SAIF K. MOHAMMED

Professor

Electrical Engineering Dept

IIT Delhi

Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India.

Phone: +91-11-26591067

Fax     : +91-11-26581606

Email-ID : saifkm@ee.iitd.ac.in

EDUCATION

• 1998: B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi
• 2010: Ph.D. in Electrical and Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore 

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2022-: Professor, IIT Delhi
• 2016-22: Associate Professor, IIT Delhi
• 2013-16: Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi
• 2011-13: Assistant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden 
• 2010-11: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Linkoping University, Sweden
• 2003-07: Design Engineer, Texas Instruments Inc, Bangalore, India. 
• 2000-03: Senior Chip Architecture Engineer, Ishoni Networks Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
• 1998-2000: IC Design Engineer, Philips Semiconductors Inc., Bangalore, India

RESEARCH AREAS

• Communication Theory, Information Theory, Signal Processing 
• Research Focus: Wireless Communication 
• Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) Modulation for High Mobility Scenarios 
• Large MIMO Systems/Massive MIMO Systems for 5G

• List of publication (Journals: 27 IEEE, 1 IET)

• Citation Report of my publications on Google Scholar

• Citation Report of my publications on Scopus

• List of patents (US Patents: 4 Granted, Indian Patents: 5 filed)

• List of funded projects (Govt. funded: 3, Industrial Consultancy Projects: 7)

Awards/Fellowship

1. Prof. Kishan Gupta and Pramila Gupta Chair, IIT Delhi (Jan. 2019 - )

2. NASI SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2017 - Engineering category

NASI SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2017 - List of Awardees

3. Fellow, The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (I.E.T.E), March 2018.

4. Teaching Excellence Award, I.I.T. Delhi (2016-17)

5. Awarded the Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the ``Visvesvaraya Ph.D. scheme for Electronics and IT," by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, 2016 - 2019.

6. Research paper titled, ``Uplink Performance of Time-Reversal MRC in Massive MIMO Systems subject to Phase Noise," with previous Ph.D student awarded IEEE Sweden VT/COM/IT Joint Chapter Best Student Journal Paper Award for 2016.

7. Awarded the Young Indian Researcher Fellowship for 2009-10 from the Italian ministry of University and Research.

COURSES TAUGHT at IITD

• Fall 2017 ELL712 : Digital Communication 
• Practice Problems and Solutions - I

• Spring 2017 ELL813 : Advanced Information Theory 

• Fall 2016 ELL712 : Digital Communication 
• Problem on Power Spectral Density

• Spring 2016 ELL821 and EEL862: Special Topics in Communication and Networking-I 
• First Assignment (5 Marks)
• Message Passing Problem

• Spring 2016 ELP311 and EEP306: Communication Engineering Laboratory 
• Marks for Lab sessions completed by 7 Feb.
• Final Marks for all Lab sessions

• Fall 2015 ELL100: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
• Practice Question 16.5, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Vincent Del Toro (P16.5)
• Practice Question 16.6, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Vincent Del Toro (P16.6)
• Practice Questions 16.10 and 16.11, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Vincent Del Toro (P16.10, P16.11)

• Spring 2015 EEL860: Wireless Communications
• Fall 2014 EEL319: Digital Signal Processing
• Spring 2014 EEL306: Communication Engineering
• Fall 2013 EEL790: Special Topics in Information and Communication Technology-II December 2013)

COURSES TAUGHT PREVIOUSLY (Linkoping Univ. Sweden)

• Spring 2013 TSKS04: Digital Communication Continuation Course
• Fall 2012 ITWC-II: Information Theory for Wireless Communication
• Spring 2012 ITWC-I: Information Theory for Wireless Communication
• Spring 2012 TSKS04: Digital Communication Continuation Course
• Spring 2011 ADE: Advanced Topics in Detection and Estimation Theory

Student Supervision

• Ph.D. Thesis supervised: 6
• Ph.D. students currently under supervision: 10

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP/SERVICE

• Senior Member, IEEE (2015 - ), Fellow, IETE (2018 - )  
• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2019 - )  
• Editor, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters (2015 - 2020)  
• Editor, Journal of Physical Communication Elsevier (2018 - 2020)  
• Editor, IETE Technical Review (2014 - 2017)  
• Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-chair, IEEE SPCOM 2022  
• Technical program commitee member (TPC) for IEEE ICC 2015, 2014, 2013, IEEE Globecom 2017, 2016, 2015, IEEE WCNC 2016, NCC 2017, COMSNETS 2014, IEEE VTC 2013, IEEE Swe-CTW 2012. 
• Chair for the special session titled ``Large-Scale MIMO Systems'' at the Asilomar conference 2012. 
• Reviewer for several IEEE transactions and conferences (Transactions on communication, Transactions on Wireless Communications, Transactions on Signal Processing, Transactions on Vehicular technology, ICC, ISIT, ICASSP, GLOBECOM, WCNC, ISCAS, VTC, SPCOM, AusCTW, SweCTW).

Professional Courses (Continuing Education Programme) and Talks

• Coordinator of TEQIP Course titled, ``Information Theory and Channel Capacity,'' 14 - 19 December 2015, Bharti School, I.I.T. Delhi. 
• Coordinator of TEQIP Course titled, ``Coding Theory and Advanced Information Theory,'' 21 - 24 December 2015, Bharti school, I.I.T. Delhi 
• Delivered lectures in TEQIP Course titled, ``MIMO Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and Advancements,'' 6 - 11 July 2015, Bharti School, I.I.T. Delhi. 
• Delivered lectures on Trigonometry in IIT-PAL (available on Youtube) 
• Panelist in the discussion on, ``Rural Broadband Technologies and Applications for Citizen Services,'' at the Telecom Summit 2015 organized by Convergence India, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, 23 Jan 2015.