Biosketch

Dr. Sanya Anees is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi since August 2023. She has received B.E. (Gold Medalist) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, M.P., India and M.Sc. (Engg.) in Communication Engineering from University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. She has received Ph.D. in Optical Wireless Communication from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) in 2016. Prior to joining NSUT, she has worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIITG) from July 2016 - July 2023.

Areas of Interest

Different aspects of wireless communications with emphasis on cooperative communication, optical wireless communication, and UAV assisted communication along with air & water quality monitoring systems using IoT and hyperspectral imaging.

Research Projects

1. Principal Investigator in project titled “Energy Efficient 5G Hybrid Optical Wireless Communication System Based on High-Speed FSO/VLC Interconnections,” awarded by Early Career Research Award (ECRA), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, 2018-2021.
2. Principal Investigator in project titled “High Speed Backhaul Optical Wireless Connectivity in form of Triple-Hop Multiuser RF/FSO/RF Communication System,” TEQIP seed grant, 2018-2019.

Academic Awards

1. Awarded Early Career Research Award by SERB, DST, 2018.
2. Awarded IEEE Student Travel Grant from IEEE Signal Processing Society for IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2015.
3. Awarded International Travel Support from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2015.
4. Awarded IEEE Student Travel Grant from IEEE Communications Society for IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conf. (WCNC) in 2014.
5. Awarded MECAPS Student of the Year 2012-13 (Abdul Majid Faruqui Award) for excellence in education and outstanding academic performance throughout, 2013.
6. Awarded University Gold medal-2010 for being University Topper in Electronics & Communication Engg. Branch, 2012.
7. Awarded Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Gold medal-2010 for being University Topper amongst students from Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology, 2012.

8. Awarded Prof. S. T. Chakravati Gold medal-2010 for being University Topper amongst students from Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering, 2012.

Publications in International Journal

1. R. Deka and S. Anees, ”On the Performance of DF relayed hybrid RF/FSO Cascaded with VLC Link,” Telecommunication Systems, 2023. [Accepted]
2. R. Deka and S. Anees, ” Performance Analysis of a Decode-and-Forward based Mixed RF-FSO-VLC System”, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, pp. 1-16, September 2023.
3. P. P. Mondal, et. al., “Review on machine learning-based bioprocess optimization, monitoring, and control systems,” Bioresource Technology, vol. 370, pp. 128523, December 2022.
4. R. Deka, et. al., “On the Performance and Optimization of HAPS Assisted Dual-Hop Hybrid RF/FSO System,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 80976-80988, August 2022.
5. S. Anees, “FSO Cooperative System Analysis using DF based Relay,“ International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering,” vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 2119-2128, September 2019.
6. R. Deka and S. Anees, “Cascaded RF-FSO-VLC System using DF Relays, “International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering,” vol. 8, no. 2, August 2019.
7. S. Anees, et. al., “Hybrid RF-FSO system cascaded with UWOC link,” International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 2065-2069, August 2019.
8. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, “Performance evaluation of decode-and-forward dual-hop asymmetric radio frequency-free space optical communication system,” IET Optoelectronics, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 232- 240, October 2015.
9. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, “Performance of an amplify-and-forward dual-hop asymmetric RF-FSO communication system,” IEEE Journal of Optical Communication Networking, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 124-135, February 2015.
10. M. R. Bhatnagar and S. Anees, “On the performance of Alamouti scheme in Gamma-Gamma fading FSO links with pointing errors,” IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 94-97, December 2014.

Publications in International Conferences

1. R. Deka and S. Anees, “Performance Analysis of HAPS integrated Hybrid RF/FSO System Cascaded With an UWOC Link,” 10 th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), Delhi-NCR, India, 2023, pp. 750-755.
2. R. Deka and S. Anees, “Performance Analysis of Integrated Air-Ground-Underwater Hybrid RF/FSO Communication System Using HAPS Based Relaying,” IEEE 3 rd International Conference for Advancement in Technology (ICONAT), Goa, India, 2023, pp. 1-6.
3. R. Deka, et. al., “On the Performance of a HAPS Assisted AF Based Dual-hop FSO Communication System,” IEEE 7 th International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2022, pp. 13-18. [Virtual]
4. J. Sipani, et. al. “On the Performance of Hybrid RF/UWOC System,” IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Rabat, Morocco, 2021, pp. 1-15. [Virtual]
5. R. Deka, V. Mishra, I. Ahmed, S. Anees and M. S. Alam, ”Performance Analysis of HAPS Assisted Dual-Hop Hybrid RF/FSO System,” IEEE 94 th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall), 2021, pp. 1-6. [Virtual]
6. N. Nath and S. Anees, “Performance Analysis of SIMO-UWOC System,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), New Delhi, India, 2020, pp. 1-4. [Virtual]
7. P. Sarma, R. Deka and S. Anees, ”Performance Analysis of DF based Mixed Triple Hop RF-FSO-UWOC Cooperative System,” IEEE 92 nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall), 2020, pp. 1-5. [Virtual]
8. R. Deka and S. Anees, "Performance Analysis of DF Based Cascaded VLC-FSO-VLC System," IEEE 3 rd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Marrakech, Morocco, 2020, pp. 1-6. [Virtual]
9. P. P. Phookan and S. Anees, "Performance Analysis of Distributed Alamouti based UWOC System," IEEE 3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Marrakech, Morocco, 2020, pp. 1-5. [Virtual]
10. R. Deka and S. Anees, "Performance Analysis of DF Based mixed VLC-FSO-VLC System," IEEE 5 th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, 2020, pp. 1-5. [Virtual]
11. R. Deka, A. Verma and S. Anees, ”Performance Analysis of Decode-and-Forward based Hybrid RF/FSO- VLC system,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Goa, India, 2019, pp. 1-5.
12. S. Anees and R. Deka, "On the Performance of DF Based Dual-Hop Mixed RF/UWOC System," IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019, pp. 1-5.
13. S. Anees, et. al., "On the performance of DF based mixed triple-hop RF-FSO-RF cooperative system," IEEE International Conference on Recent Innovations in Signal processing and Embedded Systems (RISE), Bhopal, India, 2017, pp. 55-61.
14. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "Exact performance analysis of DF based mixed triple-hop RF/FSO/RF communication system," IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2017, pp. 1-5.
15. S. Anees, et. al, "On the performance of AF based mixed triple-hop RF/FSO/RF communication system," 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2017, pp. 1-6.
16. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "Information Theoretic Analysis of a Dual-Hop DF Based FSO Communication System," IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Nanjing, China, 2016, pp. 1-5.
17. S. Anees, et. al., "Performance analysis of a DF based dual hop mixed RF-FSO system with a direct RF link," IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Orlando, FL, USA, 2015, pp. 1332-1336.
18. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "Information theoretic analysis of a dual-hop fixed gain AF based mixed RF- FSO system," IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Hong Kong, China, 2015, pp. 927-931.
19. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "Information theoretic analysis of DF based dual-hop mixed RF-FSO communication systems," IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Hong Kong, China, 2015, pp. 600-605.
20. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Dual-Hop Mixed RF/FSO Systems," IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Fall), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2014, pp. 1-5.
21. S. Anees and M. R. Bhatnagar, "On the capacity of decode-and-forward dual-hop free space optical communication systems," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, 2014, pp. 18-23.

Publications in National Conferences

1. S. Anees and J. Singhai, “Turbo codes to improve the bit error rate,” in Proc. National Conf. Recent Trends & Challenges Internet Technol. (RTCIT-2010), Bhopal, India, 19 th -20 th March 2010, pp 162-166.