Neelesh B. Mehta

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Neelesh Mehtha was born on 9 January 1975.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=531 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}} He won the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad at the state level in 1991 and the next year, he was selected for the National Talent Search Scholarship which helped fund his undergraduate work at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 1992 to 1996.{{Cite web |url=http://wsl.stanford.edu/~nbm/ |title=Biographical Information - Neelesh Mehta |date=2017-11-09 |website=Stanford University |access-date=2017-11-09}}{{Cite web |url=http://expert.inae.in/index.php/neelesh-b-mehta |title=INAE Experts - Neelesh B. Mehta |date=2017-11-09 |website=Indian National Academy of Engineers |access-date=2017-11-09}} He earned his MS in engineering in 1997 from California Institute of Technology and won the AT&T World Leadership Award in the process. He continued at the institution for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Andrea Goldsmith of Stanford University and after securing a PhD in electrical engineering in 2000, he started his career in 2001 as a research scientist at AT&T Labs.

Mehta's stay in the US would last till 2007 during which period, he also worked with Broadcom (2002–03) and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003–07). He returned to India in September 2007 to take up the position of an assistant professor at the Electrical Communication Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Science where he was appointed associate professor since 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/~nextgenwrl/Neelesh.html|title=Neelesh B Mehta |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2018-11-20}} His has focused on energy harvesting wireless networks, interference modeling and co-operative communications, with special focus on the design, invention, and performance analysis of various technologies.{{Cite web |url=https://www.eeweb.com/featured-engineers/interview-with-dr-neelesh-b-mehta |title=Interview with Dr. Neelesh B. Mehta |date=17 May 2016 |website=EE Web |access-date=2017-11-09}}{{cite book|author=Andreas F. Molisch|title=Wireless Communications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=877tFGeQo5oC&pg=PR29|date=6 February 2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-35568-8|pages=29–}}

Mehta is a former member-at-large of the IEEE Communications Society (2014–15) and served as the director of corporate publications during 2012–13.{{Cite web |url=http://www.comsoc.org/files/About%20Comsoc/BOG/1964-2015.pdf |title=Member-at-large |date=2017-11-09 |website=IEEE Communications Society |access-date=2017-11-09}} He has been associated with three of its journals, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, serving as the executive editor of the last mentioned.

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Mehta received the Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2010.{{Cite web |url=https://inae.in/inae-young-engineer-award/# |title=INAE Young Engineer Award |date=2017-11-10 |website=Indian National Academy of Engineering |access-date=2017-11-10}} The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2013;{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-10 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-10 |archive-date=27 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227133632/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |url-status=dead }} a year later the academy would honor him again with the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award. The same year, the Department of Science and Technology selected him for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, the tenure of the fellowship running until 2019.{{Cite web |url=http://dst.gov.in/scientific-programmes/scientific-engineering-research/human-resource-development-and-nurturing-young-talent-swarnajayanti-fellowships-scheme |title=Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship |date=2017-11-02 |publisher=Department of Science and Technology |access-date=2017-11-02}} He became an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and a Featured Engineer of EE Times, the next year. He received one more award in 2016 in the form of Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award of Physical Research Laboratory. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2017.{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/10-scientists-receive-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-prize/article19758442.ece |title=10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |date=26 September 2017 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=2017-11-11}} The following year, Mehta became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}

• {{cite book|author1=Ekram Hossain, Vijay K. Bhargava, Gerhard P. Fettweis (Editors)|author2=Neelsh B. Mehta, Chandra R. Murthy (Chapter authors)|title=Green Radio Communication Networks|date=5 July 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01754-2|pages=53–|chapter=PHY and MAC Layer Optimization for Energy-harvesting Wireless Networks}}
• {{cite book |last1=Mehta |first1=Neelesh B |last2=Molisch |first2=Andreas F |editor1-last=Tsoulos |editor1-first=George |title=MIMO System Technology for Wireless Communications |date=2018 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781351837903 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7n50DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 |language=en |chapter=Chapter 6: Antenna Selection in MIIMO Systems}}

• {{Cite book |author1=Neelesh B. Mehta |title=GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference |author2=Sarabjot Singh |author3=Andreas F. Molisch |chapter=An Accurate Model for Interference from Spatially Distributed Shadowed Users in CDMA Uplinks |pages=1–6 |date=2010 |doi=10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425277|isbn=978-1-4244-4148-8 |s2cid=447899 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Salil Kashyap |author2=Neelesh B. Mehta |title=SEP-Optimal Transmit Power Policy for Peak Power and Interference Outage Probability Constrained Underlay Cognitive Radios |journal=IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |date=2013 |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=6371–6381 |doi=10.1109/TWC.2013.111013.130615|s2cid=6503790 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=A. Karthik |author2=Neelesh B. Mehta |title=En Masse Relay Selection Algorithms for Multi-Source, Multi-Relay, Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Systems |journal= IEEE Transactions on Communications|date=2013 |volume=61 |issue=8 |pages=3170–3180 |doi=10.1109/TCOMM.2013.070213.120839|s2cid=819131 }}

• 3GPP
• E-UTRA
• LTE
• Radio propagation model

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