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Subrat Kar
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Professor

Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair Professor in Computer Networking
FIETE, FIEI, FOSI, FIOSI, FICEIT, CEng(I)

Adjunct Faculty: IIT Bhubaneshwar (SES) , LNMIIT Jaipur

Dept of Electrical Engg
  & Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management
(Mailstop: Block 2A, Room 114)
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 INDIA
T: +91 (11) 2659.1088, 2659.6250, 2659.6226

F:

+91 (11) 2659.6200 (Office of the Bharti School)
+91 (11) 2658.1606 / 2658.1524 (Office of EE Dept)

E:

subrat@ee.iitd.ac.in , subrat.kar@gmail.com

W:

http://web.iitd.ac.in/~subrat

Contact me:

Research Interests

I teach, guide research and have development projects in :

  1. Optics, including photonic circuits, photonic networks, photonic switching, optical communication and opto-electronic subsystems, integrated optical devices, MOEMS, fiber optics, optical sensing, optical phenomena, free-space optical communication and optical effects.

  2. Embedded Telecom Systems including sensor networks, protocols and real-time operating systems Telecom Transmission and Switching - including green access networks, inter-working, signaling systems and protocols, network management and switching

  3. Some special interests

    1. Automotive Networks - real-time control, automotive instrumentation, safety devices, automotive networks

    2. Wildlife - conservation, tracking, human-animal conflict management

    3. High Altitude Research

    4. Deep Space Communication - inter-satellite communications, ground-to-satellite communications, pointing and tracking system design

    5. Bio-medical Instrumentation - bio-assistive devices, bio-medical instrumentation, bio-inspired interfaces

Publications

Books

  1. A.Selvarajan, S.Kar, T.Srinivas, Optical Fiber Communication-Principles and Systems, Tata McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-044556-7 OFC

  2. H.Kaushal, V.K.Jain, S.Kar, Free Space Optical Communication, Springer FSO (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-81-322-3691-7)

  3. P. G. Raj and S. Kar, “Actors@BIM: A Hybrid Formal Model for Cognitive Buildings,” in Formal Methods in Architecture, P. L. Mora, D. L. Viana, F. Morais, and J. Vieira Vaz, Eds., in Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023, pp. 453–477. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-2217-8_26

Other Publications in Journals and Conferences

See my publications listed on: . IITD IRINS / Vidwan-70617 . Google Scholar . ResearchGate . Academia.com . Microsoft Academic Search ( autogenerated) . OrCID 0000-0002-2845-5598 . ResearcherID M-2912-2014 . Scopus Author ID 7202157363 . DBLP . CiteSeerX . Semantic Scholar 144507133 . Web of Science 3900433 (Publons) . Mendeley: subrat-kar3 . Zbib (may be a stale copy)

Affiliation with Professional Bodies

Elected Fellow of Professional Bodies

  1. Fellow of ICEIT - Institution of Communication Engineers and Information Technologists, India (2021)

  2. Fellow of ISOI - Instrument Society of India (2021)

  3. Fellow of IETE - The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, 2015

  4. Fellow of OSI - Optical Society of India, 2015

  5. Fellow of IE(I) - The Institution of Engineers (India), 2015

Memberships

  1. Professional Chartered Engineer (India)

  2. Senior Member of IEEE

  3. Life Member of SPIE(USA)

  4. Life Member of ISCA, ISTE, OSI , ISOI , CSI , BNHS, ICEIT ECMA-Switzerland - Academic Member / representing IIT Delhi on TC32-TG17 / TC32-TG14

  5. GreenTouch Consortium - Academic Member / representing IIT Delhi

  6. IENE Europe - Member

  7. Telecom Standards Development Society India ( TSDSI ), Nominated Member

Membership of Editorial Boards

  1. (Invited) Hon.Editor (along with Prof.S.L.Maskara) , IETE J. of Research - Special issue on Spread Spectrum Communication (2005)

  2. (Invited) Hon.Editor, IETE J. of Research - Special Issue on Convergence (2006)

  3. (Invited) Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) ( http://www.inderscience.com/ijcnds )

National Advisory Committees of the Goverment of India

  1. Invited Expert Member, NHAI Apex Committee on Satellite Based Tolling

  2. Invited Member, CII National Committee on Telecom & Broadband for 2020-23

    1. Member, CII Sub-Committee on Digital Infrastructure for the Year 2020-21

  3. Member, Program Review and Steering Group for Photonics and Optical Sensing Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY)

