About Me

I am a faculty member at Center for VLSI and Embedded System Technologies (CVEST), IIIT Hyderabad. I work in the area of RF and analog integrated circuits and systems for different applications such as wireless sensor-based connected healthcare, high performance mmWave communication and sensing. My research group is called IC~WiBES Research Lab (Integrated Circuits inspired by Wireless and Biomedical Electronic Systems). If you are excited to know more about me and my work, feel free to connect through email.

Educational background

Ph.D.    : Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Aug 2012- Jan 2018)
M.Tech : VLSI and Embedded Systems, IIIT Hyderabad (Aug 2007- Jun 2009)
B.Tech  : Electronics and Communication Engineering, MMMEC Gorakhpur (Aug 2000- Jun 2004)

Work Experience

Assistant Professor                    : IIIT Hyderabad (2018-present)
Post-doctoral research fellow   : Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA (2018-2020)
Research Associate                    : Department of Electrical  Engineering, IIT Bombay (2017-2018)
Other (prior to Ph.D.)                 : Six years of industrial and academic experience (during 2004-2012)

Awards/Honours/Grants/Fellowships/Consultancy

• IEEE Senior Member
• Recipient of Research Grant by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), USA, June 2024
• Consultant to TalentSprint Private Limited for DeepTech Programs (2024-25)
• Awarded grant under Chips to Startup (C2S) program of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, June 2023
• Awarded grant under DST-PURSE scheme, Mar 2023
• Awarded grant under DST-TDP (technology development program) scheme, Feb 2023
• Awarded Core Research Grant by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, Dec 2021
• Winner of Kohli Challenge Proposal Scheme funded by Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) endowed by TCS foundation, Nov 2021
• Research paper selected as one of the top contributions to the conference IEEE BioCAS2021, Oct 2021
• Masters Fellowship Award, IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad, India, Jan, 2021
• Post-Doctoral-Fellowship from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA, 2018-2020
• Arun Kumar Chowdhury Best Paper Award, International Conference on VLSI Design, New Delhi, India, Jan, 2019
• Best Paper Award nomination, International Conference on VLSI Design, Pune, India, Jan, 2018
• TCS-VLSI Lab Fellowship at IIT Bombay (2016-2017)
• Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Fellowship for Ph.D. research (2012-2016)
• M.Tech Merit List Awards, IIIT Hyderabad, 2007, 2008

My Students’ Awards/Recognitions

• Hammad Khan,Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) (2024)
• Umesh Khetan,Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) (2024)
• Jewel Benny, Chanakya UG Fellowship 2023-24 by iHub Anubhuti – IIITD Foundation
• Jewel Benny, Narahari N Moudhgalyaand Pranjal Mahajan’s work on radar based non-contact vital measurement system is selected for IInvenTiv-2024, IIT Hyderabad, Jan 2024
• Pranjal Mahajan, MS Fellowship from IHUB DATA, IIIT Hyderabad (2023-24)
• Adithya Sunil Edakkadan, Chanakya UG/PG Fellowship 2021-22 by I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation (QTF), IISER, Pune
• Adithya Sunil Edakkadan, IIIT Hyderabd Merit list and Dean’s List-1 award (2021, 2022)

Professional Services/Invited talks

• Member of IEEE Circuits And Systems (CAS) Society
• Reviewer to many reputed journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Circuit ans Systems (TCAS-1), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), IEEE Transaction of Computer Aided Design (TCAD), CICC, TVLSI, ISCAS, ISVLSI, VDAT, VLSID
• Course instuctor in Women in Silicon Hardware (WISH) program supported by Google (2024-25)
• Member of Board of Studies at School of Sciences Woxsen University, Kamkole, Sanga Reddy district, Hyderabad (2024-2025, 2023-24)
• Invited talk: “mmWave Sensing and Low Phase Noise VCOs,” International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2023
• Track chair for Wireline and Optical Communication Circuits and Systems, 35th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2023
• Reviewer for technical propsals submitted to SERB under various schemes such as core research grant and startup grant
• Technical program committee member for ISCAS 2022 and 35th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2022
• Reviewer of INSPIRE Awards MANAK by National Innovation Foundation, India, Department of Science & Technology Grambharti, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (2020 – 2023)
• Invited talk: “On achieving the fundamental limits of phase noise in mmWave oscillators with on-chip MEMS resonator,” IEEE-ICEE 2020, IIT Delhi, Nov 2020
• Session chair 5th International Conference on Emerging Electronics (IEEE-ICEE 2020), Nov 2020, IIT Delhi, India
• Invited talk: “CMOS-MEMS Hybrid mmWave Oscillators,” ReAp@CVEST-2020, IIIT Hyderabad, Nov 2020
• Invited talk: ” Monolithic Clock Generation at mmWave Frequencies,” GPREC, Kurnool, Sep, 2020
• Technical program committee member of IEEE iSES 2018, Dec, 2018, Hyderabad, India
• Invited talk: “Low Power Bio-Telemetry ASICs and Systems for Healthcare Applications,” Aligarh Muslim University, May 2017
• Invited talk: “Short Range Wireless Telemetry System for Biosignal Communication in MedRadio Band,” IITB-NTU Joint Symposium, IIT Bombay, Sep 2016
• Invited talk: “Integrated Circuit and System Design for Bio-Instrumentation and Bio-Telemetry,” Medical Electronics Innovation Summit, IIT Bombay in Sep 2016
• Invited talk: “Bio-Telemetry Technologies in Healthcare,” IITB – Fortis Collaborative Projects for Medical Device Innovation, Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai in May 2016
• Invited talk: “Integrated Circuit Design and Prototype Development for Biosignal Measurement Systems,” Dervan Biomedic Initiative 2015, B.K.L.Walawalkar Rural Hospital, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Dec 2015