Dr. S Pal Vice Chancellor Defence Istitute of Advanced Technology- Pune
Summary Presently Vice Chancellor Defence Institute of Advanced Studies(Deemed University)- Pune India,joined Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1971, after a brief tenure at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, pioneered the Microwave, Antenna & RF communication activities at the ISRO Satellite Centre at the inception. He developed a team and successfully led the same ,which did carry out the development & fabrication of all spacecraft related telecommunication systems for India’s all satellites beginning with Aryabhata to the present day IRS & INSAT series of spacecraft & Chandrayan. Dr. Pal also pioneered satellite based navigation activities in India. He spear-headed the Indian Satellite Based Wide Area Augmentation System – GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation System) and Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) activities for aviation for civilian & restricted users. He is also on the United Nations panel of experts on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Chaired/participated in various UN meetings at Vienna, Geneva and at other international venues. Dr. Pal a Distinguished Fellow of IETE, Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow IEEE(USA) ,IET(UK), has received more than one and a half dozen national and international awards, including, Performance Excellence Award by ISRO, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Prof. S N Mitra Memorial Award (INAE), Four National Research and Development Corporation of India invention awards for various developments, inventions and overall contributions towards the growth of communication and space technology in India. Besides these he holds Indian, European & International patents for his various inventions. Recently IEEE has announced its top level awards and he is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE-2010 Judith Resnik Award..He has been also awarded the coveted- BITS -Pilani Distinguished Alumni Award(2012).
Specialties Space communications,Electromagnetics,Microwave Communications And Satellite Based Navigation including GPS,
Experience Vice Chancellor at Defence Istitute of Advanced Technology (Deemed University, GOI, Ministry of Defence, Dept of DR&D February 2015 - Present (2 months) Senior Adviser -ICT, AhmadabadUniversity at Ahmadabad University January 2012 - July 2012 (7 months) Providing consutancy on education related to ICT
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