Dr. Shanmugavadivu is currently the Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Applications, at The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University), and is involved in Teaching, Research, and Extension. She holds an additional responsibility of Director, IQAC. She has 31 years of Academic experience and 21 years of research experience. Her research areas include Medical Image Analysis, Healthcare Analytics, Parallel Computing, Software Engineering and Content-Based Image Retrieval. Under her guidance, NINE Ph.D.s. were awarded; presently EIGHT Ph.D. scholars are pursuing their degree. Moreover, she has guided TWENTY ONE M.Phil. scholars. She has published 50+ research articles in International Journals; 83 in International/National Conferences and 16 book chapters. She has authored two research books and two edited volumes. Her Science Citation Index is 37. Her Google Scholar Citation index is 561 with h-Index & i-10 index as 12 & 18. She serves in the Boards of Study of other Universities and Colleges. She serves as an Editorial Board Member of two Journals. She is sanctioned with funded major research projects of UGC, DST, ICMR and PMMMNMTT for an outlay of Rs.2.39 Cr. She serves as the Coordinator for her department’s funding schemes, under UGC-SAP DRS-I (Rs.40 Lakhs) and DST-FIST (Rs.45 Lakhs). She had been on an international academic assignment to Singapore, Malaysia, USA and China. She has organised a National Conference, Week-Long Digital India Programme and two workshops. She has delivered 174 talks in national/ international conferences/ seminars. She had attended the MHRD’s Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP 2019), hosted IIT Bombay. She attended the second leg of LEAP at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (February/March 2019). Dr.Pichai holds a B.Sc. Physics (Kundavai Nachair Govt. Arts College for Women, Bharathidasan University), Master’s Degree in Computer Applications (REC, Tiruchirapalli, Bharathidasan University), Ph.D. in Digital Image Restoration (GRI); MBA-HRM (IGNOU) and M.Sc.-Applied Psychology (Bharathiar University). She had qualified UGC-NET and SLET. She is the Recipient of Indo-US 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award 2015 on the title, Augmenting the Curriculum of Higher Educational Institutions with an On-Line Integrated Cognitive-Based Employability Skills Assessment System using Signal and Video Analytics (One among the four projects sanctioned for India), with the funding outlay of Rs.125 Lakhs.

Digital Image Processing, Medical Image Analytics, AI solutions for Disease Diagnosis, Parallel Computing, Software Engineering, Object Recognition