Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi got his B. Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D is Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of IIT Madras, his alma mater, in 1986. He took over as Director, IIT Madras in September 201. His areas of specialisation are Communications and Signal Processing. His research work is in Wireless Networks, Modulation, Wireless Data, and Audio and Video Compression. He was awarded the University of California Regents Fellowship during his doctoral studies. He is a founding member of the TeNeT group of IIT Madras, active in developing telecom and networking technologies, and incubating companies to develop and market products based on these. He is currently also honorary Director of the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, a public-private initiative at the IIT-M Research Park to make India a wireless technology leader. He is on the Board of Oil India Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy. He was awarded the Vasvik Award for Electronic Sciences and Technology for the year 2000, the Tamil Nadu Scientist Award for Engineering and Technology for the year 2003 and the India Semiconductor Association TechnoVisionary Award for the year 2011 and the Doyens of Madras Award for the year 2014.
Prasanna Chaporkar received the MS degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2000, and the PhD degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2006. He was a ERCIM post-doctoral fellow with ENS, Paris, France, and NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Currently, he is a professor in the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His research interests include resource allocation, stochastic control, queueing theory, and distributed systems and algorithms.
Mythili Vutukuru is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Before joining IITB in 2013, she obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and 2006 respectively. After her Ph.D., she worked at Movik Networks, a startup in the telecom space, for 3 years before joining IITB. She also obtained a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2004.
Rohit Budhiraja received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from IIT Madras in 2004 and 2015, respectively. From 2004 to 2011, he worked for two start-ups where he designed both hardware and software algorithms, from scratch, for physical layer processing of WiMAX- and LTE-based cellular systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor with IIT Kanpur, where he is also leading an effort to design a 5G research testbed. His current research interests include design of energy-efficient transceiver algorithms for 5G massive MIMO and full-duplex systems, robust precoder design for wireless relaying, machine learning methods for channel estimation in mm-wave systems, and spatial modulation system design. His paper was shortlisted as one of the finalists for the Best Student Paper Awards at the IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore, India, in 2014. He also received IIT Madras Research Award for the quality and quantity of research work done in the Ph.D., Early Career Research Award, and Teaching Excellence Certificate at IIT Kanpur.
Prof Huzur Saran is the Head of the Department of Computer Science at IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 1990, he did his Ph. D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and, a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the IIT Delhi in 1983. His research is focused on Computer Networks and Algorithms. Prior to this he was the Head of the Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of IT, at IIT Delhi. Prof Saran has been actively working in 4G wireless technologies. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Information Systems Lab, Stanford where he worked on the media access control layer of an exploratory 4G wireless systems. He has been investigating wireless access and mesh technologies to enable ICT for rural masses. More recently his group has been working on a rural content distribution framework for building disruption tolerant applications and in the area of peer-to-peer audio/video collaboration frameworks for online education (supported in part under the National Mission on Education through ICT). Dr Saran has also collaborated in the past with AT&T Research and Lucent Bell Labs in the area of Network Performance Analysis as a consultant (during 1993-2000). Dr Saran has also been a consultant during 2004-2010 to Solidcore Inc, a Software Startup. During this time he helped define and build a novel software protection technology for critical servers and embedded products. Solidcore was purchased by Mcafee in 2009 for its pathbreaking Dynamic Whitelisting technology
He completed PhD in 1997 from IIT Delhi in the area of Multirate Signal Processing. He joined Hughes Software Systems in September 1997 and worked there for nearly 8 years in the Signal Processing group. He worked on Source Coding and PHY layer solutions for many communication technologies such as terrestrial wireless, GEO and LEO Satellite communication systems, Satellite broadband and others. He returned to his alma mater and joined IIT Delhi as a faculty member in 2005. Since July 2005 He has been in the Electrical Engineering Department and has contributed to research & teaching in the general area of Signal Processing. He has graduated 13 PhD students during that period, further 6 have submitted their synopsis. Besides, them 29 research scholars are pursuing PhD under his supervision. He has successfully completed numerous sponsored projects and consultancies and is working on several others. The total number is close to 47 and the total budget outlay in excess of Rs. 70 crores. The areas in which he has been publishing and doing sponsored research are centered on signal processing. The areas include, object representation, tracking and classification, odometry, depth map generation, representation and rendering. He is also exploring vector sensor based underwater acoustic communications, and performance issues in molecular communications. He is the current head of Bharti School of Telcom Technology and Management, and the co-ordinator of two centers of excellence, viz. Airtel IIT Delhi Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications and Ericsson IIT Delhi 5G Center of Excellence. He is also the incharge of an IoT laboratory that He set up in collaboration with Samsung. Besides this, he is the NCC co-ordinator of IIT Delhi. He has mentored 5 startups, in the areas of Virtualization, Geo-fencing, UAV based solutions and recommendation and data mining. He actively participate in building and deploying technology. He have also served as expert in numerous government and private agencies in aspects related to signal processing.
