Bharat S. ChaudhariBharat S. Chaudhari graduated in Industrial Electronics Engineering from Amravati University, India, in 1989 then received his Masters in Electronics and Telecommunication and PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, India, in 1993 and 2000, respetively. Presently, he works as the Principal of the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT), Pune, India. Prior to this position, he had been the Dean of Planning and Development and Dean of Academics, and was heading the Department of Advanced Networking and Telecommunication at the same Institute. Dr. Chaudhari has more than 22 years of experience in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate as well as research in the fields of communication engineering, optical networks, wireless networks, and converging telecom technologies. He has authored more than forty research papers in international and national journals and reviewed conference proceedings in the field of optical, wireless, and telecom technologies. He was the recipient of a grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under the Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists for pursuing research. He has organized two International Workshops in the field of Low Cost Wireless Technologies in association with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, and the International Telecommunication Union – Bureau of Telecom Development (ITU-BDT). Dr. Chaudhari is a Regular Associate to the Wireless Networking Group, ICTP, Italy, for the years 2007 – 2013. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a Chairman of IEEE, Pune Section in 2011. His biography is included in a Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Technology for the year 2006. Read More Read Less