Dr. S. Srinivas Kumar, is in the faculty of Electronics and Communication Engineering since 1987, in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, and worked in its constituent institutions, viz., JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur& JNTU College of Engineering Kakinada. He was the Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur during 2017-2020. He guided more than 80 Undergraduate projects and 50 post graduate theses, in the area of his expertise, “Signal & Image Processing” and “Artificial Neural Networks”. He delivered more than 85 invited lectures in UGC Academic Staff College Hyderabad, Engineering Staff College of India and many other reputed academic institutes. He taught 17 theory subjects in Under-graduate and Post-graduate programme. In addition, he involved in the development of new laboratories, viz., “Micro processors& Micro Computers laboratory” & “Signal & Image Processing laboratory” funded by AICTE, New Delhi and also by World Bank Project, “Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme”, respectively. He has involved in guiding the students in various laboratories, from Basics to Advanced Laboratories in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Dr. Kumar is one among the professors, who have taken active role in administration to glorify this University. He was Training & Placement Officer (2001-05), Nodal Officer to implement the World bank project “Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme” of worth Rs.11.258 crores (2005-09), Head of the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department (2006-09), Director (Sponsored Research) (2009-11), Director (R&D) (2011-2017) and Vice-Chancellor (2017 – 2020). He was responsible for starting M. Tech (Food Processing) in JNT University Kakinada, in collaboration with Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), New Delhi, by presenting the project in Ministry of Food Processing Industries, in New Delhi. In addition, as a Vice-Chancellor, he contributed to develop JNT University Anantapur, in both academics and Infrastructure. Many of his noteworthy contributions as Vice-Chancellor elevated the status of JNT University Anantapur, in both State and National level. He successfully completed his tenure as the Vice-Chancellor and resumed to his office at JNTUK as Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering in December, 2020.
Dr. Sarma obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the years 1985 and 1992 respectively after his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Electronics and Communications Engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh in 1984. He worked at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai for a brief period between February 1986 and July 1987. He has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Regional Engineering College/National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India at various positions since 1990. Then, he was the Head of the Department during September 2006 to February 2009 and February 2013 to February 2015. He was also the Dean (Academic Affairs) of the Institute during 2016 and 2017. His areas of interest include sensor networks, numerical electromagnetics and antenna arrays. He is the recipient of Best Researcher Award of NIT Warangal for the year 2016. Six students received their Doctoral degrees under his guidance. About 90 papers are at his credit in International and National journals and Conferences. He visited USA, UK, Malaysia, and Mauritius to present his papers and on some assignments. He delivered lectures at International Universities and chaired sessions at International Conferences.
Ladislau Matekovits, (M’94–SM’11) received the degree in electronic engineering from InstitutulPolitehnic din Bucureşti, Bucureşti, Romania, and the Ph.D. degree (Dottorato di Ricerca) in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, first with a post-doctoral fellowship, then as a Research Assistant. He joined the same Department as Assistant Professor in 2002 and was appointed as Senior Assistant Professor in 2005 and as Associate Professor in 2014 respectively. In February 2017 he obtained the Full Professor qualification (Italy). In late 2005, he was Visiting Scientist at the Antennas and Scattering Department, FGAN-FHR (now Fraunhofer Institute), Wachtberg, Germany. Beginning July 1, 2009, for two years he has been a Marie Curie Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, where in 2013 he also held a Visiting Academic position and in 2014 has been appointed as Honorary Fellow. Since 2020 he is Honorary Professor at Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania,and Associate of the Italian National Research Council. He has been appointed as Member of the National Council for the Attestation of University Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU), Romania, for the term 2020-2024. He has been Assistant Chairman and Publication Chairman of the European Microwave Week 2002 (Milan, Italy), and General Chair of the 11th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) 2016. Since 2010 he is member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) and he is member of the technical program committees of several conferences. He serves as Associated Editor of the IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and IET MAP and reviewer for different journals.
Bong Jun Choi is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering and jointly at the School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York Korea, Korea, and concurrently a research assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Yonsei University, Korea, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research focuses on distributed artificial intelligence, distributed intelligent energy networks, federated learning, and security. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.
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