Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe Ph.D., (Communication / Signal Processing) Leningrad University, USSR Currently working as Director, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Biography of Speaker

Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe got Ph.D. Degree in Communication / Signal Processing from Leningrad University, USSR

Positions Held:

Director, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar – Since March 2005.
CTO, Global Telesystems Ltd. - Dec. 2000 onwards till February 2005.
Officiating Director, I.I.T. Bombay: Sept ‘94 to Dec. ‘94; Jan 2000 to May 2000.
Deputy Director, I.I.T. Bombay since ‘94 - April 2000.
Head, Advanced Center for Research in Electronics , I.I.T. Bombay, since ‘91.
Head, Electrical Engineering Department, I.I.T. Bombay from 1980 to ‘83.

Field of Interest:

Communication
Signal and Image Processing
Microprocessor Application

Ph.D. Supervisions:

Over 12 thesis have been supervised so far in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering.

Professional:

Fellow, IEEE.
Fellow IETE
Visiting faculty: School of Engineering, University of Sydney for 3 months in 1982
Editor JIETE (Electronics)
Member, R&D Working Group on Industrial Applications, Dept. of IT
Member, Monitoring Committee, (NMITLI), CSIR, Govt. of India
Member, Governing Council, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, (VIIT), Pune
Member, Board of Management, Charotar Institute of Technology, Changa, Gujarat

Responsibilities during the last one year:

Member, Navy Recruitment Board
Member, Finance Committee, IIT Gandhinagar

Accreditation Experience:

Chairman of NBA Teams for Accreditation for several years.
Chairman of the Committee that prepared the new accreditation procedure for NBA in 2009.

Awards:

S. K. Mitra Memorial Award from IETE, 1981.
Gold Medal – The Metallurgy and Material Science Division, Institute of engineers (India), 1986-87.
Fourth IETE Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial award for outstanding contributions in motivating research work in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, September, 1998.
Best Teacher Award, IIT, Bombay 2002
Life Time Achievement Award, IIT, Bombay 2005.