BRIEF PROFILE

Dr.R.DHANAPAL Ph.D., FIASTED, MIACSIT, MIAENG

Professor & Head

Research Department of Computer Applications

SRM Easwari Engineering College

Chennai – 600 089

E-mail:drdhanapal@gmail.com

Phone:9940867665

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Prof.Dr.R.Dhanapal obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India. He is currently Professor & Head, Research Department of Computer Applications, SRM Easwari Engineering College, Affiliated to Anna University Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.  He has 25 years of teaching, research and administrative experience which includes 21 years of Government Service. 

Besides being Professor, he is also a prolific writer, having authored twenty one books on various topics in Computer Science.  His books have been prescribed as text books in Bharathidasan University and Autonomous colleges affiliated to Bharathidasan University.  He has served as Chairman of Board of Studies in Computer Science of Bharathidasan University, member of Board of Studies in Computer Science of several universities and autonomous colleges. Member of standing committee of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems of IASTED, Canada and Senior Member of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore and member of International Association of Engineers, Hongkong. He has Visited USA, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore for presenting papers in the International conferences and to demonstrate the software developed by him.  He is the recipient of the prestigious ‘Life-time Achievement’ and ‘Excellence’ Awards instituted by Government of India. 

He served as Principal Investigator for UGC and AICTE, New Delhi funded innovative, major and minor research projects worth of 1.7 crore especially in the area of Intelligent systems, Data Mining and Soft Computing.  He is the recognized supervisor for research programmes in Computer Science leading to Ph.D and MS by research in several universities including Anna University Chennai, Bharathiar University Coimbatore, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Tirunelveli, Periyar University Salem, Mother Teresa University Kodaikanal and many Deemed Universities. He has got 59 papers on his credit in international and national journals. He has been serving as Editor In Chief for the International Journal of Research and Reviews in Artificial Intelligence (IJRRAI) United Kingdom and serving as reviewer and member of editorial in accredited peer reviewed national and international journals including Elsevier Journals.