PG Diploma in Advanced Communication Engineering with Quantum and AI Integration

Prof. Abhishek Dixit received his M.Tech. degree in Opto-electronics and Optical Communication from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Belgium, in 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi, a position he has held since 2022. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi from 2015 to 2022.

Before joining IIT Delhi, he worked as an Assistant Professor at IIT Mandi (July–December 2015) and as a Post-doctoral Researcher at Ghent University (December 2014 – June 2015). At IIT Delhi, Prof. Dixit teaches courses in Optical Communications, Signal Processing, Communications Engineering, and Networking. He has also delivered an NPTEL course on Principles of Digital Communications.

Prof. Dixit leads active research efforts in Optical Communications and Networking, and his recent work explores the integration of Machine Learning techniques to enhance both conventional and quantum communication systems. He has been involved in numerous national research projects and has undertaken multiple consulting assignments in the area of railway signalling.

He has published over 30 papers in leading international journals, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Magazine, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Access, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, among others.Additionally, he has presented over 50 papers at international conferences. Prof. Dixit is also credited with three successful technology transfers in the areas of Free-Space Optics (FSO), LiFi, and software stacks for smart meters.

Prof. Saif K. Mohammed is a distinguished academic in electrical engineering, currently a Professor at IIT Delhi. He holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Delhi (1998) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Communication Engineering from IISc Bangalore (2010). With experience in both academia and industry, he has worked at Philips Semiconductors, Ishoni Networks, and Texas Instruments before transitioning to academia at Linköping University, Sweden, and later IIT Delhi (2013).

His research focuses on communication theory, wireless communications, OTFS modulation, and large MIMO systems for 5G. He has 27 IEEE journal papers, one IET journal paper, four US patents, and five filed Indian patents. Recognized for his contributions, he received the NASI Scopus Young Scientist Award (2017), the Prof. Kishan Gupta and Pramila Gupta Chair (2019), and IIT Delhi's Teaching Excellence Award (2016-17). He is also a Fellow of IETE (2018).

Prof. Harshan Jagadeesh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is also the co-coordinator of the center of excellence on cybersecurity and information assurance at IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he worked as a Researcher in the CyberSecurity group at Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore.

Before that he worked as a Research Fellow in the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Australia. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India. His research interests are in the broad areas of security and privacy applied to wireless and storage networks.

Prof. Gourab Ghatak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi, where he is also affiliated with the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management. He received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Durgapur, his M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree with a thesis on multi-RAT 5G networks from Telecom ParisTech (ENST), France, in 2019.

During his Ph.D., he was employed at CEA-LETI, Grenoble, where he developed statistical tools to analyze and develop algorithms for initial access procedures, adaptive beamforming, user association, and traffic distribution in dual-band networks. Prior to that, he was a DAAD Research Scholar with the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, TU Dresden, Germany, from 2014 to 2015, where he worked on channel estimation schemes for GFDM. He is the co-inventor of six patents on 5G and the author of several journals and conference publications. His research interests include stochastic geometry and machine learning for wireless communications.

Prof. Neel Kanth Kundu is currently working as an Assistant Professor (since Oct. 2023) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE). He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in communication systems and networking from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in 2018, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering (ECE) with a concentration in scientific computation from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in 2022.

From Sept. 2022 to Jan. 2023, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the ECE department, HKUST and from Feb. 2023 to Oct. 2023 he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include signal processing for 6G wireless communications, quantum communications, sensing, and quantum information processing.

Prof. Kundu is a recipient of the DST INSPIRE Young Faculty Fellowship in 2023 awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Prof. Kundu was the recipient of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship and the Overseas Research Award at HKUST.

Prof. Vivek Venkataraman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Physics and is an associated faculty member at the Bharti School of Telecom Technology & Management. His research interests encompass quantum and nonlinear optics, light-matter interaction, atomic physics, fiber-optics and integrated photonics, all-optical devices and novel light sources, as well as optical signal processing and communication.

Prior to his tenure at IIT Delhi, Prof. Venkataraman served as a Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics within the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

At IIT Delhi, Prof. Venkataraman has guided numerous doctoral and master's students in advanced research topics. His doctoral students have explored areas such as quantum nonlinear optics in thermal Rubidium vapor, sources for free-space quantum communication, and space-time duality-based optical signal processing. His master's students have worked on projects including free-space correlated photons for quantum communication and temperature-tunable telecom photon-pairs via cascaded χ(2) processes in PPLN waveguides.

Prof. Venkataraman's commitment to advancing the field of optics and photonics is evident through his active participation in academic conferences and collaborations with fellow researchers. His contributions have significantly enriched the academic community at IIT Delhi and the broader scientific community.