AU-KBC RESEARCH CENTRE
C.N.Krishnan
Education
B.Sc.(Maths and Physics), Kerala
University
B.
Tech (EE-Light Current Engg.), I I
T Madras
M.
Tech (EE- Semiconductor Devices), I I T Kanpur
Ph.
D. (EE- Transferred Electron Devices), I I T Kanpur
Work Experience
Senior
Research Asst., EE, IIT Kanpur.
Asst.
Professor, Electronics Dept., M I T Campus, Anna University,
Chennai
Professor,
Electronics Dept., M I T Campus, Anna
University, Chennai
Director,
School of Electronics& Instrumentation, M I T Campus, Anna University.
Director, AU-KBC Research Centre, M I T Campus, Anna University,
Chennai.
Teaching
Taught
courses in the areas of Digital Communication ;
Telecommunications ; RF, Microwave and Satellite Communication; Radar ; Signal
Processing ; Speech Processing.
Designed
and introduced new courses on Switching and Transmission, Adaptive Signal
Processing, ISDN, Speech Processing, and Broad Band Access Technologies.
Research
Research work has been in the areas of Semiconductor
Devices, Applied Signal Processing, Spread Spectrum and GPS, Kalman Filtering, Air-borne Radar, and Power Line Communications, and have
over forty research papers in these areas. Carried out over 15 externally
funded research projects with funding from agencies like the D.I.T, D.R.D.O., I.S.R.O., A.I.C.T.E.,
M.H.R.D., D.S.T., etc. Initiated
major national programs like the Micro Satellite Project at Anna University
with ISRO support, and
the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software
(NRCFOSS) with D.I.T. support jointly with C-DAC. Founder-Director
of the AU-KBC Research Centre.
University Research in India, and the
setting up of the AU-KBC Research Centre
While there is a widespread desire that India should
become a “knowledge superpower” and a “knowledge society”,
the organisational and institutional infrastructure needed to make
this happen do not seem to be getting built with the same passion and vision. A
strong University research base is universally accepted to be one such
component, which is not quite there in India today. The AU-KBC Research
Centre is an attempt to help change this situation. It evolved from the
conviction that research in Indian Universities need,
among other things, external inputs and stimuli for achieving and maintaining
even reasonable levels of quality, creativity and dynamism. Having private
players participate in and contribute to the R&D programs of the University
in the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode is one of the means through which
such a rejuvenation and replenishing of University
research can take place. This external involvement and participation helps make
research more focused and result oriented, leading to development of knowledge,
technologies and products that can contribute back to the society in economic,
social and intellectual terms. By making them an integral part of this process,
the scientists and researchers also get suitably compensated and rewarded which in turn leads
to higher levels of their motivation and productivity. Such a model also makes
it possible for research centres to move towards
financial self-sufficiency, sparing the resources of the University for
teaching and training purposes. Carried out with in a transparent and just
framework of benefit-sharing, this becomes a win-win arrangement for the
University, for the scientists and for the private player – and for the
future of Indian science and technology.