Mr. C.Arun Kumar B.E., M.Tech

Hailing from Pollachi, he did B.E in Computer Science and Engineering at Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi and his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He is currently doing his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore. He is working as an Assistant Professor-Senior Grade in the I.T department of Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore since August 2006. Placed in WIPRO technologies, Bangalore, he took up the teaching profession out of his own interest. His research paper in the area of Mobile Communication won the “Best Research Paper award” in the Computer Society of India National Conference in 2009. In addition to the academic activities, to name some of the activities carried out under his leadership,

·         State level IETE student Forums coordinator

·         Student Branch Counsellor of IEEE, Amrita University

·         Secretary General of VIT Alumni Association which has 45000 members for 2014-2016

·         Charter President, VIT Alumni Association Coimbatore Chapter

·         Recipient of the Most Active Domestic Chapter Award of VIT Alumni Association for 2013-2014 during my tenure as President

·         Question paper setter for M.Sc degree program of Madras University

·         Question Paper setter for M.Tech program at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women,Tiruchengode

·         Member – Technical Program Commitee, GS Multi International Conference on Science and Technology,November 2014, Dubai,UAE

·         Member – Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA.

·         Member of the Internal Quality and Assessment Cell(IQAC), Amrita

·         Assistant Coordinator for National Workshop on Android Development, April 2014

·         Assistant Coordinator for National Workshop on Multimedia and Video Streaming, May 2014

·         Chief Coordinator – IEEE All India Student Congress, 3-6 October 2013

·         Chief Coordinator – IEEE Face to Face Meet, April 2013

·         Program Director – Infosys Campus Connect during 2007-2008

·         Organizing Committee Member of International Collegiate Programming Contest(ICPC) since 2007

·         Organizing Secretary of International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking(ICDCN), January 4-7,2014

·         Joint Secretary for the CSI Regional Student Convention 2011

·         Executive Secretary for the International Conference on Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Green I.T 2009

·         Organized World Quality Day 2009

·         Has coordinated at the department level for the University’s NAAC accreditation and the university obtained the highest “A” grade in 2007.

·         Former Member of the Rotary club of Pollachi and has also received an award for offering the best of services to the club during 2007-08

·         Program Director for the Infosys Campus Connect Program of the Amrita University

·         Co-Convenor for the AICTE sponsored National seminar on Mobile and Network Security 2007

·         Class representative during B.E and M.Tech programs

He is responsible for starting “Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers”(IETE) student forums in all engineering colleges and polytechnics in Tamilnadu under the jurisdiction of IETE Coimbatore center which expands its wings to more than 12 districts in Tamilnadu. He has also inaugurated student forums and delivered technical and non-technical lectures in more than 50 engineering colleges in Tamilnadu including some of the premier institutions like Vellore Institute of Technology, PSG college of Technology, KSR College of Engineering, Tiruchengode, Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Tamilnadu College of Engineering, NGP Institute of Technology, SSK College of Engineering, Easa College of Engineering, Sona College of Technology-Salem, MEPCO-Sivakasi, Oxford Engineering College, Jayaram Engineering College, Saranathan College of Engineering-Trichy to name a few.  He also assisted the Amrita University in conducting a one day tutorial in the area of Network Security in association with Symantec Corporation at IIT Madras during May 2010 as a part of IFIP-Networking 2010. Under his leadership, IEEE chapter of Amrita received an Award from IEEE Madras Section for organizing maximum number of events in 2011. It is worthy to note that only 6 colleges in Tamilnadu have received this award out of 500 colleges and universities in Tamilnadu. He has also proctored and mentored the IEEE Extreme programming contest, a 24 hour online coding contest during October 2011 in which his team received the All India Ranking of 8 among 1500 teams that took part in the contest across the globe at the same time. IEEE Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore won the Third prize in the IEEE Region 10(Asia Pacific Region) in the website design competition under his leadership. He is also appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking 2014 which is one of the top 10 conferences in the world to be hosted at Amrita in 2014. He is an institutional member of Computer Society of India, Coimbatore chapter and also a member of IETE, IEEE and Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA. He has published more that 10 papers in leading national and international conferences and journals.

1.Amrita IEEE-Student Branch won Third Prize in the Website Design Contest for IEEE region 10 under my leadership.

2.ACM-IBM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014

3.International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking(ICDCN),2014

4.IEEE Student Congress 2013

5.International Conference on Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Green I.T - 2009