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Prof. Sainath Bitragunta

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Room No 2210-A, Faculty Division-II,
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Research guidance/Best paper Awards

 

  • Ph.D. student (part-time): Tarun Jain (Status: Ongoing)
  • Ph.D. student (full-time): Rahul Sharma (Status: Completed), Akhil Misra (Status: Ongoing)
  • Post-graduate students (2022-23): Rohith Goyal, Rohit T Ravikumar, Arnav S Pawar, Piyush Jain
    • Undergraduate students:  Vinay Pai, Rushabha Balaji, and Vinay K (Status: completed); 
    • Several of my undergraduate and postgraduate students are majorly working on various academic projects related to the following diverse fields:

          i). Advanced communication technologies, ii). IoT-enabled health, iii). Applied AI/DL/ML, iv). Signal processing, v). 5G/B5G/6G Wireless networks. vi). Quantum computation and communication vii). Sports engineering

Former Students (Undergraduate): 
 

Student Name

Project/Thesis topic

Apoorva

Hybrid FSO/RF satellite link design

Nishant Gupta

Energy efficient satellite link design and analysis

Vidit Jha

Energy efficient, power-adaptive, cooperative relay communication system

Gokul Srinivasan

Cooperative green communications

Ardra Ayyapath

Secure Index coding (off-campus @ IISc)

Deepak Vasudevan

Cooperative wireless system with SWIPT

Sumukh Nitundil

Hybrid FSO/RF satellite link design

Manas Gupta

Telemetry subsystems of nanosatellites (Thesis)

Nithin Rahav

Cooperative VLC with adaptive power sharing (Project)

Hybrid FSO/RF system design and implementation on FPGS (Thesis)

Umang Garg

Cooperative VLC with adaptive power sharing

Ujjwal Panda

Slow pulsars search using  fast folding algorithms (off-campus thesis)

Vaibhav Miglani

Game theory application to cooperative and cognitive IoT lattice

Saylee Kanadje

Game theory application to cooperative and cognitive IoT lattice

Kaivalya Dabhadkar

Millimeter wave communication systems over fading channels

Adeesh Bhargava

Millimeter wave communication systems over fading channels

Aparna Murali

Energy harvesting cooperative relay-aided wireless system

Anubhav Sachan

Spectrally efficient, adaptive underlay cognitive radio system

Rakshith S

Spectrally efficient, adaptive underlay cognitive radio system

Rutwik Jain

Cooperative satellite systems

Shubham Sharma

OFDM systems performance investigation with pilots-based channel estimation (Thesis)

Bindu Priya K

Hybrid, energy harvesting cooperative wireless system (project)

Random access in energy harvesting cellular IoT (Thesis)

Praphul Samavedam

Hybrid, energy harvesting cooperative wireless system

Akhil Jaini

RF interference mitigation in radio astronomy (Project)

Sai Gowtam Chandrahasa

RF interference mitigation in radio astronomy

Aakriti Agarawal

Acoustic noise cancellation using ANN and Adaptive filters

Rohit Kumar A

Acoustic noise cancellation using ANN and Adaptive filters (project)

Applied machine learning for biomedical imaging (Thesis)

Sarthak Jain

Optimizing modulation order for distortion minimization in green networks

Sayan Rudra Pal

Optimizing modulation order for distortion minimization in green networks

Siddharth Iyer

Interactive coding (off-campus thesis)

Jagadeesh  K

Energy harvesting relay outage in cooperative systems

Santosh A

Energy harvesting relay outage in cooperative systems

Shikhar Buddi

PHY layer security in IoT (Thesis)

Srabasti Nandi

Energy harvesting system design for mobile health applications (Thesis)

Satwik Prabhu

Sleep period optimization for green mobile radio terminals (Project)

Rate distortion for autoregressive sources (off-campus thesis)

Naman Gupta

Sleep period optimization for green mobile radio terminals (Project)

Game theory for wireless networks and IoT (campus thesis)

