Good day, Dr. M. Navaneetha Velammal. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Yeah, myself I am. I completed my degree in UH, 2003 in PET Engineering College. After that, I have completed my ME degree in 2009 and Francis Avery Engineering College in the domain of VLSI, VLSI design and continue to my journey in academia. I completed my doctorate in the year 2023. I have joined as a lecturer in Francis every engineering college.

OR 20/20/23 I have joined here in Savita Engineering college as Associate professor here here.

Thank

And my PhD title is Standard Determined Client Source Separation.

And that is about myself and.

That's all about my experience. I have 20 years of experience in the field of easy electronics and communication engineering.

I hope, uh.

This is about my profession.

Thank you, Professor, for sharing that. Let's dive into a more detailed discussion about your qualifications and experience to assess your fit for this role. You mentioned having 20 years of experience in electronics and communication engineering. Can you describe your teaching philosophy and how you ensure effective knowledge transfer to students? Specifically, share how you integrate theoretical concepts with practical applications in your courses.

Being an electronics engineer, as you all know electronics is nothing but a versatile branch here comparatively with other department we can have both hardware platform as well as what the software field also. But this we can do the practical for the every courses with hands on training with the hardware as well as what the software tool available. Software tool called EDA. So we have so much of EDA.

Yeah.

With this we can do many projects OK. Once they know the particular tool flow, they can easily adapt adopt the idea into their design.

Related within electronics.

Design. So whatever the tool flow, they know they can implement it into the hands on training. With this they can come up with a project as a. Faculty.

I can train them to do how to do the projects in a particular software tool. OK with this, they can come up with a new design or a new product that will be useful for their for the society.

And also if they if they design, if they design a product that is very related to.

The third party the customer that will be useful to the time to market as well as to the third party customers.

I was an electronics engineer. We are very proud to design A what is that? The recent edge.

Technology to the people living here.

Thank you for sharing your approach, Professor. It's clear that you emphasize hands-on training and linking theoretical concepts to practical tools like EDA to prepare students for real-world applications. Encouraging innovation and focusing on societal benefits and industry relevance is commendable. I’d like to dig a bit deeper: Can you provide an example of a specific course or project that you have designed and taught where this integration of theory, hands-on practice, and relevance to industry or society was particularly successful? How did you measure the success of that course or project?

Yeah, actually the the real time project that we are going to take it into for the account, will it be useful for the society that we have to take it first in the design constraint and also we can try to have what some modification, will it be suitable for the next next generation or the? The practical implementation can be possible or feasible to the particular design project that can be.

Considered 1st and then we will we will be working on to that project. OK, we will be working on to the project and finally it will be reached to the society and the one of the particular. The design that we have implemented during the physical design course that I have taken in the last semester was physical design for VLSI design. There they have completed the counter design and.

What the authors real time, what is that URT design? URT design that we have implemented and there we have.

We have completed the the core design code design for physical design process that is like we have started with floor planning and then to placement and then we will be calculating the constraints related to the timing.

Each and everything to be checked and uh, we will be working on the 45 nanometer technology and with this result, we come to uh obtain what the list area and the timing utilization for the particular core area. So definitely it will be fabricated into the chip. It will be an cost-effective and this higher speed attainment also so in that way.

We will be concentrating on the project to be useful for the society.

Thank you, Professor. This example illustrates your methodical approach to guiding students through a practical course. Introducing them to industry-grade practices like floor planning, timing constraints, and optimization at the 45-nanometer scale not only gives them a strong technical grounding but also focuses on real-world applicability such as cost-effectiveness and performance. Now let me shift to another aspect of the role: Could you elaborate on how you evaluate and assess student progress, both in theoretical courses and during hands-on projects, to ensure their learning outcomes are met effectively?

The evaluation you are asking about the evaluation, right? How they will be, how I I will be evaluating the students based on the hands on training and the projects there that they have completed, right. So initially I will be giving the students like the the what is that the problem statement to the 30 people in my class, I can give that problem statement. They I asked them to come up with that solution.

Yeah, uh.

But then No 2, two or three days they will be presenting what abstract. OK, I will be giving the what is it? I will be giving what the ajanta to complete the project like problem statement idea and then to present PPT. And after each and everything will be given at that time for abstract submission they will be given within two days time and then. For.

Uh, for, uh, completing the project, like, uh, uh, presenting their, uh, literature survey and, uh, the, the idea that they will be incorporating to design the particular project that they will be taking within two weeks, fortnight time, 2 weeks time. And then they will be completing their project with their.

Comfortable tool flow with that with that one month.

Uh, I, I I'm, uh.

