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Two-Day National Seminar on
“5G Wireless Technology”

Department of Electronics and

Communication Engineering,
Institute of Technology, Nirma

University organized a two-day
national seminar on Febru-

ary 14-15, 2020. The seminar

was coordinated by Prof Y N Trivedi, Professor, Department of Electron-
ics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Technology. The seminar

was designed for faculty members, research scholars, and R&D person-
als. The seminar was inaugurated by renowned professor and academi-

cian, Dr. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology,

Roorkee. Prof S S Das from IIT-Kharagpur delivered a lecture on, ‘Evolu-
tion of Air Interface towards 5G’. Dr. Sendil Kumar, General Manager-Stan-

dardization, Ericsson, Gurgaon delivered a lecture on ‘5G IMT 2020 Tech-
nology and Spectrum’. Mr. Devadasa Pai, Manager, NanoCell Networks Pvt

Ltd, Bangalore delivered an interesting talk on, ‘5G Radio Access Network
(RAN)’ and Ms. Soundarya Venkatesan of Altair demonstrated the software

‘WinProp’ for the propagation analysis and radio channel planning of 5G.
On the second day of the program, Mr. Ashutosh Agrawal, Manager, Qual-

comm, Bangalore delivered a lecture on, ‘Making 5G NR mm-wave a Com-
mercial Reality’. Mr. Rajul from Arastu System, Ahmedabad delivered a

lecture on, ‘Condition-based Monitoring System using IoT’. Mr. Niraj Nana-

vati of Nokia, Bangalore delivered a talk on, ‘Demystifying, Standardizing
and Deep-Diving 5G’. Mr. Nikhil Mitaliya, Field Application Engineer, Tektr-

onix India Pvt Ltd delivered a lecture on, ‘Six Key Challenges of the Inter-
net of Things’. Mr. Uvraj Natrajan, Senior Application Engineer, Mathworks,

Bangalore delivered a lecture on, ‘Implementation of 5G with MATLAB’.

Meeting of EC faculty with Alumni serv-
ing at SAC

Faculty members of the Department

of Electronics & Communication Engi-
neering had a meeting with their alumni

presently working in SAC, ISRO, Ahmed-
abad on January 07, 2020, from 4.30 to

6.00 pm at SAC-Ahmedabad campus.

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