Dr. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, V.

Name:   Dr. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, V.

Designation:   Assistant Professor

Office Address:   ESB 312
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Madras
Chennai - 600 036
Phone number:   +91 - 44 - 2257 4115 (O)
Ph.D. From:  

e-mail address(es):   schakra[AT]ee.iitm.ac.in

Personal home page:   http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~schakra/faculty.html
 
  Areas of Research:  
 
  • Neural Networks

  • Computational Neuroscience

  • Character Recognition

  
  Most recently taught courses at IIT Madras and elsewhere:  
 


 
  Most recently published papers:  
 

Publications in Refereed Journals:
  • V. S. Chakravarthy & Bhaskar Kompella, "The Shape of Handwritten Character," (Accepted by Pattern Recognition Letters).

  • S. Chakravarthy and J. Ghosh. Function Emulation using the Radial Basis Function Network. Neural Networks. Vol. 10, No. 3, pp 459-478, 1997.

  • S. Chakravarthy and J. Ghosh. A Complex-valued Associative Memory for Storing Patterns as Oscillatory States, Biological Cybernetics, 75, p 229-238, 1996.

  • S. Chakravarthy and J. Ghosh. On Hebbian-like Adaption in Heart Muscle: A proposal for "Cardiac Memory". Biological Cybernetics, 76(3), April, 1997, pp 207-215.

  • S. Chakravarthy and J. Ghosh. Scale-based Clustering using the Radial Basis Function Network. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 7, no. 5 ,pp 1250-1261, September, 1996.

Conference Proceedings:

  • V. S. Chakravarthy, S.T. Thomas, N. Nair, "A model for scheduling motor unit recruitment in skeletal muscle," International Conference on Theoretical Neurobiology, National Brain Research Center, Gurgoan, February, 24-26, 2003.

  • K. H. Aparna, Sumanth Jagannathan, P. Krishnan and V. S. Chakravarthy, "An Optical character recognition system for Tamil newsprint," National Conference on Communications, IIT, Madras, January, 2003.

  • Gowri Shankar, V. Anoop and V. S. Chakravarthy, "LEKHAK [MAL]: A System for online recognition of handwritten Malayalam characters," National Conference on Communications, IIT, Madras, January, 2003.

  • N. Raghavan, M. P. Selvan, V. S. Chakravarthy, K. Vasudevan, V. Jayashankar, "Neural Network-based unit commitment of Wave Energy Units," International Conference on Digital-aided Modeling and Simulation, 6-7 January, 2003, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.

  • V. S. Chakravarthy, J. Krishnan, S. Radhakrishnan, Chaitanya Sai, “Gap Junction adaptation: A theory of Cardiac Memory,” XXIII Annual Conference of Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists, JIPMER, Pondicherry, 4-6 October, 2002.