Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Welcome to Department of Electrical Engineering

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Department of Electrical Engineering Welcomes
NEW POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 2024-25
(Semester - II), IIT Kanpur

Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at IIT Kanpur. The EE department is one of the oldest departments at IIT Kanpur. It was one of the first five departments with which IIT Kanpur started in 1960. Subsequently, the Advanced Centre for Electronics Systems (ACES) came into existence in early 1970 by a grant from the Ministry of Defence to undertake manpower training and to carry out research and development related to defense. Subsequently, several sponsored projects in many subject areas with large interdisciplinary content were handled through ACES. ACES is now an integral part of the EE department and houses the majority of EE laboratories and facilities. The department is currently the largest multidisciplinary department at IIT Kanpur. It covers practically all sub-disciplines in Electrical and Communication Engineering including Power Systems, Power Electronics, Microwaves, RF techniques, Microelectronics, VLSI, Photonics, Control Systems, Robotics, Speech, and Audio Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Wireless Communication, Computer Networks, Future wireless networks like 5G/6G, Wireless sensor networks, and IoT networks. Read more

 
 

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From the Head's Desk

Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at IIT Kanpur. The EE department is one of the oldest departments at IIT Kanpur. It was one of the first five departments with which IIT Kanpur started in 1960. Subsequently, the Advanced Centre for Electronics Systems (ACES) came into existence in early 1970 by a grant from the Ministry of Defence to undertake manpower training and to carry out research and development related to defense. Subsequently, several sponsored projects in many subject areas with large interdisciplinary content were handled through ACES. ACES is now an integral part of the EE department and houses the majority of EE laboratories and facilities. The department is currently the largest multidisciplinary department at IIT Kanpur. It covers practically all sub-disciplines in Electrical and Communication Engineering including Power Systems, Power Electronics, Microwaves, RF techniques, Microelectronics, VLSI, Photonics, Control Systems, Robotics, Speech, and Audio Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Wireless Communication, Computer Networks, Future wireless networks like 5G/6G, Wireless sensor networks, and IoT networks.

The vision of the EE department is to create talented and socially responsible engineers to make a better India and, in turn, a better world. It will strive to become a hub of research excellence in cutting edge, state of the art, and contemporary areas of national and international relevance. The department also envisions itself as a center of excellence in teaching to create a well-educated, technically competent, and socially responsible workforce for meaningful, inclusive, and overall societal development of India and the world.

The department’s mission is to impart world-class training to its undergraduate and postgraduate students. It plans to create an excellent national workforce by imparting students a high-quality education, cutting-edge research exposure, and a world-class innovation ecosystem. Additionally, it plans to formulate and implement novel teaching mechanisms to provide its students a holistic exposure to a world-class education. The department plans to hire faculty, augment its teaching and research infrastructure, increase its industrial and research collaboration, and adopt modern methodologies for training students and staff to realize its stated mission objectives.

The department offers B.Tech, M.Tech, M.S (by research), and Ph.D. Programs in Electrical Engineering. The current sanctioned strength of B.Tech and M.Tech student intake during the first semester, are approximately 136 and 150, respectively. At present, 241 Ph.D., 260 MTech., 60 M.S (by research), and 620 BTech students are registered in the department, against the sanctioned intake. It may be noted that the number of postgraduate (MTech, M.S (R), and Ph.D.) students has nearly doubled in the last five years.

The department has a total faculty strength of 50, 3 research engineers, 26 technical staff, 7 ministerial staff, and a large number of research project employees.

The EE department of IIT Kanpur has always been well recognized for its excellent teaching standards in India and abroad. Several faculties of the department have also won teaching excellence awards like the Gopal Das Bhandari award multiple times. Over the years, the department has had beacons of teaching excellence such as R.N Biswas, K.R Sarma, R. Sharan, S.S Prabhu, and MA Pai.

