Biography

Academic Qualification

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, December, 2011.

  • Dissertation title: Design and measurement results for cooperative spectrum sharing

  • Supervisor/ Advisor: Dr. See Ho Ting, Vice President, AI & Data Analytics at Ruckus Networks 

• Pune University,  Pune, India.

  • Major in Electronics and Communication Engineering, May 2004.

  • Thesis title: Underwater acoustic communication system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Postions Held

• June 2024-Present: Professor and Dean (Research, Innovation and Development), IIIT-Delhi, India

• 2024-June 2024: Professor and Assoc Dean (Research and Innovation), IIIT-Delhi, India

• 2022-2023: Professor and Head (Department of ECE), IIIT-Delhi, India

• 2018: Associate Professor (Tenured), IIIT-Delhi, India

• 2013-2018:  Assistant Professor, IIIT-Delhi, India

• 2011-2013:  Post Doctoral Researcher (Marie Curie Fellowship), ESIEE Paris, France

• 2010–2011: Project Officer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2006-2010: PhD Scholar , School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2004-2006 : Project Engineer (RF and Broadband), TCI-Telenet solutions Pvt Ltd, Pune, India

Professional Activities:

• Chair, IEEE Communication Society, Delhi Chapter (from Feb 2023 onward)

• Regional editor (Asia), Comm & Optics Connect Journal, Scifiniti

• Associate Editor, IEEE Communication Letter

• Executive Committee member, IEEE VTS , Delhi Chapter ((from March 2024 onward

• TPC Co-Chair IEEE ANTS 2023 

• Organizing Committee Co-Chair: ICDCN, 2022

• TPC Chair and core member of organizing committee, IEEE ANTS 2020

• Local Arrangements Co-Chair: MobiCom 2018

• Tutorial Co-Chair: IEEE ANTS 2018

• Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE Comsnets 2019

• Senior Member,  IEEE

• Associate Editor : IEEE Access

• TPC: IEEE PIMRC

Scholarships and Awards

• TIH-IoT CHANAKYA Faculty Fellowship (TiH Foundation at IIT Bombay) an initiative of DST and IIT Bombay. 

• Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2006-2009.

• Research Assistantship, Nanyang Technological University, 2009-2010.

• Winner of 2007 ASEAN Virtual Instrumentation Applications Contest, Academic Segment, Singapore.

• Winner of 2010 ASEAN Virtual Instrumentation Applications Contest, Academic Segment, Singapore.

• Best paper award at National Level Paper Presentation organized by IEEE student branch at PCOE, Nagpur, India.

• Best Poster award at IEEE ANTS 2014 for the paper titled " Exploiting Multiple Antenna Cognitive Radio System for Cooperative Spectrum Sharing".

• Best Poster award (Runners up)  at IEEE ComsNets 2015 for the paper titled " Analysis of Carrier Aggregated OFDM signals in presence of Dual band Power amplifiers".

• Teaching Excellence award for the course "Wireless System Implementation" in year 2015. 

• Best Poster award (honorable mention)  at IEEE ComsNets 2016 for the paper titled " Compressive Cooperative Communication with Decode and Forward Relay".

• Teaching Excellence award for the course  Basic Electronics (Winter Semester, 2018) course.

• Teaching Excellence award for the course  Digital communication System (Monsoon Semester, 2017)  course. 

• Best Paper award at IEEE ANTS 2022 conference. 

• Best Demonstration award in  IEEE ComsNets 2023 conference.

• Outstanding technical contribution award from TSDSI, Oct. 2023. 

• Best Demonstration award (Runners up) in  IEEE ComsNets 2024 conference.