Dr. P. A. Karthick

Email: pakarthick@nitt.edu

Employment Profile

Job Title Employer From To
Assistant Professor (AGP 7000) National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 06th July 2018 Present

Academic Qualifications

Examination Board / University Year Division/ Grade Subjects
Ph.D.-Biomedical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras July 2016 -  
M.Tech.-Biomedical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras July 2012 7.95  
B.E. -Electronics and Instrumentation Kongu Engineering College, Anna University July 2008 73  

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities within the University

Position Faculty/Department/Centre/Institution From To
Active member in the Academics Reforms Committee National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli March 2021- Feb 2022
Stock verification officer National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Dec 2018- Jun 2020
Class committee chairperson for the second-year students, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Jul 2020 Jul 2021 Dec 2020 Dec 2021
Faculty advisor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Aug 2018 Till now

Awards, Associateships etc.

Year of Award Name of the Award Awarding Organization
2019-2020 Best Performers Award National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
2018-2019 Faculty Award Institute by National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
2019 Early Career Research Award Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India
2021 Best Written Paper Award Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, USA
2017 Post-doctoral fellowship Savoy Foundation for Epilepsy Research, Canada

Fellowships

Year of Award Name of the Fellowship Awarding Organization From (Month/Year) To (Month/Year)
2019 Duo-India Professor Fellowship Asia-Europe Vision Group, Newcastle University 2019 2019
2019 Travel grant Department of Science and Technology 2019 2019
2019 India-UKIERI support grant SPARC 2019 2019

Details of Academic Work: Courses taught at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels

Theory courses

S. No. Subject code and Subjects No. of Credits Session
1 ICPC28 Analytical Instrumentation 3 July 2018
2 ICPC30 Digital Signal Processing 3
3 ICPC16 Signals and Systems 3 Jan 2019
4 ICPC17 Industrial Instrumentation 3
5 ICPC28 Analytical Instrumentation 3 July 2019
6 ICPC28 Analytical Instrumentation 3
7 ICPE30 Digital Signal Processing 3 Jan 2020
8 ICPE36 Medical Imaging Systems 3
9 ICIR17 Project work- A section 3
10 ICIR17 Project work- B section 3
11 ICPC28 Analytical Instrumentation 3 July 2020
12 ICPE30 Digital Signal Processing 3
13 MEPC14 Instrumentation and Control Engg 3 Jan 2021
14 IC614 Computer Vision and Image Processing 3 Jan 2021

Lab courses

S. No. Subject code and Subjects No. of Credits Session
1 ICLR12 Sensors and Transducers Laboratory 2 Jan 2019
2 ICLR15 Microprocessors and Microcontroller Lab 2 July 2019
3 ICLR12 Sensors and Transducers Laboratory 2 Jan 2020
4 ICLR14 Instrumentation Laboratory 2 July 2020
5 ICLR12 Sensors and Transducers Laboratory 2 Jan 2021

Projects guided at Postgraduate level

S. No. Title of the Project
1 Implementation Of OPAS Platform
2 Analysis of Facial EMG Signal For Face Computer Interface
3 Facial EMG Based Myoelectric Control System

Courses introduced

S. No. Subject code and Subjects Session
1 ICPE41 Biomedical Signal Processing From 2019 batch onwards

Facility established

S. No. Name of the Instrument UG / PG / Research Amount Spent for Equipments
1 v-AMP Brain Products 16-Channel Data Acquisition Device Research Rs. 20,07,480.
2 Biopac 4-Channel wireless EMG system, purchased jointly with Dr. R. Periyasamy using seed grant Research Rs. 9,60,000

Details of Major R&D Projects

Title of Project Funding Agency From To Ongoing/ Completed
Development of Nonlinear Signal Processing Schemes for the Assessment of Muscle and Neural Functions Early Career Research Grant awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board 1st April 2019 September 2022 Ongoing
Novel Human-Machine Interaction Technology for the Tetraplegics (NITT)” Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) 1st April 2019 September 2022 Ongoing

Number of PhDs guided

Name of the PhD Scholar Title of PhD Thesis Role(Supervisor/ Co-Supervisor) Year of Award
K. Divya Bharathi, IIT Madras Characterization of muscle
fatiguing contractions using Surface electromyography based geometric features
Co-Supervisor 2022

Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia/Seminars Organized (as Chairman/ Organizing Secretary/ Convenor / Co-Convenor)

Title of Activity Level of Event (International/ National/ Local) Date (s) Role Venue
Five days AICTE Teaching, and Learning Academy (ATAL) sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Instrumentation, Signals and Images for the Evaluation of Physiological Systems National 16th Aug 2021-20th Aug 2021 Organizer National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Three days SPARC sponsored international workshop on Recent Trends in Biomedical Instrumentation and Assistive Technology International 26th May 2021-28th May 2021 Organizer National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Five days AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Modern Techniques for Wireless Communication Networks and Signal Processing International 19th Aug 2019- 23rd Aug 2019 Co-Convenor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Organizing committee member for the International Conference on Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICECON 2019) International 19th-21st December 2019 Co-Convenor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Invited Talks delivered

Topic Date Inviting Organization
Advanced Topics in Medical Signal Processing 17thDecember 2021 Pondicherry Technical University

Applications of Surface EMG Signals
6th September 2021 Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
Advanced Topics in Biomedical Signal Processing 26th May-28th May 2021 NIT Trichy
Hands on Project-Based Approach for Biomedical Signal Analysis using MATLAB 5th January 2021 Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis 5th July 2022 Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, and NIT Warangal

Membership of Learned Societies

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member ) Organization Membership No. with date
Member IEEE  
Member American Epilepsy Society (AES)  

Academic Foreign Visits

Country Duration of Visit Programme
Germany July 2019 IEEE EMBS
Singapore Jan –June 2018 Postdoctoral Traning
Canada July 2016 -Dec 2017 Postdoctoral Training
HongKong July 2014 IEEE DSP
USA July 2014 IEEE EMBS

Publications

(A) Refereed Research Journals:

Author(s) Title of Paper Journal Volume (No.) Page numbers Year Impact Factor (Optional)
Shib Banarjee, Divya B, PA.Karthick, and S.Ramakrishnan Influence of Viscoelasticity on Dynamic Fatiguing Behavior of Muscle Using Myotonometry and Surface Electromyography Measurements IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Accepted - 2022 4.016
Navaneethakrishna,M., PA.Karthick, and S.Ramakrishnan Analysis of Dynamics of EMG Signal Variations in Fatiguing Contractions of Muscles using Transition Network Approach IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70 1-8 2021 4.016
K. Divya Bharathi, P. A. Karthick, S. Ramakrishnan 'Automated muscle fatigue detection using cyclostationarity based geometric features from surface electromyography signals' Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 25 1-13 2021 1.763
S. Edward Jero, K. Divya Bharathi, P. A. Karthick, S. Ramakrishnan. 'Muscle Fatigue Analysis in Isometric Contractions using Geometric Features of Surface Electromyography signals' Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 68 102603 2021 3.88
Vinothini S, Punitha N, Karthick P.A., and Ramakrishnan S, Automated detection of Preterm Condition using Uterine Electromyography based Topological Features Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 41 293-305 2021 5.687
Divya Bharathi K, Karthick P.A., Ramakrishnan S., Variational Mode Decomposition based Differentiation of Fatigue Conditions in Muscles using Surface Electromyography Signals IET Signal Processing 14 745-753 2021 1.99
Makaram N, Karthick P.A., Gopinath V, Swaminathan R. Electromyography-Based Muscle Fatigue Analysis Using Binary and Weighted Visibility Graph Features. Fluctuation and Noise Letters 20 2150016 2020 1.31
Karthick, P.A., Kai Rui Wan, Angela See An Qi, Justin Dauwels, and Nicolas Kon Kam King. Automated detection of subthalamic nucleus in deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease using microelectrode recordings and wavelet packet features. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 343 108826 2020 2.785
Karthick, P. A., Hideaki Tanaka, Hui Ming Khoo, and Jean Gotman Could we have missed out the seizure onset: A study based on intracranial EEG Clinical Neurophysiology 131 114-126 2020 3.614