I'm particularly focusing on their involvement and their dedication that they are giving to complete the project on time. With this, I will be giving some percentage for their presentation, abstract submission and then for the final simulation result, whether it will be completely completed, completely finished or they have completed partially. Based on that, I will give them mark allocation to them.

And I will be noticing their outcome, OK. The main outcome is whether they have done to the simulation output or whether it is implemented in terms of the hardware to the real time projects, OK. In that way I can segregate the the the students ability to to design the particular hands-on or particular project.

Understood, Professor. Your evaluation approach clearly focuses on structured phases—problem identification, literature review, tool flow execution—with timely checkpoints like abstract and simulation submissions. It's commendable that you balance the students' process involvement and the final outcomes, whether simulation-based or hardware-integrated. Moving forward, I’d like to understand your academic contributions. Could you discuss some key research publications or consultancy projects you’ve worked on, particularly those that align with the role's focus areas like embedded systems, image processing, or other emerging technologies?

Yeah. Uh, I have uh completed uh the UH-16, uh, CR Scopus journals. Among that are three, three are journals and remaining are international Scopus journals. So here I have contributed.

Uh, contributed this research idea, uh, to these, uh, publications. So the one is like my PhD area. It's a signal VLSI domain with the signal processing. So there I have given what does that, that the cocktail party.

Party problem there. If the group of people is talking in a closed environment that can be accessed and the individual user voice can be. Uh, uh, it can be, uh, uh, retrieved from the, uh, the group of, uh, people. So that is the one of the main project that I have done and done in my PhD level. And one more interesting publication was like my yummy projects in the ME projects also I have done it, but the BLSA domain related projects. So one is using what silence as. Tool to design a 20 transistor based ripple carry addition. So there I have come up with a solution of.

Lazy area as well as the more speed that I have obtained for a ripple carrier adder with the 2030 transistor using merges for cadence in analog domain. OK, these are all the two of the VLSI related as well as I have focused on what the image processing related domain also.

Thank you, Professor, for detailing your research work. Your contributions to the VLSI domain, particularly addressing real-world problems like signal separation in the "cocktail party" problem and optimizing hardware designs like the ripple carry adder, are impressive. It's clear that your work bridges theoretical advancements and practical innovations. Additionally, extending into image processing shows a diverse research interest aligned with emerging technologies. Let's turn our attention to guiding student research. Can you share an example where you successfully mentored students on a research project, particularly one leading to publication, practical application, or recognition? What approach did you take to guide them through the research journey?

Uh, can you repeat once again?

Certainly, Professor. Can you share an example of a student research project that you successfully guided? Ideally, this would be a project that resulted in a publication, practical application, or notable recognition. How did you mentor the students throughout the research journey to achieve this outcome?

Yeah, uh, in order to do, uh, in order to achieve this, uh, final outcome with the student.

With the student, actually I have taken the problem statement with the three or four people, but they didn't get what the hackathon finalized, but they have participated with that presentation, with that presentation to the.

What is that one tops? Also the we have submitted the one tops problem statement. Unfortunately we couldn't get it, but during the course of submissions we seek to get the for for two weeks of time. We sit together and we discuss with with that the idea and they will be sharing, they will be sharing what is it the new innovations that we are going to implement in the particular. Uh, uh, particular design, so like, uh, the processor design that we have taken that is a risk processor design that we have taken into in considerations. They have come up with a new idea and we presented it doesn't abstract to the one tops, but so that was a that was a good team that we worked with. The students really have shown what. They they into for preparing all the documents in time to.

In a particular time durations, they have collected all the literatures and what are all the the the issues and what are all the the problem that is encountered in the previous problem that can be brought into the account and that is incorporated to the new innovations. And with this we have applied for many.

Vinay But the participation certificate we got it. And one more thing is the after completing this project, some of the students have presented are converted into the paper as well as the patents. And many students have converted into the paper like writing the what is it? The the whatever the they have learned and in the literature they have derived with that abstract and we will be applying for the journals and.

Many forums but The thing is we didn't get what they hackathon.

What the publication, also one of the publication is like.

Like real time environment, real time design, using with.

Problem that we have completed in yeah, that is a design of high speed nano scale adder logic circuit for low power consumption. So that we have presented in I triple today section international conference and we got the the channel that is published in I triple explore. So that is one of the outcome with that student me students and this is one of the example. With Similarly, I have published with 4-5 of the journals with.

Ripple carry adder is one of the.

But student community.

