Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi
Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
In office July 2020 – January 2022
Preceded by	Timothy A. Gonsalves
Succeeded by	Laxmidhar Behera
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office December 2016[1] – 11 Oct 2022
Preceded by	Pradipta Banerji
Succeeded by	Prof.Kamal Kishore Pant[2]
Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
In office 1994–1996[3]
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office 1996–1999[3]
Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
In office 1999–2016[4]
Personal details
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Profession	Professor Dean Researcher
Known for	MIMO systems applications
Website	Official website

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi is an Indian professor, education administrator and former director of IIT Roorkee. Previously, he has been the Dean (R&D), and former Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design,[5] MIMO systems.[6] Recently, he has been bestowed with additional charge of director (acting) of newly established IIT Mandi and served the office till January 2022.Thereafter, he was succeeded by Professor Laxmidhar Behera.[7][8]

Awards, honors and fellowships

• Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (2008).[9]
• INSA Teacher award (2017)[10]
• Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur (2007)[11]
• Thrice (2002, 2006 and 2012) supervisor of the B.Tech. Project (BTP) group that won the Best BTP award[11]
• Plenary speaker at the 15th National Conference on Communications (2009)[11]
• Mentor of the team that won the Microsoft Award for Innovation at the World Finals of theIEEE Computer Society International Design Contest in 2002[11]

Education

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1995[11]
• M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1988[11]
• B. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1986[11]

Selected bibliography

Articles

• Singh, Vindheshwari P.; Chaturvedi, Ajit Kumar (22 June 2017). "Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel". IET Communications. 11 (9): 1485–1496. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2017.0034. S2CID 206185133.
• Manglani, G.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (February 2006). "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 54 (2): 204–207. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863793. S2CID 9792284.
• Chaturvedi, A.K.; Sharma, G. (1999). "A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (9): 2547–2551. Bibcode:1999ITSP...47.2547C. doi:10.1109/78.782201.
• S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)[11]
• P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)[11]
• R Appuswamy and AK Chaturvedi, "A new framework for constructing mutually orthogonal complementary sets and ZCZ sequences," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 52 (8), 3817-3826 (2006)[11]
• G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)[11]
• RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)[11]

Conference proceedings

• Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (December 2016). "Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems". 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC WKSHPS). IEEE. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2016.7848930. ISBN 978-1-5090-2482-7. S2CID 25357090.
• Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (January 2016). "Improving the reliability of receivers for 5G networks". 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439993. ISBN 978-1-4673-9622-6. S2CID 4908364.

References

1. Susheel, Tapan (8 December 2016). "ajit kumar chaturvedi: IIT Roorkee gets new director | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.
2. "IIT Delhi Professor appointed as the new Director for IIT Roorkee, all about Prof. KK Pant". 29 September 2022.
3. "Director IIT Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". www.iitr.ac.in.
4. "A K Chaturvedi". home.iitk.ac.in. IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
5. Chakrabati, S.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (December 2000). "Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems". 2000 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8488). pp. 198–202. doi:10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905802. ISBN 0-7803-5893-7. S2CID 19501210.
6. Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (February 2018). "Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search-Based Detection in Large MIMO Systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66 (2): 713–725. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2761383. ISSN 1558-0857. S2CID 3706683.
7. "Meet Ajit K Chaturvedi, new director of IIT-Mandi". The Indian Express. 30 June 2020.
8. "Prof Laxmidhar Behera is new director of IIT Mandi". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2022.
9. "A. K. Chaturvedi". IEEE.
10. "INSA :: INSA Teachers Award List". insaindia.res.in.
11. "Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi".