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Address:
Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan BA, PhD
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5618
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5661
Email: visakan @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C6b, Amy Johnson Building
Biopic
Research interests
Grants
Professional activities and recognition
Key publications since 2001
I was born in Jaffna, Srilanka, educated at St. Johns College, Jaffna and spent a brief period at the University of Peradeniya before moving to the UK. I graduated with a Class I Degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the Engineering Department at Cambridge University, followed by a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the same institution. I was awarded the Lord Mountbatten Memorial Scholarship from Christ´s College, Cambridge.
I was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at Sheffield in 1993 following brief post-doctoral research positions at Cambridge and Surrey Universities. During the last few years, I was promoted to Senior Lecturer, then Reader and in 2007 to the current position of Professor of Signal and Information Processing.
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My research interests belong to the broad category of signal and information processing. Some of the research activity falls within the Signal Processing and Complex Systems Research Team headed by Professor Billings and some within the Rolls-Royce UTC headed by Professor Fleming. They include both theoretical and applications research, and also external collaborations with the Departments of Chemical and Process Engineering, Information Studies, Psychology and Biomedical Sciences in Sheffield. I am also a member of the University Centre for Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience.
The main research themes are:
- Modelling and Identification of Complex Systems
- Modelling and Estimation for Systems Biology
- Statistical Signal Processing and Application to Medical Signals and Wireless Communication
- Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Application to Aircraft Engines
- Intelligent Systems Decision Support and Application to Drug Discovery
- Neural Networks and Machine Learning
- Autonomous Systems, Swarm Intelligence and Intelligent Control
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- Unilever Research Grant: Nonlinear and nonstationary signal processing, with Investigators V.Kadirkamanathan, 2007-08, £101,000
- EPSRC/GSK Joint Grant: Array design for lead optimization in pharmaceutical research with Investigators V.Gillet, P.Willett and V.Kadirkamanathan, 2006-09, £235,682
- EPSRC Platform Grant: System identification and signal processing for complex systems with Investigators S.A.Billings, V.Kadirkamanathan, M.A.Billings, D.Coca and Z.Q.Lang, 2005-10, £422,571
- DTI Grant: Business resource optimisation for aftermarket and design on engineering networks (BROADEN), with Investigators, P.J.Fleming, V.Kadirkamanathan and H.A.Thompson, 2005-07, £201,576
- EPSRC E-Science Pilot Project Grant: Distributed aircraft maintenance environment (DAME), with investigators, P.J.Fleming, V.Kadirkamanathan and H.A.Thompson, 2002-05, £480,622
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- Co-Editor, International Journal of Systems Science (2003-now)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2000-2003)
- Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (1999-2002)
- Co-Chair, IEEE UK&RI Control Systems Chapter Colloquium on 'Control in Systems Biology', Sheffield, 2007
- Invited Plenary, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP), Faro, 2005
- Invited Tutorial on 'Sequential Monte Carlo Filtering', International Conference on Neural and Information Processing (ICONIP), Singapore, 2002
- Invited Tutorial on 'Intelligent Control', UKACC International Control Conference, Sheffield, 2002
- Member of International Programme Committee, IAPR Workshop in Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 2006, 2007
- Member of International Programme Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB), 2004-2007
- S.G.Fabri and V.Kadirkamanathan, Functional adaptive control: An intelligent systems approach, Series in Control and Communications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, February 2001.
- J.Yang, S.Wongsa, V.Kadirkamanathan, S.A.Billings & P.C.Wright, ‘Metabolic flux estimation: A self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm with singular value decomposition’, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 4(1):126-138, January-March, 2007.
- S.Shahnoor & V.Kadirkamanathan, ‘Parametric polyspectrum density estimation using the bootstrap method’, Signal Processing, 87(1): 177-188, January 2007.
- V.Kadirkamanathan, J.Yang, S.A.Billings & P.C.Wright, ‘Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm based metabolic flux distribution analysis on Cornybacterium glutamicum’, Bioinformatics, 22(21):2681-2687, August 2006.
- V.Kadirkamanathan, K.Selvarajah & P.J.Fleming, ‘Stability analysis of the particle dynamics in particle swarm optimizer’, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 10(3):245-255, June 2006.
- H. Kulatunga & V.Kadirkamanathan, ‘Adaptive joint detection and estimation in fading MIMO channels – A hybrid systems approach’, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(5):1629-1644, May 2006.
- H. Kulatunga & V.Kadirkamanathan, ‘Multiple H-infinity filter based deterministic sequence estimation in non-Gaussian channels’, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 13(4):185-188, April 2006.
- P.Li & V.Kadirkamanathan, ‘Fault detection and isolation in nonlinear stochastic systems – A combined adaptive Monte Carlo filtering and likelihood ratio approach’, International Journal of Control, 77(2):1101-1114, 2004.
- V.Kadirkamanathan, P.Li, M.H.Jaward & S.G.Fabri, ‘Particle filtering based fault detection in nonlinear stochastic systems’, International Journal of System Science, 33(4):259-265, 2002.
- P.Li & V.Kadirkamanathan, ‘Particle filtering based likelihood ratio approach to fault diagnosis of nonlinear stochastic systems’, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Part C, 31(3):337-343, August 2001.
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