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Keynote/Invited Talks

Corporate Lecture-1

Digital Fabrication - a new way of making things
[13th March, 2019 at 10:30AM-11:00AM]

Mr. Guruprasad
Rao

Director & Mentor (Leadership Team)
Imaginarium India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Guruprasad Rao, is a Director & Mentor (Leadership Team) at

Imaginarium India Pvt. Ltd., Asia’s largest 3D printing company. His current
focus is on Technology mentoring, building Imaginarium Academy and
technology partnerships across domains.
Mr. Rao is a technocrat with over 30 years of experience encompassing
Industry & Academia. He holds BE (Mech) with PG in Tool Engineering from
GTTC and M.Des in Product Design from IISc, Bengaluru.
His industrial assignments include Titan, Tanishq, Crompton & Greaves
and presently at Imaginarium. He joined Imaginarium as CEO and is
presently designated as Mentor - Director. He has taught design at IISc,
NIFT, JSSATE and NTTF. He was Professor & Head, Project Office IICD,
Jaipur.
He has bagged many awards including 3 Gold medallions. As an
accomplished industrial designer, he holds 8 patents and 100 plus design
registrations. His research interests include product design, product
aesthetics, design, management, 3D printing and its applications in the
medical domain.
He is a Member of the FICCI capital goods committee. He is a trained
Assessor for CII-EFQM Business Excellence Award, Member, Board of
Studies, NIT Warangal. He is a Member, Board of Studies, Mukesh Patel
School of Technology Management & Engineering, Industry Member,
Academic Council, Terna Enineering College, Navi Mumbai, Industry
Member, Academic Council, DJSCE, Mumbai, Mentor, KIIT Technology
Business Incubator Bhubaneswar, Mentor, SIBD at AIIMS, New Delhi,
Industry Partner with BETiC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Mentor at SINE, IIT
Bombay, Review Member, NASSCOM Sector Skill Council. He was a part of
the Grand Jury for the 6 th and 7th Manufacturing Excellence Awards
hosted by Manufacturing Today.
He is an Adjacent Faculty of Engineering at RGIET, Mumbai. Member,
Advisory Board of the MIT-WPU School of Design.

Research Lecture-1

Smart Systems: Concept to Product
[13th March, 2019 at 11:00AM-11:30AM]

Prof. (Dr.) Rajesh
Kumar

Ph.D., PDF (NUS, Singapore)
SMIEEE (USA), Fellow IET (UK), Fellow IETE, Fellow IE (India),
LMCSI, LMISTE
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Centre of Energy and Environment
Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

Dr. Rajesh Kumar, is received the Bachelor of Technology in

Engineering degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology,
Kurukshetra, India in 1994, Master of Engineering with honors in Power
Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya
National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in
Intelligent Systems from Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya
National Institute of Technology (MREC, University of Rajasthan), India in
2005. He is currently Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering;
Adjunct Professor at Centre of Energy and Environment at Malaviya
national Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
He has been Research Fellow (A) at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore from 2009-
2011. He has been Reader from 2005-2009, Senior Lecturer from 2000-
2005 and Lecturer from 1995-2000 at Department of Electrical
Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology. He is the Founder
of ZINE student innovative group. His background is in the fields of
Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems,
Power and Energy management, Robotics, Bioinformatics, Smart Grid and
Computer Vision.

Corporate Lecture-2
Evolution of Domestic and Industrial Electricity Metering in India

[13th March, 2019 at 11:30AM-12:00PM]

Mr. Arvind
Kaul

CEO & Director
ENERTRAK Instruments Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Arvind Kaul, is CEO & Director at ENERTRAK Instruments Pvt.

Ltd.,Jaipur. He did his BE Hons (Electrical) From MREC (MNIT Jaipur) 1991
Batch. He secured Second Position in BE in University of Rajasthan. He also
completed MBA (Marketing) from Poddar Institute of Management in 1996.

