Uh, good morning, Sir. This is shiny. I'm shiny. I'm a specialization in electronics and communication engineering. And I having worked as a. Senior research fellow during my PhD. In electronics and communication engineering in Anna University ceg campus as well as I have completed my. Post graduation me inna. CEG campus and the University, Chennai. In during my full time research I have been. Worked as a senior research fellow under UGC fellowship. At the time, I had a chance to take on the lab session as a part of my. Senior research fellow job. And I. Got a chance to interact between the students to clarify their doubts. In academic. As well as their research contribution. And also my research is. Primarily focused on the design and performance analysis of. Banks store frequency selective surfaces. So in primarily. It emphasizes on the. Design of the electromagnetic filters by using the FSS structures. And I have been designed the FSS structures using the single layer single sided structure which is very difficult for the FSS designer to take part in. Because most of the. Traditional conventional affairs housing worked on the. Multi layer structure. That relies on. A compact. That relies on the complex structure. Which is very difficult for them to analyse their performance metrics such as. Angular Stability. Polarization, insensitivity, etc. So in order to avoid those constraints, I look into. The issues which is. Very compact. And miniaturized profile and I have designed that FSS structure using single layer single sided structures. Which provides A miniaturized structure. Thereby increasing the angular stability when the FSS screen is placed on the free space environment. Since it acts as a spatial filter at different angle of incidences, the electromagnetic waves can hit the. So at that time, the electromagnetic waves. Will get and didn't deteriorate from the frequency characteristics. So that frequency characteristics won't deteriorate. Based on the structure. Based on the design. Criteria we have chosen. The frequency of operation need to be optimized. Precisely. Particular frequency of interest we have designed so far. So this is. About my research criteria and I have been worked on. 2D structures of the. FSS Profiles. So. I have reduced the complexity of fabrications.

Uh, good morning, Sir. This is shiny. I'm shiny. I'm a specialization in electronics and communication engineering. And I having worked as a. Senior research fellow during my PhD. In electronics and communication engineering in Anna University ceg campus as well as I have completed my. Post graduation me inna. CEG campus and the University, Chennai. In during my full time research I have been. Worked as a senior research fellow under UGC fellowship. At the time, I had a chance to take on the lab session as a part of my. Senior research fellow job. And I. Got a chance to interact between the students to clarify their doubts. In academic. As well as their research contribution. And also my research is. Primarily focused on the design and performance analysis of. Banks store frequency selective surfaces. So in primarily. It emphasizes on the. Design of the electromagnetic filters by using the FSS structures. And I have been designed the FSS structures using the single layer single sided structure which is very difficult for the FSS designer to take part in. Because most of the. Traditional conventional affairs housing worked on the. Multi layer structure. That relies on. A compact. That relies on the complex structure. Which is very difficult for them to analyse their performance metrics such as. Angular Stability. Polarization, insensitivity, etc. So in order to avoid those constraints, I look into. The issues which is. Very compact. And miniaturized profile and I have designed that FSS structure using single layer single sided structures. Which provides A miniaturized structure. Thereby increasing the angular stability when the FSS screen is placed on the free space environment. Since it acts as a spatial filter at different angle of incidences, the electromagnetic waves can hit the. So at that time, the electromagnetic waves. Will get and didn't deteriorate from the frequency characteristics. So that frequency characteristics won't deteriorate. Based on the structure. Based on the design. Criteria we have chosen. The frequency of operation need to be optimized. Precisely. Particular frequency of interest we have designed so far. So this is. About my research criteria and I have been worked on. 2D structures of the. FSS Profiles. So. I have reduced the complexity of fabrications. And also. I have a. Maintaining the periodicity of the structure of unit cell within. Miniaturized structure area. Darwin increasing. Angular stability, performance and polarization. Incident performance. And the polarization insensitivity performance is? Mainly focused on the. Symmetrical. Fashions of the design When you are designing the FSS, we need to concentrate on the. Symmetrical fashions of the design criteria. So these are the techniques and criterias of methods that I have been incorporated in my full-time research to analyze. A ban stop electromagnetic filters such as FSS frequency selective surfaces. In order to. Reject the unwanted electromagnetic. Shielding. OK, so it primarily focuses on electromagnetic shielding applications. And during my PhD tenure, I also been worked as an resident counselor in the Anna University. CEG campus fosters. A particularly. At the time period, it provided strong foundation between the students. And for myself. It. Skills and develop the skills such as. Problem solving skills. And I got a chance to interact with the students beyond their academic. A situation that will be. Some kind of situation will be arises in the hostel premises. So I got a. Chance to. Additionally, take care of my PSD as well as this administrative role, so I recommend that I have a. Fulfill the criteria of academic administrative role as well as the full-time research background so. This is What about my? Personal introduction, Sir.

Okay, so your research was centered on miniaturized single-layer, single-sided FSS designs to improve angular stability and simplify fabrication—especially compared to traditional multi-layer approaches. And you mentioned guiding students during lab sessions as part of your fellowship. Anything else you'd like to add about your academic journey, or should I go ahead?

