Compressive Sensing for Wireless Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

Professor & Head, Department of ECE, has 26 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience in the area of Wireless Networks. She has graduated from Madurai Kamraj University, in Electronics and Communica- tion Engineering during the year 1989. She has obtained her Master degree in Applied Electronics with First Rank from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore and Ph.D. degree from College of Engineering, Gunidy, Anna University, Chennai. She also worked as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University for a period of six month in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks. She has 95 publications in International and National Journals and confer- ences in the area of Mobile Ad hoc Network and Wireless Sensor Networks. 11 scholars are graduated their Ph.D. under her guidance and presently 7 research scholars are doing research in the area of sensor networks, IoT and cognitive radios. She is the recipient of IETE - S K Mitra Memorial Award in October 2006 from IETE Council of INDIA, Best paper awards in various conferences and CTS - SSN Best Faculty Award - 2007 & 2009 for the outstanding performance for the academic years 2006-07 and 2008-09. She has received research funding for sponsored projects as Principal investigator and co-investigator from various funding agencies such as Indira Gandhi Atomic Centre for Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, National Insti- tute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, INTEL Bangalore, DST and SSN. She is a Senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, and Life member of ISTE.