Prof Russel Hsing, who is a pioneer in 6G communication, and Fog computing, is a visiting faculty with the department for two years. Prof. Hsing, is a Fellow of the IEEE, the British Computer Society (BCS) in the UK, and the SPIE. Currently, he is Chair Professor with the National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), Adjunct Professor and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute of Network Coding at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, and Member of Advisory Council at Harvard Business Review. Prof. Hsing is helping EE at IIT Kanpur develop a 6G and Fog computing research ecosystem. Plans to conduct the next IEEE 6G and fog computing summer/Fall school are also being developed. Currently, EE has 1 adjunct faculty and 1 visiting faculty. Dr. Anirudh Gautam from RDSO is an adjunct faculty in EE and collaborates with several faculty to develop and execute high net worth projects for Indian railways.

The EE department is one of the largest R and D fund generators for IIT Kanpur. Several small, medium and large R and D projects have been sanctioned to EE faculty in the last five years. This has led to the development of several large research facilities like Real-Time Digital Simulator, Smart Grid, 5G Test Bed have been set up as a result of these large projects. Faculty from EE have also been largely involved in setting up the Samtelcentre for display technologies, and the National flexible electronics centre. Several faculty in EE are also involved in industrial consultancy projects with private industrial giants like Qualcomm, LG India, Samsung India, and GE India apart from state and central government agencies like BSNL, Power Grid Corporation, CPRI.

EE has been a leader in the Institute in terms of offering outreach and continuing education programs (CEP). Several faculty have offered classroom, online, and MooCs in cutting edge areas like AI, ML, 5G communications, Future wireless networks, Microwave and RFID technologies, state of the art EMI/EMC techniques. The EE department has offered the largest number of CEPs in the last 2 years from the centre of continuing education. Additionally, several MDPs have been offered by the smart grid facility to officers from electricity regulators.

EE faculty have been traditionally contributing to administrative activities both within and outside the Institute. Currently, there are 3 faculty who are serving as Directors/Vice-chancellors at various other IIT/NIT/Universities. Several faculty from EE are currently serving as Deans, Associate Deans, and Centre Heads within the Institute.

Several EE alumni have made IIT Kanpur proud. EE Alumni have made excellent contributions in various fields like entrepreneurship, industry, and academics. A few illustrious alumni (both new and old) who have distinguished themselves are N. R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys), Prof. K. Subramanian (CEA to GoI), Dr. Ajay Kumar (DefenceSecretray, GoI), Dr.Arvind Krishna (CEO, IBM), Dr. Lalit Jalan (Director, Reliance), Prof. Anurag Kumar (Director, IISc.), Prof. UB Desai (Director IIT Hyderabad), Prof. Abhay Karandikar (Director, IIT Kanpur), Varun Khaitan (Co-founder, Urban Clap), Bhaskar Pramanik (Chairman, Microsoft), Mr. Avanish K. Awasthi (Principal Secretary UP Govt.), Prof. A. K. Chaturvedi (Director, IIT Roorkee), and Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey (Finance Secretary, GoI).

If you have any questions, queries, suggestions, and proposals, please feel free to contact me.

Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan
Head, Electrical Engineering
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Directions to the Department of Electrical Engineering

Reaching Department from IITK Gate

Department of Electrical Engineering is located in building popularly known as ACES, which stands for Advanced Center for Electronic Systems

You can reach the department from any of the gates of the Academic area

From Gate no 1: Walk straight upto the faculty building. Cross it and the follow the brick path. You will reach a building made up of red bricks. And that is ACES

From Gate no 2: Walk upto the Faculty Lounge. Turn left. Go past the Library (near fountains). You will be approching the Faculty Building. Walk straight from faculty building keeping gate no. 1 in the back.

From Gate no 3: Go past the Lecture Hall Complex and follow the brick path. Go past the Western Labs and continue walking on brick path. You will see ACES to your left.

