IIT Delhi professor to head IIIT-Delhi

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 7: Prof. Ranjan Bose has taken over as the Director of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT Delhi). Prof. Pankaj Jalote has completed his tenure as the founding Director of the institute after serving for a decade.

Prof. Ranjan Bose is an established researcher, teacher and innovator with over 25 years of research and teaching experience, he was serving as Microsoft Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, India Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has done his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

“As an institution, words are just the means and not the end to thank him enough for his efforts, leadership and affection that he paid for everyone associated with him directly or indirectly during his tenure. I am sure this legacy at the institute will be carried forward in a phenomenal manner in the proficient and passionate leadership of Prof. Ranjan Bose, the new director of the institute,” said Kiran Karnik, Chairman, BOG IIIT Delhi.

His research interests lie in the area of secure communications, coding theory, ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, broadband wireless access and wireless security. He has done pioneering research in the area of 'energy-efficient and secure' wireless communication systems, with a specific mention about the use of chaos theory for secure communications. Prof. Bose has invented the concept of 'Sequence Clean', a computationally efficient algorithm and proposed a new metric that reduces the computational complexity significantly, directly impacting breast cancer detection, next-generation radar, air-traffic control and through-wall imaging.

Prof. Bose has published prolifically with 150+ publications in refereed journals and conferences and filed for 16 patents, including one granted US patent, his research work has been widely cited and referred to. He has undertaken various funded research projects amounting to over 33 Million US$. He is a recipient of URSI Young Scientist award in 1999, Humboldt Fellowship in 2000, INAE Young Engineers award in 2003, AICTE Career Award in 2004, BOYSCAST fellowship in 2005 and Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 2013. He is a senior member of IEEE (USA) and a fellow of IET (UK). At present, he is Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Member, Editorial Board of Computers & Security, Elsevier and Editor of Frequenz: Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications. He has served as Head, Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management (IIT Delhi) and was Head of Center of Excellence Cyber Systems & Information Assurance (CoE-CSIA) at IIT Delhi before joining IIIT-Delhi as Director.