EE Department, I.I.T Bombay

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EE Department, I.I.T Bombay Communication Group
Activities Strengths
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The Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT
Bombay

• One of the most active in the institute.
• The largest in terms of student strength
• (approximately 320 undergraduates and
• 300 postgraduates)

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Five main specializations at the post graduate
level

• Communications and Signal Processing
• Control Computing
• Electronic Systems
• Micro Electronics
• Power Electronics and Power Systems.
• Most faculty members in the dept belong to more
  than one specialization
• - cross disciplinary activity being one of the
  main strengths of the dept.

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Communications Signal Processing

• S. Chaudhuri
• U. B. Desai
• B. K. Dey
• S. Dutta Roy
• V. M. Gadre
• A. Karandikar
• G. Kumar
• D. Manjunath

• S. N. Merchant
• H. Narayanan
• P. C. Pandey
• P. Rao
• G. P. Saraph
• V. Sharma
• R. K. Shevgaonkar

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Research Areas

• Signal processing
• - Biomedical signal and image processing
• - Speech and Audio Processing
• - DSP (Algorithms HW implementation)
• Computer vision
• Communication networks
• Optical communication
• Wireless communication
• RF, microwaves and antennas
• Information theory and coding

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Communication Research Labs

• Antennas and Microwaves
• Communication RF Electronics
• Fiber Optics
• Information Networks
• SPANN
• TI - DSP
• Speech Processing
• Vision Image Processing

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Laboratory Facilities

• Antennas and Microwaves Vector Network Analyzer,
  Microwave generator, Microwave power meter and
  frequency counter, Antenna pattern measurement
  system
• Fibre Optics Digital Optical Communication kit,
  Single and Multimode fibre experimental setup,
  Optical Time domain reflectometer
• SPANN 30-strong heterogeneous cluster,laser
  range camera, thermal camera, Bluetooth kit

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Industrial Partnerships

• TCS
• TCS sponsors 20 Masters students every year
• in VLSI/Embedded Systems area
• Intel
• Has funded equipment in the Intel Lab for
• VLSI activity
• Has funded Network Processor Activity in
• the Communication Lab
• TI
• Has funded the TI DSP lab

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Funding in Comm. SP

• Funding Over Last 10 years has been
• around Rs 51 mil (5.1 crores)

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Projects from Industry

• Antennas and Microwaves DRDO, AICTE, ARDB, BRNS,
  Hitachi Metals, Aero-Marine, Kleinzaid, ECIL
• Fibre Optics MHRD, AICTE, DOE
• Information Networks DST, MHRD, Tata Infotech,
  Analog Devices, GE, Verifone, TI, Cirrus Logic,
  Switchon
• SPANN Cirrus Logic, Texas Instruments, Tata
  Infotech, CE, Analog Devices, SASKEN, Aquila
• TI-DSP TI, NRB, AICTE

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Future

• Strengthen the PhD programme
• Have a strong visitor programme
• Have a strong student and faculty exchange
  program
• Encourage entrepreneurship
• Have more collaborations with industry and
  government organizations

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• PhD programme
• Presently (35 resident,45 external)
• Raise to (130 resident,80 external)
• Admission requirement
• - should be outstanding, basic degree in
  science.
• (willing to scout all over the
  country
• -talent hunting is fun!)

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PhD students

• Treat them well
• Good work space - we have it now!
• Exposure to the world
• Exchange programmes with other universities,
• industries all over the world
• A strong visitor programme (researchers from
• all over the world staying with us, weeks to
  
• several months)

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A strong visitor programme

• 15 visitors at any given time
• Ph.D. students of Senior
  research
• other universities workers
• Academics Practitioners from
  
• 
  industry/RD
• 
  organizations
• Rule Excellence Interaction with our faculty

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Entrepreneurship

• The curriculum would encourage technological
• entrepreneurship
• Design projects taken to product level
  completion
• Dual Degree, M.Tech, B.Tech projects can aim
• towards entrepreneurial goals.

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THANK YOU
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Antennas Microwaves Lab
Testing of Antenna and Microwave components with
Network Analyzer
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Communication RF Electronics Lab
Testing of Wireless link at 2.45 GHz with
Spectrum Analyzer
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Fibre Optics Lab
Laser coupling light into an optical fiber
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SPANN Lab
Sensor Networks Research at SPANN Lab
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TI-DSP Lab
Experiments on TMC320C6XXX DSP Processors at
TI-DSP Lab