Faculty Members.

Control theory, Systems theory, Multidimensional systems, Numerical and computational methods, Coding theory, Optimization techniques, Electromagnetics

Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in Wired/Wireless Networks, TV White Space and its Potential for Affordable Broadband Access in India, Frugal 5G and Rural Broadband, Resource Allocation, Mobility Management and Dual Connectivity in Heterogeneous Wireless Network, Device to Device Communication, Software Defined Networking

Computational pathology, Medical image analysis, Deep learning, Machine learning, Computer vision, Image processing, Signal processing

CMOS device physics, design and modelling, Materials for advanced CMOS devices CMOS device physics, design and modelling, Materials for advanced CMOS devices, Electrical characterization, Gate oxide reliability and hot-carrier effects, Radiation effects on MOS devices

Power System Dynamics and Control, Application of Power Electronics to Power Systems, Flexible AC Transmission Systems, HVDC Transmission Systems

Electronically Tunable Beam-scanning Antennas, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Metasurfaces for upcoming 5G applications and RCS reduction, IoT based Smart Electromagnetic Bio-sensors for several disease detection and real-time biomedical applications

Multilevel converters and Modulation and control of power electronic converters, Power electronics applications in power systems (FACTS, HVDC, custom power devices, etc.), Renewable energies and Energy storage, Hybrid and solid-state circuit breakers and current limiters, Silicon carbide (SiC) devices based power electronic converters, Medium and high power DC-DC converters, Solid-state transformers, Power Electronic Converters for Medium Voltage Drives.

Power system planning, operations and control, Electricity markets and economics of electric power grids, Policy and regulation for electric power grids, Grid integration of renewable generation and distributed storage, Demand-side management, demand response and flexible loads, Smart grids and its enabling technologies and mechanisms

III-Nitride semiconductors and heterostructures: Growth using Molecular Beam Epitaxy, III-Nitride Nanowires: Growth and Devices, Optoelectronics devices such as Green Laser Diode, UV LED, Oxide based electronics: Epitaxial rare earth oxides (high-K dielectrics) on III-Nitride substrates for MOSHEMT application. Physics of nanostructure growth, Solid phase epitaxy of semiconductor and oxide materials, Encapsulated solid phase epitaxy, Molecular Beam epitaxy, Mismatch epitaxy.

Microwave and mm-wave devices, MMICs and Systems, GaN HEMT and MMIC, Satellite Communication, Navigation and Microwave Remote Sensing payloads, Advanced Packaging Technologies – LTCC, WLP, Devices for Quantum Communication

Nonlinear Photonics, Fiber Lasers, Wavelength Tunable Lasers,, Supercontinuum Lasers,, Mid IR lasers

Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems, sensor technologies, nonlinear systems, frequency control, energy harvesting, quantum technologies.

Spintronics, Physics of nano-devices, Spin-current induced magnetization switching, RF properties of spintronic devices, Noise, Thermoelectric effects

Inverter topologies for VAr compensation., Power electronic interface for non-conventional energy sources, Permanent magnet machines for wind power generation, Switched reluctance machines for electric vehicle application

Computational nanolectronics, Spintronics, Nano scale energy conversion.

Information Theory, Coding Theory, Wireless communication

Computer and Communication Network Protocols, Systems and Algorithms Performance Modeling, Queuing Theory and Simulation, Stochastic Systems

Neuromorphic Computing, Non Volatile Memory (NVM) Technologies, Nanomagnetism and Spintronics, Quantum Computing

Distributed parameter systems, Algebraic analysis, Optimal control, Dissipative systems

Optimal Control, Linear Systems, Optimization, Differential Games, Game Theory

Microelectronics New Device Physics Semiconductor Spintronics Spin injection, transport and detection in III-V systems Device Reliability

Multi-agent Systems, Consensus, Formation Control, Control Theory, Robust Control

Communication Networking and Network Security

Renewable Energy Sources, Grid Integration of Renewable Energy, Offshore Wind Energy, Transients in Power Systems, DC Power Systems, DC Wind Farms, Multi-terminal DC Networks, Circuit Breakers, Power Electronics

