University of Nottingham Malaysia
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Kumar T. Nandha

Professor of Electronics,

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Biography

  • Professor T.Nandha Kumar, PhD, CEng(UK), Senior Member IEEE, Fellow HEA(UK), MIET
  • Prof. Nandha obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Madras and the National Institute of Technology, India. He later earned a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham. Starting his career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia in 2005, he currently holds the position of Professor of Electronics.
  • Prior to his academic career, he worked at Intel Corporation as a senior pre-silicon validation engineer. During his time at Intel, he was involved in the gate-level validation of IO chips ICH4 and ICH5. Additionally, he was the gate-level validation lead for the ICH6 IO chip, and the RTL validation lead for legacy units of ICH7 and ICH8 IO chips.
  • Prof. Nandha has 21 years of experience in academia and four years of experience in industry. His research interests include Emerging Non-Volatile memory (memristor), VLSI design, testing, fault/defect tolerance of digital systems, FPGA, In-memory Computing, Neuromorphic Computing and Approximate Computing. He has been honoured with the Lord Dearing Award for his outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and student learning at the University of Nottingham. He has published over 100 papers in renowned international journals and conferences. Currently, he is supervising three PhD students and has successfully supervised 10 PhD students to completion. He has secured research grants totalling about RM 2 million and contributed to six books published by IET, CRC and Springer.

  • He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Computer Society and IET Circuits Devices and Systems. He is a regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 Regular, IET Journal of Engineering, IET Electronic Letters, IET Computer and Digital Techniques, Elsevier Microprocessor and Microsystems, Elsevier Microelectronics, Elsevier Measurement. Also, he has served as a technical committee member for more than 100 IEEE international conferences. He was the Tutorial chair for the Asian Test Symposium 2020. He has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at VIT University, India.

  • His team's work on NV memory has been selected by the Institute of Physics (IOP) "Semiconductor Science and Technology" as one of the HIGHLIGHTS of 2015. Also, his team's work on approximate computing has been nominated for BEST PAPER AWARD in DATE 2016; an article on approximate computing has been ranked TOP 11 for the year 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Computer; received BEST PAPER AWARD in IEEE Regional Symposium on Micro and Nanoelectronics 2019, IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics 2020, IEEE International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2021.
  • Prof.Nandha is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK), Charted Engineer (UK), Senior member IEEE, Member IET and Member TRIZ association

Expertise Summary

Teaching Summary

1. VLSI Design (EEEE3032) - Spring

2. HDL for Programmable Logic (EEEE4076) - Autumn

3. HDL for Programmable Logic with project (EEEE4075) - Year Long

4. Digital Electronics ( EEEE1029 & EEEE1032) - Autumn

Research Summary

Research interests and projects:

  1. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory
  2. Approximate Computing
  3. Neuromorphic Computing
  4. In memory Computing
  5. Reliability testing of reconfigurable integrated circuits such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
  6. VLSI Design
  7. Hardware realization - FPGA Based

Selected Publications

1. VLSI Design (EEEE3032) - Spring

2. HDL for Programmable Logic (EEEE4076) - Autumn

3. HDL for Programmable Logic with project (EEEE4075) - Year Long

4. Digital Electronics ( EEEE1029 & EEEE1032) - Autumn

Faculty of Science and Engineering

University of Nottingham Malaysia
Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

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