• P. Sahoo, R. Rajoria, S. Chandhok, S.J. Darak, D. Pau, H-D. Dabral “Resource-Constrained Neural Networks for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation on Micro-controllers” AIMLSystems conference, 2021 has won the best paper award for “Outstanding Application-oriented research”
• M. Gupta, S. Sharma, H. Joshi, S. J. Darak "Reconfigurable Architecture for Spatial Sensing in Wideband Radio Front-End" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (I.F. 3.29).
• G. Ghatak, H. Mohanty, A. Ur Rahman "Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test-Based Actively-Adaptive Thompson Sampling for Non-Stationary Bandits" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 2021.
• Yash Gupta (B.Tech, 2017-2021) has been selected to receive the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Student Travel Grant by IEEE COMSOC.
• M.K. Srivastav, R. Sharma, G. Soni, U. Mittal, R. Tewari, R. Yadav, A. Grover, K.J. Dhori, H. Rawat " Charge Scavenging Gate Coupled Hierarchical Bitline Scheme for Ultra-Low Power SRAMs in 65nm LSTP CMOS" has been accepted at IEEE ICECS 2021.
• A. Saxena, S. Bansal, D. Sharma, P. Kumari, S.K. Singh, P. Kapil, B. Iqbal, A. Grover "Design Of High-Density Memory Cell Library For Low Voltage Operation In 65nm LSTP Technology" is accepted in IEEE INDICON 2021.
• ECE Lab has organized a hardware design challenge, "Electrivire'21" conducted in two different stages on 13th September 2021 and 18th September 2021, subsequently.
• PhD student from ECE was invited to speak at a symposium organized by United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs
• Dr Pravesh Biryani (Faculty, IIITD) has been awarded Prof. Rajeev Sanghal Faculty Fellowship in appreciation for his contributions towards the holistic development of students.
• A. Gupta, S. Saurabh "Implementing a Ternary Inverter Using Dual-Pocket Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors " is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
• S. Kar, A. Grover "A 585mV, 16.6fJ/cycle, 0.2µW Variation Tolerant Scannable Hybrid Flip-Flop in 65nm CMOS LSTP" is accepted at IEEE PrimeAsia 2021, Malaysia.
• S. Bansal, A. Grover "Process Compensated Diagnostic Circuit For Impending Fault Detection In SRAM Write Drivers" is accepted at IEEE APCCAS 2021, Malaysia.
• The print edition of The Times Of India features a front-page article titled 'Heart risk linked to COVID-19'. SBILab has collaborated with the Cardiology department of G.B. Pant Hospital to interpret imaging test reports of the heart during COVID-19 using AI.
• G. Ghatak, S. Khosravirad, A. Domenico "Stochastic Geometry Framework for Ultra-Reliable Cooperative Communications with Random Blockages" is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• G. Ghatak, S. Kalamkar, Y. Gupta, S. Sharma "A Fine-Grained Analysis of Radar Detection in Vehicular Networks" is accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM 2021.
• A. Vashistha, IIIT-Kota delivered a talk on "High Resolution Indoor Localization System Using Ultra Wide Band Impulse Radio" on 13 Aug 2021.
• V. Bohara was invited to conduct a session in a National Webinar on "Optical Wireless Communication : Challenges and Opportunities" organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIRMA Univeresity.
• H. Joshi, S. Santra, S. Darak, M. Hanawal, S. Santosh "Multi-Play Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithm Based Sensing of Non-Contiguous Wideband Spectrum for AIoT Networks" is accepted in the special issue on Advanced Collaborative Technologies for Artificial Intelligence of Things in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics .
• A. Majumdar has been selected as Director , Student Services, IEEE Signal Processing Society. His term commences on January 1, 2022 and is till December 21, 2024.
• M. Agarwal, S. Saurabh "An Efficient Timing Model of Flip-Flops Based on Artificial Neural Network" is accepted in MLCAD 2021 (3rd ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD).
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Delhi Chapter successfully organised IEEE SPS AIVA 2021 event from 24th June - 28th June 2021.
• A. Balaji and S. Saurabh "Reducing Breakdown Voltage in a Bipolar Impact Ionization MOSFET (BI-MOS) using Gate–Source Underlap" is accepted in the conference VLSI-SOC 2021, Singapore.
