Rajesh Kannan Megalingam

Prof. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam is an electronics engineer leading research on humanitarian technologies with special emphasis on Robotics at HuT (Humanitarian Technology) Labs and Assistant Professor at ECE Department. He completed his undergraduate in Engineering from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai in 1997 and masters and PhD at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2010 and 2015 respectively.

His research areas include Embedded Systems, Robotics, Semiconductors, and Healthcare. His research focuses on autonomous robots, vertical climbing robots, robots for rehabilitation, and robots and VLSI etc. He has seven and half years of work experience and more than eleven years of research experience. He has worked as VLSI Design and Verification Engineer at various companies like STMicro Electronics, Insilicon Incorporation etc. in Bay Area, California, USA, for six years before joining Amrita in 2004. Since then he has published more than 80 research papers at various international conferences, journals, and book chapters. He has four patents for his credits.

He is currently guiding two PhD students and several teams of bachelors and masters students as research assistants at HuT labs. He is also actively engaged in teaching and guiding several teams of undergraduate students in research and competitions. He is the IEEE student branch counselor which has won several national and international recognitions, awards, project funding etc. under his leadership.

He has won several awards including the Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor award from IEEE, NJ, USA, Outstanding Branch Counselor Award from IEEE Kerala Section, and the Award of Excellence from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, the highest award by the university.