Optical and Wireless Technologies

Dr. Vijay Janyani obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur (now MNIT, Jaipur) and his PhD from the George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research in Nottingham (U.K.). He has received various awards and honours, such as the University of Nottingham’s Derrick Kirk Prize, the Commonwealth Scholarship UK, and the All India Council for Technical Education Career Award. He has completed various national and international government-funded research projects, and was a member of the visiting faculty at the AIT Bangkok and UoTEM Tunisia. His current research interests include optical communication, optoelectronics and photonics, numerical modelling, nonlinear optics, radio frequency (RF) and microwaves, optical networks, and solar energy. Dr. Ghanshyam Singh received his Masters and PhD degrees in ECE from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. He has been a visiting scholar/visiting professor at various universities and research centres, in the UK, Finland and Japan. Dr. Singh is engaged in joint research projects with partner researchers from Keio University (Japan), the University of Vienna (Austria), Cairo University (Egypt) and Lviv Polytechnic National University (LNPU) (Ukraine). His current research interests include antenna engineering, micro and nano-structured photonic devices, and networks and non-linear characteristics of photonic crystal fibers. Dr. Manish Tiwari received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in the field of Photonics from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. He is currently a professor at Manipal University, Jaipur. He was a visiting researcher at City University, London in 2010 and 2011 and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2016. Dr. Tiwari has presented talks at a number of universities in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and London. He has also served on the panel of experts at various workshops. His current research interests include micro/nano-structured photonic devices, nonlinear optics and photonic crystal fibers. Dr. Tawfik Ismail is an Associate professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nile University, Egypt.  In 2015, Dr. Ismail had postdoctoral research in optical and wireless communications at the technical institute of microwave and photonic engineering, University of Graz, Austria. In 2018, he joined the optical wireless communication research group at the department of engineering and sciences, University of Oxford, UK to work in research of quantum communication in free space. His research interests are interdisciplinary which span including wireless/optical/communications, mmWave, mobile edge computing, quantum information, blockchain, healthcare, ...etc. He has H-index 6 as reported by Scopus with total citations of 96, with more than 48 publications distributed between high impact journals, conferences, and book chapters.

Optical Materials.- Optical Signal Processing.- Optical Networking.- Photonic Communications Systems and Networks.- All-Optical Communication Systems.- Energy-Efficient & Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems.- Microwave Photonics.- Optical Fibers and Devices for Optical Communications.- Optical Amplifiers.- Nonlinear Optics.- Nanophotonics.- Software-defined Radio and Cognitive Radio.- Signal Processing for Wireless Communications.- Antenna Systems.- Plasmonics and Nanoantennas.- Spectrum Management and Regulatory Issues.- Intelligent Transportation System & Vehicular Communications.- Wireless Sensor Networks.- Machine-to-machine Communications.- MAC Layer and Routing Protocols.- Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking.-  Integration of Optical and Wireless Networking.- Lasers and Photonic Components.- High Speed Optical LANs and Gigabit Ethernet.- Optical Amplification and Sensing.- Optical Networks Performance Modeling.- Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks.-Reliability and Protection in Optical Networks.- New Architectures for Optical Routers and Switches.- and New Optical Fiber Technologies.