Dr. S. Pal
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Dr. S. Pal
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Dr. S Pal, an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India is presently Outstanding Scientist & Deputy Director (Digital & Communication Area) and also Program Director, Satellite Navigation Program at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore.
He joined Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1971, after a brief tenure at TIFR. Dr. Pal is responsible for starting Antenna & Microwave activities in the ISRO Satellite Centre at the inception. He has been responsible for the development & fabrication of all spacecraft related telecommunication systems for India’s all satellites starting with Aryabhata to present day IRS & INSAT series of spacecraft. He has been consultant to: (I) INMARSAT/ICO (UK) for LEOSAT definitions, responsible for the development of Satellite Hand Held Telephone Antenna System for ICO (UK) (ii) International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for defining Regional African Satellite Communication System and (iii) Nanyang Technolgical University, Singapore on X-Sat. He was also Chairman of Information Infrastructure Working Group of Ministry of Information Technology. Presently he is spear heading the Indian Satellite Based Wide Area Augmentation System – GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation System) and Indian Satellite Navigation activities for civil aviation applications. He is also on the United Nations panel of experts on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
Dr. Pal a Distinguished Fellow of IETE, Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Academy of Sciences, Fellow, IEEE(USA), MAMTA(USA), MASI, has received more than a dozen national and international awards, including, Performance Excellence Award by ISRO, Distinguished Achievement Award for launching Aryabhatta & IEEE Third Millennium Medal for various developments, inventions and overall contributions towards the growth of communication and space technology in India. Besides these he holds Indian, European & International patents for his various inventions.
Dr. Pal has published more than 170 papers in international and national journals of repute , one book on communications & guided Ph.D students. He has been on the editorial board of various technical journals. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Indian National Academy of Engineering. His fields of interest are Space Communications, Information Technology, Electromagnetics, Antennas and Satellite Navigation.