Awards and Honours

  • IITM Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Service Aug 2017.
  • Apr 2014 Received the Srimathi Marti Annapurna Gurunath Award for Excellence in Teaching (Best Teacher Award of IIT Madras).
  • Nov 2003 Elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
  • Nov 1999 Ericsson Inventor of the Year award, the highest technical recognition within Ericsson.

Personal Website

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Recent Publications

  • OTFS and OCDM Based Underwater Acoustic Communication: System Design and Evaluation TPS Babu, J Francis, RD Koilpillai OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads, 1 6 1 2022.
  • Performance Comparison of JANUS and CSK using WATERMARK Channel Replay Simulator TPS Babu, KB Akhil, RD Koilpillai OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads, 1 5 2022.
  • Adaptive Referencing Multitap Filter for TX-IQ Imbalance and Residual ISI Tolerance SA Mir, LN Venkatasubramani, RD Koilpillai, D Venkitesh Signal Processing in Photonic Communications, SpTh1I 4 2022.
  • Inverted U-Slot Integrated Rectangular Patch Antenna Array for S band Applications R Gupta, S Christopher, RD Koilpillai 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC URSI 2022.
  • Widely Linear Filtering for Multiimpairment Compensation in Dispersion Managed mQAM Modulated Optical Systems R Yadav, LN Venkatasubramani, RD Koilpillai, D Venkitesh IEEE Access 10, 73278-73293 2022.
  • Studies on CMOS Down-Converter with Double Balanced Mixer along with Balun at S-Band D Som, S Christopher, RD Koilpillai 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), 1 5 2022.
  • Wide-band Circular Slot Cut Patch Antenna with Broad Beam-width for X band applications R Gupta, S Christopher, RD Koilpillai 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), 1 4 2022.
  • Compact CMOS Technology-based Phase Shifter Design to Operate in K Band S Christopher, RD Koilpillai 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), 1 5 2022.
  • Frequency Doubler Based Optical Generation and Transport of 5G mmWave Signals for Fronthauling SJ Sreeraj, B Lakshman, R Ganti, D Koilpillai, D Venkitesh CLEO: Applications and Technology, JTh3B 45 2022.
  • Geometric Parameter Extraction-based Receiver IQ imbalance correction for MQAM systems SA Mir, LN Venkatasubramani, RD Koilpillai, D Venkitesh CLEO: Science and Innovations, SF3M 8 2022.

Professional Experience

  • Department of Electrical Engineering (06/2002 - present).
  • Head, Department of Electrical Engineering (08/2018 - present).
  • Qualcomm Institute Chair Professor (03/2016 - present).
  • Dean (Planning), IIT Madras (09/2011 - 09/2017).
  • Head, Central Electronics Centre (08/2007 - 12/2008).
  • Co-Chair, IIT Hyderabad - Special Task Force (06/2008 -12/2009).
  • Chief Scientist, centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (2008).
  • Director (Research, Technology, and Patents)(05/1994 - 06/2002).
  • Electrical Engineer, Wireless Communications Group (12/1990 - 05/1994).
  • GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY, USA.
  • Ericsson Inc, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

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