You mentioned leading lab sessions and helping students with both academic and research issues. When you're teaching a new theoretical concept in a lab environment, what's your approach to making sure students really understand the fundamentals—especially if it's a topic they find challenging?

Yeah, uh, during a full time research we don't have a chance to. Picking a lab session. When you are come under the category of senior research fellow, we got that prestigious chances to. Handle the lab session At the time, we will be fully focused on full-time research. We don't have time to interact with the students, but uh, due to this fellowship I'm getting, I got a chance to interact the lab handle sessions like uh. Fabricating. The fabricating labs such as microwave integrator labs like that. They'll be having adults regarding ma'am how the fabrication is going on, what are the procedures need to be carried out. So I got a chance to look into the procedure of fabrication process. On how they are going to analyze the structure using the printed circuit board photolithography process. And I got a chance to. Interact with the lively sessions on a theoretical concepts. So I got. This is an opportunity to explore my talent. And engaging the students to impart to excel their knowledge and research perspective also.

Alright, so you focused on guiding students through hands-on fabrication labs, especially around microwave integrated circuits and photolithography. When a student struggles with the practical steps in

Yeah. I I feel this is as an opportunity to engage the students when they are struggling in handling the laboratory sessions. I'm only the person to encase them into the eye directly, involve them and find out. Where they find difficulty. On making the process to complete. So I encased them and where they have made a. For fault I'll insist them to do not do like this. You made a mistake on this and this will be do like this I'll. And keep on teaching on my own way. And I'll take that. A chance to explore that. Where they are get recently struggled in. So I'll keep on engaging and monitoring the students where they are continuously get struggled. So at the starting of the class itself I'll make an introduction about how to. Continue the procedure. In between, if they have a doubts, they'll raise their hands on their places. They stand up in their place, they'll go and check into it. In where they are maintaining the struggle. I'll go and. Clarify the doubts accordingly on timely basis.

Yeah.

Okay, so you see the lab sessions as a chance to help students connect theory with practice—especially in fabrication and circuit analysis. What’s one method you use to explain complex topics so even students who are struggling can grasp the essentials?

Okay, so you make it a point to spot where students are stuck and step in directly, guiding them through the process and clarifying mistakes in real time. When you’re monitoring a lab session, how do you balance helping struggling students with encouraging them to solve problems on their own?

Yeah, I I used to motivate the students when someone is facing a struggle or a issue. I'll I'll keep on saying that we are a humans. It's nature to make a mistake. We need we have a developed 2 tenants. We need to develop a tendency. To learn from the mistakes. We need to make mistakes, that mistakes will shape us too. Make a better but person. If you are struggling in somewhat, you need to look into where you are in a weaker section. That section you need to. Again. And you need to tarot that area and then you will be the only person who will be strong in the background. First of all, we, we are all learners. Learning is a day-to-day. Process and. Didn't struggle something means we need a lag in the basic concepts. So we need to. I when students struggling in their. Basics Concerts. When student made a mistake. There might be a lack of concentration or lack of. And misunderstood in their basic concepts. So when we touch that basic or brush up on that basic concepts. And tell them the procedure need to be carried out. And that is not a struggle for me to clarify their students. I'm here to assist them, to help them at any time. I feel privileged to assist them.

Yeah, I I used to motivate the students when someone is facing a struggle or a issue. I'll I'll keep on saying that we are a humans. It's nature to make a mistake. We need we have a developed 2 tenants. We need to develop a tendency. To learn from the mistakes. We need to make mistakes, that mistakes will shape us too. Make a better but person. If you are struggling in somewhat, you need to look into where you are in a weaker section. That section you need to. Again. And you need to tarot that area and then you will be the only person who will be strong in the background. First of all, we, we are all learners. Learning is a day-to-day. Process and. Didn't struggle something means we need a lag in the basic concepts. So we need to. I when students struggling in their. Basics Concerts.

Alright, you focus on helping students see mistakes as learning opportunities and encourage them to revisit their basics if they’re struggling. When you notice a student keeps making the same error in the lab, how do you decide whether to reteach the concept, or let them try to figure it out on their own?

Ms, I see you co-authored a paper titled "A Novel Ultra-Miniaturized Angularly Stable Frequency Selective Surface for L-Band Shielding Applications" in the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. How did your work on this research influence the way you teach concepts like electromagnetic shielding or frequency selective surfaces to undergraduate students?

