Editor

• Editor of four international Journals on Engineering & Technology
• Chief Editor of NITTE Research journal and MSR Research journal

Chairman/ Member Secretary / Member of Authorities / Committees

Member, All India Board for Town planning and Nation Building (AICTE / MHRD)

• Member of AICTE Nomenclature committee to standardize the nomenclatures of the degrees being awarded.
• Member of UGC committee to grant Autonomy to colleges.
• Member MHRD committee to assess the effective implementation of TEQIP and utilization of funds – Rajasthan and Best Bengal.
• Member of Academic Senate of VTU, Belgaum
• Member of VTU Academic Autonomy Guidelines Committee. Responsible to form the guidelines for academic autonomy, including eligibility criterions, which are followed in all Autonomous colleges of VTU.
• Member of the Standing committee of VTU to grant Academic autonomy to deserving institutions.
•  Member of Research council and member of Doctoral committee of VTU
• Member of Staff training committee of VTU; Responsible to establish VTU Academy for Staff Development at Mysore
• Member of VTU LIC Review committee, Board of Appointments and Committee to Review Autonomous colleges.
• Member Governing Council for 5 reputed Engineering Colleges like BMS, Bangalore,SDM, Dharwar, NMAMIT, Nitte, PDA Gulbarga and BNMIT, Bangalore
• Member Secretary of Governing Council for GEDC (Global Engineering Deans Council), USA and attended GEDC conference / meetings held at Argentina, Hungary and Singapore
• Chairman / Member VTU LIC committees – Inspected about 42 colleges
• Chairman of BOS & BOE of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka University, Dharwar, Mangalore University, Mysore
• Member, Board of Governors (BOG) and Board of Management (BOM) of REVA University
• Dean, Faculty of Engineering, REVA University
• Member, Academic Council, Research & Innovation cell and IQAC of REVA University
• Member, Pre-budget meeting, Higher Education, Govt. of Karnataka

Awards and Achievements

• IIT, Bombay Prestigious Alumni for the outstanding contribution in Engineering Education
• and Research.
• Distinguished Alumni – BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli for the
• remarkable contribution to quality of Technical Education.
• Awarded the most prestigious Bharatiya Vidya bhavan National award as the “Best
• Engineering college PRINCIPAL” for the year 2009 by ISTE, New Delhi
• “Engineering Excellence” award by Institution of Engineers, Mangalore Chapter, 2010
• “Excellence in Engineering Education”, Institution of Engineers, Bangalore Chapter, Engineer‟s Day 2011.
• Awarded National award as “Edupreneur – Engineering Education” for the year 2014 by
• Ed CIL, Govt. of India, New Delhi
• Awarded the Prestigious Honorary membership of “International Society for Hybrid
• Microelectronics (ISHM), USA for the outstanding contributory research work relevant to industries.
• Awarded the Prestigious Honorary membership of “International Material and Packaging
• Society(IMAPS), USA for the contributory research work done in the area of IC packaging.
• Life membership of IETE(LIETE), ISTE (LMISTE) and Institution of Engineers (FIE)
• Best project award – 1985, 88 and 91.
• Best paper award – 1996, 2001, 2012, 2014 and 2016
• III Rank to Karnataka University, Dharwar – 1984
• Awarded the “MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG INDIAN” award of Jaycee International, India
• Listed in Marquis Who is Who in the world
• Awarded “100 Most Influential Directors of the Country” by World Education Congress 2016
• Social Media Innovation award, by FMA Digital, 2017
• Awarded “Life time Achievement – 2018” by ASSOCHAM, 2018