He Joined Public Sector Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Ltd., Jaipur in
1991. He joined GENUS Jaipur as their FIRST employee and Designed
Country’s First ASIC based Low cost Electronic Energy Meter as a replacement
of the traditional electromechanical Electricity Meter. In a span of 10-12
years "Genus" has become the number 1 company
in Metering segment and has about a turnover of 800 Crores and 2500
Emplyoees.
He holds two patents for the Anti-Theft Features in the Electricity Meters. He
also holds Joint Patent with TATA POWER, Delhi for Group Automatic
Metering and Data Transfer on GPRS System, Joint Patent with RPG CESC
Kolkatta for On Line Automatic Street Light Controlling & Monitoring
equipments.
He started his own Venture "Enertrak" in 2009 and in a short span of two
years have become a preferred brand in Energy Metering, Energy Monitoring
and Controlling Segment and also in development of Energy Efficient LED
Lighting Systems
Memberships:
MIETE- Member of "Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineers"
FISLE- Fellow of " Indian Society of Lighting Engineers"
Member of "Indian Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Association"
Member of BIS for governing body of IS 13779 for Electricity Metering.

Research Lecture-2

Development of AlGaN/GaN HEMT based heavy metal ion
sensors for water quality monitoring
[14th March, 2019 at 10:00AM-10:30AM]

Dr. Mahesh
Kumar

Assistant Professor, EE Dept.
Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur

Dr. Mahesh Kumar, is has received M.Tech degree in Solid State

Materials from IIT Delhi and Ph.D degree in Engineering from IISc
Bangalore. He worked at Central Research Laboratory of Bharat
Electronics Ltd. (CRL-BEL) Bangalore as Scientist from 2005 to 2013. During
his stint at CRL-BEL, he has worked on industry-academia collaboration
that involved CRL-BEL and Materials Research Centre, IISc Bangalore. He
was involved in the development of GaN based blue LEDs, Quantum-well
infrared photodetectors, Solar cells and III-V quantum dots based
detectors. He also worked at University of Paderborn, Germany as visiting
scientist under Bilateral Exchange Programme of INSA. He has received
INSA Medal for Young Scientists-2014, the MRSI Medal-2016 by Materials
Research Society of India, Young Achiever Award-2016 by Department of
Atomic Energy and ISSS Young Scientist Award 2017 by the Institute for
Smart Structures and Systems. He has been awarded among top-10
outstanding reviewers for CrystEngComm (RSC) in 2016. He is founding
Member and Chair of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (2015-
2019), Member of Global Young Academy (2017-2022) and IEEE Senior
Member from 2016. He has been selected for the prestigious Bhaskara
Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship supported by the Department of
Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the Indo-U.S. Science and
Technology Forum. He has published more than 80 research articles.

Research Lecture-3

Internet of Vehicles: Challenges and Some Solutions
[15th March, 2019 at 09:30AM-10:00AM]

Dr. Arun
Prakash

Associate Professor, ECE Dept.
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.

Dr. Arun Prakash, received his BE from the Department of Electronics

and Communication Engineering, MJP Rohilkhand University, India in
2001, M.Tech. in Digital Communication from APJ Abdul Kalam Technical
University, India in 2006 and PhD from the Department of Electronics and
Communication Engineering, MNNIT Motilal Nehru National Institute of
Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, India in 2011. He was a Visiting Research
Scholar at the University of Waterloo, Canada during September 2008 to
February 2009.
Dr. Prakash worked as Lecturer in the Department of ECE at Indian
Institute of Information Technology Allahabad from 2010 to 2012. From
2012 to 2018, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE
at MNNIT Allahabad. Presently, he is working as an Associate Professor in
the Department of ECE at MNNIT Allahabad.
His research interests are in the area of wireless and mobile
communication, Ad hoc networks, Vehicular Networks (Intelligent
Transportation System-ITS), Cognitive Radio Networks and Wireless
Sensor Networks. He has published more than 50 papers in international
journals and conferences, contributed 04 book chapters on wireless
communication and networking, and supervised 04 Ph.D. students. He is
an associate editor of IEEE Access and a guest editor of Journal of
Computer Networks and Communications. Dr. Prakash is a member of IEEE
and IETE. Dr. Prakash worked as an ad hoc reviewer for 14 International
journals and served as program committee member of several
international conferences in the area of wireless communication and
networking.