Ph.D, MSc (Engg), MSc(Phy)
Chief Research Scientist
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Contact : +91-80-2293-2967
Email : tvprabs[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in
TV Prabhakar
Dr. T.V.Prabhakar works in the area of Networked Embedded Systems where he focuses on hardware system design, micro energy harvesting systems and power management algorithms. Prabhakar leads the effort in Zero Energy Networks Laboratory (ZEN Lab) at DESE, IISc, where his students and project staff work on building embedded electronic systems for application areas such as airplane cabin, healthcare, smart homes, and other IoT applications such as indoor positioning systems. A significant work in embedded space is at the MAC layer, layer 3 and other protocols. His laboratory has implemented Publish-Subscribe and REST architecture based protocols and adapted embedded IPv6 flavours such as 6LowPAN. The laboratory also works on IoT Data management frameworks.
Another focus area of his lab is related to RFID based localization and building RF energy harvesting platforms. An algorithm is being developed that can currently localize RFID tags to less than 2 feet. The laboratory has produced three energy harvesting silicon solutions to harvest RF power in the ultra-low power levels. His current research interests are in energy harvesting IoT security, heterogeneous networks for IoTs, IoT MAC and Tactile Internet applications with a goal to build low latency and reliable applications for remote maintenance and surgery. Several new and upcoming technologies such as outdoor 5G and indoor 802.11ay would be integrated to achieve the sub 1ms round trip times for such applications. Prabhakar’s laboratory has published over 55 papers in IEEE and ACM conferences. The laboratory has received several `best paper’ awards and showcased a few prototypes to the prime minister in the `Start-up India’ event organized by the government of India in Jan 2016.
Areas of Expertise:
- Tactile Internet applications
- Networked Embedded Systems
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Hardware system design
- Micro-energy harvesting systems
- Power management algorithms
- IoT security
- Heterogeneous networks for IoTs
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