Surendra Prasad Explained

Surendra Prasad
Birth Date:1948 7, df=yes
Birth Place:India
Nationality:Indian
Known For:Studies on Signal processing

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]

Biography

Surendra Prasad, born on 10 July 1948, did his graduate studies in electronics and electrical communication engineering and after passing BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1969, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from where he completed MTech in 1971.[9] Subsequently, he joined IIT Delhi the same year as a member of faculty and simultaneously enrolled for his doctoral studies there to secure a PhD in 1974. In 1976, he took a sabbatical to work at Loughborough University of Technology as a visiting research fellow and returning to India in 1977, he resumed his career at IIT Delhi where he served till his superannuation as the director, a post he held from 2006 to 2011.[10] In between, he had a second stint abroad at Pennsylvania State University as a visiting faculty during 1985-86. At IIT Delhi, he served in various positions as a professor, coordinator of the Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management (BSTTM), dean of undergraduate studies and deputy director.[11] Post-retirement, he is an Usha Chair Professor at IIT Delhi and an emeritus professor at BSTTM. He also serves as the chair of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), an autonomous agency of the All India Council of Technical Education.[12]

Prasad's wife is also an academic at University of Delhi and the family lives in Gurgaon, a city in the 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, Communication Theory and Speech Processing and he is known to have contributed to the development of new techniques, algorithms and hardware.[15] He is reported to have done notable work on optimum signals and receivers, array pattern synthesis, optimum MTI filters, time delay estimation and underwater data communication, deconvolution of seismic signals and silicon compilation; the last one having applications in the designing of very large scale integrated circuits. Later, he worked on broadband communications, specifically on Very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) and Wireless communications.[16] His researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; 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). 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 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1988.[21] Six years later, he was selected for the 1994 Om Prakash Bhasin Award[22] and the VASVIK Industrial Research Award reached him in 2006.[23] The year 2007 brought him two awards; Systems Society of India awarded him the Rajkumar Varshney Award for lifetime achievement in systems theory[24] and his alma mater, Indian Institute of Kharagpur chose him for the Distinguished Alumnus Award.[25] Besides, he became a graduand of Loughborough University when he received the degree of Doctor of Technology (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. 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. 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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute Professors (Honorary) . 2017 . Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi .
  2. Web site: Emeritus professor . 2017 . Bharti School Of Telecommunication Technology And Management.
  3. Web site: Brief Profile of the Awardee . 2016 . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 12 November 2016.
  4. Web site: Fellow profile . 2016 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  5. Web site: Indian fellow . 2016 . Indian National Science Academy.
  6. Web site: NASI fellows . 2016 . National Academy of Sciences, India . 20 January 2017 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044529/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=P . dead .
  7. Web site: INAE fellows . https://web.archive.org/web/20150403030936/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ . dead . 2015-04-03 . 2016 . Indian National Academy of Engineers .
  8. Web site: View Bhatnagar Awardees . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2016 . 12 November 2016.
  9. Web site: Faculty profile . 2017 . IIT Delhi.
  10. Web site: Brief Biography : Professor Surendra Prasad . 2017 . National Board of Accreditation . 20 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161123053229/http://www.nbaind.org/files/Brief_Biography_Chairperson.pdf . 23 November 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  11. Web site: Academic Advisory Council . 2017 . IIT Kharagpur.
  12. Web site: Administrative Structure . 2017 . National Board of Accreditation . 20 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235752/http://www.nbaind.org/En/1007-administrative-structure.aspx . 1 February 2017 . dead . dmy-all .
  13. Web site: 27-year-old son of IIT-Delhi professor commits suicide . 7 January 2015 . Times of India.
  14. News: Son of former IIT professor jumps to death . 8 January 2015 . The Hindu. Kumar . Ashok .
  15. Web site: Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . 1999.
  16. Web site: Prasad on SERB . 2017 . Science and Engineering Research Board.
  17. Web site: Browse by Fellow . 2016 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  18. Web site: Video Lectures on "Communication Engineering " by Prof. Surendra Prasad . 2017 . Satish Kashyap.
  19. Surendra Prasad . Guest Editorial . IETE Journal of Research . June 2015 . 35 . 1989 . 37–39 . 10.1080/03772063.1989.11436790.
  20. Web site: ICT Business Awards . 2017 . Dataquest.
  21. Web site: Engineering Sciences . 2016 . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211647/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Engineering_SCIENCES.htm . 2015-09-23 .
  22. Web site: OPB Award . Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation . 2017.
  23. Web site: Vasvik Award . 2017 . Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra . 20 January 2017 . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220114192056/http://www.vasvik.org/Information_%26_Communication_Technology.html . dead .
  24. Web site: Rajkumar Varshney Award . 2017 . Systems Society of India.
  25. Web site: IITKgp Distinguished Alumnus Awardees . 2017 . IIT Kharagpur.
  26. Web site: Honorary Graduands and University Medallists 2007 . 2017 . Loughborough University . 20 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000701/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/graduation/hongrads/2007/index.htm . 2 February 2017 . dead . dmy-all .
  27. Web site: Honorary Degree Orations . 2017 . Loughborough University.
  28. Web site: INSA Year Book 2016 . 2016 . Indian National Science Academy.
  29. Web site: NASI Year Book 2015 . 2016 . National Academy of Sciences, India . 20 January 2017 . 6 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf . dead .
  30. Web site: K. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture . 2017 . Indian National Science Academy . 20 January 2017 . 16 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160916233840/http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#ksml . dead .

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