Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications

Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head, Dept. of CSE at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M.Tech in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 26 years of teaching experience. His research interests are data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 scholars for Ph.Ds. Dr. Satapathy is also a Sr. Member of IEEE.

Dr. N Bheema Rao is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has over 25 years of teaching experience. His areas of specialization are Design and Modeling of On-Chip Inductor for RF Applications and Device Modeling. He is a very active researcher and has published more than 20 papers in various International/National Journals. He has organized several MHRD sponsored short term courses on “Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits”. He is a life member of INSEMIC. Under his esteemed guidance, two students were awarded with Ph.D. degree and three more are pursuing their Ph.D. He has also guided number of post-graduate students.

Dr. S Srinivas Kumar is currently Professor in ECE Department and Director, Research and Development, JNT University Kakinada, India. He received his M.Tech from JNTU, Hyderabad. He received his Ph.D. from E&ECE Department, IIT Kharagpur. He has 28 years’ experience of teaching undergraduate and post-graduate students and guided number of post-graduate and Ph.D. thesis. He has published more than 50 research papers in National and International journals. His research interests are in the areas of digital image processing, computer vision, and application of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic to engineering problems.

Dr. C Dharma Raj is currently working as Vice Principal and Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India. He obtained his post-graduation degree from Osmania University and doctorate from GITAM University. He has over 25 years of teaching experience and 4 years of Industry experience (Electronics & Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), DRDO, Bangalore and MACE, Visakhapatnam). He held various administrative posts in past, viz., Head, ECE Department; Director of Academic Affairs; Director of Student Affairs. His areas of specialization include Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility. He is a very active researcher and has published more than 60 papers in various International/National Conferences and Journals. He authored three text books with reputed International publishers (Electronic Devices & Circuits,Satellite Communications and Microwave Engineering). He has also guided number of post-graduate students and currently guiding a good number of Ph.D. students. He carried out a consultancy project with NSTL, Visakhapatnam and also was co-investigator for an UGC Major Research Project.

Dr. V Malleswara Rao is currently working as Head of the Department and Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India. He is post-graduate from Andhra University and received his doctorate degree from JNTU Kakinada. He has over 26 years of teaching experience. His areas of specialization include Signal Processing and Low Power VLSI Design. He is a very active researcher and has published more than 40 papers in various International/National Conferences and Journals. He is currently guiding 8 Ph.D. students and 6 other students were awarded Ph.D. under his guidance. He carried out a Major Research Project with UGC, India.He is currently working in Low Power VLSI Architectures for mobile applications.

Dr. G V K Sharma is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India. He has over 13 years of teaching experience and 2 years of Industry experience (Tejas Networks, Bangalore). His areas of specialization include MIMO Radar Signal Processing, VLSI Design and Underwater Communications. He presented a good number of papers in National/International Conferences and has good publications in reputed journals. He has also guided number of post-graduate students and currently guiding Ph.D. students also. He delivers guest lectures on Radar and Sonar technologies at NSTL and other academic organizations.