Biography
Shobha Sundar Ram did her Bachelor of Technology in ECE from the University of Madras, India in 2004 and then her Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. She worked as a research and development electrical engineer at Baker Hughes Inc. USA from 2009 to 2013. She joined Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Communications Engineering. She is primarily engaged in research and education in the areas of radar signal processing and electromagnetic sensor design and modeling. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, and a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, and IET Radar Sonar and Navigation. She has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as Associate Editor for IEEE TAES in 2023. She is a member of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel for the AESS Society and a member of the Synthetic Aperture Technical Working Group for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She served as the Technical Program Co-chair for IEEE MAPCON 2024. She is a DST Inspire Awardee from the Government of India. She won student paper awards for the IEEE Radar Conference in 2008 and 2009 and multiple best paper awards for co-authored papers with her students at international conferences. She has won the 2022 and 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India awards.