Professional Activities
Editorial Board
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Editorial Board Member, IEEE IoT Magazine
2019- 20
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Associate Editor, CSI Transactions
2015-16
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Associate Editor, Sadhana, Springer Verlag
2012-15
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Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Communications Network and Distributed System
2009-11
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Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Network Management
July 2008-December 2011
Technical Program Committee Member
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Member, IEEE Future Networks, Connecting The Unconnected Challenge
2021
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General Co-Chair, IEEE 5G World Forum
2020
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General Co-Chair, Workshop on Open-RAN: Open Road to Next Generation Mobile Networks, IEEE WCNC
2020
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Finance Chair, The 27th International Conference on VLSI Design
January 2014
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Chair, ITU-T Focus Group on "Bridging the gap: From Innovations to Standards", Working Group 3, International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T)
2012-13
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Technical Program Committee of IEEE ICC
2010
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Technical Program Committee of IEEE VTC
2010
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Track Chair, iConnect, Computer Society of India 45th Annual Convention
November 2010
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Technical Program Committee of WISARD
2009
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Technical Program Committee of IEEE ANTS 2008 (Tutorial Chair)
2009
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Chair, National Conference on Communications
2008
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Technical Program Committee of IEEE GLOBECOM
2008, 2009, 2010
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Technical program Committee of IEEE WCNC
2005, 2006, 2007, 2013
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Technical Program Committee of ICBN
2003, 2004, 2006
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Technical Program Committee of HiPC
2002, 2003, 2004
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Technical program Committee of CIT
2002, 2003
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Technical Program Committee of ADCOMP
1998 and 1999
Member of Selection Committees for Leadership Positions
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Member Search cum Selection Committee, Director IIIT Allahabad
February 2022
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Member, Search cum Selection Committee, Director ARCI Hyderabad
January 2022
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Member, Selection Committee, Executive Director, Telecommunications Consultant India Limited, Ministry of Communications
September 2021
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Member, Search cum Selection Committee, Directors of NITs, Ministry of Education
2021-22
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Member, Search cum Selection Committee, DG, ERNET, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
July 2021
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Visitor’s nominee, Professors Selection Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi
2021-24
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Member, Selection Committee, Vice Chancellor, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj University, Nagpur
2020
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Member, Selection Committee, Director, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh
2020
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Member, Selection Committee, President JNCASR, Bengaluru
2019
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Member, Selection Committee for Director, Rajiv Gandhi Petroleum Technology Institute
2019
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Member, Selection Committee for Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IITDM), Jabalpur
2018
Other Professional Activities
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Chairman, Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) for the project "Technology development for Autonomic Energy Aware Management of Network & Cloud" by C-DAC, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India (GoI)
2012-15
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Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Center for Excellence in Wireless Technology, Chennai
2008
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Chairman, WG-4 Broadband Wireless Consortium of India
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Core member of the committee (chaired by Joint Secretary, DoT) set up by government to consider TRAI recommendations for measures to improve telecom infrastructure in rural India
2009 (Drafted the entire report. Report submitted in September 2009)
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Member, Oversight Committee (chaired by Retd High Court Judge), MHADA Online Lottery
2011 (Successfully helped MHADA implement Online Lottery of flats)
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Member, Oversight Committee (chaired by Retd. UpLokayukta), MHADA Online Lottery
2012 (Suggested comprehensive changes in Online Lottery system and oversaw the complete operations of online Lottery)
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Member Oversight Committee, Millworkers’ Online Lottery (chaired by Retd. Uplokayukta), Maharashtra Government
2012
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Member, Technology Appraisal Committee, TIFAC Innovation Program, DST
2012
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Jury Member, Economic Times Telecom Awards
2012
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Jury member, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) Techno vision awards
2013
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Contributing author, Technology Vision 2035 on ICT and Telecom, TIFAC
2013-15
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Member, Selection Committee, VAJRA faculty scheme, SERB, Department of Science and Technology
2021
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Chairman, Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) for the project `Study of Software Defined Networks for a New Networking Era' by C-DAC, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India (GoI)
2015
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Jury member, IESA Techno Vision award
2015
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Jury Member, NASSCOM Data Security Council of India (DSCI) Excellence Award (Security Product Segment)
2015
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Member, Academic Committee for Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)
2014-16
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Chair, Technology Working Group, NASSCOM's Cyber Security Task Force
2015
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Chairman, Technical Committee, NetFlow Generator, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI)
2017
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Chairman, Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) for the project "Cognitive Radio for Strategic Applications – Development of a prototype Wideband RF Frontend & Waveform for Spectrum Sensing based Interference Mitigation” by CDAC Trivandrum, DeitY, GoI
2019-22
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Chairman, Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) for the project, “Multigigabit Wireless Systems at 60 GHz for 5G and beyond” by SAMEER, Chennai, GoI
2020-23
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Member, Grand Jury, CII 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Awards for Excellence in Waste Management
September 2019, October 2020, October 2021