BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

An overview of Ph.D. in various disciplines of Electrical and Electronics Engineering http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Home

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Ph.D. P r o g r a m m e D e t a i l s O n Campus full-time Ph.D. Programme Candidate enrolls in full-time Ph.D.

• Ph.D. offered in v arious disciplines across 4 campuses

O n Campus part-time Ph.D. Programme Professionals working in organizations in close vicinity of campuses

• Internationally acclaimed training towards Ph.D. degree

Of f Campus Ph.D. Programme (aspirant Scheme) For professionals working in an organization collaborating with B ITS

• Highly qualified faculty in all disciplines • State-of-the-art laboratory / research facilities • Extremely vibrant research atmosphere with opportunities to interact with eminent scientists world-wide • Opportunities to present the research in international and national conferences, within and outside the country • Opportunities to publish in high impact journals • Provision of financial support through fellowships and discounted fee • Opportunities to participate in teaching activities at BITS • Close linkage with the industry

A r e a ( s) fo r I I S e m e ste r 2 0 1 7 – 2 0 1 8 (EEE Department, Hyderabad Campus) Area Embedded systems Microwave devices/Antenna MEMS / Microfluidics Nanoscale devices, Photonics, Photovoltaics Optical Communication & Photonics Power Systems Networked control systems VLSI Architecture for DSP/Image processing Biomedical & Statistical signal processing

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E ligibilit y (E E E Depa rt ment , H ydera ba d Ca mpus) • M.E. / M.Tech (or equiv alent) in Electrical / Electronics / Instrumentation or related areas • Minimum 60% aggregate during UG & PG programmes • The part-time openings are available in the selected areas only (refer to the above table)

Application a nd Admission • Admission twice a year (August and January) • Online application through http://www.bitsadmission.com • EEE Department - http://www.bits-pila ni.ac .in/hyderabad/EEE/Ho me

Online Applicat ion Deadline: 14t h Dec 2017, 4 pm

• Shortlisted candidates are called for interview during last week of J uly (1st semester admission) or first week of January (2nd semester admissions) • Full ti me PhD scholars wi ll be considered for Research / Project Assistantship of up to ₹25,000 per month. Such candidates wi ll be required to participate i n teaching and other academic programs of the i nstitute under the guidance of a mentor • Candidates wi th Sel f/ external funding are encouraged to apply

I nterview and select io n: 1st week o f Jan 2018, t o be announced

IMPORTANT CONTACTS Academic Research Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3823) Admission Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3830) EEE Department Office, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3835)

For further details, visit our website: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/

Hyderabad Campus

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICSENGINEERING Key Faculty and Research Areas Prof. M B Srinivas (on leave) [PhD- IISc] - VLSI Arithmetic, Low power Design, Networks, Biomedical instrumentation, Telemedicine, Signal Processing Prof. BVVSN Prabhakar Rao [PhD- IITD] - Biomedical Signal Processing and Modelling of Organic materials for solar cells Prof. Sanket Goel (HoD) [PhD- Alberta] - Microfluidics, MEMS, Lab-on-a-chip, Nanomaterials, BioMedical Diagnostics, 3D printing, Biofuel Cell, Biosensing Prof. Subhendu Kumar Sahoo [PhD- BITS] - VLSI architecture for Digital Signal Processing and Image processing algorithm. Dr. Alivelu Manga Parimi [PhD- UTM, Malaysia] Power Systems: FACTS, Power system stability, Power Quality

Mr. Syed Ershad Ahmed - VLSI Arithmetic Circuits, Low Power VLSI Design Mr. K C S Murti - Real time and embedded systems design, Software development and Engineering

Key Research laboratories • Analog Electronics • Advanced Communication

• Communication Systems • MEMS & Microfluidics

• Instrumentation • Control Systems

• Microwave • Power Electronics

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Digital Design • Power System Signal Processing • VLSI Design / CAD Electrical Machines • Clean Room (Class 100) Central Facility [XRD, FTIR, Confocal, HPLC, DSC, TGA, XRF, LCMS | SEM, NMR (under process)]

