Think Tank
Dr. Vijay Janyani
Head – Dept. of Electronics & Comm. Engineering, MNIT, Jaipur.
Research Areas: Optical Communication, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Numerical Modelling, Nonlinear Optics, RF and Microwaves, Optical Networks, Solar Energy.
Dr Vijay Janyani is a Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur. Presently he is also the Head of the Department. He has been Investigator of a number of funded research projects (both national and international) in the area of Optical Communication and Photonics, sponsored by reputed organisations like DRDO, DST, JSPS, SERI etc. He has been a Host Scientist for Visiting Fellows under C V Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers, administered by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, and Host Scientist for Visiting Researchers under RTF DCS Fellowship Scheme for Scientists of Developing Countries, administered by NAM S&T Center, Government of India. He has been conferred a Career Award for Young Teachers (CAYT) by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE, New Delhi), Government of India, and Derrick Kirk Prize of University of Nottingham for excellence in research. He has been expert/member on the panel of important Government bodies like UPSC, NPIU, DST, AICTE, RBSE, SPFU, NCERT etc. He has been the Chairman of IEEE Rajasthan Subsection during 2018-2019 (two years). He has published more than 180 research papers in reputed journals and conferences, and a number of book chapters. He has supervised ten PhDs till date and currently eight are underway. He has been member of Technical Program Committee of many IEEE conferences, and reviewer or editorial board member of reputed journals like IEEE/Elsevier/IET/Springer/Hindawi.
In his teaching and research career of more than two decades, he has been Investigator of a number of funded research projects (both national and international) in the area of Optical Communication and Photonics, sponsored by reputed organisations like DRDO, DST, JSPS, SERI etc. He has successfully completed the Indo-UK consortium project UKIERI which was a major multi-Institutional project in the domain of Microstructured Optical Fibers, as Coordinator from MNIT. He has been a Host Scientist for Visiting Fellows under C V Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers, administered by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, and Host Scientist for Visiting Researchers under RTF DCS Fellowship Scheme for Scientists of Developing Countries, administered by NAM S&T Center, Government of India. He has been conferred a Career Award for Young Teachers (CAYT) by the All India Council for Technical Education. He also served as Coordinator-Campus Wide Networking (CWN), Nodal Officer-National Knowledge Network (NKN) and Coordinator-Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN). He has been member of various level committees such as Board of Studies, Senate, Selection Committees, Review Committees of various Universities, and an expert/member on the panel of important Government bodies like UPSC, NPIU, DST, AICTE, RBSE, SPFU, NCERT etc. He has been the Chairman of IEEE Rajasthan Subsection during 2018-2019 (two years). He has published more than 180 research papers in reputed journals and conferences, and a number of book chapters.
He has supervised ten PhDs till date and currently eight are underway. He has been member of Technical Program Committee of many IEEE conferences, and reviewer or editorial board member of reputed journals like IEEE/Elsevier/IET/Springer/Hindawi. He is on the panel of Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Program of reputed international societies like SPIE (USA) and OSA (USA) under which he has delivered many invited talks across the globe on recent advances in photonics and related technologies.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE USA, Member of IEEE Photonics Society, Member of IEEE COMSOC, IEEE NTC, Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI-India), Life Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Senior Member of OSA (USA), Senior Member of SPIE (USA) and Life Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India. His current research interests include fiber optics and communication, photonics, optical networks, numerical modeling, nonlinear photonics, photonic crystal based photovoltaic and devices and all-optical systems.
