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Lyla B. Das is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, National Institute of
Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala. She has a diverse mix of industrial, teaching and research expe-
rience spanning more than 30 years. As a young graduate specializing in Electronics and Commu-
nications from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, she joined Keltron Controls as Deputy
Engineer in 1981. She joined NITC (then Regional Engineering College, Calicut) as a lecturer in
1985 and proceeded to complete her master’s degree in digital communications from the same college.
Over the years, she was successively elevated as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor, a
position which she currently holds.
Keen to actively seek and impart ...