Advances in VLSI, Communication, and Signal Processing Select Proceedings of VCAS 2019

Dr. David Harvey is a Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Prof. Harvey got his doctorate degree on Real-time Microprocessor-based Analysis of Optoelectronic Data in 1984. He has been working as a Principal Electronics Design Engineer, Kratos, Analytical Instruments. He has also been working as Director Electronic Design and Manufacturing (EDAM) Centre, LJMU. He has also been Director Engineering Development Centre (EDC), LJMU. He has been consultant of over 250 companies. He has an exhaustive experience in Metrology and advanced optical/acoustic/X-ray/electronic/AFM measurement systems at nano-and micro-scales. He has guided more than 19 Ph.D scholars, has more than 139 publications in reputed journals and conferences and more than 618 citations. He has peer reviewed many journals and is actively involved in research.Dr. Haranath Kar received the B.E. Degree from Bengal Engineering College in 1989, theM.Tech. Degree from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1992 and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, in 2000. After spending a brief period at the Defence Research and Development Organization as a Scientist B, he joined Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, India, as a Lecturer in 1991, where he became an Assistant Professor in 2001, Associate Professor in2006 and Professor in 2007. He spent two years with the Atilim University, Turkey (2002-2004) as an Assistant Professor. He served as the Chairman of the Senate Post-Graduate Committee at MNNIT from 2009 to 2010. He was Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at MNNIT during 2013-2015. His current research interests are in digital signal processing, nonlinear dynamical systems, delayed systems, robust stability, guaranteed cost control and multidimensional systems. He is a recipient of the 2002-2003 IEE Heaviside Premium Award. He was conferred with the D.N.Agrawal Award of excellence and the Bharat Vikas Award in 2005 and 2017, respectively. He was a member of editorial board of the Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Dr. Shekhar Verma has received his BTech, MTech and PhD from IIT BHU, Varanasi. He is currently working as professor in Information Technology at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed refereed International Journals and more than 80 papers in international conferences. He has supervised 20 PhD scholars and handled many R&D projects. He is a member of the “Machine Learning and Optimization Group” at IIIT Allahabad. His research interests include dimensionality reduction, Manifold regularization, Privacy Preserving Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques. Prof. Vijaya Bhadauria received her B.E. (Electronics) and M.E. (Control & Instrumentation) from MNREC Allahabad. She received her Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from MNNIT Allahabad. She was Head in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, India from Aug. 2017 to Aug. 2019. Her research interests are in the area of VLSI Circuit and System, Digital Integrated Circuit Design, Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design, VLSI Technology and Semiconductor Device and Modeling. She has published many papers in international journals and conferences of repute and supervised several Ph.D. students. Dr. Bhadauria worked as an ad hoc reviewer of many international journals and served as program committee member of several international conferences of repute in the area of Microelectronics and VLSI Design.