  4. Advisor (Telecom), Powergrid

  5. Member, IETF Advisory Committee, DeiTY

  6. Nominated Member, Sub-Committee on Telecom - Sixth Five-Year Plan

  7. Member (Nominated), Core Group of the Wavelength Division Multiplexer Project of the Telecom R&D Council

  8. Invited Member, Sub-Committee on Higher Education (MIT), Tenth Planning Commission, July 2001

Task Force / Working Groups of the Government of India

  1. Chairman, National Programme on Bio-instrumentation, DBT

  2. Invited Member, NHAI - National Task Force on Satellite Based Tolling

Expert Committees

  1. Expert, NHAI , Apex Committee on Satellite Tolling migration from Fastag

  2. Expert, Parliamentary Security Committee

  3. Expert / Invited Member, Informatics Committee of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 1999

  4. Nominated Member Representative for IIT Delhi, National Committee for Disaster Management, June 2001

  5. Member, Indo-US TF / PAC

  6. Bureau of Indian Standards ( BIS )

    1. Member (MHD-Health Informatics Sectional Committee, 2008 onwards and continuing)

    2. Member (LITD 11 - Fibre optics,Fibres,Cables and Devices Sectional Committee)

  7. Telecom Engineering Centre ( TEC ) / DoT

    1. DCC-Switching (S1)

    2. NWG-15 (Optical Transport Networks and Access Infrastructures)

Other Awards and Recognitions

Pre-graduation

  1. Outstanding Student of the Year 1981

  2. University Topper (Pre-Univ, 1982), University Topper (I.Sc, 1983), State Merit Scholarship, Chancellors Medal

Professional

Awards

  1. 2021 B V Baliga Award : awarded on Sep 2021 by IETE

  2. 2018 Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Award (2nd Prize) : awarded on 8 Sep 2020 by the Department of Telecom (DoT,) Government of India

  3. 2017 IETE Prof.S.V.C.Aiya Memorial Award-2017 for significant contributions in "Academic guidance, teaching and research contributions to the field of telecommunications".

  4. 2014 Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Electronics and Information Technology ( details at http://www.opbfawards.com/electronic.html )

  5. Indian National Academy of Engineering Young Engineer Award 2001

Awards for published work

  1. IETE Sir.J.C.Bose Memorial Award for the Best Research Paper in the Engineering Sciences (1992),

  2. IETE Students' Journal Award (citation and medal) for the Best Paper (1999 ),

  3. IETE K.S.Krishnan Award for the Best Systems-oriented paper along with my co-authors (M.Sanjeeva Rao, S.Vijay Bhaskar Reddy) (2001)

Awards for project work of students who have worked with me

  1. Awarded 2016 Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal for Best M.Tech Student - Sridhar Kandlagunta Reddy, MTech (JOP)

  2. Awarded 1999 INAE National Award for Most Innovative Project at the Bachelors’ Level [B.Tech thesis work by Shubhashish Datta and Vikrant Lal under my sole supervision].

  3. Awarded 1999 INAE National Award for Most Innovative Project at the Masters’ Level [M.Tech thesis work by Satyabodh Kadni under my sole supervision].

  4. Four students - Arpan Phull, Praval Jain, Nitin Upadhyay, Anurag Maheshwari - were awarded “Honorable Mention” citation and a cash prize in IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition CSIDC-2003, a global design competition among teams from 172 educational institutes world-wide [awarded at Washington DC, USA on 2 July 2003]

  5. Awarded the 1995-1996 Rajiv Bambawale Award AND the 1995-96 ICIM Stay-Ahead Award for the B.Tech Level Thesis Work by Augustine Renny Thomas and Abhay Gupta under my sole supervision.

Opportunities to work with me

  1. Please contact me by email if you are interested in:

    1. working in any of my research areas as a undergraduate / postgraduate / Doctoral student ( please tell me your interests first - see How to tell me about the project idea you have )

    2. as a Intern ( we have a Internship Program - see The GIPEDI Internship Program )

  2. working with me in any of the ongoing research projects as a Post-Doctoral / Staff Member (email me your resume in pdf or ascii format only please)

  3. working with me

    1. as a Research or Project Collaborator on a research topic / project

    2. or retaining me as a Consultant / Retainer (through IIT Delhi or through FITT )

    3. working with me for specific contract research or for developing a specific product — please email me a initial write-up of what’s on your mind (in PDF or ascii format) so we can discuss it

  4. meeting me - please call my office phone number +91 (11) 26591088 during working hours if you need to just talk to me.

