ECE

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

"Accredited by NBA for the Academic years 2018-19,2019-20,2020-2021"

Dr. Vipula Singh

Professor & Head

The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering was started in 2001 and is currently running B.E, M.Tech and Research programs. The department is headed by Dr. Vipula Singh, who has around 23 years of experience in teaching and research. She has obtained her doctorate from Guru Gobind Singh Indra Prastha University New Delhi in the area of image processing. She has published more than 25 papers in international / national Journals and Conferences. She is currently guiding 3 students for Ph.D and 2 students completed Ph.D. She is the author of a book on image processing.

Department has Well qualified, committed and experienced Faculty members with an average experience of 15 years. Department has total of 35 faculty members with minimum qualification as MTech and 14 with Ph.D degree and 14 faculty are pursuing their PhD. Excellent infrastructure with well-equipped and sufficient laboratories and library facility and Seminar halls are available for the usage of Lecture/NPTEL Videos/Demos.

NBA Accredited during 2018-2021. Department is Recognized as Research center by VTU, Belagavi, 19 scholars from Industry and academia are currently pursuing PhD/MSc(Engg).The Department of ECE has been consistently securing university ranks from past five years and this has led to a goodwill about the college at the state level. In the last five years, a total of 28 students ranks, out of which 6 have been first rank. The average performance of the student is around 85% in vtu exams. 90% of the students get placed in reputed companies with minimum package of 3.5 L pa and maximum package of 24 L pa. Good Academic and Extra, Co-Curricular records by students, Consistent performance in university exams and placement of the students in Core Companies

Good number of Paper Publications by both Faculty and Students. Good number of technical interactions like Guest Lectures, Workshops, Competitions & Conferences are conducted by the Department Students Club Techkruthi, Robotics Club, mini project exhibition, Professional societies IEEE and IETE for the benefit of faculty and students to alert their skills.Training Classes are carried out to prepare the students for Placements/ GATE/ GRE Examination.

In 2012-13, UG intake has increased from 120 to 180 and Current PG intake is 18. The department has 35 faculty members, with 6 Professors and 5 Associate Professors.The Department has VTU recognized R & D centre in which 17 faculty members are pursuing Ph.D & 5 completed Ph.D in diverse areas of ECE , such as, Digital Electronics, VLSI, Biomedical Engineering, Power Electronics, Image Processing and Communication. The faculty are zealously involved in improving their skills and qualifications. Some of the highlights of the achievements of the faculty are

Papers published on an average of 20 / year
Book published on an average of 4 books / year
Active interaction with industry initiated .
Regularly conduct curriculum related workshops for VTU faculty.
Staff members have been Members of BOE
Involved in curriculum development and on board of other autonomous colleges.
Experts for EDUSAT program of VTU.

Vision

Conquering technical frontiers in the field of Electronics and Communication.

Mission

The department promotes an intellectual and ethical environment in which the strengths and skills of Electronics Professionals will flourish by.

Achieving and fostering excellence in core Electronics and Communication engineering with focus on the hardware, simulation and design.
Pursuing Research, Development and Consultancy to achieve self sustenance.
Preparing industry ready graduates by providing skill training and nurturing innovation and creativity

