Our Faculty

Dr. Arun Kumar C. currently serves as Assistant Professor (Sl.Gd.) at School of Computing, Coimbatore Campus. His areas of research include Bioinformatics and Machine Learning. In addition to the academic activities, to name some of the activities carried out under his leadership,

• Vice Chairman – Council of Wardens, Hostels of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
• Co-Convenor – ANOKHA
• State level IETE student Forums coordinator
• Reviewer board for Elsevier and Springer journals
• Secretary General of VIT Alumni Association which has 50000 members for 2014-16
• Charter President, VIT Alumni Association Coimbatore Chapter
• Recipient of the Most Active Domestic Chapter Award of VIT Alumni Association for 2013-2014 during my tenure as President
• Member – Technical Program Commitee, GS Multi International Conference on Science and Technology,November 2014, Dubai,UAE
• Member – Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA.
• Chief Coordinator – IEEE All India Student Congress, 3-6 October 2013
• Chief Coordinator – IEEE Face to Face Meet, April 2013
• Program Director – Infosys Campus Connect during 2007-2008
• Executive Secretary for the International Conference on Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Green I.T 2009
• Has coordinated at the department level for the Institution’s NAAC accreditation and the institution obtained the highest “A” grade in 2014.
• Former Member of the Rotary club of Pollachi and has also received an award for offering the best of services to the club during 2007-08
• Co-Convenor for the AICTE sponsored National seminar on Mobile and Network Security 2007

He is responsible for starting “Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers”(IETE) student forums in all engineering colleges and polytechnics in Tamil Nadu under the jurisdiction of IETE Coimbatore center which expands its wings to more than 12 districts in Tamil Nadu. He has also inaugurated student forums and delivered technical and non-technical lectures in more than 50 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu including some of the premier institutions like Vellore Institute of Technology, PSG college of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology and so on. He also assisted Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in conducting a one day tutorial in the area of Network Security in association with Symantec Corporation at IIT Madras during May 2010 as a part of IFIP-Networking 2010. He has also proctored and mentored the IEEE Extreme programming contest, a 24 hour online coding contest during October 2011 in which his team received the All India Ranking of 8 among 1500 teams that took part in the contest across the globe at the same time. IEEE Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore won the Third prize in the IEEE Region 10(Asia Pacific Region) in the website design competition under his leadership. He was also appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking 2014 which is one of the top 10 conferences in the world to be hosted at Amrita in 2014. He is a life member of IETE and Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA. He has published more than 15 papers in leading national and international conferences and journals.