U. B. Desai

Uday B. Desai
Born India
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Fields Electrical engineering
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University, University at Buffalo, IIT Kanpur
Notable awards Fellow, Indian National Science Academy

Uday B. Desai is an Indian academician who was appointed as first Director, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in 2009. He also the Mentor Director for IIT Bhilai and IIIT Chittoor.

Biography

Uday B. Desai received the B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974, the M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1979, all in electrical engineering.[1]

Since June 2009 he is the Director of IIT Hyderabad. He is also the mentor director of IIT Bhilai and IIIT Sricity.

From 1979 to 1984 he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A., and an Associate Professor at the same place from 1984 to 1987. From 1987 to May 2009 he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay. He was Dean of Students at IIT-Bombay from Aug 2000 to July 2002. He has held Visiting Associate Professor's position at Arizona State University, Purdue University, and Stanford University. He was a visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002. From July 2002 to June 2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R and D Lab. at IIT-Madras.

His research interest is in wireless communication, cognitive radio, wireless sensor networks and statistical signal processing. He is also interested in multimedia, image and video processing, artificial neural networks, computer vision, and wavelet analysis. He is the Editor of the book "Modeling and Applications of Stochastic Processes" (Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, U.S.A. 1986) and co-editor of Second Asian Applied Computing Conference, Springer Verlag (2004). He is also a co-author of four books "A Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation", "Multifractal based Network Modeling", "Multihop Mobile Wireless Networks", and Video Shot Boundary Detection.

Dr. Desai is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and a Fellow of The Institution of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He is the recipient of J C Bose Fellowship. He is also the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT-Bombay for 2007. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing form Jan 1999 to Dec. 2001. He is on the board of Tata Communications Limited and also on the Technology Advisory Board of Microsoft Research Lab. India. He is on the Governing Council of IIIT Hyderabad and RGUKT. He is on the board of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur. He is one of the founding members of COMSNETS and also Society for Cancer Research and Communication. He was the Chair for IEEE Bombay Section 2006-2008. He was also on the Visitation Panel for University of Ghana.[2]

Interests

Awards, honors and memberships

References

  1. ↑ Electrical Dept, IIT Bombay (20 March 2009). "U. B. Desai". Ee.iitb.ac.in. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Uday B. Desai's Home Page". Iith.ac.in. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  3. ↑ The Year Book 2014 // Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
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