Sandaram Buchaiah
Visiting Assistant Professor(Grade II)
Research Interest:
Machine condition monitoring, Remaining Useful Life Prediction (RUL) of rotating machines, Structural health monitoring of engineering systems, Vibration analysis, Signal processing and data fusion for feature extraction, Artificial intelligence and Machine learning, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods for defect detection in engineering structures.
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Room No: A-204, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam,
Vangali, Sabbavaram, Andhra Pradesh, 531034.
Email: sbuchaiah@iipe.ac.in, s.buchaiah@gmail.com
Teaching Interests
- Robotics and Automation
- CAD/CAM
Education
Ph.D. A holistic Framework for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis of Rolling Element Bearing, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Professional Experience
- Visiting Assistant Professor (Grade-II), Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam (February 2026-Present)
- Associate E-Flight structures, Agnikul Cosmos Pvt. Ltd., Chennai. (September 2025 - February 2026)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Non-Destructive Evolution (CNDE), IIT Madras, Chennai. (May 2023 - August 2025)
Journal Publications
- S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2026), A review of dimensionality reduction techniques applications for machinery, Measurement, 265, 120157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2025.120157
- S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2025), A data fusion-based dynamic prognosis model for bearing RUL prediction using vector auto-regression, Measurement Science and Technology, 36(7), 076005, DOI:10.1088/1361-6501/ade55
A. R. Patil, S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2024), Combined VMD-Morlet wavelet filter based signal de-noising approach and its applications in bearing fault diagnosis, Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, 12(2021), DOI:10.1007/s42417-024-01338-8
- S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2023), Automatic incipient fault
detection and health state assessment of rolling element bearings using
pruned exact linear time method, Journal of Vibration and Control, 29(21-22) 5148-5160, DOI:10.1177/10775463221131843
- S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2022), Bearing fault diagnosis and prognosis using data fusion based feature extraction and feature selection, Measurement, 188, 110506, DOI:10.1016/j.measurement.2021.110506
Conference Publications
- S. Bcuahaiah and P Shakya, (2022), Bearing early fault detection using local tangent space alignment and hypothesis testing, (2022) 10th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), 249-253, DOI:10.1109/ICCMA56665.2022.10011617
- S. Buchaiah and P Shakya, (2020), Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis by different data fusion techniques, Proceedings of the 6th National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics: NSRD 2019, 341-350, DOI:10.1007/978-981-15-5701-9_28
Awards & Honors
Gold medal in Bachelors (2014)
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Assistant warden for Pampa hostel, IIT Madras (July 2023 - September 2025)