E&C (Advanced Communication Technology)

• Professor & Head (Incharge) in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ACT) from 2023
• Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at NMAMIT, Nitte from 2014
• Assistant Professor in E & C department NMAMIT from 2006   
• Senior Lecturer in E & C department NMAMIT from 2003  
• Lecturer in E & C department from NMAMIT 2000  
• Lecturer in E & C department V.V.E.T. Polytechnic, Vijayanagar, Bangalore from 1996 .

• Wireless Sensor Networks
  
• RF   Circuits
• Adhoc Sensor Networks

• Won Project of the Year - 2016 (Consolation Prize) for UG Project in EXPRO - 2017, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Title of the project: Guiding Mechanism for Blind.
  
• Guided a project lead by Mr. Kerthan Prabhu, funded by ICT Skill Development Society (ICTSDS) under GoK, Dept. of IT & BT, 2016. Title of the project: Crapy Cash
• Won Commendation prize as Project of the Year in EXPRO - 2017, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Title of the project: Fault tolerance and Reconfigurability of Onboard Computer (OBC) of STUDSAT - 2.

• Placement Coordinator
  
• Alumni Coordinator
• Academic Auditor

• Member - ISTE, New Delhi
  
• Member - Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED)

• Prasad, Durga, Niranjan N. Chiplunkar, and K. PrabhakarNayak. "Performance comparison of IEEE 802.15. 4 and IEEE 802.15. 4e based MAC algorithm in wireless body sensor networks." In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 1119, no. 1, p. 012020. IOP Publishing, 2021.
  

FDPs Attended

• Flexible and Wearable Antennas: Recent Advancements, Fabrication Techniques and Applications, October 12 - 16 ,2020, Organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Hariyana.
  
• Antenna Design & Printing for Practical Applications, 25th - 30th June 2021, Organised by B.N.M. Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
• Hands-on approach for the Design and Implementation of Lab-on-Bread Board- A Blended learning, July 21 - 25, 2021, Organised by National Institute of Engineering Mysore.
• Green Communication, August 24 - 28,2021, Organised by BMS Institute of Technology and Management

For UG

• Antenna & Microwave Systems
  
• Adhoc & Sensor Netoworks
• RF Circuit Design

For PG

• Antenna Theory and Design
  
• RF and Microwave Circuit Design

• Won Project of the Year - 2016 (Consolation Prize) for UG Project in EXPRO - 2017, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Title of the project: Guiding Mechanism for Blind.
  
• Guided a project lead by Mr. Kerthan Prabhu, funded by ICT Skill Development Society (ICTSDS) under GoK, Dept. of IT & BT, 2016. Title of the project: Crapy Cash
• Won Commendation prize as Project of the Year in EXPRO - 2017, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Title of the project: Fault tolerance and Reconfigurability of Onboard Computer (OBC) of STUDSAT - 2.

Springer Lecture Series

• Patent Granted by Indian Patent Advanced Search System (inPASS), on the title: Automated Sensor for Detecting Bacterial Growth Using Microcontroller (2021)
  
• P. Rachana and Durga Prasad, (2019) Green Communication in Wireless Body Sensor Network-A Review, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 614, Advances in Communication, Signal Processing, VLSI, and Embedded Systems, Select Proceedings of VSPICE 2019, pp. 55 - 67.
• Rakshith Devadiga, Sachin Kainthila,(2019), Abhishek Bangera, Amshak Shanbhogue, Durga Prasad and K. S. Shivaprakasha, Development of Reliable On-Board Computer of STUDSAT-2, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 614, Advances in Communication, Signal Processing, VLSI, and Embedded Systems, Select Proceedings of VSPICE 2019, pp. 79 - 87.

• Won Second prize as Project of the Year in EXPRO - 2019, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. , Title of the project: Command and Data Handling Using RTOS For STUDSAT-2.
  
• Invited Talks: High Impact Mastery, 26th March 2017,organised by Business Innovators Club, NMAMIT, Nitte.
• Reviewer- 4th National Conference on Advances in Communication and Signal Processing (NCACSP-16),11-12, August,2016
• Director (Website): Lions Club, Mundkur-Kadandale, Formerly President of Lions Club - Mundkuru Kadandale ( 2010 - 11).

• Associate Professor in the Dept. of Advanced Communication Technology, NMAM institute of Technology, Nitte from 24-07-2024.
  
• Associate Professor in School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, REVA University, Bengaluru from 01-07-2023 to 22-07-2024.
• Assistant Professor in School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, REVA University, Bengaluru from 01-07-2016 to 30-06-2023.
• Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajeev Institute of Technology, Hassan from 01-11-2015 to 30-05-2016.
• Lecturer in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajeev Institute of Technology, Hassan from 14-02-2011 to 31-10-2015.
• Lecturer (ad hoc) in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, G.E.C Hassan from 01-08-2010 to 31-12-2010.

