R. Venkatesha Prasad

Dr. RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad

Associate Professor, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow IETE
Networked Systems (
NS)
Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (
EWI)
Delft University of Technology (
TU Delft)
Address: Room 2E.100, Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6, 2628 XE, Delft, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 2786272, Mobile: +31 (0)629268628

E-mail:
r.r.venkateshaprasad@tudelft.nl

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Professional Achievements & Activities

 

Honours, Recognitions and Awards

1.      Invited to attend Microsoft Faculty Summit 2018.

2.      Fellow of IETE, India, 2018.

3.      Best paper award, ACM/IEEE Internet of Things - Design and Implementation (2018).

4.      Selected by External Affairs Minister of India as one of the 10 leading Indian scientists outside India to discuss/advise on “Developing Cyber Capacity of India”.

5.      Invited by the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, when he visited the Netherlands.

6.      Best paper runner up award, ACM/IEEE Internet of Things - Design and Implementation (2017).

7.      IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer on Internet of Things (1 out of 10 newly appointed) in 2017.

8.      Impact: High school students could implement our ACM/IEEE IPSN 2015 work for saving hedgehogs (link).

9.      Awarded Grassroots Prize (two times) for innovations in teaching 2015, 2016.

10.  IEEE Bangalore section – Publication award 2014 & 2015.

11.  Selected for IEEE Public Visibility Initiative – My interview and Article on IoT (2014).

12.  Covered by IBC News under the heading, Invisible Network of the Future, 2014.

13.  Recognition by IEEE for contributions to the IEEE ComSoc Standards Program Development, 2014.

14.  Invited to Dagstuhl seminar on Physical Cyber Social Computing, 2013.

15.  Award for IEEE P1900.5 Workgroup contributions, 2012.

16.  Our article in IEEE Communication Letters, “An Analytical Energy Consumption Model for Packet Transfer over Wireless Links", was selected as the top 0.5% of papers IEEE ComSoc in Feb 2012.

17.  Best paper award, IEEE PIMRC, 2009.

18.  IEEE Outstanding Contributor Award for IEEE P1900.2 Workgroup contributions, 2008.

19.  First place for DC Motor drive and consolation prize for AC Motor Drive in Karnataka state level, India, for ‘Do It Yourself’ competition at S.J.C.E, Mysore, India, 1993.

 

1.      Associate Editor, Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technology, 2011-2017.

2.      Editor IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015-2018.

3.      Editor IEEE Surveys and Tutorials, 2015-.

4.      Editor IEEE Systems Journal, 2018-.

5.      Guest Editor Research to standards Next Generation IoT and M2M Applications Networks-and Architectures, IEEE Communications 2016.

6.      Associate Editor, IEEE JSAC on SDN and Network Virtualization, 2018-

7.      Editor IEEE Transaction on Green Communication Networks

8.      IEEE Communication Magazine Green Track.

9.      Editor Elsevier-Journal on Networking and Computer Applications, 2015-2018.

10.  Editor Elsevier-Communication Networks, 2017-2018.

11.  Editor for the IEEE Communications Society Communications Technology (CTN).

 

1.      Mr.Ramachandra Budhihal, “Unified Cognitive Radio Architectural Analysis, Design, and Implementation” Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

2.      Mustafa Moussa, Flood and Traffic Wireless Monitoring System for Smart Cities, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

3.      Nahina Islam, Energy efficiency in wireless communication, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. 

4.      Reema Sharma, Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Packet Scheduling Scheme in Internet of Things, VTU, India.

5.      Suma K V, Analysis of Nailfold capillary morphology for diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and hypertension in Indian Population, VTU, India.

 

1.      Senior Member of ACM

2.      Senior Member IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Computer society

3.      IEEE Standards Association Member.

4.      Vice-Chair IEEE P1918.1 standard on Tactile Internet, 2016-2018

5.      Member of Examination Committee, CE & CS, EWI, TU Delft, (2013-present).

6.      Vice chair for Standards, IEEE TCGCC 2017-2018.

7.      Member IEEE ComSoc Education Services Board (2018-2019).

8.      Elected as IEEE CSDB Liaison for IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCCN, TCGCC and IEEE AHSNTC, 2017.

