faculty Profile

• Ph.D. (Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics) Thesis – Heat and Mass Transfer effects on Impulsively started vertical plate, Anna university, 2001.
• M.Phil Mathematics, Pachaiyappa’s College, University of Madras, 1991.
• M.Sc Applied Mathematics, MIT, Anna University, 1987.
• B.Sc Mathematics, Gurunanak College, University of Madras, 1985.

• Professor and Head- 2008 to till date at SVCE.
• Professor – 2005 t0 2008 at SVCE.
• Assistant Professor – 2001 to 2005 at SVCE.
• Senior Lecturer – 1999 to 2001 at SVCE.
• Lecturer – 1988 to 1999 at SVCE.

• Mathematics I
• Mathematics II
• Mathematics III
• Mathematics IV
• Bio- Statistics
• Probability and Random Processes
• Statistics and Linear programming
• Applied Mathematics for Electrical Engineers
• Probability and Statistics
• Numerical Methods
• Transforms and partial differential equations
• Applied Mathematics for Thermal Engineers

Members of the faculty of Mathematics are actively engaged in Research activities. As on date 18 Research scholars actively engaged in Research activities in different research areas like Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Process, Graph Theory, Fuzzy set Theory

Algebra, Differential Equations and Operations Research.

• More than 100 articles are reviewed by our faculty for reputed International Journals</>
• PhD Awarded : 18
• Registered : 21
• Number of Supervisors: 6
• Number of faculty with PhD qualification: 15
• Highest h-index : 26
• Highest citations : 2797

Papers Published/Presented in Conference:

• A research article titled “Advance optimization of sequence dependent flow shop scheduling in upper shoe manufacturing using Regularization Based Machine Learning Models”, authored by Dr. R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor and Head and Mr P K Sudhakar, Full time Research scholar, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (SCI and AU Annexure Journal).
• A research article titled “Optimizing Energy, Downtime and Throughput in Footwear Production through Machine Learning” authored by Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, and Mr P K Sudhakaran, Full-Time Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, has been published in Scientific Reports, an Anna University Annexured Q1 Journal with Impact Factor of 3.9.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Mr.R.M.Madhusudhan, Full-Time Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, published a research paper titled “Investigation of the consequences of Energy and Mass Transfer on the circulation through a parabolic started inclined plate with First order Chemical reaction and Uniform Thermal Flux”, JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, SCOPUS (Q4) indexed journal with impact factor 0.257.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, published the following research articles:

  1.“Simulation of reactive flow over a parabolic vertical plate using MATLAB” in Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol.39, No.3, pp.1673-1682.

  2.“Hop domination on subclasses of perfect graphs” in Theoretical Computer Science, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2025.115547.

  3.“Influence of thermal radiation and viscous dissipation on fluid flow past an oscillating vertical plate with variable surface temperature” in a Scopus indexed journal JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, which is also listed in Anna University Annexure-II.
  DOI:https://doi.org/10.17654/0973576325037.

• A research article entitled “Investigation of the consequences of energy and mass transfer on the circulation through a parabolic started inclined plate with first-order chemical reaction and uniform thermal flux” authored by Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy and his full-time research scholar Mr.Madhusudhan has been accepted for publication in a Scopus indexed journal JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, which is also listed in Anna University Annexure-II.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, published a research article titled “Investigation of the Influences of Hall Current on Magnetohydrodynamic flow past an exponentially accelerated inclined plate in the presence of rotation with variable temperature and mass diffusion”, in Journal of Advanced research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37934/arfmts.134.2.5470.
• A research article titled “Optimizing Energy, Downtime and Throughput in Footwear Production through Machine Learning” authored by Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, and Mr P K Sudhakaran, Full-Time Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, has been published in Scientific Reports, an Anna University Annexured Q1 Journal with Impact Factor of 3.9.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Mr.R.M.Madhusudhan, Full-Time Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, published a research paper titled “Investigation of the consequences of Energy and Mass Transfer on the circulation through a parabolic started inclined plate with First order Chemical reaction and Uniform Thermal Flux”, JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, SCOPUS (Q4) indexed journal with impact factor 0.257.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, published a research article titled “Hall Current and Thermal Radiation Effects on Magneto-hydrodynamic Rotating Fluid Past an Exponentially Accelerated Inclined Plate”, in International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems, 16(5), 782-789, DOI: 10.4273/ijvss.16.5.24.

