3 GRI profs in Stanford’s influential scientists list for 5th time

Dindigul: Three professors of Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University) have made it to Stanford University's list of ‘top 2% of influential scientists in the world' in Maths, Physics and Chemistry for the fifth consecutive time. The list comprises more than 2 lakh researchers from around the world, including around 3,500 Indian researchers. Compiled by Prof John P A Loannidis and his colleagues at the university, the list classifies the world's best scientists in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields based on the ranking of at least five research papers published by each scientist. Among them are GRI scientists P Balasubramaniam, department of Mathematics, S Meenakshi, department of Chemistry, and K Marimuthu, department of Physics, who have been included in the 2023 year impact list. Balasubramaniam of department of Mathematics is conducting systematic research on transforming low-quality images into high-quality images using fuzzy logic approaches and detecting trauma in the patient's brain through cryptography and processing technology. In chemistry, S Meenakshi is involved in research to develop methods to remove toxic fluoride, chromium, mercury and toxins from wastewater by absorption.In the field of Physics, Marimuthu has been researching the emission of white light and laser light through glasses made of rare earth elements and is working on creating glasses to prevent hazardous radiation. All three professors were previously included in similar lists published in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, making this their appearance for the fifth consecutive time.