Prof. Y.N.Singh

Yatindra Nath Singh was born in Delhi, India. He did his B.Tech Electrical Engineering from REC Hamirpur (Now NIT Hamirpur), and M.Tech in Optoelectronics and Optical Communications from IIT Delhi. He was awarded Ph.D for his work on optical amplifier placement problem in all-optical broadcast networks in 1997 by IIT Delhi. In July 1997, he joined EE Department, IIT Kanpur. He was given AICTE young teacher award in 2003. Currently, he is working as professor. He is fellow of IETE, senior member of IEEE and ICEIT, and member ISOC. He has interests in telecommunicationsnetworks specially optical networks, switching systems, mobile communications, distributed software system design. He has supervised 11 Ph.D and more than 115 M.Tech theses so far. He has filed three patents for switch architectures, and have published many journal and conference research publications. He has also written lecture notes on Digital Switching which are distributed as open access content through content repository of IIT Kanpur. He has also been involved in opensource software development. He has started Brihaspati (brihaspati.sourceforge.net) initiative, an opesource learning management system, BrihaspatiSync – a live lecture delivery system over Internet, BGAS – general accounting systems for academic institutes.
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