Professor Raj Senani is an eminent academician and researcher in the field of Electronics Engineering. Apart from teaching various courses in the areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering, he has made original and novel contributions to the fields of Analog Integrated Circuits

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

, Analog Signal Processing

Signal processing

Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

 and Analog VLSI Circuits, in the course of his research work. He is currently also the Director of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology , New Delhi , formerly known as Delhi Institute of Technology, is a premier engineering college in New Delhi, India. It is an autonomous institution of the Government of NCT of Delhi...

 (NSIT).

Research Work

Prof. Senani has 34 years of experience in conducting as well as supervising Research in the areas of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing since 1977. He has authored/co-authored 130 research papers-all in reputed International Journals. His research papers have been widely referred by other researchers working in similar areas (Ref: Science Citation Index

Citation index

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: has an h-index of 23 with over 1850 citations so far). A complete list of his publications can be found here.

Editorship and Reviewership of Journals

He has acted as Editor and Reviewer for many National and International Journals as listed below.

Editorship

• Served as Honorary Editor, `Journal of the IETE’ (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers) in the area of Circuits and Systems (1992–1995)
• Served as Honorary Editor,` IETE Journal of Research’, in the area of Circuits and Systems (2007–2008)
• Serving as Editor-in-Chief for: `Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research’ (Academic Journals), 2009 onwards
• Served as Associate-Editor-in-Chief for `Signal Processing-International Journal’ (SPIC),CSC Journals (2009-2010)
• Serving as an Associate Editor for the `Journal on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing’, published by Birkhauser Boston (USA) (2003-onwards)
• Serving as one of the Editors for `IETE Journal of Education’, India, 2008- onwards (had been a member of Editorial Board since 1990)
• Serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal: `Scientific Research and Essays’, Academic Journals
• Serving as a Member of the Editorial Booard of: `Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering’, Hindawi Publishers, 2009 onwards
• Serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of ISRN Electronics (USA)

Reviewership

Has acted/ has been acting as Editorial Reviewer for the following International Journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers (USA)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II: Transactions Briefs (USA)
• IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (USA)
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (USA)
• IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems (USA)
• IET (formerly, IEE) Electronics Letters (UK)
• IEE (formerly, IEEE) Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems (UK)
• IET (formerly, IEE) Proceedings: Microwave Antennas and Propagation (UK)
• International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (Ireland)
• Microelectronics Journal (UK)
• International Journal of Electronics (UK)
• Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (Netherlands)
• ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (Turkey)
• Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (USA)
• Computers and Electrical Engineering (USA)
• ETRI Journal (Korea)
• HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering (Israel)
• IEICE Transactions (Japan)
• Integration: The VLSI Journal (USA)
• WSEAS Transactions (USA)
• IEICE Electronics Express (Japan)
• Radio Engineering Journal (Czech Republic)
• World Applied Sciences Journal (WASJ)
• Active and Passive Electronic Components (USA)
• Electrical Engineering: Archive fur Elektrotechnik (Germany)
• Journal of Electrical Engineering (Romania)
• Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (USA)
• Archiv Fur Electroniks und Ubertragungsteck: AEUE (Germany)
• Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (USA)
• Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (Springer)

He has also acted as reviewer for a number of International Symposia and Conferences, in the areas of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

Teaching, Curriculum development and Laboratory development

Prof. Senani is a much revered teacher and has been rated as `Excellent’, in all students’ feedback reports, since 1993 . His current teaching interests are in the following areas:

• Circuit Theory
• Signals and Systems
• Applications of Linear ICs
• Active Network Synthesis Modern Filter Design
• Current Mode Circuits and Signal processing
• Bipolar and CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits
• Analog VLSI Circuits and Systems
• Chaotic Non-linear Circuits
• Log domain and Square root domain circuits

He was responsible for introducing a number of courses in various UG and PG programs at M. N. R. Engineering College, Allahabad and NSIT. In 1989, he played in a key role in upgrading the syllabi of all existing BE programs at NSIT and developing the new BE (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) program. As Dean, PG Studies and Head Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), he led a team of faculty members in formulating and initiating new M. Tech. programs in specialized areas of ECE, Computer Engineering and Instrumentation and Control Engineering.

He was Faculty-in-Charge for the Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory and Applied Electronics Laboratory, at M. N. R Engineering College, Allahabad, India. He established the `Linear Integrated Circuits' Laboratory at Delhi Institute of Technology, India and ‘Analog Integrated Circuits Lab’ and ‘Analog Signal Processing Research Lab’, at NSIT.

Administrative responsibilities

Prof. Senani has held many positions of responsibility at Departmental, Institutional and Unversity level since 1990. He has served as the Head of various Departments at NSIT as well as Delhi University Head, Electronics and Communication Engg. Department during 2006-2008 and has also acted as the Dean, Research, Academics, Administration and Post Graduate Studies at NSIT.
He has previously held the position of Director DIT/NSIT during 1996–1997 and 2003–2004 and is currently the Director, NSIT, from October 2008 till date and Dean, Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, since August 2011.

Education

He obtained his bachelors degree from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute ( HBTI ) Kanpur and masters in Electrical Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology is a Deemed University of National Importance as Declared by NIT Act, GOI, 2007 located in the city of Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh...

 (MNNIT), Allahabad University, India. While working as a lecturer in the same college, he obtained his Ph.D. for his work on `Realisation of Some Classes of Active Networks' in the late eighties.

Professional career

Soon after finishing his Ph.D., he was promoted to the post of Reader at MNNIT

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology is a Deemed University of National Importance as Declared by NIT Act, GOI, 2007 located in the city of Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh...

, Allahabad. In 1988, he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Institute of Technology (DIT), then at Kashmere Gate, New Delhi, India. It later shifted to Dwarka and was renamed as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT). He became full Professor in May 1990. He is presently working as the Director of NSIT.

Awards and Honours

He is an elected Member of Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi

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: The Scientific Research Society (USA), a Senior Member of IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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 (USA), a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

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 (IETE) India. In 2008, he was elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences, India

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 (NASI), India for contributions to the field of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and Analog VLSI Circuits and Systems.

His biography has been included in several editions of the following publications of Marquis' Who's Who, USA:

• Marquis Who’s Who in the World
• Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
• Marquis Who’s Who in Finance and Industry
• Marquis Who’s Who in Asia.

as well as in a number of biographical compilations of American Biographical Institute, USA and International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.

External links

• http://www.nsit.ac.in/senani/prsindex.html
• http://www.nsitonline.in/aboutnsit/directorprofile.html
• Homepage