<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;letter-spacing:
.2pt">Prof. Dr. R. Balachandran has been working as a Professor at Adama
Science and Technology (ASTU), Ethiopia since February 2020. He has vast
experience in teaching various Electronics and Communication Engineering
courses for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels over 3 decades. He
obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Distinction) in Electronics and
Communication Engineering in 1989 and Master of Engineering in Applied
Electronics in 1993 from Bharathiar University, India respectively and PhD
(Engineering) in 2013 from Multimedia University, Malaysia. He has taught in
different institutions and universities in India and Malaysia. In his research
areas so far, he has secured 6 research funds in Malaysia and Ethiopia as
project leader / principal investigator and one Technology Transfer Project
Grant in Ethiopia. He has published six patents in U.K. / India / Australia, a
book, a book chapter and published about 50 research papers in peer reviewed
international journals and presented papers at USA, UK, Malaysia, India and
Iran international conferences. He has supervised so far 6 PG students in his
area of research. He has submitted five book proposals as an editor. He is a
Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India (FIE), Chartered Engineer from U.K.
[CEng. (U.K.)] and India [CEng. (India)]; Fellow of the Institution of
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), India, Senior member of
IEEE (USA) and member of seven professional bodies in USA, UK and India. He is
also an editorial board member and reviewer for few international journals. He
has organized and conducted a few international and national IEEE conferences
successfully.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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