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Uday Desai is the Director of IIT Hyderabad since June 2009.

From 1979 to 1984 Uday was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA and an Associate Professor at the same place from 1984 to 1987.

From 1987 to May 2009 Uday was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Uday was Dean of Students at IIT, Bombay from August 2000 to July 2002.

Uday has held Visiting Associate Professor’s positions at Arizona State University, Purdue University and Stanford University.

Uday was a visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002.

From July 2002 to June 2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R and D Lab. at IIT-Madras.

Uday's research interest is in wireless communication, cyber physical systems, IoT and statistical signal processing. Uday is also interested in multimedia, image and video processing, artificial neural networks, computer vision and wavelet analysis.

Uday is the Editor of the book 'Modeling and Applications of Stochastic Processes' (Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, USA. 1986) and Co-Editor of 'Second Asian Applied Computing Conference' (Springer Verlag, 2004). Uday is also a Co-Author of four research monographs.

Uday is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Institution of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). Uday is the recipient of the J C Bose Fellowship. Uday is also the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT Bombay for 2007.

Uday is chair of the working group on Convergence Communication and Broadband Technologies of Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Uday is on the governing council and boards of several academic institutions.

Uday is one of the founding members of COMSNETS and also the Society for Cancer Research and Communication. Uday was the Chair for IEEE Bombay Section 2006-2008.

Uday was also on the Visitation Panel for the University of Ghana.

Uday received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974, his M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976 and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA., in 1979, all in Electrical Engineering.