BITS Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
An overview of Ph.D. in various disciplines
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Home
Birla Institute of Technology and Science             innovate  achieve  lead
(Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, Dubai)
Highlights of the                  Ph.D. P r o g r a m m e D e t a i l s
Ph.D. Programme
                                   O n Campus full-time Ph.D. Programme
• Ph.D. offered in various         Candidate enrolls in full-time Ph.D.
   disciplines across 4
   campuses                        O n Campus part-time Ph.D. Programme
                                   Professionals working in organizations in close vicinity of campuses
• Internationally acclaimed
   training towards Ph.D. degree   Of f Campus Ph.D. Programme (aspirant Scheme)
                                   For professionals working in an organization collaborating with
• Highly qualified faculty in all  BITS
   disciplines
                                   Area(s) for II Semester 2017 – 2018 (EEE
• State-of-the-art laboratory /    Department, Hyderabad Campus)
   research facilities
                                                              Area              Full-time  Part-time
• Extremely vibrant research       Embedded systems                                  
   atmosphere with opportunities   Microwave devices/Antenna                                   
   to interact with eminent        MEMS / Microfluidics                                        
   scientists world-wide           Nanoscale devices, Photonics, Photovoltaics       
                                   Optical Communication & Photonics                 
• Opportunities to present the     Power Systems                                     
   research in international and   Networked control systems                         
   national conferences, within    VLSI Architecture for DSP/Image processing        
   and outside the country         Biomedical & Statistical signal processing        
• Opportunities to publish in      Eligibility (EEE Department, Hyderabad Campus)
   high impact journals
                                   • M.E. / M.Tech (or equivalent) in Electrical / Electronics /
• Provision of financial support      Instrumentation or related areas
   through fellowships and
   discounted fee                  • Minimum 60% aggregate during UG & PG programmes
• Opportunities to participate in  • The part-time openings are available in the selected areas
   teaching activities at BITS        only (refer to the above table)
• Close linkage with the industry
Application and Admission                                                              Online
                                                                                  Application
• Admission twice a year (August and January)
                                                                                    Deadline:
• Online application through http://www.bitsadmission.com                           14th Dec
                                                                                 2017, 4 pm
• EEE Department - http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Home
                                                                                Interview and
• Shortlisted candidates are called for interview during last week of              selection:
   J uly (1st semester admission) or first week of January (2nd semester
   admissions)                                                                   1st week of
                                                                                 Jan 2018, to
• Full time PhD scholars will be considered for Research / Project              be announced
   Assistantship of up to ₹25,000 per month. Such candidates will be
   required to participate in teaching and other academic programs
   of the institute under the guidance of a mentor
• Candidates with Self/ external funding are encouraged to apply
                                           IMPORTANT CONTACTS
Academic Research Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3823)
 Admission Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3830)
EEE Department Office, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus ([email protected] / +91-40-6630-3835)
                          For further details, visit our website: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/
Hyderabad Campus
DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICSENGINEERING
  Key Faculty and Research Areas                           Mr. Syed Ershad Ahmed - VLSI Arithmetic Circuits,
                                                           Low Power VLSI Design
Prof. M B Srinivas (on leave) [PhD- IISc] - VLSI
Arithmetic, Low power Design, Networks, Biomedical         Mr. K C S Murti - Real time and embedded systems
instrumentation, Telemedicine, Signal Processing           design, Software development and Engineering
Prof. BVVSN Prabhakar Rao [PhD- IITD] - Biomedical         Key Research laboratories
Signal Processing and Modelling of Organic materials
for solar cells                                            • Analog Electronics  • Communication
                                                                                    Systems
Prof. Sanket Goel (HoD) [PhD- Alberta] - Microfluidics,     • Advanced
MEMS, Lab-on-a-chip, Nanomaterials, BioMedical                Communication      • MEMS & Microfluidics
Diagnostics, 3D printing, Biofuel Cell, Biosensing
                                                           • Instrumentation     • Microwave
Prof. Subhendu Kumar Sahoo [PhD- BITS] - VLSI
architecture for Digital Signal Processing and Image       • Control Systems     • Power Electronics
processing algorithm.
                                                           • Digital Design      • Power System
Dr. Alivelu Manga Parimi [PhD- UTM, Malaysia] -
Power Systems: FACTS, Power system stability,              • Signal Processing   • VLSI Design / CAD
Power Quality
                                                           • Electrical Machines • Clean Room (Class 100)
Dr. Prasant Kumar Pattnaik [PhD- IISc] - Photonics,
Optical Communications, Photonic Integrated                • Central Facility [XRD, FTIR, Confocal, HPLC, DSC,
Circuits, MEMS                                                TGA, XRF, LCMS | SEM, NMR (under process)]
Dr. Venkateswaran Rajgopalan[PhD- Cleveland State          LCR Meter             Source Meter             Electrochemical Workstation
Univ] - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Positron
Emission Tomography (PET), Signal processing.              3D printer            Fluorescence Microscope  Thermal Evaporation Unit
Dr. Runa Kumari [PhD- NIT Rourkela] - Dielectric
Resonator Antenna, Long periodic, Reconfigurable,
Microstrip Antennas, Antenna Array.
Dr. Sumit Kumar Chatterjee [PhD- IITKgp] - Digital VLSI
Design, Video Compression
Dr. Souvik Kundu [PhD- IITKgp] – Nanoelectronics,
Semiconductor Physics and Devices; Thin Films;
Materials for Electronics; Design & Fabrication
Dr. Soumya J [PhD- IITKgp] - Network-on-Chip (NoC)
design Application-Specific Synthesis of NoC
Reconfigurable NoC design.
Dr. Surya Shankar Dan [PhD- IISc] - Modeling,
identification, control of Networked control
systems, Statistical signal processing
Dr. Shaikshavali Chitraganti [PhD- U Lorraine,
France] - Modeling, identification, control of
Networked control systems, Statistical signal
processing
Dr. Saroj Mondal [PhD- IIT Guwahati] -
Microelectronics and VLSI
Dr. Mithun Mondal [PhD- IITR] - Condition
Monitoring and Diagnostics of Transformers, High
Voltage Engineering
Few Open PhD projects                                        Current Ph.D. /Research statistics
Area                             Tentative Project           No. of PhD students presently                    43
                                                             enrolled                                  (Full-time 25,
Embedded systems Fault-Tolerant Network-on-Chip              No. of publications in the last 5 years   Part-time 18)
                              Design                         No. of sponsored projects completed       Journals – 28
                                                             No. of sponsored projects on-going       Conference - 90
Networked Control Decentralized control routing
                                                                                                               4
Systems            strategy for mobile multi-agent                                                             8
                   systems
Signal Processing  • Analysis of Brain tumor detection
                   • Event triggered estimation and
                       detection
Nanoscale devices Nanoelectronic Steep Subthreshold             Faculty Achievements
and materials      Slope Devices for Energy Harvesting        Prof. Sanket Goel has received Fulbright
modeling           Applications                                   fellowship (Oct 2015) Fulbright - Nehru
                                                                  International Education Administrators Program.
VLSI Architecture  Motion estimation algorithms and
for DSP/Image      architectures                              Dr. Souvik Kundu has been nominated as
processing
                                                                  Distinguish Reviewer, IEEE EDS.
Optical            Photonic       devices           for
Communication                                                 Prof. Sanket Goel nominated reviewer for DS T
                   Communication
                                                                  grants, Member for Technical Evaluation
Nanoscale Devices •              Design and Fabrication of        Committee (TEC), National Institute of Nutrition
and Photovoltaics                Novel non-volatile Memory        (ICMR), Hyderabad
                                 Devices
                              •  Design and Fabrication of     Recent Visitors
                                 Heterojunction Solar Cells
                                                             • Prof. G. G. Sivjee, Embry Riddle Aeronautical
MEMS /             • Digital 3D Printed Electronics              University, Nov 2017
Microfluidics          Technology
                                                             • Prof. Sanjeev Shroff, University of Pittsburgh, Nov
                   • Biomedical Diagnostics                      2017
  External Research Grants                                   • Mr. Sunil Khanna, Vertiv, Oct 2017
                                                             • Prof. R. Karmalkar, IIT Madras, Sept 2017
 Prof. M. B. Srinivas from I CM R                           • Prof. Varun Jeoti, Univ Technology Petronas,
 Prof. Sanket Goel from DST /SERB/DRDO
 Dr. Soumya J and Prof. S. K. Sahoo from                        Malaysia, Aug 2017
                                                             • Prof. Linga Reddy C and Prof. Daniel Romero,
     SERB
                                                                 University of Agder, Norway, Aug 2017
 Dr. Souvik Kundu from BRNS and SERB                        • Prof. Daman Saluja, Univ of Delhi, Jul 2017
 Prof. S.K. Sahoo from H B L, H y deraba d                  • Mr. Jim Aralis, CTO, Microsemi, 2016
                                                             • Dr. Juan M de bedout, CTO, GE Energy Management,
                                                                 2016
Department specific contact
Prof. Sanket Goel                                            Ms. Gouthami Poloju
Head of the Department                                       Secretary
e-mail: [email protected]                   e-mail: [email protected]
tel: 040-66303686                                            tel: 040-66303835
                                             Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
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               Hyderabad Campus,                                  http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/
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               Hyderabad - 500 078
               Telangana, India
