Manoj Tolani Editor

Dr. Manoj Tolani

Assistant Professor,

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Dr. Manoj Tolani received the B.Tech degree from IIMT Engineering College, Meerut, India in 2010, the M.Tech degree from Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India in 2012 from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He received Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India. He worked as an Assistant Professor at PSIT College of Engineering, Kanpur, from 2012 to 2015. He worked as a teaching cum research associate (TRA) in the department of ECE, IIIT-Allahabad, in 2020. He worked as an Assistant Professor (Research) at Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore, from 2021-2023. Currently, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal Campus from 2023-Present. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Network, Internet of Things, and Photonics. He has published 19 Journals and Conferences (10 SCI Journals, 2 International Conferences).

Dr. Arun Balodi

Chairman & Professor

Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore Karnataka, India

Dr. Arun Balodi (Chairman & Professor), Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE, Life Member ISTE is currently working as Professor and chairman at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University in Bangalore, India. Dr Arun completed his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 2018, M. Tech., Digital Signal Processing, Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri, India, 2010, and B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, 2005. He was awarded the Gold Medal in M. Tech., and the Academic Excellence Award in 2010 and 2011. His research area is Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Arun has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India. His research area is Digital Signal and Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. He has published over 42 papers in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and 03 Patents. He is an active researcher and reviewer for various indexed Journals and Conferences and has given various technical talks. He has actively participated in more than 34 FDPs and more than 100 webinars and conducted workshops in the domain of Signal and Image Processing. He has delivered expert talks in more than 21 STPs, conferences, and webinars.

Dr. Balodi received a Certificate of Appreciation and Research Incentive for his research contribution in publishing good Journal Papers, Patents, Book Chapters, and International Conference in the years 2020 and 2021. He has also received the Research Excellence Award and Incentive for research contribution in terms of publishing good Journal Papers, Patents, Book Chapters, and International Conference and editing one International Book in the academic year 2022-23.

Dr. Ambar Bajpai

Associate professor

GITAM (Deemed-to-be) University, Bangalore, India

Dr. Ambar Bajpai, SM’IEEE, F’IETE, is currently working as an Associate professor at GITAM (Deemed-to-be) University, Bangalore, India. His alma mater are Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. Dr. Ambar has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India and abroad.

Dr. Bajpai also received various scholarships, mainly prestigious graduate school scholarships, 90th-year Research Scholarship, GATE, and Overseas academic presentation scholarship during his Ph.D. and M.Eng. His areas of interest are iterative channel coding in 5G, Metaverse, and beyond and visible light communication. He has published more than 51 papers in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and book chapters, including invited talks in India and abroad related to the broad domain of Wireless Communication. He has been volunteering in IEEE Bangalore section as an ExeCom Member, Founder Secretary in the Information Theory Society Chapter, treasurer, and ExeCom roles of various technical society chapters including IEEE SIGHT Bangalore Section.