Sainath Bitragunta received his Ph.D. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, in June 2015. He received his B.Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from SVUCE, Tirupati, in 2001. After a brief stint at Zuari Cements as a graduate engineer trainee, he joined and served as a faculty member in various academic institutions from October 2001 to November 2004. He received his M.Tech from NIT, Calicut, India, in 2007. He worked in Reliance Communications, Navi Mumbai, from June 2007 to December 2008. He published 20+ peer-reviewed journal articles in reputed IEEE journals like Transactions in Communications, Transactions in Wireless Communications, Communications Letters, Networking Letters, Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Systems Journal, IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, Open Journal of the Communications Society, Open Journal of the Computer Society. Other peer-reviewed journals include IET Communications, IET Quantum Communication, Physical Communications, Wireless Personal Communications, Journal of Instrumentation, and Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA). He also published 50+ papers in various reputed international and national conferences, out of which four IEEE conference papers won the best paper awards, and one paper won the best poster award in photonics for the renewable energy track. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a reviewer of various journals and international and national conferences. He has more than ten years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. His core research interests lie in classical and quantum green communication systems and network analysis, design, modeling, signal processing, and applied machine learning.
An Institute of Eminence