Queueing theory, Communication networks, Heavy tails

Antenna Design, RF IC Design

Nanophotonics, Quantum optics, Magnetometry, Color centers in diamond

Utility friendly converter topologies, Power Factor Correction techniques, STATCOM, Switched Mode Rectifiers, Electronic Ballast, Control of Electric Drives

Signal processing for communication, Fibre optics, Wireless communication

Analog, Digital & Mixed-Signal IC Design, Biomedical Circuits & Systems, Neuromodulation System on Chips, Oversampled Data Converters, MEMS Interface & Readout Circuits & Systems, Finite rate of Innovation & Sub-Nyquist Sampling, Compressed Sensing, Sensor Interface Circuits & Sensor networks.

VLSI Circuits and Systems, VLSI design and design automation, Graph theory and combinatorics

Control theory, Dissipative systems, Graph theoretic methods, Decentralized control, Behavioral theory control, Fault diagnosis

Circuit simulation, Semiconductor device modelling and simulation, Real-time simulation of power electronic circuits and systems, Simulation Tools

Algorithms in nature, Information processing in networks, Reaction networks, Neural networks, Evolution, Game theory, Deep learning, Information geometry, Thermodynamics of information, Quantum Information

Circuit & system design and integration for intelligent sensing, processing, and problem solving, Analog/Mixed-signal VLSI design (AI/ML domain applications, circuits and systems for Neuromophic applications, LV, LP and LE for healthcare, bio-inspired circuits and systems, I/O, highly-precise circuits & systems, instrumentation, energy harvesting and more), Data Analytics and Signal Processing, High-frequency integrated circuit design for various applications, Technologies and estimation methods for sensing, Integrated circuits and system design with emerging devices, Energy harvesting and power management circuits & systems, High-speed data transmission and interconnects, VLSI design and embedded systems

No research interests listed

Photovoltaic Module and System Reliability, Accelerated Testing and Lifetime Prediction, Physics of Failure and Electronic Device Failure Analysis Techniques, Photovoltaic Performance Modeling, Photovoltaic Power Plant Inspection and Monitoring Techniques, In-line Metrology and Characterization Techniques for Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing, PV Module Deployments and Manufacturing in India

Information Theory, Networks, Communications, Distributed Computation, Cyber-Physical Systems

Automotive control, Vehicle Dynamics and Control, Control Theory, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Intelligent Transportation Systems, Reliability Engineering

Nanoscale devices for energy and healthcare applications., Semiconductor device physics and reliability., Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

Resource Allocation and scheduling in wired/wireless networks, Optimization and control of stochastic systems, Distributed systems and algorithms

Speech and Audio Signal Processing, Music Information Retrieval

Analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits, systems, and architectures, IC design for emerging communication technologies, Digital/mixed-signal calibration techniques for RF transceivers

Statistical and digital signal processing, Audio and speech processing, Image processing and computer vision, Signal processing system design

RF, Analog & Mixed-Signal Circuits for Communication Applications

Combinatorial optimization, Matroid Theory, Submodular Functions, Linear/Integer programming, Network Flows, High Performance Computing, FGPA-based accelerated computing, GPU based acceleration, High Performance Circuit Simulation, Algorithms Design and Analysis

Power Electronics, Electric Vehicles, Wide Bandgap Devices, (GaN and SiC) based Power Converters, Circuits for Interfacing Alternate Sources (Solar PV, Battery, Fuel Cells), Reliability of Power Electronic Circuits

The physics and technology of semiconductor devices, Neuromorphic Engineering for Artificial Intelligence, Materials & devices for brain-inspired computing., Flash memory technology – Floating gate, SONOS, Charge trapping materials, Flexible electronics using cost-effective solution-processed semiconductor and dielectrics, High-k gate dielectrics, Deep level and interface trap characterization, electronic transport, Ultra-High-speed Capacitance Voltage Measurement System and Technology (uHSCV), Integrated circuits, and system design with emerging CMOS devices, Quantum Technologies with Quantum Dots (QDs) and Nanoparticles (NPs) based devices

Signal Processing for Communications, Parallel Simulation Algorithms

Sampling theory, Sub-Nyquist sampling, Finite rate of innovation signals, Compressive sensing, Spectral estimation, Application of signal processing techniques for biomedical imaging, Blind Deconvolution and calibration, Sparse arrays, Radar signal processing, Machine Learning

2D materials and devices, Wide bandgap (SiC and Gallium oxide) power devices, CMOS process integration and device physics, Metal-semiconductor interfaces, Molecular devices

High Speed Serial Links and Interconnects, Optical Fiber Communication, Silicon Photonics and Data Center Interconnects, CMOS Analog/RF/mmWave Integrated Circuits and Systems, Communication Circuits and Signal Processing Techniques, Microwave Photonics / Ultrafast Data Conversion Using Optics, Beamforming Antenna Systems

Content delivery networks, Communication networks, Crowdsourcing, Stochastic modeling, Resource allocation, Algorithm design and performance analysis

Power Electronics for Renewable Energy and Transportation Electrification, High-Frequency-Isolated Converters, Soft-Switching, Wide Bandgap Devices, Magnetics, Power Semiconductor Packaging, Multi-Physics and Multi-Objective Converter Design

Power system analysis, computation and economics, Power system protection

Transformers: Design, Analysis and Diagnostics, Electromagnetic and Coupled Field Computations, Power Engineering: Distributed Generation, High Voltage Engineering: Insulation Design/Diagnostics

Network Information Theory, Feedback Communication Schemes, Wireless Communication and Software Radios, Radar Signal Processing, Resource Allocation Problems, Biological Information Inheritance

Embedded Systems and Sensors, Digital Systems and Signal Processing, Photonics and Frequency Control, Microsystems and MEMS, Ongoing projects: Electrochemical sensors for DNA and protein sensing, AMR, water quality monitoring, Acoustic and electromagnetic techniques for corrosion monitoring, Ultrasonic guided wave structural health monitoring, Vibration sensor systems for machine health monitoring

Tera Hertz Spectroscopy, Wireless RF Power Transfer (highly directive reflect-array antenna), Silicon Photo Multiplier (avalanche photo-diode array based single photon detector), Photo Electro Chemical Power Converter (ultra-low light intensity operation), High Performance Computing (real-time, non-uniform, photo-intensity mapping), Mobile Green Hybrid Power Platforms (air-borne, off-shore, sub-surface monitoring) Sponsored Research Projects

Electrical characterization, modeling and simulation of micro/nano electronic devices, NBTI/PBTI and Hot carrier degradation in MOSFETs, High-k gate dielectrics, Advanced CMOS device reliability, Flash EEPROMs – Floating gate, SONOS/SANOS & Metal Nanopartic

No research interests listed

III-V Compound semiconductor materials growth and characterization, Optoelectronic Devices of interest includes quantum dot photodetectors and Solar cells, III-V device integration on germanium

Multimedia, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Signal Processing, Computational Haptics

AI Neural Implants, Edge-Intelligence, Flexible Electrodes, FDA-compliant Medical Devices, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Energy Harvesting, Internet-of-Things

Quantum biomimetics: electronic devices inspired by quantum biology, Heterostructure transistors for next-generation logic, high-speed and high-power applications

Memories – Resistance RAM, Charge Trap / Nanocrystal Flash Memory, Ferroelectric RAM Logic – Transistor variability, SOI-MOSFETs Architecture: Neuromorphic Algorithms and Circuit Implementations.

3D Integration, Neurmorphic computing, Ferroelectric and resistive memory devices

Communication and signal processing, with emphasis on multiresolution and multirate signal processing, especially wavelets and filter banks: theory and applications

Computer Architecture, Processor Architecture & micro architecture, VLSI Testing, Fault-tolerant computing, Robust Design and architecture, Self-healing system design, SoC/NoC design and test, Post Silicon Debug, High level synthesis, Formal verification

Power conversion: New converter topologies, High frequency link power conversion, ZCS-ZVS configurations, Switched Capacitor DC-DC converters, Power quality issues: Power factor correction techniques, Static VAR compensation, Active filters, Non-conventional energy (solar PV, wind, fuel cell) : Power conditioning, maximum power point tracking, stand-alone and grid connected systems, Microgrid