Courses

I teach the following scheduled regular courses across Departments (Electrical Engg / Bharti School of Telecom / Dept of Physics):

Refresher Courses

Apart from regular courses, I teach about 38 Refresher Courses + 2 Weekend Modules through FITT on a consultancy basis - please email me your requirements if you require any of these courses on Telecom, Embedded Systems, Optical Networks.

Skill Development Lectures

The (internal) Skill Development Lectures I have delivered in IIT Delhi are available only on the Intranet within IIT Delhi ( more …​ ) .

You can propose a course you want me to teach…​

Alternatively, you could fill in this form to let me know your exact requirements - FITT would then get back to you with a course proposal.

Outreach Teaching outside IIT Delhi

Consistent with IIT Delhi’s vision of outreach teaching, I try to teach as many courses I can outside IIT Delhi — please contact me if there is a course in your Institute I can teach. The most recent such class was one I simultaneously taught to students from four IITs, four NITs, and IIST on weekends (Saturday/forenoon).

I am an Adjunct Faculty in IIT Bhubaneswar (from 2021) and a Honorary Adjunct Professor in LNMIIT Jaipur.

Some of my favourite Courses

Table 1. Summary of Courses[2]

In Electrical Engg

In Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management

In Dept of Physics

In Center for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber-Physical Systems (SENSE)

Outreach Courses

Post-Graduate/ Pre-PhD

  1. ELL703 Computer Networks (with Prof S Dharmaraja)

  2. EEL857 Network Security

  3. EEL859 Network Management

  4. EEP702 Software Laboratory

  5. EEP757 Embedded Systems for Telecom Networks Laboratory

  6. EEP701 Digital Systems Lab

  7. EEP309 Communication Lab

  8. EEP307 Computer Technology Lab

  1. ELL818 Telecom Technology

  2. EEL817 Access Networks

  3. Telecom Networks Lab

  4. EEP773 Telecom Software Lab

  5. EEP858 Telecom Networks - II

  1. OE750 Photonic Switching and Networks

  2. OE712 Optical Communication Laboratory

  1. DSL815 Selected Topics in Instrumentation - Cyber Physical systems (with Rana Sircar, Ericsson)

  1. (Guest Lectures) Telecom Technology (LNMIIT / Prof Divyang Rawal)

Under-Graduate

  1. ELL100 Iintroduction to Electrical Engineering

  2. EEL375 Embedded Systems

  3. EEL436 Telecom Transmission and Switching

  4. EEP308 Microprocessor Lab (now revised to EEP375 Embedded Systems Lab)

  1. (Guest Lectures) Computer Architecture (IIT Bbsr/ Prof Debi Prosad Dogra)

  2. (Guest Lectures) Computer Networks (IIT Bbsr / Prof Sudipta Saha)

  3. (Guest Lectures) Telecom Technology (IIT Goa / Prof R Neelakandan)

  4. (Guest Lectures) Telecom Technology (LNMIIT / Prof Divyang Rawal)

  5. (Proposed Guest Lectures) Telecom Technology (NIIT University / Prof S N Sharan)

Coordination Courses

  1. EES310 Mini Project

  2. EED310 Independent Study

  3. EEN101 Introduction to the Dept of EE

  4. EES401 Colloquium

  1. JMD802 Minor Project

  2. EED9801 Major Project

  1. Soft Skills for all students and IITD staff - skills for communication, team management, and tools for research

Projects and Project Personnel

Area Satellite Comm Optical Comm Sensor Networks Wildlife Automobiles Health Embedded Systems Instrumentation

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PhD
 MSR
 UG Project Staff Colleagues

  1. P.Govindraj [CDAC] (Part-Time / Bharti School) - Co-Founder & Director (Technology) Liberin Technologies Pvt Ltd

  2. Sonal Gupta (FT/EE), Asst Prof, VIT Bhopal

  3. Prateek Yadav (FT/EE), Asst Prof Bennett University, G.Noida

  4. Animesh Chattopadhyay (FT/EE)

  5. Kretika Goel (PT/SENSE - With Prof M.Aggarwal)

  6. Manoj Sharma (PT/EE-DRDO)

  7. Ashish Sharma (PT/SENSE)

  8. Aradhana Mishra (SENSE)

  9. Mainak Chakrabarty (SENSE/PMRF)

  10. Chandan (PT/BSTTM)

  11. Gaurav Upadhyay (PT/BSTTM)

  12. Abhishek Bohra (PT/Samsung)

  13. Garima Singhal

  1. Swati Mishra (CDOT — PT/MSR-BSTTM)

  2. Vishnu Mishra (Ericsson — PT/MSR-BSTTM)

  1. Sagarika DuttaBishwas

  2. Gundeep Singh

Teachers

I owe many individuals great debts for the role they have played in my life. Some of them were teachers, some were friends, and others were colleagues. All of them are gratefully, and humbly, acknowledged - only some of them are listed below.

