Areas of Interest: Antennas, RF and Microwave Engineering

Brief Profile: Dhaval Pujara received a BE degree in Electronics Engineering, an MTech degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering (Microwaves & Radar) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, and a Ph.D. degree from Nirma University. During the year 2007-2009, he was deputed to the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India to carry out research on, ‘Antennas for Satellite Applications. Currently, Dr. Dhaval Pujara is serving as the Director, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), Gandhinagar.

Areas of Interest: VLSI Devices, Interconnects, Circuits, and Systems.

Brief Profile: Dr. Amit Kumar received Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2021. He has received his M.Tech. degree in ECE (VLSI Design) from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2012 and B.E. degree in ECE from the Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak in 2010. Dr. Kumar has several publications in renowned international journals and international conferences to his credit. Dr. Kumar joined PDEU in June 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering in the School of Technology.

Areas of Interest: My Research interest primarily includes device-algorithm co-design for efficient neuromorphic computing, emerging nanodevices for edge computing, modeling and simulation of FETs, first-principle-based (NEGF) transport in nanoscaled devices, solid sate resistive sensors, etc.

Brief Profile: Hello, I am Bibhas Manna, presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar. Previously, I worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at Pennsylvania State University (Feb. 2023 - Jun. 2024) hosted by Prof. Abhronil Sensupta and at TU Wien (Feb. 2022 - Jan. 2023) hosted by Prof. Tibor Grasser. I completed my PhD from IIT Kharagpur in Sep 2021 in the specialization of Microelectronics and VLSI.

Areas of Interest: Currently working on Perovskite single crystal based optoelectronic device, Perovskite solar cell, photodetector, thin film transistor, QDs, and 2D semiconductor materials

Brief Profile: Dr Deepak Kumar Jarwal did Bachelor degree in ECE from Govt. Engg. College, Jhalawar (Rajasthan). He has completed M.Tech in Digital Communication from IIIT Gwalior in 2015. Dr Jarwal received various govt. funded fellowship such as Visvesavaraya PhD fellowship, CSIR (JRF) and etc, He has received a PhD degree in microelectronics from IIT (BHU), Varanasi in 2021. He has worked as Post Doctoral fellow in DRDO, Jodhpur. His area of expertise is perovskite solar cell, 2D materials, QDs based optoelectronic Devices, Photodetector, sensors. and thin film transistor. Dr Jarwal has published more than 20 reputed international journals and attended various international conferences.

Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, IoT, Smart grid, Radiation detectors, Instrumentation and Control of Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Safety and Security

Brief Profile: Dr. Manish is an Assistant Professor at PDEU since 2018. He received Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad in the area of AI and blockchain for energy management. He has about 10 years of teaching and 3 years of industrial experience. He has working experience in different control and instrumentation related to Fast breeder reactors at Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI), Kalpakkam. He worked as an assistant Professor at Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar (Rajasthan) from 2013 to 2018.

Areas of Interest: FPGA Based VLSI system design, Hardware accelerator design for Image and video processing algorithms, Tiny ML, Power-aware ML architecture for edge devices, Computer Architecture, and Biomedical Instrumentation.

Brief Profile: Dr. Pallab Kumar Nath did his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2018. He did his M.Tech in VLSI Design from Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur (Presently IIEST Shibpur) in the year 2009. He completed his B.Tech in ECE from West Bengal University of Technology in the year 2005. He had adequate teaching experiences in various MHRD-Govt. of India funded institutes like NIT Raipur and IIITDM Kurnool. He joined this department in April 2022. Prior to joining PDEU, he was a post-doctoral research associate at IISc. Bangalore for 3 years. His research works have been published in various International Journals and Conferences. Dr. Nath received the prestigious CSIR-SRA fellowship and GYTI appreciation award in the year of 2020 and 2018 respectively.

Areas of Interest: Broadly in the areas of Robotics and UAVs/Drones, Control systems, Autonomous Systems, Intelligent Systems for the pertinent problems, concerning complex systems like - Robotic systems especially using UAVs, Cyber-physical systems, Underactuated systems & control issues, Multi-agent systems, Biological systems and control aspects, Large Scale Networked Systems in Smart cities, Agriculture and beyond using techniques like - Embedded Solutions, Internet of Things (IoTs), Linear and nonlinear control system tools, Sliding mode control (SMC), Lyapunov based approaches, Model predictive control (MPC), Estimation techniques & Observers, Event-triggered designs, Optimization based formulation

Brief Profile: Dr. Parth S. Thakar received his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay (IITB), Systems and Control Engineering. He has more than three years of research experience as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Lisbon, Portugal. In Portugal, he was involved in three major research projects - LOTUS, REPLACE and CAPTURE, which involved various aspects of control of UAVs/Drones in transport and monitoring applications. In his Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, he worked on an indigenously developed setup, sponsored by ISRO. Dr. Parth received his bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication Engg., from Saurashtra University. Dr. Parth received prestigious INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Faculty Award, from Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Besides, he is also a recipient of Postdoctoral grant on the Project LOTUS- Load Transportation using UAVs. Dr. Thakar also received IIT Bombay travel grant and IEEE TC student support grant for attending International workshop on Variable Structure Systems at France and Mumbai in 2014 and in 2012 respectively. He also received ICC student support grant for attending International Conference - ICC at Hyderabad. Dr. Parth was also invited as a guest lecturer at VESIT and RAIT in Mumbai. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Control System Society since 2011. He regularly serves as a reviewer of many IEEE, Elseveir, IFAC and other bodies' reputed Journals and Conferences. He has several research papers in International Conferences and International Journals to his credit.

Areas of Interest: VLSI, Nanoelectronics, Semiconductor Devices, Sensors, 2D Materials, and Flexible-electronics.

Brief Profile: Dr. Rahul Kumar joined Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar in April 2022. Prior to joining PDEU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in CeNSE at IISc Bangalore. Dr. Rahul received a prestigious National Postdoctoral fellowship (N-PDF) from SERB, Govt. of India. He received his Ph.D. in Microelectronics from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at IIT Jodhpur in 2020. Dr. Rahul received a Gold Medal for his Ph.D. thesis research work. He did his M.Tech from IIT(BHU) Varanasi and B.Tech in ECE from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow. He has published more than 30 reputed international journals and several international/national conferences. His research work has been cited more than 1300 times with h-index 17. Dr. Rahul is working as an editorial board member and reviewer of many reputed journals. For more details please follow https://chauhanrahul38.wixsite.com/rahul

Areas of Interest: My primary research focuses on advanced semiconductor devices, including Gate-All-Around (GAA) MOSFETs, FinFETs, with emphasis on enhancing performance, reliability, and radiation resilience.

Brief Profile: Dr. Abhishek Ray holds a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Devices from NIT Raipur, with a strong academic background that includes an M.Tech in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems and a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government Engineering College Bilaspur. He also earned a Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government Polytechnic College Ambikapur. His research focuses on advanced semiconductor devices such as Gate-All-Around (GAA) MOSFETs and FinFETs, as well as memory technologies . Abhishek's work emphasizes improving the performance, reliability, and radiation resilience of devices. His expertise spans semiconductor device modeling, VLSI design, and digital logic design.