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Welcome to the SPEED - 2022
Welcome to the Symposium on Photonics, Electromagnetics And Electronic Devices. Symposium on Photonics, Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices (SPEED) 2022 is a technical symposium organized by the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (est. in 1947) on the 75th anniversary of the department. Speed currently comprises the following five key areas with applications in biology, hardware translation, space, and defence.
- Photonics and optical communications
- Micro-Nano Electronics
- Electromagnetics, Microwaves and, Antennas
- Signal Processing Theory and Applications
- Cyber-Physical Systems
The primary aim of the symposium is to bring the pioneers working in these fields from various backgrounds (academia, govt., industry, and non-govt. organizations) on a common platform to share, promote and discuss their state of the art. Distinguished people are invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks on significant advances in emerging technologies. We encourage researchers, faculty members, industry professionals and alumni working in the mentioned key areas to participate and provide their feedback on the event.
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Prasad is the co-founder, Chairman and CTO of Astrome, a deeptech startup developing wireless high-bandwidth products for 5G and SatCom. Before Astrome, Prasad co-founded another successful company in the domain of visual search and AI. He did his Masters in System Science and Automation Engineering and PhD in Computer Science and Automation Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science. Prasad did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. He received the best outgoing student award during his Masters at IISc. Prasad has been an architect for various technologies including a nanosatellite, a visual search engine at Streamoid (http://streamoid.com), a stochastic game theory solver, the software tool for the 3D measurement Texas Instruments chipset (https://github.com/3dtof/voxelsdk). Prasad has also published a popular book on Stochastic Theory with Springer Link (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4285-0).Abstract
63% of the world's population is connected via the internet as of 2022. What about the remaining 37% which is about 3 billion people!? Why are they not connected yet? The traditional commercial viable approaches either lack capacity or lack reach. Newer technological approaches are needed to create economically sustainable ways to connect all. Also, it is no longer that only people need connectivity but with a plethora of intelligent devices coming into existence machines requiring connectivity are also growing in an exponential way. 5G puts the step in the right direction towards this gap in connectivity but is far from completely addressing it. At Astrome, we have developed and are developing different products and solutions to address the diverse market needs towards bridging this gap. This talk will elaborate the gap and mechanisms to address them and provide a view of the journey at Astrome in this direction.About
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Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, a Visiting Professor at the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, a BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA) and IETE (India), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, and development of space instruments for the search for life beyond Earth. He has more than 350 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than twenty patents. He also received more than 35 NASA technical achievement and new technology invention awards. He received the IEEE Region-6 Engineer of the Year Award in 2018, Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India in 2017. He was the recipient of the best journal paper award in 2020 and 2013 by IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, best paper award for antenna design and applications at the European Antennas and Propagation conference (EuCAP) in 2017, and IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award in 2014.Abstract
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which completed eighty years of its existence in 2016, builds spacecraft and instruments for NASA missions. Exploring the universe and our own planet Earth from the space has been the mission of NASA. Robotics missions such as Voyager, which continues to go beyond our solar system, missions to Mars and other planets, exploring the stars and galaxies for astrophysics missions, exploring and answering the question, “are we alone in this universe?” has been the driving force for NASA exploration since its inception. Fundamental science questions drive the selection of NASA missions. We develop new technologies and innovative instruments to make measurements that can answer these science questions. In this presentation, we will present an overview of the state-of-the-art radar, spectrometers, radiometers, and other instruments that we are currently developing and layout the details of the science questions they will try to answer. Rapid progress in multiple fronts, such as commercial software for component and device modeling, low-loss circuits and interconnect technologies, cell phone technologies, and submicron scale lithographic techniques are making it possible for us to design and develop smart, low-power yet very powerful instruments that can even fit in a SmallSat or CubeSat. We will also discuss the challenges of the future generation instruments in addressing the needs for critical scientific applications. The research described herein was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, under contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration.About
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Dr. Giri received B.E. (1967) and M.E.(1969) degrees from the ECE Dept. He was one of only 2 students in M.E. (Microwaves) class and a student of Profs. R and SK Chatterjee. He went to Harvard University in 1969 and received M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished IEEE Lecturer and has been inducted into IEEE EMC Hall of Fame this year. He has written three books and over 200 technical papers and reports. He has worked as a Consulting Scientist to US Air Force, Army, Navy and the Marine Corps. He has participated in a NASA multi-year project on understanding natural lightning and its coupling to aircraft.Abstract
Microwaves are electromagnetic radiation in the frequency range of 300MHz to 300GHz corresponding to wavelengths of 1m down to 1 mm. They can be used in many applications such as - communication, imaging visually obscured objects, wifi and cooking. In this presentation, we will start with a kitchen oven with a magnetron source at ~ 2.4 GHz and demonstrate how electronics can bel upset and even damaged. We will then move on to high-power (100’s MW to GW) microwave sources and illustrate how they can be weaponized against electronic systems. Individual drones and swarms of drones are already being used in warfare with data links in microwave frequencies to controllers on ground. Some illustrative examples of sources and antennas will also be presented.About
