Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan=Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan received his Doctor of Science degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, USA in 1996. He is currently professor at the Research and Development Centre, Vel Tech University at Avdi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Previously, he was a Professor and Acting Director at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Trivandrum, India.
Prof. Vaidyanathan's main research interests are Control Systems, Dynamical Systems, Chaos Theory, Intelligent Control, Systems Modelling and Computational Science. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience. He has published over 475 research papers indexed by Scopus. He has published many text-books and edited research monographs for reputed publishers.
Prof. Vaidyanathan is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control (IJNDC), Inderscience, Olney, UK. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience, Olney, UK. He is also an Associate Editor of International Journal of Automation and Control (IJAAC), Inderscience, Olney, UK.
Prof. Vaidyanathan has guest-edited many Special Issues for Inderscience and Hindawi journals. Prof. Vaidyanathan is in the Editorial Boards of many reputed international journals. In the SciVal-Scopus World Rankings based on Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI), Prof. Vaidyanathan is ranked #19 in Computer Science and #1 in Mathematics for the 5-years period (2014-2018). In March 2018, Careers-360 (India) conferred the Best Research Faculty Award in Computer Science in India to Prof. Vaidyanathan for the academic year 2017-2018 and he received this prestigious research award from Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Honourable Union Minister for Human Resource Development in India.
Prof. Vaidyanathan has delivered plenary lectures on Control Systems, Scientific Computing and Chaos Theory in many international conferences. He has conducted several workshops on MATLAB and SCILAB in India and abroad. Read More Read Less
