Prof. Anand Srivastava
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
Anand Srivastava did his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi and is currently working in IIIT Delhi as Professor in ECE department since Nov 2014 and also Director in IIIT Delhi Incubation Center. I am also Adjunct faculty in Bharti School of Telecom Technology at IIT Delhi. Before joining IIIT Delhi, I was Dean & Professor in School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, HP, India from Jan. 2012 to Nov. 2014. Prior to this, I was with Alcatel-Lucent-Bell Labs, India as solution architect for access and core networks for 2.5 years. My initial stint (∼ 20 years) was with Center for Development of Telematics (CDOT), a telecom research center of Govt. of India where I was Director and member of CDOT Board. During my stay in CDOT, I provided technical leadership and motivation to team of engineers engaged in the development of national level projects in the areas of Telecom Security Systems, Network Management System, Intelligent Networks, Operations Support Systems, Access Networks (GPON) and Optical Technology based products. Majority of these projects were completed successfully and commercially deployed in the public telecom network. I also carried out significant research work in the Photonics Research Lab, Nice, France, under the Indo-French Science & Technology Cooperation Program on “Special optical fibers and fiber-based components for optical communications” during 2007-2010 in different phases. I was also closely involved with ITU-T, Geneva in Study Group 15 and represented India for various optical networking standards meetings. Currently, I am driving VLC/LiFi standardization activities under the aegis of TSDSI. My research work is in the area of optical core & access networks, Vehicle-to-vehicle communications, Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) architectures, and Visible light communications.
Prof. Vivek Ashok Bohara
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara has been working extensively on advance communication protocols since 2006. During his doctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore he designed and implemented a prototype WiFi module (IEEE 802.11a) and mobile WiMAX system (IEEE 802.16e) on reconfigurable NI modular instruments as well as on Lyrtech SFF software defined radio platform. For his work on Mobile WiMAX and Cognitive radio he has awarded 1st prize in 2007 and 2010 National Instruments ASEAN Virtual Instrumentation application contest respectively.
During his tenure as a Post-Doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellowship) in University of Paris-East, he was actively involved in designing and implementing critical blocks for wideband RF transmitters. Specifically, he proposed numerous green communication techniques to reduce power consumption and increase efficiency of nonlinear high power amplifiers used in RF transmitters.
He joined IIIT-Delhi, in 2013, where he is currently working as a Professor and Head, Department of Electronics an Communication Engineering.
Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara also supervises the Wirocomm Research Lab at IIIT Delhi which deals with state of the art research in wireless communication an allied area and is also the co-founding faculty member for Li-Fi Centre of excellence @ IIIT-Delhi. His research interests are next-generation communication technologies such as Visible Light Communication (VLC), hybrid RF-VLC communication, integration of optical communication with intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS), UAV, and vehicular communication.
Prof. Marcos katz
University of Oulu, Finland
Marcos Katz is a Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, since Dec. 2009. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina in 1987, and the MS and Dr. Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He worked in different R&D positions at Nokia, Finland between 1987 and 2001. In 2001–2002 he was a Research Scientist at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. In years 2003–2005 Dr. Katz was the Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Advanced Research Lab., Telecommunications R&D Center, Suwon, Korea. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a Chief Research Scientist at VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland. Prof. Katz served as the chair of Working Group 5 (on short-range communications) for the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) in
2008-2012. Prof. Katz has written and edited six books in different areas of mobile and wireless communications. He has written more than 190 publications and holds more than 50 patents. Prof. Katz is a member of the 6G Flagship research program, and his current research interests include optical wireless communications, sustainable connectivity approaches for 6G as well as open 6G architectures.
Prof. Abhishek Dixit
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Abhishek Dixit received the M.Tech. degree in Opto-electronics and Optical Communication from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Belgium, in 2014. Since 2015, he has been an Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi where he has taught courses related to Communications Engineering and Networking. He has also taken an NPTEL course on Principles of Digital Communications. Before joining IIT Delhi in December 2015, he has served for a semester (July 2015 – December 2015) as an Assistant Professor at IIT Mandi and as a Post-doctoral Researcher (December 2014 – June 2015) at Ghent University, Belgium. He is leading research activities at IIT Delhi in the area of optical communications and networking. In this context, he has been involved in the large number of Indian projects. He has also carried out several consultation projects in the area of railway signalling. He has published over 30 international journal articles (IEEE JSAC, IEEE Commun. Mag., Journal of Lightwave Technology, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Access, IEEE Open Journal of the Commun. Society,..) and over 50 publications in international conferences.
Dr. Gourab Ghatak
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Dr. Gourab Ghatak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. from Telecom ParisTech (University of Paris-Saclay) where he worked on modeling and analysis of 5G networks. His research interests are stochastic geometry, intelligent transportation systems, and machine learning for communications. He is the inventor of 5 patents on 5G and the author of several journal and conference papers.
Dr. Swaminathan Ramabadran
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Dr. R. SWAMINATHAN received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from SASTRA University, Thanjavur, in 2009, the M.E. degree in communication systems from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur, in 2016. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 2015 to 2019. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore. He is also associated with Center of Futuristic Defense and Space Technology (CFDST), Center for Electric Vehicle and Intelligent Transport Systems (CEVITS) at IIT Indore. He is currently serving as a CEO of IITI Advanced Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Foundation (i.e. Incubation Centre of IIT Indore) and Head of Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CEED), IIT Indore. He is the
author or co-author of more than 50 reputed journal and IEEE conference publications. His current research interests include but not limited to Efficient design of Space-air-ground
integrated networks (SAGIN) for 6G communication, Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV)- assisted free space optics (FSO) communication, Intelligent Receiver Design, and Intelligent- Reflecting-Surfaces (IRS)-aided FSO and RF communications. He received the Gold Medal from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. He has given invited talks on entrepreneurship and wireless communications on several occasions at leading engineering institutions. He has also organized various faculty development programs (FDPs), short-term courses (STCs), and workshops funded by SERB, ATAL Academy, AICTE-QIP, and TEQIP-III. Further, he has also secured three funded research projects from SERB worth of more than Rs 50 Lakhs and successfully completed one consultancy project for Airtel. He has been serving as a reviewer for reputed IEEE journals and as a TPC member for reputed IEEE conferences.