AWARDS, AFFILIATIONS, OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES



J.C. Bose National Fellow (2016-2025).
Member of Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee of IEEE Communications Society (2019-2021).
Fellow, IEEE (2014 Class).
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc).
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).
Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI),
Fellow, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)
Member, American Mathematical Society


Recipient of ``IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference WCNC 2011 Best Academic Paper Award''.

Recipient of the `` Khosla National Award - 2010'' from I.I.T. Roorkee.

Awarded INAE Chair Professorship for the years 2010-2012.

Recipient of the `` Prof. Rustum Choksi Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering for the year 2009''.

Recipient of the IETE Pune Center's S.V.C Aiya Award for Telecom Education 2004.


Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-2011)

Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (From Sept. 2011)

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (From Feb. 2007)

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT)




Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ISIT 2010, (IEEE International Sysmposium on Information Theory), June 12-18, 2010, in Austin, Texas, USA.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2010, (International Communications Conference (ICC)), in Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27, May 2010.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE WCNC 2010, Sydney, Australia, 18-21, April, 2010.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.

Member, Technical Program Committee, The 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, (WPMC'08), Lapland, Finland.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE WCNC 2007, Hong Kong.

Keynote Session Speaker: Space-Time Coding and MIMO, Indo-UK Technical Workshop on Next Generation Communication Networks, IIT Madras, Jan.31-Feb.2, 2006.

Invited Talk: Minimum Complexity Space-Time-Frequency Codes in IEEE 802.16e, 12th National Conference on Communications (NCC'06), IIT Delhi, Jan.27-29, 2006.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2006, 11-15 June, Istanbul, Turkey.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IWCMC 2006, (International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 3-6 July, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), December 15-18, 2002, New Delhi.

Technical Program Co-Chair, 2002 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'02), Oct.25-30, Bangalore.

Tutorial Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), December 15-18, 2002, New Delhi.

Invited Speaker, International Conference on Communications and Broadband Networking (ICBN'03), Bangalore, May 5-7, 2003, An ATM Forum event.

Technical Program Co-Chair, National Conference on Communications, Jan.29-Feb.1, 2004, Bangalore.

Tutorial Speaker, National Conference on Communications, Jan.29-Feb.1, 2004, Bangalore.