Sayantan Hazra

Sayantan Hazra

Associate Professor
sayantan.hazra@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Sayantan Hazra is presently working as an Associate Professor at École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad.

Dr. Sayantan Hazra was invited to work in CentraleSupélec, IETR Lab in Rennes, France, as a Guest-Faculty (Professeur-Invité) in April–July 2022. The travel and accommodation of the visit were sponsored jointly by Mahindra University and CentraleSupélec.

His research interests are mainly in several areas of wireless communication systems, including interference management and RF security for massive IoT in 5G ultra-dense cellular networks, resource-optimized interleaving-coding-modulation schemes in cellular broadcasting and multimedia broadcasting standards (DVB-NGH, DVB-SH, ATSC 3.0) with 4G and 5G class signals; wireless channel modelling and signal processing in multi-carrier communication systems like 4G and 5G cellular systems. He is also involved in cross-domain research, like cost-effective and reliable communication networks for smart grid framework.

Dr. Hazra is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Communications Society, and a member of the IET and the Institute of Engineers.

Ph.D.

  • Ph.D. (Electronics & Electrical Engineering), 2014
    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Thesis Title: Channel Modeling for Land Mobile Satellite Communications

M.Tech

  • M.Tech. (Specialization: Signal Processing), 2009
    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    CPI: 8.68/10.00
    Thesis Title: Development of Efficient Modulation Techniques for Navigation Satellite Systems

B.Tech

  • B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication Engineering), 2007
    University of Burdwan
    CGPA: 79.6/100.0

Experience

  • Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University (August 2019 to present)
  • Guest-Faculty (Professeur-Invité), CentraleSupelec, Rennes, France. (April – July 2022)
  • Program Coordinator, B.Tech. program in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University (August 2022 to present)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University (earlier Mahindra École Centrale) (August 2014 to July 2019)
  • Teaching Assistant, Department of EEE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2007-2013)

 

Conferences Organized: 
  • Coordinator, TPC member, and core organizing committee member of a satellite event (November 2024) of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India.
  • Publications committee chair, TPC member, and organizing committee member of IEEE IES technically co-sponsored conference – “International conference on Cyber Physical Systems, Power Electronics, Electric Vehicles (ICPEEV)” (2023 to present).

Patents:

2018

  • Amrita Agnes, Arya K. Bhattacharya, and Sayantan Hazra. "System and method for accurately monitoring and computing ageing life of a transformer in a smart grid framework".
    US 2018-0003759 A1. Filed: 26.04.2017, Published: 01.04.2018.
  • Arya K. Bhattacharya, Sayantan Hazra, and Amrita Agnes. "System and Method for Loss of Life calculation for Ageing Assessment of running Transformers in a Smart Grid Framework".
    Filed: 30.06.2016, Published: 05.01.2018.

Journals:

2022

  • Sayantan Hazra, “Burst error analysis in DVB-SH system in the presence of carrier frequency offset with exact statistical distribution of SINR”, under review, IET Commun., 2022.

2012

  • Sayantan Hazra  and Abhijit Mitra, "Additive statistical modelling of land mobile satellite channels in three-dimensional scattering environment," IET Commun., vol. 6, no. 15, pp. 2361-2370, Oct. 2012.

Conferences:

2019

  • Sayantan Hazra, Burst error analysis in hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadcasting systems for high velocity receivers, in IEEE 12th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Barcelona, Oct. 2019, pp. 146-151.

2017

  • Amrita George, Arya K. Bhattachrya, Sayantan Hazra, and J.L. Bhattacharya, "Enhanced Loss of Life relations for IEEE Thermal model for ageing assessment of running transformers in Smart Grid frameworks", in IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Kochi, India, July 2017.

2013

  • Hazra and R. Bhattacharjee, "A new technique for derivation of LCR and AFD in wideband wireless channel," in National Conference on Communication, Delhi, India, Feb. 2013.

2012

  • Hazra and A. Mitra, “A new land mobile satellite channel model with Nakagami-q distribution,” in National Conference on Communication, Kharagpur, India, Feb. 2012.

