About IIT Roorkee

Abhay Kumar Sah is an Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee, specializing in advanced wireless communication. He teaches the course "Foundations of Advanced Wireless Communication," which covers essential concepts, techniques, and algorithms necessary for understanding and designing modern wireless communication systems. The course includes topics such as multi-antenna systems, MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), massive MIMO for 5G, and various multiple access techniques like OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and NOMA (Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access).

Dr. S. K. Gupta is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at IIT Roorkee, specializing in areas such as Support Vector Machines, Fuzzy Optimization, and Mathematical Programming, which encompasses duality theory, non-smooth and non-convex optimization, vector optimization, and variational inequalities. He earned his Ph.D. in Optimization Theory from IIT Roorkee in 2008. Throughout his career, Dr. Gupta has received several accolades, including the "Outstanding Teacher Award" at IIT Roorkee in 2018 and the "Best Teacher Award" at IIT Patna in 2010. He was also a gold medalist in MSc (Applied Mathematics) from IIT Roorkee in 2002. Having guided six PhD theses, he is currently supervising five more. Dr. Gupta has published over 55 research articles in reputable international journals and is an active member of the Operational Research Society of India, as well as a contributor to the Working Group on Generalized Convexity.

Dr. Dheeraj Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s dual degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and completed his Ph.D. at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a post-doctoral researcher at Purdue University in the USA before joining IIT Roorkee. Dr. Kumar's research interests focus on big data mining for Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city applications, urban sensing, and urban mobility.

Dr. Ekant Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research primarily focuses on designing optimization algorithms for next-generation wireless communication systems that aim to deliver multi-gigabit data rates while significantly enhancing energy consumption and spectrum utilization. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Tech. degrees from IIT Kanpur, India, within the Signal Processing, Communication, and Networks Group in the Electrical Engineering department.