Garv Sharma

Optical and RF satellite link budget and performance

Prachi Sharma

Optical and RF satellite link budget and performance

Aditya S Diwakar

VSAT delay analysis and simulation

Govind Mantri

Energy harvesting  Internet-of-Things (IoT)

Sarthak Garg

Green UWB radar design

Sanjana Patil

Green UWB radar design

Harsh Misra

Energy harvesting  Internet-of-Things (IoT)

Aishwarya N

Cooperative and cognitive satellite systems

Naga Chaitanya K

Underwater UWB communications

Rohit Sai J

Software defined GPS

Bhuwan Mohan

Software defined GPS

 
Former Students (Post-graduate/M.E): 
 

Student Name

Research topic

Avik Mukhopadhyay

Quantum satellite and terrestrial communications

Gaurav Punjabi

Backscatter communications

Manoj Joshi

Backscatter communications

Tuuba Shabnam M

Millimeter wave cooperative communication

Kartik Shrivastava

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cooperative communication

K. Swaminathan

Hybrid FSO/mmWave/RF communications

Ashish Saini

Hybrid FSO/mmWave/RF communications

Dhruv Saith

Underlay cooperative cognitive radio with SWIPT

Mohit Bohra

Underlay cooperative cognitive with SWIPT

Swapnil Nema

Cooperative visible light communication (VLC system

Satyam Sharma

Cooperative visible light communication system

Dileep Dattaraj Raut M

Millimeter wave communication system

Nitesh Chandra

Millimeter wave communication system

Aniruddha Paturkar

Underlay/interweave cognitive radio

Vibhuti Goel

Underlay/interweave cognitive radio

Shilpi Varshney

Millimeter wave cellular network: random access

Shreya Tyagi

Millimeter wave cellular network: random access

Rahul Shrotey

Full duplex cooperative relay system

Gaurav Sharma

Full duplex cooperative relay system

Shivam Goel

Energy harvesting D2D communication

Prakash Dwivedi

Energy harvesting D2D communication

Ramesh G Venkata

Cooperative UWB communication

Ayushi Jain

Cooperative UWB communication

Adesh Gupta

Device-to-device  (D2D) communication

Jeevan Kumar

Device-to-device  (D2D) communication

Rahul Gupta

Cooperative and underlay cognitive D2D communication

Pratik Devikar

Cooperative and underlay cognitive D2D communication

 

 

Best Paper/Poster Awards: 

Congratulations to: Taha Raja & Raj Bhattacherjee

 

Congratulations to: Akhil Misra

 

Congratulations toKaivalya Dabhankar & Adeesh Bhargava

 


 

Congratulations to:  Mohit Bohra & Dhruv Saith

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Congratulations to:  Sarthak Jain & Sayan Rudra Pal

 
 
 

Congratulations to:  Shilpi Varshney & Shreya Tyagi

 
 
 

 

Research guidance for Ph.D. aspirants (Full-time/Part-time): 

 

Gate/NET qualified, well-motivated, and hard-working individuals are encouraged to apply through proper channel. I accept research students based on his/her interview's performance and department rules and regulations.

 

Background (essential): Probability and random processes, communication systems, signal processing, network fundamentals.

 

Skills: Programming in MATLAB (essential), C/C++, Python, plus technical writing (desirable)

 
 

Key research areas: 

Terrestrial/satellite communication systems (fifth generation systems and beyond), 

Efficient signal processing for communication (e.g., deep learning/machine learning), 

Cognitive and cooperative Internet-of-Things (IoT), 

Hybrid communication systems and networks.

 
Guidance for SOP/DOP/LOP/SP (undergraduate): 
Interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary
Topic-1: EEE/E & I plus M.Sc. (Chemistry/Biology)
 
Interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary
Topic-2: EEE/E & I plus M.Sc. (Mathematics/Economics) 
 
 Well-motivated and hard-working EEE/E&I undergrads (non-dualites) are also encouraged to apply.