Sri Rama Chandra Hota, Burla High School, Teacher of Geography and Mathematics, Burla High School for teaching me the mathematics of Physical Geography and the geography of Mathematics, for capturing my imagination by teaching me the why of maths rather than the how, for telling me that there always is another way of solving a problem, for Shiva’s damru and the conic sections, for getting down on his knees in a dusty courtyard to teach me how to approximately trisect an angle with a piece of string and three sticks.

Sri Bala Mukunda Panda[1], Burla High School, for teaching me Sanskrit at my father’s request, since it was not a subject I was required to learn at school, so I could savour the Panchatantra and the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit.

Prof.Ananth Selvarajan, IISc Bangalore, for believing I would, telling me I should and setting me free so I could.

Prof.S.C.Sahasrabuddhe[1], IIT Bombay, for the last 15 minutes of the single tutorial that changed my teaching career after I had joined IIT Delhi.

Prof. George G Guekos, of the ETH Zurich, for never letting me think anything else except that I had it in me.

Prof.Yang Tianli (Bing Lao She) of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, for showing me the world of Mozart and Bach, and for letting me speak so that I could teach myself to listen. Ni hau, Bing Lao She, Pancake-Master, Piano-player, for reaching across the barrier of years to teach me.

Students, Past

PhD (Granted)

(Year of completion in reverse chronological order)

  1. Dr.Sahil Anchal(Jan 2024)

  2. Dr.Anurag Prakash (2023), Distinguished Engineer at CIENA, Ontario, Canada

  3. Dr. Nishit Narang (2022)

  4. Dr. Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay (2021), KAUST

  5. Dr.Vijay Arvind Rao (2019) Vortex, UK

  6. Dr.S.Ramakrishna (2019) , NokiaSolutions & Networks (Bharti School) - with Dr.S.Dharmaraja

  7. Dr.Ajay Yadav (with Prof.V.K.Jain) (2018) now with Bennett University Noida

  8. Dr.Abhijit Mitra (BT Fellow; 2017 / EE Dept) with Dr.Andrew Lord, British Telecom UK - now Asst Professor, IIIT Delhi

  9. Dr.Anjitha Vishwanath (2017 / Bharti School) - with Prof.V.K.Jain - now with ISRO VSSC Kollam Kerala

  10. Dr.Pooja Gopal (2016 / Bharti School) - with Prof.V.K.Jain - now with M/s General Aeronautics (start-up in IISc Bangalore)

  11. Dr.Garima Mishra (2016, EE Dept) with Dr.S.Dharmaraja- now with Nokia Bangalore

  12. Dr.Prabhmandeep Kaur Dhillon (2015, jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain) - now in Seattle, USA

  13. Dr.Sanat Sarangi (2014) - now with TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai

  14. Dr.Himani Kaushal nee Sharma (2012, jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain) - ex-Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, ITM University, Gurgaon; currently in Florida, USA

  15. Dr.Samya Bhattacharya (2008, jointly with Prof.H.M.Gupta)

  16. Dr.Shree Prakash Singh (2006, jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain) - currently Professor, NSUT, Delhi and Vice-Chancellor (DCRUST, Murthal)

  17. Dr.Abhinav Mathur (2003, jointly with Prof.H.M.Gupta) - ex-Head, Spice Telecom

  18. Dr.Anand Srivastava (2002, jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain) - ex-Director/CDOT, ex-Visiting Professor IIT Mandi, presently Dean R&D and Professor, IIIT Delhi, Vice-Chancellor (NSUT)

  19. Dr.M.Sufyan Beg (1999-2000, as Caretaker/Prof.C.P.Ravikumar) - presently Head, Dept of Computer Sc & Engg, Jamia Millia Islamia

MS(Res.)

