Krishnan C M C

Designation: 

Associate Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, June 8, 2015

Professional Experience: 

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. National Institute of Technology Karnataka - Surathkal, Mangalore. June 2015 - till date
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham, Bangalore, September 2014 to May 2015
  • Senior engineer: electronic controls, General Motors Corporation, July 2008 to March 2010
Contact Details

E-mail: 

cmckrishnan@nitk.edu.in

Alternate E-mail: 

cmckrishnan@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+918242473583

Mobile: 

+919535647422

Personal Website: 

https://sites.google.com/view/krishnan-chemmangat

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=W8TFdWwAAAAJ

LinkedIn: 

http://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnan-chemmangat
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

0000-0002-4885-4553

Scopus Author ID: 

47661040900

WoS/Publon Researcher ID: 

L-6536-2017
Academic Background
  • Ph.D. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2014
  • M. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2008
  • B. Tech. University of Calicut, Kerala, India, 2006
Areas of Interest
Assistive Rehabilitation, Wearable Robotics, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Significant Projects

Ongoing:

1) A Development of an Internet of Medical Things Platform for Rehabilitation with Integrated Physiological Data Capture and Control Interface, DST-ANRF, PI: Krishnan C.M.C., Co PIs: Deepu Vijayasenan (Dept of E&C), Sheron Figarado (School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Goa),Collaborator: (Dr. Shyam Krishnan, Department of Physiotherapy, KMC Hospital Mangalore) , 2026-2029, 84 Lakhs.

Completed

1) Young Faculty Research Fellowship - Biosignal processing system for the development of human-machine interaction, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, MeitY, Government of India, 2019- 2021, 10 Lakhs

2) An affordable therapeutic solution for rehabilitation of cerebral palsy children with crouch gait, DST-SERB, PI: Krishnan C.M.C., Co PIs: Deepu Vijayasenan (Dept of E&C), Ranjith M (Dept. ME), Prof. Sumam David (Dept of E&C), Sheron Figarado (School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Goa), Prof. Unnikrishnan B (Department of Community Medicine, KMC Hospital Mangalore), 2021-2024, 60 Lakhs.

Supervision of Ph.D
Ongoing:
(i) SV Pramod (FT/Co-Guide, Submitted), (ii) Asif Abdullah (FT), (iii) Pratap Kumar Koppolu (FT), (iv) SHanmukhareddy Vippala (FT/Co-Guide)
Significant Publications
Journals:

  1. S Reddy, GS Punekar, K Chemmangat, A novel method to determine parameters of the double exponential waves: Representing impulses, Electric Power Systems Research 261, 113458, 2026.

  2. SR Vippala, GS Punekar, K Chemmangat, Comparative Lp-norm based evaluation of breakdown voltages under non-standard lightning impulses, Sādhanā 51 (3), 239, 2026.

  3. Manisha Nayak, Abraham M Joshua, Shyam Krishnan, Ashish John Prabhakar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Zulkifli Misri, D Shivananda Pai, Determination of muscle activation in upper limb during gait among stroke patients with homolateral limb synkinesis: a cross-sectional analytical pilot study, Scientific Reports, 2026.

  4. SR Vippala, GS Punekar, K Chemmangat, Critical Evaluation of Time Parameters for Lightning Impulse Voltages Using Pareto Front, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (Accepted- 2026)

  5. SR Vippala, GS Punekar, K Chemmangat, Energy-based comparison of military standard high-voltage waveforms in testing of aerospace vehicles, International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 2026;0(0).

  6. HH Soni, P Sharma, MJ Thomas, CMC Krishnan, A Singh, Recent advancements in soft ankle/knee exoskeletons technologies: systems, actuation and control, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 193, 105092, 2025.

  7. Janice Mendonca, Abraham M Joshua, Shashank Shetty, Krishnan Chemmangat, Shyam Krishnan, K Vijaya Kumar, Zulkifli Misri, Rohit Pai, Shivananda Pai, IMU-based segmental root mean square analysis of gait in individuals with cerebellar ataxia: a pilot cross-sectional study, Scientific Reports, 15 (1), 2025. 

  8. Pratap Kumar Koppolu, Krishnan Chemmangat, A novel procedure to automate the removal of PLI and motion artifacts using mode decomposition to enhance pattern recognition of sEMG signals for myoelectric control of prosthesis, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 10 (6), 065013, 2024.

  9. Shanmukha Reddy Vippala, Gururaj Sudhindra Punekar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Bhavanishanker Tangella. A search for suitable mother wavelet in discrete wavelet transform based analysis of acoustic emission partial discharge signals, Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 21 (2), 163-185, 2024.

  10. Pratap Kumar Koppolu, Krishnan Chemmangat, Automatic selection of IMFs to denoise the sEMG signals using EMD, Journal of electromyography and kinesiology, 73, 102834 , 2023.

  11. Asif Abdullah, Omkar S Powar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Application of Fractal Analysis based Feature Extractor for Channel Reduction of Silent Speech Interface Using Facial Electromyography, 10.22266/ijies2023.0630.34

  12. Pramod Sistla, Krishnan Chemmangat, Sheron Figarado, Design and implementation of passivity-based controller for active suspension system using port-Hamiltonian observer, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, DOI: 10.1177/09544070221147364

  13. Aditya Chandrasekar, Dhanush D Shekar, Abhishek C Hiremath, Krishnan Chemmanga, Detection of arrhythmia from electrocardiogram signals using a novel gaussian assisted signal smoothing and pattern recognition,Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.103469, 2022.

