Faculty at School of Engineering

Kamal Singh

Kamal Singh

PhD, IIT Bombay

School of Engineering


Contact Information

  • Fundamental PHY-Layer Aspects of Mobile RF, mmWave, and Terrestrial Coherent FSO Communication Systems
  • Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems and Networks for Emerging 5G-Advanced and 6G Applications and Use Cases
  • Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Flexible, Reconfigurable, and Software-Defined Receivers and Transmitters
  • Spectrally Efficient Terrestrial Radio-Frequency and Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications for Low-Power Operation

Past PhD Students

  • Himani Verma (Graduated June 2026)

  • 2012 – 2019, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), IIT Bombay, India
  • 2007 – 2009, M.Tech. (Telecommunication Systems Engineering), IIT Kharagpur, India
  • 1999 – 2003, B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication Engineering), NIT Hamirpur, India

09/19 – Present
Assistant Professor, EE Department, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India

2011 – 2012

Asstt. Professor, ECE Department, NIT Jalandhar, Panjab, India

2010 – 2011

Senior Research Fellow, GSSST, IIT Kharagpur, India

07/09 – 12/09

Lecturer, The L N M Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

2003 – 2006

Senior Engineer, HFCL (Wireless Division), Solan (H.P.), India

Research Fellowship Under the SERB TARE Scheme (Nov 2022 – Feb 2026)

  1. H. Verma, K. Singh and R. K. Mallik, "Maximum Spectral Efficiency of Adaptive Coherent Terrestrial FSO Links," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2026.
  2. H. Verma, K. Singh and R. K. Mallik, "Maximum Spectral Efficiency With Adaptive MQAM Transmissions Over Terrestrial Coherent FSO Links," in IEEE Communications Letters, 2025.
  3. K. Singh and C. Singh, "Comments and Corrections to 'Capacity of Multiple-Antenna Systems With Both Receiver and Transmitter Channel State Information'," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 5614–5622, Aug. 2021.
  4. K. Singh, "Optimal Power Control in Decentralized Gaussian Multiple Access Channels," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1938–1941, Sept. 2018.
  5. N. Mital, K. Singh and S. R. B. Pillai, "On the Ergodic Sum-Capacity of Decentralized Multiple Access Channels," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 854–857, May 2016.

  1. Invited talk (online mode) on “Some new Capacity results on Multi-antenna (MIMO) Fading Channels” at seminar-cum-workshop on Recent Trends in Future Generation Wireless Networks, IIIT Allahabad, India on 29th January, 2022.
  2. Invited talk (online mode) on “Some new Capacity results on Multi-antenna (MIMO) Fading Channels” at seminar-cum-workshop on Recent Trends in Future Generation Wireless Networks on 29th January, 2022 at IIIT Allahabad, India.
  3.  Invited talk (online mode) on "Some new Capacity results on Multi-antenna (MIMO) Fading Channels" at Electrical Engineering Department of Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, India on 27th November, 2021.

  1. IRS Assisted Multi-Antenna Communication Systems for Next Generation Wireless Networks
    Funding Agency: Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF; formerly SERB)
    Duration: Nov 2022 – Feb 2026
    Co-PI: Prof. Ranjan K. Mallik, IIT Delhi
  2. Faculty Development Programme on “Hands-on Workshop on Software Defined Radios”
    Funding Agency: AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy
    Duration: March 7–11, 2022
    Role: Coordinator
    Venue: Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
  3. Towards Capacity-Approaching Adaptive Coherent FSO Communications Through Constellation Shaping, Advanced Coding, and Real-Time Testbed Validation
    Status: Research Proposal Submitted to ANRF for funding under the ARG Scheme 2026, accepted for evaluation.

  1. H. Verma and K. Singh, "Enhanced Spectral Efficiency in Input-Dependent IM-DD Terrestrial FSO Systems Using Receiver Spatial Array and Aperture Averaging Techniques," in IEEE 2025 International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, Delhi, India, 2025, pp. 1–6.
  2. K. Singh, "On the Capacity of Low-Rank Fading Channels with Full CSI at Low SNR," in 2025 National Conference on Communications (NCC), New Delhi, India, March 2025, pp. 1–6.
  3. C. C. Shetty, K. Singh and S. R. B. Pillai, "On Decentralized Power Control for Ergodic MIMO Multiple Access Channels," in International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, 2019, pp. 782–786.
  4. K. Singh and S. R. B. Pillai, "Decentralized Power Adaptation in Ergodic Fading Multiple Access Channels," in IEEE Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Bombay, 2015, pp. 1–6.
  5. V. Anavangot and K. Singh, "MAC Channel with States for Pulse-based Communication Systems," in IEEE Twentieth National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Kanpur, 2014, pp. 1–6.
  6. K. Singh, "A Simulation Study of Performance of Joint Soft Demapping-Viterbi Decoding in DVB-T System," in Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Pune, 2014, pp. 1–5.
  7. K. Singh, S. R. B. Pillai and B. K. Dey, "On Fading MAC Channels with Asymmetric CSI," in International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, 2013, pp. 2626–2630.

Peer Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Letters.