About Us
The South Indian SDR User Group Story
The South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG) was founded in January 2021, and is a community of people, from novices to experts, spanning industry, academia, and government, who are interested in the design and implementation of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology and systems. This includes such diverse areas such as RF, digital signal processing (DSP), wireless communications, operating systems, computer networking, software development and optimization, machine learning, and radio hardware. The mission of our community is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and enable greater collaboration within the SDR community in India. We host a regular technical workshops and gatherings, and we also run a dedicated Slack workspace for the community. We have a YouTube channel for recordings of past events, and a GitHub page for any relevant code. Our Twitter feed contains announcements about events and other news relevant to the community. We are not focused or tied to any one single software tool, hardware platform, commercial vendor, or specific technology. The SI-SDR-UG is non-profit, and the people on the organizing committee are all volunteers. We are based in Bangalore, but we invite people from all throughout India, as well as from outside India, to join our community. Please reach out to us on Slack or by email if you have any questions or comments. Thank you!
Organizing Committee
Aditya Arun Kumar | adityaarunkumarphi@gmail.com
Aditya Arun Kumar was previously an employee of Brisk Infosec and currently lives in Tamil Nadu. He is interested in Signal Reversing, Electronics Warfare and Side Channel applications and implementation using SDR.
Appar Thusoo | appar.thusoo@gmail.com
Appar Thusoo is an Associate Security Consultant (IoT Security) at Payatu, in Pune, Maharashtra, India. His background and interests are in hardware and firmware security and reverse engineering, open-source software development, DSP and signal processing, and software-defined radio (SDR). He loves to participate in CTFs and signal reversing challenges. Appar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (EXTC) from International Institute of Information Technology, Pune and is a member of IEEE and associated with execom IEEE Pune Section. Most of his free time includes producing experimental music.
Balaji Narasimman | tradeenterprisesolution@gmail.com
Balaji was formerly working with Brisk Infosec. His area of interest and expertise includes Physical Layer Reversing in Wireless Communications Systems, reversing of embedded protocols for wireless communications and wired communications. Apart from this he has passion on learning CAN bus and he his planning to pursue his masters on the same.
Neel Pandeya | neel.pandeya@ettus.com
Neel Pandeya is a Principal SDR Applications Engineer and an SDR Group Leader at National Instruments (NI), in Austin, Texas, USA. His background and interests are in open-source software development, wireless communications, DSP and signal processing, 4G/LTE and 5G/NR cellular networks, and software-defined radio (SDR). Prior to NI, he worked at several start-up and defense companies, such as Envoy Networks, Range Networks, Draper Laboratory, Texas Instruments, and Teradyne. He has previous technical management experience and university teaching experience. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of the New England Workshop for SDR (NEWSDR), and is a co-organizer of the GNU Radio Conference (GRCon). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Northeastern University (NEU), and is a member of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN). He has an Amateur Radio License, and is aspiring to obtain a private pilot license.
Rohan Sundar | rohan.s.1987@gmail.com
Rohan is currently with Hicotronics Devices Pvt. LTD working on computer vision architectures for real time object detection. He also has a deep interest in High Performance Computing architectures, having built a Green Cluster which delivered over 2 TFLOPs of performance which was presented at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. He has also been involved in a project to automatically detect tuberculosis from X-ray Images for semi-urban & rural health centers in India. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University with a dual major in Applied Mathematics and Computer engineering. He is currently trying to acquire his amateur Radio License.
Samarth Bhaskar Bhat | Samarth9920595@gmail.com
Director of Reinfosec Bangalore
A digital security evangelist who’s been involved in security work for more than 7 years by being associated with law enforcement agencies . He has previous exposure to penetration testing and information security audits and cyber forensic investigations as a expert witness in court of law and consultant to the state police academies . He is interested in electronic warfare and analysis of security framework for communication systems. He is currently working on devices for practical empowerment of law enforcement agency official's to deal with daily cyber warfare's.
Priyasloka Arya (Late)
Priyasloka Arya had 19+ years of professional experience in Defence and Aerospace domains. He has worked on LDRA as Senior Technical Manager - Certification Services. He has served Honeywell and Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) in various capacities as a leader and as well as an individual contributor. Arya had Bachelor of Engineering (in Electronics) degree from NIT (National Institute of Technology), Jamshedpur and MBA in International Business from ICFAI, Hyderabad. Arya is PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, Six Sigma Black Belt, AS9100 (Internal Auditor), CPRE(IREB), ISTQB, FSCP(TuV) and ASEP (INCOSE) certified professional.