B.Sc. Physics (1984-1987), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
Dr S Manthira Moorthi rises from a humble social background and the college education received from Aditanar college of Arts and Science was transformational in his life. He fondly remembers the mentoring by the faculties of various departments and the principal of the college during the period 1984-1987 and beyond. He has further received MSc (Applied Physics) from GRI, Gandhigram and PhD in Computational Physics from SRM university. He is serving as a senior scientist in ISRO and contributing in Earth & Planetary remote sensing missions as a data scientist. He joined Signal and Image Processing Group, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad in 1991.He served as an Adhoc lecturer in ACAS in 1989, a computer Administrator in Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) in 1990 and a research Scholar in IIT-Kanpur in 1991 before joining ISRO. Dr S Manthira Moorthi’ areas of expertise and research interests are in geometric modeling, optical satellite image processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning based data processing solutions, space science data management, and open archive models. He has been the data processing & archive scientist for Chandrayaan-1 the ISRO maiden planetary mission uand the Mars Orbiter Mission also. He received ISRO team excellence awards for ground operations for both missions in the year 2008 and 2014 respectively. He has several publications in reputed international journals in the disciplines of his research interests.

B.Sc. Computer Science (1992-95), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
The years spent in Aditanar College has been a life changing one for me. As a teenager who did all his schooling outside Tamil Nadu (as my father was in Army), it was not easy to settle down in the remote town like Tiruchendur. But as days progressed, I started enjoying my maiden hostel life, living with amazing fellow students from all walks of life. Beyond the academic excellence, Aditanar College instilled a great sense of moral values and helped me in transforming into a wholesome person. The rich foundational knowledge gained in those 3 years helped in excelling at my Post graduation and in building a career at a global organization like HCL. I am happy to share that everybody in my batch have excelled in their professional life and we owe this success to all the great staffs of Aditanar College. My best wishes to this awesome institute to continue with their endeavor to transform the life of all its students and the society by and large.

BA English (1982-1985), Aditanar College of Arts and Science

B.Sc. Physics (1986-1989), Aditanar College of Arts and Science

B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil. in Mathematics (1982-1988), Aditanar College of Arts and Science

BBA- Business Administration (1973-1976), Aditanar College of Arts and Science

B Sc. Zoology (1986-1989), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
குக்கிராமத்தில் விவசாயக் குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்த நான் இன்று காவல்துறையில் காவல் துணை கண்காணிப்பாளராக பணிபுரிந்து வருகிறேன். எனக்கு ஒழுக்கத்தையும் கடின உழைப்பையும் கற்றுக் கொடுத்தது நம் ஆதித்தனார் கல்லூரி. இக்கல்லூரி மாணவன் என்று கூறுவதில் என்றுமே எனக்கு பெருமைதான் . இத்தருணத்தில் சிறப்பான ஆசிரியர்களையும், குறிப்பாக முதல்வர் திரு. கனகசபாபதி அவர்களையும் நினைவு கூறுவதில் மகிழ்ச்சி அடைகிறேன்.

B.Sc Computer Science, (1995 – 1998), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
Aditanar college was a turning point in my life, apart from the technical skills which we gained doing my undergraduate it gave us enough confidence that we can face the world with the life lessons we learned there. It instilled an enormous confidence that we can learn and achieve anything as we are ingrained to look things from first principle approach. The Institution’s culture instils a rare trait in us, that is, you are no less than anyone, which helps us face the world with so much confidence. We have enormous access to books in library with no limit on how many books to borrow and when to return, and access to the computer lab whenever we need it. During our time, getting access to a computer and having a support system to nature one’s talent was unheard. Aditanar college gave everything an aspiring youth needed, helped us to compete in various computer related competition with full support that helped in nurturing the competitive spirt that is very useful in latter part of our life. Aditanar college was a wonderful experience.

B.A. & M.A. English (1984 – 1989), Aditanar College of Arts & Science
As a creative writer, I served as a Student Editor of Campus News Hostel Light College Magazine. Won medals and awards in the State and University Level Competitions in Verse Writing and Short Story Writing in Tamil and English. Instrumental in founding Blood Donors Club at Aditanar College along with Prof. A. Sudharson Rodriguez. The first Student Secretary of Aditanar College Blood Donors Club. Secretary of Aditanar Fine Arts Club. I owe all my academic accomplishments to my teachers at Aditanar College.

B.Sc. Computer Science (1995-1998), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
Dinesh Vedanayagam is an alumni of Aditanar College of Arts and Science, Tiruchendur between 1995 and 1998 and holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. During this tenure he also served as Cadet Captain at NCC Navy Wing. Dinesh is Distinguished (Director) Technologist of Cloud Storage Manageability Software products and Solutions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, Dinesh leads the innovation agenda and technology roadmap, managing the design and development of the portfolio to deliver HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud customer experiences to the market. Using HPE technology, Dinesh works with customers to help reimagine their information technology needs, allowing them to accelerate their business results. Based in Bangalore, India, Dinesh has more than 24 years of technology leadership spanning cloud services, machine learning and analytics, global IT business services, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure. Prior to his role, he has experience working with start-up to large multi-national organizations, with broad knowledge base and successful track record in new product architecture and development, testing, automation, and operations. Dinesh is an Innovative multidimensional R&D leader experienced in developing competitive software products with exceptional quality, scalable performance, frequently operating in mission critical environments.

B.Sc. Chemistry (1987- 1990), Aditanar College of Arts and Science
My learning (curricular & extra-curricular) of 3 years in Adtanar College is the foundation of all the developments in life. I am lifelong indebted to our college as the 100% Management Scholarship (by our college management) and the NCC Naval wing scholarship (by Govt. of India) helped me to complete B.Sc (Chemistry) in our college and B.Tech (Instrumentation) in Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University. The Chemistry department, the NCC Naval wing and the Gandhi Hostel, all trained / helped me to focus on the future. I am perpetually thankful to the Founder, Si.Pa.Aditanar for having the foresight to start the college in Tiruchendur for the betterment of the rural youth. Also, thankful to Dr.B.Sivanthi Adityan and Dr.R.Kanaga Sabapathi for giving me the opportunity to study in the great Aditanar College.