Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta
Neelesh B. Mehta is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His research focuses on wireless communications. He has worked on 3G/4G/5G cellular communication standards, energy harvesting and green wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, cooperative communications, multi-antenna technologies, and multiple access protocols.
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 the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, DST-Swarnajayanti Fellowship, NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award, Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, and the INAE Young Engineer Award. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and on the IEEE ComSoc Awards committee.In the past, he has served as an editor for the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and Journal on Communications and Networks. He served as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications during 2013-19. He served on the Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications during 2014-17 and was its Chair during 2017-18. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2012-15.
Detailed CV is available at: CV (last updated )
| Ph.D. |
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) In Electrical Eng. Advisor: Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) |
2001 |
| M.S. |
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) In Electrical Eng. GPA: 3.9/4.0 |
1997 |
| B.Tech. |
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras (India) In Electronics & Communications Eng. GPA: 9.73/10, 2nd in the Institute, IIT JEE rank: 17 |
1996 |
| 1. | Professor, ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore | Since 2016 |
| 2. | Associate Professor,ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore | 2012-16 |
| 3. | Assistant Professor,ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore | 2007-11 |
| 4. | Principal Member Technical Staff, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA | 2003-07 |
| 5. | Staff Scientist, Broadcom Corp. (Mobile Communications Unit), NJ, USA | 2002-03 |
| 6. | Member Technical Staff, AT&T Research Labs (Wireless Systems), NJ, USA | 2001-02 |
| 7. | Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Stanford University, CA, USA | 1999-2000 |
| 1. | Fellowships: | |
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2019 | |
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2013 | |
| 2. | Recipient of IISc’s Alumni Award for Excellence in Research | 2021 |
| 3. | Recipient of the Khosla National Award in Engineering of IIT Roorkee | 2019 |
| 4. | Recipient of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF): With student Vineeth Kumar | 2018-19 |
| 5. | Recipient of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF): With student Reneeta Isaac | 2017-18 |
| 6. | Recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences | 2017 |
| 7. | Recipient of the biennial Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award 2015 in Electronics, Informatics, Telematics, and Automation & System Analysis or Management, awarded by the Physical Research Laboratories, Ahmedabad, India | 2016 |
| 8. | Recipient of Swarnajayanti Fellowship, awarded every year by the Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, to 12 scientists of age 40 years or less | 2016-21 |
| 9. | Recipient of the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award | 2014 |
| 10. | Recipient of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award | 2010 |
| 11. | Featured Engineer on EETimes.com | May 2016 |
| 12. | Received Certificate of Appreciation for “Outstanding Contributions to Global Standardization Activities on Mobile Communication Technologies” given by Corporate R&D, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | 2007 |
| 13. | One of 36 recipients in entire Asia-Pacific region of AT&T World LeadershipAward | 1996 |
| 14. | Awarded the Philips India prize for best undergraduate academic performance in Electronics and Communications Eng., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras | 1996 |
| 15. | Awarded Institute Merit Prize for outstanding academic achievements for two consecutive years at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras | 1995-96 |
| 16. | Secured 17th all India rank (out of 100,000 applicants) in the prestigious joint entrance examination (JEE) for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), 2nd rank (out of 40,000 candidates) in AP state engineering entrance exam (EAMCET), and 1st position in state-level mathematics Olympiad | 1991-92 |
| 17. | Recipient of National Talent Search (NTSE) and National Science Talent Scholarships (NSTS) awarded to a select few students within India every year | 1992-96 |
| 1. | Executive Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | Since Jan. 2014 |
| 2. | Editorships: | |
| ● IEEE Transactions on Communications | Since Sept. 2013 | |
| ● IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | 2011-16 | |
| ● IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2011-16 | |
| ● Sadhana- Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences (journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences) | 2013-16 | |
| ● Journal of Communications and Networking (JCN) in the Personal Communications Systems area | 2012-13 | |
| ● Guest editor of Journal of Communication Networks (JCN) special issue on energy harvesting in wireless networks | 2011 | |
| ● Guest editor of Journal of Communications (JCM) special issue on Special Issue on Practical Physical Layer Techniques for 4G Systems & Beyond | 2011 | |
| 3. | Member of best paper awards committee of IEEE Globecom 2014 and ICC 2016 | |
| 4. | Co-chair of program committee for: | |
| ● IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2014-Fall, Vancouver, Canada, [Green communications track] | Sept. 2014 | |
| ● International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2014), Bangalore, [Treasurer] | Jun. 2014 | |
| ● COMSNETS, Bangalore | Jan. 2014 | |
| ● IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2013), Atlanta, USA, [Green communication systems and networks track] | Dec. 2013 | |
| ● IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), Budapest, Hungary, [Wireless communications symposium] | Jun. 2013 | |
| ● International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2012), Bangalore, India, [Publications] | Jul. 2012 | |
| ● Green Telecom and IT workshop, jointly organized by IISc and Bell Labs | Apr. 2012 | |
| ● International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) School and Workshop on Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IISc, [Local organizing committee] | Jan. 2012 | |
| ● IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI) Workshop on Introduction to Network Science, Bangalore, India, [Local organizing committee] | Aug. 2011 | |
| ● National Conference on Communications (NCC2011), Bangalore, India, [Communications track and Publications] | Jan. 2011 | |
| ● Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD 2011) workshop of COMSNETS 2011, Bangalore, India, [Co-chair] | Jan. 2011 | |
| ● International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2010), IISc, Bangalore, India, [Tutorials] | Jul. 2010 | |
| ● Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD 2010) workshop of COMSNETS 2010, Bangalore, India, [Co-chair] | Jan. 2010 | |
| ● IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2009, Fall), Anchorage, USA, [Transmission technologies track] | Sept. 2009 | |
| ● Chinacom2008, Huangzhou, China, [Frontiers of networking and communications symposium] | Aug. 2008 | |
| ● WiOpt 2013, WONS 2012, ICCC 2012, WISARD 2009 | ||
| 5. | Executive committee member of IEEE Bangalore Section, India | 2010-12 |
| 6. | Executive committee member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore | Since 2008 |
Co-inventor of 33 patent applications on novel MIMO technologies, low hardware complexity antenna selection and enabling methods, cooperative communication techniques, sensor networks, and interference modeling methods for cellular and ad hoc networks
Patents Filed in India PTO:
| [IP1] |
Methods and systems for real-time monitoring ofenvironments, Neelesh B. Mehta. Also issued in US with patent number 8,823,544. |
2010 |
| [IP2] |
Transmit power scaling method and system to detect occurrences using geographically distributed sensors, Neelesh B. Mehta. Also issued in US with patent number 9,118,980. |
2009 |
| [IP3] |
Queued cooperative wireless networks configuration using rateless codes, Neelesh B. Mehta, Vinod Sharma, Gaurav Bansal. Also issued in US with patent numbers 9,083,420 and 8,432,848. |
2009 |
Patents granted thus far in US PTO:
| [P1] | Transmit power scaling method and system to detect occurrences using geographically distributed sensors, Neelesh B. Mehta, US patent number 9,118,980. |
| [P2] | Queued cooperative wireless networks configuration using rateless codes, Neelesh B. Mehta; Vinod Sharma; Gaurav Bansal, US patent number 9,083,420. |
| [P3] | Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals, Neelesh B. Mehta, Koon HooTeo, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 9,025,471. |
| [P4] | Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals, Neelesh B. Mehta, Koon HooTeo, Jinyun Zhang, Gennadiy V. Vinokur, Man-On Pun, US patent number 8,913,551. |
| [P5] | Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals, Neelesh B. Mehta, Koon HooTeo, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 8,842,554. |
| [P6] | Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in OFDM tranceivers with fewer RF chains than antennas in MIMO wireless networks, Neelesh B. Mehta, ErdemBala, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 8,824,420. |
| [P7] | Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of environments, Neelesh B. Mehta, US patent number 8,823,544. |
| [P8] | Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks,Koon HooTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 8,483,186. |
| [P9] | Queued cooperative wireless networks configuration using rateless codes,Neelesh B. Mehta, Vinod Sharma, Gaurav Bansal, US patent number 8,432,848. |
| [P10] | Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks,Koon HooTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 8,331,297. |
| [P11] | Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals,Neelesh B. Mehta, Koon HooTeo, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 8,238,405. |
| [P12] | Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks, Koon HooTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 8,228,858. |
| [P13] | Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks, Koon HooTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, JinyunZhang, US patent number 8,223,723. |
| [P14] | Wireless networks incorporating antenna selection based on received sounding reference signals, KoonTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jia Tang, US patent number 8,086,272. |
| [P15] | Wireless networks incorporating implicit antenna selection based on received sounding reference signals,KoonTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jia Tang, US patent number 8,055,301. |
| [P16] | Multiple power-multiple access in wireless networks for interference cancellation, Andreas F. Molisch, Raymond Yim, Neelesh B. Mehta, US patent number 8,054,776. |
| [P17] | Method for selecting antennas in a wireless networks, KoonTeo, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, US patent number 8,046,029. |
| [P18] | Method and system for processing reference signals in OFDM systems using transmission time interval groupings, Shengjie Zhao, Hanqing Lou, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 7,912,115. |
| [P19] | Multiple access by varying received power in wireless networks,Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F.Molisch, RaymondYim, US patent number 7,778,659. |
| [P20] | Asymmetric cooperation in downlink cellular networks with relay stations, Natasha Devroye, Neelesh B. Mehta; Andreas F. Molisch, US patent number 7,778,598. |
