Academic Background:

M. Tech. (Microelectronics and VLSI Design), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
B. Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering), CVR College of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

Professional Background:

Technical Officer, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute Pilani, Chennai Centre, 14th May 2018- till date

Awards and Honors:

Awarded the BEST PAPER AWARD for the outstanding paper presentation in the 10th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications Systems (ICACCS-2024) for the paper titled “Vision Based Leather Surface Defect Detection & Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks”.

Publications:

• Yakub Bhanothu, Anandhanarayanan Kamalakannan and Govindaraj Rajamanickam “Detection and Classification of Brain Tumor in MRI Images using Deep Convolutional Network”, International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS), 2020, DOI:10.1109/ICACCS48705.2020.9074375
• Yakub Bhanothu, Malathy Jawahar and J Suriya Prakash “Vision Based Leather Surface Defect Detection & Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks”,10th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS), 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICACCS60874.2024.10717129
• J Suriya Prakash, Yakub Bhanothu “Anomaly Segmentation of Leather Defects using Modified U-Net Architectures”, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2024, DOI: 10.1109/WiSPNET64060.2025.11004958