  14. Pramod Sistla, Sheron Figarado, Krishnan Chemmangat, Narayan Manjarekar and Gangadharan Kallu Valappil,” Design and performance comparison of interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control for vibration suppression in active suspension systems”, JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND CONTROL PISSN: 10775463, Issue- 7-8, Vol 27, 893-911, 10.1177/1077546320933749.

  15. Asif Abdullah & Krishnan Chemmangat “Computationally Efficient sEMG based Silent Speech Interface using Channel Reduction and Decision Tree based Classification”, Procedia Computer Science , 171 Jan 2020 pp.120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.04.013.

  16. Omkar Powar & Krishnan Chemmangat “Reducing the effect of wrist variation on pattern recognition of Myoelectric Hand Prostheses Control through Dynamic Time Warping”      Biomedical Signal Processing and Control            55        2020    pp.1-9https://authors.elsevier.com/a/IZINJ6DBR2xOlIt.

  17. Omkar S Powar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Dynamic time warping for reducing the effect of force variation on myoelectric control of hand prostheses, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 48, 152-160, 2019.

  18. Omkar S Powar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Sheron Figarado, A novel pre-processing procedure for enhanced feature extraction and characterization of electromyogram signals,  Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 42, 277-286, 2018 Elsevier. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Wbou6DBR2tZlN.

  19. Krishnan Chemmangat, Francesco Ferranti,Tom Dhaene, and Luc Knockaert. Parametric Macromodeling of Linear High-Frequency Systems using Multiple Frequency Scaling and Sequential Sampling.  Electronics Letters, 5, No. 6 (2014): pp. 475-476 .

  20. Krishnan Chemmangat, Francesco Ferranti, Luc Knockaert, and Tom Dhaene. Parametric macromodeling for sensitivity responses from tabulated data. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 21, no. 8 (2011): pp. 397-399.

Conferences:

  1. R Nasar, S Rikthika, HK Prahlad, A Kumar, MC Poojari, K Chemmangat, et. al., Deep Learning-Based Estimation of Gait Percentage Using Healthy Gait Data: A Trial Toward Rehabilitation, 2026 IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON), 1-4, Jan 2026.

  2. V Santhosh, MC Poojari, K Chemmangat, D Vijayasenan, A Low-Cost Goniometer System with Integrated Inertial and Pressure Sensors for Real-Time Gait and Joint Monitoring, 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRM), Nov 2025.

  3. Shrisharva Dayananda, Suchet Nayak, Shashank Shetty, Krishnan Chemmangat, Adaptive Fetal ECG Extraction Using Normalized LMS Filter and Metaheuristic Optimization, 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRM), Nov 2025.

  4. Rohit Kurian Jacob, Shanmukha Reddy Vippala, Gururaj S Punekar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to Acoustic Emission Partial Discharge Source Localization and Its Comparison with Non-iterative Method, International Conference on Advanced Engineering Optimization Through Intelligent Techniques, Nov. 2024.

  5. MC Poojari, R Maniyeri, K Chemmangat, P Ameen, Torque Dynamics for Addressing Crouch Gait in Cerebral Palsy with Active Knee Exoskeleton, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering: Researches and Evolutionary Challenges, May 2024.

  6. Manish C Poojari, Ranjith Maniyeri, Krishnan Chemmangat, Pushparaj Ameen, Kinematic Study of a Novel Active Knee Exoskeleton for Alleviating Crouch Gait in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Modern Age Technologies for Health and Engineering Science (AMATHE), 1-8, 2024, IEEE. 

  7. Pratap Kumar Koppolu, Krishnan Chemmangat, Classification of Hand Gestures with Real Time Muscle Activity Detection for Myoelectric Control of Upper Limb Prosthesis, 2023 IEEE 20th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 963-966, 2023, IEEE.

  8. Adesh Jagtap, Rohit Dharmadhikari, Tanmay Gajare, Pratap Kumar Koppolu and Krishnan Chemmangat, “Hybrid Electric Bicycle with Regeneration Capability”,International Conference on Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation & Control. (iCASIC 2020) VIT Vellore, February 2020.

  9. Omkar S Powar and Krishnan Chemmangat  “Comparison of Pre-Processing Filters on the Performance of sEMG based Pattern Recognition.” IEEE International Conference on PETPES, NITK Surathkal, August 2019.

Full list available on: https://sites.google.com/view/krishnan-chemmangat/research/publications

Achievements
  1. Reciepient of Visvesvaraya Young Faculty fellowship award, sponsored by MEITY, India, since February 2019
  2. Received "Dehousse Grant" starting from April 2010 for four years to do the doctoral research at Ghent university, Belgium.
  3. Received grant from Research foundation, Flanders Belgium (FWO) for participation in IEEE conference, ICEAA 2012 Held at Cape town, South Africa in September 2012.
  4. Secured University level second rank in B. Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Calicut, 2006.
Remarks

Detailed CV: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDXXv-A5ifmoeAmOKoT9Cszl5ab94gEp/view?usp=shari...