Areas of Interest

• I have worked on broad areas of Computer networks, Queueing systems, Wireless communications. I have also worked for industry for a decade and gained experience with product conceptualization, product design and development, industrial R&D and standardization.

Education

• PhD, 2003, Indian Institute of Science
• ME, 1999, Indian Institute of Science

Past Experience

• March-July 2003: Post doctoral fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai India.
• July 2003-July 2005: Post doctoral fellow at Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France.
• July 2005-Sept 2007: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Sept 2007-Dec 2009: Senior Researcher, Vehicle Communications and Information Management Group, General Motors India Science Lab., Bangalore, India
• Dec 2009-Nov 2013: Principal Design Engineer, Broadcom Corporation (as part of acquisition of Beceem Communications Pvt. Ltd.), Bangalore, India.
• Dec 2013-July 2016: Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India
• Aug 2016–Oct 2017: Principal Design Engineer, Hubble Connected India Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Patents: Please see the list available here.

Publications: Please see the list available here.

Courses

Following is a list of some courses I teach at IIT Bhilai, some of them are completely designed by me keeping the Industry requirements in mind.

• Math of Machine Learning
• Wireless Security with SDRs
• Wireless MAC Modeling
• Mobile Communication Systems
• Math of TBS Games
• Simulation of Biology

Ongoing/Completed/Upcoming Projects

• Title: Massive Uplink Multi-path for UHD Video Delivery in Mobile Systems.
  Funding Organization: IMPRINT-IIC and Rx eHealth Enablers Pvt. Ltd.
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 63Lakh INR.
  Jointly With: Dr. Sreejith T V

• Title: Techniques for Improving Success Rates of Recto-Vaginal Artificial Insemination.
  Funding Organization: VPhore Labs Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  Status: Completed.
  Budget (approx): 1Lakh INR.

• Title: Massive Multi-access for real time data over 5G systems.
  Funding Organization: ABB Research, Bangalore.
  Status: Completed.
  Budget (approx): 8.6Lakh INR.

• Title:Development of a data acquisition and processing system for Artificial Insemination prediction in remotely located dairy farm cows.
  Funding Organization: AgVerse Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 1Lakh INR.

• Title: Identifying optimal immunization strategies in Indian context against COVID-19.
  Funding Organization: SERB (under MATRICS program).
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 5Lakh INR.
  Jointly With: Dr. Rishi Ranjan Singh and Dr. Amit Kumar Dhar.

• Title: Multi-cluster models for epidemic spread and evaluation based on data-driven parameterization.
  Funding Organization: SERB (under MATRICS program).
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 5Lakh INR.
  Jointly With: Dr. Rishi Ranjan Singh and Prof. D. Manjunath.

• Title: Massive Multi-access to provide UHD Quality Video and real time data Delivery from a Connected Mobile Ambulance and its Extension to Other Disaster Recovery Scenario.
  Funding Organization: IIT Bhilai (Under the faculty Research Initiation Grant).
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 9Lakh INR.

• Title: Development of MEC system.
  Funding Organization: DoT, under the Indigenous 5G Testbed Project (in my capacity as Adjunct Faculty at IIT Delhi).
  Status: Ongoing.
  Budget (approx): 200Lakh INR.
  Update: Integration of MEC System with the 5G core has been achieved.

• Title: Scheduling Techniques and Algorithms for Multi-AP coordination Feature to achieve EHT in 802.11be.
  Funding Organization: Under CSR grant provided by Arista Networks.
  Budget (approx): 5Lakh INR.
  Status:Ongoing.
  Jointly With: Dr. Sreejith T V

• Title: Development of a WiFi-based Stream Enabling Device for HDMI-enabled Television Set.
  Funding Organization: Arham Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Raipur.
  Budget (approx): 8Lakh INR.
  Jointly With: Dr. Nikhil Chander

• Title: Advanced Communication Systems.
  Funding Organization: DST, under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems
  Budget (approx): 150 Crores INR.
  Jointly With: IIIT Bangalore, IIT Hyderabad, IIIT Naya Raipur

• Title: Evolution-aware LoRa WAN system deployment planning .
  Funding Organization: SERB, CRG
  Budget (approx): 18Lakh INR.
  Jointly With: Dr. Sreejith T V

• Title: Next Generation Wireless Research and Standardization on 5G and Beyond".
  Funding Organization: MEITY
  Budget (approx): 8.8 Crores INR.
  Jointly With: IIT Delhi, IIT Jodhpur, as adjunct faculty of IIT Delhi

Ongoing Technical Activities

• Smart Radio Environments: We have started active research on SREs. Faculty members involved are Dr. Nikhil Chander and Dr. Sreejith T V.
• LoRaWAN: Several interesting hands-on activities in the field of dimensioning a large LoRaWAN system.
  • Update: The paper by Poonam Maurya, "Improved Packet Detection in LoRa-like Chirp Spread Spectrum Systems" was selected as the best paper in IEEE ANTS 2019 conference.

Internship Opportunity

Internship opportunity is available throughout the year for various projects (existing, future). Please send me an email with subject "Internship Application: Your Name". Students with EE/CSE/ECE/IT background can apply.

Students (Present and Past)

• PhD: Smruti Padhy, Megha Sahu, Poonam Maurya.
• MTech: MD Sohrabuddin, Nikhil Bhargava, Ashwin Rao, Snigdha Damle, Avinash Baruri.
• BTech: Ashish Sangwan, Pramodh Rachuri, Ahtisham Ali Ansari, Rajat Bansal, Saksham Bhusan, Ashutosh Soni, Kausheek Akella, Sai Teja Suggala.