About Me!

K.V.S. HARI is a professor of Electrical Communication Engineering and the Director of Center for Brain Science at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has held affiliate and visiting appointments at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Aalto University. He is a co-founder of ESQUBE Communication Solutions at Bangalore.

Hari’s research interests include statistical, sparse and array signal processing and machine learning, with applications to communication, radar, navigation and autonomous systems, assistive technologies, MRI, and neuroscience. He made fundamental contributions to the performance analysis of subspace methods for direction-of-arrival estimation and to MIMO wireless channel modelling and contributed to the IEEE 802.16 standard for wireless MIMO systems.

Hari has served in several leadership positions of IEEE and the Signal Processing Society. He has established close working relationships with members from academia, industry, and government agencies, ensuring diversity in participation during several events organized by him ranging from technical seminars and workshops to international conferences.

He served as VP-Membership of SPS (2020-22), was the SPS Regional Director-at-Large of Region 10 (2018-19), and member of the Membership Board (2018-22). He served as Chair of the IEEE Bangalore Section (2016). He was appointed Chair, 2017 India Strategy Committee by the IEEE President, to develop a strategy document for the growth of IEEE in India. He was a Co-Chair, IEEE Region 10’s 50-year Celebrations and Region 10’s Students, Young professionals, Women and Life members Congress in 2016. This activity brought close to 1000 participants from all over R10. He served as the founding General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT) (2012, 13), the flagship conference of the IEEE Bangalore Section, which has continued as an annual event. He was a Member, IEEE University Programs Ad-hoc Committee of the IEEE Educational Activities Board in 2010.

Hari was a member of the SPTM TC (2014-2019) and was chair of the SPS Bangalore Chapter (2005, 2011-13). He was VP-Membership of SPS (2020-22), SPS Regional Director-at-Large of Region 10 (2018-19) and a member of the SPS Membership Board (2018-22). During his tenure as RDAL, SPS membership in R10 increased from 4491 (27% of total) in 2017 to 6154 (33%) in 2019. As VP-Membership, he triggered similar growth across all regions by leading special initiatives for students, women, and industry professionals, and in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

He was a General Co-Chair, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems and currently for the 50th ICASSP, to be held for the first time in India, in 2025.

Hari was an Editor of the EURASIP journal Signal Processing (2006-16) and is the Editor-in-Chief (Electrical Sciences) of the Indian Academy of Sciences journal, SADHANA. He was a member of the Governing Council of the Telecom Standards Society, India, and the chair of its Standardization Committee. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, and IEEE. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and the recipient of the 2018 IEEE MGA Leadership award.