​​​​​​​​​​​Professor Kiran Kuchi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He leads 5G-advanced and 6G research and standards development efforts at 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Program), a global body that develops cellular communications specifications. Professor Kuchi is the author of more than 200 international patents, some of them are declared as 5G standards essential patents (SEPs) to TSDSI and 3GPP. Prof. Kuchi founded WiSig Networks Pvt Ltd, at IITH technology incubator. IITH and WiSig jointly developed and commercialized 5G base station and user equipment (UE) IPs and NB-IoT SoC.​​