9.      Member of IEEE CSPDB, 2015-2017.

10.  Member IEEE FiWi Sub-TC 2016.

11.  Member IEEE TITC, 2016.

12.  Elected IEEE TCCN Vice Chair (Europe) 2011-2016.

13.  Member IEEE-SA Rapid Standardization on 5G and SDN, Berlin, 2016.

14.  Secretary of IEEE ComSoc Standards Development Board, 2012-2013.

15.  Member IEEE-SA Internet of Things Ecosystem Study, New Jersey, 2014

16.  Member – IEEE DySPAN (2011-) & IEEE SCC41, Standards Coordination Committee (2005-2011).

17.  IEEE P1723 standards on SOA (2012).

18.  Member of ECMA PN Standardization workgroup, (2011).

19.  Elected IEEE TCCN Secretary 2009-2010.

20.  Member -- IEEE SCC41 Policies and Procedures Subgroup, Web-master of SCC41, DySpan-SC, 2010.

21.  Selected as Dutch national representative to COST IC0905, 2009-2013.

22.  Member of the Society of Industry Leaders - Standard & Poor’s Vista Research, 2009 (by Invitation).

23.  Member – Open Spectrum Alliance (OSA) (by Invitation).

 

1.      IEEE Distinguished Lectures at three universities in Srilanka, 2018 – IoT and Applications.

2.      IEEE Distinguished Lectures at Four universities in New Zealand, 2018 – Internet of Things, Approximate Services and Virtual Sensing.

3.      Keynote speech IEEE Edgecom, 2018 -- Constructive Interference – Does it Really Exists?

4.      Invited Talk, Rotary Club International, Bangalore, India, 2018 -- Internet of Things Applications.

5.      Tutorials on Internet of Things at IEEE CCNC, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

6.      Keynote at IEEE SCIoT, Iran, 2018 -- Low Latency Low Energy Cost Data Collection in Sensor Networks.

7.      One of the panel members along with Dr. Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Prof. Prabal Datta (UCB) and others for “New directions” at ACM SenSys, Nov. 2017.

8.      Keynote IEEE ISCC, Greece, 2017 -- Murphy Loves Constructive Interference

9.      IEEE Distinguished Lectures at three universities in Srilanka, 2017 -- Introduction to IoT

10.  Keynote Speech at UBICNET, Bangalore 2017-- Murphy Loves Constructive Interference

11.  Panel talk for Young Scientists and Engineers (IEEE-YES), IEEE GlobeCom-2016, Washington DC – Academic Life Goals.

12.  Speaker at EE and CE Education afternoon, 2016 – How to Get and Give Feedback using FeedbackFruits.

13.  Fine-tuned Lighting Control Leveraging Smartphone-based Occupancy Detection, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), ACM, 2016.

14.  Keynote speech, International Conference on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, Hassan, 2015 -- Internet of Things- What else?

15.  IEEE Distinguished Lectures at (a) BMSCE, Bangalore, 2015; (b) Amrita College of Engineering, 2016; (c) MCE Hassan, 2016 -- IoT & Applications

16.  Keynote speech Workshop on 5G Internet of Things (IoT) jointly with 25th GISFI Standardization Series Meeting (GSSM) 2015 -- Various Aspects Internet of Things Design

17.  Invited Talk Technology for Concept Design, IDE, TU Delft 2015 – IoT Application Design.

18.  Distinguished Lecture in 3ME, TU Delft, 2015 -- Internet of Things and Energy.

19.  Keynote Speech CYCLONE, IoT360, Rome Oct, 2015 – IoT Applications and Approximate Services.

20.  IEEE GlobeCom-2015 Lightening Talk, San Diego –- Non-Sense!

21.  Invited IEEE ComSoc Talk at New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA, 2013 -- Approximate Services in Internet of Things.