Expertise/Subjects handled

Areas of Expertise

• Computer aided design
• Design for Multichip Modules
• Field programmable gate arrays
• FPGA architecture and Programming (CAD)
• DSP Architecture and Synthesis
• Embedded Processors and Programming
• Solid state drives and Control
• Industrial application of advanced Microprocessors
• Advanced Mathematics for Electrical Engineers
• Boundary Scan Testing and Introduction to IEEE standards
• Hardware modeling using VHDL and Verilog
• Physical Design Automation – tools
• Design of High-speed VLSI Systems
• Logic Design and Synthesis
• Low power design
• Advanced Micro controllers – Architecture and Programming
• Mobile communication – 3G
• Wavelet Transform techniques and applications
• Wireless networking – Bluetooth technology
• Total Quality management (TQM) for Technical Institutes
• ISO 9001:2000 : Quality Standards for Technical Educational Institutes

Subjects Taught :

• VLSI Design
• Embedded Systems
• Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
• Digital circuits
• Analog circuits
• Signal Processing
• DSP
• Mobile communication – 3G
• Wavelet Transform techniques and applications
• Wireless networking – Bluetooth technology

Research Interest

• Authored 75 technical papers which are published in National and International indexed conferences and Scopus / other refereed Journals
• Guided 7 Ph.Ds (Awarded) and presently guiding 5 Ph.D students
• Established VLSI Design R&D Centre of Excellence through the DST / TEQIP grants
• Established ISO standards to comply with Educational Institutions as service providers
• Designed QMS and obtained ISO certification to NMAMIT, Nitte, MSRIT, Bangalore & REVA University, Bangalore
• Qualified / Certified Lead Assessor from KEMA Netherlands.
• Established Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) & STEP activities –Entrepreneurship awareness camps (EACs), Create entrepreneurs, Incubation Centres and encourage Start-ups – Conducted 78 EACs and EDCs. Trained 2800 students on entrepreneurship and helped to establish 12 enterprises.
• Derived Industry based IC Design flows for both frontend and backend designs using CADENCE and SYNOPSYS VLSI Design Suites – Used as standard Design flow in the Industries.
• Designed several ICs meant for communication applications – Mobiles
• Obtained Funding through TEQIP – MHRD, World Bank project to NMAMIT – 16 Crores funding.
• The NMAMIT recognized as LEAD INSTITUTION of TEQIP funding – The only Private institution in the country to get this status along-with few IITs.
• Execution of the TEQIP project with highest ranking of 9.8/10 from World Bank.
• Obtained Funding under TEQIP Phase II of MHRD & World Bank for NMAMIT and MSRIT, Bangalore – 12.5 Crores. Effective implementation of all components of the project – Increase the enrolment to post graduate studies and enhance research level activities.
• Research funding from DST, AICTE, VGST, BRNS and DBT : 32 projects have received funding from these funding agencies to the tune of 7.8 Crores.

Academic Reforms

• Designed and Developed Contemporary curriculum derived from OUTCOME based educations system
• Designed & Implemented Choice based credit system and Continuous internal assessment with grading pattern of evaluation: This design has been adopted by VTU and all Autonomous Engineering Colleges in Karnataka.

Funding received

• DST Funded research project on “Characterization of CMOS high speed VLSI circuits” Principal Investigator, 28.0 L
• TEQIP funded research project on “Low power VLSI Circuits”, Principal Investigator, 20 L
• TEQIP funded research project on “High speed, high density VLSI Circuits”, Principal Investigator, 12 L
• TEQIP Phase 1 funding from MHRD and World Bank, Project officer, 16.0 Cr.
• TEQIP Phase –II, funding from MHRD and World Bank to elevate the level of postgraduation and research in technical institutes, Create Centres of Excellence, 12.5Cr.

Patents

• Patented the research work on “Design of layout structure of interconnects for high speed,high-density VLSI circuits”.

Authored 75 technical papers which are published in National and International indexed conferences and Scopus / other refereed Journals

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Visiting Faculty / Visits Abroad

• Visiting faculty of Penn State University, USA and University of Alabama, USA, Lakehead University, Canada
• Visited USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Hungary, Argentina, Singapore and all gulf countries on several technical assignments