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: Statistical Signal Processing, Array Signal Processing, Machine Learning (Applications to MIMO Wireless Communication Systems), Radar & Navigation Systems, Autonomous Systems

  Professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc. He has been with IISc since 1992. In addition to this, he also coordinates the activities of the institution’s Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory. He is also a visiting faculty for Stanford University and KTH, Stockholm. Furthermore, he is the Editor-in-Chief (Electrical Sciences) of Sadhana and a Fellow of IEEE and INAE and INSA.
• Prof. 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.
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  Prof. Prabhakar T V

  Ph.D, MSc (Engg), MSc(Phy)
  Areas: Network Embedded Systems, Hardware System Design, Power Management Algorithms, Energy Harvesting Systems, IoT Security, Heterogeneous Networks for IoT, Tactile Internet Applications, Communication Systems, Sensor Networks

  Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, IISc. He leads the Zero Energy Networks (ZEN) Laboratory, dedicated to building embedded electronic systems for application areas such as airplane cabins, healthcare, smart homes, and other IoT applications such as indoor positioning systems. His lab mainly builds embedded electronic systems for application areas such as Space IoT, Urban Air Mobility, Industrial, and Tactile IoT. Under his leadership, ZEN focuses on RFID-based localization and building RF energy harvesting platforms. He is also engaged with about 100 MSMEs and facilitates funding and technical advice under the MSME Centre of Excellence.
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  Prof. Vaibhav Katewa

  Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
  Areas: Analysis & Design of Dynamical Systems and Networks using Control Theory Tools, Cyber-physical Systems, Sparse Feedback Control Design, Distributed Detection, Estimation & Control, Networked Control Systems

  Assistant Professor at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc. He is also a faculty member of the institution’s Electrical Communication Engineering Department. An IIT Kanpur alumnus, he also served as a Postdoctoral Scholar for two years at the Mechanical Department of the University of California, Riverside. The focus areas where his research works are applied include smart grids, transportation systems, and autonomous systems. Many of his research papers have won him accolades - recent ones include the IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award in 2020 and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in 2021.

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