• Advisory Committee Member, National Conf. on Commun. (NCC’13), Feb. 2013, Sponsorship of  NCC’06 (STMicro), NCC’00 (Hughes).
  • Samsung IIT Innovation Award (organized with FITT), Aug. 2012 and Dec.2011,
  • Adjunct Professor in Bharti School of Telecommunication and Electrical Engineering, ‘Wireless Communication: Technologies and Systems’ area (courses in six semesters), Nov.2007-Oct.2011.
  • ST-Ericsson Participation (Tutorial/Demo) in Tech Fest Tryst, Mar. 2010.
  • Supervision of M.Tech Projects—(i) “Collaborative Techniques for Collocated WLAN/BT Coexistence” by A.Kumar [currently, Asst.Prof. IIT-H]  [May 2009], (ii) “Bluetooth: Technology and Application Development” by N.Punhani [May 2009], (iii) “Analysis and Improvement of Voice Performance in 802.11e WLAN EDCA” by S.Pandey [May 2008] and (ii) “Modified Adaptive Frequency Hopping Technique to Reduce Interference in Presence of WLAN and Collocated Piconets” by P.K.Chaitanya [May 2008].
  • Expert Presentation on ‘Trends in Image Processing’, IIT-D Workshop, Dec.2007.
  • Presentation on ‘System Issues in Voice/Audio Communication’ and Panel Discussion in ‘Multimedia Workshop’, July 2007.
  • Satellite-broadcasted Learning Program, ‘Multimedia Communication’, June 2007.
  • Visiting Faculty of ‘Telecommunication Technologies’, Jan-May’07, Jan-May’06.
  • Industry Perspective Presentation in Workshop on ‘Embedded Systems: Advances and Applications’, Jan.2009 and Oct.2005.
  • Presentation to students/faculties on Personal Journey, 2003-’04.
  • M.S (Research)/Ph.D. Thesis External Exam.—July’10, Aug’07.
  • M.Tech External Exams.—May’11, May’10, May’09, May’08, May’07, May’06, May’05, May’04, Dec.’02, Dec.’01.

  • Presentation on ‘Product Innovation’ in World IP Day celebration, Apr. 2012.
  • AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professor (summer 2005—summer 2008) in ‘Mobile Multimedia Communication’ area.
  • Technology Presentation—“WiMax and Next-Gen Network” [Mar.2008],
  • DSP Seminars—(i) DSP Application Engine Design: Algorithm to ASIC Imple-mentation, (ii) DSP Architecture, Algorithm and Wireless Applications [Oct.2007],
  • Workshop on ‘Emerging Global Job Competencies’ and Formal Feedback on B.Tech/M.Tech Course Curriculum in line for new IIT status [Mar.2007],
  • Synergistic Presentation—“Automotive Infotronics and Communication” [Mar.2007],
  • VLSI Seminars—(i) STMicro’s System-On-Chip Solutions and SOC Design Flow and (ii) Concepts of ‘Design for Testability’ and ‘Physical Design’ [Sept.2006],
  • Project Supervision (with D.K.Mehra), “Design and Implementation of Software Defined Radio,” by A.Jain, A.Sanghai and T.Soni [May 2006].
  • IIT-R/IEEE Workshop on Communication Technologies—(i) Voice Quality in Packet Communication and (ii) Digital Watermarking in enhancing Security [Mar.2006].
  • IIT-R/Alcatel Seminar on Broadband Technologies—(i) Wireless LAN: Technology, Standards, Deployment, (ii) Panel discussion on the ‘Need of Broadband Technology in India’ [Dec.2005].
  • Perspective Presentations—(i) Technology Drivers for Mobile Multimedia and (ii) Embedded Systems [Oct.2005].
  • B.Tech/M.Tech Project External Examinations—May’08, May’07, Dec.’06, May’06, Jun.’01. 

  • Keynote Speaker in Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Feb. 2019.
  • IPR workshop across departments on ‘Open Source and Intellectual Property’, Aug.2017.
  • Invited Panelist in ‘Digital India’ Summit and Title Sponsorship of Tech-fest Kshitij for ‘India Develops, India Innovates and India Speaks’ by Samsung, Jan.2016.
  • Samsung Innovation Award and Interaction with E-Cell/STEP Directors, Oct. 2014.
  • Industrial Advisory Board Meeting/Discussion on ‘Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory’, 2003-’08 (with meetings on Feb.2008, Jan.2007 and Feb.2003),
  • Sponsorship and Software Technical Event in “Intl. Conf. on Energy Automation and Information Technology”, Dec.2001.