Ongoing

  1. Swati Mishra (CDOT — PT/MSR) Bharti School

  2. Vishnu Mishra (Ericsson — PT/MSR) Bharti School

Completed

  1. Astha Agarwal (FT/MSR) SENSE - completed in June 2023

  2. Abhinav Shandilya (PT/MSR) SENSE - withdrew

  3. Ankita Saldhi (PT/MSR) 2017EEY7532 - completed on Oct 29 2020

  4. Sakshi Arora (PT/MSR)

  5. Parmeet Singh (PT/MSR)

  6. Komal Behl (PT/MSR)(VembSys; 2019/EE) 2014EEY7546

  7. Arka Mukherjee (MSR) (2019 / Bharti School) - Best MSR Student

  8. Sahil Anchal (2018 / Bharti School)

  9. Priyesh P P (2017 / Bharti School)

  10. Famina Sangtani (2016) jointly with Dr.D.S.Khatri - Bosch, Bangalore

  11. Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay (2015) - (Bharti School)

  12. Pratyush Anand (2014) - STMicro

  13. Garima Mishra (2006) - ex-Nokia Siemens, who later worked on her PhD with me and Dr.Dharmaraja

  14. Shikha Srivastava (2007) - Executive Director, CDOT

  15. Sanat Sarangi (2008-converted in 2009 to PhD) -completed his PhD in 2014 . Rupesh Kumar Kushwaha (2008-2011) - presently in Singapore

  16. V Pramod (2009-2011) - presently with Cisco

  17. Ravi Ranjan (2009-2011) - presently working with Samsung

  18. Saurabh Gupta (2009-2011, jointly with Dr.S.Dharmaraja)

  19. P.Govindraj, CDAC (Part Time/EE) (2009-2012) - now working on his PhD with me

  20. Akshat Bisht (2009-2012)

  21. Ankit Srivastav (2009-2013) - working with Broadcom, Bangalore

  22. Prachi Gupta (2010-,Aricent Group) - discontinued on medical grounds

  23. Thakur Kumar Manglam (2010-2012) - with Infosys

  24. Saurav Khare (2010-2012)

  25. Vishwas Patodia (2010-2012)

  26. Vijay Arvind Rao (2010-converted to PhD in 2012)

  27. Surya Piplani, STMicro (2011-) - shifted to Microelectronics

  28. Abhishek Gupta (part-time/STMicro) 2015EEY7520 - shifted to Microelectronics

MTech Major Project (updating - work in progress):

2021

  • SENSE: Avinash Saroj, Savita Payal

2020

  • SENSE: Batchu Dharmaraju, Purnima Singh, Vibhav Patel

  • EE: Md.Ragib ,

2019

  • EE:

2018

  • EE: Divya Narendra Kumar

2017

  • (EE:1) Reetika Vats (LASTEC, DRDO)

2015

  • (Bharti:4) Aditi Gupta, Pramanshu Singh, Mudit Parnami,

  • (CTech:4) Manoj Sharma (DRDO), Joydeep GhoshChoudury, Swati Sharma

2014

  • (CTech:2) Narendra Vishwakarma, Akash K.Agarwal

  • (Bharti:2) Sachin Teotia, Prabhat Singh, Manohar Parvatini

  • (Opto:2) Nitin Lohar, Garima Ojha, Shashank Bijwe, Ravi Sudhakar, Jaya Prakash (on 1 year leave)

  • (NPF Fellow:1) A.Yadav (joined me for his PhD)

2013

(14 students)

  • (CTech:6) Johns T Mathai, Biswajit Das, Varun Chataraju, Pawan Koshta, Himanshu Singh, C.S.Vinayak

  • (Bharti:4) Priyanka Chauhan, Suman Sandhya, Sonal Dubey, Himanshu Agarwal

  • (Opto:2) Jyoti Jaiswal, Lalita Garg (jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain)

  • (NPF Fellow:1) Anjitha Viswanath (jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain)

  • (Applied Optics:1) Radhe Agarwal, P V V N S P Raju (jointly with Prof.Joby Joseph)

2012
2011

(12 students)

2010

(1 student)

2009

(4 students)

2008
2007

(3 students)

2006

(2 students)

2005

(1 student)

2004
2003

(8 students)

2002

(5 students)

  • (CTech:5) Deepak Nayak, Manish Choudhary, Abraham Varughese (NSTL/DRDO), Ajnam Bujnany, Faisal Sajjad

2001

(7 students)

