Rate My Professor S Arivazhagan

Dr. S. Arivazhagan serves as Professor and Principal in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. He obtained his BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in 1986, ME in Applied Electronics from Anna University, Chennai in 1993, and PhD in Image Processing from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in 2005. Beginning his career at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti as Associate Lecturer from 1986 to 1987, he joined Mepco Schlenk Engineering College in July 1987 as Associate Lecturer and advanced through positions including Lecturer (1988-1995), Senior Lecturer (1995-1998), Assistant Professor (1998-2003), Associate Professor (2003-2005), Professor and Head (2005-2012), to his current role as Principal since June 2012, accumulating over 39 years of teaching experience.

His research specializations encompass Image Processing and Applied Electronics. Dr. Arivazhagan has published 165 journal articles, 166 conference papers, and 26 books. Key recent publications include 'Robust Person Identification with Channel Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Extraction' in JITSI (2026), 'EFFICIENT PAVEMENT CRACK DETECTION FOR REAL-TIME ROAD MAINTENANCE USING DEEP LEARNING MODELS' in ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing (2026), 'Deep Transfer Learning based Handwritten Signature Verification' in Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (2026), 'Masked face recognition with dual-stream LBP–CNN for human identity, age group, and gender classification' in Iran Journal of Computer Science (2025), and 'Synthetic aperture radar imaging of submarine manifestations on sea surface' in International Journal of Remote Sensing (2025). He has guided 16 PhD scholars to award and one is pursuing. He has secured funding for multiple projects, including the ongoing ISRO-sponsored 'Study On Space Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Analytics For Oceanographic Remote Sensing Utilizing NISAR Data' (Rs. 20,55,000) as Principal Investigator, and completed DRDO project 'Theoretical Studies on Synthetic Aperture based Ocean Surface Exploration for Submarine Detection' (Rs. 35,54,005). Dr. Arivazhagan holds 4 granted patents, such as 'Automated intelligence gathering from Gartner magic quadrant images' (2024), and has delivered 107 guest lectures. He completed a fellowship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1999.