  • Advisory Committee Member, International Conf on Signal, Machines and Automation (SIGMA), [Feb.2018].
  • Member of Academic Council (2010-’12).
  • Research promotion in broad area of ‘Signal Processing for Wireless Commun.’. Doctoral research supervision on ‘Digital Audio Watermarking’ by Jyotsna Singh [currently, Associate Prof.], 2006-2012 and INAE Mentoring of Engg. Teacher (May-Jul.2011),
  • INAE Mentoring of Two B.Tech. Students (summer 2011),
  • B.Tech Practical and M.Tech Dissertation Examinations—Mar.2010, Sep.2006, May 2005, May 2004, Dec.2003, May 2003, Dec.2002, Aug.2002.
  • Guest of Honor in Valedictory Ceremonies of DITECH 2002 and DITECH 2001.
  • Contribution in defining M.Tech. (Signal Processing) Program and Dissertation Supervision (with S.Sengar and A.Gupta): (i) “Performance Evaluation of Subspace-based Channel Identification Scheme for Digitally Modulated Signals” by K.K.Garg [Apr.2002], (ii) “Comparison of VAD Techniques for Variable Bit Rate Voice Coders” by V.K.Sawnani [Dec.2000], (iii) “Performance Aspects in Tandemming of G.729 & G.723.1 Vocoders” by J.Singh [Dec.2000], (iv) “Echo-Canceller Tone Disabler” by V.Bhatia [currently, Asst.Prof. IIT-I] [Dec.2000].

  • Distinguished Lecture on Connected Thinking, Center for Product Design and Manufacturing, Sep.2018.
  • Invited Presentation on ‘Wearable Electronics: Device Perspective’ in 2nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (abstract), Dec.2014.
  • Interaction with Center for NanoScience and Engineering (CeNSE) Director and Faculties for Samsung Research, Summer 2013.
  • Research Engagement (on ST-sponsored Computing Lab (with Prof. Nandy),
  • Presentation on “VLSI Design and Embedded System” with ref. to ST-India Activities, Dec.2004.

  • Advisory Committee Member, 5th International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), [Mar.2019].
  • Adjunct Professor in Electronics Engg. Dept. promoting Teaching (courses in three semesters) and Research on ‘Embedded System Design’, Nov. 2008—Mar. 2012.
  • INAE Mentoring of Engineering Teachers (Mr. Atul Srivastava, currently, Asst.Prof.) on “Hardware-Software Partitioning”, May-Jul.2010.
  • Invited Talk on “Smart Terminal Design: Multimedia, Connectivity and Peripherals”, Aug.2008.

  • Standing Committee Member for Course Curriculum (two rounds), Apr.’10—Mar.’15.
  • Presentations in Tech Fest Troika, “Mobile Platforms”, Feb.2009 and “Digital Security and Watermarking,” Feb.2004.

  • Indo-French R&D Intl. Project thru CEFIPRA (alongside French inst.),’Design of Flexible Sweat Sensors and Stretchable Batteries embedded in e-Textile to monitor Personal Health and Fitness Parameters,’ Aug.2019-Jul.2022.
  • Valedictory Address during Samsung IIT Innovation Award, Oct.2017,
  • Presentation on Samsung India R&D Activities and Innovation, Apr.2012.

  • Annual Tech Fest, Engineering Marvels, Goa Campus, 2018.
  • M.Tech. Learning Mentor and Theses Supervision, (i) S.Prabhakar in ‘WLAN Test Certification’ area, 2008, (ii) A.Nath in ‘Digital Rights Management’, Nov.2002,
  • Presentation on “Application-specific SoC Design and Software,” Sep.2004.

  • Annual Tech Fest: AI Summit presentation on Voice and Visual Intelligence, Dec.2017.
  • Valedictory Address during Samsung Innovation Award, Oct. 2016.
  • Research Engagement Discussion with Dean (R&D), Dean (IR) and Presentation to students on Samsung Innovation, Apr.2012.

  • Interactive Student Sessions on “Machine Learning: Algorithmic and Probabilistic Perspectives”, Oct.2016.
  • Interactive Session on ‘Role of Analytics in Personalization of Services’, Oct.2015.
  • Presentation on ‘Data Analytics in Smart Systems and Internet-of-Things’, Oct.2014.

