1. Photonics

1. Optical Fiber Sensors

2. Fiber Bragg Gratings

3. Distributed fiber optic sensors

4. Surface Plasmon Resonance based optical sensors

1. Received funding from IC&SR, IIT Madras under the Research Scholar Innovative Students Project Programme in 2015.

2. Winner of Teaching Assistant Recognition Award(TARA) in recognition of the quality and quantity of TA Work consecutively during the academic years 2014-'15 and 2015-'16.

3. Gold Medalist in M.Tech (Communication Systems) for securing highest CGPA in NIT Trichy in 2011.

4. Secured First Rank in B.Tech Degree (ECE) in M.G. University, Kerala.

5. Scored 99.08 percentile (AIR-385) in GATE 2009.

Teaching

1. Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, IIITDM Kancheepuram: July 2019 - till date

2. Teaching Assistant, Department of EE, IIT Madras: July 2013 - May 2018

3. Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam: June 2011 - July 2013

Research

1. Project Associate, Department of EE, IIT Madras: June 2018 - June 2019

1. Life Member, ISTE

2. Life Member, ISSS

3. Life Fellow Member, OSI

4. Member, IEEE

5. Early Career Member, OSA

6. Member, SPIE

1. Professor-in-Charge Exams: April 2021 - till date

2. Professor-in-Charge Academics: Sep 2020 - March 2021

3. Professor-in-Charge Website: Sep 2020 - March 2021

4. Reviewer: Optics Express, Optics Continuum, Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE Sensors Journal

5. Invited Talk in the DBT-sponsored One Day online Seminar on "Biotechnological applications of Fiber Optic Sensors" organized by the Department of ECE, Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy on March 12, 2022.

6. Invited Talk on "Fiber Bragg Grating based Sensors" in the Three-Day Workshop on Research Trends in Optical Technologies and its Applications (RTOTA-2022) organized by VIT Chennai, January 19-22, 2022.

7. Invited Talk on "Fiber Bragg Grating based Sensors" in the AICTE ATAL sponsored Faculty Development Program on Recent Advances in Photonics organized by Department of EEE, BITS Pilani, November 25-29, 2021.

8. Invited Talk on "Fiber Bragg Grating based Sensors" in the Workshop on Imaging and Optical Sensing Technologies organized by Department of Biomedical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, November 10-12, 2021.

9. Talk on "Fiber Bragg Gratings: Principles and Applications" in Lecture Series organized by Research Center, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (S.P.I.T), Mumbai on October 9, 2021.

10. Talk on "Biomedical applications of fiber Bragg grating sensors" in FDP on Advances in Photonics and Fiber Optics Technologies organized by IETE Chennai Centre and IEEE Photonics society on June 21, 2021.

11. Webinar on "Engaging Learners through Moodle" in Faculty Development Programme on E-Content Development Organized by Virtual Learning Academy (IIIT Tiruchirappalli and IIITDM Kurnool) in Association with APSCHE, Andhra Pradesh on September 10, 2020.

12. Webinar on "Sensing with nerves of glass" organized by Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kerala on August 5, 2020.

13. Webinar on "Fiber Bragg Gratings- Principles and Applications" organized by St. Joseph's Institute of Technology, Chennai on July 3, 2020.

14. "Engaging Learners through Communication and Collaboration in Moodle" in Virtual Workshop on Develop, Deliver and Assess online courses with Moodle LMS organized by IIIT Tiruchirappalli and IIITDM Kurnool, June 8-9, 2020 and June 18-19, 2020

15. Webinar on "Biomedical applications of fiber Bragg grating sensors" organized by IE(I), Kattankulathur Local Center and Dept. of ECE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology on 18 May 2020

16. Invited talk on "Sensing the world around us through optical fibers" in One-day workshop on Recent Trends and Opportunities in Optics and Photonics organized by IE(I), Kattankulathur Local Center at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur on 6 Feb 2020

17. Invited talk on "Fiber Optical Sensor and related Technology" in Short Course organized by Indian Laser Association (ILA) at VIT Chennai on 6 Jan 2020.

1. Electromagnetic Waves: Jan-May 2022, Jan-May 2023

2. Fiber Optic Communication System Design: Jan-May 2022

3. Optical Fiber Sensors: Jan-May 2021, Jan-May 2023

4. Introduction to Photonics: Jul-Nov 2020, Jul-Nov 2022

5. Wave Propagation in Communication: Jul-Nov 2021, Jul-Nov 2022

6. Wireless Communication: Jan-May 2021, Jan-May 2020

7. Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility: Jul-Nov 2020, Jul-Nov 2019

8. Fiber Optics in Communication: Jan-May 2020

1. Jagadeeshwar L. Tabjula, Srijith Kanakambaran, Sheetal Kalyani, Prabhu Rajagopal and Balaji Srinivasan, "Outlier analysis for defect detection using sparse sampling in guided wave structural health monitoring", Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Vol. 28, No.3, e2690, Jan 2021.

2. Srijith Kanakambaran, R Sarathi and Balaji Srinivasan, "Robust classification of partial discharges in transformer insulation based on acoustic emissions detected using fiber Bragg gratings", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 10018 - 10027, Dec 2018.

3. Srijith Kanakambaran, R Sarathi and Balaji Srinivasan, "Identification and Localization of Partial Discharge in Transformer Insulation Adopting Cross Recurrence Plot Analysis of Acoustic Signals Detected using Fiber Bragg Gratings", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 1773 - 1780, June 2017.

