Dr. Nikhil Marriwala (B-Tech., M-Tech. and PhD in Engineering & Technology) is working as Assistant Professor and Head of the Department Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He did his PhD. from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He did his post-graduation (M-Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) University, and did his B-Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation from MMEC, Mullana, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He has more than 19.5 years of experience teaching graduate and postgraduate students. More than 31 students have completed their M-Tech dissertation under his guidance. He has published more than 05 book chapters in different International books, has authored more than 10-books with Pearson, Wiley, etc. and has more than 40 publications to his credit in reputed International Journals (SCI, SCIE, ESCI, and Scopus) and 20 papers in International/National conferences. He has been granted 08 Patents with 02 Indian patents and 06 International Patents. He has been Chairman of Special Sessions in more than 22 International/National Conferences and has delivered a keynote address at more than 7 International conferences. He has also acted as organizing secretary for more than 05 International conferences and 01 National Conference. He has delivered more than 70 Invited Talks/ Guest Lectures in leading Universities/Colleges PAN India. He is having additional charge of Training and Placement Officer, UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for more than 11 years now. He is the Single point of contact (SPOC) and head of local chapter of SWAYAM NPTEL Local Chapter of UIET, KUK. He is the SPOC for Infosys campus connect program for UIET, KUK. He is editor of more than 05 book proceedings with Springer and guest editor for special session in Journal Measurement and Sensors, Elsevier. He is also the reviewer for many reputed journals such as the International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC), Egyptian Informatics Journal – Elsevier, Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE), International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (IJICST), Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, UK. He has been awarded as the NPTEL ENTHUSIASTS for year 2019-2020 by NPTEL IIT, Madras. He has also been awarded as the “Career Guru of the Month” award by Aspiring Minds. His areas of interests are Software Defined Radios, Cognitive Radios, Soft Computing, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Fuzzy system design, and Advanced Microprocessors.
Prof. (Dr.) C. C. Tripathi, is presently working as Director, NITTTR, Bhopal. His field of Specialization is Electronics & Communication Engineering, Microelectronics, RF MEMS for Communication, Industrial Consultancy & Entrepreneurship Development, Project Development, Development of Start-ups, & Incubation, Experiential Learning Center etc. As Director NITTTR, Bhopal Assignment he is heading the institute’s academic bodies like, the academic council with four Extension Centres, PG programs and spearheading various training programmes, curriculum development, research in various engineering and applied sciences department in the institute. His present roles and responsibilities as administrative head of the institute is to provide policy-related support/measures to Govt. of India for the overall improvement of quality of Technical Education in the country. He has supervised 07 Nos Ph. D Thesis and 46 Nos M. Tech. thesis. He has credits of publishing 81 Nos of papers in International/National journals and > 43 Nos. in Conferences. He has also developed 44 Nos. of products/process as import substitute. He has successfully implemented projects like TEQIP-II grants of Rs.10.00 Crores by preparing Institution Development Plan (IDP) (2011-2015), TEQIP-III grant of Rs.7.00 Crores (2016-2020) and Setting up of Incubation Center: Rs.30 Lakhs sponsored by DEIT (HARTRON), Haryana. He has also completed a 12 Nos. number of manpower development projects; 16 Nos. of Consultancy projects. He established Entrepreneurship Development Cell at UIET, KUK with the financial assistance (Rs. 38.0 Lacs approx.) of NSTEDB/ DST, Govt. of India and trained more than 600 SC/STs youth students, I/c Engineering graduates on “Entrepreneurship Development” under the scheme of Department of Industry, Govt. of Haryana/DST, India. He has conducted 04 nos. of Staff Development Program, 03 Nos. Employment Oriented skill based technical program organized (si