Reaching IITK from Kanpur Railway Station (cantt side - platform no 1 side)

This is a preferred route as compared to coming in from the city side.

From the cantt side of Kanpur Railway Station, taxis and three wheelers are available. Typically the fare is 250 INR.

They will drop you to your destination within the campus

Reaching IITK from Kanpur Railway Station (city side)

Our campus is about 18 Km away from Kanpur Central Railway Station. From the city side(Ghanta Ghar side) of the station, you may hire an autorickshaw and reach IIT Kanpur.

Alternately, you may hire a cycle richshaw upto Bara Chouraha and then travel by a shared tempo to IIT Gate.

You have a choice of walking upto the department or take a cycle rickshaw to get to the department from IIT Gate.

Reaching IITK from Lucknow Airport

Hire a taxi from Lucknow airport for IIT Kanpur. Typically the fare is 1500 INR. Taxi fares are subjective and can change

After reaching the IIT gate follow instructions from above to reach the department. Please note that you will need to park the car in the parking lot in front of the faculty building to be able to follow the above instructions

Sl. No.Project TitlePICo-PISponsor
1 Centre For Railway Research HEAD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   R.D.S.O.
2 Single-Carrier Decoy-State Frequency-Coded Quantum Key Distribution Over 50km Optical Fiber PRADEEP KUMAR K   DEPARTMENT OF SC.& TECHNOLOGY
3 Programming Robots By Demonstration For Industrial And Warehouse Automation Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan Laxmidhar BEHERA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
4 Mou For Research Collaboration Between National Nctu & Iit Kanpur DHIRENDRA S KATTI ASHWANI KUMAR THAKUR NATIONAL YONG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
5 Emi/Emc And Electrical Safety Testing Facility, Iit Kanpur Md. JALEEL AKHTAR A R HARISH BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY RESEARCH ASSISTANCE COUNCIL
6 Development Of A Vision Based Autonomous Quadrator System For Rescue And Search Operation Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan Laxmidhar BEHERA DEFENCE R & D ORGANISATION
7 Complex Defense Object Recognition And Autonomous Handling In Unstructured And Noisy Outdoor Environment (Phase-I) NISHCHAL K VERMA Md. JALEEL AKHTAR DEFENCE R & D ORGANISATION
8 Robotics And Automation In Agriculture Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan Laxmidhar BEHERA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
9 Study On Cyber-Physical Aproach For Electric Power Grid Ankush Sharma   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
10 Communication And Localization For Swarm KETAN RAJAWAT   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
11 Realizing Large-Scale And Fully Autonomous Uav Swarms KETAN RAJAWAT ABHISHEK . SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
12 Rte- Optical-Tomography Based Mixed Phase Cloud Parameter Retrieval NAREN NAIK DEBASIS KUNDU SPACE TECHNOLOGYCELL
13 Interconnected Microgrids For Rural Electrification Ankush Sharma SAIKAT CHAKRABARTI MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
14 Development Of Optimization Based Approaches For Robust Operation Of Power Networks With Renewable Energy Sources (Doable) Abheejeet Mohapatra Soumya Ranjan Sahoo SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
15 Next Generation Wireless Research And Standardization On 5g And Beyond Rohit Budhiraja Abhishek Kumar Gupta MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
16 Next Generation Broadcasting Research ADRISH BANERJEE   PRASAR BHARATI
17 Archival Content Retrieval Through Audio And Text Query Vipul Arora   PRASAR BHARATI
18 Automatic Speech Recognition For Speech Subtitling Vipul Arora RAJESH MAHANAND HEGDE PRASAR BHARATI
19 Development Of Non-Destructive Test Methodologies To Sense And Quantify Environmental And Operational Damage In The Composite Armour Panels (Main Pi At Iit Ropar) NANDINI GUPTA   ARMAMENT RESEARCH BOARD
20 E-Mode Gan Hemt Based Single Phase Solar Invertor With Smart Gate Driver Amit Verma   DEPARTMENT OF SC.& TECHNOLOGY
