
June 1, 2020
Dr. V. Kamaraj – Professor

EEE

Dr.V.Kamaraj, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has 34 years of teaching and research experience. He received his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from Calicut University, M.E. degree in Power Electronics and Ph.D. degree in Networks from Anna University, Chennai. He has published extensively in refereed International and National Journals and Conferences.
Before joining SSN in 2006, he was a faculty member at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering from 1989 to 2006 and was elevated from associate lecturer to various academic positions. He has performed funded research projects and participated in industry-collaborated projects.
He received the ISTE Periyar Award, Best Engineering College Teacher and IET Diamond Salute Award in 2014.
Presently, he is guiding one Ph.D. research scholar, and 15 scholars have already completed their Ph.D. under his guidance. He is currently working in the fields of Power Quality, Machine Design, and Power Converter Topologies.
Externally Funded Projects:
- He is the principal investigator for the project titled “Design and Development of Permanent Magnet Assisted Reluctance Motor Drives for Pump Application”, funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) worth Rs 21,18,978(Duration: 2019-2022)
- He is the principal investigator for the project titled “Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Design and Development of Power Quality Monitoring System”, funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD) under the scheme SPARC worth Rs 50,53,816/- (Duration: 2023-2025)
Recent Paper Publications:
- Vidhya S, Balaji M, Kamaraj V, “Satellite Image Classification using CNN with Particle Swarm Optimization Classifier”, Procedia Computer Science 233 (2024) 979–987
- S. Vidhya, M. Balaji, E. Fantin Irudaya Raj and V. Kamaraj, “Differential Evolution Algorithm Supported Random Forest Classifier For Effective Feature Selection And Classification Of Power Quality Disturbances”, U.P.B. Scientific Bulletin, Series C- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 85, no.1, pp 131-142, 2023.
- Vidhya Sivaramakrishnan, Balaji Mahadevan, and Kamaraj Vijayarajan,” Power Quality Data Mining Using Hybrid Feature Extraction Technique” in book titled: Smart Sensors Measurement and Instrumentation, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol 957, pp 491-502, 2023.
- B.S Nalina V.Kamaraj and M.Ramesh Babu, “Fault Detection and Identification Strategy Based on Luenberger Observer for Bidirectional Interleaved Switched—Capacitor DC-DC Converter Interfaced Microgrids”, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 17, no. 4, pp 2329 – 2338, 2022.