• B. Ansari has been selected to present "High-resolution satellite-based land surface monitoring using NavIC L5 signal" at the UN/Austria Symposium "Space Applications for Food Systems" organised by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs.
• S.Biswas,B. Ansari "A Hardware-In-Loop simulation Test-bed for NavIC Reflectometry Experiments" has been accepted at the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI -GASS 2021) for presentation.
• S.Biswas "A theoretical comparison of NavIC and GPS RAIM performance" has been accepted at the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI -GASS 2021).
• S. Deb, A. Grover recieved grant from NSM R&D – Exascale for project titled “Efficient Communication Infrastructure for Future Heterogeneous System Architectures”.
• R. Prasad recieved Power grant from DST-SERB for project titled "On Personalized Federated Learning using Meta-learning and Bayesian Neural Networks".
• Project titled "Orbit computation of Resident Space Objects for Space Situational Awareness" proposed by S. Biswas and A. Balaji has been accepted under National Super Computing Mission HPC Applications .
• S. Vishwakarma, former PhD student's interview has been featured in TAES newsletter.
• ECE Department has released 3rd edition of student run annual ECE magazine "ElectroBuzz ECE Magazine : Mar2021 Edition"
• In a bid to counter the dreaded Covid-19 strain and control the spread of the disease, the ECE Labs has developed a Smart Automated Hand Sanitizer Machine. The machine drops a fixed (controlled) amount of sanitizer after the presence of hands
• Invitation to Thesis Defense of N. Wadhwa on 18th March, 2021 at 3:30 PM.Title of the Thesis is "Flexible Electronics Based Efficient Front-End Circuits for NonInvasive Continuous Health Monitoring in Biomedical Wearable Devices."
• The Research findings from the Ph.D. work of Sidhartha Sankar Rout supervised by Dr. Sujay Deb, titled "Efficient Post-Silicon Debug Platforms for Future Many-Core Systems" won the First Prize in the Student Research Forum of 34th International Conference on VLSI Design and 20th International Conference on Embedded System.
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi is going to start a new Centre of Excellence on Light Fidelity . The CoE will also facilitate capacity building by supporting research collaboration and exchange of experts between India and the European countries.
• ShikshAI an Educational startup is launched by Dr. Angshul Majumdar to introduce Artificial Intelligence in our education system to advance innovative ways to mediate learning and teaching. The broad objective is to democratize education. AI boosted learning methods will aid and encourage children to learn through pedagogically enhanced apps that make learning easy and fun for children of any age.
• Paper titled "Demo Abstract: Contactless E-ticketing in Public Transport Buses," by R. Girsa, K. Srivastava, A. Jain and Pravesh Biyani (IIIT-Delhi) 2021 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2021.
• Paper titled "Exploration of Temporal and Spectral Features of EEG Signals in Motor Imagery Tasks," by M. Saxena and A. Gupta, has been published in International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2021.
• Paper titled "Generalized SIR (GSIR) epidemic model: An improved framework for the predictive monitoring of COVID-19 pandemic" by Dr. Pushpendra Singh (NIT Hamirpur) and Dr. Anubha Gupta (IIIT-Delhi) has been accepted in ISA Trans. 2021.
• The 2-day FPGA workshop was a great success and witnessed enthusiastic partcipation from B.Tech. Students and working professionals.The students got hands on experience of working with FPGA and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
• Work titled "Security Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures" by Ph.D. scholar Sidhartha Sankar Rout and Dr. Sujay Deb (faculty) won 3rd Prize at Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Virtual Presentation Conclave (IVPC) 2020.
• Paper titled "Reconfigurable and Intelligent Ultra-Wideband Angular Sensing: Prototype Design and Validation " authored by Himani Joshi (PhD student, IIIT-Delhi), Dr. Sumit J Darak (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi).
• The Research findings from the Ph.D. work of Sidhartha Sankar Rout supervised by Dr. Sujay Deb, titled "Efficient Post-Silicon Debug Framework for Network-on-Chip" won the ACM SIGDA Best Student Research Forum Award (Most Popular Poster) at 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2021.
• Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara delivered an invited talk on "Can VLC replace RF? Possible application scenarios in V2X and 5G cellular standards" in Workshop on "Last-mile" Challenges and Standardization Opportunities in Smart Infrastructure at COMSNETS 2021 on 5th January 2021. The details for the talk can be found here:
• Dr. Vievk Ashok Bohara delivered an invited talk on "Vehicular-Visible Light Communication and Indoor- Visible Light Communication for next generation wireless communication standards," at International Lecture Series on signal Processing Antennas and Communications at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VNIT, Nagpur on 12 January 2021.
• Dr. Sumit J Darak (Faculty, IIIT Delhi) and Dr. Manjesh Hanawal (Faculty, IIT Bombay) delivered a 3-hour tutorial titled "Distributed Learning Algorithms for Wireless Networks" in COMSNETs 2021. More details and video link are available here:
• Remote hardware labs were setup under the supervision of Dr. Sumit J. Darak.The remote hardware labs facilitated the learning in Covid Era.Read about it.
• Sahil Yadav(UG,ECE,2016) secured 3rd place in US-based film festival called "ESMOA Video Art+Film festival".His film "Acceptance" holds position for two categories "Animation Favourite Category" and "Audience Favourite Awards".A total of 525 submissions came from 68 countries around the globe.He was guided by Prof.Anoop Ratn.Check out the film here.
• Dr.Anubha Gupta's interview got published in IEEE Signal Processing Society's December 2020 Newsletter.
• ECE department faculty Dr.Angshul Majumdar's interview has been featured this month in IEEE SPS Newsletter.

ECE Newsletter Nov 2019

• Paper titled "New Spectrum Efficient Reconfigurable Filtered-OFDM Based L-Band Digital Aeronautical Communication System" authored by Niharika Agrawal (Ph.D. Student, IIIT Delhi), Sumit Darak (Faculty, IIIT Delhi) and Faouzi Bader (Faculty, CentraleSupelec, France) has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
• Dr. Sanat K. Biswas delivered a full-day tutorial on Global Navigation Satellite Systems at IIT Madras on 16th February, which was an associated event of the conference "Advances in Control and Optimisation of Dynamic Systems (ACODS) 2020". For further details, see:
• Dr. Sumit J. Darak received core research grant (CRG) from DST-SERB for the project titled "Intelligent and Flexible PHY for 5G*".
• IIIT Delhi UAV Team - Aurora led by undergraduate students Akhil Jarodia, Aseem Saini and Mukul Chhabra secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held at the US Navy Air Station in Maryland, USA from 12th-15th June 2019. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition. In addition to this, the team has been awarded prize money of $2250. The team used a hexacopter UAV platform which cleared all milestones and deliverables including fully autonomous mission, stationary & moving obstacles avoidance, autonomous air-delivery of a water bottle and object detection & classification.
• SPARC project [Ministry of HRD, Govt of India] titled "Post-Silicon Debug Platform for Secured Systems" with Dr. Sujay Deb (Indian-PI), Prof. Prabhat Mishra (International PI), Dr. Saket Anand (Indian Co-PI), and Dr. Kanad Basu (International Co-PI) got approved with a budget sanction for 48 lakhs. This project is a collaboration work between IIIT Delhi, University of Florida and New York University.
• Viraj Parimi (B.Tech CSE, 2015), Sharmistha Gupta (B.Tech ECE, 2016) and Raghavv Goel (B.Tech ECE, 2016) have been selected for CMU-RISS 2019, Carnegie Mellon University’s eleven-week summer research internship program.
• The RISS (Robotics Institute Summer Scholars) program is one of the best undergraduate robotics research opportunities in the world. It is a fully funded program that selects around 35 undergraduate students every year worldwide to carry out research in the domain of robotics and related fields. The selected students work on state-of-the-art projects under the mentorship of faculty at CMU.

ECE Newsletter March 2019

• Dr. Abhijit Mitra has been awarded the Professional Achievement Award by the British Council Alumni Awards India-2019 on March 15.
• Our Ph.D. candidate, Deepayan Banerjee, have received Student Travel Grant for Outstanding Work for his paper at the IEEE 69th ECTC to be held at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 10 students have been selected from all over the world and Deepayan is the only one to be selected from India.
