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Prof. Dr. Oommen Tharakan K T

Professor, Dean- Research and Development

Electronics & Communication Engineering

9496080065

droommentharakan@mbcpeermade.com

Area of Specialization

VLSI Design, Simulation of VLSI circuits, Fault Simulation, Abstract Fault Modelling, Design of Test Vectors for FPGAs. EPLDs, PLAs and ASICs and Formal Specification and Verification of VLSI Design

Date of Joining : 16-12-2024
Qualifications

  • Ph.D ( Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2007).
  • ME (Dept. Of Electrical Communication Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, 1991)
  • B.Tech (Electronics & Communication, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, 1985)

Experience

  • Consultant, AgniKul Cosmos Private Ltd., Aerospace company, Chennai (as on date)
  • Group Director (Scientist/ Engineer H) of VSSC/ ISRO Trivandrum (Retired on 31.05.2023). Led a team of 200 Technical staff, members of industry partners, team members of various electronic fabrication agencies and aerospace and high reliability in achieving the goals of ISRO in the realization of Avionics packages including that required for the prestigious CHANDRAYAAN programm

Responsible for Indigenisation of Electronics Components, Screening of Electronics Components, Quality Control of Multi-Layer Printed Circuit Boards, Quality Control and Certification of Avionics Packages for Flight use and Verification and Validation of VHDL Designs for ISRO’s Launch Vehicle Programmes.

 

Patents

(1) Patent No: 276137 A method for Automatic Verification of Workability of Flash Memory Hardware (PG Journal: 10/2016)

(2) Patent No: 265352 Universal Test Suite for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (PG Journal: 08/2015

(3) Patent No: 265350 A method for Testing Erasable Programmable Logic Devices (PG Journal:08/2015)

Publications

  • Authored a book titled “Electronics Production Defects and Analysis,” by Springer Nature, Singapore in Springer Tracts in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Publication Date : April, 2022) ISBN: 978-981-16-9823-1.
  • Member of the Distinguished panel of Experts of CIRCUITNET, United Kingdom, in resolving the problems faced worldwide, in the manufacturing of electronic packages
  • Reviewer of International Journal - Emerald Publication “International Journal of Surface Mount Technology, United Kingdom.” This journal is published by the Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. The ISSN of this journal is 9540911. Based on the Scopus data, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is 0.476.
  • The paper titled “Reflow soldering in heterogeneous device environment for Aerospace Applications”, has been conferred with the Best Paper Award, in the IEEE First International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (ICEEICT-2022), Tamilnadu, February 2022 and published in IEEE Xplore May 10, 2022.
  • Contributed as a Reviewer in:
    i. IEEE International Conference on Integrated Intelligence and Communication Systems (ICIICS-2024) organized by Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi during November 22-23, 2024.
    ii. International Conference on Software Systems and Information Technology (SSITCON-2024) organized by SSIT, Tumkur during October 25-26, 2024.
    iii. IEEE International Conference on Networks, Multimedia and Information Technology (NMITCON) organized by NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru during August 9-10, 2024.
    iv. International conference on Distributed Computing and Optimization Techniques (ICDCOT-2024, Bengaluru, 15-16 March 2024.
    v. The Second International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Communication Systems (ICCACS-2024) during 23-24th February 2024.
    vi. Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Networks, Wiireless Communication (ICMNWC-2023) at SSIT, Tumkur, November 2023)
    vii. AICTE Sponsored IEEE International Conference on Networking, Multimedia and Information Technology (NMITCON) organized by NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru during September 1-2, 2023.
    viii. First IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Security (ICDNS-2023) organized by Kalpataru Institute of Technology, July 28-29, 2023.

 

Memberships

  •  Senior Member of IEEE.

Projects Guided

Project Guide for Master’s programme.

Guided the following dissertation projects for the award of Master’s degree:

1. “Behavioral Modeling in VHDL and Development of Test Suites for PIC Microcontroller,” National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (College guide Shri. MS Bhat, Asst. Professor).
2. “Configuration based testing of Erasable Programmable Logic Devices,” National Institute of Technology Kozhikode, Calicut.

Project Guide for Under graduate programme

1. “32-Bit Booth Multiplier,” Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering, Kollam.
2. “IEEE 754 Floating Point Unit: Design and Coding using VHDL,” Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum.
3. “Development of Behavioral Model of FIFO in VHDL,” Government Engineering College Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram.
4. “Robot Control Circuit,” Sree Buddha College of Engieering, Alappuzha.
5. “Development of the Behavioural Model of a 16 Bit ALU using VHDL,” TKM College of Engineering, Kollam.
6. “Development of Software for Reliability Prediction”, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam.

Achievements

  • Best Idea Award
    Recipient of the Best Idea Award from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre on the topic “Development of Architectural Description Language for Launch Vehicle Programmes”
  • Member of the Distinguished panel of Experts of CIRCUITNET, United Kingdom
  • Reviewer of  “International Journal of Surface Mount Technology, United Kingdom.”

 

Faculty Development Programs

  • Government Engineering College, Kozhikode: Topic: Low Power Semiconductor devices
  • College of Engineering, Adoor: Topic: Digital Communication
  • College of Engineering, Perumon: Topic: Multimedia
  • Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai: Topic: Formal Verification
  • ERTL Trivandrum: Topic : Digital IC Design and Test

 

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