Yeah, OK. During the co-author the title L band shielding. If I had a chance to. Mentor to the UG students. I would just. Give a basic concept. We need to. See, I interpret you as a UG student now I am on the teaching side in the sense. A frequency selective surfaces will be acting as a spatial filter. It will be looked as a periodic representation like a array of structures. When the electromagnetic waves and wanted electromagnetic waves say for a Wi-Fi signals or a Bluetooth signals, whatever it is, when it comes from different angle of incidence, it hits the FSS screen. At that time, the FSS performance is mainly depends on their geometry. Their address stability and the polarization of incident waste. Since we are dealing with the free space electromagnetic waves. We need to look in looking. Into these kinds of aspects when designing the emphasis. Efficiency is nothing but a small spatial filter. If you place the FSS screen in this room, it will. Remove the unwanted. It will not allow the. A particular frequency of interest do not pass through, it will reject that band itself. We can use the frequency selective surfaces in the highly secure environment where we need to concentrate on secure purpose. Suppose example for the jail. We do not. Want to communicate in the prisoners? To communicate to the outsiders. So at the time. We need an use of jammers. So instead of replacing the jammers, we are using a passive device called a frequency selective surfaces. Which are particularly used for the electromagnetic shielding applications in the real. You really in your real day-to-day life environments we are using in the microwave ovens. The sheets the mesh like grid appearance on the. Microwave oven though that will be act as a. After magnetic shielding, FSS like structures. So these are the real time applications of FSS in my. Research I have been working on the L band shielding electromagnetic. Uh, frequency selective surfaces in L band shielding applications LV concentrating on shielding the lband ranges from one gigahertz to T. 2 gigahertz.

Yeah, OK. During the co-author the title L band shielding. If I had a chance to. Mentor to the UG students. I would just. Give a basic concept. We need to. See, I interpret you as a UG student now I am on the teaching side in the sense. A frequency selective surfaces will be acting as a spatial filter. It will be looked as a periodic representation like a array of structures. When the electromagnetic waves and wanted electromagnetic waves say for a Wi-Fi signals or a Bluetooth signals, whatever it is, when it comes from different angle of incidence, it hits the FSS screen. At that time, the FSS performance is mainly depends on their geometry. Their address stability and the polarization of incident waste. Since we are dealing with the free space electromagnetic waves. We need to look in looking. Into these kinds of aspects when designing the emphasis. Efficiency is nothing but a small spatial filter. If you place the FSS screen in this room, it will. Remove the unwanted. It will not allow the. A particular frequency of interest do not pass through, it will reject that band itself. We can use the frequency selective surfaces in the highly secure environment where we need to concentrate on secure purpose. Suppose example for the jail. We do not. Want to communicate in the prisoners? To communicate to the outsiders. So at the time. We need an use of jammers. So instead of replacing the jammers, we are using a passive device called a frequency selective surfaces. Which are particularly used for the electromagnetic shielding applications in the real. You really in your real day-to-day life environments we are using in the microwave ovens. The sheets the mesh like grid appearance on the. Microwave oven though that will be act as a. After magnetic shielding, FSS like structures. So these are the real time applications of FSS in my. Research I have been working on the L band shielding electromagnetic. Uh, frequency selective surfaces in L band shielding applications LV concentrating on shielding the lband ranges from one gigahertz to T. 2 gigahertz. OK. So the one gigahertz to two gigahertz will be completely get rejected? So that that. Frequency of interested I need to design. And also across. Python excellent. The results demonstrated an excellent.

Yeah, OK. During the co-author the title L band shielding. If I had a chance to. Mentor to the UG students.

Alright, you mentioned mentoring UG students in the context of your L-band shielding research. Can you give me a specific example of how you simplified a complex part of that work for undergraduate students — maybe in a classroom or lab setting?

Yeah, OK. During the co-author the title L band shielding. If I had a chance to. Mentor to the UG students. I would just. Give a basic concept. We need to. See, I interpret you as a UG student now I am on the teaching side in the sense. A frequency selective surfaces will be acting as a spatial filter. It will be looked as a periodic representation like a array of structures. When the electromagnetic waves and wanted electromagnetic waves say for a Wi-Fi signals or a Bluetooth signals, whatever it is, when it comes from different angle of incidence, it hits the FSS screen. At that time, the FSS performance is mainly depends on their geometry. Their address stability and the polarization of incident waste. Since we are dealing with the free space electromagnetic waves. We need to look in looking. Into these kinds of aspects when designing the emphasis. Efficiency is nothing but a small spatial filter. If you place the FSS screen in this room, it will. Remove the unwanted. It will not allow the. A particular frequency of interest do not pass through, it will reject that band itself. We can use the frequency selective surfaces in the highly secure environment where we need to concentrate on secure purpose. Suppose example for the jail. We do not. Want to communicate in the prisoners? To communicate to the outsiders. So at the time. We need an use of jammers. So instead of replacing the jammers, we are using a passive device called a frequency selective surfaces. Which are particularly used for the electromagnetic shielding applications in the real. You really in your real day-to-day life environments we are using in the microwave ovens. The sheets the mesh like grid appearance on the. Microwave oven though that will be act as a. After magnetic shielding, FSS like structures. So these are the real time applications of FSS in my. Research I have been working on the L band shielding electromagnetic. Uh, frequency selective surfaces in L band shielding applications LV concentrating on shielding the lband ranges from one gigahertz to T. 2 gigahertz. OK. So the one gigahertz to two gigahertz will be completely get rejected? So that that. Frequency of interested I need to design. And also across. Python excellent. The results demonstrated an excellent. Transmission characteristics and excellent angular stability up to 80° and polarization insensitivity. Due to its symmetrical faction. So when we are going to design A frequency selective surfaces. You need to concentrate on. The design criteria. The universal dimensions that. The miniaturization. Why we are going to focus on the miniaturized profile? Since we need to avoid the grating loops that way we can increase the accommodation of more number of unit cell in a limited space occupancy and thereby. Increasing the. Angular stability performance in order to improve the performance of polarization insensitivity. We need to look into the criteria of. Symmetrical design fashion ups. So in my research I have. Incorporated these kinds of. Initiatives and I'll be. End up with a high angular stability in polarisation insensitivity performances. When the good shielding effectiveness.