| [P21] | Method and system for selecting antennas adaptively in OFDMA networks, ZhifengTao, Chun Nie, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, JinyunZhang, US patent number 7,756,099. |
| [P22] | Decentralized and dynamic route selection in cooperative relay networks, Neelesh B. Mehta, Ritesh Madan, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 7,706,283. |
| [P23] | Method and system for switching antennas during transmission time intervals in OFDMA systems, Neelesh B. Mehta, ErdemBala, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 7,697,623. |
| [P24] | Method and system for communicating in cooperative relay networks, Neelesh B. Mehta, Ritesh Madan, Andreas F.Molisch, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 7,684,337. |
| [P25] | Cooperative relay networks using rateless codes, Andreas F.Molisch, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jonathan Yedidia, Jinyun Zhang,US patent number 7,673,219. |
| [P26] | Route selection in cooperative relay networks, Andreas F. Molisch, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jonathan Yedidia, Zhifeng Tao, Zafer Sahinoglu, Philip Orlik, Jin Zhang, US patent number 7,593,342. |
| [P27] | Method and system for antenna selection in wireless networks, Neelesh B. Mehta, Erdem Bala, Jinyun Zhang, Andreas F. Molisch, US patent number 7,583,939. |
| [P28] | Space time transmit diversity with subgroup rate control and subgroup antenna selection in multi-input multi-output communications systems, Neelesh B. Mehta, Pallav Sudarshan, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 7,542,446. |
| [P29] | System and method for transmitting signals in cooperative base station multi-user MIMO networks, Neelesh B. Mehta, Hongyuan Zhang, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 7,526,036. |
| [P30] | Pilot and data signals for MIMO systems using channel statistics, Neelesh B. Mehta, Fadel F. Digham, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, US patent number 7,443,925. |
| [P31] | RF-based antenna selection in MIMO systems, Neelesh B. Mehta, Pallav Sudarshan, Andreas F. Molisch, Jin Zhang, US patent number 7,327,983. |
| [P32] | Method for representing a combination of signals with a distribution of a single lognormal random variable, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, Jingxian Wu, Jin Zhang, US patent number 7,280,942. |
| [P33] | Multiple antennas at transmitters and receivers to achieving higher diversity and data rates in MIMO systems, Neelesh B. Mehta, Pallav Sudarshan, Andreas F. Molisch, Jin Zhang, US patent number 7,020,446. |
| 1. | Active participant and contributor to physical layer discussions in RAN working group 1 of third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard. Participated in discussions for HSUPA, LTE, and LTE-Advanced. Developed technology that led to essential IP |
| 2. | Research and publications on topics in IEEE 802.11n (wireless local area network) and IEEE 802.16m (Advanced WiMAX) |
Tutorials:
| 1. | "Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Systems," at National Conf. on Communications, Kanpur, (jointly with Chandra R. Murthy) | Mar. 2014 |
| 2. | "Cooperative Communication Systems: Theory and Practice," at IIIT Hyderabad organized by IEEE Communications/Signal Processing Chapters | Sep. 2010 |
| 3. | "Cooperative Communications: Theory and Practice," at SPCOM 2010, Bangalore, (jointly with P. Vijay Kumar) | Jul. 2010 |
| 4. | "Cooperative Communications," in DRDO-IISc workshop on advances in communications and networking, IISc, Bangalore | Apr. 2008 |
Keynote Talks:
| 1. | "Max Function Computation in Green Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks," International Workshop on Green and Energy Efficient Networks (GREEN), WiOpt, Mumbai | May 2015 |
| 2. | "Opportunism in Current & Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems" at IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy, Sri Lanka | Dec. 2013 |
Lectures and Invited Talks in India:
| 1. | "Opportunistic Selection in Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems: A Primer," Institute seminar at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi | Feb. 2017 |
| 2. | Lectures on 4G cellular systems and cognitive radio in TEQIP workshop "Recent Advances in Communications and Signal Processing," Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India | Nov. 2015 |
| 3. | "Energy Harvesting-Based Green Wireless Communication Systems," Intel Bangalore | Aug. 2015 |
| 4. | Lectures on "Wireless communications" in Science Academies' Lecture Workshop on Wireless Communication and Networking, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirapally, Kerala, India | Jul. 2015 |
| 5. | "Revisiting Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Cooperative Communications and Underlay Cognitive Radio," IIT Delhi | Sept. 2014 |
| 6. | "Energy Harvesting-Based Green Wireless Communication Systems," 2014 Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Mysore | May 2014 |
| 7. | "Green Networks Technologies for Green Communications," IEEE ANTS workshop | Dec. 2012 |
| 8. | "Opportunistic Selection and Adaptation in LTE: An Overview," IEEE ComSoc LTE workshop, Bangalore | Sept. 2013 |
| 9. | "Opportunism in Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems," IEEE Standards Workshop on Last Mile Connectivity, C-DoT, Bangalore | Jul. 2013 |
| 10. | IEEE Industry Day talk on Broadband wireless systems | Mar. 2011 |
| 11. | "Cooperative Communications and How it Affects Our Models for Communication," IISc-Microsoft Research India Workshop | Feb. 2008 |
Invited Talks Abroad:
| 1. | "Opportunistic Selection in Wireless Systems: Who, How, and What if," at Qualcomm, San Diego, USA | Dec. 2015 |
| 2. | "Timer-Based Distributed Selection Schemes for Wireless Networks," at Zhejiang University, Huangzhou, China | Apr. 2013 |
| 3. | "Timer-Based Distributed Selection Schemes for Wireless Networks," at National University of Singapore, Singapore | Nov. 2012 |
| 4. | "Timer-Based Distributed Selection Schemes for Wireless Networks," at the Institute for Infocom Research (IIR) workshop, Singapore | Nov. 2012 |