Speakers
Biography
Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty is a Professor at the University of North Texas. Prof. Mohanty’s research is in “Smart Electronic Systems” which has been funded by National Science Foundations, Semiconductor Research Corporation, US Air Force, IUSSTF, and Mission Innovation Global Alliance. He has authored 300 research articles, 4 books, and invented 4 US patents. His Google Scholar h-index is 30 and i10-index is 100. He has received 6 best paper awards and has delivered multiple keynote talks at various International Conferences. He serves on the Board of Governors (BoG) of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society since 2019. He received IEEE-CS-TCVLSI Distinguished Leadership Award in 2018 for services to the IEEE, and to the VLSI research community. He has been recognized as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by the Consumer Electronics Society (CESoc) during 2017-2018. He received Society for Technical Communication (STC) 2017 Award of Merit for his outstanding contributions to IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He was the recipient of 2016 PROSE Award for best Textbook in Physical Sciences & Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers for his Mixed-Signal System Design book published by McGraw-Hill in 2015. He was conferred 2016-17 UNT Toulouse Scholars Award for sustained excellent scholarship and teaching achievements. He is the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (CEM). He served as the Chair of Technical Committee on VLSI, IEEE Computer Society during 2014-2018. More about his biography, research, education, and outreach activities can be obtained from his website: http://www.smohanty.org.
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet has been here for quite some time since 1969. The Internet of Things (IoT) was born in 1990 when for the first time an object other than computer (a toaster) was connected to the Internet. Since then IoT has evolved from cloud-based to edge/fog based. The IoT is considered as the core technology that can enable the design and operation of smart cities. The IoT makes components of smart cities, which need not be inherently smart or intelligent, smart or intelligent. For example, owing to IoT, buildings, energy-grids, transport-systems, and health-care systems are made smart or intelligent. IoT can be regarded as a configurable dynamic global network of networks consisting of four main components: (1) The Things, (2) Internet, (3) LAN, and (4) The Cloud. The “Things” refers to any physical object that has its own IP address and can connect andsend/receive data via network. It is estimated to 50billion things will be connected by 2050 and eventually a trillion things. The IoT infrastructure consists of various components including sensors, electronics, networks, middleware, firmware, and software. This talk will present detailed insight of IoT. The talk will address many questions about IoT including the following: (1) What is IoT? (2) What are the critical components of IoT? (3) What are the challenges of design and operation of IoT? (4) How to perform Design for excellence (DFX) of IoT “Things” for Energy-Security-Intelligence trade-offs? (5) How can one simulate an IoT framework consisting of multidiscipline systems and components of IoT before its actual deployment? (6) What is the state-of-the-art in IoT and future direction?(7) What differentiates edge versus cloud computing paradigms in IoT? (8) What is Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT)? (9) What is Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT)? (10) What is Internet-of-Everything (IoE)?
Biography
Mr. Sharad Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur. He started his company Kiran Robotix Automachine Technologies OPC Pvt Ltd with the goal to develop advance Robots and IoT Products. He started experimenting with IoT since its first wave hit India back in 2014 and has been extensively researching since then.
He received his B.Tech. Electronics Engineering Degree from IERT Allahabad in 2014 and completed his M.Tech. in Mobile Computing Technology from School of Electronics DAVV in 2016 and is awarded with gold medal for his excellent performance.
Abstract:
With the dawn of the era of ‘Internet’, many new technologies are emerging as the result of increased reach of it. IoT or Internet of Things is one of the most prominent technology among the new emerging techs. “Data” can be accurately termed as the fuel for many techs and thus many companies and IoT adds a new layer to these data sources. IoT provides the last mile data driven business the “fuel” to see new opportunities and provide solutions that were never possible before.
With the advent of new manufacturing techniques, immense processing power can be given to devices of size of a human thumb. It made possible the manufacturing of unconventional computing devices that can be attached to devices involved in the daily fabric of life-giving possibility to several new businesses.
IoT is still in its nascent years and it is expected to grow rapidly in coming years, the number of connected devices will grow in epic proportions. Learning to develop these devices is one of the most sought out skill in Industry these days.
This session on IoT focuses on giving the listeners a hands-on experience on developing their first IoT devices and guiding them through the waves of this technology.
Biography
Dr. Rekha Sharma is an Assistant Professor at IPS Indore. She has completed PhD from IIT Indore, MS from Marquette University, USA and B.Sc. from DAVV Indore. Her area of interest is organic electronics and she has published more than 13 journal articles in reputed journals.
Abstract:
Energy Storage Devices
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissiveelectroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound that emits light in response to an electric current. This organic layer is situated between two electrodes; typically, at least one of these electrodes is transparent. OLEDs are used to create digital displays in devices such as television screens, computer monitors, portable systems such as smartphones, handheld game consoles and PDAs. A major area of research is the development of white OLED devices for use in solid-state lighting applications. There are two main families of OLED: those based on small molecules and those employing polymers.
A typical OLED is composed of a layer of organic materials situated between two electrodes, the anode and cathode, all deposited on a substrate. The organic molecules are electrically conductive as a result of delocalization of π-electrons caused by conjugation over part or all of the molecule. These materials have conductivity levels ranging from insulators to conductors, and are therefore considered organic semiconductors. The highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO) of organic semiconductors are analogous to the valence and conduction bands of inorganic semiconductors.
Biography
Dr. Archana Chaudhary is working as Scientist at Discipline of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore under DST Women Scientist scheme. She obtained her Ph. D. in 2012 from University of Rajasthan Jaipur. During her doctorate, she worked on the Single source molecular precursors derived nanoparticles where she studied different aspects of molecular precursors and the materials obtained from them. In 2013, she was awarded Research fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi and in the year 2016, she received the prestigious Women Scientist -A research grant of Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi. At present, she is working in the area of waste water treatment using various materials.
Abstract
Nano-material for the waste water treatment
Contamination of ground water systems by chemicals such as- dyes and other volatile organic compounds causes a serious environmental threat. The sternness of 7this threat is due to the toxic nature of these chemicals, for instance- azo dyes are carcinogenic in nature and dioxin is a carcinogen and also hormone disrupter. Organic dyes show high stability towards light, temperature and many other chemicals, so it is a daunting task to remove them without producing other harmful by products. At present, two main methods for treating organic dyes in the contaminated water are physical adsorption of dyes on the material surface and photocatalytic degradation using UV or sun light. Photocatalytic degradation using semiconductor materials is considered as a “green” technique which provides a great potential for complete degradation of organic dyes into pollution free products viz. CO2, H2O etc. via oxidation process.