Keynote Speakers

Debatosh Guha

Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics
University of Calcutta
Title of the Talk: Enjoying Scientific Challenges in Engineering Research

Engineering research is fundamentally driven by application, development, or innovative improvement. However, a lack of precise scientific knowledge can often create bottlenecks! This talk will highlight compelling personal experiences that illustrate how consistent efforts can unveil fundamental scientific truths and lead to effective engineering solutions.

Debatosh Guha is a Professor in Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta. He is now INAE Chair Professor at same Institute and former HAL Chair Professor at IIT Khargapur. He is a Fellow of IEEE and also a fellow of all four Indian National Academies for Sciences and Engineering; recipient of Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship, Govt. of India (2020-2025) and also the prestigious J. C. Bose Grant, Govt. of India in 2025. He served IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society as a Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Editor of its Transactions and Journals, and at present, as the Chair of the MGA Standing Committee.

Ram Bilas Pachori

Institute Chair Professor (HAG)
Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Indore
Title of the Talk: Multichannel Brain Signal Processing and Applications

Adaptive signal decomposition techniques have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing non-stationary and non-linear signals. This keynote will discuss the motivation behind adaptive decomposition methods such as EMD, EWT, IF, and VMD over conventional fixed-basis techniques. With advances in sensor technology enabling simultaneous acquisition of multichannel signals, the focus shifts to multivariate signal decomposition. The talk will present extensions of iterative filtering (IF) for multichannel processing and demonstrate frameworks combining multivariate IF (MIF) and machine learning for applications in brain–computer interface (BCI) and schizophrenia detection using EEG signals. Benchmark results highlight the effectiveness of the proposed methods compared to existing techniques.

Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori received his B.E. from RGPV Bhopal and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. He is currently Institute Chair Professor (HAG) at IIT Indore and has previously served as Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor at IIT Indore, along with international research and visiting positions across France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Malta, and Malaysia. His research interests span signal and image processing, biomedical and brain signal processing, BCI, machine learning, AI, and IoT in healthcare.

Prof. Pachori has supervised 27 Ph.D. scholars, delivered 350+ invited talks, authored the textbook “Time-Frequency Analysis Techniques and their Applications” (CRC Press, 2023), and published 390+ research works with 20,500+ citations and an h-index of 79. He holds 11 patents and serves on editorial boards of leading IEEE and international journals.

Shanthi Pavan

NT Alexander Institute Chair Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Madras
Title of the Talk: Continuous-Time Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters – Where Filtering Meets Analog-to-Digital Conversion

If someone told you that the power, noise, distortion, and area of an integrated  mixed-signal block could be reduced simultaneously, you’d probably think this was a lie. It turns out that it is indeed possible sometimes – and this talk will present an example called the continuous-time pipeline (CTP) ADC. The CTP is an emerging technique that combines filtering with analog-to-digital conversion. After discussing the operating principles behind the CTP, we describe the fundamental benefits of the CTP over a conventional signal chain that incorporates an anti-alias filter and a Nyquist-rate converter. We will then show design details and measurement results from a 12-bit ENOB, 100MHz 800MS/s CTP designed in a 65nm CMOS process.

Shanthi Pavan obtained the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engg from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995 and the M.S and Sc.D degrees from Columbia University, New York in 1997 and 1999 respectively. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Texas Instruments in Warren, New Jersey, where he worked on high speed analog filters and data converters. From 2000 to June 2002, he worked on microwave ICs for data communication at Bigbear Networks in Sunnyvale, California. Since July 2002, he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of high speed analog circuit design and signal processing.

Dr.Pavan is the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences (2012), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2009), the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (2010, from the Government of India) , the Young Faculty Recognition Award from IIT Madras (2009, for excellence in teaching) , the Technomentor Award from the India Semiconductor Association (2010) and the Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2006). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I – Regular Papers (2014-2015), and earlier served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II – Express Briefs (2006-2007). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, and on the technical program committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Sandeep Kumar Shukla

professor in the Cyber Security Center
IIIT Hyderabad
Title of the Talk: To be announced

To be annouced

Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently a professor in the Cyber Security Center (IIITH). Prof. Shukla headed the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur between 2017 and 2020 and served as the Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor from 2016 to 2019. He also acted as a joint coordinator of the National Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security & Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures (C3i Center) at IIT Kanpur which he also founded and as a joint coordinator of the National Blockchain Project funded by the National Security Council Secretariat. He served as a project director of the C3i Hub—a Technology Innovation Hub on Cyber Security created by the DST, Government of India until March 2025.  In August 2025, he  moved from  IIT Kanpur to IIIT Hyderabad.  He worked at GTE Labs as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, as Senior Staff Design Engineer at Intel Corporation, as research faculty at the University of California, Irvine, and as a Professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. His major research areas are cybersecurity, cyber-resilient system design, risk assessment, critical infrastructure security, and blockchain technology. Prof. Shukla had published over 300 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, authored 12 books, and served as editor for several noted journals and technical publications.