Book Reviewed

• Reviewed a Book chapter titled “From Local Reactions to Global Emergence: Sheaf-Theoretic Insights into Prebiotic Chemical Evolution, for the book titled Chemistry and Biochemistry: Research Progress, UK, December 2025 and received Certificate of Excellence in Peer-Reviewing from BP International, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality of the Book.
• Reviewed a Book chapter titled “From Local Reactions to Global Emergence: Sheaf-Theoretic Insights into Prebiotic Chemical Evolution, for the book titled Chemistry and Biochemistry: Research Progress, UK, December 2025 and received Certificate of Excellence in Peer-Reviewing from BP International, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality of the Book.

Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, participated in.

• Quiz on Rise of Aatmanirbhar Innovation in National Security.
• Quiz on Cultural Heritage & Traditions of India

conducted by Ministry of Defence and MyGov.

Certificate of Reviewing:

• Dr R Muthucumaraswamy, Professor and Head, has reviewed a Paper titled “Considerations for the hydraulic design of gravity-fed water conduits in areas with rugged terrain”, for “Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics” in February 2026.
• Reviewed a research article “Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Modeling of Thermo-Magnetic Nanofluid Convection in a Wavy-Top Trapezoidal Cavity” and received Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from the Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal.
• Reviewed a research article “A Study on Dual Generalized Pierre Numbers” and received Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from the Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, has been awarded with Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing by Journal of Biochemistry International in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, reviewed research articles and received Certificate of Excellence in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the following Journals:

    1. Physics of Fluids

    2. Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    3. Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science

• Dr. R. Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, received Reviewer Certificate from

    1. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Oxford University Press.

    2. Physics of Fluids, an AIP Publishing Journal.

External Examiner:

• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, acted as External Examiner for the Viva-Voce Examination of a Research Scholar of Gauhati University, Assam conducted on 04/09/2025 through video conferencing for the award of Ph.D degree.

Ph.D Thesis Evaluated:

• Mr. G. Palanikumar, a Full-time Research Scholar, registered under the guidance of Dr. R. Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “An Investigation into the Synthesis, Characterization, and Thermal Performance of Ta₂O₅–SnO₂–Ag Nanoparticles in Solar Cookers with Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Fourier Transform Methods and Thermal Image-Based Energy Production Analysis” on 23.01.2026.
• Ms. S. Rajeswari, a Part-time Research Scholar, successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Growth and Investigation of Metal Ions Doped with Amino Acids for Photonics Application” on 23.01.2026, under the guidance Dr. R. Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head (Research Coordinator).
• Mr. S. Velmurugan, Part-Time Research Scholar, defended his Thesis on “Laplace Transform solution of parabolic started vertical plate in the presence of first order chemical reaction” successfully, under the guidance of Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli on 24.10.2025.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, has evaluated two theses titled A study of some MHD flow problems with stratification effect Heat and Mass Transfer on Flow Past Vertical Plate with Thermal Stratification submitted for the award of Ph.D Degree under Gauhati University.

Workshops Attended

• Committee-Public relations: For conducting Workshop on Applied Mathematics in Shipping Industry & Marine Technology (AMSIMT 2002) Organized jointly by IIT, Chennai.
• Committee- Review and Program: For conducting National conference on Nanoscience and Technology (NANOSPHERE 2004), organized by SVCE at college level.
• Committee- Review and Proceedings: For conducting National conference on Communication and Informatics (NCCI 2005), organized by Department of Information technology, SVCE.
• One of the Patron – Fourth National conference on computational Intelligence, 22 Feb 2007, Bharath University, Chennai.
• Committee- Review and Proceedings: For conducting National conference on Communication and Informatics (NCCI 2007), organized by Department of Information technology, SVCE.
• Member of Advisory committee : National Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehousing, March 2009, Bharath University, Chennai.
• Co-chair: National conference on Communication and Informatics (NCCI 2010), organized by Department of Information technology, SVCE.
• Convener: One day National seminar on “Selected topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics”, organized by Department of Applied Mathematics, SVCE, 9th October 2010.
• Convener : One day National seminar on “Geometric Function Theory”, organized by Department of Applied Mathematics, SVCE, 26th March 2011.
• Convener : One Day National Workshop on ?Graph Theory ? Introduction and Applications?, organized by Department of Applied Mathematics, SVCE, 3rd November 2012.
• Convener : One day seminar on Fuzzy sets and its Applications in Science and Engineering, Organized by the Department of Applied Mathematics, SVCE, 14th February 2017.