Vinay is an Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore alumnus with Ph.D.(Gold Medal) in Nano Science and Engineering. Bio-sensing technologies invented by Vinay are at the heart of PathShodh Healthcare. It has been his motto to ease the burden of people suffering from chronic diseases and serve the society. He is currently serving as the CEO and Head of R/D at PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru. His focus has been to invent out of the box solutions based on deep scientific exploration, and translating scientific innovations to products to serve the population at large. His research has resulted in 20 International patents and many research publications. His current research interests include the novel biosensing technologies for point of care applications. He is the recipient of MIT Technology Review TR35 award, INAE Entrepreneur award, Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Award, IISc best PhD thesis award, IIT Kharagpur Nina Saxena Award, DBT/BIRAC Innovator Award, IESA Technovation Award. Under his leadership PathShodh has also received FICCI Healthcare award, CII Grand jury award for best Innovation, Titan Tata Trusts Design Impact award for social change.Abstract
Diagnosing and early detection of chronic diseases in remote settings is always a challenge without access to costly, well-equipped clinical laboratories and trained medical personnel. Consequently, developing diagnostics for chronic conditions that are cost effective and can be easily implemented, remains an important goal in global health. To achieve this goal, one promising approach is to detect disease biomarkers from accessible body fluids with point-ofcare (POC) biosensors that are inexpensive, minimally invasive and do not require trained medical personnel. Point-of-care biosensor systems can potentially improve patient care through real-time and remote health monitoring. Apart from infectious conditions, global health challenges have shifted towards noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes mellitus, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, liver disease and cancer, which constitute an increasing majority of global mortality. PathShodh Healthcare is driven by a social mission to achieve the goal of affordable, accurate and cost-effective diagnostics, based on the patented bio-sensing technologies. Here, I will discuss the PathShodh journey to develop the novel products for point of care diagnostics of public health conditionsAbout
Puneet Kumar Mishra earned his M.Tech (RF & Microwave) from IIT Roorkee in 2004. Since then he is with U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bangalore and presently, Heading its Satellite Antenna Characterization, Test & Design Section He has rich experience of RF characterization of 48 Satellites, 325 antennas and radomes. He has indigenously developed C-Band, Ku-Band and Ka-Band Compact range feeds to meet various requirements of ISRO’s satellite program. He has played a pivotal role in establishing satellite level EMC facility and Asia’s largest Magnetic Field Measurement Facility. He has conceived and conceptualized World’s first compact range with 10 m quiet zone, that is going to be commissioned in 2024. He has indigenously developed a payload to study the RF blackout phenomenon during re-entry of space vehicle. He has also successfully developed Indigenous BusBars for High power satellites, which are successfully used in multiple spacecrafts. He has published more than 60 technical papers in International conferences and IEEE Transactions. He has Received IETE-IRSI Young Scientist Awards (2012), ISRO Young Scientist Award (2013), ASI-ISRO Space Gold Medal (2014), GE Foundation Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership (2002-2004), IEEE MGA Achievement Award (2017) and 6 best paper awards. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE & IE(I) and Life Member of ASI. He is a passionate Volunteer and served Bangalore Section at various capacities including Chair 2020 and India Council as Vice Chair and Secretary. Presently he is serving as BoG of Global IEEE AESS; Vice Chair, India Council; Chair. IEEE MTT/AP Bangalore Joint Chapter and Member of Global Committees of IEEE Industry Engagement, IEEE APS and IEEE Technical Program Integrity CommitteeAbstract
Challenges and opportunities in RF Characterization of Next Generation High Throughput Satellites Abstract: In this talk challanges and opportunities in RF Characterization of Onboard antennas and payloads of next generation high throughput satellites will be discussed. Also how these challenges were converted into opportunities in some state-of-the-art Technology Developments will also be discussed.About
Dr Naren Naik is a specialist in modelling and reconstruction algorithms for tomographic imaging. He is currently Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, as well as the Center of Lasers and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His and his group’s research is about the development and analysis of reconstruction and tracking algorithms including post-reconstruction analysis; especially in limited data, dynamic, shape and multimodal tomography in biomedical imaging, remote sensing and battlefield surveillance. Their major application thrust in the past few years has been in functional biomedical imaging with fluorescence optical and photoacoustic tomography, as well as electrical-impedance and impedance-acoustic tomography. Dr Naik has obtained his ME and PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, from the departments of Electrical Communication Engineering and Instrumentation(now Instrumentation and Applied Physics) respectively. His post-doctoral research has been at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.Abstract
Optical fluorescence is fast emerging as a possible substitute for nuclear medicine isotopes in functional biomedical imaging. We will give a brief overview of fluorescence based optical and photoacoustic tomography. Static settings correspond to the imaged quantity of interest such as the absorption/scattering coefficient of a pathological tissue, not varying with time. In dynamic settings, such as those found in pharmacokinetic imaging, the time varying concentrations of injected fluorophores are spatio-temporally imaged, along with their underlying (pharmacokinetic) rates of leakage with respect to the tissue under investigation.We will introduce (a) an enhanced model for directional sources and scattering with a delta-Eddington based simplified spherical harmonics approximation, in fluorescence optical tomography, and, (b) a fluorescence photoacoustic tomographic framework for the dynamic pharmacokinetic tomography problem.