Surendra Prasad

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Surendra Prasad
Born (1948-07-10) 10 July 1948 (age 75)
India
Nationality
Communications engineering
Institutions

Surendra Prasad (born 1948) is an Indian communications engineer, a former director and an Usha chair professor of the

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[1] He is also an emeritus professor of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology And Management, a joint venture of IIT Delhi[2] and is known for developing new techniques, algorithms and hardware in signal processing.[3] He is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences,[4] Indian National Science Academy[5] and the National Academy of Sciences, India.[6] as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering.[7] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1988.[8][note 1]

Biography

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Surendra Prasad, born on 10 July 1948, did his graduate studies in electronics and electrical communication engineering and after passing BTech from the

All India Council of Technical Education.[12]

Prasad's wife is also an academic at

National Capital Region of India.[13] One of the two sons of the couple died an unnatural death in 2015.[14]

Legacy

Prasad's early researches have been primarily in the fields of Signal Processing,

Wireless communications.[16] His researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;[note 2] the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 67 of them.[17] He is the author of a number of video courses on communications engineering[18] and has been associated with several government agencies including the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as a member of its governing body and society (CSIR Society).[5] He has edited three books and served as the guest editor of Journal of Research of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers for its June 2015 issue.[19] He was also on the jury panel for the ICT Business Awards for the year 2014.[20]

Awards and honors

Prasad received Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 1987

honoris causa) in July 2007.[26][27] He was elected as a fellow by the Indian National Science Academy in 1994[28] and the Indian Academy of Sciences followed suit in 1997.[4] He became an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2009.[29] He is also a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.[7] The award orations delivered by him include 2010 Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan Memorial Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy.[30]

Selected bibliography

Selected articles

Selected video lectures

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. ^ Please see Selected articles section

References

  1. ^ a b "Institute Professors (Honorary)". Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 2017.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b "Emeritus professor". Bharti School Of Telecommunication Technology And Management. 2017.
  3. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  6. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  7. ^ a b "INAE fellows". Indian National Academy of Engineers. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015.
  8. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Faculty profile". IIT Delhi. 2017.
  10. ^ "Brief Biography : Professor Surendra Prasad" (PDF). National Board of Accreditation. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Academic Advisory Council". IIT Kharagpur. 2017.
  12. ^ "Administrative Structure". National Board of Accreditation. 2017. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  13. ^ "27-year-old son of IIT-Delhi professor commits suicide". Times of India. 7 January 2015.
  14. ^ Kumar, Ashok (8 January 2015). "Son of former IIT professor jumps to death". The Hindu.
  15. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999.
  16. ^ "Prasad on SERB" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Board. 2017.
  17. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  18. ^ "Video Lectures on "Communication Engineering " by Prof. Surendra Prasad". Satish Kashyap. 2017.
  19. ^ .
  20. ^ "ICT Business Awards". Dataquest. 2017.
  21. ^ "Engineering Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
  22. ^ "OPB Award". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2017.
  23. ^ "Vasvik Award". Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra. 2017. Archived from the original on 14 January 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  24. ^ "Rajkumar Varshney Award". Systems Society of India. 2017.
  25. ^ "IITKgp Distinguished Alumnus Awardees". IIT Kharagpur. 2017.
  26. ^ "Honorary Graduands and University Medallists 2007". Loughborough University. 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  27. ^ "Honorary Degree Orations". Loughborough University. 2017.
  28. ^ "INSA Year Book 2016" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  29. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  30. ^ "K. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture". Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

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