Our Faculty

Funded Projects

• AI Co-Design of 5G Base Station Hardware and Software
• Integrated Network Management

Research & Management Experience

• Board of Studies Member, B. Tech. Electronics and Communication Engineering, B. Tech. Electronics and Computer Engineering and B. Tech. Communication and Computer Engineering (January 2023 – December 2025).
• Department Research Coordinator (Jul 2017 – Dec 2020)
• Department Coordinator for International Programmes (Aug 2019 – Dec 2020)
• Board of Studies Member (B.Tech. Communication and Computer Engineering, M.Tech. Automotive Electronics, M.Tech. Communication Systems, M.Tech. Communication and Information Systems)

• TPC Member and Session Chair: NetGCooP 2011, INDICON 2018.
• TPC Member: Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), COMSNETS 2018 and 2019, GameSec 2011, INISCom 2015, 2016, INDICON 2018.
• Session Chair: Australia New Zealand Applied Probability Workshop (July 2013)
• Reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communication, IEEE Networks, IEEE Access, IEEE Communication Letters, Springer/ACM Wireless Networks, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.

Major Research Interests

Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Distributed Machine Learning and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Localization, Tracking and Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles
• Traffic State Estimation

Communication Networks

• Vehicular Communication (C-V2X, DSRC, 802.11bd)
• Mobile Sensor and Actuator Networks (UAVs, robots) for Agriculture, Structural Health Monitoring and Road Traffic Applications
• Design, Analysis and Optimization of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and IoT

Certificates, Awards & Recognitions

• Certificate of ‘Exceptional Contribution as Mentor’ by MHRD, Govt. of India, for mentoring a group of Amrita students that won in the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH), 2019.
• Certificate of Appreciation for successfully mentoring the team TechyDNA for Cohort – 1 of Cisco ThingQbator makerspace, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2019.
• Fellow at IPAM, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), for its Fall 2015 Program on “New Directions in Mathematical Approaches for Traffic Flow Management.

• Co-author of papers that won Best Paper Award in CTRG 2015 and in COMSNETS 2010, and Best Student Paper award in COMSNETS 2009.
• Star performer award by Satyam Computer Services Limited, 2004.
• National Merit Scholarship (for top 100 students in the state board examination, 1993) by Govt. of India.

Keynote Addresses/Invited Talks/Panel Memberships

• Faculty Development Program on “Learning and Tracking for Autonomous Vehicles” from 24/09/2021 to 26/09/2021 at Govt. Engineering College, Wayanad, Kerala.

PG

• Estimation and Detection Theory
• Vehicular Communication
• Wireless Networks and Protocol
• Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
• Cellular Communications
• Machine Learning and Algorithm Design

UG

• Signals and Systems
• Analog and Digital Communications
• Big Data Analytics
• Database Management Systems
• Communication Theory
• Computer Networks
• Software Defined Networks

Undergraduate Students

1. Topic: Efficient Communication for Data Harvesting using a UAV-WSN Framework
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2018
2. Topic: UAV-WSN Direct Communication for Low Energy Data Harvesting
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2019
3. Topic: Sensor Data Harvesting Using an Autonomous Drone
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2020
4. Topic: Smart Irrigation Alert System Using Multihop Wireless Local Area Networks
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2020
5. Topic: Aerial Image Analysis for Transportation Applications
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2020

Postgraduate Students

1. Name of the Student (s): Deexa Vashishtha
   Topic: Cooperative Path Prediction using Maximum Likelihood Multiple Model Filtering
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2018
2. Name of the Student (s): S. R. Nikhitha 
   Topic: Optimal Sensor Data Harvesting Using A Mobile Sink
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2018
3. Name of the Student (s): Nithin N. 
   Topic: Multiple Model Filtering for Vehicle Trajectory Tracking with Adaptive Noise Covariances
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2019
4. Name of the Student (s): Sreenath S. 
   Topic: Traffic Counting and Turning Fraction Estimation using Vehicle-to-UAV Cooperative Communication
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2019
5. Name of the Student (s): Satya Goutham 
   Topic: Traffic Sign Recognition Using Distributed Ensemble Learning
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2020
6. Name of the Student (s): Leela Aiswarya 
   Topic: Road Boundary Detection using 3D-to-2D Transformation of LIDAR Data and C-GANs
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2020
7. Name of the Student (s): Aparna M. 
   Topic: Implementation and Performance Analysis of Federated Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2021

Research Scholars

1. Name of the Student (s): Hien Luong (as Co-advisor)  Completed
   Topic: V2V Multihop Broadcast Protocols
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2017
2. Name of the Student (s): Shiva Raj Pokhrel (as Co-advisor)
   Topic: Analysis of Single- and Multi-Path TCP over WiFi and Cellular
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2017
3. Name of the Student (s): Nam Hong Hoang (as Co-advisor)
   Area: Traffic Flow Optimization
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2018
4. Name of the Student (s): Tarikul Islam (as Co-advisor)
   Area: Traffic Signal Control
   Status: Completed
   Year of Completion: 2018
5. Name of the Student (s): Mudium Venkata Praveen Kumar (as Co-advisor)
   Area: Battery State Prediction and Management
   Status: Ongoing
6. Name of the Student (s): Anindita Sahoo (as Advisor)
   Area: Distributed Learning for Autonomous Driving
   Status: Ongoing
7. Name of the Student (s): Meera K. S. (as Advisor)
   Area: Deep Learning for Medical Diagnostics
   Status: Ongoing
8. Name of the Student (s): Pavithra P. (as Advisor)
   Area: Machine Learning for Communications Systems
   Status: Ongoing
9. Name of the Student (s): Anjali K. S. (as Advisor)
   Area: Deep Learning for Radar Image Processing
   Status: Ongoing
10. Name of the Student (s): Surya S. (as Advisor)
    Area: Deep Learning for Radar based Target Tracking
    Status: Ongoing
11. Name of the Student (s): Ramya V. (as Advisor)
    Area: Resource Allocation in Beyond 5G Networks
    Status: Ongoing