DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

19 years 1 months

1. Joined as Lecturer in April 2000
2. Presently working as Associate Professor in ETC department

5 years /4 months

1. Goa Electronics Limited, Mapusa, Goa ( December 1994 to January 1995 – 2 months)
2. Phil Corporation Limited – Maintenance Engineer in Maintenance department responsible for planning and implementing maintenance schedules of film packaging machinery, preventive and breakdown maintenance of machines in the plant.(February 1995 to March 2000 – 5.2 years)

• Attended the IEEE 5G summit on 5G, focused on IoT and analytics, conducted by IEEE Comsoc Society, Bangalore with Samsung India Limited, at Samsung India Limited, Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore
• Attended the IEEE Standards impact on IoT and 5G, conducted by the IEEE Standards Association in collaboration with IEEE Comsoc Society, Bangalore chapter, on 14th and 15th November 2019 at Hotel Hyatt, Bangalore.
• Attended the ISTE STTP workshop on ‘Machine Learning and Deep Learning’ at PCCE , conducted by IETE Student’s forum from 1st to 5th May 2019, in collaboration with EduLabs and National Social Summit of IIT Roorkee
• Attended the Keysight World Day at the Leela Palace, Bengaluru on 17th September 2020.
• 5G Wireless Technologies: Massive MIMO, mmWave MIMO, NOMA, Full Duplex (FD), OFDM/ FBMC and NB-IoT” organized by IIT Kanpur in Bangalore from July 8th to 14th, 2019, in association with E&C Department, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.
• Short term ISTE training program “Still Image and Video Processing”, College of Engineering, Pune (14th – 25th June 2004)
• ISTE Training Program on “Advanced Signal Processing and Communications Technology”, (18th –22nd December 2006) at NIT, Rourkela
• Short Term Course on “ Analog VLSI Design” KRK Rao Foundation, Thiagarajan College of Engineering, Madurai, TamilNadu (4th – 15th June 2007)
• Attended “Texas Instruments Developer’s Conference” , Leela Kempinski, Bangalore (29th & 30th November 2007)
• Course on “Analog VLSI and System Interfacing”, Texas Instruments as a part of their Analog University Program, Bangalore (3rd – 7 th December 2007)
• Course on “Advanced VLSI Design” , conducted by KRK Rao Foundation, BVB College of Engineering, Hubli, Karnataka (11th – 28th December 2007)
• Power Electronics and Power Management Workshop conducted by the Texas Instruments India under their University program on 13th and 14th February 2008.
• 2 day workshop on “Power Electronics & Power Management”, Texas Instruments as a part of their Analog University, Program Persistent Systems Limited, Goa (13th – 14th February 2008)
• Two weeks winter training school on ‘Image and Video Processing’ from 23rd November to 6 th December 2009, at IIT, Kharagpur.
• International workshop on Wireless Communication: Air Interface Design for Future Wireless Systems at Singhad College of Engineering, Kondhwa from 28th June to 2nd July 2010.
• Open Source Embedded Systems Development using Beaglebone Black conducted by texas Instruments , Bangalore campus from 7th to 9th October 2013.
• ISTE STTP on Cloud Computing from 4th to 8th November 2013 at PCCE, Verna.
• Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing from 12th to 15th January 2010 at IIT, Bombay
• Signal Processing for 5G Massive MIMO Wireless Systems, EE Department, IIT Kanpur from 28th to 30th January 2017.
• Game Engine Architecture and Game Development from 6th to 10th November 2017 at PCCE, Verna.
• Problem Identification, Ideation and Conceptualization, organized by BITS BIRAC BioNEST along with Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, November 30, 2017.
• ISTE IETE STTP on Cadence – Design, analysis and Simulation of Circuits at PCCE, Verna from 1st to 5th January 2018.
• Game Theory and Competetive Strategies for 4G/5G Wireless Networks, EE Department, IIT Kanpur from 19th to 21st February 2018.
• TEQIP-III Sponsored STTP on Optimization techniques for Signal Processing and Network Communication, 14th to 18th June 2018.
• Attended NI Days conducted by National Instruments at Bangalore on 25th October at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore.
• A Handson introduction to Modern Wireless Systems: Theory and Simulation by EE Department IIT Kanpur in collaboration with BSNL IITK Telecom Center of Excellence from 3rd to 6th December 2018.
• One day workshop on “Examination Reforms” conducted by AICTE at College of Engineering, Pune on 1st March 2019.

• Kaustubh Ajgaonkar, Shailesh Khanolkar, Janslon Rodrigues, Eshani Shilker, Prajita Borkar, Enrich Braz, “LifeGuard Drone” ,3rd Symposium on Nascent Technologies on Aerospace Engineering and Aviation Systems, conducted by Aeronautical Society of India, F C Rodrigues Institute of Technology, IIT, Bombay and Indian Women Pilot’s Association,  rescheduled to 27^th July 2020 (online mode). 
• Kaustubh Ajgaonkar, Shailesh Khanolkar, Janslon Rodrigues, Eshani Shilker, Prajita Borkar, Enrich Braz “Development of Life Guard assist drone for coastal search and rescue”, accepted at the International Conference and Exhibition on OCEANS 2020 at Mississippi, Gulf coast, United States of America from 5th to 10th October 2020 conducted by the IEEE Oceans Society and Marine Technology Society (MTS).
• ‘Development of a low cost remotely operated vehicle for monitoring of marine ecosystem’, Krupali Gawas, Shailesh Khanolkar, Esther Pereira, Mahzabeen Naaz, Myron Rego, Enrich Braz, accepted at the World Water Congress and Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark conducted by the International Water Association, scheduled in May 2021. (shifted from October 2020 to May 2021 due to the pandemic)
• Development of a low cost remotely operated vehicle for monitoring underwater marine environment’, Krupali Gawas, Shailesh Khanolkar, Esther Pereira, Mahzabeen Naaz, Myron Rego, Enrich Braz, accepted at the International Conference and Exhibition on OCEANS 2020 at Singapore from 4^th to 6^th April 2020 conducted by the IEEE Oceans Society and Marine Technology Society (MTS). (Rescheduled from April to October 2020 due to pandemic)
• Sharlaine Nicole Monteiro & Shailesh Khanolkar, ‘Null Steering and Sidelobe Canceller using Frequency Response Masking approach for Antenna Arrays’ at the 13^th international conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems 1619 December 2019, BITS-Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus conducted by the IEEE Communication society.
• Shailesh Khanolkar and Nitin Sharma, ‘ABC optimization aided Joint User and Throughput Maximization in underlay D2D communication’ at the 13^th international conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems 16-19 December 2019, BITS-Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus conducted by the IEEE communication society.
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation of the MUSIC Algorithm for Mobile Communication Systems at National Conference in Emerging trends in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Goa on 14th and 15th October 2006
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Space Time Block Codes at the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Electronics Engineering and Computing at J D College of Engineering, Nagpur
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems for Wireless Communication Systems at the International Conference on Intelligent Science and Technology at Sun College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu on 18th , 19th March 2010
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation Direction of Arrival Estimation Methods at the International Conference on Intelligent Science and Technologyat Sun College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu on 18th, 19th March 2010
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Alamouti Encoder for Wireless Communication Systems at the National Conference on Electronic Technologies at Goa Engineering College, Ponda, Goa on 16th, 17th April 2010
• Design of a Novel Photo acoustic cell for Detection of Gaseous Hydrocarbons using photo acoustic Spectroscopy International Conference on Communication, Computation, Control and Nanotechnology (ICN- 2010) held at REC Bhalki, Karnataka, India on October 29-30, 2010.
• SISO and MIMO Evaluation for Wireless Communication Systems, National Conference on Electronics Technologies, Goa Engineering College,2012.

• Performance Evaluation of AF and DF MIMO Incremental Relaying Schemes for Wireless Communication Systems, International Journal of Modern Trends in Engineering and Research.
• Performance Evaluation of Relaying Schemes for Wireless Communication Systems , International Journal of Smart Sensors and AdHoc Networks, 2016
• Design of a Novel Photo acoustic cell for Detection of Gaseous Hydrocarbons using photo acoustic Spectroscopy, Natasha Lopes and Shailesh Khanolkar, World Journal of Science and Technology, 2011.
• Bee Colony aided optimization for Joint admission control, Mode selection and Power Allocation for D2D communication underlaying cellular networks- under review.

• Coordinated a webinar “Industry 4.0” by Gustovalley Corporation, Bangalore.
• Co-cordinator for  the ISTE STTP workshop on ‘Machine Learning and Deep Learning’ at PCCE , conducted by IETE Student’s forum from 1^st to 5^th May 2019, in collaboration with EduLabs and National Social Summit of IIT Roorkee.
• Conducted a course on ‘Digital Signal Processing and its applications’ from 8th to 12th December 2006.
• Coordinated a two day workshop on “Power Electronics & Power Management”, Texas Instruments as a part of their Analog University, Program Persistent Systems Limited, Goa (13th – 14th February 2008)
• Conducted a ISTE/STTP on Android Programming and Embedded Android on Beaglebone in June 2013.

• ISTE
• IEEE (ComSoc, SPS, Circuits and systems, Ocean Engineering)
• IWA (International Water Association)
• Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS)
• MTS (Marine Technology Society)

•  Proctor for IEEE Extreme programming competition.
• Reviewer for the journal Wireless Personal Communication, Springer and IEEE System Journal, IEEE.
• Reviewer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2020.
• Session conducted/Invited Speaker

1. Invited talk on Introduction to MATLAB” and “MATLAB for Digital Signal Processing” and Lab session for the ISTE winter school “Recent Trends in Digital Filter Design and its Applications”, Agnel Polytechnic, Verna, Goa
2. Invited talk on “DSP for Wireless Communications” for the course Digital Signal Processing and its Applications, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna, Goa (December 8th – 12th 2007)
3. Invited to conduct a workshop on “Java and its applications at Don Bosco College of Engineering.
4. Invited as a speaker on the occasion of World Telecommunications Day at Don Bosco College of Engineering on the topic. Wireless Communication: The Roadmap to 5G.
5. Invited as Chief guest for the IETE Student’s Chapter inauguration at PCCE and conducted a session on The Quest for Gigabyte Communication : 1G to 5G.

• Collaborative Projects

1. “Development of an ANN based model for identification of Human beings using Ear Biometrics”, in collaboration with Goa Dental College.

• Administrative positions

1. Member of the Centralized Admission Committee, involved in admission to Professional Goa Colleges, represented the College from 2000 to 2003
2. Invited to review a book ‘Television Engineering and Video Systems’ by Tata McGraw Hill
3. Represented the college, as a member of GCET (Goa Common Entrance Test), as Center Coordinator, responsible for conduct of GCET from 2007 to 2009.
4. Invited as a judge for the project competition ‘Event Technovation 2016” at Agnel Polytechnic on 18^th March 2016.
5. Invited as Chief Guest to inaugurate IETE Student’s Forum on 12^th August 2016.
6. Chairman of Students Affairs Committee of PCCE from 2018 till date.
7. Chairman of Transport Committee of PCCE from 2017 till date.
8. NBA Coordinator for the ETC Department of PCCE.
9. Chairperson of the DQAC Committee of ETC department.