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Achuthsankar S. Nair

Achuthsankar S. Nair (born July 14, 1963)is an eminent Indian scientist known for his contributions in interdisciplinary area of scientific research. He is an influential teacher honored by the “INSA BestTeacher Award 2012”.He is the recipient of Young Scientist Award of Govt. of Kerala (1991), Cambridge Barclay Scholarship (1991), ISTE National Award for Young Engineering Teachers (1994). He is also anardent musician and a consistent green activist. Currently he is the Head of the Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

After completing his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, he pursued hisM.Phil(Computer Speech and Language Processing) from the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. His PhD is from University of Kerala. He is about to finish his second PhD in music.

Research Interests

His current areas of research include Genomic/Proteomic Signal Processing, DNA compression and Chaos Game Representation of Bio-sequences. Digital image processing is another area where he has several publications.

Publications

1. Vrinda V. Nair, Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Mitochondrial Genome Classification from Chaos Game Representation Images”.

2. Achuthsankar S Nair, “An Improved Modular Architecture for Neural Networks, Computer Science & Informatics”, Vol 24, No.3, 1994, pp 14–20.

3. Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Plotting Attractors of Iterated Function Systems (IFS)”, CSI Communications, September 1996, p 15-17.

4. Achuthsankar S Nair, “An Electro - Mechanical Teaching Model for the Transistor”.

5. Betsy Sheena Cherian, Achuthsankar S. Nair(2009), “Protein location prediction using atomic composition and global features of the amino acid sequence”, doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.12.118.

6. Vrinda V. Nair, Karthika Vijayan, Deepa P. Gopinath, Achuthsankar S. Nair, “ANN based Genome Classifier using Frequency Chaos Game Representation”.

7. Achuthsankar S Nair, “William Henry Horsley’s Memoir of Travancore (1839)”, Journal of Kerala Studies, Vol XXXI, 2004.

8. Achuthsankar S. Nair, J. S. Jayasudha, “Improving Performance of World Wide Web by Adaptive Web Traffic Reduction”.

9. Gopikrishnan, Achuthsankar S. Nair, S. Sivakumar,” Optimization in DNA Microarray Manufacture”.

10. Achuthsankar S. Nair(2006), “Combatting Disease with Computer – Aided Drug Design”.

11. Achuthsankar. S. Nair, Sreenadhan.S, “An improved digital filtering technique using nucleotide frequency indicators for locating exons.” Journal of the CSI, Vol. 36 No.1, January - March 2006.

12. Achuthsankar S. Nair, T. Mahalakshmi, “Are Categorical Periodograms and Indicator Sequences of Genomes Spectrally Equivalent?”.

13. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Sivarama Pillai Sreenadhan, “A coding measure scheme employing electron-ion interaction pseudopotential (EIIP)”. October 7, 2006.

14. Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Colin Paterson and his Medical Report of Travancore (1842)”, Journal of Keral Studies, University of Kerala, Vol. XXXIII, 2006, pp 82–113.

15. Dr Achuthsankar S Nair, “Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) Part-I”.

16. Dr Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Entertainment Industry, IPR and Open-Source Responses”, Communications of the Computer Society of India, Special Issue on Free and Open Source Softwares, 2004.

17. Vrinda V. Nair, Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Combined Classifier for Unknown Genome Classification using Chaos Game Representation Features”.

18. Vrinda V. Nair, Lissy Anto P., Achuthsankar S. Nair,” Classification of Hub and Non-hub proteins based on Chaos Game Representation”.

19. Vrinda V. Nair, Lissy Anto P., Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Naïve Bayesian Classification of Unknown Sequence Fragments based on Chaos Game Representation of Mitochondrial Genomes”.