This lecture was delivered in April 2018 at IEEE student branch in NIT Durgapur.

1. Undergraduate Research and IEEEUndergraduate Research and IEEE
11 April, 2018IEEE Student Chapter, NITD
Aniruddha Chandra
Electronics & Communication Engineering Department,
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.
aniruddha.chandra@ieee.org

2. 1999: Student member
Got first copy of Spectrum
Grandmother finds engineer
Asks to repair roof!
Member, Author, Reviewer
My association with IEEEMy association with IEEE
IEEE
Spectrum
April 2018
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Member, Author, Reviewer
2009: IEEE student’s branch,
NIT Durgapur
2016: IEEE Senior Member

3. 1999: Student member
Got first copy of Spectrum
Grandmother finds engineer
Asks to repair roof!
Member, Author, Reviewer
My association with IEEEMy association with IEEE
IEEE
Spectrum
April 2018
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Member, Author, Reviewer
2009: IEEE student’s branch,
NIT Durgapur
2016: IEEE Senior Member

4. My UG ResearchMy UG Research
Kausik … now
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5. My UG ResearchMy UG Research
Robot research …
Path planning
Pioneer II
KEYA
Melbourne
MOUMITA
Minnesota
PALASH
Kuwait City
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Jimmy quit, Jody got …
Summer of 69, Bryan Adams
Pioneer II
Omron Adept
MelbourneMinnesotaKuwait City

6. We didn’t give up …
Edge detection
My UG ResearchMy UG Research
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Professor got angry when he saw …
… the sample picture WE used

7. We didn’t give up …
Edge detection
My UG ResearchMy UG Research
The ‘Lena’
Image
from
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Professor got angry when he saw …
… the sample picture WE used
from
playboy!

8. We didn’t give up (not yet) …
Network capacity assignment
Final year UG project
Used genetic algorithm
My UG ResearchMy UG Research
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Read first IEEE journal paper
Published in a national journal

9. Got to know about an IEEE conference …
Submitted a paper
Self funding
My UG ResearchMy UG Research
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Presentation???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._B._Desai

10. OutlineOutline
UG research and IEEE
Step #1: Find a research topic
Step #2: Is the topic good enough?
Step #3: Carry out research
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Step #3: Carry out research
Step #4: Let the world know

11. OutlineOutline
UG research and IEEE
Step #1: Find a research topic
Step #2: Is the topic good enough?
Step #3: Carry out research
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Step #3: Carry out research
Step #4: Let the world know

12. Molecular CommunicationMolecular Communication
Sucheta wants to do interdisciplinary research
Cell Biology meets Electrical Engineering
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Spray the message with Vodka!
York University, Canada

13. With IEEE, start with basics
Tutorial, Survey, Magazine papers
IEEE Potentials
Molecular CommunicationMolecular Communication
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Sucheta might be reading
IEEE ComSoC Technology news special issue on
molecular communication, March 2014

14. OutlineOutline
UG research and IEEE
Step #1: Find a research topic
Step #2: Is the topic good enough?
Step #3: Carry out research
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Step #3: Carry out research
Step #4: Let the world know

15. Wireless Power TransferWireless Power Transfer
Avisek wants to explore Wireless Electricity
First devised by Nikola Tesla
What we can do/ What is done
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16. Wireless Power TransferWireless Power Transfer
With IEEE, assess whether your topic is good enough
Find IEEE papers
Start with databases like GScholar
Try IEEE Xplore
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Avisek might find a paper from
The Kar-Narayan research group, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

17. OutlineOutline
UG research and IEEE
Step #1: Find a research topic
Step #2: Is the topic good enough?
Step #3: Carry out research
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Step #3: Carry out research
Step #4: Let the world know

18. 5G in Vehicles5G in Vehicles
Aniq is involved in many things …
He is interested in vehicular communication also
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19. 5G in Vehicles5G in Vehicles
Aniq analyses real world measurement data
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Aniq uses IEEE papers for doing so
Aniq is planning to publish in IEEE Globecom

20. OutlineOutline
UG research and IEEE
Step #1: Find a research topic
Step #2: Is the topic good enough?
Step #3: Carry out research
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Step #3: Carry out research
Step #4: Let the world know

21. Let the world knowLet the world know
Ushasi applied for a Travel Grant
She wants to attend …
IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC)
on May 2018
at Kansas City
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at Kansas City
If successful, she’ll get
1500$ for travel, 800$ for registration
more importantly
she will be
presenting her work before
the best knowledgeable audience

22. Let the world knowLet the world know
IEEE can help in disseminating your work
Conferences, Workshops, Seminars …
Special issues: IEEE journals
SPECIAL ISSUE
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles over
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles over
Internet of Things
Submissions: April 15, 2018
First Reviews Due: July 1, 2018
Revision Due: August 1, 2018
Second Reviews Due/Notification:
September 1, 2018
Final Manuscript Due:
October 1, 2018
Publication Date: 2018

23. Thank You for listening!
(and not sleeping)
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Web: https://sites.google.com/view/acweb
E-mail: aniruddha.chandra@ieee.org