Dr. R. Elijah Blessing
Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academics & Industry Collaborations)
Dr. R. Elijah Blessing is the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academics & Industry Collaborations) of Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, India. He received his Master of Engineering with distinction from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He received the Ph.D degree in Information and Communication Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India in 2005. He joined Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, coimbatore in 1997. His research areas include network security, mobile computing, wireless and ad hoc networks, Medical Image processing, parallel and distributed computing, grid computing and pervasive computing. To his credit, he has good number of publications and has published articles in Springer etc. He is an Associate Editor for International Journal of Computers & Applications, Acta Press, Canada and member of the editorial review board for many peer reviewed journals. He has been identified as an Expert member of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India. He is also being funded by Indian Council of Medical Research for his research project in Health systems research. He is a member of IEEE, CSI, ISTE and has served as International advisory board member for various International conferences and workshops.