Dr. Swades De. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, in February 2004. Prior to that, he received his M.Tech in Optoelectronics and Optical Communication from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in 1998, and BTech in Radiophysics and Electronics from University of Calcutta, in 1993. From 1993 to 1997 and during the first half of 1999, he worked in different telecommunication companies in India as a research and development engineer. During the first half of 2004 he worked with the wireless networks group at ISTI-CNR , in Pisa, Italy, through a European research fellowship. From Fall 2004 to Fall 2006 he was with the New Jersey Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since January 2007. He supervises the Communication Networks Research Group (IITD-CNRG) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His research interests are broadly in communication networks with emphasis on performance modeling and analysis
S. Dharmaraja earned his M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Anna University, Madras, India, in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA. From 2002 to 2003, he was a research associate at the TRLabs, Winnipeg, Canada.e has been with the Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi, since 2003, where he is currently Head, Training and Placement Unit from Sept. 2018 and he is a Professor, Department of Mathematics and joint faculty of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management from June 2013. Currently, he appointed as 'Institute Chair Professor' for a period of five years. During July 2014 and August 2017, he served as Head, Department of Mathematics. He appointed as 'Jaswinder & Tarvinder Chadha Chair Professor' for teaching and research in the area of Operations Research from May 2010 to July 2015. He has held visiting positions at the Duke University, USA, Emory University, USA, University of Calgary, Canada, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea and Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.His research interests include applied probability, queueing theory, stochastic modeling, performance analysis of computer and communication systems and financial mathematics. He has published over 55 papers in refereed international journals and over 25 papers in refereed international conferences in these areas. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Communication Systems (published by Wiley) and an Associate Editor of Opsearch (published by Springer). He is co-author of a text book entitled "Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications" in John Wiley (US Edition, New Jersey, June 2012) and (Asian Edition, New Delhi, Jan. 2016), co-author of a text book entitled "Financial Mathematics: An Introduction" in Narosa, Nov. 2012 and co-author of a text book entitled "Introduction to Statistical Methods, Design of Experiments and Statistical Quality Control" in Springer (Asian Edition, Sept. 2018).
Dr. Abhishek Dixit received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Belgium in 2014. My Ph.D. research focused on designing architectures and algorithms for optical access networks. Before that, he did his Masters in Opto-electronics and Optical Communication from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2010. Before joining Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in December 2015, he had served for a semester (July 2015 - December 2015) as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and as a Post-doctoral Researcher (December 2014 - June 2015) at Ghent University, Belgium.
An Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he worked as a Researcher in the CyberSecurity group at Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore. Before that he worked as a Research Fellow in the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Australia. He obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India.
Dr. Monika Aggarwal was born in Dehra Dun, India. She received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra, India, and the Ph. D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. She was employed with Hughes Software Systems (HSS), Gurgaon, India from 1999 to 2002. During 2001 she was a visiting researcher in the Dept. of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. She joined C.A.R.E, I.I.T Delhi as Asst.Professor in Jan.2003
Saif Khan Mohammed received the B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Communication Systems Division (Commsys). He was an Assistant Professor with Commsys, Electrical Engineering Department, Linkoping University, Sweden, from 2011 to 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. From 2000 to 2003, he was also with Ishoni Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA, as a Senior Chip Architecture Engineer. He was a Systems and Algorithm Designer with the Wireless Systems Group, Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India, from 2003 to 2007. His main research interests include wireless communication using large antenna arrays, coding and signal processing for wireless communication systems, information theory, and statistical signal processing. He holds four granted U.S. patents in multi-user detection and precoding for multiple-input multiple-output communication systems. He is a member of the IEEE Communication Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was also a Technical Program Committee Member for several IEEE conferences. He is also a fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers India and holds the position of Prof. K. Gupta and Prof. P. Gupta Chair at IIT Delhi. He was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at IIT Delhi from 2016 to 2017 and the NASI Scopus Young Scientist Award in 2017. He was also the recipient of the Young Indian Researcher Fellowship by the Italian Ministry of University and Research from 2009 to 2010 and the Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Fellowship by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, from 2016 to 2019. He currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and the Elsevier Physical Communication Journal. (Based on document published on 15 January 2020)
Mr. Babu Narayanan K J is Chief Technologist at the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (called CEWiT), a research society of IIT Madras. He has nearly three decades of experience in ICT industry working on research and development of Telecom and Real-time systems. After completing master's in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, he had handled key assignments in the product and services industry before joining CEWiT in 2009. Through CEWiT, he helps in indigenous development of advanced wireless solutions for various markets in India and in building a stronger technology base in the areas of advanced research, technology development and standardization. He is one of the main architects of the 5G Testbed program where an end-to-end 5G Testbed is being developed by CEWiT along with a consortium of seven Institutes. He was also the vice-chair of TSDSI, the Indian Telecom SDO, from 2016 to 2018.
