Awards, Recognitions and Professional Contributions

Awards

Amity University, Greater Noida, India conferred me with the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award during their IEEE-sponsored ICCAKM 2020 Conference in Dubai on 09 Jan 2020. The award was received from Prof. Dr. Gurinder Singh, Group Vice-Chancellor of Amity Universities and Prof. N. Ramachandran, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Amity-Dubai Campus. The Citation reads:"We honour Dr. T. G. Thomas with Amity Global Academic Excellence Award. A thorough professional with impeccable credentials, Dr. T. G. Thomas is highly respected in the world of education and has been acknowledged worldwide for duly propagating the doctrine of knowledge. He has contributed in multiple areas and held distinguished positions in many important committees that strive for development of best practices in education, research and consulting. He has published many well researched books and technical papers in national and international journals. Undoubtedly, a professional par excellence, he has created many benchmarks in the field of education and research and is truly a role model for others to follow". https://www.amity.edu/iccakm/awardee.asp

Received the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India) IETE-Prof. K Sreenivasan Memorial Award - 2019 in recognition of my contribution in the teaching profession of electronics and communication engineering. The award was received during the 62nd Annual IETE Convention held at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya, India on 28 Sep 2019 from Padma Shri Dr. Y.S. Rajan, Distinguished Professor and Scientist of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Incidentally, previous recipients of this award include Prof. Surendra Prasad (former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi); Prof. J.M. Vasi, Prof. T.S. Rathore, and Prof. Vikram Gadre (all from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay); Prof. S.L. Maskara ( Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur); Prof. V.M. Pandharipande (former VC, BR Ambedkar University); and others.

Award Citation (Please click red link on the left in new window to see Citation)

Award Medal (Please click blue link on the left in new window to see Medal)

Recipient of State Special Merit Scholarship, Government of Andhra Pradesh during the period 1976-81 based on my performance in the Board of Intermediate Examination, 1976.

Recognitions

I have co-authored two books with Dr. S. Chandra Sekhar, a student of mine during my teaching stint at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad. These books were the outcome of the video lessons that I had prepared under the SONET programme of the State Higher Education Department. Dr. Chandra Sekhar is now a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Front covers of the two books:

Published by Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi:

Analog Communication on December 1, 2006

Communication Theory on August 1, 2005

An international edition of this book (ISBN 9780071278782; Year 2006) from McGraw-Hill, Singapore is also available and quite a few universities in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Jordan, India and Indonesia have it in their Libraries.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University had used this book as either the primary text book or reference book for their B. Eng. (Hons) programmes for many years.

(See, for example, their web page at: http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/prog/beng_4-year/20132014/syllabus/EIE3331.pdf).

Delhi University, Kanpur University and Alagappa University have also listed the Indian Edition of the book as a reference book for their programmes in Engineering.

There are favourable Google reviews:

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=C1C6IBiCoXsC&sitesec=reviews

Professional Contributions

Professional Contributions

Prepared a series of 27 video lessons on Communication Theory under the SONET Programme of the State Council of Higher Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India during 2003-04. These lessons were broadcast through the Educational TV channel of the Government for the benefit of the students and faculty of the 300-odd engineering colleges in the State. CDs of these lessons were made available to the Libraries of these colleges too.
Authored two text books in Engineering: Communication Theory and Analog Communication published by M/s Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi. The first book has an international edition too published in 2006 by McGraw-Hill, Singapore. A search of the internet shows that copies of this book are available in many university Libraries across the world in countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Jordan, India to name a few.
Served as Co-coordinator for the prestigious Project Network funded by the Swiss Government during 2000-2005 in which the ECE Departments of five better-performing institutes in South India worked together for professional development of the teachers and the taught through Workshops, Meetings, Technical Competitions.
At BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, served as Dean-Academics and Registration during 2007-14 and as Dean-Admissions during the period 2014-18. The quality of programmes being offered in the campus is being monitored by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Government of Dubai. As part of the annual re-licensing of BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, I have been involved in regular interaction with and in the preparation and submission of documents to KHDA every year during 2012-18. As a result of my efforts, I succeeded in getting eleven of our programmes to be granted renewal by validation with exemption by KHDA for a period of three years instead of the customary one year.

BITS Pilani

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