  • (Comm:3) Rajesh Kumar, Swati Shukla, Samar Shailendra (now doing PhD from IITG)

  • (Comp:1) Imran Ali

  • (CTech:3) Mohan Lal Jangir, I.Pradeep, Nidhi Singla, Praveen Kumar madisetti, A.Selva Ganapathy

  • (JOP:3) Kailash Nihal, Prakash Singh, Mukesh Mechu (all three jointly with Prof.V K Jain),

2000

(4 students) - Rohit Gulati, J Krishnaswamy, Deepak Panchal, Anupam Wadhawan

1999

  • (CSE:2) Anik Kumar Gupta, Md.Asif

  • (Opto:2) Maj Shridhar, C.Uma Shankar

  • (CTech) Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Rajiv Chakravarty (jointly with Prof.Bernard Walke, RWTH-Aachen)

1998

(8 students)

  • (CTech:3) Vivek Mangal, Satyabodh Kadni, Nitin Kakkar

  • (JOP:5) - Swades De (now Assoc Prof, EE Dept), Paresh Mandloi, Ajit Jha, Vikram Chopra, Abhijit Khopkar

1997

(1 student) - V.B.Reddy

1996

(1 student) - Sanjeeva M

1995

(5 students)

  • Shailesh Kaul (external/ DOEALCC)

  • (CTech) Vikas Arora (jointly with Dr.T.G.Venkatesh who is now at IIT Madras) - won A.K.Sinha Cash Award; (CTech) Manoj Kumar (jointly with Prof.H.M.Gupta) ; (CTech) Priyadarshi Mahatma Misra (jointly with Prof.M.R.Shenoy) - Priyadarshi is now in Singapore (with Bell Labs?)

  • (Opto) T.B.Janarthanam (jointly with Prof.B.Sundarrajan who is now at IISc Bangalore)

1994

(2 students)

  • Sumeet Gupta

  • Maj.V.K.Singh

MTech Minor Project (updating - work in progress):

  1. 2020 Sah Swapnil Agrawal - 2018EET2554 - Srijan Upadhyay -

  2. 2019 Shivaji Roy 2018JTM2002

  3. 2018

  4. 2017

  5. 2016

  6. 2015

  7. 2014 [Bharti] Shubhra Srivastava - SNW [CTech] Vishwanath D - Independent Study - AutoNW [CTech] Manoj Sharma [CTech] Venugopal R - Emb RT Control [CTech] Joydeep Chaudhury [CTech] Prateek Gupta - EmbSys

  8. 2013 (14 students): (CTech:6) Johns T Mathai, Biswajit Das, Varun Chataraju, Pawan Koshta, Himanshu Singh, C.S.Vinayak (Bharti:4) Priyanka Chauhan, Suman Sandhya, Sonal Dubey, Himanshu Agarwal (Opto:2) Jyoti Jaiswal, Lalita Garg, (NPF Fellow:1) Anjitha Viswanath (jointly with Prof.V.K.Jain) (Applied Optics:1) Radhe Agarwal, P V V N S P Raju

  9. 2012 ()

  10. 2011 (12 students)

  11. 2010 (1 student)

  12. 2009 (4 students)

  13. 2008

  14. 2007 (3 students)

  15. 2006 (2 students)

  16. 2005 (1 student)

  17. 2004

  18. 2003 (8 students)

  19. 2002 (5 students) (CTech:5) Deepak Nayak, Manish Choudhary, Abraham Varughese (NSTL/DRDO), Ajnam Bujnany, Faisal Sajjad

  20. 2001 (7 students) (Comm:3) Rajesh Kumar, Swati Shukla, Samar Shailendra (now doing PhD from IITG) (Comp:1) Imran Ali (CTech:3) Mohanlal Jangir, I.Pradeep, Nidhi Singla

  21. 2000 (1 student) - Rohit Gulati

  22. 1999 -

  23. 1998 (1 student) - Nitin Kakkar

  24. 1997 (1 student) - V.B.Reddy

  25. 1996 (1 student) - Sanjeeva M (Sanjeeva / V B Reddy: If you see this message - please collect the Best Paper Award Medal for your Paper on VoIP from me. It has been with me for many years now !)

