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Bio

Moorthy Muthukrishnan has over 15 years of industrial experience in USA and over 15 years of teaching, administration and research experience in engineering colleges/universities. Prior to joining NCSU/UNC-Asheville he worked as Process/Product engineer in Integrated circuit manufacturing at LSI Logic Corporation in Silicon Valley, California. He worked as a Teaching Professor at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, Professor and Head of the Department at G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science (GNITS), Hyderabad, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus in India. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

He served as coordinator for BTBP-GNITS Center for Artificial Intelligence. He coordinated the design and installation of 100 KWp solar PV power plant at GNITS. He was also heading the Entrepreneurial Development cell and GNITS-Steinbeis Center for Renewable Energy. He has over 40 publications in international conferences and journals. He served as a member of Organizing and Technical committees for several national and international conferences and workshops. He is a member of Asheville Buncombe County Critical Services Microgrid Working group which is a group of volunteers that strives to achieve energy resilience for critical services through the use of renewable energy sources and storage connected to microgrids. He also volunteers his time with Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, Raleigh.

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech
• M.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India
• B.E.(Honors). Electronics and Communication Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

Professional Interests

Embedded systems, Robotics, VLSI Design, Digital Image Processing, Solar Energy, Microgrids

Awards and Memberships

• Good Teacher Award by Rotaract Club of Hyderabad, India
• Outstanding Employee award at LSI Logic Corporation, California
• Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE)
• Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (FIETE)

Select Publications

• N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, Kostas Amberiadis, Aicha Elshabini-Riad, “Characterization of Ti Etching in Cl2/N2 Plasmas”, Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol 144, Issue 5, pp 1780-1784, May 1997.
• N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, Sharad Prasad, Brian Stine, William Loh, Ron Nagahara, James E. Chung, Duane S. Boning, “Evaluation of pad life in chemical mechanical polishing process using statistical metrology”, Proceedings Vol. 3216, SPIE. Pp 70-79, Austin, TX, September ’97.
• N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, Sharad Prasad, et al. “Assessing Polysilicon Linewidth Variation Using Statistical Metrology”, Presented at International conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, March ’98.
  Sujay Sathyamurthy and Moorthy Muthukrishnan, “System-on-a-chip Solution for Security System using Biometrics”, IMAPS India International conference, 9-10 December 2006, Hyderabad.
• N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, “Achieving Energy Self-sufficiency in Rural Areas through Renewable Energy Sources – Solar Energy and Biogas”, presented at National Conference on Energy Security for Rural Development, ESRD 2009, at Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu.
• Sai Phaneendra P, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, N Moorthy Muthukrishnan, M.B. Srinivas, “Conditional Sum Block for High Sparse Adders”, The 2011 Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia), 2011, 6-8 October 2011. (GOLD LEAF Certificate)
• Chetan Vudadha, Sai Phaneendra, Syed Ershad Ahmed, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, Moorthy Muthukrishnan and Srinivas M.B “An Improved Sum Computation Block for adders with High Sparseness ", in 20th International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS 2011), June 2011, San Diego, CA, USA.
• B. Moulika, N. Ramakrishna, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, " Evaluation of Segmentation Accuracy of the Brain Tumors with Skull stripping", International conference on Photonics, VLSI, and Signal Processing, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India, March 2014, pp 462-463.
• Jyothimai Joshi, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, " Route Map based Locomotive Position Tracking System", International conference on Photonics, VLSI, and Signal Processing, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India, March 2014, pp 21-25.
• G. Sarita, Y. Rakesh Kumar, N. Ramakrishna, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, " Intensity Based Thresholding for Liver Image Segmentation to Extract Cyst Region", Proceedings of National Seminar on ICT in Space, Defence, and Industrial Applications, Institution of Engineers (India), Hyderabad, July 2015, pp 89-93.
  V. Divya, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, “Implementation of Wireless Sensor Node for Building Monitoring using KL25Z”, Proceedings of National Seminar on ICT in Space, Defence, and Industrial Applications, Institution of Engineers (India), Hyderabad, July 2015, pp 64-67.
• N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, V. Krishna Mythili, P. Manasa Rao, Swati Patnam, Jagruti Maddela, “Voice for the Mute - Device for Translating Sign Language to Text and Voice”, Proceedings of National Seminar on ICT in Space, Defence, and Industrial Applications, Institution of Engineers (India), Hyderabad, July 2015, pp 76-81.
• Rafia Rawoof, R. Balasubramanian, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, “ Modeling and Simulation of 100 kWp Grid-connected Photovoltaic Power System”, 2015 Conference on Power, Control, Communication, and Computational Technologies for Sustainable Growth (PCCCTSG), December 11-12, 2015, Kurnool, India.
• Y. Rakesh Kumar, N. Moorthy Muthukrishnan, et al. “Statistical Parameter-based Automatic Liver Tumor Segmentation from Abdominal CT Scans: A Potential Radionomic Signature”, www.sciencedirect.com, Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, 93 (2016), pp 446-452.