Iti Saha Misra

Dr. Iti Saha Misra is the former Head of the Department and now a professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. After the completion of PhD in Engineering in the field of Microstrip Antennas from Jadavpur University, she is actively engaged in teaching since 1997. Prof. Iti Saha Misra has 30 + years of research experience in the fields of Wireless Communication and Networks and 27 + years of teaching experience in the Department of ETCE. She was the Chair of IEEE Kolkata Section in 2023, Senior Member of IEEE. She has served ComSoc Chair for Kolkata Section from 2013 to 2018 and won two times Chapter Achievement Awards CAA 2015 and CAA 2017 for the quality technical activities for Communication Society (ComSoc). She is the founder Chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group 2006-2008, Kolkata Section. Under her leadership, WIE Affinity Group won the Year of the award 2007. She obtained the IEEE SIGHT grant from USA to carry out the work on “Low Cost Low Bandwidth remote virtual education platform” during 2013-2014 and successfully completed the project. She was the General Chair for IEEE International 5G Summit , Kolkata , March 17-18, 2017 and the steering committee member for 5G Summit IIT, Patna. She is the recipient of prestigious Career award for Young teachers by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004, obtained IETE Gowri memorial award in 2007 in the best paper category, co–author of several best paper awards in the wireless communication domain ( ACM CUBE 2012, ICACNI-2016). She has authored more than 250 research papers in refereed Journals ( IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley) and International Conferences, filed five (5) patents out of the recent research in Cognitive Radio Networks for VoIP communication and WBAN IoT based health care systems. At present 4 patents have been granted. She is the author of widely acclaimed text book on “Wireless Communication and Networks: 3G and Beyond” published by McGraw Hill and co-author of the book on “VoIP communication Challenges and Applications” published by Springer in 2018. She has been acted as experts in many PhD theses evaluation within India. Under her supervision 15 PhDs are already awarded, 6 are ongoing, 2 PhD students obtained IEEE-URSI Young Scientist Award (First Position) in the Year 2014 and 2015. She has acted as PI and Co-PI of the projects from Govt. of India like, DST FIST, DST PURSE, UGC-UPE, UGC, AICTE etc. Her current research interests are in the areas of VoIP over Cognitive Radio Networks, Low Cost and Energy Efficient IoT solutions, Mobility Management, Wireless Body Area Networks, Radio Resource Management, 5G Networks, and Intelligent Transport System etc. She has developed Broadband Wireless Communication Laboratory to carry out advanced research under wireless communication in the ETCE Department of Jadavpur University. She has visited many International institutions in USA, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Prague etc.; presented her research outcomes at various topics at international places. She has acted as reviewer for IEEE Transaction of Wireless Commutation, IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation, Journal of Wireless Networks, Springer, Transaction on European Telecommunications, RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, IETE Technical Reviews etc.