SERVICE

 

Comprehensive Examination

Served as an examiner on 20+ comprehensive examinations for Ph.D. students. The comprehensive examination is a combination

of a qualifying examination (testing basic concepts in course material) and a thesis proposal specific to the research

being pursued by the student.

 

Committee Membership

External to IISc

i.       Member of the Design Review Committee, Project Tarangini (14 bit ADC, Physiological monitoring ASIC, CMOS RF front end),

DRDO (ANURAG), Hyderabad. Apr. 2012-Dec. 2013.

ii.      Member of the Design Review Committee, Project AMBAR (S-Band Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Terminal),

DRDO (ANURAG), Hyderabad. Dec. 2013-Present.

iii.    Member of the Design Review Committee, Project TRM (Ka-Band Transmit Receive Module), DRDO (ANURAG), Hyderabad.

July. 2014-Present.

IISc internal

i.     Member of the Microelectronics building committee (ECE).

ii.    Member of departmental one time grant (OTG) committee (ECE).

iii.   Member of editorial group for ECE department’s annual court report. (2013)

iv.    ECE department representative for ES Divisional Symposium (2014, 2015)

v.     ECE Faculty representative for institute open day organization (2014)

vi.    Member of the Department Finance Committee (ECE, 2015).

vii.   Member of the Departmental Curriculum Committee (ECE, 2015).

viii.  Member of the Master’s Project Allocation Committee (ECE, 2015).

 

Professional Services

Served as a reviewer/editor for the following journals:

i.     IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems I (Associate Editor 2008-2010)

ii.    IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II

iii.   IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

iv.    IEEE Transactions Instrumentation and Measurement

Served on the following conference committees:

i.     24th International Conference on VLSI Design, Chennai, India, January 2011, Technical Program Committee.

ii.    17th National Conference on Communications, IISc Bangalore, India, January 2011, Technical Program Committee.

iii.   25th International Conference on VLSI Design, Hyderabad, India, January 2012-02-07, Technical Program Committee.

iv.    International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), July 2012, Technical Program Committee.

v.     International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), July 2012, Pubicity and IEEE Liaison

vi.    2013 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication (CONECCT), Bangalore, India,

       January 2013, TPC Co-chair (Electronics Track).

vii.   27th International Conference on VLSI Design, Mumbai, India, January 2014, Review Committee.

viii.  28th International Conference on VLSI Design, Bangalore, India, January 2015, Program Committee Co-Chair.

ix.    29th International Conference on VLSI Design, Kolkata, India, January 2016, Review Committee.

 

Invited Talks

i.     International Symposium on Microwaves, Bangalore, “Silicon Based Integrated Millimeter Wave Transceivers", Dec. 2010.

ii.    Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore, “CMOS based Integrated Circuits for Efficient Spectrum Usage“, September 7, 2011.

iii.   ECE Department Colloquium, “Built-in-Self-Test (BIST) for RF transceivers: Designing Radios that test themselves”, January 23, 2012.

iv.    Rambus India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, “Integrated Circuits for Efficient Spectrum Usage”, September 6, 2012.

v.     Samsung India, “Research Activities in Analog/RF IC Design”, May 31, 2013.

vi.    Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems - IEE Japan workshop on technologies for smart cities, “Challenges in

       CMOS SOC design for mm-wave and sub-THz frequencies.” February 10, 2014.

vii.   Electrical Sciences Divisional Symposium, IISc, Bangalore, “Integrated Circuits for Efficient Spectrum Usage”, February 20, 2014.

viii.  Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd, “Research Activities in Analog/RF IC Design”, March 26, 2014.

ix.    ECE Department Colloquium, “Radios for the Internet of Things”, August 22, 2014.

Awards/Recognition:

i.       Best project award for the paper entitled “Design of X-Band FMCW Radar Transceiver in 130 nm CMOS Technology” in the

All India Cadence Design Contest 2015 (faculty advisor for Mr. Aditya Chowdary).

ii.      Best paper award at IEEE WIECON-ECE 2015 for paper entitled, “A Fast Acquisition Phase Frequency Detector for High

Frequency PLLs” (faculty advisor for Ms. Zaira Zahir).

iii.    Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the Vishwesharaya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics & IT 2014-2015, Department of

Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, 2014.

iv.    Senior Member of IEEE, 2005.

v.     Intel Corporation - Divisional Recognition Award, 2005.

vi.    National Talent Search Scholar (India), 1990.