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Ranjan K Mallik

Ranjan K Mallik (FIETE, FIEEE, FIET, FTWAS, FNAE, FNA, FNASc, FASc) is an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He received the BTech degree from IIT Kanpur and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in electrical engineering. He has worked as a scientist in the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, and as a faculty member in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. His research interests are in diversity combining and channel modelling for wireless communications, space-time systems, cooperative communications, multiple-access systems, power line communications, molecular communications, difference equations, and linear algebra. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Hari Om Ashram Preriot Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, the Khosla National Award, the IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Award, the IEI-IEEE Award for Engineering Excellence and the J C Bose Fellowship. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and a Fellow of IEEE, the Indian National Academies INAE, INSA, NASI, and IASc, TWAS, the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, IET (UK), IETE (India), The Institution of Engineers (India) and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He served as an Area Editor and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 and IEEE ICC 2010, a TPC Co-Chair for the PHY Track of IEEE WCNC 2013, and a TPC co-chair for the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE ICC 2021. He is currently a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal of Research. E-mail: [email protected]

Shiban K Koul

Shiban K Koul is currently an emeritus professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He served as deputy director (Strategy and Planning) at IIT Delhi from 2012-2016 and mentor deputy director (Strategy & Planning, International Affairs) at IIT Jammu from 2018-2021. He also served as the chairman of Astra Microwave Products Limited, Hyderabad from 2009-2019 and Dr R P Shenoy Astra Microwave chair professor at IIT Delhi from 2014-2019. His research interests include RF MEMS, high frequency wireless communication, microwave engineering, microwave passive and active circuits, device modelling, millimetre and sub-millimetre wave IC design, body area networks, flexible and wearable electronics, medical applications of sub-terahertz waves and reconfigurable microwave circuits including miniaturized antennas. He successfully completed 38 major sponsored projects, 52 consultancy projects and 61 technology development projects. He has authored/co-authored 601 research papers, 22 state-of-the art books, 4 book chapters and 2 e-books. He holds 26 patents, 6 copyrights and one trademark. He has guided 30 PhD thesis and more than 100 Master’s theses. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of INAE and IETE. He is the chief editor of IETE Journal of Research, associate editor of the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Cambridge University Press. He served as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer of IEEE MTT-S for the period 2012-2014.

Recipient of numerous awards including IEEE MTT Society Distinguished Educator Award (2014); Teaching Excellence Award (2012) from IIT Delhi; Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Award (1986); Top Invention Award (1991) of the National Research Development Council for his contributions to the indigenous development of ferrite phase shifter technology; VASVIK Award (1994) for the development of Ka- band components and phase shifters; Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal (1995) from the Institution of Electronics and Communication Engineers (IETE); Academic Excellence Award (1998) from Indian Government for his pioneering contributions to phase control modules for Rajendra Radar, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award (2009) in the field of Electronics and Information Technology, VASVIK Award (2012) for the contributions made to the area of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and M N Saha Memorial Award (2013) from IETE. His name has recently figured in the Scopus Elsevier top 2% Scientists under the Category “Year 2021”.E-mail: [email protected]

Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar is with the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, since 1997. He became professor in 2008 and has served as head of Centre for more than 7 years. He obtained the BTech, MTech and PhD degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1988, 1990 and 1995, respectively. He was visiting research rate the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA from 1994 to 1996 before joining IIT Delhi. His research interests are in digital signal processing, under water and air acoustics, human and machine speech communication, and multi-sensor data fusion. Professor Arun Kumar is an inventor on 10 granted US patents. He has guided 16 PhD theses and 180 Master’s theses. He has authored/co-authored 160 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has been project investigator/co-investigator for 72 funded R&D projects from industry and government. These projects have led to several technology and know-how transfers. Many of the technologies co-developed by him are deployed in the field and are in practical use. Professor Arun Kumar has served on several technical and organization committees of conferences, and on national level committees in electronics and defence fields. He is co-founder and director of a company that develop signal processing and AI based technologies and products for speech-based and multi-modal human and machine. He is currently a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal of Research.E-mail: [email protected]