Organizers

Dr Vinay Kumar

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Patiala, India

Vinay is an Associate Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, and the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. He received PhD degree in 2009 from Jaypee Univ of Info Tech. His areas of research are Artificial Intelligence, Image and Video Processing. He has published many papers in various journals and conferences. He worked with Grupo de Procesado Multimedia prior to joining Thapar.

Dr Rahul Upadhyay

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Patiala, India

Rahul Upadhyay received the engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India, and the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, India, in 2009 and 2016, respectively. Since late 2016, he has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India. His research interests include Biomedical Signal and Image processing, Soft Computing techniques and Brain Computer Interface.

Dr Mohammed Usman

Department of Electrical Engineering, King Khalid University

Abha, Saudi Arabia

He received B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madras University, India in 2002. He joined the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, United Kingdom as a graduate student and was awarded Master of Science in Communications, Control and Digital Signal Processing in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded the PhD degree for his research on Fountain codes for wireless communications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, USA and Member of IET, UK. He serves as editor for several books and as Organizing/TPC Chair for IEEE/Springer International conferences. His research interests are in mathematical modeling, signal processing and AI techniques for next generation wireless systems and their applications.