Education

• Ph.D (IIST)
• M.E. (REC, Trichy)
• B.E. (Bharathidhasan Univ.)

Course Offered

• Radar System - Elective Course
• Signal Processing for Communication System
• Satellite and Optical Communication 
• Information Theory and Coding
• Digital Signal Processing
• Signals and Systems
• Communication System-I ( M.Tech)
• Communication System -II (M.Tech
• Communication System-I ( B.Tech)
• Communication System -II (B.Tech)

Experience

• Working in Indian Institute of Space Science and technology till date
• Worked as a Senior lecturer in Amrita Engineering college, Vallikavu for 3 years and 2 months.
• Worked as a lecturer in Younous Engineering college, Kollam for 10 months.
• Worked as Research Staff at “Central Research Laboratory – Bharat Electronics Limited”, Bangalore for three years.
• ME Project done in “Central Research Laboratory – Bharat Electronics Limited”, Bangalore for Six months.

Research Work / Area

RIS based Communication, ISAC system, OTFS System, Hybrid beamforming for millimeter-wave communication, Massive MIMO Channel Estimation, MIMO OFDM signal processing and Communication Aspects, Multiuser detection in Sparse Code Multiple Access, LDPC coding

Funded Project

Projects guided :

• RIS based Communication system
• OTFS - ISAC system
• ISAC system - Embedding communication symbol in radar waveform
• Hybrid beamforming - Fully Connected Structure for millimeter-wave communication, Partially Connected
• Development of Antispoofing algorithm for IRNSS Receiver
• Development of Software-Defined IRNSS Receiver
• Real-time Multicarrier transmission in RTDL-SDR
• LDPC encoder and decoder
• Massive MIMO detection based on Gaussian approximation Belief Propagation
• MIMO Channel estimation
• OFDM Channel estimation, Carrier Synchronization
• ECG Analysis

Funded Projects

•   Project Title: Interference analysis and co-existence studies between GSO and NGSO satellite systems

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Sponsoring Industry: SAC ISRO

       Duration: 2 years (2023-2025)  

       Total Budget: 11 Lakhs

•    Project Title: 5G Use Cases Laboratory

        Role: Co-PI

       Sponsoring Industry: DoT and DoS

       Duration: 4 years (2023-2027)

       Total Estimated Budget: Rs.100 Lakhs for both CAPEX and OPEX for 4 years. 

•    Project Title: "Wireless Networked System Research and Performance Evaluation for Crew Modules for Indian Human Space Missions"

        Role: Co-PI

        Sponsoring Industry: DoS/IIST

        Duration: 3 years (2023-2026)

        Total Proposed Budget: Rs.51 Lakhs

Journals

• Christina Perinbam Kaniraja, Vani Devi M, “Deepak Mishra A Deep Learning Framework For Electrocardiogram(ECG) Super Resolution And Arrhythmia Classification”, -  Research on Biomedical Engineering, springer, February 2004
• Olivia Zacharia, Vani Devi M."Target Parameter Estimation for OTFS Radar using Sparse Signal Processing". Journal of Physical Communication Elsevier, March 2023.
• Sri Aditya Deevi, Christina Perinbam Kaniraja, Vani Devi Mani, Deepak Mishra, Shaik Ummar, and Cejoy Satheesh. "HeartNetEC: a deep representation learning approach for ECG beat classification." Biomedical Engineering Letters 11, no. 1, 2021.
• Vanidevi. M and N. Selvaganesan. "Fast iterative WSVT algorithm in WNN minimization problem for multiuser massive MIMO channel estimation." International Journal of Communication Systems Wiley 31, no. 1, 2018.
• Vanidevi. M and Selvaganesan. N. “Channel Estimation for Finite Scatterers Massive Multi-User MIMO System”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer Vol.36, No.9, 2017.
• D. Keerthi Priya and Vanidevi. M," Rapid Prototyping Framework of PHY WLAN OFDM Transmitter on Reconfigurable Platforms", Internal Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research, March 2014.

Conferences

• Olivia Zacharia, Vani Devi M, ”Super-Resolution Sensing of User Equipment Using Delay-Doppler Pilot -Data Structure in RIS-Aided OTFS System”, in 19th ICASSP 2024- South Korea.
• Himanshu Gupta, Vani Devi M, “Hybrid FHCS-PSK Embedding Scheme for ISAC Systems”, In 20^th IEEE Indicon – Hyderabad- December 2023
• Avaneesh Kumar Singh, Olivia Zacharia, Vani Devi M, ”Target Detection Improvement in OFDM-IM JCR System Using POGM”, 14th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Delhi, India -July 2023
•  Oliviya Zacharia, Vani Devi M,” Fractional Delay and Doppler Estimation for OTFS Based ISAC Systems” in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), in Glasgow, Scotland- March 2023
• Olivia Zacharia, Vani Devi M. "Performance Analysis of OTFS Signal with Different Pulse Shapes for JCR Systems." 2022 IEEE 18th International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Applications (CSPA),  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 24-29, 2022.
•  Medini Singh, Deepak Mishra, and M. Vanidevi,"Sparse Autoencoder for Sparse Code Multiple Access." IEEE 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC), pp. 353-358, 2021.
• Reshma S, Midhunkrishna PR, Joy S, Sreelal S, Vanidevi M. "Improved Frequency Estimation Technique for FMCW Radar Altimeters", IEEE  International Conference on Recent Trends on Electronics, Information, Communication & Technology (RTEICT) 2021, pp. 185-189.
• Deepshikha, M.Vanidevi, "Modified SCMA Decoder for 5G Uplink System", 15th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON) 2018.
• M.Vani Devi, K. Gowthami, and N. Selvaganesan. "Tracking of MIMO channel in the presence of unknown interference." In India Conference (INDICON), 2014 Annual IEEE, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2014.
• M.Vani Devi, D. Keerthi Priya, M. Haindavi, and N. Selvaganesan. "Impact of Spatial Correlation and Channel Estimation Error on Precoded MIMO Systems." In 2014 International Conference on Signal Propagation and Computer Technology, ICSPCT 2014.
• Priya, D. Keerthi, and M. Vani Devi. "Efficient architecture and implementation of PHY WLAN receiver on reconfigurable platforms." IEEE  International Conference on Computer and Communications Technologies (ICCCT), pp. 1-6. , 2014.

PhD  students 

• Salihath P ( SC22D035) IIST Fellowship (ongoing)
• Reshma S ( SC20D043) - VSSC-JRF (ongoing)
• Olivia Zacharia ( SC20D021) IIST Fellowship (ongoing)