Prof (Dr.) O.P. Verma
Principal – G B Pant Engineering College Govt. Of NCT of Delhi Okhla, Delhi
Dr. O.P. Verma is therecipient of Premier Research Award for Excellence in Research andCommendable Research Award for Excellence in Research awarded by DTU. Hehas guided 06 PhD theses in the field of Computer Science, InformationTechnology and Electronics and Communication Engineering and presently 8students are pursuing PhD under his supervision. He has organized number offaculty development programs/seminar/workshops and contributed as a resourceperson by delivering expert talks in Workshops, Refresher Courses and National& International Conference. He is a editor of two books and author in bookchapter. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed Journal andConferences. He is having a Google Scholar H-index of 22 and i-10 index of 38and is a contributing reviewer of a number of ACM/IEEE/Elsevier/IET/Springer
Journals.Prior to joining the G B Pant EngineeringCollege, he was Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science &Engineering (Aug 2014-April 2017). He has been Head of Department ofInformation Technology (Nov 2007- April 2017), Head, Computer Centre (Aug2014- April 2017), Member Academic Council, Chairman BOS and ChairmanDepartment Research Committee of Department of Computer Science &Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering and InformationTechnology, and served as Dean, Continuing Education (Feb 2013- Dec 2015)as well at DTU. He has established fully online B. Tech admission process andserved as Chairman B. Tech. Admission in year 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 andalso established a secure Campus Wide Network for providing the internet facilityat DTU. He was Chief Investigator of ISEA Project Phase-I and Phase-II,sponsored by Department of Electronics and Information Technology,Government of India at DTU.
Prof (Dr.) Vinay Sahula
Professor-HAG, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur.
Research Areas: Resilience, Trust & Security in Hardware, EDA for VLSI/Embedded-Systems, Cognitive Architectures.
Dr.VineetSahula is working with group of research-scholars/faculty members on various aspects of Trust &security in Chips & Embedded Systems; Modeling of Cognition, cognitive algorithms/architectures, Member of faculty group who visited Canadian Universities- Saskatchewan, Toronto Calgary University, for academic & research collaboration, 14th -21st Sept. 2013. Member of faculty group, who visited North Dakota State University, Fargo for academic &research collaboration.Visiting faculty, Microelectronics programme at Asian Institute of Technology Thailand, Autumn 2004. He received various awards like “Senior Member” for Professional membership given by IEEE USA Year – 2004, “Life Fellow” for Professional Membership given by IETE India Year – 2002, “Professional Achievement Award” for Contribution in the field of Computer Science & Engineering given by Institution of Engineers (India) Year – 2016, “Senior Member” for Professional Membership (EDA and Computational Intelligence) given by ACM USA Year – 2020. He has worked on various projects with govt. agencies MHRD, Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt. of India, DeitY.
Prof Raj Senani
Honorary Faculty- NetajiSubhas University of Technology.
Research Areas:Analog VLSI Circuits, Analog Signal Processing, Current-Mode Circuits
Dr. Senani held several positions at Delhi Institute of Technology and was Director, NetajiSubhas Institute of Technology (NSIT).He has authored/co-authored over 165 research papers in refereed international journals- which have received (as per Google Scholar) over 6000 citations with an h-index of 43 and i-10 index of over 125 so far.He has authored/co-authored 05 Books (Research Monographs)- three of which have been published by Springer, namely, `Current feedback operational amplifiers and their applications’, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2013; `Current Conveyors: Variants, Applications and Hardware Implementations’, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015 and `Sinusoidal Oscillators and Waveform Generators employing Modern Electronic Circuit Building Blocks’, Springer, Switzerland 2016; and one, entitled `Gyrators, Simulated inductors and related immittances-Realizations and applications` by IET (UK) in July 2020.He was the recipient of the Second Laureate of the 25th Khwarizmi International Award for Excellence and Dedication in Research in 2012.Professor Senani was ranked among the Top 1% Reviewers of the World for Engineering and Interdisciplinary areas, for three consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019 by Publon (Web of Science Group).In 2020, he featured in the list of Top 2% Scientists of the World in the areas of Science, Engineering and Technology, as per a study conducted by the Stanford University researchers.On 15th September, 2021- the Engineers Day, he was conferred with the `Eminent Engineer of the year 2021 Award` by the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI).