EEE_BITS-Pilani_Hyderabad-Campus_ PhD-Brochure

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 (ard@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in / +91-40-6630-3823)
Admission Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (admissions@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in / +91-40-6630-3830)
EEE Department Office, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (gouthami@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in / +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: hodeee@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in e-mail: gouthami@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
tel: 040-66303686 tel: 040-66303835

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Weblink: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/EEE/Home

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Phone : +91-40-66303999
Fax : +91-40-66303998
Hyderabad Campus, http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/
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Hyderabad - 500 078
Telangana, India