Dr. Balwinder Raj

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India

Dr. Balwinder Raj is currently working as Associate Professor in ECE Department, NIT Jalandhar. He is also Associate Dean (Academics-PG). He did B.Tech, Electronics Engineering (PTU Jalandhar), M. Tech-Microelectronics (PU Chandigarh) and PhD-VLSI Design (IIT Roorkee), India in 2004, 2006 and 2010 respectively. For further research work, European Commission awarded him Mobility of life research fellowship for postdoc research work at University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy in 2010-2011. He also worked as visiting researcher at KTH university Sweden, Oct-Nov. 2013 and Alto University Finland July 2017. Dr. Raj has authored/co-authored 08 books, 15 book chapters and more than 150 research papers in peer reviewed international/national journals and conferences. He guided 12 PhDs and currently 6 PhD scholars are working with him. He guided more than 45 M.Tech students. Dr. Raj completed 6 research projects from DST Delhi, SERB Delhi, ISRO and CIMO Finland. Currently he is handing two research projects from AICTE and SERB. His areas of interest in research are Nanoscale Semiconductor Device Modeling, Memory design for Low Power Applications, Digital/Analog VLSI Design and FPGA implementation.  

Dr. Suman Lata Tripathi

Lovely Professional University (LPU), Punjab, India

Dr. Suman Lata Tripathi is working as Professor in Lovely Professional University with more than 22 years of experience in academics and research. She has completed her PhD in the area of microelectronics and VLSI Design from MNNIT, Allahabad. She did her MTech in Electronics Engineering from UP Technical University, Lucknow and BTech in Electrical Engineering from Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. She has completed her remote post-doc from Nottingham Trent University, London, UK in the year 2022-23. She has published more than 144 research papers in refereed Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley and IOP science journals, conference proceeding and e-books. She has also published 20 Indian patents and 4 copyright. She has guided 6 PhD scholar and 3 are under submission stage. She has organized several workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students. She has worked as a session chair, conference steering committee member, editorial board member, and peer reviewer in international/national IEEE, Springer, Wiley etc Journal and conferences. She has received the “Research Excellence Award” in 2019 and “Research Appreciation Award” in 2020, 2021 and 2023 at Lovely Professional University, India. She is recipient of IGEN Women’s for Green Technology “Women’s Achievers Award” on International Women’s Day, 8th March-2023. She had received the best paper at IEEE ICICS-2018. She has also received funded project from SERB DST under the scheme TARE in the area of Microelectronics devices. She has edited and authored more than 30 books in different areas of Electronics and electrical engineering. She is associated for editing work with top publishers like Elsevier, CRC Taylor and Francis, Wiley-IEEE, SP Wiley, Nova Science and Apple academic press etc. She is also working as book series editor for title, “Smart Engineering Systems” CRC Press, “Engineering system design for sustainable developments” & “Decentralized Systems & Next Generation Internet” Wiley-Scrivener, and conference series editor for “Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent systems for Engineering designs” CRC Press Taylor & Francis. She is serving as academic editor of journal “Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering” (Scopus/WoS, Q2), “International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, Scopus, Q3), “Active and Passive Electronic Component” (Scopus, Q4) Hindawi-Wiley and special issue guest editor for “Advances in Nanomaterials and Nanoscale Semiconductor Applications” Material, MDPI Journal (SCI IF=3.74, Q2). She is associated as senior member IEEE, Fellow IETE and Life member ISC and is continuously involved in different professional activities along with academic work. Her area of expertise includes microelectronics device modeling and characterization, low power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design of testing, and advanced FET design for IoT, Embedded System Design, reconfigurable architecture with FPGAs and biomedical applications etc.