Faculty Profile

About

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering with an overall work experience of 30+ years of which industry experience spans around 27 years and teaching experience spans 6 years. The industry experience encompasses Engineering, Research, and Training. Prior to joining BMS College of Engineering, I was with Dayananda Sagar University. I have worked as a Principal Systems Engineer and Senior Technology Specialist at Honeywell Technology Solutions, Bangalore, in the Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance COE. At Honeywell the work encompassed both software development and systems engineering. I started my career with Bharat Electronics in the Military Communication Group where I worked as an R&D Engineer on V/UHF Transreceiver systems and GPS. After a brief stint with Wipro Systems working on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (AT&T GTE Communication Systems project), I moved to Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore, where I worked as a Scientist/Design Team Leader for the LCA Mission software. My current research interests are in the areas of Multi-agent Systems, Formal Verification, Software Architecture & Design, Embedded Software, Avionics Systems, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Systems Engineering, AI in Avionics, Verification/Validation of Autonomous/Adaptive Systems, Air Traffic Management. I am an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional , member of the Aeronautical Society of India, Computer Society of India, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and IEEE. I hold four granted US patents, two European Patents and one Chinese Patent.

Education

• Ph. D - Computer Science
  International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B)
  Passed Year: 2019 | Program Type: PartTime
• M Sc. (Engineering) - Computer Science
  Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
  Passed Year: 2002 | Program Type: PartTime
• B E (Electronics Engineering) - Electronics
  B M S College of Engineering
  Passed Year: 1991 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

