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Is this programme for me?

The programme is ideal if you are

  • 5GA tech professional working in industries implementing 5G technology and applications or
  • 5GA tech professional in the telecom ecosystem building 5G network solutions

How will this programme help me build expertise?

  • Get the IISc advantage, World’s #1 Research University*
  • Learn from top research faculty, trained in the world’s best laboratories
  • Network with the early-adopters and thought leaders in the domain
  • Strengthen key fundamentals through live projects and case studies

*Based on metric of Citations per Faculty

Why build expertise in 5G technologies?

There is a surge in the global demand for 5G professionals across industries and the
telecom ecosystem.

India needs 22 million 5G-backed skilled professionals by 2025 2

2022 is going to be the demonstrative year
for 5G services3


Why IISc?

IISc

IISc (Indian Institute of Science) is the oldest and the finest higher education institute of its kind in India. It pursues excellence in research and education in several fields of Science and Engineering and is one of the first three publicly funded institutes to be awarded the Institute of Eminence status. The alumni of IISc hold significant academic and industry positions around the globe. For more information visit https://www.iisc.ac.in

The Programme will be delivered by IISc’s Centre for Continuing Education (CCE). CCE delivers courses suitably designed to meet the requirements of target groups: Research & Development (R&D) Laboratories and Industries, Research Scientists/Engineers, to enable them to grow into competent managers of technology intensive and data-driven organizations. For more information visit http://cce.iisc.ac.in

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.


  • Chandra M

    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

What will I learn?

9-Month Executive Programme

Module I

  • 5G Foundation: 2G to 5G Evolution, 5G Network Elements
  • 5G Standards: Revisiting Standards, 5G Technology Theory
  • 5G in Operation: Open Source Systems, 5G Implementation
  • Future of Mobile Communication: Role of AI/ML Models
  • Network Deployment in Cloud

6-Month Executive Programme

What is the format?

Program Options

  • 9-Month Executive Programme
    PG Level Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies with AI and Cloud
  • 6-Month Executive Programme
    PG Level Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies
  • Campus Visit to IISc, Bangalore
  • Live Interactive Sessions by IISc Faculty and Industry Experts
  • Best-in-class Self-learning Content, Projects, Case Studies and Hands-on Sessions

Classes start in August 2022.

The programme will be delivered on TalentSprint’s digital platform ipearl.ai

What are the key learning outcomes?

Upon completion, you will be able to

  • Understand and apply
    5G applications
  • Understand key business areas for building 5G solutions
  • Build and run
    the 5G system
Certificate

What is the eligibility?

  • eduationEducation: Working professionals with BE/BTech/ME/MTech in any stream, BCA, B.Sc. CS, MCA, M.Sc. CS
  • expExperience: Minimum 2 years

How can I enroll for this programme?

RM
  • Application

    Apply for the
    Programme

  • Selection

    Selection by
    IISc Committee**

  • Enrollment

    Join the
    Programme

**Selection for the programme will be done by IISc and is strictly based on the education, work experience, and motivation of the participants.

What will be my investment?

PG Level Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies with AI and Cloud

PG Level Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies

(i) Application fee of ₹1,000, and
(ii) Campus visit of 3 days, fee will be ₹6,000/day.

Scholarships are available.

Campus visit fee to be borne by participants. Will be based on actuals.
Fees paid are non-refundable and non-transferable.


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Who will find this programme suitable?

  • A tech professional working in industries implementing 5G technology and applications or
  • A tech professional in the telecom ecosystem building 5G Network Solutions

Who will teach this programme?

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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