21 Integrated Renewable Resources And Storage: Operation And Management [Iresopm] Main Project At Mnnit Allahabad Abheejeet Mohapatra   DEPARTMENT OF SC.& TECHNOLOGY
22 Physics-Based Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Sensitivity Analysis And Control Of Tracked Vehicle RAMPRASAD POTLURI   CENTRE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS-DRDO
23 Compact Modeling And Design Exploration Of 3d Nand Flash Memory For Hardware Security Primitives Shubham Sahay   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
24 Maintaining The Indigenous 5g Test Bed Rohit Budhiraja   DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
25 Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Based Ferrimagnetic And Atiferromagnetic Memory Rik Dey   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
26 Deep Learning Framework For Robust Source Localization And Tracking Using Spherical Arrays Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan Vipul Arora SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
27 Hosting Backup Control Centre Of Kesco Scada/Adms/Gis Project At Iit Kanpur Ankush Sharma Shiv Kumar Singh KESCO, KANPUR
28 Quantum Memory Based Ona Mn Doped Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shilpi Gupta   IFCPAR
29 Solid State Two-Photon Entangled Light Sources Using Superconductor-Semiconductor Interfaces PRADEEP KUMAR K   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
30 Design And Development Of Mobile Handset Mimo Antenna For 5g Applications KUMAR VAIBHAV SRIVASTAVA A R HARISH SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
31 Design And Development Of A 17um Roic And Feasibility Study Of A 12 Um Pitched Roic For Uncooled Bolometer Detector Arrays Imon Mondal   DEFENCE R & D ORGANISATION
32 Sparse Framework For Super Resolution Ambisonic Audio Reproduction In Spherical Harmonic Domain Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
33 Machine Learinging For Lattice Theories In Physics Vipul Arora DIPANKAR CHAKRABARTI SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
34 Flexible Photonic Elements For Resonant Applicatios Using Scalable Fabrication Techniques Shilpi Gupta   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
35 Speech Technologies In Indian Languages Vipul Arora   MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
36 Smart Bms With Realtime Estimation Of Soc And Soh YATINDRA NATH SINGH   MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
37 Development Of Millimeter-Wave Mimo Cognitive Radio Systems Using Metasurface And Substrate Integrated Waveguide For Future Wireless Communication Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
38 Development Of Law Cost And Robust Wireless Power Transfer System For Convenient Ev Charging Suvendu Samanta   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
39 Design And Fabrication Of Light-Weight Flexible Polarization Independent Broadband Rf And Microwave Absorber Based On Active/Passive Anisotropic Metamaterial Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
40 Development Of Scalable Large Signal Model And Low Noise Model For Gan Mmic Design For Wideband Application YOGESH SINGH CHAUHAN   DEFENCE R & D ORGANISATION
41 Al Based Video Surveillance K S VENKATESH BRAJ BHUSHAN INSPECTORATE ARMA PRIVATE LIMTED
42 Attitude And Heading Reference System With Sensor Fusion From Multiple Sensors Using Adaptive Kalman Filter YATINDRA NATH SINGH NAREN NAIK TIHAN FOUNDATION, IIT HYDERABAD
43 Smart Edge Caching Over 5g Networks In A Federated Learning Framework KETAN RAJAWAT   SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
44 Study And Design Of Power-Efficient Non-Uniform Sampling Analog-To-Digital Converters For Multi-Band Wireless Receivers Ashwin Kumar R S   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
45 Secure Border Surveillance By A Team Of Autonomous Vehicles Twinkle Tripathy   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
46 Compact Large-Scale Integrated Linear Photonic Processor For Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning (Ai/Ml) Applications Rituraj .   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