Yeah, OK. During the co-author the title L band shielding. If I had a chance to. Mentor to the UG students. I would just. Give a basic concept. We need to. See, I interpret you as a UG student now I am on the teaching side in the sense. A frequency selective surfaces will be acting as a spatial filter. It will be looked as a periodic representation like a array of structures. When the electromagnetic waves and wanted electromagnetic waves say for a Wi-Fi signals or a Bluetooth signals, whatever it is, when it comes from different angle of incidence, it hits the FSS screen. At that time, the FSS performance is mainly depends on their geometry. Their address stability and the polarization of incident waste. Since we are dealing with the free space electromagnetic waves. We need to look in looking. Into these kinds of aspects when designing the emphasis. Efficiency is nothing but a small spatial filter. If you place the FSS screen in this room, it will. Remove the unwanted. It will not allow the. A particular frequency of interest do not pass through, it will reject that band itself. We can use the frequency selective surfaces in the highly secure environment where we need to concentrate on secure purpose. Suppose example for the jail. We do not. Want to communicate in the prisoners? To communicate to the outsiders. So at the time. We need an use of jammers. So instead of replacing the jammers, we are using a passive device called a frequency selective surfaces. Which are particularly used for the electromagnetic shielding applications in the real. You really in your real day-to-day life environments we are using in the microwave ovens. The sheets the mesh like grid appearance on the. Microwave oven though that will be act as a. After magnetic shielding, FSS like structures. So these are the real time applications of FSS in my. Research I have been working on the L band shielding electromagnetic. Uh, frequency selective surfaces in L band shielding applications LV concentrating on shielding the lband ranges from one gigahertz to T. 2 gigahertz. OK. So the one gigahertz to two gigahertz will be completely get rejected? So that that. Frequency of interested I need to design. And also across. Python excellent. The results demonstrated an excellent. Transmission characteristics and excellent angular stability up to 80° and polarization insensitivity. Due to its symmetrical faction. So when we are going to design A frequency selective surfaces. You need to concentrate on. The design criteria. The universal dimensions that. The miniaturization. Why we are going to focus on the miniaturized profile? Since we need to avoid the grating loops that way we can increase the accommodation of more number of unit cell in a limited space occupancy and thereby. Increasing the. Angular stability performance in order to improve the performance of polarization insensitivity. We need to look into the criteria of. Symmetrical design fashion ups. So in my research I have. Incorporated these kinds of. Initiatives and I'll be. End up with a high angular stability in polarisation insensitivity performances. When the good shielding effectiveness. In this book.

Alright, you explained how you'd present FSS as a spatial filter and tie in real-life examples like microwave ovens and secure facilities. When you taught these concepts, did you ever encounter students who questioned the practical relevance or struggled to see why it mattered? How did you handle those moments?

So you're saying you’d tie the concept to real-world examples like the mesh on a microwave oven, and you’d anchor the discussion around the L-band shield and its frequency range. When you explain the geometry’s effect on polarization or angular stability, what’s your go-to analogy or demonstration to help students grasp why symmetry matters in FSS design?

Alright, you tied the miniaturization and symmetry of the FSS design directly to its practical performance and shielding applications, and you gave examples like microwave ovens and secure environments. When you were teaching this material, did you ever notice students struggling to grasp why symmetry matters for polarization insensitivity? How did you break down that concept for them?

Alright, you connected the research on L-band shielding and frequency selective surfaces to real-world applications, and you gave examples like the mesh in microwave ovens. That’s helpful for undergraduates. Since you’ve also handled student project guidance, can you talk about a time you had to steer a student project away from a flawed approach and help them find a better direction?

Yeah, basically. When you approached your student to do a mini project. We need to. Give all the details regarding the basics and the workflow and the procedure need to be carried out. And the basic gist about. The introduction of the FSS. First of all, I give the introduction about the frequency selective surface. Second thing. On how do you model this? Frequencies selective surfaces using the electromagnetic simulation tools. OK, so I'll. Make a demo class on how to simulate a. Uh, frequency selective surfaces using the. Simulation software like CSD. OK. Then I'll step I'll teaching the step by step approach of how to. To carry out the design step approach for the. Starting from the units design. On how to. Make it as a. Perfect array of units. And then how to excite the FSS unit cell using the simulation software? Then how to set up the frequency of interest? And how to set the boundary foundations? And these are the simulation steps I have been already. Talk to them and then I'll. Ask them to explore. Using the methodology I have been taught so far. Once the I'll give a one day time or two daytime to explore the students on their own. Definitely on the first time experiences. They'll make a mistake. OK, it's a human thing. So I'll encourage the students to. Meet me at any time to clarify their. Doubts even in the online session or in the offline classroom session. So if they come up with their doubts. I'm here to ready to help to sort out their doubts and I'm. Make them too ensure that this is not the way you need to carry it out. In this in this place you meet made a mistake. You just make a note of it. And this has to be replaced like this. Like this I'll be. A Teaching politely. To encase them without deteriorating from their progressive steps. And the process needs to be carried out. And I need to motivate them. In addition to it. I'll be teaching the. Technical error. What they had been. Struggling to go through. OK, these are the procedure or approaches. I'll be with the store. Students who face difficulties.