22.  IEEE GlobeCom-2012 Lightning Talk, Anaheim -- Approximate Services.

23.  Invited speaker IEEE ANTS-2012, Bangalore, -- iCore - Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystem.

24.  Keynote Speaker -- IEEE-ACM WINBIS, Katmandu, Nepal, 2009 -- Personal Networks.

25.  Online Person Tracking System, MobiHoc 2016 [Demo]

26.  Demonstration of the VoIP-testbed developed at CEDT, IISc, Bangalore, to members of Communication Software Industry and venture capital members. This helped in establishment of start-up firm Esqube Communication Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2003.

27.  Lab demonstrations for workshop on “A Course on Internet Telephony” conducted by Dept. of ECE, IISc, Bangalore, 2002.

 

1.      Tutorials Chair Globecom 2019.

2.      Symposium Chair ICC 2020.

3.      Tutorial Chair, WF-IoT 2019.

4.      Steering Committee, WF-IoT, 2019.

5.      Organizing committee member, ACM MobiHoc-2013-2019.

6.      Publicity Chair ACM MobiHoc 2013-2019.

7.      IEEE INFOCOM Demo & Poster Chair 2018, 2019.

8.      Student Travel Chair MobiHoc 2019.

9.      UBICNET TPC Chair 2017 & 2019.

10.  Best Paper Award Chair CCNC 2017 & 2019.

11.  IEEE SmartNets 2018 - Industry 4.0 Track chair.

12.  IEEE SECON Student Travel Grant Chair, 2014-2018.

13.  Organizing Committee Member, Publicity Chair, IEEE ICC, Kansas, 2018.

14.  Juror, Selection Committee, IEEE Student Competition on Communication Technology Changing the World , 2014-2018.

15.  Demos and Poster Chair MobiHoc, 2018.

16.  Industry Track Chair, WF-IoT, 2018.

17.  Organizing Committee Member, Publicity Chair, IEEE GlobeCom, Singapore, 2017.

18.  Track Chair, Consumer Communication & Networking Standards, IEEE CCNC, LasVegas, 2015-2016.

19.  Organizing Committee Member, Tutorial Chair, Demonstration Co-Chair and Publicity Chair of IEEE CCNC, Las Vegas 2009 - 2017.

20.  Organizing Committee Member, Green Track Chair, IEEE GlobeCom, Washington DC, 2016. 

21.  Student Travel Grants Chair, IEEE GlobeCom, Washington DC, 2016.

22.  TPC Chair, Telecom Policies Development of Global Access, GIIS 2016 conference.

23.  Track Chair IEEE CSCN 2016.

24.  TPC Chair Telecom Policies and Development of Global Access, track, GIIS conference 2016.

25.  Publicity Chair WF-IoT, 2015.

26.  Publicity Chair IEEE CCSNA, 2013, 2015, 2016.

27.  Organizing Committee Online GreenCom 2015 & 2016.

28.  General Chair STEMCOM 2015.

29.  Technical Program co-Chairs, Green Standardizations and Industry Issues for ICT and Relevant Technologies (GSICT), Globecom 2015.

30.  Organizing Committee Member, Tutorial Chair, IEEE GlobeCom, San Diego, 2015.

31.  Publication co-Chair, IEEE CSCN, Tokyo, 2015.

32.  Publicity Chair IEEE WCNC, 2015.

33.  IEEE Globecom-CRN Track Chair, 2015.

34.  IEEE CSCN- Publications Chair, 2015.

35.  TPC Chair, 21st IEEE Symposium on Communications & Vehicular Technology (SCVT), Delft, 2014.

36.  Steering Committee, iC3I, New Delhi, 2014.

37.  Publication and EDAS Co-Chair, IEEE CCSNA, GlobeCom, Austin, 2014.

38.  Organizing committee member, Publicity Chair ACM MobiHoc, Bangalore, 2013.

39.  IEEE VTC-CRSS Track Chair, 2013.

40.  Organizing Committee Member, Publication Chair, COMSWARE, Dublin, 2009.

41.  Late Breaking Results Committee Associate Chair SIGCHI, 2004.

 

1.      Co-founder, Steering committee, IEEE Next Generation Green ICT Workshop ICC-2016 Kuala Lumpur.

2.      Co-founder, TPC Chair and Organizing Committee Member, IEEE Next Generation Green ICT Workshop ICC-2015 London.

3.      Co-founder, TPC Chair and Organizing Committee Member, IEEE E2Nets: Workshop on “Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks and Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency”, ICC-2010 Cape town, ICC-2011 Kyoto, ICC-2012 Ottawa, ICC-2013 Budapest, ICC-2014 Sydney.

