Dean, Lakeside Campus Director, School of Engineering and Technology (SOET) CMR University, Bengaluru
Dr. N. Kannan is an accomplished academic leader with nearly three decades of experience in teaching, research, and institutional development. He currently serves as the Dean of CMR University’s Lakeside Campus and Director of the School of Engineering and Technology (SOET), where he drives strategic initiatives in curriculum design, research innovation and industry-academia collaboration.
Dr. Kannan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharathidasan University, with a specialisation in Digital Image Processing. His doctoral research focused on the design of vector quantisation techniques for transform coding of images using orthogonal polynomials. He also holds an M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Annamalai University and a B.E. from Kumaraguru College of Technology under Bharathiyar University.
With a strong foundation in academic leadership, Dr. Kannan has served as Principal, Dean, and Head of Department across reputed institutions. He has successfully led NAAC and NBA accreditation processes, spearheaded incubation and innovation hubs, and secured research and infrastructure grants from AICTE, Google and the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology.
His areas of academic and research expertise include computer vision, image processing, software testing, and communication networks. He has guided eight Ph.D. scholars and mentored over eighteen postgraduate theses. His scholarly contributions include over 70 publications in high-impact Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals, patents in voice analysis and waste sorting systems, and several authored books in computing and programming.
Dr. Kannan is also an active member of professional societies, including the IEEE, Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and IAENG. He has conducted and participated in over 150 conferences, FDPs, and workshops, and has delivered more than 40 invited lectures.
Under his leadership, CMRU’s Lakeside Campus is emerging as a centre of academic excellence, industry alignment and innovation. Dr. Kannan’s strategic focus includes integrating emerging technologies into pedagogy, fostering industry partnerships, and enabling students to become future-ready engineers.
