Research Avenues in EE Department : An Interactive Talk by Dr. Kushal K. Shah
Saket Dewangan
From: Siddhartha Das <das.sidd...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Subject: Research Avenues in EE Department : An Interactive Talk by Dr. Kushal K. Shah
Dear All,
EES (Electrical Engineering Society), IIT Delhi is organizing its first seminar this semester. Dr. Kushal Shah of Electrical Engineering department, IIT Delhi will be our first speaker. For abstract and biography of the talk please see below.
The talk will be on Friday, 12th, 2012 at 1600-1700hrs in the EE committee room.
The purpose of EES organizing talks is to increase the general awareness of the research in the department. This would allow students to make a better (informed) choice while deciding on the project of any nature that they might be interested in. The talk are going to be very informal and meant to be an interaction platform for the students and the researcher. The speaker will speak for approx. 30 minutes about his research interest/profile, in the remaining 30mins he/she will advertise/market the position available for projects and have general discussion with the audience. These talk will be held once every month, wherein external researchers will also be invited.
The general participation level of a technical talk has been very low (my perception). Please try changing the habit. A person learns much more by mere listening . Even the students who are interested in only A job profile please be aware that the technical know-how about the technologies will always help you in your good (informed) decisions in your job!! . So please attend and I wish and hope to see a lot of students participating so that we are forced to move out of EE committee room to a bigger venue for future talks.
I will also request the faculty members to please motivate their students to attend these seminars for increasing their awareness about other fields which might someday be applied in their own research.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Mukul Sarkar
Treasurer, EES
Abstract and Biography:
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In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to the four different areas that I have been working on : Plasma Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Genomic Signal Processing and Plasmonics. I have done my BTech and PhD from IIT Madras in 2005 and 2009 respectively. My PhD thesis contains a detailed theoretical analysis of the dynamics of charged particles in nonlinear RF fields (Plasma Physics). After my PhD, I went to the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) for a post-doc in 2009-10 and there I worked on the necessary and sufficient conditions to achieve unbounded energy growth in Fermi accelerators (Nonlinear Dynamics). Fermi acceleration has nothing to do with SLAC or CERN but is a mathematical model used in the analysis of nuclear fission and plasma heating. I came back to India in 2010 and worked in JNU till May 2012 after which I joined IIT Delhi. At JNU, I was introduced to the world of genomic signal processing. I have had a fantasy for signal processing since my BTech days, specially after attending the fabulous DSP course by Prof. David Koilpillai of IITM sometime in 2003. But I never got a chance to really do any serious work in the area till I came to JNU. My main contribution in this area has been in showing that auto-correlation can be a very useful tool in identifying the origin of replication in many DNA sequences. Finally, on May 22, 2012, I joined IIT Delhi. Here I intend to pursue all the three areas on which I have worked before. Continuing the old tradition of mine, I have now also started working on a new area called Plasmonics. Plasmonics deals with electromagnetic waves that travel on the interface of a metal and dielectric. It has many applications in electrical engineering and is of immense theoretical interest from the pure physics point of view too
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Regards
Siddhartha Das
Senior Undergraduate
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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