  26. 1995 (1 student) - Manoj Kumar

Interns (updating - work in progress):

  1. 2013-14 - Shreeyas Salunkhe/VJTI

  2. 2012-13

  3. 2011-12

  4. 2010-11

  5. 2009-10

  6. 2008-09

  7. 2007-08 (The GIPEDI Program started in 2007)

Other Publications

  • Stories (30+)

Table 2. Translations: Some of my published stories translated into other languages

Date / Publication

Original / Translated language and title

Translated by / Audio version

20 Feb 2022 / ସମ୍ବାଦ ରବିବାର — Sambada Rabibara

(English) The Eighth Colour of the Rainbow

(Odia) ଇନ୍ଦ୍ରଧନୁର ଅଷ୍ଟମ ରଙ୍ଗ — Indradhanura Ashtama Ranga

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar[3]

05 June 2022 / ସମ୍ବାଦ ରବିବାର — Sambada Rabibara

(English) A Song for the Nightingale

(Odia) ରାଗ ଅନୁରାଗ —  Raaga Anuraaga

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

28 Aug 2022 / ପ୍ରମେୟ ରବିବାର — Prameya Rabibara

(English) Ration Time

(Odia) କାଲି ପାଇଁ ଡାଲି — Kali Paeen Dali

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

23 Oct 2022 / ପ୍ରମେୟ ରବିବାର — Prameya Rabibara

(English) To our forefathers

(Odia) ପିତୃ ପକ୍ଷେ — Pitru Pakshey

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

23 Oct 2022 / ସମ୍ବାଦ ରବିବାର — Sambada Rabibara

(English) The Lottery Ticket

(Odia) ଲଟେରୀ ଟିକେଟ —  Lottery Ticket

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

11 Dec 2022 / ପ୍ରମେୟ ରବିବାର — Prameya Rabibara

(English) A house around a courtyard

(Odia) ଅଗଣା ଚାରିପଟେ ଘର  — Agana Charipatey Ghara

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

13 Aug 2023 / ପ୍ରମେୟ ରବିବାର — Prameya Rabibara

(English) Mr.Mudaliar’s Mistake

(Odia) https://www.prameyaepaper.com/edition/3410/RABIBAR [ମରମ କଥା  — Marama Katha]

Prof.(Dr) Sudharani Kar

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Biodata

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A very very brief biodata - good for knowing what I do

Subrat Kar teaches at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi.

A very brief biodata

Subrat Kar teaches Telecommunication Networks, specially Photonics Networking and Switching at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. He has been there since 1994.

A brief biodata - good as a pre-talk introduction

Subrat Kar graduated with Honours in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1987. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991). He has been with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991-1994). In 1994, he joined Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he is presently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering. He holds the Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair Professorship at IIT Delhi and his research areas are in optical communication, switching, access technologies, telecom protocols, embedded systems and high speed networks.

A not-so-brief biodata - good for the brief blurb at the end of a paper.

Subrat Kar graduated with Honours in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1987. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991). He has been with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991-1994). Presently he is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he is also the Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair Professor.

His research areas are in optical communication, switching, access technologies, telecom protocols, embedded systems and high speed networks. As a member of the Optoelectronics and Optical Communication research group, he works in the area of non-linear optical CDMA networks, free-space optical communication (ground-satellite and inter-satellite) and in ultra-fast optical LSI and fault-tolerant integrated optical switching architectures. His interests also involve formalisms in embedded system design, hardware-software co-design, telecom protocol design and verification tools for telecommunication protocols. He has designed and holds patents in the field of large-scale sensor networks, routing algorithms, macro languages, large scale repository design for sensor data and localization issues in sensor networks.

A long biodata

Subrat Kar graduated with Honours in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1987. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991). He has been with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991-1994).

Presently he is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he is also the Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair Professor. He was instrumental in establishing and heading (2006-2010) the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi which, as IIT Delhi’s first ever School, runs M.Tech, MS, MBA and PhD (Engg) and PhD(management) programs. He also established and headed (2006-2010) the Airtel IITD Centre of Excellence in Telecom (AICET) in IIT Delhi which conducts programs in contract research, distance education, pre-incubation and super-internship programs.

He is a Professional Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), Fellow of The Institution of Engineers India (FIE) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of India (FOSI). He is a Member of the IEEE and SPIE USA and a Life Member of the Indian Science Congress Association, the Indian Society for Technical Education, the Computer Society of India and of the Instrument Society of India. He is IIT Delhi’s nominee / representative on ECMA, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and, till its dissolution, on the GreenTouch Consortium. He is a wildlife conservation enthusiast and a member of IENE Europe.

His research areas are in optical communication, switching, access technologies, telecom protocols, embedded systems and high speed networks. As a member of the Optoelectronics and Optical Communication research group, he works in the area of non-linear optical CDMA networks, free-space optical communication (ground-satellite and inter-satellite) and in ultra-fast optical LSI and fault-tolerant integrated optical switching architectures. His interests also involve formalisms in embedded system design, hardware-software co-design, telecom protocol design and verification tools for telecommunication protocols. He has designed and holds patents in the field of large-scale sensor networks, routing algorithms, macro languages, large scale repository design for sensor data and localization issues in sensor networks.

A oh-so-long biodata

Subrat Kar was born in the city of Cuttack, Orissa, India. School was wherever his parents, both Doctors, were transferred. In this way, he went through several missionary schools such as St.Josephs' Berhampur, Stewarts School Cuttack, then Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur - he completed high-school (with most of his subjects taken in the hindi medium) from the Kendriya Vidyalaya, Berhampur. At Khallikote College (Berhampur University), he topped the University twice, first at the Pre-Univ and then at the Intermediate Science exams.

Between school and College, he illustrated his father’s Oriya translation of Kenneth Grahame’s book, The Wind in the Willows (Bisama Banarey Batasa). His father, Dr.P.K.Kar, is widely respected as having translated all of Jim Corbett’s books and some of Kenneth Anderson’s books into Oriya - a task in which his mother Dr Sudharani Kar was the able amanuensis. He also used this time to read Asterix/ Tintin/ Calvin and Hobbes/ Punch/the Gideon Bible/the Quran/the Bhagavad Gita/Ballantyne/Defoe/Dickens/Dumas and speed-read his way through all the books in his father’s extensive personal collection of books (about 5226 books at last count), to learn enough Sanskrit to read the Panchatantra, and to master his skills with a catapult his father hand-made for him, a Rolleiflex camera from his father and a Agfa Click-III camera donated by Dr.Madhu Khadanga, a bow-and-arrow set from Nagaland and a .22 air rifle his father bought him. He was helped in all these worthwhile childhood efforts by a worthwhile peer-friend-brother, Dr.Chandan Das (4 Mar 1966 - 17 July 2017, Author of The Road Taken), who wrote poetry, worked on his magnum opus with our collective encouragement since 1970, translated Fakir Mohan Senapati, and tried to capture life in words while he taught English at Sailabala College, Cuttack.

He graduated with Honours in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1987. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991). He has been with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991-1994).

Presently he is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he is also the Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair Professor. He was instrumental in establishing and heading (2006-2010) the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi which, as IIT Delhi’s first ever School, runs M.Tech, MS, MBA and PhD (Engg) and PhD( Mgmt) programs. He also established and headed (2006-2010) the Airtel IITD Centre of Excellence in Telecom (AICET) in IIT Delhi which conducts programs in contract research, distance education, pre-incubation and super-internship programs. He is particularly proud of having conceptualized and coordinated the GIPEDI Internship Program since 2007 (see: The GIPEDI Program at IITD ).

He is IIT Delhi’s nominee / representative on ECMA, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and GreenTouch. He was a member of DOSTI and is about to migrate his membership to the TSDSI.

His research areas are in optical communication, switching, access technologies, telecom protocols, embedded systems and high speed networks. As a member of the Optoelectronics and Optical Communication research group, he works in the area of non-linear optical CDMA networks, free-space optical communication (ground-satellite and inter-satellite) and in ultra-fast optical LSI and fault-tolerant integrated optical switching architectures. His interests also involve formalisms in embedded system design, hardware-software co-design, telecom protocol design and verification tools for telecommunication protocols. He has designed and holds patents in the field of large-scale sensor networks, routing algorithms, macro languages, large scale repository design for sensor data and localization issues in sensor networks.

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1. Teacher. Pathfinder. Inspirer. Innovater. Moonshot taker. Cordcutter. _Hnatlang Hnatlang. Tlawmngaihna. Kintsugi / Kintsukuroi 金繕い. 一期一会 Ichigi ichie. Sem sem dam dam, ei bil thi thi. Also: Ephesians 4:32
Interview with Subrat Kar
Zee News articles on sensors for preventing elephant deaths Education Times-Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Award Telecom Skill Excellence of Govt of India Sensors help to prevent Elephant Deaths

2. The Course Numbers are what they were when the course was taught, they have changed with subsequent Course revisions which have happened regularly

3. My mother and ex-Head, Department of Microbiology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha

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