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Anandi Giridharan

Principal Research Scientist

Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Office phone: (+91) 0802293 2747
(+91) 08022932282
email: anandi@iisc.ac.in

Biography

Principal Research Scientist, ECE Department(IISc.), December 2016 onwards.
Senior Scientific Officer, ECE Department, (IISc.),March 2006-November 2016
Scientific Officer Gr I, ECE Department, (IISc.), 2004--Feb 2006
Tech. Officer Gr II, ECE Department, (IISc.), 2003-2004
Tech. Officer Gr I, ECE Department, (IISc.), 1996-2003
Scientific Asst., ECE Department, (IISc.), 1990-96;

Awards and Affiliations

Member of International Society of Hybrid Microelectronics, India (ISHM)

Member of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)

Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Elevated as Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Dec 2017

Member of IEEE-IISc HKN Honor Society

Serving as Branch counselor for IEEE IISc Student Branch, since 2018 & serving as advisor for IEEE IISc WISE AG and IEEE IISc CIS/CS chapter.

Chair, IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology, Bangalore Section (2022-2023)

Execom Team, IEEE Bangalore Section (2023-2024)

Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Bangalore Chapter) (2016-2018). Received Outstanding Medium Chapter Award from the Bangalore Section for the year 2019 as chair of IEEE CIS Bangalore Section.

Chair, IEEE Women in Engineering, Affinity Group, Bangalore Section (2021-2022). Received Outstanding Large Section Award as Vice Chair of IEEE WIE AG Bangalore Section in 2019.

Vice Chair, IEEE Humanitarian Technology Activity, India Council (2022-2023). Received Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Section Award for R10 HTC activities 2022. Received as Chair, IEEE SIGHT Bangalore Section and Vice Chair IEEE Humanitarian Activity Committee India Council.

Received Appreciation for notable services and contributions towards advancement of IEEE and Engineering professions, WiE AG Bangalore Section (2021-2022).

Honorary mention in 2020 Comsoc student competition H.O.P.E for COVID-19 hands-free operation for public elevator (as a Mentor).

IEEE Bangalore Section Chair’s Recognition for exceptional dedication and unwavering commitment to bringing diversity in Humanitarian activities and growing the IEEE SIGHT Bangalore Section (2023).

Research Interests

Ubiquitous Learning

Communication Protocols Design and Testing

Edge Computing

Sustainable Development Goals

Professional Experience in Research Labs in ECE Department

Hybrid Micro Electronics Lab
- Acquired hands-on experience with sophisticated equipment and technologies such as coordinatography, photolithography, screen printing, vacuum evaporation, sputtering units, electrochemical film deposition, and etching.
- Designed and fabricated thick/thin miniature sensors and conducted transducer experiments & measurements.
Digital Circuits Lab
- Conducting lab classes for ME (I) CSA, EE, and ECE students.
- Assisted in Teaching courses on:
  - Analog circuits E6 101:2:1
  - Digital circuits E6 102:2:1
Protocol Engineering Technology Lab
- Research & Development Activity:
  - Worked on secured access control techniques over Wireless Network.
  - Designed subject and user modeling, retrieval systems.
  - Worked on Formal Language (Specification & Description Language).
  - Designed and implemented simulations to verify and validate communication protocol designs, ensuring system accuracy and reliability.
  - Guided Mtech students on academic projects and actively contributed to ongoing group projects in the PET lab.
- Teaching Courses:
  - Multimedia Information System (E0-262)
  - Communication Protocol communication (E2-223)
- Provided mentorship to ERNET trainees, optimizing IISc mail services, Proxy service, DNS for better functionality.
Applied Photonics Lab
- Engaged in research activities under Prof. T. Srinivas in areas such as quantum tools and techniques.

Teaching Short Term Courses Organised by CCE, IISc

Wireless LANS Concepts, Installation, Troubleshooting and Testing (Sat) 2+C (2017-2018)
Computational Machine Learning (Sat) 3C at CCE, (2019)

Extended Lecture Series by CCE , IISc

Archarya Institute of Engineering had organized A talk on Internet Protocols and Multimedia Applications 29/08/2017.
"Markup Language", Presidency University, 21st March 2017.
"TCP/IP", Acharya Institute of Technology, 5th April 2017.
"IPv4, IPv6", Dayananda College of Engineering, 12th April 2017.
"Internet, Web Design", Swamy Vivekananda rural PU College, 25th July 2017.
"Multimedia Applications", Sapthagiri PU College, Tumkur, 2nd August 2017.
"Internet Protocols", Sir MVIT College of Engineering, 17th August 2017.
"Internet Applications", Dr. Nitte Shankara Adyanthaya Memorial College, 9th August 2017.
"Internet of Things", The Oxford College of Engineering, 23rd August 2017.
"IOT & IP address needs", Acharya Institute of Technology, 29th August 2017.
IoT Communication Protocols, ACS College of Engineering, 8th September 2017.
"Multimedia Communications", RajaRajeswari College of Engineering, 27th September 2017.
"IP Addressing and Subnetting, IOT", East West College of Engineering, 27th October 2017.

IEEE IISc Student Branch professional activities

Roles in International Conferences

Invited Keynote Talks/Presentations

Service provided to the Institute:

Served as Institute Representative (IR) for the Administrative Assistant Exam and KVPY Exam.
Served in GATE exam as Scrutiny Team & centre vetting.
Served as Institute Representative for GATE Exam.
Was part of interview board for various posts at inStem, GKVK from 2021 & 2022.
Evaluated a Project proposals from Vision Group on Science and Technology 2021-2022.
Participated in organizing events on Open Day, Women’s Day, IEEE Day & various other technical talks, workshops at Department along with Prof Srinivas and IEEE IISc SB.
As part of Department committee to check on any problems in maintenance.
Helped to review correctness of Annual Report of ECE department that covers all important activities at IISc.

Publications

List of Book Chapters:

Anandi Giridharan & K A Venkatesh, "Mind, Machine & Society", Cognitive Informatics, Computer Modelling and Cognitive Science, Vol 1. Case study and applications 2020, pages 13-26.
Anandi Giridharan & K A Venkatesh, "Student Behavior Modeling and Context Acquisition", Brain and Behavior Computing, 1st Edition, CRC Press 2021.