4.      Co-founder, Steering Committee and Organizing Committee Member, TPC Chair for IEEE Personalized Networks Workshop, San Jose 2006, Philadelphia 2007, Las Vegas 2009 - 2012.

5.      Co-founder, TPC Chair and Organizing Committee Member, IEEE CogNet: Workshop on “Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks”, ICC-2007, Glasgow, ICC-2008 Beijing, CogWiNets ICC-2009, Dresden.

6.      Organizing Committee Member, Publicity Chair – Mobicare, Mobile Health Care Workshop, Mobiquitous, Toronto, 2009.

7.      Co-Chair and Organizing Committee Member, Workshop WILLOPAN: Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks, COMSWARE, Bangalore, 2008.

 

As a senior design consultant at Esqube Communication Solutions (P) Ltd. Bangalore, India (2003-2009)

1.      CQube a ‘click to talk’ application for enabling the websites with interactive voice and video.

2.      VoIP Player for decoding and playing back the voice data after snooping VoIP packets from the Internet.

3.      VQube - a VoIP application suite.

4.      Flash Player for enabling the websites with text, voice and video communications.

5.      CallBack facility for portals bringing PSTN and Web together.

6.      PSTN Phone aliasing and Anonymous dialing applications.

7.      PSTN Conferencing Solution with Web interworking.

8.      SIP based PSTN Callback service.

9.      PSTN-Web enabled Voice Mail service.

As a Project Associate & Consultant at CEDT, IISc, Bangalore (1999-2003)

1.      Large Scale Conferencing System and Protocol design.

2.      Design of Value added services on a VoIP conferencing suite and VoIP testbed.

As a trainee (BEL) and  project associate (ERNet)

1.      Development of Switched Mode Power Supplies and High power Resonant Converters for Radars (1994).

2.      Design of high frequency magnetic components and high-voltage and High Frequency Power Supplies (Project Tempest for Indian military) at Bharat Electronics, Bangalore (1994).

3.      Implementation of DQDB protocol cards (1996).

 

  1. Organising Committee member during 1997 – 1998, and Secretary, Samskrita Sangha, a Cultural Organization at IISc, Bangalore, during 1998- 1999. http://www.iisc.ernet.in/ssangha/

I was involved in leading a team of ten members in conducting/organizing cultural programmes that reflected Indian Heritage and Culture.

  1. Member, Students Advisory Committee (SAC) to the Director, IISc, Bangalore, for two years during 1999 and 2000.

This committee represents the students of the Institute; I was involved with academic affairs. I was also involved with relief activities under Students’ Council during Orissa Cyclone and Gujarat Earthquake.

  1. President - Mess Committee, IISc Hostels, during June 2000-Dec. 2000

I was responsible for smooth running and maintenance of the Messes catering to about 1500 students. Mess committee is an interface between Workers, Students and the Wardens/Authorities. As a mess president I lead a team of about twelve members team and I responsible of handling a budget of rupees Rs.1.5M per month.

  1. Member - Core-Committee and Treasurer, Prasthutha, - a Students’ Forum of IISc, during 1999-2002; http://www.iisc.ernet.in/prasthu/

I was part of a four-member team building this organization. We were involved in arranging lectures/debates by eminent personalities on various issues - Scientific, Social and Cultural. I was holding the additional duties of Treasurer, responsible for generating funds for all our activities and maintaining accounts during 1999 to 2000.

  1. Member - Department Curriculum Committee (DCC) of CEDT, IISc, during 1998-2002.

I was responsible for representing research students of the department and act as a buffer between students, the chairman, and the faculty.

  1. Giving back to the Nature

I am trying to nurture at least 100 trees in a big city like Bangalore, in India. Planting, watering and protecting them has been my passion for the last 5 years. It is important for me to leave zero carbon footprint. See: https://www.facebook.com/selfiewithmytrees

I write articles for TU Delta and on LinkedIn.