Raj Senani

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Dr. Raj Senani
Born 14 March 1950
Badaun
Nationality Indian
Fields Electronics Engineering
Institutions Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Known for Contributions to Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and Analog VLSI Circuits
Notable awards Editor and reviewer of many International Journals, Senior member of IEEE (USA); Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, Fellow of the IETE, India, Second Laureate of 25th Khwarizmi International Award (2012) for his Excellence and Dedication in Research leading to outstanding contributions on the `Synthesis and Design of Analog Filters, Oscillators and Simulated Impedances using Modern Electronic Circuit Building Blocks'

Professor Raj Senani [1] (born on 14 March 1950 at Budaun), is an eminent academician and researcher in the field of electronics engineering. Apart from teaching courses in the areas related to Analog Circuit Design, he has made significant contributions to the fields of Analog integrated circuits, Analog signal processing and Analog VLSI Circuits, in the course of his research work. He is currently also the Director of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT).

Work

Research work

Prof. Senani has 39 years of experience in conducting as well as supervising research in the areas of analog integrated circuits and signal processing since 1975. He is author/co-author of over 140 international research publications out of which over 100 research publications in refereed international journals have resulted from his research work carried out exclusively at DIT/NSIT. His research papers have been widely referred world-wide by other researchers working in similar areas; he has received over 2900 citations with an h-index of 31 so far.[2] A complete list of his publications can be found here.[3]

Editorship and Reviewership of Journals

He has acted as Editor and Reviewer for many National and International Journals as listed below.

Editorship–
  • Served as Honorary Editor, `Journal of the IETE' (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers) in the area of Circuits and Systems (1992–1995)
  • Served as Honorary Editor for `IETE Journal of Research, in the area of Circuits and Systems (2007–2008)
  • Served as Associate-Editor-in-Chief for `Signal Processing-International Journal’ (SPIC), CSC Journals (2009-2010)[4]
  • Serving as Editor-in-Chief for: IETE Journal of Education, since September 2012; had served as one of the editors for this journal between 2008–2012 and as a member of its Editorial Board since 1990[5]
  • Serving as Editor-in-Chief for: `Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research’ (Academic Journals), 2009 onwards[6]
  • Serving as an Associate Editor for the `Journal on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing’, published by Birkhauser Boston (USA) (2003-onwards)[7]
  • Serving as an Editor for the Journal of Electrical and Control Engineering (JECE) [8]
  • Serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal: `Scientific Research and Essays’, Academic Journals[9]
  • Serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of: Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi Publishers, 2009 onwards [10]
  • Serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of the journal `ISRN Electronics' (USA)[11]
  • Serving as Member of the Editorial Board of `Communications in Control Science and Engineering', American Society of Science and Engineering (USA)[12]
  • Serving as a Member of Editorial Board for `Journal for Electrical and Computer Enggineering Innovations'[13]
  • Serving as a Member of Editorial Board for `American Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering' [14]
Reviewership-

Has acted/ has been acting as Editorial Reviewer for the following international journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II: Transactions Briefs (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems (USA)
  • IET (formerly, IEE) Electronics Letters (UK)
  • IEE (formerly, IEEE) Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems (UK)
  • IET (formerly, IEE) Proceedings: Microwave Antennas and Propagation (UK)
  • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (Ireland)
  • Microelectronics Journal (UK)
  • International Journal of Electronics (UK)
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (Netherlands)
  • ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (Turkey)
  • Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (USA)
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering (USA)
  • ETRI Journal (Korea)
  • HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering (Israel)
  • IEICE Transactions (Japan)
  • Integration: The VLSI Journal (USA)
  • WSEAS Transactions (USA)
  • IEICE Electronics Express (Japan)
  • Radio Engineering Journal (Czech Republic)
  • World Applied Sciences Journal (WASJ)
  • Active and Passive Electronic Components (USA)
  • Electrical Engineering: Archive fur Elektrotechnik (Germany)
  • Journal of Electrical Engineering (Romania)
  • Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (USA)
  • Archiv Fur Electroniks und Ubertragungsteck: AEUE (Germany)
  • Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (USA)
  • Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (Springer)
  • International Journal of Physical Sciences (USA)
  • American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (USA)

He has also acted as reviewer for a number of International Symposia and Conferences, in the areas of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

Teaching, curriculum development and laboratory development

His current teaching interests are in the following areas:

  • Circuit Theory
  • Signals and Systems
  • Applications of Linear ICs
  • Active Network Synthesis Modern Filter Design
  • Current Mode Circuits and Signal processing
  • Bipolar and CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits
  • Analog VLSI Circuits and Systems
  • Chaotic Non-linear Circuits
  • Log domain and Square root domain circuits

He was responsible for introducing a number of courses in various UG and PG programs at M. N. R. Engineering College, Allahabad and NSIT. In 1989, he played a key role in developing the BE (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) program. As Dean, PG Studies and Head Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), he led a team of faculty members in formulating and initiating several M. Tech. programs in specialized areas.

