Distinguished Chair Professor
MA English, B.Ed, NET
Dr. Lakshmi is an experienced academic and researcher with a strong interest in technology, education, and innovative learning methods. He has contributed to various research projects and enjoys mentoring students and collaborating with fellow researchers. His work focuses on applying modern technologies to create practical solutions for real-world challenges.
Presents a sub-milliwatt RF front-end architecture achieving continuous heart-rate and respiration tracking on a coin-cell battery for up to eleven days, validated on 40 subjects.
Proposes an on-device beam-steering model under 40 KB that improves indoor localisation accuracy by 27% over static beamforming baselines.
Introduces an adaptive duty-cycling scheme that extends deployed sensor lifetime by 3.1x without loss of anomaly-detection accuracy.
A survey and design guide for compact antenna geometries suited to on-body wireless devices, with fabrication notes for flexible substrates.
Details a 12mm dual-band antenna design achieving -18dB return loss across both ISM bands used in wearable telemetry.
IN Patent No. 412568 · 2023
IN Patent No. 398214 · 2021
Application No. 202541029871 · 2025
For sustained contributions to wearable RF sensing technology.
Recognised for the paper on TinyML-assisted beamforming for indoor sensing.
Awarded by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment.
Given annually to faculty rated highest by graduating students.
Science & Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India.
Indian Institute of Science, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering.