Principal Investigator (PI) for several research projects including 'IoT Enabled Smart Cities: Pollution, Health and Governance' (2019.8-2023.10) and Coordinator for Center of Excellence on IoT (2019.1-2023.2); Also involved in ongoing research projects like 5G Use Case Lab and Qualcomm Edge AI Lab.
Research Experience
Senior Wireless Communications Engineer at Esqube Communications, Bangalore, working on development and implementation of wireless systems such as WLAN, WiMAX, and TDD-SCDMA (2004-2007); Post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University (2013-2014); Joined IIITH as an Assistant Professor in December 2014 and promoted to Associate Professor in July 2021; Currently a collaborator in India's First Living Lab for Smart City Research at IIIT-Hyderabad.
Education
B.E. (Electronics) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India in 2002; M.E. (Telecommunication) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2004, under the guidance of Prof. KVS Hari; Ph.D. with Prof. Visa Koivunen at Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)), Finland, between 2007-2012.
Background
Research interests: Signal Processing for Wireless Communication, particularly physical layer aspects of Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities, Smart Villages, Agriculture, and Education; Next-generation wireless communication systems (5G and Beyond, Satellite).
Miscellany
Senior Member, IEEE; Personal interests not specified.