Dr P.Shankar is presently Director (Academics & Administration) at KGISL Institute of Technology, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. He was formerly the Founding Principal at Amrita School of Engineering, Chennai campus from 2019 to 2022. He was also associated with Saveetha University as the Principal of School of Engineering from 2010 to 2016.

Dr Shankar is a prolific researcher cum teacher with National and International credentials. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Metallurgical Engineering from PSG College of Technology (1985-89) and PhD (2001) from Indian Institute of Science. He worked on CVD deposition of Diamond films for his post doctoral research at University of Nijmegen, Netherlands (2001-2002).

Dr Shankar has served as a senior scientific officer (Scientific Officer G) at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research for nearly 19 years before shifting to a full time position in educational institutions since 2008. He has served as adjunct visiting faculty at University of Arkansas during the period 2012-2016. During his tenure at IGCAR, Kalpakkam ( Department of Atomic Energy), he has made several pioneering contributions in the field of characterization of advanced nuclear materials and in the development of novel surface engineering processes that are in use in our nuclear reactors. He has over 90 publications in refereed journals and atleast another 60 presentations in Conferences. He has 2 patents and is coauthor of 3 books.

His passion for education and to motivate students has been the driving force for him to take up full time responsibility as Academic administrator giving up a coveted post at Atomic Energy. In the last 15 years, he has been instrumental in introducing innovative changes in regulations to make the students industry ready and globally competitive.

He has won several awards including Young Metallurgist award 2002 (by Indian Institute of Metals), Young Engineer Award 2000 (by Indian National Academy of Engineers), Shiksha Bharathi Puraskar Award 2010, Mother Teresa Excellence Award 2012, etc. He has visited several countries on invitation including USA, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Korea, South Africa, etc. He has served as member of DST Indo-Brazil-SA trilateral nano initiative for a period of 2 years during 2006-08. His vision is to implement new strategies and directions in higher education to strengthen the intellectual capacity of our Nation.

Dr. S. Suresh Kumar – Accomplished, Professor, Ph.D., C. Eng., MIEEE., MIET., MIETE, MIE., MIAENG, MSESI, MBMESI, MAEMP, MSEEM, MAES., MISCA., MACCS., MSSI., MCSI., MISTE., with over 31 years of Experience in Education, Research and Development in a range of areas such as Power Electronics & Drives, Power Quality, Renewable Energy (RE) Technologies, Signal & Image Processing, Embedded Systems and IoT.

Served as a Faculty in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, PSG College of Technology (1993-2007), Coimbatore, TN, INDIA, as Director, School of Electrical Sciences, Karunya University (2007-11), Coimbatore, TN, INDIA, as Director – Research at Dr. NGP Institute of Technology (2011 – 2018), Coimbatore, TN, INDIA as Vice Principal in KGiSL Institute of Technology (2019 Onwards), Coimbatore, TN, INDIA, and as Principal from 2023 onwards. Also, he has administrated CFR / NBA / NAAC / IQAC / NIRF / IIPC / AISHE / AICTE & AU Affiliation & Approval / CII / ISO / EDC / Higher Education and various other Administrative Committees as Convenor and Coordinator for the smooth functioning of the Institutions.

Guiding Graduate / Post Graduate / Doctoral Candidates and in which 8 Ph.D. Scholars were awarded Ph.D. degree so far. As Principal Investigator and Co – Investigator he has completed 5 Government / Industry Sponsored Funded Projects worth 1 Crore successfully. Also, he is instrumental in Establishing the Centre Excellences such as DRDO Sponsored Audio Processing Centre (2005), SIEMENS Centre of Automation & Drives (2008) and Texas Instruments Centre (2014); and actively involved in numerous Government & Industry Sponsored Research Projects. He authored various peer-reviewed indexed publications and won National & International Research Awards. Acted as Reviewer for various reputed Publishers like IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Acta Press, Inderscience etc., and also visited Canada, Singapore and Sultanate of Oman in connection with Research related activities.