# Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi is an Indian Professor, education administrator and former Director of IIT Roorkee. Previously, he has been the Dean (R&D), and former Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design, MIMO systems. Recently, he has been bestowed with additional charge of director (acting) of newly established IIT Mandi and served the office till January 2022.Thereafter, he was succeeded by Professor Laxmidhar Behera.

## Awards, honors and fellowships

* Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (2008).
* INSA Teacher award (2017)
* Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur (2007)
* Thrice (2002, 2006 and 2012) supervisor of the B.Tech. Project (BTP) group that won the Best BTP award
* Plenary speaker at the 15th National Conference on Communications (2009)
* Mentor of the team that won the Microsoft Award for Innovation at the World Finals of theIEEE Computer Society International Design Contest in 2002

## Education

* PhD, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1995
* M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1988
* B. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1986

## Selected bibliography
### Articles

* Singh, Vindheshwari P.; Chaturvedi, Ajit Kumar (22 June 2017). "Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel". IET Communications. 11 (9): 1485–1496. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2017.0034. S2CID 206185133.
* Manglani, G.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (February 2006). "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 54 (2): 204–207. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863793. S2CID 9792284.
* Chaturvedi, A.K.; Sharma, G. (1999). "A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (9): 2547–2551. Bibcode:1999ITSP...47.2547C. doi:10.1109/78.782201.
* S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)
* P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)
* R Appuswamy and AK Chaturvedi, "A new framework for constructing mutually orthogonal complementary sets and ZCZ sequences," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 52 (8), 3817-3826 (2006)
* G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)
* RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)

### Conference proceedings

* Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (December 2016). "Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems". 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC WKSHPS). IEEE. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2016.7848930. ISBN 978-1-5090-2482-7. S2CID 25357090.
* Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (January 2016). "Improving the reliability of receivers for 5G networks". 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439993. ISBN 978-1-4673-9622-6. S2CID 4908364.