Yeah, basically. When you approached your student to do a mini project. We need to. Give all the details regarding the basics and the workflow and the procedure need to be carried out. And the basic gist about. The introduction of the FSS. First of all, I give the introduction about the frequency selective surface. Second thing. On how do you model this? Frequencies selective surfaces using the electromagnetic simulation tools. OK, so I'll. Make a demo class on how to simulate a. Uh, frequency selective surfaces using the. Simulation software like CSD. OK. Then I'll step I'll teaching the step by step approach of how to. To carry out the design step approach for the. Starting from the units design. On how to. Make it as a. Perfect array of units. And then how to excite the FSS unit cell using the simulation software? Then how to set up the frequency of interest? And how to set the boundary foundations? And these are the simulation steps I have been already. Talk to them and then I'll. Ask them to explore. Using the methodology I have been taught so far. Once the I'll give a one day time or two daytime to explore the students on their own.

Yeah, basically. When you approached your student to do a mini project. We need to. Give all the details regarding the basics and the workflow and the procedure need to be carried out. And the basic gist about. The introduction of the FSS. First of all, I give the introduction about the frequency selective surface. Second thing. On how do you model this? Frequencies selective surfaces using the electromagnetic simulation tools. OK, so I'll. Make a demo class on how to simulate a. Uh, frequency selective surfaces using the. Simulation software like CSD. OK. Then I'll step I'll teaching the step by step approach of how to. To carry out the design step approach for the. Starting from the units design. On how to. Make it as a. Perfect array of units. And then how to excite the FSS unit cell using the simulation software? Then how to set up the frequency of interest? And how to set the boundary foundations? And these are the simulation steps I have been already. Talk to them and then I'll. Ask them to explore.

Given your research background in frequency selective surfaces and electromagnetic shielding, where do you see the most promising directions for externally funded research over the next three years? What kinds of grants or funding agencies would you target to support your work?

You described giving students a demo on electromagnetic simulation tools like CST, letting them explore the process hands-on, and then stepping in to guide them. When you notice a student is stuck—even after your initial demo—how do you determine whether they need a fundamental concept clarified, or just help troubleshooting their simulation setup?

Alright, you walked students through simulation tools, let them try things hands-on, and then helped them spot and fix mistakes step by step. Now, given your experience with frequency selective surfaces and electromagnetic shielding, where do you see the most promising directions

Yeah, in nowadays the traditional FSS has been. There, but in future scopes the traditional FSS has to be overcome with the. Optimization techniques such as a machine learning techniques or genetic algorithm approaches. Warren, we have reduced the computational time as well as we can explore more number of projects. Where the wherein they can communicate with the. Modern devices and we can. Get a chance to integrated with. Some kind of communications devices integrated with FSS. So. A chance of. Reducing the complexity of FSS design structure. And we need to replace the human interventions like the trial and error approaches. In order to optimizing on its own, there will be lots of algorithms will be there. So we need to incorporate such those in the future scopes of works. And the research grants will be. For the next three years will be based on the AI model tools such as agenetic algorithms and machine learning techniques. And the artificial intelligence systems for RIS. Like kind of FSS need to be take care and incorporated and research grants will be. Will be highly on demand and based on these perspectives. We need to work on. To the. To bring out the high research potential outputs.

You pointed out that integrating optimization techniques like machine learning and genetic algorithms could open new doors for FSS research, especially in reducing human intervention and speeding up design cycles. If you had to build a new research group around this direction, what kinds of industry partnerships or external grants would you aim for first?

Yeah, I need to aim for the partnerships like. Uh, DRD ho. Where the difference where the uh in difference We are focusing on the. Secured and shielded system, BRDO project and BSD funded projects. And Central University Ministry funded projects. Like that and I'll be collaborating with the electromagnetic industries.

Yeah, I need to aim for the partnerships like. Uh, DRD ho. Where the difference where the uh in difference We are focusing on the. Secured and shielded system, BRDO project and BSD funded projects. And Central University Ministry funded projects. Like that and I'll be collaborating with the electromagnetic industries. When the FSS plays a major role. And in the ray domes. Also, the emphasis plays a major role for shielding purposes. So that. That's why I'll need to look into to elaborate. The collaborations with the industrial partners as well as in the funded research.

You mentioned aiming for partnerships with DRDO and ministry-funded projects, as well as industry collaboration for electromagnetic shielding. Given the push toward machine learning and AI-driven optimization in FSS, what evaluation methods would you use to accurately assess both technical and practical competencies for students working on these interdisciplinary projects?

