About SWAMINATHAN R

Dr. Swaminathan is currently working as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Indore. Earlier, he completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur and worked as a Research  Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and as an Assistant Professor at IIT Indore. He is also currently serving as a CEO of IITI Advanced Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Foundation (i.e. Incubation Centre of IIT Indore) and Professor-in-Charge of Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CEED), IIT Indore. He is the author or co-author of more than 60 reputed journal and IEEE conference publications. Further, he has also secured four funded research projects as a Principal Investigator (PI) from DST-SERB and CSIR, as well as completed two consultancy projects for Airtel and Danish Management, Denmark (consulting firm for India-European Union standardization project). His current research interests include but not limited to Modelling and Analysis of various 5G and 6G Wireless Technologies (in Physical Layer) such as Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN), Hybrid Free Space Optics (FSO) / Radio Frequency (RF) Communication, Aerial Platforms (UAV/HAPS)-assisted FSO Communication, Terahertz (THz) Communication, Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS)-aided FSO/RF/THz Systems, etc. and Intelligent Receiver Design for Future Generation Communication Systems using Conventional and Machine/Deep Learning Techniques. He has been recently honored as Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, 2021 and elevated to IEEE Senior Member since April 2023.