Vijay K. Bhargava,

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Abstract:

The IEEE Publishes about twenty five percent of the Global research in the electro technology area. However the impact of the IEEE Publications is more like eighty percent judging by the citations in patent applications and scholarly publications. In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of submissions to the IEEE journals from Asia and the Asia Pacific. However the number of papers published by researchers from India continues to be small in spite of the high caliber research as evidenced by the quality of NCC papers. In this light hearted presentation we speculate on the possible reasons for this small number. We then outline some possible measures to
reverse this trend.

Biography:

Vijay Bhargava was born in Beawar, Rajasthan on 22 September 1948 and came to Canada in 1966 for his post secondary education at Queen's University. He started his academic career at the venerable Indian Institute of Science and hopes to end it there in the fall of 2013 by way of a mini sabbatical from the University of British Columbia. He has been a regular attendee of NCC since 2006. Vijay has received awards for his teaching, research and service to the profession. An IEEE volunteer for three decades, he is currently the Director of Journals for the Communications Society. He is a Past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. His website is located at http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vijayb