  • Governing Council Member in Dr. B.C.Roy College of Engineering, Durgapur, since June 2019.
  • Freshmen Induction Presentation, ‘What does it take to Innovate?’, Aug.2019.
  • Faculty Presentation, ‘Multiple Facets of Internet-of-Things’, Aug.2019.

  • Advisory Committee member in Workshop on “Recent Trends in Communications, Computing and Signal Proc.’, Guru Teg Bahadur Inst. of Technology, Mar. 2012,
  • Technical Presentation in Seminar on ‘Rich Multimedia and Fast Modem: Two Engines of Mobile Broadband’ in Guru Teg Bahadur Inst. of Technology, Mar.2011,
  • Guest Chair for Session on ‘Telemetry’ in ASCNT, CDAC Noida, Mar.2009,
  • Technical Presentation in Seminar on ‘3G Technologies’ in Maharaja Surajmal Inst. of Technology, Jan.2009.

  • Keynote Speaker, India International Science Festival, Oct.2017.
  • Academic Council Member (2013-’17) in Thiagarajar College of Engg., Madurai.
  • Chief Guest in Tecuthsav’13 and Keynote Address on ‘Smart Engineering’ in Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Jan.2013.

  • Keynote in Doctoral Seminar, ‘Bits, Pixels and Sensors,’ Jan.2018.

  • Presentation on ‘Innovation Stimulii: Learning from Koi, Albatross and Red Queen’, in Samsung Innovation Award, Nov.2013.

  • Research Engagement Discussion with Departmental Faculties/Dean and Conduct of Samsung IIT Innovation Award, Oct.2015.

  • Research Lab on IoT and Conduct of Samsung Innovation Award, Nov.2018.

  • Theme Presentation on ‘System that Learns’ and Samsung Innovation Award, Nov.2019.

  • Keynote Speech in Tech Fest Amelthea’18, Oct. 2018.

  • Student/Faculty Interactive Session on ‘Smart Voice Assistant’, Jul.2016.

  • Presentation: ‘STMicroelectronics’ Activities in VLSI & Embedded System’, Sept.2006.

  • Keynote Lecture in Tech Fest MindSpark, ‘Engineering Wonders’, Sept.2019.

  • Presentation in Tech Fest Unnayan, ‘Security in Multimedia Communication’, Oct.2001.

  • Day-long Lecture in UGC-sponsored Course for Teaching Faculties, “Advanced Signal Processing Techniques in Wireless Communication”, Dec.2006.

  • Invited IEEE Presentation on ‘Ten Levers for Smart Engineering’, Mar.2013.

  • Keynote Talk in ‘How to leverage Data in improving Research Methodology,’ an initiative with Elsevier, Bengaluru, 2017.
  • Program Discussion with Institute Director and Interaction with Students in TechShop, Oct.2016.

  • First INAE-VTU Lecture, “IoT Interactions”, VTU Research Resource center, Bengaluru, Jan. 2019.
  • Principal and Faculty Interaction on ‘Inclusive Education’, Alva’s Inst. Of Engg and Technology, Moodabidri, Mangalore, July2018.
  • Invited Speaker, ‘Technology Trends in Multimedia and Modem for Wireless Systems’,  Nat. Conf. on Emerging Mobile Tech. and Policies (NCEMTP), M.S.Ramaiah Inst of Technology, May 2012.

  • Interaction with Vice-Chancellor on Course Curriculum and Entrepreneurship. Launch of Codathon in North Karnataka region. Review of Student Project demos on Open Day, May2018.

  • Member of Board of Studies, 2018.

  • Advisory Committee Member, National Conf. on Current Advancements in Communications, Control & Instrumentation Engg. (NCCCIE), May 2012.
  • Chief Guest (valedictory event) of National Conference on RF and Signal Processing and Technical Presentation on ‘MIMO Signal Processing for Wireless Systems’, Mar.2010.

  • Plenary Speaker, ‘Smartphones: Business Protection and Personal Privacy’, 2nd Intl. Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models, (ICC3), Dec.2015.

  • Chief Guest in Tech Fest Cordinazo and Industry Guest Lecture on “Role of Electronics in Mobile and Car Multimedia Communication”, Apr.2007.

  • Guest of Honor in ‘International Conf. on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engg.’ and Industry Guest Lecture on ‘Wireless World with Modem and Multimedia’, Feb.2011.

  • Interaction with Vice-Chancellor and Student Engagement in Annual Day, 2011.

  • Member of Academic Board of Studies, 2017.