 
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ATTENDED

• ISTE Summer School on “Object Oriented Programming and C++, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 6-19 June, 1993.
• AICTE/ISTE Summer School on “Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems”, JNTU College of Engineering, Anantapur, 15- 27 May 1995.
• ISTE – Strategic Planning and Institutional development, SVCE Chapter, 3-6 January 1996.
• Windows NT and MS SQL training program conducted by Sonata Software, Department of CSE, SVCE, 15-18 April, 1996.
• QIP Sponsored Short term course on “Computer based Numerical Algorithms with Engineering Applications”, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 27 th May- 7 th June, 1996.
• Attended ISO 9001-2000 two day training course conducted by SVCE in October 2001.
• Attended one day Workshop on selected topics in Theoretical Computer Science, conducted by SVCE , 25th August 2009.
• Attended one day National Workshop on “Selected Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics”, 9th October 2010.
• Attended one day National Seminar on Geometric Function Theory, conducted by SVCE 26th March 2011.
• Attended one day workshop on Graph Theory ?Introduction and its applications, conducted by SVCE 3rd November 2012.

 
INVITED TALK

• Delivered a talk in Orientation and Faculty Development Programme on “Slow learners and action to be taken”, conducted by SVCE , 30 June 2011.
• Orientation Programme for newly joined faculty on ? Staff benefits in SVCE, and ISO 9000: 2008 QMS awareness programme, conducted by SVCE, 20-21 June 2013.
• Applications of Mathematics for Civil Engineering?, in ARTIFEX 2013, SVCE, 21st August 2013.
• Resource person for 7 days Faculty Development Programme on Probability and Queuing Theory
• Research and tips for placement drive for MCA students, Valedictory function of MCA association on 3rd April 2014.
• Delivered an invited talk on Boundary value problems and its applications, Faculty Development Training Programme on Transforms and Partial differential equations, Ganathipathy Tulsi Jain Engineering College, 24th June 2014.
• Orientation Programme for newly joined faculty on ? Staff benefits in SVCE, and ISO 9000: 2008 QMS awareness programme, conducted by SVCE, 25th June 2014.
• Attended DRDO sponsored Two-Day workshop on “Heat and MAss Transfer Analysis of Nanofluid and Hands-on Training with CFD Ansys Fluent Software” organised by the Department of Applied Mathematics in association with Department of Mechanical Engineering, SVCE, on 26, 27 March 2024.

 
Webinars Organized

• Dr. K.Vijayalakshmi, Dr.R.Umadevi & Ms.Visalakshi Subramanian, Assistant Professors, organized a Webinar on Vedic Maths – An Ancient Calculation Technique on 6.6.2021.
• Dr. R.Umadevi, Assistant Professor, is one of the organizing committee members of an International Conference on Green Materials and Renewable Energy, June 10-11, 2021 organized by Department of Applied Chemistry, SVCE.
• Dr. R.Umadevi, Dr.K.Vijayalakshmi & Ms.Visalakshi Subramanian, Assistant Professors, organized 2-Days Webinar on Fluid Dynamics on 22.6.2021 & 23.6.2021.
• Dr. M.Radhakrishnan, Dr.B.Saravanan & Dr.G.Satheeshkumar, Assistant Professors, organized a a webinar on “Applications of Finite Volume Method in Heat Transfer Problems” on 25.06.2021.

SCUDEM X 2025 Judge

• Dr. R. Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, served as a Judge for SCUDEM X 2025 (Simulation, Computation, and Differential Equations Modelling), organized under the SIMIODE initiative (A Systematic Initiative for Modelling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equation). His contribution as a Judge in this International Mathematical Modelling event was duly recognized and appreciated by SIMIODE.

Guest Lecture:

• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor and Head, served as a Resource Person and delivered a Guest Lecture on “Sustainable Development Goals and Vision 2030” in VISTAS on 19th February 2026.
• He Served as a Resource Person and shared his insights on “Finite Difference Solution for Heat and Mass Transfer Problems” in Five Days National Level Virtual FDP on Emerging Computational and Statistical Paradigms in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, organized by Department of Mathematics, School of Basic Sciences, VELS Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies (VISTAS), on 04.11.2025.
• Dr.R.Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, delivered a Guest Lecture on “Application of Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence” in Vels University, organized by School of Basic Sciences, Department of Mathematics, VISTAS on 23/09/2025.