You mentioned collaborating with DRDO and industry for electromagnetic shielding, and focusing on AI-driven optimization for FSS. If your research group succeeded in landing a major grant for this work, how would you measure whether your project actually moved the needle on institutional rankings or reputation?

On a weekly basis.

You mentioned tracking progress weekly, which is pretty frequent. What specific metrics or outputs would you look at each week to judge your group’s impact on rankings or reputation—are you focusing on publications, collaborations, patents, or something else?

On a weekly basis. Yes, on a weekly basis, we'll. Had a discussion on. How the project is going on? And what are the setbacks we have faced for the? Past weeks and what are the major. Things we need to contribute in order to improve the performance of the frequency selective surfaces. And what are the broader areas need to be concentrated? And for the. Daily real-time application scenarios. What are the methodology we need to look into the different different aspects? If the project great, grand success. And really it will be because of the research grant funded by the. Institutions as well as the their motivations. To take part in such kind of research, major research grants and. Funded projects. So without their support it's impossible any success. Pursue from my side. That is majorly contributed due to the financial assistance and the. Moral support provided by the institution. Institutions plays a major role of my huge success. Ifwitters take part in a. Landmark Benchmark in the. Huge success of taking part the funded projects. So. This is What about?

Okay, so weekly check-ins and institutional support are key for you, but I'm curious—when you look at outputs like publications, patents, or collaborations, which of those do you see as the most effective

Yes.

Right, you said “yes”—but I need a bit more than that. Out of publications, patents, or collaborations, which do you believe actually moves the needle most for institutional ranking and reputation, and why?

Yes. I need to answer in this. First of all, if you do something in a research. We need to be. Everything documentized. The document will speak. Rather than the oral communication or the theoretical. Uh, demo will be takes place at that place. We need to document whatever the projects we are. Going through and we have made so far that need to be documentized. That is what I have learned in the full time research that I have been done in the. College of Engineering Indi Anna University under the UGC fellowship, they had a set back for me. For JRF I need to pursue 2 years. There they will be check my uh. Research performance like I need to. Put published my works in the reputed journals I need to. Filed a patent as well. Then they'll. Make assessment like a three committee assessment. Then they'll conduct a meeting regarding the online session. And they'll. Clarify and then check my process and progressive improvement on how. They I I have been utilized there. Funded among. So far, about two, two years. So if they are feel satisfied based on my published patents and. Published papers in granted patents. Recognized me. Or approve my next tenure as a Senior Research Fellow. So from my full time research itself I had a experience on. Making every project into documentised and published in FPR reputed journals. And also I'll be. Well, since I've focused on innovation and uniqueness. I'll on a timely basis, I'll make it everything into a patentable. Only the patentable novelty work. I'll be choosing from my full time research onwards and I'll be making everything gets documentized on a timely timely basis. Since I need to. Show the progress of my full time research to the UGC Fellowship members. And they will be there, the person to assist me. And uh. Approve my upgrade my posting to the Senior Research Fellow. So documentation is a major thing that is also. Upgrade your institution level. And the major contribution will be the funder project. So I need to concentrate on firstly the publication of papers. And the. Once I have done the publication. So Jonas, I need to concentrate on. Filing a patent. And then by the simultaneously I'll be looking into the funded projects. It's a it's not a tedious process because I I have been familiar and experienced expertise. For the past 400 full-time research experience in my CEG campus.

Yes. I need to answer in this. First of all, if you do something in a research. We need to be. Everything documentized. The document will speak. Rather than the oral communication or the theoretical. Uh, demo will be takes place at that place. We need to document whatever the projects we are. Going through and we have made so far that need to be documentized. That is what I have learned in the full time research that I have been done in the. College of Engineering Indi Anna University under the UGC fellowship, they had a set back for me. For JRF I need to pursue 2 years. There they will be check my uh. Research performance like I need to. Put published my works in the reputed journals I need to. Filed a patent as well. Then they'll. Make assessment like a three committee assessment. Then they'll conduct a meeting regarding the online session. And they'll. Clarify and then check my process and progressive improvement on how. They I I have been utilized there. Funded among. So far, about two, two years. So if they are feel satisfied based on my published patents and. Published papers in granted patents. Recognized me. Or approve my next tenure as a Senior Research Fellow. So from my full time research itself I had a experience on. Making every project into documentised and published in FPR reputed journals. And also I'll be. Well, since I've focused on innovation and uniqueness. I'll on a timely basis, I'll make it everything into a patentable. Only the patentable novelty work. I'll be choosing from my full time research onwards and I'll be making everything gets documentized on a timely timely basis. Since I need to. Show the progress of my full time research to the UGC Fellowship members. And they will be there, the person to assist me. And uh. Approve my upgrade my posting to the Senior Research Fellow. So documentation is a major thing that is also. Upgrade your institution level. And the major contribution will be the funder project. So I need to concentrate on firstly the publication of papers. And the. Once I have done the publication. So Jonas, I need to concentrate on. Filing a patent. And then by the simultaneously I'll be looking into the funded projects. It's a it's not a tedious process because I I have been familiar and experienced expertise. For the past 400 full-time research experience in my CEG campus. 44, yes. Cortana find such experience.