4. Balaji Srinivasan, A.V. Harish, K. Srijith and Krishnan Balasubramaniam, "Elastic Wave Sensing Using Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Sensors and Dynamic Interrogators", Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 329 - 339, 2014.

5. Srijith Kanakambaran, T. Obulesu, R. Sarathi, Balaji Srinivasan, "Corona-type Partial Discharge Detection in Power Transformers using Fiber Bragg Gratings", Journal of CPRI, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 75-78, March 2017

6. K. Srijith, M. Deepak, Dr. S. Raghavan, "Effect of Parameter Variation on Microcantilever MEMS Sensors, International Journal of Microwave Optical Technology" , Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 211-216, July - Nov. 2011.

1. Chandana H, Archana Thrikkaikuth Chalackal, Pauline John and Srijith Kanakambaran, Fiber Bragg Grating based Wearable Device for Monitoring Respiratory Activity, IEEE Third International Conference on Technology, Engineering, Management for Societal impact using Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Talent TEMSMET 2023, Feb 2023.

2. Vattam Hemanth Naga Sai Ram, Archana Thrikkaikuth Chalackal, Somadrita Chattopadhyay, Palas Biswas and Srijith Kanakambaran, Enhancing Thermal Sensitivity of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Using Conductive Paint, IEEE INDICON 2022, Dec 2022.

3. Archana Thrikkaikuth Chalackal, Amal Chirayil Soman, and Srijith Kanakambaran, ”Investigations on Thermal Sensitivity of PDMS Embedded FBG Sensor for Temperature Sensing Applications”, XLV Symposium of the Optical Society of India COPaQ 2022, Nov 2022.

4. Amal Chirayil Soman, Archana Thrikkaikuth Chalackal and Srijith Kanakambaran, Design of Cryogenic Temperature Sensors Using Copper-Coated Fiber Bragg Gratings, IEEE TENSYMP 2022.

5. S. Shivaranjani and S. Kanakambaran, Design of a Non-Orthogonal multi-band Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulated Indoor Visible Light Communication System using Adaptive Equalizers, 2021 5th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), 2021.

6. Vimal M, Archana Thrikkaikuth Chalackal and Srijith Kanakambaran, Performance analysis of metal-coated fiber Bragg gratings for strain sensing at high temperatures, IEEE TENSYMP 2021.

7. Shivaranjani S and Srijith Kanakambaran, Performance Analysis of Multichannel 4-QAM CWDM-VLC System, 6th IEEE international Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2020 (IEEE WIECON-ECE 2020).

8. T. L. Jagadeeshwar, S. K, P. Rajagopal, and B. Srinivasan, Wave visualization of ultrasonic guided waves in a metallic structure using fiber Bragg gratings, in Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Edition, paper W4.32.

9. Dinesh L and Srijith K, Simulation studies on Force Sensor using PDMS coated Fiber Bragg Grating for Robot-assisted surgery , 4th International Conference on Optical & Wireless Technologies (OWT 2020), 2020.

10. T L Jagadeeshwar, Srijith K, Balaji Srinivasan, and Prabhu Rajagopal, Visualisation of wave propagation using Reduced Number of Samples, NDE-2019 Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation, 2019.

11. Abhinav Agarwal, Tabjula Jagadeeswar, Srijith Kanakambaran, Mohit Shrivastava and Balaji Srinivasan, Acoustic Emission Based Leakage Detection System using Coherent Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (COTDR), International Conference on Optics and Electro-optics, 2019.

12. T L Jagadeeshwar, Srijith K, Balaji Srinivasan, and Prabhu Rajagopal, Generation of Ultrasonic Guided waves in Optical Fiber and Reception using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor, NDE-2018 Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation, 2018.

13. Srijith Kanakambaran and Balaji Srinivasan, Localization of multiple partial discharge events captured through fiber Bragg grating sensors using cross recurrence plot analysis, The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2018.

14. Mohit Shrivastava, Srijith Kanakambaran and Balaji Srinivasan, Investigations on performance improvement of Distributed Acoustic Sensing through chirped pulses, The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2018.

15. Shahna M Haneef, K. Srijith, D. Venkitesh, and B. Srinivasan, Accurate determination of Brillouin frequency based on cross recurrence plot analysis in Brillouin distributed fiber sensor, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 2017.

16. Srijith Kanakambaran, T. Obulesu, R. Sarathi, Balaji Srinivasan, Corona-type Partial Discharge Detection in Power Transformers using Fiber Bragg Gratings, The 18th Asian Conference on Electric Discharge (ACED), 2016.

17. K. Srijith, R. Sarathi and B. Srinivasan, Locating Partial Discharges in Power Transformers using Fiber Bragg Gratings, Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), 2015.

18. Pabitro Ray, Srijith K., Balaji Srinivasan, Enhanced sensitivity etched fiber Bragg gratings for precise measurement of refractive index, Proc. SPIE 9654, International Conference on Optics and Photonics, 2015.

19. K. Srijith, R. Sarathi and B. Srinivasan, Detection of Partial Discharges in Power Transformers using Fiber Bragg Gratings,12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2014.

20. K Srijith, G Suresh, V Natarajan, S Raghavan, Finite Element Modelling of CMUT for acoustic imaging, Sixth ISSS International Conference, IISc Bangalore, 2012.

21. K Srijith, G Suresh, V Natarajan, S Raghavan, Finite Element Modelling of CMUT for acoustic imaging, National Conference on Sensors & Actuators : Science to Technology, CGCRI Kolkata, 2011.