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Department Newsletter
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Dr. K.V. Suresh, former student of Prof. A.N. Rajagopalan, has won the best PhD Thesis of the year Award for 2008 by Board for IT Education Standards (BITES, Bangalore), for his thesis entitled MRF-based Discontinuity Adaptive Robust Motion super-resolution.
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Dr. Ashoka Reddy, QIP Ph.D. Scholar of this department, has won the INAE Innovative Student Project Award, for his work on Novel Methods for Performance Enhancement of Pulse Oximeters under the guidance of Prof. V. Jagadeesh Kumar.
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Dr. Rajalakshmi and Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala have been
selected for the IETE-M N Saha Memorial Award. This award is
given for the best application oriented paper and was awarded for
their paper entitled Analytical Performance Computation for All
Optical Networks with Wavelength Conversion.
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Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala has received the 2009 Bernard Lown
'42 Humanitarian Award from the University of Maine. This award
recognises University of Maine graduates who distinguish themselves in
their service to humanity.
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Jaibir Sharma, student of Prof. Amitava DasGupta, has received the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2009) held in Singapore from 28 June - 3 July 2009. His paper was entitled "Fabrication of Reliable RF MEMS Switches in CPW Configuration" (Authors: Jaibir Sharma and Amitava DasGupta)
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Dr. Shanthi Pavan received the 2009 IEEE Darlington Best
Paper Award, which is given to the best paper bridging theory and
practice published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems :
Regular Papers, as well as the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems : Express Briefs in the preceding two calender years.
The award was given to the following paper :
Shanthi Pavan, "Power and Area Efficient Adaptive Equalization at
Microwave Frequencies", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I :
Regular Papers, July 2008.
It is the first time in the forty one year history of this award that it has
gone to work done in India.
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Prof. Krishna Vasudevan and his students published a paper in IET
Electric Power enttiled "Simple position sensorless starting method
for brushless DC motor". This paper was ranked No. 20 (in terms of
"most downloads requested") from the hundreds of papers that the
journal has published since its launch in 1980, receiving 249 full
text downloads last year.
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Research Scholar D. Sheela and Prof. Nandita DasGupta's paper
entitled 'Optimization of surface passivation for InGaAs/InP pin
photodetectors using ammonium sulfide' has been chosen to appear in
the 2008 SST annual highlights collection. Each year, a selection of
the most read papers and those mostly highly rated by the referees
are selected for this to showcase the best papers published in
Semiconductor Science and Technology (SST). This is the only Indian
paper in this year's collection. The paper was published in SST in
March 2008.
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A team of students from IIT Madras has won the Robocon National
Robotics Contest, held in Pune from March 6th to 8th. They came first in a field of 52 teams, and have won the opportunity to represent India
at the Asia-Pacific Robocon, to be held in Japan in August. Students from several departments, with a significant number from Electrical
Engineering, contributed to the victory.
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Renny Fernandez, PhD scholar got a best paper prize for his paper
Dynamic response of enzyme immobilized Cantilever beams to Urea by R.
E. Fernandez, E. Bhattacharya and A. Chadha presented at the
International Conference on MEMS, ICMEMS 2009, 3-5 January, IIT Madras.
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Dr. Geeta, T (recently graduated Ph.D. student of Dr. Jayashankar) won
the "Student Design Contest" in TENCON 2008 for the
paper entitled Generation dispatch with storage and renewables under
availability based tariff
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MK Ilampoornan (Ph.D. scholar in the department) was accorded 'most valuable
poster award' in the ISEIM (International Symposium on Electrical Insulating
Materials) 2008 held at Yokkaichi, japan from 7-11 Sept 2008,
for the paper titled, Evaluation of moisture content in power transformers
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The Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems group (SDCS)
of IIT Madras has been awarded the TechnoShield award for 2008-2009 by
the India Semiconductor Association. This award is given to the best
academic institutions in India for work in the semiconductor space. SDCS
group consists of all the faculty members working in the area of
microelectronics and VLSI Design in the departments of EE and CSE.
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