• Wireless communication (5G, NOMA, Cognitive Radio Networks)
  
• Robotics and Robot Operating System (ROS) 
• Autonomous Systems

• Best Teacher Award 2020 from REVA University
  
• Gate 2012 Qualified with AIR 2714

• UMS Coordinator
  
• Faculty coordinator-Branch Student Association (ACSA)

• IETE, IEEE
  

• Madan, H.T., Akram, V., "An Error-State Extended Kalman Filter Based State Estimation and Localization Algorithm for Autonomous Systems," 2023 International Conference on Smart Systems for applications in Electrical Sciences (ICSSES), Tumakuru, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICSSES58299.2023.10199535.
  
• Madan, H.T., Ramya, P., Rakshitha, M., Saniya, "Trajectory Tracking and Lane-Keeping Assistance for Autonomous Systems Using Pid and MPC Controllers," 2023 International Conference on Smart Systems for applications in Electrical Sciences (ICSSES), Tumakuru, India, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICSSES58299.2023.10200281.
  
• Madan, H.T, Akram, V., Reddy, S., Mohan Gowda, K.N.,  Uday Kumar, L.D. "Autonomous Mobile Service Robot", 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies, ACT 2023, 2023, 2023-June, pp. 1167-1174. https://www.proceedings.com/70277.html
  
• Madan, H.T., Basarkod, P.I., "Reliable and Secrecy Aware Cooperative Framework for Cognitive Radio Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Networks," Journal of Communications vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 125-133, February 2022. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.17.2.125-133
  
• Madan, H.T., Basarkod, P.I, An optimized power allocation algorithm for cognitive radio NOMA communication. TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), 19(4), 1066, 2021. https://doi.org/10.12928/telkomnika.v19i4.20366
  
• Madan, H.T., Basarkod, P.I., Throughput and outage probability analysis for cognitive radio-non-orthogonal multiple access in uplink and downlink scenarios. Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 659-666, 2020. https://doi.org/10.18280/mmep.070419
  
• Madan, H.T., Basarkod, P.I., An optimized and trained model of cooperative sensing for cognitive radio networks. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), 8(3), 5176-5182, 2019. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.c5803.098319
  
• Chand, N., Nagaratna,  Balagannavar, P, Darshini, B.J., Madan, H.T., Automated Multiple Face Recognition Using Deep Learning for Security and Surveillance Applications. In: Kaiser, M.S., Xie, J., Rathore, V.S. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 190. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0882-7_8
• Rakesh Kumar, S.M.,  Srikanth, K.V,  Kumar, S., Vaibhav, K., Madan, H.T., Portable intensive care unit equipment using IoT. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering, 925(1), 012035. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/925/1/012035
  
• Madan, H.T., Basarkod, P.I., "A Survey on Efficient Spectrum Utilization for Future Wireless Networks Using Cognitive Radio Approach," 2018 4th International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Computing and Communication Technology (iCATccT), Mangalore, India, 2018, pp. 47-53, doi: 10.1109/iCATccT44854.2018.9001951.
  

• Object oriented Programming using C++
  
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• C Programming, Python Programming, Java Programming
• Robot Operating System (ROS) Programming
• Microcontrollers and Applications 
• Analog communication, Digital Communications, Optical fiber Communication
• Network Analysis, Linear Integrated Circuits

• SJEC Mangalore -  August 2023 to July 2024 - Associate Professor (ECE)
  
• SJEC Mangalore -  August 2022 - August 2023 - Assistant Professor (ECE)
• MIT Manipal -  November 2018 - March 2022 - Research Associate (SERB - DST)
• MIT Manipal - July 2013 - November 2016 - Assistant Professor - Senior Scale (ECE)
• Phimetrics Technologies -  May 2012 - July 2013 -   RF Analyst
• ZTE Telecom India - August 2009 - April 2012 -Senior Technical Engineer
• NMAMIT Nitte - September 2005 - August 2007 - Lecturer (ECE)

• Image Registration
• Image Processing
• Computer Vision
• Mathematics for Machine Learning
• Neural Network
• Network Security
• Control System, Internet of Things.
  

Papers Published in Journal

• R. R. Naik, H. Anitha, S. N. Bhat, N. Ampar, and R. Kundangar, "Realistic c-arm to pct registration for vertebral localization in spine surgery: A hybrid 3d-2d registration framework for intraoperative vertebral pose estimation." Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2022 (DOI: 10.1007/s11517-022-02600-5).
  
