S. N. Merchant

Also published under:Shabbir Merchant, Shabbir N. Merchant

Affiliation

Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai, India

Topic

Dedicated Short Range Communication,Intelligent Transportation Systems,OpenStreetMap,Performance Metrics,Traffic Simulation,Autonomous Vehicles,Bandit Problem,Base Station,Beamforming Vector,Beginning Of Time Slot,Decision-making,Deep Learning,Deep Reinforcement Learning,End Of Slot,Global Positioning System,Long Short-term Memory,Machine Learning,Markov Decision Process,Multi-armed Bandit,Number Of Beams,On-board Unit,Optimal Value Function,Random Forest,Restless Bandit,Roadside Units,Simulated Networks,State Space,Subsidies,Time Slot,Traffic Congestion,Transition Probabilities,User Equipment,V2I Communication,V2V Communication,Value Function,Wireless Networks,Absolutely Continuous,Action-value Function,Active Users,Actual Values,Advanced Driver Assistance Systems,Artificial Intelligence,Attention Layer,Availability Constraints,Availability Of Sensors,Average Travel Time,Beam Prediction,Beamforming,Belief Updating,Binary Signal,

Biography

S. N. Merchant (M'07) received the B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1978, 1980, and 1983 respectively.
He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He has made significant contributions in the field of signal processing and its applications. He has been a Chief Investigator for a number of sponsored and consultancy projects. He has served as a consultant to both private industries and defense organizations. His noteworthy contributions have been in solving state-of-the-art signal and image processing problems faced by Indian defense. He is on the Academic and Governing Advisory Boards of different engineering colleges in India. His research interests include wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, multimedia communication, and image processing.
Dr. Merchant has served on the Technical Program Committees of many IEEE premier conferences. He serves on the Editorial Board of two international journals: the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks and the International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems. He received the 10th IETE Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award for his contribution in the field of detection and tracking, the Ninth IETE SVC Aiya Memorial Award for Excellence in Telecom Education, and the 2013 VASVIK Award in the category of Electrical and Electronic Sciences and Technology. He is a coauthor with his students who have won Best Paper Awards. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.