Saurabh N. MEHTA

Accomplished professional engineer and educator with a demonstrated wireless system development history over 21 years. Strategic and creative thinker with exceptional skills in integrating academia and industry collaboration, bringing innovation and intrapreneurship in academia, and research programs, designing curricula, implementing academic planning and policies, human resource development, and educational training. High Energy, A team builder, result oriented, innovative orientation.

Leadership:

• Spearheaded the Digital Transformation of the Teaching Learning Process during COVID-19 through various Innovations.
• Led the academic's quality assurance, strategic institute planning, accreditation, autonomy, and NEP 2020 Process.
• Increased all academic indicators, including Student Program Completion Rates, Academic Results, Higher Education, Technical Events Engagements, Research, Staff Development, and Placement.
• Modernizing Labs and Infrastructure

• Quality Circle forum of India, India (M- 049905121324)
• Chartered Engineer, Institute of Engineers, India. (M-1570026)
• IEEE Senior Member, Bombay Section (SM94056771)
• Fellow of IETE, Mumbai (F 238002)
• Life Member of CSI, Mumbai (I1503336)
• Life Member of ISTE, Delhi (LM 94105)

• Co-Founder Trustee, Mumbai Gujarati Sangathan, May 2014 - Present
• Secretary, IEEE Bombay Section, Mar 2021 - Present
• Rotarian, Jul 2021 - Present
• Excom Member, IEEE Bombay Section, Jan 2018 - Present
• Technical and Professional Activity Chair, IEEE Bombay Section, Jun 2018 - Feb 2021

• Published two books, several courses, IEEE Standards, and over 95+ articles as book chapters/journals/conference papers/whitepapers.
• Published over 100+ articles in newspapers/magazines/web portals on subjects like education, science and technology, and allied topics in Gujarati & English.
• A Patent Published on May 2022 (under review)
• Eleven copyrights are in the software and literature categories.
• Seven copyrights are under process in the software and literature categories.
• Three Design Patents are under review.

• Trained over 8000 teachers/Students in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication and allied fields through over 250 talks/guest lectures/seminars/workshops at International/National/State/Local Levels.

• GOLC Award 2024 for our Virtual Experiments on Digital Communication, Finland.
• UGC STRIDE Fellowship, Year 2022-23, June 2023
• The Excellence in Technical Education Sector Award from the Trans Asian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TACCI), February 2023.
• India Council IEEE Outstanding Volunteer Award 2022 from the India Council IEEE, November 2022
• P.R. Bapat Outstanding Volunteer Award 2021 from IEEE Bombay Section, July 2022
• Appointed as Associate Faculty for IITB Course 101x and 201x, IITBombayx, 16th August 2017, Mumbai
• SKEP Speaker Medal by IEEE Bombay Section,13th July 2017, Mumbai
• SAP Excellence Award by IITB (Top 253 Performer out of 4000+ participants), 20th October 2016
• Fellowship to attend the summer school on Stochastic Processes in Engineering, IITB, India, March 2013
• Teacher’s grant by SARA and Radio Jove NASA, USA, Jan 2013
• Fellowship to attend the summer school on networks, IISC, India, 2012
• Fellowship to attend the “Global Entrepreneurship” course by UNESCO, Korea, 2011
• AsiaFI 2010 Winter School Scholarship, Korea, 2010.
• Fellowship to attend the Summer School on Wireless Technologies, Greece, 2006
• Fellowship to attend the Summer School on Game Theory Scholarship, Netherlands, 2006.
• IITA Fellowship (Korean Government Scholarship).
• Inha University Scholarship.
• Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) Fellowship.
• Ajou University Scholarship.