Dr. Gnanasekaran Thangavel is recipient of DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD of VIT University for achievement in Academics and Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He has also received BEST FACULTY AWARD from Cognizant. He studied at Vellore Engineering College (now VIT) during the period from 1985 to 1989 and received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in May 1989 from the Madras University, Madras. Latter he enrolled for Masters in Information Technology during the period from 2000 to 2002 and was awarded the first Masters degree from Bharathidasan University, Trichy. He had double post graduation. He obtained the second Masters degree in Applied Electronics from the Anna University, Chennai in June 2004.
His interest in Wireless Technology made him to choose research field. He received his PhD for his doctoral thesis titled “Performance Analysis

of Forward Error Correction Techniques for Broadband Wireless Technology” in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in May 2010.
Dr.T.Gnanasekaran has published 146 publications which include 59 International Journals and 87 International conferences. He is recognized supervisor of Anna University in Information and Communication Engineering. Under his supervisorship Seven Ph.D scholars completed their doctoral degrees from Anna University, Chennai. He has authored Six Books. He has filed Ten Patents and granted two. He has organized many Conferences, Technical Symposiums, Seminars and Faculty Development programmes. Most of them are sponsored by reputed national funding organizations like AICTE, ISTE, DRDO, CSIR etc. He is also reviewer for many international journals and conferences. He is an active member of societies like IEEE, IET, ISTE, IE(I), IAENG, IDS and ACEEE. He is associated with Agilent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, National Instruments, Erircsson, TCS, CTS, and Wipro Technologies etc.
He has 32 years of teaching experience and 15 years research experience. Presently he is working as Professor and Head in the department Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at
R.M.K. Engineering College, Kavaraipettai, Tiruvallur District near Chennai. His areas of research interest include Wireless Communications & Networks, Digital communication, Image processing, Cloud computing, Grid computing and VLSI design.
From 2005 to 2011 Dr Gnanasekaran Thangavel had worked as Associate Professor in Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu. Before joining at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, he had worked as Assistant Professor at K S R Engineering College, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu.