Speakers of CODEC 2023

Keynote talk

1. Next generation of wireless communication and a vision for our mobile future
- Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay
IEEE Fellow
Senior Director & Head of Strategic Applications, Smart Mobile Devices & Wearables, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, USA

Plenary talk

2. From Smart Sensing to Smart Living: The Era of IoT, AI/ML and Data Science
-Dr. Sajal K. Das
IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.
3. Energy Constraints in Wireless Technologies - how to improve efficiency
-Dr. Nuno B. Carvalho
IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Professor, University of de Aveiro, Portugal.
Director DETI , IEEE – MTT President
4. Smart Connected Future with Millimeter Waves: Challenges and Technology Directions
-Dr. Debabani Choudhury
IEEE Fellow, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Invited Speakers for Different Tracks:

(Acronym: LTP: Lightwave Technologies and Photonics, NMD: Nanomaterials and Semiconductor Devices, VLSI: Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits, QCT: Quantum Computing and Techniques, WCOM: Wireless communications, MWRT: Microwave and Radar Technologies, AEP: Antennas and Electromagnetic Propagations, CAS: Computer Applications and Signal Processing, SSC: Space Science and Communications)

Focused Areas: LTP, NMD VLSI, and QCT

5. Microwave Photonics: where RF meets Optics
-Dr. Deepa Venkitesh, Professor IIT Madras
6. Optical signal Processing for Fiber Communication
-Dr. Shiva Kumar, Professor McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
7. Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers for Mode Division Multiplexing Optical Fiber Communication System
-Dr. Vipul Rastogi, Professor, HOD, Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee
8. Field Effect Transistor-Based Sensors for Amplified Detection of VOCs for Non-invasive Detection of Diseases
-Dr. Tarun Kanta Bhattacharya, Professor, IIT Kharagpur
9. Single Electron Transistors for Realizing Donor Based Spin Qubits in Silicon
-Dr. Ranjit Kashid, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Pashan, Pune
10. Engineering Defects for Quantum Technology
-Dr. Tanmoy Basu, Research Scientist, Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education TCG-CREST, Kolkata
11. Quantum System Design: Algorithms, Circuits, Error Corrections & New Direction
-Dr. Amlan Chakraborty, Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, Calcutta University
12. Experimental Realization of Diverse Photonic Quantum Walks: A Primitive for Quantum Simulation and Computation
-Dr. Syamsundar De, IIT Kharagpur
13. Nitride-based Visible- and UV-LEDs: An Overview of Design, Fabrication and Reliability of Devices
-Dr. Suchandan Pal, Chief Scientist - CSIR-CEERI, Pilani India
14. Fabrication of Large Area Photonic Device: A Self-assembly Approach
-Dr. Tapajyoti Dasgupta, IISc. Bangalore
15. Light matter interaction in two dimensional semiconductors
-Dr Sajal Dhara,IIT Kharagpur
16. Passivation Technology for High-efficiency n-Si Solar Cell
-Dr. Mukul Das,Professor, IIT Dhanbad

Focused Area Areas: WCOM, MWRT and AEP

17. Shaping the Next-Generation Wireless Communication:
-Dr. Saptarshi Chaudhuri
Networking and Communication Research Lab
Technology, Electronics City, Bangalore, India
18. Vision for 6G : Mohmedsaeed Mombasawala, CTO, Keysight Technologies
19-21. Next Generation Wireless 5G and 6G

• - Dr. P. H. Rao, Director General, SAMEER, MeitY, Govt. of India
• Millimeter wave and sub-terahertz band wireless communication Challenges and some emerging trends -Dr. Ratnajit Bhattacharya, Professor, the
  Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering IIT Guwahati
• Dr. Arijit Majumder, Scientist E, SAMEER Kolkata

22. On Enhancing Efficiency of Wireless Energy Transfer:
- Dr. Swadesh De, Professor IIT Delhi
23. Multi-User MIMO NOMA using Varied Power, Diversity, Precoding and Clustering for Improved Performance
- Dr. Iti Saha Mishra, Professor Jadavpur University
24. Millimeterwave: Challenges Communication in 5G and Beyond and Opportunities
-Dr. Sasthi C. Ghosh, Professor, Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
25. ISRO’s Radar Eye in the Sky and Related Technologies
- Dr. Jolly Dhar, Group Director-MSRG, SAC, ISRO Ahmedabad
26. Antenna design using Substrate Integrated Waveguide Technology
-Dr. Susanta Parui, Professor, HOD, IIEST Shibpur
27. Recent Advances in Multifunctional Ultrawideband Antennas
-Dr. Jawad Y. Siddiqui, Canada and IRPE, CU
28. Recent Advancements of Metasurfaces for Applications in High Frequencies
-Dr. Somak Bhattacharyya, IIT BHU
29. A New Approach to Wind Profiling with Radars
-Dr. V. K. Anandan,Deputy Director, Radar Development Area, ISTRAC, ISRO Bangalore

Focused Area: CAS

30. Quantum Enhanced Pattern Classification: A Case Study for Efficient Feature Selection
-Dr. Basabi Chakraborty, Distinguished & Emeritus Professor, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
31. A Scalable Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Collaborative Learning for Fog-based Industrial IoT
Dr. Sipra Das Bit,Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, IIEST, Shibpur
32. Looking Beyond the Haze: Image Dehazing, Principles and Some Applications
- Dr. Sarbani Palit,Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
33. Wearable Health Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities
-Dr. Rajarshi Gupta,Professor, Dept of Applied Physics, Calcutta University

Focused Area: SSC

34. Chandrayaan-3 Mission in the Context of India’s Lunar Quest
-Dr. Tirtha Pratim Das, Director, Science Programme Office, ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore
35. Unravelling the Contrasting Features of Clouds and Precipitation for the Extreme Weather Events Over the Urban Coastal City of Mumbai
-Dr. Kaustav Chakravarty, Scientist E, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Government of India, Pashan,Pune 411 008
36. Characterizing Low Latitude Ionosphere using the GMRT
-Dr. Abhirup Datta,Professor and Head, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, IIT Indore
37. NavIC in Atmospheric-ionospheric Studies
-Dr. Saurabh Das,Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, IIT Indore

Speakers for Industry Session

38. Silicon Photonics: from Fab to Rack:
-Dr. Riddhi Nandi, Principal Engineer. GlobalFoundries
39. CMOS RF Front-End Design: Overview and Challenges!
-Dr. Indrajit Das, Principal Engineer. GlobalFoundries