Build Expertise to Lead a
Hyper-connected World with 5G Course

Who will I learn from?

The distinguished faculty group is involved in advanced research in Telecom. It is involved in both national and international projects like the National 5G Testbed (DOT), Aerospace Networking Research Center (ANRC), and British Telecom India Research Centre (BTIRC). The faculty work on cutting-edge AI, mobility and software engineering technologies.

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  Programme Director
  Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta

  Ph.D., Caltech, USA
  Areas: Wireless Communications, 4G/5G/6G cellular systems, Green sensor networks, Wireless local area networks (WLANs)

  Neelesh B. Mehta is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His research group focuses on the design, modeling, analysis, and optimization of wireless communication systems. He received his B. Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 1996 and his Masters’ and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, USA in 1997 and 2001. Until 2007, he worked in the USA as a research scientist at AT&T Research Labs, Broadcom Corp., and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and National Academy of Sciences India (NASI). He is a recipient of several awards such as the G. D. Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, and DST-Swarnajayanti Fellowship. He has held several editorial and leadership positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as on its Board of Governors and as a member of its Nominations & Elections and Awards committees.

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  Prof. Chandra R Murthy

  Ph.D., UC San Diego, USA
  Areas: 5G and beyond communications, signal processing for communications, compressed sensing.

  Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering at IISc. He was 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 100+ journal papers and 120+ conference papers to his credit, his work has received best paper awards at NCC 2014 and 2023, ICASSP 2018, ISIT 2021, SPAWC 2022. His team's demonstration of cell-free MIMO won the top-10 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 is a fellow 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 based 5G New Radio testbed at IISc. His current interests include Wireless System Design, Protocol Implementation, Non-terrestrial Networks, Network Orchestration and Network Management, and Research toward 6G. He has worked extensively in Mobile/Wireless communications at organizations like Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs India), Motoroal, Nokia Networks, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, where he has contributed to all phases of product life-cycle. He has served as a Technical editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine during 2012-15. He received his M. Tech. (Digital Communications) from MANIT in 1993.
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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 and other faculty members at IISc and IITs through guest lectures.