Celebrating first anniversary of Bharat 6G Alliance
Director General ( Department of Telecommunication )
Ashok Kumar is an officer of Indian Telecom Service, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India. He joined this service in year 1995. He is a career technocrat with specialization in the Mobile Communications and other telecom and related ICT sector; presently working Deputy Director General in Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications. Presently he is Vice Chair of ITU-T Study Group – 16 which makes standards on Multimedia and Digital services.
In addition to his expertise and policy and regulations in the field of telecommunications , He is an expert in 5G and other mobile Technologies. During his stint at National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research and Innovation he had designed and developed 30 courses of a total duration of 40 hours on 5G Mobile Communications and published it on eLearning Platform (known as iGoT) of Government of India. He has also conducted five batches of Online 36 hours/ 6 weeks Certificate courses on 5G Technology for officers of Indian Telecom Service , other central / state Government officials and Faculty members of engineering collages.
He has earlier worked in Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) mandated to issue biometric based Identity called Aadhaar to all residents of India. He had contributed in creating enabling policy, process and guidelines to expand the eco system and keep them viable and healthy resulting in achieving the mammoth task of enrolling over one billion population of India.
During his initial 10 years of services, he has served in various part of the country and contributed in Installation, Commissioning and Operation of telecom networks.
Bharat 6G Alliance
Rajesh Kumar Pathak has done Masters in Technology and has more than 37 years of Experience in senior position at Government of India. Mr Pathak is recognized for his exceptional contributions to indigenous manufacturing, technological innovation, and global collaboration. Instrumental in setting up of the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI), driving technology standards and innovation. Mr. Pathak's strategic insight extends to nurturing Indian start-ups and the "Make In India" campaign, fostering innovation.
Prior to Director General position in Bharat 6G Alliance, he was Bharat 6G Mission Head in the Government and instrumental in framing Bharat 6G Vision statement. Leading the Bharat 6G Alliance with his forward-looking approach, he continues shaping India's telecom landscape, inspiring innovation, collaboration, and progress.
WiSig Networks Pvt Ltd
Professor Kiran Kuchi holds a position as a Professor within the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He spearheads research and standardization endeavors for 5G-advanced and 6G technologies on behalf of India at international standards organizations focused on shaping future communication systems. With a prolific portfolio, Professor Kuchi boasts over 200 international patents, including some recognized as essential to 5G standards. Notably, he is the founder of WiSig Networks Pvt Ltd, a venture incubated at IITH, where collaborative efforts between IITH and WiSig have led to the development and commercialization of 5G base station and user equipment (UE) technologies, as well as NB-IoT System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions.
IIT Madras
Radha Krishna Ganti is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He received his B. Tech. and M. Tech. in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Masters in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. His doctoral work focused on the spatial analysis of interference networks using tools from stochastic geometry. His research interests include digital communications, convex optimisation and building communication systems. He received the 2014 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2014 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize and the 2015 IEEE Communications society young author best paper award. He was also awarded the 2016-2017 Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA) by IIT Madras. In 2019, he was awarded the TSDSI fellow for technical excellence in standardisation activities and contribution to LMLC use case in ITU. He was the lead PI from IIT Madras involved in the development of 5G base stations for the 5G testbed project funded by DOT.
Tejas Networks
Jishnu Aravindakshan is Principal Architect Technology in CTO’s office, Tejas Networks India Limited and has 20 years’ experience in the field of Telecom.
He obtained his BTech in electronics and communication from NIT, Calicut in 2001 and Masters from IISc, Bangalore in 2004. Subsequently he joined Tejas Networks and is responsible for deciding the long-term roadmap of the company. He has represented Tejas at ITU-T SG15 and has contributed towards the development of ITU-T G.8032 and MPLS-TP standards. His present interests include 5G-Adv and 6G. He is actively involved in 5G standardization through TSDSI (Telecom Standards Development Society, India) at ITU-R WP5D, and as Individual Member at 3GPP RAN1/SA2. He was closely involved in the design of 3G/4G backhaul architecture with major Indian and International operators. He successfully represented India and TSDSI during the IMT2020 standardization activity for inclusion of LMLC (Low Mobility Large Cell) as a 5G evaluation configuration in Rural eMBB. He was the founding Chairman of Optical Access and Transport Study Group (SG3) in TSDSI which developed CPRI Fronthaul standard. Later he continued as the Vice Chairman of Study Group - Networks (SGN) and coordinated the effort from TSDSI for including a 5G Radio Interface Technology (RIT) or 5Gi from India in ITU-R IMT 2020. Recently, he as part of Indian delegation contributed to ITU-R IMT-2030 aka 6G Framework/Vision document ITU-R M.2160.
He has filed 16 patents (12 granted) and was awarded the best paper award by IETE in 2006. He has edited the Springer’s CSI Transaction on ICT on a special issue on “Wireless in the future” as a guest editor in March 2019.