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, Drone GPS spoofing

Awards

• Senior IEEE Member
• IEEE ComSoc Women in Communication Engineering Award for the contribution in 5G/6G research and development

Completed

• Developed Deep learning algorithm for ECG beat Classification for Reflections Info Systems PVT LTD software company in Trivandrum

Ongoing

• Reflective Intelligent Surface-Aided Joint Localization and Communication System Project ID: TTDF/6G/86  

 Role: Principal Investigator, Sponsoring Industry:  Department of Telecommunication,  Duration: 3 years (2025-2027)  ,Total Budget: 2.827 Cr

• Development and prototyping wideband spectrum sensing and sharing systems for efficient spectrum utilization Project ID: TTDF/6G/161   

 Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Sponsoring Industry:  Department of Telecommunication, Duration: 3 years (2025-2027)  ,Total Budget: 1.0824 Cr

• Drone GPS Spoofing System

 Role: Principal Investigator, Sponsoring Industry:  Kerala Police CyberDivision, Duration: 1 year (2025)  

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

Role: Principal Investigator, Sponsoring Industry:  SAC ISRO -ASRG, Duration: 2 years (2023-2025)  ,Total Budget: 8.62 Lakhs

• 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. 

• 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

• S Reshma, S Sreelal, M.Vani Devi Signal processing algorithm for estimation and mitigation of phase distortions in FMCW radar altimeter Journal of Physical Communication Elsevier, October 2024
• 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

• S Reshma, S Sreelal, M Vani Devi,” Altitude and Velocity Estimation in FMCW Radar Altimeter with Phase Noise”  In IEEE space- Bangalore -July 2025
• Aman, Olivia Zacharia, M Vani Devi,” Low Complexity Channel Estimation in OTFS Enabled MIMO Systems”, In IEEE space- Bangalore -July 2025
• 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.

• Delivered a talk on 'RIS-Assisted THz Communications: Enhancing the Future of Wireless" at the IEEE ComSoc SBC SCT-COM 1 Connect event in July 2025.
• Delivered a talk on " Integrated Sensing And Communication System" at DST-SERB Workshop on AI for 6G during the NCVPRIG Conference at IIST in July 2024.
• Keynote address on "Integrated Sensing And Communication System- Evolution, Applications, And Open Research Areas" at the national conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Engineering -CARE college of Engineering, Trichy- May 2022
• Delivered a Special lecture on "Hybrid beamforming" during the AICTE short-term training program in "Massive MIMO and mm-wave technology for 5G network"- September 2020

PhD  students 

• Neethu Verjisen(SC25D051) DOT project Felloship (ongoing)
• Mahima S.  (SC24D020)  IIST Fellowship (ongoing)
• Radhika P (SC24D064) IIST Fellowship (ongoing)
• Salihath P ( SC22D035) IIST Fellowship (ongoing)
• Reshma S ( SC20D043) - VSSC-JRF (ongoing)
• Olivia Zacharia (SC20D021) IIST Fellowship (ongoing)

Project Student

• Rakhi Anoop Senior Project Fellow