• Management representative for ISO from the year 2012-2014 (Two surveillance audits 2013, 2014 and four internal audits (23-26) were conducted.
• Preparation of college calendar starting from the year 1989 to 2006 and 2008 to2015.
• ISO Research committee member (2004-2008)
• Chief Superintendent for Anna University Theory & Practical Examinations (2005 winter, 2014 winter, 2015 winter)
• CAT – coordinator (Continuous Assessment Test) at college level (Year 2006)
• Vice Chairman for Mathematics-Central Valuation, Anna University, 2003-2009, 2013, 2016
• Board chairman for Mathematics-Central Valuation, Anna University, 2010-2012, 2014 odd, 2015 odd(I year),2016
• Committee member for Panikar Award for the year 2008-2012, 2020-2022
• Established Research cell in the department (2008, 2014,2017, 2021,)
• Returning officer for Students Association from the year 2008-2022.
• First year Counselor, 2011, 2013
• Professor in charge ofInternal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) (2012-2014)
• Professor in charge of Quality Improvement Cell (2013-2014)
• Professor in charge for exit feedback analysis (2012-2017)
• Dean (Research) 2015-2025

 
Department level

• Project guide for Final year IT students(2004 batch)
• Class committee chairperson for IV year BTech(IT-A& B), 2005- batch students Head, Research cell 2008-2022

 
Member of Board of Studies

• Dr R Muthucumaraswamy, Professor and Head, has attended BOS meeting on 21st February 2026, as an external expert member in Mathematics Board under Science and Humanities of the following Colleges affiliated to Anna University:

    1. RMK College of Engineering

    2. RMD College of Engineering

    3. RMK College of Engineering and Technology

• Member of Syllabus sub-committee for Mathematics under Board of Science and Humanities, Anna University
• Member of Board of Studies and external expert in Mathematics, RMK Engineering College(2021-2022)
• Member of Board of Studies and external expert in Mathematics, RMK College ofEngineering and Technology(2021-2022)

Awards

• Received the Best teacher award (SVCE) for the year 2000-2001. This award based on the feedback from the final year students of batch 1996-2000.(Teachers Day 2001)
• Received the Best Faculty Award from Cognizant Technological Services (CTS) for the Academic year 2016-2017 on 31^st March 2017 (College Day function).
• Received award titled Distinguished Researcher & Scholar Icon – 2017 under Applied Mathematics, from Jupiter Publications and Consortium and Ingenious Cyberonics Private Limited, Chennai on 22^nd July 2017. He received plague and certificate from the organizers Cash Prizes/Incentives/Awards

 
Received cash prizes from the Management(SVCE) for publishing papers in reputed national and international Journals.

• Year 1998-1999  2000/- for 2 International Journals
• Year 1999-2000  3000/- for 2 Int. & 1 National Journals
• Year 2000-2001  4000/- for 2 Int. & 2 National Journals
• Year 2001-2002  6500/- for 6 Int. & 1 National Journals
• Year 2002-2003 Rs.11000/- for 4 Int. & 2 National Journals
• Year 2003-2004 Rs.10000/- for 3 Int. & 2 National Journals
• Year 2004-2005 Rs.19000/- for 3 Int. & 2 National Journals
• Year 2005-2006 Rs. 7000/- for 1 Int. & 1 National Journals
• Year 2006-2007 Rs.15,000/- for 3 Int. Journals
• Year 2007-2008 Rs. 48,000/- for 12 research papers
• Year 2008-2009 Rs. 49,000/- for 17 research papers
• Year 2009-2010 Rs. 63,000/- for 18 research papers
• Year 2010-2011 Rs. 68,000/- for 22 research papers
• Year 2011-2012 Rs. 1, 28,000/-for 32 research papers
• Year 2012-2013 Rs. 49,000 /- for 17 research papers
• Year 2013-2014 Rs. 33,000/- for 25 research papers
• Year 2014-2015 Rs. 45,000/- for 21 research papers
• Year 2015-2016 Rs. 45,000/- for 21 research papers
• Year 2016-2017 Rs. 33,000/- for 12 research papers
• Year 2017-2018 Rs. 21,000/- for  9 research papers and one text Book
• Year 2018-2019 Rs. 7000/- for one paper and text book
• Year 2019-2020 Rs. 14,000/- for 4 Research papers
• Year 2020-2021 Rs. 8,000/- for 4 Research papers

 
Achievements

• My name is included in 7th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering., New Jersey, USA. This selection is based on my research contribution in the field of Science and Engineering.

 
Year 2012

• As Mark of respect to the Legendary Mathematician SRI S Ramanujan on his 125th Birth Anniversary, our Hon Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh announced the year 2012 as year of Mathematicians. The cricket Federation of India and AMN Global project jointly conducted under-17 all India cricket league championship in four different venues. The organizers are honor 2012 Mathematicians. The organizers also planned to honor top 3 Mathematicians from their enrollment forms out of 2012 Mathematicians. I have received the award for second position (out of top three Mathematicians) from the Governor of Tamilnadu, Dr Rosaiah, during the closing ceremony at Singaram Pillai School grounds, Villivakkam on 29.4.2012 at 4.30 pm. The award carries certificate, silver medal and Gold coated cup.