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Yash Vasavada

Yash Vasavada
Yash Vasavada
 
PhD (Electrical Engineering), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Contact Details

 
079-68261634
 
# 1224, FB-1, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India – 382007
 
http://intranet.daiict.ac.in/~yash_vasavada/index.html
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=9KkhfBgAAAAJ&hl=en

Biography

Yash Vasavada is currently a Professor at DAIICT, and he works in the areas of communication system design and development and application of machine learning algorithms to communications and signal processing. He has over twenty years of experience at Hughes Networks systems in Germantown, Maryland, USA, where he has worked on design, development and deployment of a number of GEO, MEO and LEO satellite systems. At Hughes, Yash has published several journal and conference papers, and he has been granted twelve US Patents. Yash has obtained B. E. degree in Electronics and Communications from L. D. Engineering College, Ahmedabad, and M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in USA.

Specialization

Communication, Signal Processing, Machine Learning

Meet Prof. Yash Vasavada: A Passionate Researcher in Wireless Communications and Signal Processing

Publications

Journal Papers

  • B. B. John, Y. Vasavada and A. Dutta, "Transmit MIMO-SSK aided by Metamaterials-based Reflecting Surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, May 2026, DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2026.3688910
  • B. B. John, A. Dutta and Y. Vasavada, "Unoptimized Reflecting Surfaces for Transmit Index Modulation," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, December 2025 doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3640006.
  • Y, Vasavada, M. Parr, N. Sindhav, and Saumi S., "A Space-Frequency Processor for Identifying and Isolating GNSS Signals Amidst Interference," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, ISSN: 1558-2361, vol. 32, 11 Aug. 2025, pp. 3615-3619, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2025.3598159.
  • Y. Vasavada, A. Dhami and J. H. Reed, "A Low-Complexity Blind Iterative Approach for Receive-Side Hybrid Beamforming," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3388843.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10499830
  • Y. Vasavada, B. B. John, “Low Complexity Optimal and Suboptimal Detection at Spatial Modulation MIMO Receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, January 2022
  • N. Shah, Y. Vasavada, “Neural Layered Decoding of 5G LDPC Codes,” IEEE Communications Letters, September 2021
  • Y. Vasavada and C. Prakash, “Sub-Nyquist Spectrum Sensing of Sparse Wideband Signals Using Low-Density Measurement Matrices,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 3723-3737, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2020.3000637.

Conference Papers

  • A. Dhami, Y. Vasavada and J. H. Reed, "Semi-Blind and Blind Methods for Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection in MIMO Systems Using Alternative Projections," 2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Hyderabad, India, 2026, pp. 560-565, doi: 10.1109/NCC68160.2026.11479029.
  • B. B. John and Y. Vasavada, "Discrete-Phase Metasurfaces-Aided Index Modulation for Practical RIS Deployments," 2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Hyderabad, India, 2026, pp. 620-625, doi: 10.1109/NCC68160.2026.11478977.
  • A. Karnam, Y. Vasavada and J. Fernandez, "SCMA-Inspired Power-Domain NOMA with Belief Propagation Detection," 2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Hyderabad, India, 2026, pp. 126-131, doi: 10.1109/NCC68160.2026.11478891.
  • P. Yadav, J. Fernandez, B. B. John, S. Srivastava and Y. Vasavada, "Sparse Matrix Precoded MIMO: A Computationally-Efficient Approach for High Throughput Wireless Links," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Delhi, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ANTS66931.2025.11429855.
  • A. Dhami, Y. Vasavada and J. H. Reed, "A Low-Complexity Blind Iterative Projections Approach for Beamforming and Channel Estimation," 2025 National Conference on Communications (NCC), New Delhi, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NCC63735.2025.10983243.
  • A. Subramaniam, and Y. Vasavada, "A Modified Gibbs Sampler for OTFS Symbol Detection," 2024 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Chennai, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NCC60321.2024.10485854.
  • Y. Vasavada, B. Allen, B. Moores, and A. Wedisinghe, "A proactive adaptation of coding and modulation scheme to mitigate adjacent system interference in large LEO constellations," in 41st International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.4621
  • Y. Vasavada, A. Dhami, J. H. Reed, N. Shah, “Low-Complexity Blind Hybrid Beamforming for mmWave MIMO Reception,” 2022 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2022
  • Y. Vasavada, B. B. John, “Constellation Designs for the Spatial Modulation MIMO Systems for Improved Reliability of the Information Transfer in the Spatial Dimension,” 2022 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2022
  • B. B. John, Y. Vasavada, “Analysis of the Matched Filter Detector of the Antenna Index in the Spatial Modulation Systems,” 2022 National Conference on Communications (NCC), 1-6, 2022
  • Y. Vasavada, N. Parekh, A. Dhami, C. Prakash, “A Blind Iterative Hybrid Analog/Digital Beamformer for the Single User mmWave Reception using a Large Scale Antenna Array,” 2021 National Conference on Communications (NCC), 1-6, 2021

Teaching

  • Introduction to Communication Systems
  • Advanced Digital Communications
  • Next Generation Communication Systems
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