Dr. J Klutto Milleth obtained Ph.D. in space-time wireless communication in the year 2004 from IIT Madras, Chennai. He has more than 28 years of experience ranging from research, standardization, product development, team building, technical management and education, in the areas of wireless communication. He is a Chief Technologist at CEWiT, IIT Madras, and he is with CEWiT IIT Madras since October 2004. He is currently leading a team comprising of over 40 people with a research and development focus mainly on the L1, L2, and L3 layers of 4G and 5G Broadband Wireless Communication systems. He has gained rich standardization experience by participating and significantly contributing in the 4G and 5G technology development by IEEE 802.16m (WiMAX-2), 3GPP-LTE, and 3GPP-NR. He is also an adjunct faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department of IIT Madras. Currently, he is working on the 5G wireless technologies and driving the 5G research and development activities within CEWiT. The major project he is leading are the collaborative research project in 5G involving IISc Bangalore, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay and IIT Hyderabad and the L1, L2, and L3 layer implementation of a massive end-to-end 5G NR Testbed project within CEWiT, in collaboration with IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IISc Bangalore, and SAMEER Chennai. Apart from the above he is also handling Industry projects from public and private industries including Indian Railways and Defence. His research activity till date has led to the publications in fifteen leading international conferences and seven reputed international journals. Moreover, he has filed thirty-eight patents in India and US, and 12 of them were already granted. He had served as a committee member of two high level task force on Application Standards and the Intelligent Transport Systems set up by the Government of India related to 5G. He is also a member of the 5G implementation cell for 5G India 2020 constituted by MEITY, Government of India.
Dr.P.H.Rao acquired his B.Tech from SV University, Tirupathi, M.S from B I T S Pilani, and Ph.D from The Queen's University of Belfast U.K. He is IEEE-Antenna Propagation Society R10 Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2015-2016. Dr. Rao has more than 30+yrs of Research experience in Antennas, RF and Electromagnetics. After a brief stay in Space Applications Centre, (ISRO) Ahmedabad, he joined SAMEER- Centre for Electromagnetics, Chennai and currently he heads Microwave Communication and Antenna division (MCAD) and guides the RF and Antenna technologies for both military and civilian applications. During his stay at ISRO he was involved in the design and development of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antennas. At SAMEER he has been involved in the development of wideband Tracking and Jamming Antennas, Electronic Warfare and counter measure and Airborne conformal antennas. He steered a computational EM cell, a joint collaborative project by IISc- SAMEER to analyze complex electromagnetic problems. He has been part of various steering committees in building next generation technologies for India. He has been involved in developing antenna technologies like 5G massive MIMO antennas, mm wave Phased arrays, Metamaterial based configurations for the first time in India. He is a Visiting faculty at IITM in Electrical department. He is a member of 5G Implementation cell for 5G India 2020 constituted by MeitY, Govt. of India. He is a member of Apex committee for DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory (DYSL)Cognitive Technologies. He is a member of avionics and weapons implementation committee for next generation aircraft for DRDO. He was an UNDP fellow at Georgia Tech, USA in 1992. He was awarded British commonwealth fellowship in 1999 to carry out research at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He was a visiting scientist at Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA in 2007 and carried out research on System on Package and EBGs in Mixed signal systems. He has published 100+ papers in IEEE and IEE and referred journals and conferences. His paper on wideband EBG was awarded IEEE Best paper award in 2008. He is a SENIOR MEMBER of IEEE and founding Vice chair of IEEE-AP Chennai chapter (2013-2015). He is a reviewer for various IEEE Transactions. He has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the world 2000 Edition.
