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Prof. Ponnalagu R N

Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Analog Front end for sensors, Biomedical Signal Processing, Design and development of UAV assisted systems, IoT enabled applications, MEMS sensors and Energy harvesters
H226, Department of EEE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India
ponnalagu@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
+91 40 66303582
+91 9442042644
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ponnalagu-r-n-3420201b7/

PhD Scholars / Research Fellows (EEE)

Parvathy Nair
Research work: Miniaturized and Integrated Smart Devices for Multiplexed Biomarker Detection and Quantification

Expected Graduation: November 2026
p20220415 @ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N  and Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sanket Goel 

Research work: Intelligent Signal Processing for Wearable and Flexible Electronics
Expected Graduation: May 2027
 
p20220419 @ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sanket Goel 

Sajith PM
Area: Photocatalytic fuel cells
Expected Graduation: May 2027
p20240035 @ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N (EEE) 

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Naveen Kumar Shrivatsava (MechE) and  Prof. Ankur Bhattacharjee (EEE)

Reshma PA
Area: CL Based Energy Devices (India Norway Project)
Expected Graduation: May 2027
p20240061 @ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N (EEE) 

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sanket Goel and Prof. Rajnish Kaur Calay (UiT, Norway)

Shubham

p20240435@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Research title: Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Reliability in Continuously Operating SpeechSystems

Superviosr: Prof Manik Gupta (CSIS)

Co-supervisor: Prof. Ponnalagu R N (EEE)

 

Lohitaa J
Area: AI-enabled (LIG)-based electrochemical biosensors and microfluidic platforms for the rapid and sensitive detection of livestock diseases.

Supevisor (BITS) : Prof. Ponnalagu R N

Supervisor (Iowa State): Prof. Carmen Groves

Expected Graduation: May 2030
p20263002@ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

 

Renjikamal Reghunathan (Part-time scholar)
Area: Hybrid electric motor topology to reduce dependency on rare-earth minerals and developing control and modelling mechanisms for such motors
Expected Graduation: May 2030

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N (EEE)

Co-Supervisors: Prof. Joyjit Mukherjee (EEE) and Prof Neha Tak (EEE)

p20250514@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in5@ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

 

Rituparna Mondal (Part-time scholar)
Area: of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in smart
healthcare
Expected Graduation: May 2029
20240522 @ hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Supervisor: Prof Ponnaalgu R N (EEE)

Co-Supervisor: Prof Manik Gupta (CSIS)


Swapna Kulkarni ( Faculty scheme)
Area:Artificial Intelligence based IoT enabled system for automated detection and classification of negative anomalies and obstacles present on the road surface

Expected Graduation: May 2028
p20220200@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

RAJANI BHANDARI (Part-time scholar)

 Research work: Edge AI eneabled plant disease detetcion
Graduating May 2028
p20230122@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Supervisor: Prof. R N Ponnalagu (EEE)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. K Rajitha (Civil)

Graduated scholars

Dr. Samit Kumar Ghosh
Thesis Title; Automated Detection of Heart Valve Disorders Using Time-Frequency Analysis of Phonocardiogram Signal Biomedical signal processing
Graduation: November 2022

Supervisor: Prof. Ponnalagu R N

and Co-Supervisor: Prof. Rajesh KumarTripathy
Current position : Postdoctoral Fellow at Khalifa University

 

 

Thesis Title: IoT and ML Enabled Multiplexed Portabel Sebnsing Platforms for Measurement of Key Water Quality indicators
Graduated Sep 2025
 Supervisor: Prof. R N Ponnalagu (EEE)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sanket Goel (EEE)
Current position : Post doc fellow at Tyndall National Institute

Dr. Challa Santhi Durganjali

Thesis Title: Modeling and Simulation of Submerged Solar PV with an Efficient Energy Storage System Integrated with Wind-Fed Offshore Microgrid 

Supervisor: Prof. Sudha Radhika 

Co-Supervisors: Prof. Ponnalagu R N and Prof. Sanket Goel

Graduated in 2023

Current position: Senior Consultant @Wipro

 

Junior research fellow (JRF)

Sakthivel K
Reseach project

Electrochemical biosensors for breast milk biomarkers and wearable breast-pump development.

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