Laboratory

FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
1. Department of ECE has 9 Class Rooms each of 70 Seating, 1 Seminar Hall with 50 Seating capacity with good Ambience.
2. 1 Seminar Hall with seating capacity of 100 with all the necessary facilities. Departmental library with reading room of seating capacity 10.
3. 9 Labs with equipment like CRO, Power Supply, Function Generator, Microwave integrated circuit kits, microwave benches, DPSK &QPSK kits, OFC kits, Power Electronics modules, FPGA kits, mcb 51 kits, 8086 kits, Interfacing kits.
4. 133 Computers available in ECE Department with Internet facility
5. Exclusive computer lab for M.Tech ECE students with 12 computers
6. Labs are equipped with licensed softwares like Cadence Tool for 30 users, Labview 15 No, matlab 10 No &keil software 15 number etc.
7. Department has also set up 2R&D Labs which are GPR Lab and PSoc Lab. These labs are equipped with GPR simulation module, VNA, Horn antennas, CRO, PAM-CEM Electromagnetic simulation suite from ESI group, High end PCs.
EXCELLENCE / ACHIEVEMENTS
1. Orientation Program for the academic year 2018-19 (even Semester) was conducted for fourth, sixth and eighth semester students from 04.02.2019 to 08.02.2019. The agenda of the orientation program is to educate the students on the various events of current semester and to motivate them to excel in their academic activities.
2. Navya Shree R secured 5th rank in the year 2020
3. Vibha R secured 9th rank in the year 2020
4. Nisarga G secured 4 th rank in the year 2019.
5. Rakshitha R R secured 7th rank in the year 2018.
6. Sheetal J secured 2nd rank with 1 gold medals and Varun R. secued 8th rank in the year 2017.
7. Komal Agarwal secured 4th rank in the year 2016.
8. Ullas Bharadwaj secured 1st rank with 5 gold medals in the year 2015.
9. K R Sathyajit secured 1st rank with 5 gold medals in the year 2014.
10. Phalguna P secured 1st rank with 6 gold medals in the year 2012.
11. Department has also got ranks in PG programme,
  1. Kasturi R secured 1 st rank with gold medal in the year 2020
1. Students have participated in many technical events organized by various colleges like JSS, RVCE, SJBIT, BNMIT, Dayanand Sagar college of Engg. other colleges which includes Quiz, workshops, paper presentations, Project Expo, circuit debugging, etc. And also, have won prizes for the same. Students have also participated in cultural activities held in other colleges and have grabbed many awards.
2. Project titled "Detection of Pedestrians, Sign Boards and Road Condition Using Computer Vision And Deep Learning for Highly Automated Driving" carried out by Joshi, Priyanka, Swaroop, Pranesh won Second prize in State Level Project expo Sristhi 2018.
3. Project titled "Aegis- intelligent Helmet", carried out by Rahul P.M, Neveditha, Hemashree, Manjunath won Consolation prize in State Level Project expo Sristhi 2018.
4. Akshay Krishna, Akhilesh V, Animikh and Chethana won Best paper award at "International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer science and Technology" held at P.E.S. College of Engineering, Mandya.
5. Abhishek Singh received 2nd prize in Street Play from Christ University.
6. Shreyal Telang has secured the Winner place in Table Tennis from BMSCE.
7. Vaishnavi B.S. has secured the Winner place in Table Tennis Inter Zonal competition held at Sapthagiri college of engineering and also at JSSATE.
8. Sushant Bhat received best singer award from RVCE , Aman Pandey received Ist prize for Ideaz B from IIT Roorkee. Rahul Shetty, Swapniel Shetty won prizes in canyon Rush and Delta Surge from IIT Karagpur.
REPORT ON TEAM FALCON
1. Team Falcon is a group of dedicated and definitely focused students, started out as an initiative to allow interaction between senior and junior students. It was started in the year 2014. Falcon, is a bird of prey that soars high, it was chosen as a name for the group to imply that the students who were a part of falcon would soar above their peers and achieve new heights. The students, at falcon, transfer their knowledge, experiences to the junior students, in the form of workshops and seminars which covers fields like robotics, simulation of analog and digital circuits, pcb designing etc. It's a good platform for learning, for both senior students, who get to teach, and the junior students, who get to learn. It encourages students to try out new ways to explore and discover things by themselves.
Sponsored student projects
1. Two VTU sponsored projects entitled "Implementation of wearable device for child and women safety" and "Image Processing based autonomous fetch Bot for garbage collection", were carried out by final year students during the year 2018-19.
2. Two KSCST sponsored project entitled- "Voice Controlled Wheel Chair with Health Monitoring System", and "Real Time Braille Script to Speech Converter" were carried out by final year students during the year 2017-2018.
3. KSCST sponsored project entitled- The Implementation of Swarm Robotics Using Swarm Intelligence carried out by final year students during the year 2016-2017
4. KSCST sponsored project entitled -INTEGRATED AIR-BORNE CAMERA UNIT with live video transmission and surveillance , carried out by final year students during 2015-2016.
5. IEEE EPICS granted 200 us dollar for the project entitled Real-Time Conversion of Sign Language into Audio and Text form to assist hearing and/or speech impaired in the year 2014-15.
6. IEEE EPICS granted 1304.00 us dollar for the project entitled Communication tool for hearing and speech impaired in the year 2013-14.
WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES CONDUCTED
1. Every year in the Department of Electronics & Communication, 15 to 20 workshops in various fields & topics are conducted. Along with this Department conducts seminars, conferences and invited lectures to keep the students and staff updated with the latest Technology.
2. Workshops are conducted by eminent resource persons from industries and academia, inhouse faculty &Falcon team members /alumni students. Some of the prime workshops which will be conducted every year are:
3. A Three days Faculty Development Programme was organized and conducted by ECE department on "Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python" on January 30,31 and February 01, 2020
4. Advanced VLSI course is conducted by Kanada Technologies on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and holidays. 20 students of ECE dept have registered for this course and taking benefit of the 200-hour course. The contents of course is introduction of MOSFET, tool introduction, custom Layouts, standard layouts, memory layouts and advanced topics are Short channel effects, STI, FINFET, Double Patterning, EUV. The course content matches with industry requirement in VLSI.
5. Project open house is scheduled on 23.02.2019 for fourth and sixth semester students to showcase their technical and also communication skills. Projects are carried out in various fields of Electronics &Communication Engineering namely Core communication, VLSI, embedded systems, Image processing, robotics, IOT, control etc.
6. Department hosted 2nd International Conference on Circuits, Controls and Communication (C3 2017), sponsored by the IEEE Bangalore section, IEEE communications, Circuits and Systems and CAS Society will be held on December 15-16, 2017.
7. Department also conducts national conference regularly.
DEPARTMENT PEOs AND PSOs
1. PEOs AND PSOs
EXTRA CURRICULAR EVENTS / ACTIVITIES
- Invited Talks on emerging technology by eminent personalities will be conducted every semester for the benefit of students.
- Invited Special Lecturers
- Team Falcon is a group of dedicated and definitely focused students, started out as an initiative to allow interaction between senior and junior students. It was started in the year 2014. Falcon, is a bird of prey that soars high, it was chosen as a name for the group to imply that the students who were a part of falcon would soar above their peers and achieve new heights. The students, at falcon, transfer their knowledge, experiences to the junior students, in the form of workshops and seminars which covers fields like robotics, simulation of analog and digital circuits, PCB designing etc. It's a good platform for learning, for both senior students, who get to teach, and the junior students, who get to learn. It encourages students to try out new ways to explore and discover things by themselves.
- IEEE RNSIT Student Branch
SPONSORED RESEARCH PROGRAM DETAILS
Faculty and students of the department are doing projects sponsored by KSCST, IEEE, AICTE and LRDE.
1. Under AICTE-RPS, received a grant of Rs. 20,17,000/- for the project titled Detection of Anti-personnel Mines using Indigenous Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), in the year 2013. Dr. Vipula Singh is Principal Investigator and Prof. S.N Sridhara was Co-Investigator . The project was completed in 2016, with outcome of 9 UG and 2-PG projects and also around 5 Paper presentation in International and national conferences.
2. From LRDE, under CARS received a grant of Rs. 9,75,000 for the project titled Analysis and implementation of Kirchhoffs migration and Omega-K algorithms for focusing Ground Penetrating Radar Image, in the year 2014. Dr. Vipula Singh is Principal Investigator and Prof. S.N Sridhara was Co-Investigator The project duration was 18 months. The project successfully completed in 2016, with outcome of 8 UG projects. Around 5 papers presented in International conference and 2 papers in International Journals. With these research projects faculty of ECE is pursuing PhD under VTU. The GPR team carried out an extensive literature survey and set up an elaborate GPR lab with the entire infrastructure necessary to carry out the research.
3. IEEE EPICS granted 200 us dollar for the project entitled Real-Time Conversion of Sign Language into Audio and Text form to assist hearing and/or speech impaired in the year 2014-15.
4. IEEE EPICS granted 1304.00 us dollar for the project entitled Communication tool for hearing and speech impaired in the year 2013-14.
5. KSCST sponsored project entitled -INTEGRATED AIR-BORNE CAMERA UNIT with live video transmission and surveillance , carried out by final year students during 2015-2016.
6. KSCST sponsored project entitled- The Implementation of Swarm Robotics Using Swarm Intelligence carried out by final year students during the year 2016-2017
7. Two KSCST sponsored project entitled- "Voice Controlled Wheel Chair with Health Monitoring System", and "Real Time Braille Script to Speech Converter" were carried out by final year students during the year 2017-2018
8. Two VTU sponsored projects entitled "Implementation of wearable device for child and women safety" and "Image Processing based autonomous fetch Bot for garbage collection", were carried out by final year students during the year 2018-19.
PERFORMANCE
NEWSLETTER(S) DESCRIPTON