Dr. Prasant Kumar Pattnaik [PhD- IISc] - Photonics, Optical Communications, Photonic Integrated Circuits, MEMS Dr. Venkateswaran Rajgopalan[PhD- Cleveland State Univ] - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Signal processing. Dr. Runa Kumari [PhD- NIT Rourkela] - Dielectric Resonator Antenna, L ong periodic, Reconfigurable, Microstrip Antennas, Antenna Array. Dr. Sumit Kumar Chatterjee [PhD- IITKgp] - Digital VLSI Design, Video Compression Dr. Souvik Kundu [PhD- IITKgp] – Nanoelectronics, Semiconductor Physics and Devices; Thin Films; Materials for Electronics; Design & Fabrication Dr. Soumya J [PhD- IITKgp] - Network-on-Chip (NoC) design Application-Specific Synthesis of N o C Reconfigurable N o C design. Dr. Surya Shankar Dan [PhD- IISc] - Modeling, identification, control of Networked control systems, Statistical signal processing Dr. Shaikshavali Chitraganti [PhD- U Lorraine, France] - Modeling, identification, control of Networked control systems, Statistical signal processing

LCR Meter

Source Meter

Electrochemical Workstation

Dr. Saroj Mondal [PhD- IIT Guwahati] Microelectronics and VLSI Dr. Mithun Mondal [PhD- IITR] - Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics of Transformers, High Voltage Engineering

3D printer

Fluorescence Microscope

Thermal Evaporation Unit

Few Open PhD projects Area

Current Ph.D. / Research statistics

Tentative Project

No. of PhD students presently enrolled

Embedded systems Fault-Tolerant Network-on-Chip Design Networked Control Decentralized control routing Systems strategy for mobile multi-agent systems Signal Processing

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Analysis of Brain tumor detection Event triggered estimation and detection

Nanoscale devices and materials modeling

Nanoelectronic Steep Subthreshold Slope Devices for Energy Harvesting Applications

VLSI Architecture for DSP/Image processing

Motion estimation algorithms and architectures

No. of publications in the last 5 years

Journals – 28 Conference - 90

No. of sponsored projects completed

4

No. of sponsored projects on-going

8

Faculty Achievements  Prof. Sanket Goel has received Fulbright fellowship (Oct 2015) Fulbright - Nehru International Education Administrators Program.

 Dr. Souvik Kundu has been nominated as Distinguish Reviewer, I EEE EDS.

Optical Communication

Photonic devices Communication

Nanoscale Devices and Photovoltaics

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MEMS / Microfluidics

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Design and Fabrication of Novel non-volatile Memory Devices Design and Fabrication of Heterojunction Solar Cells Digital 3D Printed Electronics Technology Biomedical Diagnostics

External Research Grants  Prof. M. B. Srinivas from I CM R  Prof. Sanket Goel from DST /SERB/DRDO  Dr. Soumya J and Prof. S. K. Sahoo from SERB

 Dr. Souvik Kundu from BRNS and SERB  Prof. S.K. Sahoo from H B L, H y deraba d

 Prof. Sanket Goel nominated reviewer for DS T grants, M ember for Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC), National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR), H y derabad

Recent Visitors •

Prof. G. G. Sivjee, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Nov 2017

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Prof. Sanjeev Shroff, University of Pittsburgh, Nov 2017

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Mr. Sunil Khanna, Vertiv, Oct 2017

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Prof. R. Karmalkar, IIT Madras, Sept 2017

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Prof. Varun Jeoti, Univ Technology Petronas, Malaysia, Aug 2017

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Prof. Linga Reddy C and Prof. Daniel Romero, University of Agder, Norway, Aug 2017

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Prof. Daman Saluja, Univ of Delhi, Jul 2017

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Mr. Jim Aralis, CTO, Microsemi, 2016

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Dr. Juan M de bedout, CTO, GE Energy Management, 2016

Department specific contact Prof. Sanket Goel

Ms. Gouthami Poloju

Head of the Department e-mail: [email protected] tel: 040-66303686

Secretary e-mail: [email protected] tel: 040-66303835

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Weblink: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Home

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Shameerpet Mandal, Hyderabad - 500 078 Telangana, India

Phone : +91-40-66303999 Fax : +91-40-66303998 http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/