for Adaptive Path and Trajectory Optimization”, IEEE INFOCOM 2024 International Conference on Computer Communications - Dronecom Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024.
- Herbert Potechius, Selvam Essaky, Gunasekaran Raja, Thomas Sikora, Sebastian Knorr, “Enhanced Illumination Adjustment in 3D Outdoor Reconstructions via Shadow Removal through Color Transfer”, Proceedings of 21st ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Visual Media Production, CVMP, London, Nov. 18-19, 2024.
- Gunasekaran Raja, Selvam Essaky, Deepak Suresh Rajendran, Sai Ganesh Senthivel, Sebastian Knorr, Kapal Dev, “Adaptive Model Predictive Control-Driven Approach for Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs”, IEEE ICC 2024 International Conference on Communications, Denver, USA, June 9-13, 2024.
- Thereof, Published on 02.05.2025, Application No.: 202541032226 A.
- Indian Patent, A Non-Invasive Intelligent System and Method for Cardiotoxicity Risk Prediction Using ECG and Troponin, Published on 09.05.2025, Application No.: 202541034688 A.
- Indian Patent, A System and Method for Traffic Management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on Blockchain Technology, Date of Publication: 16.06.2023, Application No.: 202341032599.
- Member-IEEE [Member No. 97413041]
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Membership (RAS)
- IEEE Communications Society Membership (ComSoc)
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Membership (VTS)
- IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking