Vinod A Prasad

                                                   Associate Professor

                                       School of Computer Engineering

 

 

Resume
      

Educational

·        B.Tech., Instrumentation & Control Engineering, N.S.S.College of Engineering, Palakkad, University of Calicut, India, 1994
 

·         M.Engg., School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2000. (Dissertation Topic: A Novel Approach to the Design and Realization of Quadrature Mirror Filters, Supervisor: Dr. Benjamin Premkumar)
 

·         Ph.D., School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2004. (Dissertation Topic: Design Techniques for Low-Complexity Implementation of Software Defined Radio Channelizers, Supervisor: Dr. Edmund Lai)
 

·        Certificate in Teaching (Higher Education), University of Sheffield, UK, 2002

Professional Membership

  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
     
  • Member, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

Professional Activities

      Journal Editorial Service

·        May 2009 – Present: Editor, International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT), ISSN: 2005-8039, Covered by INSPEC database, http://www.aicit.org/ijact/

 

·        February 2007 – January 2009: Editor, The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal, Bentham Science Publishers.

 

·        Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Software Defined Radio, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Formerly, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing), Springer, Published in November 2009.

 

·        Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Embedded Signal Processing Circuits and Systems for Cognitive Radio, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Springer, Publication: December 2010.

 

      Service to International Conferences

·        Program Chair, International Symposium of Electronic System Design, ISED 2011, 19-21 December 2011, Kochi, India.

 

·        Technical Programme Committee (TPC), 6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), Aug. 17-19 2011, Harbin, China.

 

·        TPC, IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems, Nov. 2010, Singapore.

 

·        Organizer, Special Session on Signal Processing Advances for Cognitive Radio, URSI (International Union of Radio Science) General Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2011.

·        TPC, Sixth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications May 9 - 15, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain

·        TPC, IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Singapore, November 2009.

·        TPC, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.

·        International Advisory Committee, 1st IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology, Hoogly, West Bengal, India, February 2009.

·        TPC, 11th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems, Guangzhou, China, November 2008.

·        TPC, 16th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication, Chennai, India, December 14-17 2008.

·        TPC, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, September 2008.

·        TPC, National Conference on Communication Systems and Networking, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India, March 2008.

·        TPC, 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication, Guwahati, India, December 2007.

·        TPC, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, August 2007.

·        TPC, Mosharaka International Conference on Communication and Information Technology, Amman, Jordan, December 2007.

·        Organizer, Special Session on Constraint-driven Hardware for Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Singapore, December 2006.

·        Organizer, Special Session on Resource-Constraint DSP Hardware for Digital Communication Applications, Tenth IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems, Singapore, 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 2006.

·        TPC, IEEE International Conference on Communications Circuits and Systems, Gui Lin, China, June 25-28, 2006.

·        Workshop Chair, Future Computing, International Multi-conference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (CSREA), Las Vegas, USA, June 2006.

·        Publicity Chair, Tenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Singapore, October 24-27, 2005.

·        Session Chair, Communication Receiver Design, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.

·        Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004

·        TPC, IASTED Signal Processing Conferences (since 2002)

·        Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
 

Work Experience

·        Sep. 2010 – Now            Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,  

                                            Singapore

 

  • Dec. 2004 – Aug. 2010

Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

 
  • Sep. 2002 - Nov. 2004

Lecturer, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

 
  • Sep. 2000 - August 2002

Lecturer, School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

 

 
  • Jun. 1997 - Nov. 1998

Engineer, Seraya Chemicals Singapore Pte. Ltd
  • Dec. 1995 - May 1997

Project Engineer, Tata Honeywell Ltd., Pune, India
  • Oct. 1993 - Nov. 1995

Project Engineer, Kirloskar AAF Ltd., Bangalore, India

Honors and Awards

·        Most Popular Lecturer (Year-2), 2010, NTU, School of Computer Engineering (Voted by students – Exclaim 2010)

·        Winner of the Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching, NTU, 2009, the highest recognition conferred by NTU to individual faculty in teaching.

·        Most Popular Lecturer (Year-2), 2009, NTU, School of Computer Engineering (Voted by students – Exclaim 2009)

·        Nominated for Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching, NTU, 2008

·        Most Popular Lecturer (Year-2), 2008, NTU, School of Computer Engineering (Voted by students – Exclaim 2008)

·        Best Lecturer (Year-2), 2007, NTU, School of Computer Engineering (Voted by students – Exclaim 2007)

·        Research Outstanding Award Recognition (ROAR), Office of Research, NTU, 2006.

·        Research Outstanding Award Recognition (ROAR), Office of Research, NTU, 2005.

·        Second rank (B.Tech.), University of Calicut, India, 1994

·        NTU Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 1998 - 2000