Members

Group Leader

Dr. Mohendra Roy (Principal Investigator)

Asst. Professor

PDPU, India

Office Phone: +91 792327 5483

E-mail: mohendra.roy@ieee.org; mohendra.roy@sot.pdpu.ac.in

Dr. Mohendra Roy is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technology in Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Delta-NTU corporate lab of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2016, he obtained his Ph.D. in Electronics and Information Engineering from Korea University in South Korea. He worked for Indian Oil Corporation Limited as an Engineering Assistant from 2009 to 2011, and before that he served as a project Engineer at IIT Guwahati from 2008 to 2009. Roy was given the prestigious graduate achievement award from Korea University (similar to the best graduate award in India) for his PhD work, an outstanding paper award from the Korean Biochip Society, a 2nd prize at IISF 2020 by the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology, an IEEE Seoul student paper award, and a gold medal by Tezpur University.

Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, BioInspired Systems, Imaging systems and Computer Vision

PhD Students

Snehal Rajput

PhD Student #1 (2020- 2024)

Completed her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

E-mail: snehal.rphd19@sot.pdpu.ac.in

Area of interest: Operating system, system programming, machine learning

Currently: Assistant Professor at Bennett University (Times of India Group), Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Joy Acharya

PhD Student #2 (2021- Till date)

(Along with Supervisor II: Dr. Paawan Sharma)

Pursuing PhD in Information and Communication Technology

E-mail: joy.aphd21@sot.pdpu.ac.in

Area of interest: IOT security, Blockchain

Chintan Panchal

PhD Student #3 (2024- Till date)

Pursuing PhD in Information and Communication Technology

Short Bio: Chintan Panchal, having more than 24 years of ASIC/VLSI/Semiconductor industry experience. He has been part of many ASIC/SOC development with organizations like eInfochips, Samsung, Mediatek, Broadcom, Intel in different countries. With rich hands-on experience in ASIC development life cycles – RTL design, DV -Verification, Physical Design and DFT Design for Test on projects in technology 3nm, 5nm, 7nm, 16nm, 28nm and more for consumer, networking, processor, IPs and servers’ applications SoCs.

He has worked on wide range of EDA tools, from Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. Namely – Tessent, DFTultra, DFTmax, TetraMAX, VCS, Questa, IUS, Primetime. He has successfully finished 9 onsite client projects with multiple threads and multiple sites, 35+ offshore projects without any escalation from client and fetching repeated business. He has experience on Offshore- Onsite engineering execution model with delivering on time, quality and exceeding customer's expectation and excellent understanding of client’s requirement and projects requirement. During his carrier he has worked as individual contributor as well as plays a Lead and managerial role.

Chintan Panchal has won several awards and accolades including eI ROCKS (Best employee of the year) twice, along with numerous customer appreciations. Publish more than 12 papers and articles in national-international forums.

Area of interest: AI and ML for EDA Tools