Uday Babulal Desai

Biography

Uday B Desai received his BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, (1974), MS degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo (1976), and PhD degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (1979), all in Electrical Engineering. From 1979 to 1984 he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Washington State University, Pullman and an Associate Professor there (1984-87). Since 1987 he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT- Bombay. He was Dean of Students at IIT-Bombay (2000-02) and has held Visiting positions at Arizona State University; Purdue University; Stanford University; and EPFL, Lausanne. He was also the Director of HP-IITM R& D Lab at IIT-Madras (2002-04).

Research Interest

Wireless communication, Wireless sensor networks, Signal Processing, Image and Video Processing, Information and Communication Technology for Socioeconomic development