Former IIT Kanpur Director takes charge as Secretary DST

Prof. Abhay Karandikar has 20+ patents to his credit, papers in international journals, contributions to IEEE, 3GPP standards and contributed chapters in books. He has been an invited speaker in national and international forums and led 20+ sponsored research projects with industries and government funding agencies and served on numerous national committees as an expert member and advisor.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, the former Director of IIT Kanpur took over charge as the new Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) from Dr Rajesh Gokhale.

"I joined today as Secretary of the @IndiaDST. I also met Heads of various divisions. Looking forward to contributing," reads a tweet by Prof. Karandikar.

An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, he started his career at IIT Bombay where he later became the Dean (Faculty Affairs) followed by the head of the Electrical Engineering Department, first Professor-in- charge of IIT Bombay Research Park and the head of Computer Center of IIT Bombay. This was followed by his appointment as the Director of IIT Kanpur, his very own Alma mater.

Prof. Karandikar along with his group innovated SDN based architecture to bring together multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATS) under a unified control and management framework as part of the 5G networks. They proposed some novel frameworks in SDN, RAN Virtualization and Frugal 5G. Professor Karandikar also led the filing of several patents for technologies developed by him and his group.

He is an electrical engineer, renowned for his contributions to the telecommunications sector of the country. He developed the concept of “Frugal 5G Network” to enable affordable rural broadband connectivity and contributed to telecom policy and regulations that were included in national-level telecom policies.

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