• Patents | Published On : 07-02-2025
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Archana H R, Surendra H.H, M. Anantha Sunil
  A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A SOLAR PANEL
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• Conference | Published On : 19-10-2024
  Rajanikanth Kashi Nagaraj, Nishchay D, Paras Varanjole
  "C-SADDLES: A Cyber Physical System Enabled Self Adaptable Drone Landing Pad for rapid Battery Charging of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems", IEEE International Conference on Software, Systems and Information Technology (SSITCON-2024), Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology Tumkur, and IEEE Bangalore Section, 18th & 19th October, 2024. [Best Paper Award]
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• Journal | Published On : 02-12-2023
  Rajanikanth K N, Anushka P, Sumukh R K, Gayathri P
  A survey and analysis of Drone Detection Systems using a Systems Approach superposed on Scenarios, Systems Engineering, The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Wiley, 2023
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• Conference | Published On : 01-09-2023
  Sanketh J, Sree Suryadatta M Vadhoolas, Vinay Kumar K V, Vinayak Rao H K, Rajanikanth K N
  Visual Kinetic SLAM Hardware Acceleration for Navigation, IEEE 2023 International Conference On Network, Multimedia And Information Technology (NMITCON), Sept 1-2, 2023, Bengaluru, India
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• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 07-08-2023
  M N Suma, Rajanikanth Kashi Nagaraj
  Book Chapter, "Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 Using Internet of Things: A Holistic Approach" (pages 215-237) in Contemporary Applications of Data Fusion for Advanced Healthcare Informatics, Edited by G.S. Karthick, Sathishkumar Karupusamy, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8913-0, ISBN13: 9781668489130|ISBN10: 1668489139|EISBN13: 9781668489147
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• Conference | Published On : 01-02-2023
  Rajanikanth K N, Mohammed Rehab Sait, Sumukh R K
  Enhancing Immersive User Experience Quality of StudoBot Telepresence Robots with Reinforcement Learning, IEEE International Conference AICAPS 2023 ( Advances in Intelligent Computing and Applications 2023), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), February 1-3, 2023, Kochi, Kerala, India
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• Conference | Published On : 19-02-2022
  Rajanikanth N. Kashi, Archana H R and Lalitha S
  Im-SMART: Developing Immersive Student participation in the classroom Augmented with Mobile Telepresence Robot, 1st International Conference on Robotics, Control and Computer Vision (ICRCCV-2022), February 19-20, 2022, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India in association with Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary (Savaria Institute of Technology)
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• Journal | Published On : 04-03-2021
  Rajanikanth Kashi Nagaraj, Meenakshi D’Souza,
  A Verifiable Multiagent Framework for Dependable and Adaptable Avionics, Sadhana Springer Journal, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol 46, 4-Feb-2021
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• Conference | Published On : 20-02-2019
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Meenakshi, D’Souza,
  Mitigating Non-Byzantine and Byzantine Failures in Multi-agent based Dependable and Adaptable Avionics Software, Third IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT 2019), Coimbatore India.
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• Conference | Published On : 10-01-2019
  Meenakshi, D’Souza, Rajanikanth N Kashi,
  Avionics self-adaptive software: Towards formal verification and validation, Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, (ICDCIT-2019) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, India, 10th – 13th January 2019
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• Conference | Published On : 17-11-2017
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Meenakshi Dsouza, Koyalkar Raman Kishore
  Incorporating Formal Methods and Measures obtained through Analysis, Simulation Testing for Dependable Self-Adaptive Software in Avionics Systems, Proceedings 10th Annual ACM India Conference, Compute 2017, Bhopal, India.
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• Conference | Published On : 21-09-2016
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Meenakshi Dsouza, S Kumar Baghel and Nitin Arun Kulkarni
  Incorporating Adaptivity using Learning in Avionics Self Adaptive Software: A Case Study, 5th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2016), Jaipur, India
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• Conference | Published On : 18-02-2016
  Rajanikanth N. Kashi, Meenakshi Dsouza, S Kumar Baghel and Nitin Arun Kulkarni
  Formal verification of avionics self-adaptive software, ACM ISEC 2016, 9th India software engineering conference, BITS Pilani - GOA
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• Conference | Published On : 21-10-2011
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Fernandes Cercuncesao, and Prabhu Kota
  The Modeling and Analysis of Aircraft In-Trail Procedures Using SysML, 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering (APCOSE 2011), South Korea, 2011.
• Conference | Published On : 20-10-2011
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Nainatara Kumble, and Muralikrishna, Sampath
  Perspectives on Lean Systems Engineering in Avionics Product Development, 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering (APCOSE 2011), South Korea, 2011
• Conference | Published On : 04-10-2010
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Perumal Kumar, Vanathi Ravindran
  Improving the Kinetics and Effectiveness of Systems Engineering - Perspectives on Integrated use of SysML, AADL, and UML for Aircraft Navigation Product Lines, Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering (APCOSE 2010), National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, October 2010
• Conference | Published On : 26-08-2010
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Perumal Kumar
  A systematic and effective method of mechanizing Allocation in system modeling of Aircraft Navigation Products using SysML, National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Science 2010 (NCETCS-2010), Bangalore, India
• Conference | Published On : 26-06-2008
  Rajanikanth N Kashi, Mohandas Amarnathan
  Perspectives on the use of Model Based Development Approach For Safety Critical Avionics Software Development, International Conference on Aerospace Science and Technology (INCAST) 2008, National Science Seminar Complex IISc, Bangalore, India.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-07-2005
  K.N. Rajanikanth, R.S. Rao, P. S. Subramanyam, Ajai Vohra
  Guidance Systems for Fighter Aircraft; Defence Science Journal, DRDO, India
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• Conference | Published On : 25-10-2004
  K N Rajanikanth, Charles Law, Gary Spence, Greg Lacefield, Nainatara Kumble
  Specifying and Constructing Safety-Critical Real-time Systems using TAU, Telelogic User Group Conference, Miami, Florida, USA
• Conference | Published On : 04-12-2003
  K N Rajanikanth, Y Narahari, N N S S R K Prasad, R S Rao
  Airborne Radar Data Processor Simulation Using Software In The-Loop Model, International Radar Symposium India, Bangalore, India
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• Conference | Published On : 15-10-2003
  K N Rajanikanth, Y Narahari, N N S S R K Prasad, R S Rao
  A Robust and Scalable Architecture for Airborne Radar Simulation, IEEE Region 10 Technical Conference on Convergent Technologies For The Asia-Pacific, Bangalore, India
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• Conference | Published On : 09-08-2003
  K N Rajanikanth, Y Narahari, N N S S R K Prasad, R S Rao
  A Robust Design of Airborne Radar Simulation Software using design patterns, National Conference on Object Oriented Technology 2003, {NCOOT 2003}, Lonere, Maharastra, India

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Covid-19 VTU Project (Grant) : IoT based Smart Sanitizer Vending Machine, 2020

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