UDAY B. DESAI
UDAY B. DESAI received the B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974, the M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1979, all in Electrical Engineering.
From 1979 to 1984 he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A., and an Associate Professor at the same place from 1984 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay. He was Dean of Students at IIT-Bombay from Aug 2000 to July 2002. He has held Visiting Associate Professor's position at Arizona State University, Purdue University, and Stanford University. He was a visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002. From July 2002 to June 2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R and D Lab. at IIT-Madras.
His research interest is in wireless communication, sensor networks and statistical signal processing. He is interested in connectivity for rural India - the objective being to bring the advantages of modern day telecommunication and information technology to rural and small town India.
Dr. Desai is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of INSA (Indian National
Science Academy) and Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering
(INAE). He is on the Executive Committee (EC) for the All India Council
of Technical Education (AICTE). He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing form Jan 1999 to Dec. 2001. He is on the Technical
Advisory Board of Microsoft Research Lab. India. He was
(i) The General Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision, 1998,
(ii) International Liaison for Asia Pacific, and Technical Program Committee
Co-Chair for Video Processing for IEEE International Symposium on Circuits
and Systems (ISCAS) 2002, and
(iii) Associate Vice Chair for PHY/MAC for IEEE International Conference
for Wireless Communication and Networking (WCNC) 2005.