Department releases news letter NOESIS- once every semester. Noesis means it is the perception of mind and a study of intellect. Noesis started in 2010 and department has released 15 newsletters till date. News letter is a collection of both technical thoughts and artistic skills. It is also a report of all the activities conducted within the department during the semester.

NOESIS
BEST PRACTICE
1. Department best practice
DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES
1. Department Activities
VLSI COE
1. VLSI Center of Excellence
1. VLSI Events
SIGNAL PROCESSING COE
1. Signal Processing Center of Excellence
PROJECT OPEN HOUSE(S)
R &D WORK / PAPERS PUBLISHED
1. Department of ECE has R&D centre offering Ph.D /M.Sc (Engg) since 2009. Under this research center 17 research scholars are pursuing their Ph.D.and 5 completed in various domains like Image Processing, Signal Processing, Networking, cryptography, Antenna and Radar, Optics etc. Research supervisors in Department of ECE are Dr. M K Venkatesha, DrVipula Singh, Dr Suresh D, Dr Rajini V H, Dr S.V Uma, Dr S Sandhya, Dr Andhe Pallavi, Dr Prabhavathi C N. Dr Sumathi and Dr Sangeetha B G. Research Scholars have published more than 200 publications in reputed journals and conferences. From this research center Prof. Archana R Kulkarni, Usha B. S, Sridhar S, Mamatha A.S, Manjula V K and Smitha N successfully completed their Ph.D
2. Under AICTE-RPS, received a grant of Rs. 20,17,000/- for the project titled Detection of Anti-personnel Mines using Indigenous Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), in the year 2013. Dr. Vipula Singh is Principal Investigator and Prof. S.N Sridhara was Co-Investigator . The project was completed in 2016, with outcome of 9 UG and 2-PG projects and also around 5 Paper presentation in International and national conferences.
3. From LRDE, under CARS received a grant of Rs. 9,75,000 for the project titled Analysis and implementation of Kirchhoffs migration and Omega-K algorithms for focusing Ground Penetrating Radar Image, in the year 2014. Dr. Vipula Singh is Principal Investigator and Prof. S.N Sridhara was Co-Investigator The project duration was 18 months. The project successfully completed in 2016, with outcome of 8 UG projects. Around 5 papers presented in International conference and 2 papers in International Journals. With these research projects faculty of ECE is pursuing PhD under VTU. The GPR team carried out an extensive literature survey and set up an elaborate GPR lab with the entire infrastructure necessary to carry out the research.
4. Faculties of ECE Department along with the students are involved in many research activities and have published their research contribution in many reputed journals like scopus indexed , Thomson Reuters and International conferences like Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, etc. Since 2012, around 200 papers has been published by faculties and students with 155 citations. Faculties have also published books with reputed publishers like Elsevier , International Publishing House, etc.

Name	Dr. M K Venkatesha
Designation	Professor & Principal
Qualification	Post Graduation from the University of Manitoba (CANADA), Ph.D
Total Experience	37 years of teaching
Experience in RNSIT	12 Years

Name	Dr. Vipula Singh
Designation	Professor & Head ECE
Qualification	B.E. in ECE from NIT Bhopal, Gold medalist in MTech from NIT Nagpur , and PhD from Guru Gobind Singh Indra Prastha University New Delhi (2009).
Total Experience	23 years of teaching, 2 year of industry
Experience in RNSIT	9 Years
Areas Of Interest	Image Processing, Image compression, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Artificial neural network, Artificial intelligence
Projects	Two Research projects under the grants from AICTE & LRD
Total Papers Published	70
Recent Papers	Smitha, Vipula Singh, "Target detection using supervised machine learning algorithm for GPR data", Sensing & Imaging 21(1), 1-15,2020 Prakash Tunga, Vipula Singh, "Extraction of tumor in Brain MRI using support Vector machine & performance evaluation", VTU journal of Engineering science & management, vol.1 issue 3, pp.01-08,2019"

Name	Mrs. Ghousia Begum S
Designation	Assistant Professor
Qualification	B.E, M.E, (Ph.D)
Total Experience	6 Years
Papers:	Automatic ECG Abnormality Diagnostic System Efficient and fully Automatic ECG Abnormality Diagnostic System Automatic Diagnostic System for Long-term ECG Data from Holter Monitor ECG Signal Processing for Remote Healthcare ECG Signal Analysis ECG Data Compression Methods for Telecardiology Application

Name	Mrs. Leena Chandrashekar
Designation	Assistant Professor
Qualification	B.E, M.Tech , (Ph.D)
Total Experience	5 years in RNSIT, Total 13 Years

Name	Mrs. Aparna Vishwanath
Designation	Assistant Professor
Qualification	B.E, M.E
Total Experience	4 years of teaching
Total Experience in RNSIT	3 years

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

"Accredited by NBA for the Academic years 2018-19,2019-20,2020-2021"

Vision

Mission

Laboratory

Ranks Achieved

Students achievements

REPORT ON TEAM FALCON

Sponsored student projects

IETE student chapter

IEEE student chapter at RNSIT

Falcon

Faculty and students of the department are doing projects sponsored by KSCST, IEEE, AICTE and LRDE.

Quality Input

NOESIS

Project Open house

Mini Project Open house

Teaching Staff

Technical / Non-Teaching Staff

Name	Mrs. Veena S
Designation	Instructor
Qualification	Diploma in ECE
Total Experience	28 Years

Name	Mr. Shivakumar S
Designation	Instructor
Qualification	Diploma in ECE
Total Experience	23 Years

Name	Mrs. Sandhya G Hegde
Designation	Assistant Instructor
Qualification	Diploma in E & C
Total Experience	9.5 Years

Name:	Mr. Anand M
Email:	anandmnk1985@gmail.com
Designation:	Assistant Instructor
Qualification:	Diploma in E&C
Total Experience:	11.6 years
Experience in RNSIT:	8 years

Name	Mr. Shivayogaiah
Designation	Assistant Instructor
Qualification	ITI, Diploma
Total Experience	21.5 years

Name	Mr. A V Lakshmi Prasanna
Designation	Assistant Instructor
Qualification	I.T.I - Electronics Mechanic, Diploma in ECE
Total Experience	16 years

Name	Mr. Sunil Kumar H
Designation	Assistant Instructor
Qualification	I.T.I, B.Sc(IT), MBA
Total Experience	14.5 years

Name	Mr. Ravi M G
Designation	Mechanic
Qualification	Diploma in ECE
Total Experience	17.6 years

Name	Mr. Vasantha Kumar
Designation	Helper
Qualification	ITI, Diploma in ECE
Total Experience	8.5 years

Name	Mr. Ramamurthy
Designation	Attender
Qualification	PUC
Total Experience	14 years

Name:	Dr. S V Uma
Designation:	Professor
Email:	umakeshav2000@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Total Experience:	20 years
Experience in RNSIT:	16 years
Areas of Interest:	Communication Systems Data Networks Signal/Image processing
Projects:	DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR DETECTION AND ELIMINATION OF VIRUSES IN NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE: ATTACK AND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES An Efficient VLSI Implementation of CDF 5/3 Architecture on FPGA for Image Processing Applications. BRAILLE LANGUAGE ENABLED CELL PHONE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE Prototype of a User-friendly Garden Irrigation System IMPLEMENTATION OF OFDM TRANSCEIVER ON AN FPGA
Papers:	GA based optimal design of network architecture for desired connectivity and traffic demand, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 2, Issue 11, November-2011 Congestion Control by Heuristics in High-Speed Networks Using ANN, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer. {Acceptance and final proof copy received, To be published in 2014} A Cross Layer UDP-IP protocol for Efficient Congestion Control in Wireless Networks, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 11, No.12, Dec 2013 A Novel, Unified Dynamic Data Dissemination [D3] and Differentiated Traffic Classification Technique for Congestion Avoidance in High Speed Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks , International Journal of Simulation, Systems, Science and Technology. {Acceptance received, To Be Published in Jan2014} S V Uma, K S Gurumurthy, Novel, High Speed Congestion Control through Deep packet inspection and filtering of Network Intrusions (Communicated)
Other Acheivements	Received Best Paper Award for the paper titled A Cross Layer UDP-IP protocol for efficient Congestion Control in Wireless Networks, in International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol.11, No.12, December 2013, pages 58-68, ISSN 1947-5500. Received "Best Teacher award" at RNSIT in the year 2004,2005. Conducted classes in VTU-EDUSAT in AEC and Microelectronic Circuits in the years 2004 and 2013. Had been Member-BoE and Coordinator for Practical exams in ECE/TC branches of VTU in the year 2014-15. Conducted Corporate training programs on Data Converters and its Applications and Analog ICs and their applications in 2009 & 2010. Average student appraisal in the range 90% throughout my teaching career. Have guided more than 50 UG projects and more than 12 PG students for their final year projects. Have delivered invited talks on Advanced Communication Technologies , Basics of Engineering etc. in other reputed colleges.

Name:	Dr. Rajini V Honnungar
Designation:	Associate Professor
Email:	Rajini.V.Honnungar@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, PhD(IISc)
Areas of Interest:	Integrated Optics, Microwave Photonics, Microwaves and Antennas
Papers:	Rajini V Honnungar, Soumya .N,T. Srinivas "Optimization of S-bend Waveguide Parameters For Delay Line Based Phase Shifter In Integrated Optics" ASIAN Journal of Physics, an International Quarterly Research Journal Rajini V Honnungar,T Srinivas "Design and Simulation of an Optical Integrated Passive S-bend waveguide delay line Phase Shifter" IEEE CICSyn2012,Phuket,Thailand, July 24-26,2012, IEEE 2012 pp.125-128, ISBN 978-1-4673-2640-7 Rajini V Honnungar, T Srinivas "An integrated optics delay line using curved waveguide for beamforming applications" XXXV OSI Symposium, International Conference on Contemporary Trends in Optics and Optoelectronics,pp.394 Jan 17-19, 2011, Thiruvanthapuram, India. Rajini V Honnungar, Yadunath.T.R, Sujitha.P, T.Srinivas "Design and Analysis of Integrated Optic waveguide Delay line for Beam forming Applications" pp.43,16-18 Dec.2011,IEEE India Annual Conferennce on Engg., sustainable solutions, INDICON-2011, BITS, Hyderabad
Total Experience:	20 years
Experience in RNSIT:	14 years
Other Achievements:	Best teacher award during 2006 at RNSIT IEEE Student Branch Counselor

Name:	Dr. Dinesh K Anvekar
Designation:	Professor
Qualification:	B.E. (UVCE), M.E. (IISc), Ph.D. (IISc), FIETE, SMIEEE, ASQBB
Total Experience:	37 years
Areas of Interest:	Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, VLSI Systems, AI and Machine Learning, IOT
Papers Published:	68
Recent Papers:	Sanchari Saha and Dinesh K Anvekar,"Mitigation of Single Point Failure and Successful Data Recovery in Wireless Body Area Network", , International Journal of Network Infrastructure Security, MAT Journals, Vol.1 Issue 1, 2017, link: http://matjournals.in/index.php/IJNIS/article/view/1608 Sanchari Saha and Dinesh K Anvekar,"Use of Central mediator system and cluster head in maintaining fault tolerance and balancing the load of MWBAN data",INDJST-2016, (Scopus index journal), DOI: 10.17485, December-2016, Vol.9, Issue 45, ISSN: 0974-6846. Sanchari Saha and Dinesh K Anvekar,"A Hybrid Security Paradigm for Intra-WBAN & Inter-WBAN Communication Mechanism", IJARCSSE, impact factor -2.5, Volume-5, Issue-11, ISSN: 2277-1281, ISBN: 2277-6451, November 2015. Sanchari Saha and Dinesh K Anvekar,"Protocol Design Issues in Implementing Security for Wireless Body Area Network", IJETR, Impact factor: 1.3, ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-12, December 2014. Sanchari Saha and Dinesh K Anvekar,"State of the Art in WBAN Security & Open Research Issues", IJRITCC, ISSN: 2321-8169, Volume 2 Isuue 7, July 2014. Shanthi M.B. and Dinesh K Anvekar, "Mobility Based Secure Localization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks" IJ Engineering and Technology, 7 (2.33) (2018) 1025-1030, July 2018 Shanthi M.B. and Dinesh K Anvekar, "Swarm Intelligence Optimization Algorithms for Localization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks" IJ of Multidisciplinary Research Review, ISSN: 2455-3085 Vol.02, Issue-12, December-2017 Shanthi M. B. and Dinesh K. Anvekar, "A Survey on Research Challenges at the Network Layer of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks(uw-wsn)", International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Applied Science,Volume-2,Issue-7,July 2016, ISSN:2395-3470

Name:	Dr. Manjula V K
Designation:	Associate Professor
Email:	manjulavk@rediffmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Wireless communication, Software Defined Radio, Communication Networking, IOT
Papers:	"SDR solution approach for Baseband- Personal Area Network", IJETAE,Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2012, pp645-648. "SDR Solution to IEEE802.15.4 sub-1GHz band BPSK Modem", IEEE 3rd International Conference on ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (ICECS-16) on 25th-26th February 2016,Volume 5, pp. 2551-55 "Reconfigurable Software Defined Radio MODEM for Personal Area Network", IEEE WiSPNET 2017 conference, on 22rd-24th March 2017, pp. 1460-1465, 978-1-5090-4442-9/17/$31.00c
Total Experience:	18 years
Experience in RNSIT:	14 years

Name	Mrs. Lakshmi
Designation	Peon
Qualification	SSLC
Total Experience	4 years

Name:	Mr. S N Sridhara
Designation:	Professor
Qualification:	B.E, M.E, PGDOM
Areas of Interest:	RADAR
Projects:	GROUND PENETRATING RADAR PROJECT
Total Papers Published:	10
Total Experience:	35 years
Experience in RNSIT	9 years

Name:	Dr. Suresh D
Designation:	Professor
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, PhD
Total Experience:	31 Years
RNSIT Experience:	3 Years

Name:	Dr. Usha B S
Email:	usha.b.s@rnsit.ac.in
Designation:	Associate Professor
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech,Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Image Processing, Digital Electronics
Papers:	Papsmear image based detection of cervical cancer, International Journal of Computer Applications 45 (20), 35-40, 2012 A novel approach for speckle reduction and enhancement of ultrasound images, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 - 8887) Volume 45- No.20, May 2012 Medical image transcoder for telemedicine based on wireless communication devices, , 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT) Measurement of ovarian size and shape parameters, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), pp.1-6, 2013 Size and Shape-Based Ovarian Abnormality Detection of Ultrasound Images, Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology, Springer LNEE, 295-309, 2013 Ultrasound Ovary Image Classification Using Kσ-Classifier, 5th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam, 198-202, Springer IFMBE Proceedings Abnormality Detection in Ovarian Ultrasound Images using Active Contours, Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging 1 (4), 14-23
Total Experience:	18 years
Experience in RNSIT:	15 years

Name:	Dr. Archana R Kulkarni
Designation:	Associate Professor
Email:	archana.anv@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, Computer Networks
Papers:	"Analysis of Performance of MAC based Iterative MUD Using EXIT and BER Charts", CiiT International Journal of Wireless Communication, September 2010, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 297-303. Available at www.ciitresearch.org/dl/index.php/wc/article/view/WC092010007 "Data Aggregation Using Doped Turbo Codes", Paper presented at International Conference on Contemporary and Informatics 2014, Sponsored by IEEE Advancing Technology Humanity, IEEE Bangalore Section, pp. 440-445.Also uploaded in the IEEE Xplore Digital library with Part Number CFP14AWQ,978-1-4799-6629-5/14/$31.00@2014 IEEE, DOI:10.1109/IC3I.2014.7019709. "Assigning Nodes to Clusters in WSN based on Fuzzy Inputs of RSS, BE and BA", Paper presented at International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Organization 2015, IEEE Conference Record Number: #35593, 24-25, January 2015. This paper is also uploaded in the IEEE Xplore Digital library with Part Number CFP14AWQ, INSPEC Accession Number 15452223, 978-1-47997678-2/15/$31.00@2015 IEEE, DOI:10.1109/EESCO.2015.7253671. "Adaptable Packet Length for Power Hungry WSN", International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science, Mar-Apr 2015, Vol. 3, No. 2, ISSN 2091-2730, pp. 242-248. Available at www.ijergs.org
Total Experience:	18.5 years
Experience in RNSIT:	11.5 years

Name:	Dr.Prabhavathi C N
Designation:	Associate Professor
Email:	prabhacngowda@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Signal Processing, Communication
Projects:	UG and PG projects are given to students and has been guided.
Papers:	Presented in International Conference Published in international (Scopus) indexed journals One of the paper is published in Springer Book Presented in National Conference Prabhavathi C.N., Dr. K.M. Ravikumar, A Fast Adaptive Kalman Filtering Algorithm For Speech Enhancement Under Stationary Noise Environment,First International Conference on Power, Circuit and Information Technologies ,ICPCIT 2015 Sarvasva S , Prabhavathi C.N (Packet Data Analysis in Wireless Network) in 7th International Conference on Advancing in Science Engg. and Technology ,2016 Chethan S.G , Dr C.N Prabhavathi, (Administration Based Network Computing for Enterprise System) presented in CCUBE 2017
Journals:	Prabhavathi C.N., Dr.K.M. Ravikumar (Acoustic Noise Classification and Characterization Using Statistical Properties), International journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engg,.ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 ,vol. 4 ,Issue 6, June 2014 Prabhavathi C.N., Dr.K.M. Ravikumar, (Intelligibility Of Speech Using Short Time Fourier Transform Phase Spectrum) and International Journal of Applied Engineering Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 10, Number 18 ,pp 39550-39557 ,2015 (Scopus Indexed Journal)
Publication in Springer Book:	Prabhavathi C.N., Dr. K.M. Ravikumar, (A Fast Adaptive Kalman Filtering Algorithm For Speech Enhancement Under Stationary Noise Environment), Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems , ISBN 978-81-322-2654-3 ,Vol. 394 , Proceedings of ICAIECES 2015
Total Experience	17 years
Experience in RNSIT:	13 years

Name:	Mr. Prakash Tunga P
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	prakashtunga.p@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Digital Image Processing
Projects:	Brain Tumor extraction using segmentation techniques Implementation of FIR filter using parallel architecture applicable for audio and image applications Design and development of 32-bit floating point multiplier unit on FPGA Prakash Tunga, Vipula Singh, V. Sri Aditya, N. Subramanya, U - net Model Based Classification and Description of Brain Tumor in MRI Images, International Journal of Image and Graphics, doi:10.1142/S0219467821400052
Papers:	Extraction and Description of Tumor region from brain MRI using segmentation techniques only
Total Experience:	14 Years
Experience in RNSIT:	13 Years

Name:	Dr. Smitha N
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	smithanesara81@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.E, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Radar signal processing, Antennas
Projects:	Implementation and development of Kirchhoff and F-K migration algorithms for improving GPR resolution Clutter reduction using signal processing techniques for ground penetrating radars Design and simulation of antennas for GPR Applications Electromagnetic wave propagation modeling of soil for GPR FDTD Based Numerical Framework for Ground Penetrating radar simulation Design and fabrication of Vivaldi Antenna
Papers:	Smitha N, Vipula Singh, "Clutter Reduction using Background subtraction of Ground penetrating radar for landmine detection", 2015 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (Prime Asia) Smitha N, Vipula Singh, "Clutter reduction techniques of ground penetrating radar for detecting subsurface explosive objects", 5th IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication & Embedded Systems, ICICES 2016 N. Smitha, D. R. Ullas Bharadwaj, S. Abilash, S. N. Sridhara, Vipula Singh, "Kirchhoff migration to focus Ground Penetrating Radar Images for Landmine detection", International journal of Geo-Engineering, (2016) , vol 7:4, pp 1-12 N. Smitha, D. R. Ullas Bharadwaj, S. Abilash, S. N. Sridhara, Vipula Singh, "Effect of Ground Undulation and Variation in velocity of vehicle on Migration of SFCW GPR data for landmine detection", Exploration Geophysics Journal (CSIRO) Smitha N, Vipula Singh, Sridhara S N, "Pyramidal Horn antenna for Ground Penetrating Radar application", INDICON, 2016, IEEE conference
Total Experience:	12 years
Experience in RNSIT:	10 years

Name:	Dr. Ohileshwari M S
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	ohileshwarims@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	VLSI testing, Sub-threshold Memories
Projects:	Design and development of test controller card for fan tray unit under manufacturing test Design and implementation of efficient BICS for 6T SRAM cells Power optimization technique for TYPE-A sub-threshold SRAM cells Design and implementation of SCS-based montogomy modular multiplier
Papers:	Testing Analog blocks based on terminal characteristics of highly sensitive nodes ICSEM-2013 Efficient dynamic current testing solution for fault masking in memory cells
Total Experience:	17 years
Experience in RNSIT:	7 years

Name:	Mr. Narendra Kumar
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	nkrnsit@gmail.com
Qualification:	BE ,MTech, MBA (PhD)
Areas of Interest:	Biomedical signal processing, Embedded systems, Advanced Communication Engineering
Papers:	Tejaswini, Narendra Kumar "Autonomous Staircase Climbing Robot" International Journal of Advanced Computational Engineering and Networking, ISSN: 2320-2106, volume-4,ISSUE-6, june-2016. Akshatha N, NarendraKumar,Dr K B Ramesh "Design and Development of a Primeval Medical Therapy using Applied Electronic Instrumentation by Analyzing Wrist Procurement for Monitoring Human Health Status" International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering,E-ISSN:2347-2693, volume-4,special issue-3, May 2016. JATIN CHOUDRY ,NarendraKumar "Labview Based Text To Speech Processor For Blind And Dumb People" International Academic Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IACEEE), 17th May 2015. SUHAS M, Narendra Kumar "A Novel Method For Multiply Accumulate Operation Optimized For Hardware Implementation Using Vedic MAC" 2nd International Conference on recent trends in Signal Processing, Image Processing &VLSI,Department Of Electronics and Communication Engineering ,Don Bosco Institute Of Technology on 15th&16th May,2015. Narendra Kumar "Speech Recognised Calculator" ISRACE Second International Conference on Recent Advances In Science And Engineering (ICRACE-2015)Bangalore,9th&10thMay 2015. Narendra Kumar "A Novel Accumalate Method To Multiply Accumulate Operation" National Conference On AdvancedCommunication,VLSI Design & Signal Processing, NCCVS-15, Bangalore, 29th April,2015. Akshatha N, Narendra Kumar "A Novel Based approach On Designing And Development Freezer Using Solar Radiation-A Hot Idea For Cooling" National Conference On Advances In Mechanical Engineering, Department Of Mechanical Engineering Held at KSSEM, Bangalore ,28th April,2015. Narendra Kumar "Implementation of Cuckoo Hashing algorithm for NIDS" National conference on recent advances in communications networks,NCRACN'14. VIVEK KARAN, Narendra kumar "Implemenating PSOC To Harness Energy For Sattellite By Employing Multilayered Piezo Electric Crystals" International Conference October 2013,Padiyala ,Punjab ,India. Narendra kumar "Obstacle Detection And Distance Measurement For Vehicle Parking Using Labview" NCRAECE -13 Narendra kumar "Automated Headlight Intensity Controller" NCRAECE-13. Narendra kumar "GSM Based Wireless Bulletin Board" NHCE -2013
Books Written:	Shailendrakumar, Narendra kumar Microprocessors 8086 I edition, Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore 2013 Shailendrakumar,Narendra kumar Microprocessors 8086 2nd edition, PRISM publication 2014 Narendra kumar , Hemanth Kumar Microcontrollers 8051 and msp430 first edition,Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore 2013 Narendra kumar , Hemanth Kumar Microcontrollers 8051 and msp430 2nd edition, PRISM publication 2014 Narendrakumar, optical fiber communication I edition, Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore 2012 Narendrakumar, optical fiber communication second edition, Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore 2015 Narendra kumar Analog communication I edition, Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore 2013 Narendra Kumar, Somashekar.K, Praveen.G, Basic Electronics I edition, August 2014, Excellent Engineer Publications Bangalore Narendra Kumar ,Optical Fiber Communication, 2nd Edition, August 2015, Excellent Engineer Publication Narendra Kumar, Narayana T Deshapande , Digital Communication, March 2016, Excellent Engineer Publication
Total Experience:	18 years
Experience in RNSIT:	8 years