He was Faculty-in-Charge for the Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory and Applied Electronics Laboratory, at M. N. R Engineering College, Allahabad, India. He established the `Linear Integrated Circuits' Lab. at Delhi Institute of Technology, India and ‘Analog Integrated Circuits Labs. I-II’ and ‘Analog Signal Processing Research Lab’, at NSIT.

Administrative responsibilities

Prof. Senani has held many positions of responsibility at the Departmental, Institutional and University level since 1990. He has served as the Head of various Departments at NSIT as well as at Delhi University as Head, Electronics and Communication Engg. Department during 2006–2008. He has also acted as the Dean of Research, Academics, Administration and Post Graduate Studies, at NSIT. He has previously held the position of Director of DIT/NSIT during 1996–1997 and 2003–2004 and is currently the Director of NSIT, since 23rd October 2008 till date.

Prof Senani is the Dean, Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, since August 2011. He is currently also the University Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and all other Departments under the Faculty of Technology.

Education

He obtained his bachelors degree from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute( HBTI ) Kanpur and masters in Electrical Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad University, India. While working as a lecturer in the same college, he initiated his independent research in the areas of Analog Integrated Citcuits and Signal Processing and obtained his Ph.D. for some of his work on `Realisation of Some Classes of Active Networks' in the late eighties.

Professional career

He joined MNR Engineering college, Allahabad MNNIT, as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, in July 1975. Soon after finishing his Ph.D., he was selected for the position of Reader at MNNIT Allahabad in January 1987. In July 1988, he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Institute of Technology (DIT), then at Kashmere Gate, New Delhi, India. It later shifted to Dwarka and was renamed as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT). Dr. Senani became a full Professor at DIT (NSIT) in May 1990.


Honours

A complete detail of awards and honours can be found here.[15] Professor Senani is an elected Member of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society (USA), a Senior Member of IEEE (USA), a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Life Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India.

In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India for contributions to the field of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and Analog VLSI Circuits and Systems.

International award

In February 2012, Professor Raj Senani was chosen as the Second Laureate of the 25th Khwarizmi International Award (KIA), for his Excellence and Dedication in carrying out Fundamental Research on the `Synthesis and Design of Analog Filters, Oscillators and Simulated Impedances using Modern Electronic Circuit Building Blocks' by Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST).

There were 162 candidates from 46 foreign countries running for the 25th KIA out of which 08 international winners were selected for the honour from various areas of Science and Technology. Professor Senani is amongst the 03 Foreign Laureates (out of the 08 international winners) who were honoured for Fundamental Research in their respective disciplines.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nsit.ac.in/director/dir.php
  2. ↑ http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=GZhRqagAAAAJ&hl=en
  3. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae of Prof". Angelfire.com. 1979-06-19. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  4. ↑ "SPIJ Editorial Board". CSC Journals. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  5. ↑ "IETE Journal of Education : Editorial Board". Je.ietejournals.org. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  6. ↑ http://www.acadjourn.org/JEEER/Editors.htm
  7. ↑ "Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (Editorial Board)". Springer.com. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  8. ↑ http://www.joece.org/EditorialBoard.aspx
  9. ↑ "Scientific Research and Essays". Academicjournals.org. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  10. ↑ "Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering — An Open Access Journal". Hindawi.com. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  11. ↑ http://www.isrn.com/journals/electronics/editors/
  12. ↑ http://www.as-se.org/ccse/EditorialBoard.aspx
  13. ↑ http://jecei.srttu.edu/page.php?slct_pg_id=114&sid=1&slc_lang=en
  14. ↑ http://www.sciepub.com/journal/AJEEE/EditorialBoard#.UjkW5vHrbMw
  15. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae of Prof". Angelfire.com. 1979-06-19. Retrieved 2012-01-14. 

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