DEPARTMENT OF E & TC Engineering

MENTOR

 

 Dr. Vikram M. Gadre

 

Research Interests

  • Communication and signal processing, with emphasis on multiresolution and multirate signal processing, especially wavelets and filter banks: theory and applications.

Work Experience

  • Professional Positions held: starting with current position, in reverse chronological order:
    • Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, from 28 March 2005.
    • Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay: 19 February 2001 to 27 March 2005.
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay: 27 July 1994 to 18 February 2001.
    • Member, Technical Staff at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune for 5 months from February 14, 1994 to July 22, 1994

Awards and Honours

  • President’s Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1989: for cumulative performance during B.Tech.
  • Adarsh Ratna Bhagat Award from National Service Scheme (1992),IIT Delhi.
  • Student Journal Award of the IETE: announced in IETE Annual Technical Convention 1994.
  • Based on some work done on speech morphing by a team of four students guided by the nominee using the facilities set up in the Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, the Third Prize was awarded to the team at the National Level in the Texas Instruments DSP Design Contest 1997.
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching from IIT Bombay in September 1999.
  • INAE Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) for the year 2001.
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching from IIT Bombay in September 2004.
  • 11th IETE Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award in recognition of distinguished contribution in the field of teaching electronics and telecommunication engineering during the past five years, in September 2004.
  • Sixth SVC Aiya Memorial Award for Telecom Education from IETE Pune Centre (2005).
  • Felicitation from Society for Cancer Research and Communication (SCRAC), India for the Doctoral Thesis work of Ph.D. student, Shri Ajay Deshmukh, supervised by Prof V M Gadre, done in collaboration with members of the society in the medical profession (14 January 2006).
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching from IIT Bombay in September 2009.
  • IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for the Year 2008 for the paper: Sudarshan Shinde and Vikram M. Gadre, “An Uncertainty Principle for real signals in the fractional Fourier Transform domain”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 2001.
  • S.S.I. Varshney Award 2011 from the Systems Society of India (S.S.I), conferred at the Inaugural Function of XXXV National Systems Conference 2011 (NSC 2011) at IIT Bhubaneshwar on December 9, 2011.
  • Ashish Vanmali, Ph.D. Student of Vikram M Gadre, authored an award winning paper in the 14th ERSI India User Conference from 10-12 December, 2013 at New Delhi, India, together with Saket Porwal (M. Tech. Student, EE, IIT Bombay), Anshuman Gupta, Laveesh Bhandari, Vikram M. Gadre on the subject of fractal dimension based analysis of urban data. This paper was adjudged the best student paper in the conference and recognized with a citation and trophy.
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching from IIT Bombay in September 2014.