Professional Activities

Member of Key National Level Committees

  1. Member SEBI Technical Advisory Committee 2013.
  2. Member, Expert Group on Creation of Telecom Entrepreneurship Development, Telecom R&D and Telecom Manufacturing Promotion Fund by Department of Telecom during 12th Five Year Plan, December 2012. Chairman sub-group on Telecom R&D Fund. (drafted the entire report on TRDF. report submitted in March 2013).
  3. Member of 5 members committee (chaired by Justice SH Patil) to draft National Spectrum Management Act (to replace Indian Wireless Telegraph Act 1933) set up by Government of India, June 2011.
  4. Member of Working Group of Planning Commission on Telecommunications to draft 12th 5-year Plan of India (2012-17) 2011.
  5. Member of the committee set up to draft blue print of Telecom Entrepreneurship Development Council by DoT 2011.
  6. Member, Telecom Sector Innovation Council to draw roadmap for telecom sector of the country during Decade of Innovations 2010-2020, DoT, 2011-12.
  7. Co-Chair of drafting group on new technology for National Frequency Allocation Plan 2012.
  8. Member, Working Group for Development of Innovation and IP in ESDM sector, DeiTY, GoI, 2012.
  9. Chairman, Project Review & Steering Group (PRSG) for the project Technology development for Autonomic Energy Aware Management of Network & Cloud, DeiTY, GoI, 2012.
  10. Member, PRSG for the project Text to Speech System in Indian Language, DeiTY, 2012.
  11. Member, CAREL sub-committee on Smart Phone set-up by Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI, 2012.
  12. Member Oversight Committee, Millworkers’ Online Lottery, Maharashtra Government, 2012.
  13. Member, Oversight Committee, MHADA Online Lottery 2012.
  14. Member, Oversight Committee, MHADA Online Lottery, 2011.
  15. Key member of the committee set up by government to consider TRAI recommendations for measures to improve telecom infrastructure in rural India, 2009.

Other Professional Activities

  1. Member, Advisory Board, Bharti School of Telecommunications Technology and Management, IIT Delhi, 2013.
  2. Member, Academic Committee, College of Military Engineering, Pune 2013.
  3. Chair, Working Group 3, ITU-T Focus Group on "Bridging the gap: From Innovations to Standards", 2012-13, International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T)
  4. Contributing author, Technology Vision 2035 on ICT and Telecom, TIFAC, 2013.
  5. Jury member, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) Techno vision awards 2013.
  6. Jury Member, Economic Times Telecom Awards 2012.
  7. Member, Technology Appraisal Committee, TIFAC Innovation Program, DST, 2012.
  8. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Communications Network and Distributed System 2009-11.
  9. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Network Management, 2008-11.
  10. Track Chair, iConnect, CSI 45th Annual Convention, November 2010.
  11. Working Group Member, IEEE 802.1 Standards WG, 2009-10.
  12. Chair, National Conference on Communications, 2008.
  13. Chairman, WG-4 Broadband Wireless Consortium of India.
  14. Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Center for Excellence in Wireless Technology, Chennai 2008.
  15. Technical Program Committee of ADCOMP 1998 and 1999.
  16. Technical Program Committee of HiPC 2002, 2003, 2004.
  17. Technical program Committee of CIT 2002, 2003.
  18. Technical Program Committee of ICBN 2003, 2004, 2006.
  19. Technical program Committee of IEEE WCNC 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013.
  20. Technical Program Committee of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, 2009, 2010.
  21. Technical Program Committee of WISARD 2009.
  22. Technical Program Committee of IEEE ICC 2010.
  23. Technical Program Committee of IEEE ANTS 2008 (Tutorial Chair), 2009.
  24. Technical Program Committee of IEEE VTC 2010.
  25. Reviewers for IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEE Proceedings and IEEE Communications magazine, INFOCOM, ACM MobiHoc, GLOBECOM, SPCOM, Electronic Letters.