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Prof. Kiran Kumar Kuchi is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Hyderabad. He did his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 2000-06, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 1995-97 and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati, India, 1991-95. He has vast experience ranging from research, standardization, product development, team building, technical management and education, in the areas of communication theory, signal processing for communications, network MIMO, interference mitigation, modem algorithms and implementation, wireless systems, cross-layer optimization, emerging wireless standards
Dr. Antony Franklin is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He did his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2010. He has over 12 years of experience ranging from research, standardization, product development, team building, technical management and education, in the areas of wireless networks, next generation mobile network protocols and systems
Dr. Bheemarjuna Reddy is an Associate professor in the Computer Science department at IIT Hyderabad. He did his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras, 2002-07, M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Rourkela, and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Sir C R Reddy College of Engineering, Andhra University, India. He has over 13 years of experience ranging from research, standardization, product development, team building, technical management and education, in the areas of Converged Radio Access Technologies, SDN/NFV for 5G, M2M/IoT, Mobile Social Networks in Proximity, Green ICT and Network Security.
Dr. Saidhiraj Amuru is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from Virginia Tech, in 2015, M.S in Electrical Engineering, from Virginia Tech, in 2014 and B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2009. He has experience in the areas of Wireless communications, machine learning, networking, 4G, and 5G. He has a deep technical expertise in statistical signal processing, optimization theory, statistical learning theory, stochastic geometry and various other mathematical tools used to analyse wireless systems.
Prof. Rajalakshmi is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Hyderabad. She has vast experience ranging from research, standardization, product development, team building, technical management and education, in the areas of wireless communication, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, embedded systems, and optical networking.
Dr.Paulraj Arogyaswami received a B.E. in electrical engineering from the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavala, India, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.Paulraj's contributions in India came whilst serving in the Indian Navy. In 1972, he developed an improved trans-receiver-display for a British origin Sonar 170B. The technology was widely deployed in the Indian fleet. During 1977- 83, Paulraj led the development of a large surface ship sonar APSOH. This sonar became the fleet sonar for the Indian Navy and its variants are still widely deployed..APSOH was a landmark achievement in Indian Electronics. Later, Paulraj founded three national level research centers in India: the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Defense R&D Organization, the Central Research Laboratories, Bharat Electronics, and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Dept. of Electronics (as co-founder). These labs are now a part of India's vast R&D infrastructure.Paulraj joined Stanford University in 1991. His invention (1992) for exploiting multiple antenna at both ends of a wireless link (MIMO) lies at the heart of the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile phones, and has revolutionized high speed wireless services for billions of people. MIMO boosts data rate by creating parallel data streams, multiplying throughput by the number of antennas used. Paul's contributions went beyond MIMO's invention - his large research program at Stanford and two pioneering start-up companies: Iospan Wireless for MIMO-OFDMA core technology (acquired by Intel), and Beceem Communications for WiMAX chips (acquired by Broadcom), have helped create an wireless technology eco-system now shipping billions of MIMO wireless devices annually. More recently he founded Rasa Networks (acquired by Aruba /HPE) for using AI tools in WiFi network analytics.
DOT Secretary, Shri. K. Rajaraman visited IITM Research Park and reviewed the 5G test bed project. A demo of the end to end setup using Keysight UE Emulator was demonstrated.
The Standing Parliamentary Committee on IT visited IIT Madras Research Park and reviewed the progress of the 5G Test bed activity. The team demonstrated various use cases to the Committee for IOT, eMBB and URLLC. The use cases were run on different slices demonstrating the slicing capability of 5G Core. A MEC use case using video feeds to central and edge servers was also demonstrated. The UE hardware and software developed by CEWiT were demonstrated to the Committee. The demos were very well appreciated by the Committee.
An Industry webinar was jointly conducted by CEWIT, IITM, IITK and Sameer on 24th August. About 130 participants from 25-30 companies joined the webinar.
5G Core has been integrated with Keysight UE Emulator. Registration and PDU Session procedures completed, and data path established.
CEWiT along with others gave a webinar at NITPRIT to senior government officials on 17 Nov 2021.
A webinar was jointly conducted by CEWIT, IITM, IITK and Sameer for the Academia on 05 Apr 2021. There were 850 registrations for the webinar.