Engineering Vibration, Communication and Information Processing: ICoEVCI 2018, India

Dr. Kanad Ray is a Professor and Head of Physics at the Amity School of Applied Sciences Physics Amity University Rajasthan (AUR), Jaipur, India. He has obtained MSc & PhD degrees in Physics from Calcutta University & Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India. In an academic career spanning over 22 years, he has published and presented research papers in several national and international journals and conferences in India and abroad. He has authored a book on the Electromagnetic Field Theory. Prof. Ray’s current research areas of interest include cognition, communication, electromagnetic field theory, antenna & wave propagation, microwave, computational biology, and applied physics. He has served as Editor of Springer Book Series. Presently he is an Associated Editor of Journal of Integrative Neuroscience published by IOS Press, Netherlands. He has established an MOU between his University and University of Montreal, Canada for various joint research activities. He has also established collaboration with National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan for joint research activities and visits NIMS as a visiting Scientist. He organizes international conference series such as SoCTA, ICOEVCI as General Chair. He is an Executive Committee member of IEEE Rajsthan Chapter.

Dr. S.N. Sharan is responsible for academic & administrative monitoring of Department of Electrical and Electronics & Communication Engineering at Manipal University, Jaipur, India. In addition to these, he is also involved in teaching & research in the field of Electronics & Communication Engineering/Energy. His areas of expertise are Energy and Digital Communication. He has 2 books, 20 research papers and 15 conference papers published to his credit. Dr. Sharan has evaluated over 10 Ph.D. theses pertaining to the areas of Energy and Signal Processing.

Dr. Sanyog Rawat is presently associated with the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, SEEC, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India. He holds a BE in Electronics and Communication, an MTech in Microwave Engineering and PhD in Planar Antennas. Dr. Rawat has been involved in organizing various workshops on “LabVIEW” and antenna designs and simulations using FEKO. He has taught various subjects, including electrical science, circuits & system, communication system, microprocessor systems, microwave devices, antenna theory & design, advanced microwave engineering and digital circuits.

Dr. Sumit Srivastava is Professor and Head in the Department of Information Technology at Manipal University, Jaipur, India. He has expertise in the domain of Data Analytics and Image Processing. He is also a senior member of IEEE with more than 14 years of teaching experience. He has organized many national and international conference under IEEE & Springer banner in Rajasthan. He has also served as publication chair of two consecutive editions of IEEE International Conference on MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE). Prof. Srivastava has coordinated and mentored the Bilateral Exchange between the HEIG-VD University, Switzerland and Manipal University, Jaipur, India for two consecutive years. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed International Journals, Book series and IEEE/Springer/Elsevier conference proceedings.

Dr. S.K. Jain is the Head of the Department of Physics at Manipal University, Jaipur, India. His areas of interests are Condensed Matter Physics, Materials development and their characterization and Development of Magnetic Materials. Dr. Jain completed his Ph.D. (Condensed Matter Physics), M.Sc. and B.Sc. from University of Rajasthan, India. He has qualified NET, SLET and GATE examinations. Dr. Jain is the Executive Committee member of Indian Physics Association, Jaipur, India and Life member of Material Research Society of India. He is currently teaching subjects like Engineering Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology-II, Oscillation and Wave Optics and Classical Mechanics. Dr. Jain holds several publications to his credit.

Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He completed his PhD in Supramolecular Electronics at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was an independent researcher, as an ICYS research fellow at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS, Japan, where he worked on the brain-like bio-processor building. In 2008, he joined as a permanent scientist at NIMS, working on the cavity resonator model of human brain and design-synthesis of brain-like organic jelly. From 2013 to 2014 he was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He has received several honors, such as the Hitachi Science and Technology award 2010, Inamori Foundation award 2011–2012, Kurata Foundation Award, Inamori Foundation Fellow (2011–), and Sewa Society international member, Japan. He has patented ten inventions (i) a time crystal model for building an artificial human brain, (ii) geometric-musical language to operate a fractal tape to replace the Turing tape, (iii) fourth circuit element that is not memristor, (iii) cancer & alzheimers drug, (iv) nano-submarine as a working factory & nano-surgeon, (vi) fractal condensation based synthesis, (vii) a thermal noise harvesting chip, (viii) a new generation of molecular rotor, (ix) spontaneous self-programmable synthesis (programmable matter) (x) Fractal grid scanner for dielectric imaging. He has also designed and built multiple machines and technologies, (i) THz-magnetic nano-sensor (ii) a new class of fusion resonator antenna etc. Currently, he is building time crystal based artificial brain using three ways, (i) knots of darkness made of fourth circuit element, (ii) integrated circuit design, (iii) organic supramolecular structure.