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36" Ram Lal Wadhava Memorial Lecture Dr S Christopher Director, Centre for Air-Borne Systems, DRDO, Bangalore Speaker's Bio-data: Dr S Christopher Outstanding Scientist and Director, Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), Bengaluru,has been promoted to the grade of Distinguished Scientist wef July 2012. He obtained his BE (Hons) in Electronics & Communication Engineering from University of Madras with Distinction, securing 7th Rank at the University level. He took his M.Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur, in Microwaves and Radar Engineering, ranked 1st in the Institute. He joined IIT, Madras, as Project Associate in 1980 and carried out research in Microwave Antenna Design and Near-field Measurement Techniques. He obtained PhD in Antennae and Measurement Techniques from IIT, Madras, in 1985. Dr S Christopher worked for M/s Bharat Electronics, Ghaziabad, as Senior Engineer, from 1985 to 1988. He worked on Design and Development of Antenna for mobile, Tropo and Line-of-Sight Communication; and Preliminary Design of Digital Beam-forming Antenna Dr Christopher joined Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in the year 1988 and worked in a number of capacities on various projects at Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Bangalore. He joined CABS as Scientist-'G’' on June 18, 2004 and assumed charge as Programme Director for the Airbome Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system, when the task was assigned to CABS in October 2004 taking over the complete responsibility for Design, Development, Fabrication and Quaification of the AEWAC System to specific Operational Requirements of the Indian Air Force through the many work-centres within DRDO. On January 01, 2007, Dr S Christopher was appointed Director, CABS, in addition to his responsibilities as Programme Director (AEW&C) and was elevated to the rank of Outstanding Scientist / Scientist-H' on July 25, 2008. 56" ATC & National Conference on “Growth of Telecommunication Electronics & Computer Technology GTECT-2013: The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers I LT ETERS I et REE RVs 127 AEW&C India the Indigenous Airborne Surveillance System S CHRISTOPHER anding Scientist, Director Centre for Air Borne Sy s, Bangalore | AEW&C / AWACS the emerging new Air Power | 2 ae © advent of At t = newac india | ao mor... | | te has re-written sie | | | Gulf War 1990-1991 Ss

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