2011

  • Hazra and A. Mitra, “Level crossing rate in land mobile satellite channel with a modified Nakagami- lognormal distribution,” in Advances in Computing and Communications, Kochi, India, ser. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, vol. 192, pp. 601-608.

2010

  • Hazra and A. Mitra, “A Correlation-Based Code Tracking Method for SinBOC(5,2) signal in GNSS Receivers,” in National Conference on Materials, Devices and Circuits in Communication Technology (MDCCT), Burdwan, India, Mar. 27-28, 2010, pp. 105-106.
  • Hazra and A. Mitra, "An Improved Correlation-Based Synchronization Scheme for BOC Signals in GNSS Receivers," in NCEPEC, PCMT, Kolkata, India, Feb. 12-13, 2010, pp. 105-109.
    (NB: accepted in IEEE TENCON 2009, but withdrawn due to reimbursement issues)

Invited Paper in National Conference/Workshop:

2011

  • S. Hazra and A. Mitra, “A New Single Distribution Model for Land Mobile Satellite Channels”, in IETE Zonal Seminar on Information and Communication Technology, Guwahati, India, August (2011).

Sponsored Research and Consultancy works:

  • Project Title: Detailed Analysis and Optimization of running network assets in a Smart Grid Framework.
    • Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Energy, State of Ontario, Canada and Tech Mahindra.
    • Name of investigators: Prof. Arya Kumar Bhattacharya (PI), Prof. J. L. Bhattacharya, Dr. Sayantan Hazra, Mahindra University (then MU), India.
    • Sponsored Amount: 840,000 INR.
    • Period: One year (2015-2016).
    • Status: Completed.
  • Project Title: Plug and Play IV curve tester for PV.
    • Sponsoring Agency: Solar Equipment & Consumable Stream (SECS), SERD 2019, DST, Government of India.
    • Name of investigators and industry partner: Dr. Sreedhar Madichetty (PI), Dr. Sayantan Hazra (Co-PI), Mahindra University, and Silov Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
    • Sponsored Amount: 4.5 Million INR.
    • Period: 2.5 years (2021 – 2024).
    • Status: Completed.
  • Project Title: Design, development, and performance evaluation of
    • Interleavers and channel coders in DVB-SH and DVB-NGH systems with 5G signals.
    • Principal investigator: Dr. Sayantan Hazra, Mahindra University, India.
    • Sponsoring Agency: Seed grant from Mahindra University, India.
    • Amount granted: 400 thousand INR (4 Lakhs Rs.).
    • Period: 2.5 years (2020 – 2023).
    • Status: Completed.

Reviewer of international journals/research articles:

  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letter (2013-present)
  • IET Communications Journal (2014-present)
  • Electronics Letters (2019 – present)

Laboratory set-up developed: 

  • Communication Systems Laboratory: offered in connection with the course “Communication Theory and Systems”; Experiments involved utilization of the “Sub-6 GHz 4G & 5G testbed (5-Nines)” and the “Universal Wireless Protocol Testbed (UWT)”.
  • Universal Wireless Protocol Testbed (UWT): A wireless protocol testbed to test any existing wireless standard or protocol, e.g., WLAN (IEEE 802.11 series), Bluetooth, sub-6 GHz cellular, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and any new protocol designed for the range of carrier frequencies – 70 MHz to 6 GHz. Key components: NI and Ettus USRPs (universal software defined radio), spectrum analyzer, computers with software tools like GNU Radio, NI LabVIEW.

Achievements:

  • Invited as Guest-Faculty (Professeur-Invité) in CentraleSupelec, Rennes, France; received full funding for transport and accommodation expenses.
  • Chaired a technical presentation session in the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Barcelona, 2019
  • Secured an all India rank of 349 in the EC stream of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2007.
  • MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development, India) Scholarship (2007-2013).
  • M.Tech. project work was partly sponsored by Indian Space Research Organization, in 2008 – 2009.