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As 5G is rolled out in India at a lightning pace, its usage will further expand from basic broadband into Immersive, critical enterprise and Industrial sectors to support India’s economic and Industrial growth with new capabilities much beyond consumer communications. At the same time, the research, development, and standardization of 6G is also gaining momentum with the ITU WP5D, which is responsible for standardizing the Radio Interface for all versions of cellular technologies from 3G to 5G (named by the ITU as IMT-2000, IMT-advanced and IMT-2020). It will take about 7 years from now until 2030 to standardize the next generation of mobile wireless technology. India aims to focus on 6G work in the area of with ubiquitous connectivity, sustainability, efficiency, and extended coverage. It is also heartening to note that India is also entering the global 5G manufacturing market for devices, networks, and software. The lightning speed with which the developments are taking place in the 6G standards and spectrum, India needs to further build momentum in our preparations and continue sharing of the information with all stakeholders on the continuing work on ITU framework Recommendation for 6G. This event will focus on these areas.

Had been a senior ITS officer with DOT/BSNL/MTNL and also with private sector after retirement, with deep and broad experience of 53 years in Telecom/Networking field encompassing all functions.

Expert in regulatory and techno-commercial functions in Telecom field through Liaison & representation with DOT, TEC, TRAI, TERM, USOF-HQ, WPC, BSNL and MTNL etc. at Delhi/HQ & at all India level to transform and catalyze the Telecom services.
Successfully synergized Network Roll out with respect to Leased lines, TERM Testing, Passive/active Infrastructure sharing and also CMRTS Licensing & importing issues etc., particularly in the area of Mobile/Broadband and CMRTS Communications.
Co-ordination with DOT, TEC, TRAI, BSNL and MTNL etc.: 17 years’ experience at Country Level as Consultant and dealing & resolving the Regulatory & Techno-commercial issues relating to POI, IUC and Lease Lines in case of Fixed, Mobile, Broad-band, NLD ILD and CMRTS systems.
Technical experience at DOT: More than 15 years of Senior Management/ Technical work involving meetings in TEC DCC/TCC core working group, Drawing Technical test schedules, specifications, coordination of testing and acceptance of equipments at all India level.
Field experience in DOT: 17 years of work of Senior/middle Management in Development, planning and installation of various telecom systems/equipment in Maharashtra, MP and in North Eastern States (including Meghalaya, Arunachal, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura).
Academic Experience: 4 years role as Faculty in National Advanced Telecommunications Training centre.
Had been the part of core group in TEC, for drawing the specifications of GSM system in country.
Successfully Executed and commissioned of Underground Transmission links in record time in MP/Maharashtra thus saved time and money

Industry Leadership Roles:

Vice-President, ITU-APT Foundation of India and Member, Broad band India Forum.
Fellow of Institution of Engineers & Fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers
Life member of Indian Institute Public Administration & Life Member Civil Services Officers Institute.

Academic credentials:

BE (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Government Engineering College/RDV Jabalpur
Advanced Course on OFC from Arizona State University USA;
Many Advanced Courses from ALTTC/TTC.
Course on ‘Universal services policies and practices’ organized by ITU academy
Participated in ITU Workshop on NGN Regulation and Migration Strategies

International and National Telecom Events:

Participated, chaired and presented papers on various International and National Telecom Events.

Personal attributes:

Positive attitude, Practice yoga, Good health, Love music/dance, Interpersonal association skills, Children well settled, Living in Delhi/NCR

Dr. Hanumantha Rao Director General, SAMEER (MeitY/Govt.of India), received his PhD from The Queen’s university, Belfast, UK, M.S. from BITS, Pilani and B.Tech. from SV University, India. He has more than 35 years of experience in Research and Development in RF, microwaves and mm-wave technologies for strategic and civilian sectors.
He has been working in SAMEER for the past 33 years after a brief stay at Space Applications Centre SAC (ISRO), Ahmedabad. As a scientist, in the initial part of his career and later as a senior member of the organisation, he has been actively involved in the implementation of various future driven next generation technologies for both strategic and societal applications for DRDO, MeitY and DoT. He has been part of multi-institute collaborative research towards the development of Indigenous 5G solutions. He was part of 5G team and, demonstrated a fully functional MIMO and Massive MIMO systems at sub 6-GHz band, and integrated mm-wave Tiled Phased array antennas. He was instrumental in building indigenous technologies, R&D facilities and executed various strategic projects to address the denied technologies to India. He actively participates in developing Indian standards for 5G and represented India at ITU global meetings. He contributed towards SoC, SoP and implemented Electromagnetic Band Gaps (EBG) and Metamaterial configurations in collaboration with Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.
As a member of high-level committees at national level in driving the technology programs for India, he facilitated collaborative research between SAMEER-Academia and industry, both at national and international levels. He actively contributes in capacity building in terms of lectures, workshops and symposia and mentored number of scientific teams at various levels. He created SAMEER-Academia interaction with various premier IITs, NITs and industry.
Most of his work has been published in highly referred journals. Some of his publications are the most referred / popular articles for a long period in IEEE. He has more than 120 publications in IEEE/IEE/John Wiley and referred journals and conferences. His current research areas include 6G solutions, intelligent reflecting surfaces, UAV detection and deactivation, Spectrum studies and RF SoC and Tiled Phased arrays systems.

Awards & Recognitions

His paper “A multiband, multi polarization shared aperture antennas: Design and simulation” was IEEE Most popular paper: IEEE-AP magazine August 2017, and Popular paper Sept 2017-March2018.
Awarded IEEE Best paper @ International Conference IEEE INCEMIC-2008
Member 5G Implementation and Review group (MeitY).
Member Technology Innovation Group (TIG) for 6G (DoT)
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) /Speaker for Asia Pacific Region 2015 and 2016 (IEEE-AP-S)
Senior Member IEEE and Life Member SEMCEI and Member TSDSi and Founding co-chair IEEE-AP-S society (India)
Visiting scientist at Georgia Tech USA 1992 and 2017.
UNDP Fellow 1992.
British Commonwealth fellow 1999-2002.