Ms, you talked about engaging students in hands-on lab work and guiding them through simulation and fabrication. If you were teaching a theory-heavy course with 200 students and couldn't use slides, how would you structure a class session to keep everyone actively involved and make the material stick?

Alright, the way you described documenting everything and making sure patents and publications are prioritized definitely shows how you approach research output. Now, let’s shift a bit—if you were teaching a theory-heavy course with 200 students and couldn't use slides, how would you run a session that actually keeps them engaged and makes sure they're learning, not just listening?

OK.

OK. I'll answer to this. When I'm taking the class. Enthusiastically at the time the power gets shut down. We couldn't predict anything clearly. If something happened at at the time, we need to act. Smartly at that time. So I'll keep on my uh. Uh, interventions and everything keep on active like this, uh, if I need to teach something.

Right, you talked about the importance of documenting every project and focusing on publication and patents. So, if you were teaching that big theory class without slides, how would you actually keep 200 students engaged and make sure they're learning—not just listening?

OK. I'll answer to this. When I'm taking the class. Enthusiastically at the time the power gets shut down. We couldn't predict anything clearly. If something happened at at the time, we need to act. Smartly at that time. So I'll keep on my uh. Uh, interventions and everything keep on active like this, uh, if I need to teach something. Like. Intuitive classrooms that need to emphasize on real time application and how this to be enclosed. Say for example if I'm going to take part in the. In Furia series example. So why did you use that term Fourier series? Do you know? Every periodic signal. So what is the term you mean by periodic sign? Any idea? An analog clock which is used. In the real time application. Is a analog signal. That is, it's continuously we can predict. Everything in the analog signals OK, so. Any periodic signal which repeats its own cycle. OK, that shape won't get deteriorated. So any periodic signal we are taking as an example. That periodic signals when you. Take it for an infinite number of series. And we are going to sum up the. Sinusoids of signal. N number of sinusoid signals with an infinite number of series. That gets AMITA. We can get the get back. Any kind of periodic sickness that does work, furia sets. So this is about the Fourier series above. And we can analyze the signals in two domains, 1 is your time domain and another one is your frequency domain. So in time domain we can analyze the frequent, we cannot analyze the frequency interventions of signals. Look into it, but in frequency domain we can have a single strips. Structure. So each strips will be called as a fundamental harmonics. And that fundamental harmonics will determine the. Fundamental frequency of which the sinusoid signals is. Present there so. Uh, Surya series? Used to take part like. It will be categorized the summations like. Infinite series. From. DC Term plus. Uh, sign terms and event terms. So you just. Imagine everything. To be in a periodic cycle. So for a periodic signal we need to look into this kind of criteria. So I'll encase the students like. Of this kind of my my speeching will be. Get modulator. My hands actions will be taken part and I'll randomly ask the students what did you understand from this? Do you know where this is practically? Take part in. It is usually practically used for this purpose. Like the I'll be keep on engaging the students.

OK. I'll answer to this. When I'm taking the class. Enthusiastically at the time the power gets shut down. We couldn't predict anything clearly. If something happened at at the time, we need to act. Smartly at that time. So I'll keep on my uh. Uh, interventions and everything keep on active like this, uh, if I need to teach something. Like. Intuitive classrooms that need to emphasize on real time application and how this to be enclosed. Say for example if I'm going to take part in the. In Furia series example. So why did you use that term Fourier series? Do you know? Every periodic signal. So what is the term you mean by periodic sign? Any idea? An analog clock which is used. In the real time application. Is a analog signal. That is, it's continuously we can predict. Everything in the analog signals OK, so. Any periodic signal which repeats its own cycle. OK, that shape won't get deteriorated. So any periodic signal we are taking as an example. That periodic signals when you. Take it for an infinite number of series. And we are going to sum up the. Sinusoids of signal. N number of sinusoid signals with an infinite number of series. That gets AMITA. We can get the get back. Any kind of periodic sickness that does work, furia sets. So this is about the Fourier series above. And we can analyze the signals in two domains, 1 is your time domain and another one is your frequency domain. So in time domain we can analyze the frequent, we cannot analyze the frequency interventions of signals. Look into it, but in frequency domain we can have a single strips. Structure. So each strips will be called as a fundamental harmonics. And that fundamental harmonics will determine the. Fundamental frequency of which the sinusoid signals is. Present there so. Uh, Surya series? Used to take part like. It will be categorized the summations like. Infinite series. From. DC Term plus. Uh, sign terms and event terms. So you just. Imagine everything.

Alright, so if slides and tech fail, you rely on your own energy and keep students active. Before we wrap this section, can you give a concrete example of how you'd check whether students are actually learning during one of these sessions—what would you do to assess their understanding in real time, without traditional exams?

Alright, you’d use real-time analogies like the analog clock and walk students through Fourier series with practical examples on the spot, even if slides aren’t available. So after a session like that, how would you actually check if students understood the material—not just memorized it?

Okay, so you use real-world analogies and active questioning to keep students involved even without slides, and you modulate your delivery with gestures and spontaneous checks for understanding. If you notice a few students aren’t responding or seem disengaged during a big theory class like that, what’s your approach to getting them re-engaged?

