Pallayil Venugopalan

Senior Research Fellow & Deputy Head

Venugopalan Pallayil, or Venu as he is popularly known among his friends, has a post graduate degree in physics and a Ph.D in Microwave Electronics both from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. He had been a reciepient of many research fellowships from reputed Indian Scientific Organisations such as ISRO, CSIR and DAE during the period of his PhD work. In 1986 he was selected for a 1 year Electronics Fellowship Course by the Government of India and after the successful completion of the course was posted as a Scientist in Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Cochin, India. In NPOL he worked as an R&D Scientist contributing to the Indian Defence Research & Development with major contributions in the field of air-borne ASW systems. In 1998 he joined Acoustic Research Laboratory as a Research Fellow and currently is a Senior Research Fellow.

He has been responsible for the successful completion of many projects in ARL, namely Ambient Noise Imaging, Time Reversal Mirror and Digital Thin Line Towed Arrays. The project ROMANIS won the prestigious Defence Technology Prize in 2004 for the best Group Project. Currently he is leading the research activities on the development of light weight towed arrays, including fiber optic arrays, for underwater applications using AUV and USV platforms.

Apart from research activities, he also supports the lab as a Deputy Head, helping out the head of the lab on many fronts such as HR and finance management. He is also the Manager for Operations for the Tropical Marine Science Institute under which ARL is one of the labs. In this capacity he helps out the Director of the Institute on the admnistrative matters including Finance.

Venu is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of ASA and is also the Chair for the Oceanographic Engineering Society , Singapore Chapter. He is busy on week ends cooking Kerala dishes at home. He also goes for a jog regularly and likes to play badminiton, cricket and table tennis during his spare time.

Email: venu (at) arl.nus.edu.sg

Research Interests

  • Ambient Noise Imaging
  • Thin Line Towed Arrays
  • Fibre Optic Hydrophones

Publications

[1] V. Pallayil, S. Sebastian, M. Chitre, K. Govind, and N. Chandhavarkar, “Characterisation of a digital thin line towed array-experimental assessment of vibration levels and tow shape,” in Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies and Results, 3rd International Conference and Exhibition, Nafplion, Greece, pp. 1235-1243, June 2009. [ .pdf ]
[2] V. Pallayil, M. Chitre, and P. Deshpande, “A Digital Thin Line Towed Array for Small Autonomous Underwater Platforms,” in OCEANS 2007, pp. 1-9, October 2007. [ DOI | .pdf ]
[3] P. D. Deshpande, V. Pallayil, and S. Teo, “Effect of biofouling on acoustic signals,” The Journal of Marine Science and Environment, August 2007. [ .pdf ]
[4] P. D. Deshpande, M. N. Sangekar, B. Kalyan, M. A. Chitre, S. Shahabudeen, V. Pallayil, and T. B. Koay, “Design and Development of AUVs for cooperative missions,” in Defence Technology Asia, Singapore, March 22 2007. [ .pdf ]
[5] J. R. Potter, V. Pallayil, M. A. Chitre, T. B. Koay, S. P. Tan, E. T. Tan, and P. D. Deshpande, “Shallow Water Ambient Noise Imaging Camera Developed at the ARL,” in Defence Research and Development conference, NTU, Singapore 2006, Singapore, May 23 2006.
[6] P. D. Deshpande, V. Pallayil, S. Teo, X. Hu, and P. Seekings, “Effect of Biofouling on Acoustic Signals,” in Ocean Sciences 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 20 - 24 2006.
[7] H. C. Song, W. S. Hodgkiss, J. D. Skinner, V. Pallayil, P. J. Seekings, L. Topor, and J. R. Potter, “Numerical modeling of a time reversal experiment in shallow Singapore waters,” in OCEANS 2006 - ASIA PACIFIC, vol. 1,2, pp. 805-810, 2006. Oceans 2006-Asia Pacific Conference, Singapore, SINGAPORE, MAY 16-19, 2006. [ .pdf ]
[8] V. Pallayil, P. D. Deshpande, M. A. Chitre, and J. R. Potter, “Broadband acoustic reflectivity and its applciation to characterisation of materials,” in Oceans'04, MTS/IEEE Oceans-Techno-Ocean'04, Kobe, Japan, November 9-12 2004. [ .pdf ]
[9] P. D. Deshpande, V. Pallayil, B. S. Wee, and J. R. Potter, “Creating an Incoherent Synthetic Aperture using an Autonomous Profiling Vehicle,” in AAS - ACOUSTICS 2004, Gold Coast, Australia, November 3-5 2004. [ .pdf ]
[10] Y. Zhang, J. Potter, P. Seekings, M. Chitre, and V. Pallayil, “Rapid and robust single receiver geoacoustic inversion in shallow water,” in OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04, vol. 2, pp. 1048-1052, November 2004. [ DOI | .pdf ]
[11] V. Pallayil, M. A. Chitre, E. T. Tan, J. R. Potter, T. B. Koay, S. B. Ruiz, and S. P. Tan, “Ambient noise imaging - First deployments of ROMANIS and preliminary data analysis,” in OCEANS 2003 MTS/IEEE: CELEBRATING THE PAST...TEAMING TOWARD THE FUTURE, pp. 882-888, September 2003. MTS/IEEE Conference on Celebrating the Past - Teaming Toward the Future, San Diego, CA, September 22-26, 2003. [ .pdf ]
[12] J. R. Potter, T. B. Koay, and V. Pallayil, “Statistical analysis of low-frequency noise recorded in ASIAEX by a PANDA system,” in Acoustical Society of America meeting, Cancun, Mexico, 2003.
[13] T. B. Koay, J. R. Potter, V. Pallayil, and E. T. Tan, “PANDA: A Rapidly Deployable, Self-Recovering Shallow Water Acquisition Platform,” MTS Sea Technology Magazine, 2002. [ .pdf ]
[14] J. R. Potter, V. Pallayil, and L. Malod, “Coherent Ambient Noise Imaging in shallow water,” in NUWC ASW workshop, Rhode Island, 2002.
[15] H. Zhang, T. B. Koay, V. Pallayil, Y. Zhang, and J. R. Potter, “Fibre channel storage area network design for an acoustic camera system with 1.6 gbits/s bandwidth,” in IEEE REGION 10 International conference on electrical and electronic technology (D. Tien and Y. Liang, eds.), vol. 1, 2, pp. 143-148, August 2001. IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology, SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, August 19-22, 2001. [ .pdf ]
[16] J. R. Potter, V. Pallayil, and T. B. Koay, “South China Sea acoustics; PANDA moorings (an endangered species),” in ASIAEX workshop, Hawaii, 2001.
[17] V. Pallayil, P. D. Deshpande, S. Badiu, S. Constantin, B. Lu, and J. R. Potter, “A 1.6 Gigabit/second, 25-85 kHz Acoustic Imaging Array- Novel Mechanical and Electronics Design Aspects,” in Oceans 99 MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings, Seattle, vol. 1, September 1999. [ .pdf ]
 

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