P.venkataram

Biography

He is currently a Professor of Electrical Communication Engineering with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where he is involved in Wireless Access Research and Protocol Engineering. He has more than 35 years of academic experience. He started a technical unit called Protocol Engineering and Technology Unit (PET Unit) for Internet protocol design and testing. Currently, he is the Chief Program Executive of the unit.  Previously he was with Hindustan Aeronautical Limited, Bangalore, India, as a Deputy Manager ( Computers) from 1980 to 1982, where he worked mainly on systems design for financial and material management systems. He was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA and at the University of Montreal, Canada, in 1992.In 1995, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Enschede, The Netherlands. He was a Visiting Professor at NORTEL (Northern Telecom), Canada in 1998 and at SK University, Anantapur, India, in 1997. He was a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, during 2004 - 2006 (Visiting one month/year), under Indo-UK research collaboration program. He serves on several advisory committees and frequently consults to Government and Industry.  He was the convener for the National Symposium on Engineering Education (NSEE-2005) and Program Chair and Technical Chair for several International/National Conferences/Workshops/Symposia.  He has written a book on Communication Protocol Engineering, Prentice-Hall of India (PHI), New Delhi, 2004 (Co-author: Sunil Manvi). One of his book Design Aspects of Multimedia Information Systems will go into publication in a short duration with PHI. He has edited a book, entitled: Wireless Communications for Next Millennium, McGraw-Hill, 1998, written chapters for two different books, and a guest editor to the IISc Journal for a special issue on Multimedia Wireless Networks. Apart from the books he has published over 150 papers in International/National Journals/Conferences/Symposia. The complete list of publications can be found here.     He is currently a Professor of Electrical Communication Engineering with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where he is involved in Wireless Access Research and Protocol Engineering. He has more than 35 years of academic experience. He started a technical unit called Protocol Engineering and Technology Unit (PET Unit) for Internet protocol design and testing. Currently, he is the Chief Program Executive of the unit.  Previously he was with Hindustan Aeronautical Limited, Bangalore, India, as a Deputy Manager ( Computers) from 1980 to 1982, where he worked mainly on systems design for financial and material management systems. He was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA and at the University of Montreal, Canada, in 1992.In 1995, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Enschede, The Netherlands. He was a Visiting Professor at NORTEL (Northern Telecom), Canada in 1998 and at SK University, Anantapur, India, in 1997. He was a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, during 2004 - 2006 (Visiting one month/year), under Indo-UK research collaboration program. He serves on several advisory committees and frequently consults to Government and Industry.  He was the convener for the National Symposium on Engineering Education (NSEE-2005) and Program Chair and Technical Chair for several International/National Conferences/Workshops/Symposia.  He has written a book on Communication Protocol Engineering, Prentice-Hall of India (PHI), New Delhi, 2004 (Co-author: Sunil Manvi). One of his book Design Aspects of Multimedia Information Systems will go into publication in a short duration with PHI. He has edited a book, entitled: Wireless Communications for Next Millennium, McGraw-Hill, 1998, written chapters for two different books, and a guest editor to the IISc Journal for a special issue on Multimedia Wireless Networks. Apart from the books he has published over 150 papers in International/National Journals/Conferences/Symposia. The complete list of publications can be found here.    

Research Interest

Communication Protocols, Wireless Communication Systems Protocol Engineering Wireless Networks Network Management Computational Intelligence applications in Communication Multimedia systems