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Dr Nadarajah Manivannan

Name: Dr Nadarajah Manivannan  BEng(Hons), DPhil(Oxford), MIET, MIEEE

Job Title: Research Fellow 

Email: Nadarajah.Manivannan@brunel.ac.uk 

Phone: +44(0)1895 267083

Brief Bio Data:

Dr Manivannan received his doctorate degree (DPhil) in optical pattern recognition at department of engineering Science, university of Oxford, UK, in 1997 and his bachelor's degree {BEng (Hons)} with first class  in electrical and electronic engineering from City university, London, UK in 1994.  He then worked for Motorola, Symbian Ltd and Open Trade Technologies Ltd; mainly in Computer Modelling/ Software development for scientific applications.   He then spent some time in teaching electronics and maths at further education colleges in UK before joining Brunel University as a Researcher.

Research Interests: Numerical modelling, electron beam  plasma, microwave plasma, non-thermal plasma, microfluidics, Bioengineering, fingerprint recognition, pattern recognition, optical correlators and image processing

Publications and News

Book Chapters:

• Memon, S., Manivannan, N., Boulgouris, N., Noor, A. and Balachandran, W., "Fingerprint Sensors: Liveness Detection and Hardware Solutions " in Sensors and Biosensors, MEMS Technologies and its Applications, Advances in Sensors: Reviews, Prof. Sergey Y. Yurish, Sensors & Transducers, 2013 (in press).

Featured Articles:

• Manivannan, N., Memon, S., Balachandran, W., "Security breaks a sweat," Electronics Letters, vol.46, no.18, pp.1241-1242, September 2010 (Invited).

Refereed papers in primary journals:

• Manivannan, N., Gonzini, O., Beleca, R., Balachandran, W. and Abbod, M, “Numerical Analysis of Kinetics Non-Thermal Plasma for Abatement of NOx and SOx from the Exhaust of Marine Diesel Engine”, IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science (submitted).
• Manivannan, N., Neil, M.A.A. and Balachandran, W.,”Optical Alignment Techniques of 4f systems”, Applied Optics (submitted).
• Noor, A., Manivannan, N. and Balachandran, W.,"Cross-platform performance of 'Transformation Invariant Algorithm for Automatic Fingerprint Recognition", IET Biomtrics (submitted).
• Natale, F.D.,  Carotenuto, C., D’Addio, L., Lancia, A., Antes,T., Szudyga, M., Jaworek, A.,  Gregory, D., Jackson, M., Volpe, P.,  Beleca, R., Manivannan, N.,  Abbod, M., Balachandran, W., “Innovative technologies for marine diesel engines emission controls”, Chemical  Engineering Transaction, Vol. 32, 2013.
• Noor, A., Manivannan, N. and Balachandran, W., “'Transformation Invariant Algorithm for Automatic Fingerprint Recognition”, IET Electronics Letters, Vol 48, No 14, pp.834-835, July 2012.
• Manivannan, N., Neil, M.A.A. and Balachandran, W., “Optical correlator-neural networks hybrid system for measuring automatic angle measurement of 2D object,’’ Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, No. 05, May 2012.
• Memon, S., Manivannan, N., Boulgouris, N., Noor, A. and Balachandran, W.,” Liveness Detection Issues and Hardware based Solutions in Fingerprint Biometrics”, Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol.136, Issue 1, January 2012, pp.35-49.
• Neil, M.A.A. and Manivannan, N. “Analysis of coherent optical filter and correlated systems using pixellated spatial light modulators”, IET Optoelectron., 2012, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 43–51.
• Memon, S., Manivannan, N., Noor, A. and N., Tigli, “Security Issues and Challenges in Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems,” Bahria University Journal of Information & Technology, Vol. 4, Issue 1, August 2011.
• Manivannan, N., Tigli, C., Noor, A. and Memon, S., “Fingerprint Biometric for Identity Management”, International Journal Industrial Engineering and Management, Vol. 2 No 2, 2011, pp. 39-44.
• Manivannan, N., Memon, S. and Balachandran, W., "Automatic detection of active sweat pores of fingerprint using high-pass and correlation filtering," IET Electronics Letters, vol.46, no.18, pp.1268-1269, September 2010.
• Manivannan, N., Neil, M.A.A. and Paige, E.G.S., “Optical multiple pattern recognition with a correlator using a single binary phase-only filters”, Optics communications 178, page 37-51, 2000.

Conference Papers:

• Manivannan, N., Blecca, R., Balachandran, W. and Maysom, A., “Removal of NOX and SOX from Marine Diesel Gas Exhaust”, Proc. of 2012 Electrostatics Joint Conf., June 12-14, 2012, Cambridge, Canada.
• Manivannan, N., Blecca, R., Balachandran, W. and Maysom, A., “Microwave Induced Plasmas for Marine Diesel Engine Emission Control”, Proc. of 2012 Electrostatics Joint Conf., June 12-14, 2012, Cambridge, Canada (Received 2nd best student paper award).
• Memon, S., Manivannan, N. and Balachandran, W., “"Active Pore Detection for Liveness in Fingerprint Identification System", 19th Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2011 Serbia (electronic proceeding), Belgrade, November 2011(Received Brunel travel grant).
• Chaychian S., Craw, P., Manivannan, N., Balachandran, W., Point-of-care Diagnostics for Sexually Transmitted Infections.  Biosensing Knowledge Transfer Network, Sept 2011
• Memon, S., Manivannan, N., Boulgouris, N. and Balachandran, W., “Reference Patterns for Automatic Active Pore Detection in Fingertip Images”, International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Paris, July 2011.
• Memon, S., Manivannan, and Balachandran, W., “Liveness in fingerprint images by active pore detection”, Rescon-11, Brunel IEEE student branch, June 2011 (Received best paper award).
• N. Manivannan and M. A. A. Neil, "Automatic angle measurement of a 2D object using optical correlator-neural networks hybrid system", Proc. SPIE, No 8055, April 2011.
• Manivannan, N. and Neil, M.A.A., “Optical Correlator-Neural Network Hybrid system for many patterns recognition”, 8th IEEE international symposium intelligent systems and informatics (electronic proceeding), Subotica, Serbia, pp. 249-251, September 2010. (Received travel RAE grant)
• Manivannan, N., Neil, M.A.A. and Paige, E.G.S., “Optical correlate architecture for the identification of many patterns with a multiplexed matched filter”, Proc. SPIE, No 3073, pp.448-491, 1997.

News:

• Planet Biometrics “Dead or alive? Sweat pores provides clues”, http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/392, 26 September 2010.
• a&s International “New Biometric Modalities”, issue 142, pp. 36, Oct 2010.