Kota Solomon Raju

Dr. Solomon Raju Kota has been working as a Chief Scientist (ALD) & Head, ICTD, CSIR-NAL, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, since August, 2021, and Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Hq: Ghaziabad. Formerly, he worked 23.5 years in CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), Pilani 333 031 (Raj.), India, from January 29, 1998 to July 31, 2021 as a Scientist, project leader, head SDP, Group Leader. He has been working in the field of an Advanced Embedded Electronic Systems Engineering for ICT applications and allied sciences & engineering. So far, as a PI, he proposed, defended and implemented 12 R&D projects out of which, some of them are multi-institutional projects, sponsored by various agencies including, Department of electronics and information technology (DeitY), MeitY, DST, and CSIR, S&T ministry, Government of India. Apart from the R&D assignments, he has been involved academic activities in various institutes like AcSIR, BITS, Hiroshima University (Japan), IIIT (kota) etc. He worked as a Group Leader (Societal Electronics Group, CSIR-CEERI), a coordinator /head of Skill Development Programmes as part of “Skill India” mission of the Government of India through CSIR's Integrated Skill Initiative program. He has been doing R&D strategy planning, interaction and collaboration, prioritize, support, facilitate and bring funding to excel in the chosen research areas.at present working as a Senior Principal Scientist in ICTD. Dr. Kota received the B.E. from Andhra University in 1997, M.E. from BITS Pilani in 2003 and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in 2008. His research work mainly focused on advanced electronic systems Engineering for various applications. R&D areas include Aerospace Electronics & Systems, Reconfigurable Computing; CPS-Industry4.0 & 5G and Beyond; IoT Analytics & Security; Edge Intelligence; and SHM & Securing Critical Infrastructure using µP & µC (ARM), MSP, and FPGAs, RASIP including hardware/software co-design, compressing sensing and data acquisition techniques with and without real time operating systems (RTOS). Currently he is working on R&D project entitled “SARAS Mk-II indigenous flight technology development programme” at CSIR-NAL as one of the principal investigators. He has completed successfully, Twelve R&D projects worth of more than Rs. 1500.00 Lakhs (15 Corers) as a principal Investigator. He is an Author or co-author of more than 130 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Delivered 115 invited talks in international / national conferences /seminars/workshops, and guided 78 M.Tech. dissertations, and 08 Ph.D. students and presently guiding 06 Ph.D. students at present. He was and or has been working as visiting Professor in Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan and BITS, Pilani, IIIT Kota etc. He is a senior member, IEEE, Fellow of THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA), and life member IETE, New Delhi. Selected member for the “foreign science and technology exposure tour” programme by DST, Government of India. Played key role in materializing the MOU between CSIR-CEERI, Pilani and Hiroshima University, Japan.