Prof VU Reddy ICASSP Conference Travel Grant

Former students of Prof VU Reddy have established the ‘Prof VU Reddy ICASSP Conference Travel Grant’. Designed to run for at least five years (subject to fund availability) starting 2027, this initiative aims to provide up to ₹1 Lakh in travel support annually to at least one eligible, registered research scholar from the ECE or EE departments whose research aligns with signal processing and related fields. To qualify, applicants must be a primary registered author of an accepted paper at the annual IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) for that specific year and submit proof of paper acceptance for an oral or poster presentation.

VU Reddy was a distinguished academic and researcher in signal processing and communications. He completed his BE in Telecommunication from Osmania University in 1962, followed by an MTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1963, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Missouri Columbia in 1971.

He began his career as a Senior Research Fellow at IIT Kharagpur (1963–1965), and later served as Lecturer at Osmania University (1965–1967). He worked internationally as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey (1970–1971), and as faculty at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago (1971–1972). In India, he held positions as Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1972–1976), Professor at IIT Kharagpur (1976–1979), Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1979–1982), and Professor at Osmania University (1982–1988). He joined Indian Institute of Science on 28 March 1988 as a Professor and served until his retirement on 31 August 2001. During this period, he played a key role in establishing the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Signal Processing (CRISP), initiating the Bangalore chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and founding the biennial SPCOM conference series which has become one of the best national conferences in the are of signal processing and Communication. He was also associated with the Research and Training Unit for Navigational Electronics (NERTU), Hyderabad.

Research Areas: Signal Processing | Wireless Networking | Algorithm Design | Performance Analysis | Communication Systems Development

Awards and recognitions/ Positions held:
• Chief Scientist, Hellosoft India Pvt. Ltd (2006-2008)
• Microsoft Chair Professor, IIIT Hyderabad (2003–2005)
• Institute Professor, IIIT Hyderabad (2007–2010)
• Honorary Professor at IIT, Hyderabad (from 2013)
• Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Indian National Science Academy, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and Indian Academy of Sciences.
• Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science(2010-2012)

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