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Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham

Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Kanpur, where he holds the Arun Kumar Chair Professorship. He is one of India’s best-known experts and trainers on 5G technology. He received his Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. From April '07 to May '09 he was employed as a senior wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego, California, where he was a part of the Qualcomm CDMA technologies (QCT) division. His research interests are in the area of next generation wireless networks, with a special emphasis on various 5G technologies such as massive MIMO, mmWave MIMO, FBMC, NOMA, Full Duplex and others.

His research articles have published extensively in leading international IEEE journals and conferences. His popular video lectures for the NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) course on Advanced 3G and 4G Wireless Mobile Communications can found at the following YouTube link (NPTEL 3G/4G). He has also successfully conducted several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on various topics such as MIMO OFDM Wireless Systems, Probability and Random Processes, Signals and Systems, Principles of Communication Systems, Optimization, Machine Learning, which have been widely adopted and appreciated. A book authored by him titled Principles of Modern Wireless Communications Systems has been published by McGraw Hill Education and comprehensively covers several key aspects of modern wireless technologies. He has been recognized with several awards including the CAL(IT)2 fellowship at the University of California San Diego, Upendra Patel Achievement Award at Qualcomm, P.K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF), Arun Kumar Chair and the IITK Excellence in Teaching Award.

Expert Guest Lecture for HIT Program on 5G Multi-User and Massive MIMO

Dr. Shashidhar Vummintala

Dr. Shashidhar Vummintala obtained his Masters and PhD from ECE department, IISc, Bangalore in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Since then, he has been involved in various transceiver design efforts for 4G technologies at Beceem Communications, Broadcom and Qualcomm. Currently, he is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Bangalore, leading the 4G efforts in Qualcomm India. His research interests include MIMO signal processing and error correction codes.

Expert Guest Lecture for HIT Program on 5G Broadband mmWave MIMO-OFDM

Dr. Tanumay Datta

Dr. Tanumay Datta is currently working as Engineer, Staff in Wireless R&D, Qualcomm Bangalore. He received his PhD degree from Electrical Communication Engineering department, Indian Institute of Science in 2014. Previously he has worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Centrale Supelec, France. His work experience and research interests include 5G technologies, massive MIMO, detection algorithms, and advanced modulation techniques.

Expert Guest Lecture for HIT Program on 5G Cooperative and NOMA Communication

Dr. Bama Muthuramalingam

Dr. Bama Muthuramalingam did her B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E. in Wireless Technology at the Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai in 2003 and 2005 respectively. She then pursued PhD degree at the department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras from 2005 to 2011. Her thesis focused on maximizing the capacity of half duplex wireless networks. She has an industrial career spanning 8+ years working for companies like Tata Elxsi and Qualcomm where she was involved in the design and development of various Wireless transceiver chipsets. She possess a rich wireless system design expertise by working on Technologies like UMTS, LTE, and IEEE 802.11ax. She was also a faculty member at Amrita University, Kollam, for a brief period, Jan-Nov 2017. Currently, she is a Staff Engineer with the WLAN Systems team at the Quaclomm Chennai Design Center.