5G Technologies with AI and Cloud

Who will I learn from?

The distinguished faculty group is involved in advanced research in Telecom through global projects like the National 5G Testbed (DoT), British Telecom India Research Centre (BTIRC), working on cutting-edge AI, mobility and software engineering technologies.

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  Programme Director
  Prof. Chandra R Murthy

  Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego, USA
  Areas: 5G, Multiuser MIMO Systems, Wireless Communications
  Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering at IISc.

  
  

  He is the lead PI of the DoT-funded 5G testbed project at IISc. His research areas include 5G-and-beyond communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces, cell-free massive MIMO, random access protocols for massive machine-type communications, joint radar and communications, new waveform design for 6G, and sparse signal recovery techniques applied to communication systems. With 75+ journal papers and 100+ conference papers to his credit, his work has received best paper awards at NCC 2014, ICASSP 2018 and ISIT 2021. His team's demonstration of cell-free MIMO won the top-30 award in the 5G Hackathon recently conducted by DoT. He has participated in editorships of premier journals such as IEEE's Signal Processing Letters, Transactions on Signal Processing, Transactions on Information Theory, and Transactions on Communications. He was an elected member of the IEEE SPCOM Technical Committee and is a senior member of the IEEE.

• Prof. K.V.S. Hari

  Ph.D., UC San Diego, USA
  Areas: Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Neuroscience

  Professor in the Dept. of ECE, IISc. He has been a visiting faculty at Stanford University and KTH, Stockholm. His research interests include statistical signal processing, sparse signal processing, array signal processing, machine learning, with applications to MIMO wireless communication systems, radar and navigation systems, autonomous systems, assistive technologies for the elderly, MRI systems, and neuroscience. He is the Editor-in-Chief (Electrical Sciences) of Sadhana and a Fellow of IEEE and INAE.
• Sudhakar Balijepalli

  Sr. Project Technologist, IISc
  Areas: Electronics and Communication Engineering, Wireless Computing, Network Management

  He leads the 5G stack development in the FR1 band. His current interests include Wireless System Design, Protocol Implementation, Non-terrestrial Networks, Network Orchestration and Network Management, and Research toward 6G. He has worked in the wireless industry and contributed in 2G to 5G for three decades and held different technical and leadership positions. He was associated with premier organizations like Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs India), Motorola, Nokia Networks, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Worked extensively in Mobile/Wireless communications technologies, contributing to all phases of the product life cycle, and served as Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine between 2012 and 2015. He received his M.Tech (Digital Communications) from MANIT in 1993 and worked for the dissertation in the CSC Group, TIFR Mumbai.

Apart from these distinguished faculty, you will interact with industry experts
through guest lectures