Name:	Dr. Sangeetha B G
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	sangeethabg@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	VLSI
Total Experience:	15 years
Experience in RNSIT:	12 years

Name:	Mr. Sreenivasa Babu M O
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	sreenivasa.babu@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E., M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Integrated Optics, Photonics
Total Experience:	11 years
Experience in RNSIT:	10 years

Name:	Mrs. Ibrar Jahan M A
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	ibrarjahan20@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Integrated Optics
Projects:	Design & Sensitivity Improvement of FBG pressure sensor
Papers:	Ibrar Jahan M.A, Dr Rajini V Honnungar, Versha R, "Analysis of FBG Sensor for Accurate Pressure Sensing with Improved Sensitivity", ICMPC 2017 7th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization, held at GRIET, Hyderabad. Ibrar Jahan M.A, Dr Rajini V Honnungar, Versha R, "Analysis and Sensitivity Improvement of FBG Sensor", 2017 International Conference on Recent Advances in Electronics and Communication Technology held at SJBIT, Bangalore.
Books Written:	Basic Electronics, I.K International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
Paper published in national conference:	4
Paper published in international conference:	5
Scopus indexed journal accepted:	1
Text Book Published:	1 (Basic Electronics)
Total Experience:	15 years
Experience in RNSIT:	8 years

Name:	Dr.Nandini K S
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	nandiniks@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, Ph.D
Areas of Interest:	Cognitive radio, Mesh networks, Communication
Papers:	Performance Evaluation of Non co-operative Spectrum Sensing Methods in Cognitive Radios (Presented in NCRACN'14, RNSIT) Implementation of Communication Protocol for Digital Beacon Receiver using FPGA( project carried in ISRO and got Best paper in National Conference On Recent Trends In Electronics And Communication 2016)
Total Experience:	8.8 years
Experience in RNSIT:	5.8 years

Name:	Mrs. Chethana J
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	jchethana@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	VLSI
Total Experience:	6.5 Years
Experience in RNSIT:	5.5 Years

Name:	Mr. Praveen G
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	praveeng@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Image Processing, Signal Processing, Analog Circuits
Books Written:	Basic Electronics Principles of Communication Systems
Total Experience:	9 years
Experience in RNSIT:	5 years

Name:	Mrs. Vanitha K S
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	vanitham@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E,M.Tech (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Wireless Communication
Total Experience:	8 years
Experience in RNSIT:	6 years

Name:	Mr. Sanjay M Belgaokarr
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	sanjaymb@rnsit.ac.in
Qualification:	B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Signal Processing, Communication Systems, Antenna Theory and Design
Projects:	Antenna Designs with Defected Ground Structures for GPR Application. Density Based Traffic Control System. Down link Network Resource Allocation for Next Generation Wireless Networks with Inter - cell Interference. Study and Implementation of Moving Target Detector (MTD) using Digital FIR Filter Bank.
Papers:	"Smart Lighting and Control using MSP430 & Power Line Communication", International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) / ISSN: 2250 - 3005 / May - June 2012 / Vol. 2 / Issue No. 3 / Pg. 662 - 666. "Design and Development of Smart Lighting Module using MSP430 Microcontroller", International Conference on Evolutionary Trends in Information Technology held at VTU, Belagavi on 5th - 6th October, 2012. "FPGA Based Mitigation of Noise from Images using a Combination of Adaptive Fuzzy Filter and Median Filter", National Conference on VLSI, Communication & Computer Networks held at AMC Engineering College, Bengaluru on 3rd May, 2013.
Total Experience:	9 years
Experience in RNSIT:	3 years
Other Achievements:	Excellence in Mathematics - for scoring 100 out of 100 in Mathematics in SSLC Examinations - B. K. Model High School, Belagavi in 2003. A special recognition award - For Outstanding Contribution towards Overall Development of Department for the year 2011 - 12 - Dept. of ECE, AMCEC, Bengaluru in 2012.

Name:	Mrs. Vinaya Kusuma
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	vinaya.kusuma@gmail.com
Qualification:	B.Tech, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Areas of Interest:	Photonics, Image processing
Projects:	The Implementation of Swarm Robotics using Swarm Intelligence ( KSCST sponsered) Intelligent Traffic Light Control using Image Processing Voice Controlled Wheel Chair with Health Monitoring System
Papers:	Low Density Distributed Approach to Hyperspectral Image Compression (TENCON 2015) Hyperspectral Image Compression based on Distributed Source Coding
Total Experience:	7 years
Experience in RNSIT:	3 years

Name:	Ms. Geetha G
Designation:	Assistant Professor
Email:	geethag.rnsit@gmail.com
Qualification:	M.Tech VLSI and Embedded Systems
Areas of Interest:	VLSI, Embedded Systems, Image Processing, Machine Learning
Projects:	An Implementation of matrix based mapping method using Elliptic Curve Cryptography, An improved image compression techniques using Binary Space Partition and Geometric Wavelets
Papers:	An Implementation of matrix based mapping method using Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Application of different filters for noise removal in digital images, Improving Taxi Revenue using Reinforcement Learning
Total Experience:	5 years
Experience in RNSIT:	4 years