• Best graduate forum award at ICDCN 2019 for Mr. Rohit Kumar (PhD student NIT Delhi, co-supervised by Dr. Sumit)
• Second-best poster award (among 34 posters from various IITs and international universities: https://www.comsnets.org/accepted_posters.html for the paper titled "LSTM Guided Modulation Classification and Experimental Validation for Sub-Nyquist Rate Wideband Spectrum Sensing" authored by S. Chandhok (JMI Delhi), Himani Joshi (PhD Student, IIIT-Delhi), Sumit J. Darak (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) and A. Subramanyam (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi)
• Joint best graduate forum awards at COMSNETs 2019 to Himani Joshi (PhD Student, IIIT-Delhi) and Rohit Kumar (PhD student NIT Delhi, co-supervised by Dr. Sumit).
• Book by our faculty member Dr. Agnshul Majumdar, titled "Compressed sensing for Engineers" is out on stands. The book introduces the topic of compressed sending in a level accessible to engineering students. Reading it requires only a basic understanding of linear and optimization. The complex mathematical concepts are explained intuitively. The book mainly concentrates on algorithms and applications (in signal processing and machine learning). It contains Matlab implementation of almost all the algorithms discussed. Compressed sensing (CS) studies the solution of a system of under-determined linear equations when the solution is known to be sparse. The subject revolutionised signal processing and machine learning since it's onset in late 2000s. CS paved way for faster MRIs and safer CT scans. It paved way for modern representation learning; CS concepts are being used today in sparse techniques for deep learning. This book introduces CS at the level accessible by professional engineers and does not expect an advanced mathematical background required for understanding other treatises on this topic. The emphasis is on algorithms and applications of compressed sensing.
• Paper titled "New Spectrum Efficient Reconfigurable Filtered-OFDM Based L-Band Digital Aeronautical Communication System" authored by Niharika Agrawal (Ph.D. Student, IIIT Delhi), Sumit Darak (Faculty, IIIT Delhi) and Faouzi Bader (Faculty, CentraleSupelec, France) has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. To meet an ever-increasing demand of the spectrum for aeronautical communication, we propose new L-band digital aeronautical communication system (LDACS) using reconfigurable filtered OFDM (Ref-OFDM). The proposed protocol enables transceivers to dynamically adapt the transmission bandwidth over a wide range to meet the desired quality of service, and high out-of-band attenuation leads to significant improvement in the vacant spectrum utilization. We support our claims via theoretical analysis as well as simulation and complexity comparison results for various realistic channel conditions.
• Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence at IIITD is organizing winter school on Artificial Intelligence. This Winter School will focus on the fundamentals and advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, along with application domains of computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous driving, and robotics. The lectures will be accompanied with lab sessions in the evening and the last day will be a hackathon on "AI for social good". Students and professionals interested in learning algorithms in machine learning and artificial intelligence can apply.To apply click here
• Paper titled, "Distributed Learning and Optimal Assignment in Multiplayer Heterogeneous Networks" authored by H. Tibrewal (BTech student, IIT Bombay), S. Patchala (BTech student, IIT Bombay), M. Hanawal (Faculty IIT Bombay) and Sumit Darak (Faculty IIIT Delhi) has been accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2019 (Core A* conference) scheduled for 29th April - 2nd May at Paris, France. We consider an ad hoc network where multiple users access the same set of channels. The channel characteristics are unknown and could be different for each user (heterogeneous). No controller is available to coordinate channel selections by the users, and if multiple users select the same channel, they collide and none of them receives any rate (or reward). For such a completely decentralized network we develop learning algorithms that aim to achieve optimal network throughput. For the wideband sensing and narrowband sensing scenarios, we first develop explore-and-commit algorithms that converge to near-optimal allocation with high probability in a small number of rounds. Building on this, we develop an algorithm that gives logarithmic regret.
• Congrats ! Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara for got a reserach grant from SERB-TARE for Project titled "Machine Learning for Efficient Millimeter-Wave Communication"
• Congrats ! Naveen Gupta for got a travel grant to attend IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM) to be held in Singapore from 04-12-2017 to 08-12-2017approved by DST SERB for the paper titled "OFDMA Based Angle-Constrained Underlay Device-to-Device Communication" co-authored by Dr. Vivek Bohara (Faculty, IIIT-D).