Bio-Sketch

Education

  • Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engg.)
    National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, 2012--2016.

  • M.E. (Signal Processing)
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1998--2000.

  • B.E. (Computer Sciecnce and Engg.)
    Kumaun University, Nainital, India, 1994--1998.

Work Experience

  • Director, Research, IUDX Program Unit, SID, IISc, Bangalore, India, July 2022 --

  • Senior Research Fellow, IUDX Program Unit, SID, IISc, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2021 -- June 2022.

  • Research Fellow (with Prof. Vincent Tan), NUS, Singapore, Oct. 2018 -- Sep. 2021.

  • Research Fellow (with Prof. Teng Joon Lim), NUS, Singapore, Oct. 2017 -- Sep. 2018.

  • Research Fellow (with Prof. Mehul Motani), NUS, Singapore, Oct. 2016 -- Sep. 2017.

  • Research Associate (with Prof. Mehul Motani), NUS, Singapore, Jan. 2016 -- Sep. 2016.

  • Principal Engineer, Broadcom, Bangalore, India, 2010 -- 2011.

  • Staff Engineer, ARM, Bangalore, India, 2008 -- 2009.

  • FSL Design Engineer III, Freescale Semiconductor, Bangalore, India, 2006 -- 2008.

  • Senior Software Engineer, Analog Devices, Bangalore, India, 2002 -- 2005.

  • Software Engineer, Analog Devices, Bangalore, India, 2000 -- 2002.

Awards/Achievements

  • Received the Best Paper Award at COMSNETS 2024 (Cyber Security and Privacy Workshop).

  • TPC Member for the 16th IEEE Intl. Conf. Commun. Sys. (ICCS), 2018.

  • Best paper presentation award at NUS ECE Graduate Student Symposium, 2013 (among 124 entries).

  • NUS Research Scholarship for Ph.D. studies (2012--2016).

  • BRAVO! award at Freescale Semiconductors (for contributions to WLAN receiver architecture), 2008.

  • First rank in the CSE department during B.E., 1998.

  • Within top 1% in GATE (Computer Science) all India exam, 1998.

Membership

  • Senior Member, IEEE.