Leadership

Rajesh Sundaresan is Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering and an associate faculty in the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems. He received the BTech degree in Electronics and Communication from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1994 and his MA and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He then worked at Qualcomm Inc. on the design and development of wireless modems. He joined IISc in 2005. He has held visiting positions at Qualcomm Inc., the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Toulouse Mathematical Institute, Strand Life Sciences, and the Indian Statistical Institute’s Bengaluru Centre.

His research interests include decision theory, communication, computation, and control over networks, cyber-social systems, and, more recently, data-driven decision frameworks for public health responses.

Vinod Ganapathy is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation. He received the BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2001 and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2007. Prior to joining IISc, he was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University from 2007 to 2017.

The primary focus of  his research is computer security. At IISc, he directs the Computer Systems Security Laboratory, where they seek to build practical computer systems with sound security guarantees. His research projects have considered security issues in a broad spectrum of computer systems, from cloud platforms through web browsers to mobile devices. These projects usually draw on ideas and methods developed in a variety of areas, such as applied cryptography, program analysis, formal methods, machine intelligence, and hardware architecture.

Neelesh B Mehta is Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering. He received the BTech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the  Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1996 and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1997 and 2001, respectively. After his PhD, he worked in USA at AT&T Labs, Broadcom Corp., and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs until 2007, when he joined IISc.

His research focuses on wireless communications. He has worked on 3G/4G/5G cellular communication standards, energy harvesting and green wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, cooperative communications, multi-antenna technologies, and multiple access protocols.

L Umanand is Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering. He received the BE degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore University in 1987, MTech in Electronics Design and Technology from IISc in 1989, and PhD in High performance control of induction machine drives from IISc in 1996. He joined IISc in 1989.

He works in the broad area of electronic systems engineering with emphasis on power electronics, specifically power converters, electric vehicle drives, bond graph modelling, photovoltaic based systems, and renewable energy systems.