  • Consultative Committee Meeting (in IIC, Delhi) on Micro & Nano-electronics Curriculum in B.Tech/M.Tech Teaching and Research Programs, Sept.2006.

  • Panel Moderation on First Entrepreneurship Summit, 2017.

  • Class-room Presentation on ‘Challenges in Embedded System Design’, Apr.2004.

  • Student and Faculty Interaction on ‘Intricacies of Embedded System Design’, Feb.’09.

  • Presentation on ‘Technology Sourcing and Product Management’, Oct.2016.
  • Internship Program Kick-off and Group Discussion Moderation, ‘How Valuables are Start-ups in India?’ Jan.2016.
  • Guest Lecture, ‘Products, Services and Ecosystem Management’, Oct. 2015.

  • Guest Lecture, ‘Product Design Concepts: Next is Now’, Sept 2015.

  • Presentation on ‘A Perspective on Technology Leadership’, Jan.2014.

  • Panel Discussion in MBA Fest Serveskriti, “Redefining the Service Way”, Jan.2007.

  • Expert Lecture Series for MBA Course, ‘Technology Management’, 2005—’06.

  • Fellow of Center for Education Growth and Research (since July 2019) and Editors of two books: ‘Innovation Technology Management’ [2018] and ‘Effective Business Communication’ [2016].
  • Samsung India Research Network (IRN) Meetings on “Advances in Commun.”—Nov.2011, “Secure, Reliable Memory—Design & Applications”—May 2012, “Cloud and Big Data”—Nov.2012, “Innovations in IT”—Nov.2013, “Internet-of-Things”—Dec.2014, “Mobile Security”—Dec.2015, “Intelligence”—Sep.2016, “IoT”-Sept. 2017, “Visual Intelligence”-Sept. 2018, “Multimdoal Interactions”—Sept.2019.
  • Samsung IIT Innovation Award, 2011-… (2011: IIT-D, 2012: IIT-D/IIT-B/IIT-K/IIT-R, 2013: IIT-M, 2014: IIT-Kgp, 2015: IIT-G, 2016:IIT-B, 2017:IIT-K, 2018:IIT-Hyd, 2019:IIT-I).
  • Samsung Global research Outreach (GRO) Awards to Univ. Research Professors.
  • Visiting Student Interaction in India, Executive MBA, Said School of Business, Oxford University, Apr. 2018, Apr.2017, Apr.2016.
  • Student Interaction in Stanford Univ (Mar.’15) and MIT Media/Samsung Lab (Jun.’15).
  • Institution of IIIT-B M.Tech Program for Samsung Employees (Jan. 2014 MoU and currently sixth batch running with overall ~180 students).
  • Summer Internship Programs at Samsung (2012-’19), ST-Ericsson (2009-2011) and STMicroelectronics (2005-2009).
  • Engineering Innovation Award Jury for NASSCOM Engineering Summit, Pune, 2012.
  • AICTE-CII University-Industry Congress: Panelist on ‘When Will Industry start Investing in Research in Universities and How can a Sustained Mechanism for Industry-Institute Collaborations be Created?’, New Delhi, Nov. 2012.
  • CII University-Industry Congress: Session Chair on ‘Corporate University’, Dec. 2011.
  • FICCI Education Committee Meetings and Higher Education Summits, 2007-’11
  • FICCI Higher Education Summit 2010: Panelist in ‘Renovations in Indian Higher Education: Renewed Focus on Autonomy, Accountability and Partnership’, Nov. 2010.
  • AICTE Meeting on ‘Education Quality in Engineering Colleges’ as FICCI Representative, 2010.
  • ‘Future Prospects of IIT’ as FICCI Representative (Session chair:Dr. A.Kakodkar), 2010.
  • World Bank-Sponsored TEQIP-II Meeting and Survey, 2009.
  • Key Business Delegate Meeting with European Commissioner of Edu., Nov.2008
  • FICCI Taskforce Meeting on “Promotion of Science/Technology Research”, Jul.2008
  • Presentation in FICCI Convention–“Industry-University Convergence: Bridging Skill Gap”, Nov.2006.
  • Workshop on “Strengthening Technical Education through Institute-Industry Partnership”, Delhi Secretariat (org. by NSIT), May 2007.
  • Panel Discussion on ‘Technical Education Quality’ ISTE Convention, NSIT, Dec.2004.

  • Teaching Assistant with McGill University
  • Research Assistant with INRS-Telecommunications, Univ. of Quebec

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