Dr. Swades De received BTech in radiophysics and electronics from University of Calcutta, India (1993), MTech in
optoelectronics and optical communication from IIT Delhi, India (1998), and PhD in electrical engineering from
the SUNY at Buffalo, USA (2004). He is a full professor of Electrical Engineering (Higher Academic Grade) at IIT
Delhi. He was a tenure-track assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology, USA (2004-2007), he worked in ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy, as an ERCIM fellow (2004), and has
nearly five years of industry experience on telecom hardware and software development (1993-1997, 1999). Dr.
De's research interests are in communication networks, with emphasis on performance analysis and resource
optimization. Current directions include energy harvesting communications, wireless energy transfer, sustainable
and green communications, spectrum sharing, smart grid networks, and IoT communications.
Dr. De has published over 270 research articles in top journals and conferences, several book chapters, one
edited book. He has eight granted and several filed US/WO/Indian patents. Dr. De's outstanding technology
research highlights include: widely adopted pioneering cellular traffic load balancing techniques, capacity
maximizing wireless services, network layer cooperation, split handover, and cognitive multi-homing techniques
for capacity maximizing cellular communications; pioneering experimental/theoretical proofs of RF energy routing
and gain optimization via distributed beamforming; fundamental contributions on cross-layer optimized resource
allocation for sustainable communications; development of data-driven learning based multi-sensing IoT, which is
among top 10 Indian 5G technologies shortlisted by the Indian Department of Telecommunication. Dr. De's research
translation outcomes have led to several transfer of technologies.
Dr. De currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He has been active on
multiple IEEE conference/professional committees; the recent ones include founding chair of VTS Delhi Chapter
(2022-2024), member of IEEE ComSoc OCB (2022-), member of IEEE ComSoc ESB (2021-), member/ vice chair of VTS AI
Wireless Committee (2021-), vice-chair of TCGCC SIG on Green Cellular Networks (2020-), member of ComSoc APB
awards committee (2020-2023), ICC 2022 MWN symposium co-chair, GLOBECOM 2022 Industry Forum and Exhibits
co-chair, and WCNC 2024 workshops co-chair, VTC-Spring 2025 Recent Results Track co-chair.
Dr. De has received numerous awards and distinctions over his professional career; the recent ones include AICTE
Distinguished Professional (2024-2027), Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship (2021-2024), IEEE
India Council Technologist of the Year award (2024), Om Prakash Bhasin award for Science and Technology (2019),
IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Award outstanding original contribution in electronics and telecommunication engineering
(2019), IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award (2022, 2021, 2018), IEEE Wireless Communications
Letters Best Editor Award (2022), IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer Award (2015), Best Paper award
in NCC 2021. Dr. De is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Fellow of Indian National
Science Academy (INSA), Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Fellow of The Institute of
Engineers, India, Fellow of IET, UK, Fellow of IETE, India, and a Senior Member of the IEEE, USA.