A three-day International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE)-2015 got underway at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar on Friday.
The conference aims at providing an international forum to interested researchers, students, faculty, scientist, practicing engineers to discuss pioneering technical work and leading-edge research and address recent trends and challenges in the fields of microwave, optical and communication engineering and their numerous applications.
The inaugural programme was presided over by IIT Bhubaneswar Director Prof RV Raja Kumar while Naval Research laboratories, USA Associate Director and Padmabhusan awardee Dr BB Rath was the chief guest.
The conference had received more than 900 online registrations for paper submission, of which around 150 papers have been selected for presentation in oral and poster sessions. A set of special sessions in biosensors and biomedical imaging, energy and the environment and speech and image processing has also been integrated for the programme.