47 Wireless Communication In Mines Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary   TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN EXPLORATION & MINING FOUNDATION (TEXMIN)
48 Impact Of The Spatio-Temporal Profile Of A Random Environmental Process On Its Sensing: An Information Relevance Perspective Abhishek Kumar Gupta   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
49 Evaluation Of Radiation Resiliency On Emerging Single Transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory Avinash Lahgere   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
50 Direct Laser Writing Of Vanadium Dioxide Devices And Circuits Amit Verma   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD
51 Nanorobotic Drug Delivery System & Lab-On-Chip Platform Development Abhilash Patel   IHUB FOUNDATION FOR COBOTICS
52 Vision Based Continual Openset Domain Adaptation For Robotic Object Recognition K S VENKATESH   TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
53 Unify(Solutions For Clean Energy Integration In Power Grids With Improved Flexibility) Abheejeet Mohapatra Soumya Ranjan Sahoo DEPARTMENT OF SC.& TECHNOLOGY
54 Coverage Performance Of Thz Networks In The Presence Of Blockages And Scatterers Abhishek Kumar Gupta   QUALCOMM
55 Vulnerability Discovery And Liveness Detection For Improving The Security In Biometric Authentication Systems Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan   C3IHUB
56 Artificial Intelligence-Based Cost Optimization In Indian Railways Minimizing Overall Carbon Emission Gururaj Mirle Vishwanath Suvendu Samanta, Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan RAIL INDIA TECHNICAL & ECONOMIC SERVICES LTD.,
57 Rf Transceiver Soc With Dsp For 27mhz - 1.05ghz Imon Mondal Ashwin Kumar R S, Chithra MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
58 Technical Support In Implementation Of Scada/Admss/Gis In The Area Of Kesco,Kanpur Ankush Sharma VINAY KUMAR TIWARI KESCO, KANPUR
59 Technical Vetting Of Various Electrical Estimates Abheejeet Mohapatra   UP STATE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
60 Indeginization Of Ballistic Computer (1v528) Of T-90 Tanks YATINDRA NATH SINGH   OPTO ELECTRONICS FACTORY
61 Providing Technical Services For Implementation Of Water Supply Scada Project Of Kanpur Smart City Limited Ankush Sharma SAIKAT CHAKRABARTI, Shiv Kumar Singh KANPUR SMART CITY LIMITED
62 Neuromorphic Accelerators And Neurooptimizers Based On Hybrid Cmos-Rram Circuits Shubham Sahay   SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH CORPORATION, USA
63 Design Improvement & Lab Testing Of 2-In-1 Inverter Board PARTHASARATHI SENSARMA   LOHIA CORP. LTD.
64 Tpqa Nagar Nigam Shahjanpur KETAN RAJAWAT   NAGAR NIGAM SHAHJAHANPUR
65 Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space (Otfs) Modulation For Joint Radar And Communication (Radcom)
In Mmwave Massive Mimo Systems
ADITYA K. JAGANNATHAM   QUALCOMM
66 Irst Software Algorithms Development With Iit Kanpur As Per Specifications /Scope Of Work K S VENKATESH   HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD
67 Gan Model For Rf Power Amplifier YOGESH SINGH CHAUHAN   WAVETEK MICROELECTRONICS
68 New Gen Photo Voltaic Inverter For Indian Market Gururaj Mirle Vishwanath Suvendu Samanta TMEIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
69 Design Of Microwave Imaging Systems For Dielectric Bodies Md. JALEEL AKHTAR   TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
70 New Gen Uninterruptible Power Supply (Ups) For Indian Market Suvendu Samanta Gururaj Mirle Vishwanath TMEIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
71 Architectural Exploration Of Back End Of Line (Beol) Memories And Applications Shubham Sahay   VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
72 Generative Ai For Fonts And Typography Vipul Arora   MONOTYPE SOLUTIONS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Control and Automation Publications


Power Engineering Publications


RF and Microwaves Publications


Optoelectronics and Optical Communication Publications


Microelectronics and VLSI - Publications


Signal Processing, Communications & Networks Publications