Yeah, OK. If some of the students are not, uh, encased at that time, I'll. Because I'll be keenly monitoring on the students as while I'm taking the class. If someone is not get interacted. First let me stop that class. And I'll ask them to. Stand up. And do some kinds of hand gestures like like. Yeah, just handsome, hands down. Can we have some verbal communication games in our class? Uh uh, I will say Apple with the end of the letter E you need to say some technical words like electronics if it is. Ended up with S. Someone will say like C. Signals and systems. Again, I need to increase with little giant of technical games.

Yeah, OK. If some of the students are not, uh, encased at that time, I'll. Because I'll be keenly monitoring on the students as while I'm taking the class. If someone is not get interacted. First let me stop that class. And I'll ask them to. Stand up. And do some kinds of hand gestures like like. Yeah, just handsome, hands down. Can we have some verbal communication games in our class? Uh uh, I will say Apple with the end of the letter E you need to say some technical words like electronics if it is. Ended up with S. Someone will say like C. Signals and systems. Again, I need to increase with little giant of technical games. That will keep their mind actively encased rather than keep on scolding them.

Ms, accreditation cycles can be pretty demanding for any department. If you joined our faculty and found that outcome assessment data was inconsistent across courses, how would you approach fixing that problem?

Alright, you mix technical games and real-time interventions to re-engage students instead of scolding them. When you’re part of department-level governance, like curriculum committees or accreditation reviews, what role do you see yourself playing in ensuring standards are actually met day-to-day?

I'll stick on to the curriculum committees.

I'll stick on to the curriculum committees. Because, uh. Because, uh, we are. The students who take part the UG. Subjects they need. Need to completely rely on the basic core subjects of the core topics. In electronics and communication, we have plenty of subjects. But in our UG syllabus. The syllabus framing is a major part where the students get struggled.

Alright, you prefer to stay involved with curriculum committees, but accreditation reviews often demand tracking outcome assessments and making sure everyone’s following the right procedures. Can you give me a concrete example of how you’d ensure that faculty in your department are actually collecting consistent outcome assessment data, even when everyone’s teaching different courses?

I'll stick on to the curriculum committees. Because, uh. Because, uh, we are. The students who take part the UG. Subjects they need. Need to completely rely on the basic core subjects of the core topics. In electronics and communication, we have plenty of subjects. But in our UG syllabus. The syllabus framing is a major part where the students get struggled. We need to look into. On how to frame the syllabus. Awkward which will cover both their subject knowledges like a basic core level concepts. As well as there will be a continuity. Suppose I'm in the interest to frame the signals and system classes. So I need to look into. What are all the basic concepts that I need to? Takes place. In the signal-sen system. And I also look into the subjects advanced level like digital signal processing. What are all the? Major concepts that provide adjust in the signals and system I need to include in the. Basics like signals and systems. And also, what are all the concepts that I need to look into that, uh. Digital signal processing. I need to take care, I do not make the students to get bored and uh. Bit heavy. Of syllabus in the basics. Signal signals and systems structuring of syllabus. So I need to concentrate on the curriculum because I, I personally believe that. A curriculum of salary. Will change a major contributions to the student. To reshape them. And make their interest to academically encased. Based on the curriculum syllabus develop. So if I get a chance to make a curriculum system develop. I. Reframe the. Syllabus according to their students. Needed in technical aspects.

Alright, you’re emphasizing the importance of solid core subjects and thoughtful syllabus framing for electronics and communication students. But accreditation reviews often demand tracking outcome assessments and making sure everyone’s following the right procedures. Can you give a concrete example of how you’d handle a situation where assessment reports from different courses were inconsistent or incomplete?

You’ve got a clear perspective on curriculum design and making sure students don’t get overloaded or bored with basics. Since outcome assessment comes up a lot in accreditation, if you found inconsistent tracking across courses, what would your practical steps be to get everyone aligned and ensure reliable data collection?

Since the outcome assessment, yeah. Since in the outcome assessment. If the outcome is not there, I'll be set up some uh. Monthly basis I'll be take some. Tutorial classes wherein the problems they'll be might struggling to solve up at that class they they might had a chance to interact with me and I'll ensure that this is. The way you need to proceed. And I keep on tracking on the weekly, weekly basis on. Where they are struggling and while taking for the new classes. I'll give a brief introduction on the previous day classes itself. So there is no need to uh. Based on making the students cool. Provide no outcomes on their academic research. Because I'll be very. Clarity on my teaching concerts. And I'll be ensure. After teaching. I also giving practical analogies moreover. I'll be engaging the students like a tutorial classes on. On phrasing the practical difficulties on solving those theoretical problems. And that by that there are solutions, there are practical problems will get resolved out. So there will be no chance I'll believe in my. Teaching and I also. Make my teaching. Aligned with the students perspective so it only happens. Will we hope for the best and positive?

Professor, imagine you’re teaching a large undergraduate lab course, and a student files a formal complaint claiming your grading is unfair. Meanwhile, your department head is pressuring you to increase pass rates to meet accreditation targets. How would you handle this situation to balance academic integrity with institutional demands?