T. Kannan, Chairman & Managing Director

T.Kannan is the driving force behind transforming the research lab at TIFAC into a company. He has decades of experience at the guiding industries, government committees and educational institutions. He is also the managing director of Thiagarajar Mills Pvt. Ltd, Madurai . He serves as the chairman of several industry organizations such as the Cotton textiles Export promotion council, Mumbai and Southern India Mills Association. In the past, he has served as the Chairman of CII – Southern region and also as a member of Tamil Nadu state planning commission.

He is a leading educationalist and is currently the Chairman and Correspondent of Thiagarajar College, Madurai. He is also a member of the Syndicate of Anna University.

Dr. V.Abhaikumar, Technical director

Dr. V Abhaikumar completed his B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E in Communication systems from the P.S.G college of Technology in the year 1977 and 1979 respectively. He obtained his PhD in the area of Computational Electromagnetics in the year 1986 from the Indian Institute of Technology. His areas of research interest include the use of computational electromagnetic methods for the modeling and analysis of wireless antennas.

He has been a teacher for the past thirty years and has successfully guided eight Ph.D scholars and currently six scholars are pursuing PhD under his guidance on various areas in wireless communication. He is the principal of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. He has coauthored twenty technical papers in international and national journals. and published more than hundred papers in international and national conferences. He has coauthored a cookbook on ADS Software for M/s Agilent Technologies. He has chaired many national and international conferences on RF systems and Wireless Technologies.

He is a consultant to several technology companies apart from TTSL

Dr. Mrs. S.Raju, Technical director

Dr. Mrs. S.Raju completed her B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from P.S.G college of Technology in the year 1982 and M.E in Communication systems in 1984 from Regional Engineering College Trichy. She obtained her PhD in the area of Microwave integrated circuits in the year 1996 from Madurai Kamaraj University. She holds the distinction of being the first womanengineer to obtain a doctorate from Madurai Kamaraj University.

She currently works as a Professor and Head of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and as a Coordinator of TIFAC CORE in Wireless Technologies at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.

She has been a teacher for the past twenty seven years and has successfully guided eight Ph.D scholars and currently seven scholars are pursuing PhD under her supervision. She has guided more than fifty M.E and M.S Students. She has coauthored forty seven technical papers in international and national journals. She has published sixty papers in international and national conferences.

She has successfully completed seven research projects for Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) Laboratories, namely RCI, Hyderabad , DEAL Dehradun and ARDB, New Delhi. She has been given the Career Award for Young Teachers in the year 1997 by AICTE, New Delhi and TCE Management Award.She has been a research council member, Academic Council Member, Chairman Board of Studies of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Anna University.