• R. R. Naik, A. Hoblidar, S. N. Bhat, N. Ampar, and R. Kundangar, "A hybrid 3d-2d image registration framework for pedicle screw trajectory registration between intraoperative x-ray image and preoperative ct image," Journal of Imaging, vol. 8, no. 7, p. 185, 2022 ( https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8070185).
• Ushakiran, R. R. Naik, A. Hoblidar, S. N. Bhat, "Feature-Based Registration Framework for Pedicle Screw Trajectory Registration Between Multimodal Images", IEEE Access, 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3286531).
• Ushakiran, R. R. Naik, S. N. Bhat, A. Hoblidar, "Evaluating similarity measure for multimodal 3D to 2D registration", Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 2023 (DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ace9e1).
• Kiran, U., Bhat, S.N., Anitha, H. and Naik, R.R., 2023. Feature-based multimodal registration framework for vertebral pose estimation. European Spine Journal, pp.1-10(https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-023-08054-z).

Papers Presented/Published in Conference

• M. S. Mandava, D. Jadhav, and R. R. Naik, "Fault classification using svm," in 2015 IEEE International Circuits and Systems Symposium (ICSyS). IEEE, 2015, pp. 17-21.
  
• P. Nskh, M. N. Varma, and R. R. Naik, "Principle component analysis based intrusion detection system using support vector machine," in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1344-1350.
• Presented paper titled "The Pedicle Screw Trajectory Planning in Preoperative CT Image and Trajectory Visualizations in Gradient Projection Image" in "Interdisciplinary Conference on Healthcare and Technical Research" (ICHTR-2021).
• Co-authored paper titled "An Image Guided Intervention System For Pedicle Screw Insertion During Spine Surgery" presented in the "Association of Spinal Surgeons of India" (ASSICON-2022) conference.
• R. R. Naik, H. Anitha, S. N. Bhat, "Vertebral Pose Estimation between Preoperative CT Image and Intraoperative X-ray Image Using 3D-2D Registration," World Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (41st WCASET-2022).
• Ushakiran, Anitha, H., Bhat, S.N. and Naik, R.R., "Sensitivity of Initial Pose Variations to Feature based 3D-2D Registration in Vertebral Pose Estimation". Third International Conference on Smart Technologies in Computing, Electrical and Electronics (ICSTCEE) IEEE 2022, pp. 1-4.
• Ushakiran, Bhat, S.N., Anitha, H., and Naik, R.R., "Evaluation of Similarity Measure for Feature based 3D-2D Registration in Vertebral Pose Estimation".  International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET) IEEE 2023, pp. 1-5. 

Trainings Attended

• ZTE - Overseas new employee training in Shenzhen China for a period of 15 days.
  
• ZTE - Three-month technical skill enhancement training in Shanghai on WCDMA technology, which includes RNC and Node B Commissioning and RF Planning and Optimization.
• Schneider Electric - Building Automation system and its Products.

Training Provided

• WCDMA RNC & Node B Commissioning and RF planning presentation to Chinese employees     in Shanghai.
  
• Trained RAN engineers for UTRAN signal trace, KPI counter creation, troubleshooting in Uu, Iub interfaces.
• Training to RNS team in the different telecom circles to efficiently use Call Detail Trace (CDT) tool.
• Training on performance management to Idea project RAN team.

  Recent FDPs Attended 

• "Inculcating Universal Human Values in Technical Education" organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore, Mangaluru from 18th October to 20th October 2023.
  
• "MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS AND RESEARCH TRENDS IN COMMUNICATION (MFRTC)" organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in association with Special Interest Group (SIG) on Communication, NMAMIT, Nitte, from 24th to 28th July 2023 at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte.

• Basic Electronics
• Network Theory
• Computer Communication Networks
• Building Automation System
• Information Theory and Coding
• Linear Digital Control System
• Neural Networks and Introduction to IoT.
  

• Python
• Object Oriented Programming
• Data Structures
• Java and R
  

• C
• C++
• MATLAB
• ITK and VTK
• VHDL
• Perl and CGI Script
  

Patents

• A 3D-2D REGISTRATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIMODEL IMAGING (Indian Patent Office, Application Number - 202341002076 (Filed)).
  

 PhD Title

• Development of an Image Registration System for the identification of Vertebral Level and Pedicle Screw Trajectory.
  

 Certification Courses

• NPTEL - online MOOC open course - "Principles of Modern CDMA/ MIMO/ OFDM Wireless Communications"
  
• NPTEL - online MOOC open course -  "Essential Mathematics for Machine Learning"
• NPTEL - online MOOC open course - "Deep Learning - IIT Ropar"