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Prof. Raj Senani

Education

Raj Senani was born at Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, India on 14 March, 1950. He received B.Sc (1966) from Lucknow University, B.Sc.Engg (1971) from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (H.B.T.I), Kanpur University, and M.E.(Honors) (1974) and Ph.D (1988), both in Electrical Engg, from Motilal Nehru Regional (M.N.R.) Engineering College, University of Allahabad, India.
 

Academic positions held

Dr. Senani held the position of a Lecturer (1975-1986) and Reader (1987-1988) at the Electrical Engg Department of M.N.R. Engg College, Allahabad. He joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engg of the Delhi Institute of Technology (DIT; now renamed as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT)) in 1988 as an Assistant Professor and initiated and set up the Linear Integrated Circuits (LIC) Lab. He became a full Professor in 1990 and was named as the first Head of the ECE Department under which all the three UG programs (namely, Electron. and Commun. Engg, Comp. Engg and Instrum. and Control Engg) were conducted initially.
 

Present administrative positions

  • Director, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technolgy (NSIT): October 23, 2008-onwards
  • Head, Division of Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • Faculty-in-charge of Analog Integrated Circuits Labs. I/II and Analog Signal Processing Research Lab

Administrative positions held earlier

Dr Senani has held the following administrative positions at NSIT since 1990: 
  • Head of the Electronics and Communication Engg Department (First term : 1990-1993, second term : November 1996-October 1998, Third term: August 1999- July 31, 2001), Fourth term :August 1, 2001 - )
  • Head of the Applied Sciences Department (1993-1996); Head, School of Applied Sciences (2007-2008)
  • Head of the Department of Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering (November 1996- July 1998)
  • Dean, Post Graduate Studies (First term : 1993-1996)
  • Dean, Academic (1996-1997)
  • Dean, Administration (1997- till July 1999)
  • Dean, Research (Second term : 1997- till July 1999)
  • Dean, Post Graduate Studies and Research (Third term: August 1999-July 31,2001)
  • Officiating Director, Delhi Institute of Technology,on numerous occasions between 1990-1996
  • Director, Delhi Institute of Technology, during 1996-1997
  • Officiating Director, NSIT,on numerous oaccasions since 1997-TILL DATE
  • Director, NSIT May 30, 2003-January 5, 2004

Current Teaching and Research interests

Professor Senani's current teaching and research interests are in the areas of:
  • Analog VLSI Circuits
  • Analog Signal Processing
  • Bipolar and CMOS Analog Circuits
  • Analog Filter Design
  • Current-mode Circuits and Techniques
  • Current Conveyors, their variants and applications
  • Oscillator Synthesis
  • Active simulation of Inductors and Voltage-Controlled Impedances
  • Electronic Instrumentation
  • Chaotic Nonlinear Dynamical Circuits
  • SPICE Simulation and Modeling
  • Translinear/Log Domain Circuits 

Research publications

From some of his research in the above areas, he has authored and co-authored over 100 research papers which have been published in IEEE (USA), IEE(UK) and other International journals of repute. Almost all of his publications have been widely referred by other researchers working in the same areas; several of these have been cited in books also.
 

Membership of Professional Bodies

Life Member, ISTE (India), Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, Senior Member IEEE (USA)
 

Editorship and Reviewership of Research journals

  • Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India,1986-1991
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the `IETE Journal of Education' since 1992
  • Member of the Editorial Board of `Sceintific Research and Essays', Academic Journals, since 2006
  • Member of the Editorial Board of `Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering' (USA), Hindawi Publishin Corporation, since Dec 2008
  • Honorary Editor of the IETE Journal of Research, in the area of Circuits and Systems 1991-1995
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Birkhausen Boston Publication (USA) since 2003
  • Honorary Editor of the IETE Journal of Research, India,2007-
  • Co-Guest-Editor WSEAS Transactions on Electronics (USA) Special issue to be published in 2008 on `Modern Circuit components for Analog Signal Processing and their applications'

Reviewer (by invitation from the Editors) for the following International Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I : Regular Papers (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II : Express Breifs (USA)
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (USA)
  • IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems (UK)
  • IEE Electronics Letters (UK)
  • Microelectronics Journal (UK)
  • International Journal of Electronics (UK)
  • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (Ireland)
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (USA)
  • Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering (USA)
  • Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (USA)
  • ETRI Journal (Korea)
  • HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering (Israel)
  • ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (Turkey)
  • IEICE Transactions on Electronics (Japan)
  • Integration, the VLSI Journal, Elsevier, (USA)
  • Journal of Applied Sciences, ANSInet (Pakistan)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (USA)
  • WSEAS Transactions on Electronics (USA)
  • Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers(USA)
  • IET Microwvaves, Antennas and Propagation (UK)
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (USA)
  • IEICE Electronics Express (Japan) (USA)
  • Radio Engineering Journal (Czech Republic)
  • Electrical Engineering Archiv für Elektrotechnik (Germany)
  • Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (USA)
 

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