Three-day Training Program on Design and Development of 5G/5G+ Standards and Indigenous 5G Network for DoT Officers

Rohit Budhiraja is currently an Associate Professor with IIT Kanpur, where he recently led an effort to design the indigenous 5G network. This 5G technology was recently transferred to the industry. He is now leading an Indian Government project from IIT Kanpur to design 5G+/6G standards. He also works closely with industry to investigate 5G+/6G wireless technologies. His current research interest it to design 5G+/6G wireless networks by using machine learning and optimization-based techniques, and then investigate their performance by prototyping them. He has received CNR Rao award from IIT Kanpur for architecting and designing the indigenous 5G network, IIT Kanpur Excellence in Teaching Award, Visvesvaraya Fellowship and Early Career Research Award from the Government of India, and award for the quality and quantity of research work done in the Ph.D.

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi received B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1986, 1988, and 1995 respectively. He served the Department of Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently, he joined as a faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
In 1999, he moved to Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he also held the positions of Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director.
He became Professor (HAG) in August 2012 and held the Sanjay and Rachna Pradhan Chair Professorship from March 2015 before moving to IIT Roorkee in 2017. Prof. Chaturvedi served IIT Roorkee as its Director from January 2017 to October 2022 and has now come back to his parent institute - IIT Kanpur. During this period he also served as the Director of IIAS Shimla (January 2017 to August 2018) and Director of IIT Mandi (July 2020 to January 2022).
Prof. Chaturvedi was Coordinator of BSNL-IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence which has done a large number of projects for the Indian telecom sector. He is a recipient of INSA Teachers award, Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. He is a founding member of the Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI). Prof. Chaturvedi was a member of the DoT committee which recommended criteria for spectrum allocation to telecom operators, in 2008. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless communications.

Shyam is currently working as Project Executive Officer in 5G+/6G research and standardization project at IIT Kanpur. He is a 3GPP RAN1 delegate and has worked on 3GPP Release-18 and Release-19 topics such as Network-Controlled Repeaters and AI/ML for NR Air Interface. He received his M.S. (research) degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has worked as a 5G PHY layer development engineer at Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. His research interests include MIMO systems, smart repeaters, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, AI/ML for 5G+/6G systems, etc.

Jyotirmay is currently working as a Senior Project Engineer in a 5G+/6G research and standardization project at IIT Kanpur. He is a 3GPP RAN1 delegate and has worked on 3GPP Release-18 and Release-19 topics such as Network-Controlled Repeaters, Positioning Enhancement for NR Air Interface, and Ambient IoT. His research interests include Sensing and Localization, 5G Air Interface design and implementation, Repeaters, Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, AI/ML for wireless systems, etc.

Abhishek is currently working as Project Executive Officer in 5G+/6G research and standardization project at IIT Kanpur. He is a 3GPP RAN1 delegate and is working on 3GPP Release-18 and Release-19 topics such as AI/ML for NR Air Interface and MIMO, ISAC. He received his M.TECH degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur. His research interests include MIMO systems, ISAC, AI/ML for 5G+/6G systems, etc.

Abhishek is currently working as a Project Engineer in a 5G+/6G research and standardization project at IIT Kanpur. He has expertise in 5G network deployment and 5G hardware design. He worked on 5G Network Integration, 5G Remote Radio head (RRH) integration and Deployment at IIT Kanpur. Currently, he is working on Enhancing the Physical layer hardware for the indigenous 5G testbed. He received his MTech degree in Digital Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His research Interests include Hardware circuit design, 5G RF hardware, IoT, wireless communications, etc.

Suman Malik is currently working as a Senior Project Engineer in 5G+/6G research and standardization project at IIT Kanpur. He has worked on 3GPP Release-18 and Release-19 topics such as Positioning Enhancement for NR Air Interface, and Ambient IoT. He received his Ph.D degree in the School of Electrical Sciences from IIT Bhubaneswar. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea. His research interests include optical wireless communication, MIMO systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, Localization for 5G+/6G systems, etc.