(B) Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings

Author(s) Title of Abstract/ Paper Title of the Proceedings Page numbers Conference Theme Venue Year
Joseph Mathew, Sivakumaran N., and Karthick, P.A. Detection of Seizure Types from the Wavelet Entropy of Scalp EEG 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) pp. 2423-2426 Biomedical Mexico 2021
Vinothini. S, Karthick, P.A. and Ramakrishnan, S, , Accepted Analysis of frequency bands of uterine electromyography signals for the detection of preterm birth 31st Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE) pp.283-287 Medical Informatics Marseille, France 2021
J. Shiva, N. Makaram, P. A. Karthick and R. Swaminathan Emotion Recognition Using Spectral Feature from Facial Electromyography Signals for Human-Machine Interface 31st Medical Informatics Europe conference pp. 486-487 Medical Informatics Marseille, France "" 2021
Joseph Mathew, Sivakumaran N., and Karthick, P.A Detection of Seizure Types from the Wavelet Energy of Scalp EEG 58th annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS), pp.339-348 Bioengineering Mississippi 2021
Arun Ganesh K, Sivalumaran N, Karthick, P.A. and S. Kumaravel. Accepted. Analysis of Corticomuscular Coherence between Cortical and Lower Limb Muscle Activities 58th annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS), pp.378-384 Bioengineering Mississippi 2021,
C. A. D’Souza, J. Shiva, K. Gobinath and P.A. Karthick Features Selection for Facial Emotion Recognition Improvement from Facial Electromyography 58th annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium pp.385-390 Bioengineering Mississippi 2021
K. Divya Bharathi, P. A. Karthick, S. Ramakrishnan 'Variation of instantaneous spectral centroid across bands of surface electromyographic signals' Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium pp.355-360 Bioengineering Mississippi 2021
J. Shiva, K. Gobinath, N. Makaram, P.A. Karthick and R. Swaminathan Recognition of Emotions from Time and Time-Frequency Features Using Facial Electromyography Signals 58th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, 2021   Bioengineering Mississippi 2021
J. Shiva, C. Sanjay, N. Makaram, P A Karthick and R. Swaminathan Analysis of surface electromyography signals in fatigue conditions under dynamic contractions using time difference of muscle activations IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium,   Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020
Divya Bharathi K, Karthick P.A., Ramakrishnan S 'Geometric Features based Muscle Fatigue Analysis using Low Frequency Band in Surface Electromyographic signals Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association   Signal and Information Processing Auckland, New Zealand 2020
Karthick, P.A., Kai Rui Wan, R. Yuvaraj, Angela AQ See, Nicolas Kon Kam King, and Justin Dauwels. Detection of subthalamic nucleus using time-frequency features of microelectrode recordings and random forest classifier In2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) pp. 4164-4167 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society   2019
N. Sivakumaran, Raji Sundarajan and P.A. Karthick Analysis of Epileptic seizures using Electroencephalography signals and High-resolution time-frequency based features Annual Meeting of the Electrostatics Society of America (ESA),   Biomedical USA. 2019
Edwards Jero, P. A. Karthick, and S. Ramakrishnan Surface EMG Based Fatigue Index Estimation for Biceps Brachii Muscle with Polynomial Wigner-Ville Marginal Spectrum 55th annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS),   Bioengineering USA 2019

(C) Books & Monographs

Author(s) Title of Book/Monograph Name of Publishers Year of Publication ISSN/ISBN Number
Vinothini. S, Karthick, P.A., and Ramakrishnan. S Analysis of Frequency Bands of Uterine Electromyography Signals for the Detection of Preterm Birth, Public Health and Informatics, IOS Press 2021 978-1-64368-184-9
J. Shiva, N. Makaram, P. A. Karthick and R. Swaminathan, Emotion Recognition Using Spectral Feature from Facial Electromyography Signals for Human-Machine Interface, Public Health and Informatics IOS Press 2021 978-1-64368-184-9
Arunganesh K, Sivakumaran N, Kumaravel S, and Karthick P. A Analysis of EEG-EMG Coherence in Low Frequency Bands, Public Health and Informatics IOS Press 2021 978-1-64368-184-9
M.Joseph, N. Sivakumaran, and P.A.Karthick Detection of Tonic-Clonic Seizures Using Scalp EEG of Spectral Moments, Biomedical Signal Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders Springer 2022 978-3-030-97845-7
Arunganesh K, Sivakumaran N, Kumaravel S, and Karthick P. A Analysis of Intramuscular Coherence of Lower Limb Muscles Activities Using Magnitude Squared Coherence, Biomedical Signal Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders Springer 2022 978-3-030-97845-7