Dr. R. HariKumar received his B.E (ECE) degree from NIT (REC) Trichy in the year 1988. He obtained his M.E (Applied Electronics) degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University Chennai in 1990. He was awarded Ph.D. in Information &Communication Engineering from Anna University Chennai in 2009. He has 33 years of teaching experience at College level. He worked as faculty at Department of ECE, PSNA College of Engineering & Technology, Dindigul. He was Assistant Professor in IT Department at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. He also worked as Assistant Professor in ECE Department at Amrita Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. Currently he is working as Professor ECE at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam. He has published Two hundred and sixty papers in International and National Journals and also published around Three hundred and Twenty two papers in International and National Conferences conducted both in India and abroad.  Four sponsored projects tuned to worth of Rs 26 lakhs from the agencies like AICTE, DRDO and ICMR completed by him. He is the recipient of IETE RS Khandpur Award 2022 for his contribution towards Medical Electronics Instrumentation. His area of interest is Bio signal Processing, Soft computing, Medical Image processing, VLSI Design and Communication Engineering. Currently, he is guiding Six Ph.D theses in these areas. Nineteen of his students were awarded Ph.D by Anna University Chennai. He is life member of IETE, IAENG, & ISTE and Senior member of  IEEE. 

1. Palanisamy S, Rajaguru H. Machine Learning Techniques for the Performance Enhancement of Multiple Classifiers in the Detection of Cardiovascular Disease from PPG Signals. Bioengineering. 2023; 10(6):678. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10060678
2.  M S, Karthika.; Rajaguru, H.; Nair,A.R. Evaluation and Exploration of Machine Learning and Convolutional  Neural  Network Classifiers in Detection of Lung Cancer from Microarray Gene—A Paradigm Shift. Bioengineering 2023, 10, 933. https:// doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10080933
3.   Chellappan, D.; Rajaguru, H. Detection of Diabetes through Microarray Genes with Enhancement of Classifiers Performance. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 2654. https://doi.org/10.3390/ diagnostics 13162654
4.    Prabhakar, S.K.; Rajaguru, H.; Ryu, S.; Jeong, I.c.; Won, D.-O. A Holistic Strategy for Classification  of Sleep Stages with EEG. Sensors 2022,  vol 22, No: 9, 3557,pp1-24 May/June 2022,  http:// doi.org/10.3390/s22093557
5. Sunil Kumar Prabhakar , Harikumar Rajaguru, Chulho Kim, Dong-ok Won, A Fusion-Based Technique With Hybrid Swarm Algorithm And Deep Learning For Biosignal Classification. Frontiers in Human . Neuroscience. 16:895761.  Vol:16, article 895761,june 2022, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.895761,1-15
6.   S. K. Prabhakar, H. Rajaguru and S. Lee, "A Framework for Schizophrenia EEG Signal Classification With Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 39875-39897, 2020.
7.  Sunil Kumar Prabhakar , Harikumar Rajaguru , Seong-Whan Lee, Metaheuristic Based Dimensionality Reduction and Classification Analysis of PPG Signals for Interpreting Cardiovascular Disease”, IEEE Access, vol 7  October 2019 pp 165181-165206

Patent Granted:

1. A  System  For  Electro Gastro gram  In  Detection Of Gastric Disorders  And  A  Method  There Of -  South Africa International Patent-  2022/10067, Filed On 9.09.2022 and Granted on:21.01.2023

2. A Sensor For Stress Measurement Using Photo Plethysmography Indian  International Patent-  201941011709 Filed On 23.03.2019 and Granted on:15.09.2023

Awards

1. The  Institution Prize - 2009 from I.E (India) for the paper entitled, “FPGA Synthesis of Heterogeneous and SIRM Fuzzy System for classification of Diabetic Epilepsy Risk levels”

2.    Awarded Distinguished Scientist in Bio Signal Processing by Venus International Foundation at Annual Research Meeting 2016, 3^rd December 2016 Chennai.

3. Awarded Best Scientist by Indian Academic Researchers Association (IARA)  at Annual Research Meeting  2017,   held on 22^nd April 2017 ,Trichy

4. IEEE Madras Section Award for IEEE Journal Publication-2020

5.IETE RS Khandpur Award 2022 for contribution towards Medical Electronics and Instrumentation