Thank you, Professor. It's notable that you actively collaborated with students, from problem identification to literature review and presenting their work in forums like hackathons and conferences. Even when projects didn’t win competitions, you ensured valuable outcomes, such as publications and even patents. Supporting students to convert their work into formal research papers, like the one published in IEEE Xplore on high-speed nano-scale adder designs, highlights your strong mentorship. Let’s now discuss departmental contributions. Beyond teaching and research, in what ways have you contributed to curriculum development, laboratory setups, or departmental initiatives?

Yes, for curriculum development and other thing I have actively contributed.

What the syllabus design I have done with many designed many courses for submission for every regulation revision we will be be the staff member team. If it is in VLSI team, we will be together. Four or five people will visit together and.

Assigned with the particular courses courses and we will be working on the particular syllabus framing based on the real time industry related topics. So during the meeting with the faculty members and in some in many times we have also invite the.

Syllabus framing, they will be giving some support OK, this is at the current trend that will be existing in the industry. So these topics topics can also be added into the curriculum. Likewise, they will be giving some input to our course design. We will be considering that input as a course design as a one one hour 3 industry aligned courses also we can add up in.

Staff members from the industry also. As a Google meet with a Gmail they will be connecting with that. With that.

Into the particular uh course title, uh, you have either in particular unit like uh Unit 1 or unit 5, it will be introducing the industry letter topics just suggested by the industry persons. Yeah, along with the senior faculty members or the the expert of the particular domains. If it is in VLSI, the VLS people will sit sit together similarly in for all our curriculum, uh, curriculum based subjects. Uh, he should mind the have some.

Things they will be working on it they will be and and also they will be focusing on to the NBA related outcomes. OK, they will be focusing on this NBA that does like. National Board of Accreditations.

Rules and regulations. Based on that, we will be allocating what the the course is and the recent topics. The main thing is the recent topics will be incorporated into the.

And this is about the curriculum design and I have also contributed many from 2012 fourteen onwards I have acted as an NBA coordinator and throughout throughout this journey I have in aligned with that the outcome based curriculum development.

Curriculum and also the reason the industry tool that can also be added to the subjects.

Johnny.

Thank you, Professor.

Thank you, Professor, for sharing your contributions in curriculum design and your work as an NBA coordinator. Your focus on aligning the curriculum with industry trends and accreditation standards, while incorporating insights from industry professionals into coursework, reflects your commitment to maintaining academic relevance and rigor. Before concluding, I’d like to ask about your vision for fostering industry–institution collaboration and research consultancy if you take on this professor role. Could you elaborate on your plans for these areas?

Yeah.

But this actually I'm really uh.

According to my strength, actually I'm a enthusiastic leader and learner and with that energetic team player, I can also I can take what the the, the, the young minds, those who are under our guidance. So with that students, then we can focus on on the real time projects and the real time need to the society. Uh, not with a single person with that student team, OK, That is the, the strength of the young minds will reflect what the the next future, right? So with that student. Strength we can also attain what the vision of.

Digital India. So with this, we can also contribute myself with the expert in physical design.

And also will give much excellence in technical knowledge and give more.

Whatever, whenever we, whenever needed, I will give. I will be acting as a leadership role also and also I can contribute like many.

What is it the reason conferences and workshops and also I will give my innovative ideas are the projects again too.

The publications to contribute to the BLSI community and we all. I can also contribute some meaningfully to the cutting edge projects and some innovatives with that, with that support of the young minds.

Thank you, Professor. Your vision for leveraging the potential of young minds, aligning research with societal needs, and contributing to initiatives like Digital India is truly inspiring. Your expertise in physical design and commitment to fostering innovation through workshops, conferences, and publications will undoubtedly strengthen both academic and industry collaborations. I believe we've covered a wide range of areas—your teaching philosophy, research contributions, student mentorship, curriculum development, and collaborative vision. Is there anything you'd like to add or any final thoughts you'd like to share before we wrap up?

Thank you for the opportunity given and.

Whatever whatever we have discussed here is about my small.

In your organizations, I will give my 100 percentage effort and 100 percentage dedication to the development of the VIT University.

Achievements here. So if it is selected for our.

Thank you for the opportunity event.

Thank you, Professor, for sharing your experiences, vision, and enthusiasm. Your dedication and expertise are evident, and it has been a pleasure discussing your contributions and aspirations. On behalf of the committee, we truly appreciate your time and insights. With that, would you like to confirm concluding the interview? If there's nothing further you'd like to add, we can formally end here. Please confirm.

Our scheduled time for the interview is now up. Before we conclude, do you have any questions related to the role or the company?

No, no further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Professor. To confirm, would you like me to formally conclude the interview now?

Yeah, we can conclude it, yeah.