Emergent Converging Technologies and Biomedical Systems

Shruti Jain is Associate Dean (Innovation) and Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, H.P, India. She has received her Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering. She has teaching experience at around 18 years. She has filed eight patents, of which two have been granted and six are published. She has published more than 25 book chapters and 130 research papers in reputed indexed journals and at international conferences. She has also published 14 books. She has completed two government-sponsored projects. She has guided 07 Ph.D. students and now has 04 registered students. She has also guided 11 M.Tech. scholars and more than 100 B.Tech. undergrads. She has organized 11 conferences of IEEE and Springer as Conference General Chair. Her research interests are Image and Signal Processing, Soft Computing, Internet of Things, Pattern Recognition, Bio-inspired Computing, and Computer-Aided Design of FPGA and VLSI circuits. She is Senior Member of IEEE, Executive Member of the IEEE Delhi Section, Life Member, Executive Member of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India, and Member of IAENG. She is Member of the Editorial Board of many reputed journals. She is also Reviewer of many journals and Member of TPC of different conferences. She was awarded by Nation Builder Award in 2018-19 and enlisted in 2% of scientists of world rankings of 2021 published by Elsevier, data compiled by Stanford University.

Nikhil Marriwala (B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. in Engineering & Technology) is working as Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He did his Ph.D. at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. More than 33 studentshave completed their M.Tech. dissertation under his guidance. He has published more than 05 book chapters in different international books, has authored more than 10 books with Pearson, Wiley, etc., and has more than 40 publications to his credit in reputed international journals (SCI, SCIE, ESCI, and Scopus) and 20 papers in international/national conferences. He has been granted 08 patents with 02 Indian patents and 06 international patents. He has been Chairman of Special Sessions at more than 22 international/national conferences and has delivered a keynote address at more than 7 international conferences. He has also acted as organizing secretary for more than 05 international conferences and 01 national conference. He has delivered more than 70 invited talks/guest lectures in leading universities/colleges PAN India. He is having an additional charge of Training and Placement Officer at UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, for more than 11 years now. He is Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and Head of the local chapter of SWAYAM NPTEL Local Chapter of UIET, KUK. He is SPOC for the Infosys campus connect program for UIET, KUK. He is Editor of more than 06 book proceedings with Springer and Guest Editor for a Special Session in the Journal Measurement and Sensors, Elsevier. He has been awarded as the NPTEL ENTHUSIASTS for the year 2019-2020 by NPTEL IIT, Madras. He has also been awarded the "Career Guru of the Month" award by Aspiring Minds. His areas of interest are Software Defined Radios, Cognitive Radios, Soft Computing, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Fuzzy system design, and Advanced Microprocessors

Prof. Pushpendra P. Singh is an experimental physicist with a passion for cyber-physical system instrumentation and quantum sensing devices. His research focuses on nuclear reactions and instrumentation for rare-decay studies, quantum sensing devices/imagers, and the deployment of cyber-physical systems. He is the principal investigator and project director of the iHub-AWaDH (Agriculture & Water Technology Development Hub), a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) established by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, at IIT Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). In the profession of scientific research, He received Prof. C. V. K. Baba Award for my Ph.D. thesis in the year 2008 from the Indian Physics Association (IPA). He was awarded an INFN international fellowship at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy, in 2009. After a term at Legnaro in 2011, He joined the GSI - Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, as a visiting scientist, where He has been associated with the Lund-York-Cologne-Calorimeter (LYCCA) and the Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) as a technical coordinator for multi-branch signal processing through digital electronics. He joined the Department of Physics at IIT Ropar in 2013. Presently, He is a member of NuSTAR collaboration for the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt in Germany and collaborates with the scientists from JINR Dubna (Russia), TU Darmstadt (Germany), ANL (USA), LASTI (University of Hyogo, Japan), and Aksaray University (Turkey).

C. C. Tripathi completed his Ph.D. in electronics from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Since 2016, he is working as Director of the University Institute of Engineering Technology (an autonomous institute), Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. His research areas are microelectronics, RF MEMS for communication, and industrial consultancy. He has filed 1 patent and published over 80 papers in journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Tripathi is Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He has been working extensively on graphene-based flexible electronic devices, sensors, etc. Presently, he is working as Director, NITTTR, Bhopal.

Dinesh K. Kumar, B.Tech. from IIT Madras and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi is Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 480 papers, authored 8 books, and is on a range of Australian and international committees for Biomedical Engineering. His passion is for affordable diagnostics and making a difference for his students. His work has been cited over 7700 times, and he has also had multiple successes with technology translation. He is Member of the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA), Ministry of Health (Australia) for medical devices. He is also on the editorial board for IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering and Biomedical Signals and Controls. He has been Chair of a large number of conferences and has given over 50 keynote speeches.