People

Dr. Milind Thomas Themalil


Assistant Professor
Founder, Microwave and Optical Research Group

Dr. Della Thomas


Assistant Professor
Lead Faculty in Applied Optics and Optical Communication

Dr. Debarati Ganguly


Assistant Professor
Lead Faculty in RF/Microwave and Applied Electromagnetics

Dr. Ananth A


Assistant Professor
HOD ECE

Dr. Ragesh G K


Assistant Professor

Dr. Santhos Kumar


Assistant Professor

Dr. Susheel Kumar Joshi


Assistant Professor

Dr. Murugan D


Assistant Professor

Dr. S. Venkatesh


Assistant Professor

Dr. Kanchan Lata Kashyap


Assistant Professor

Dr. Sujamol S


Assistant Professor


External Advisory Committe

Sl. Name Organization Email
1 Prof. Yahia Antar Professor, Royal Military College,Canada yahia.antar@rmc-cmr.ca
2 Dr Goutam Chattopadhyay JPL,NASA Goutam.Chattopadhyay@jpl.nasa.gov
3 Prof. Bernard Jecko University of Limoges, France bernard.jecko@xlim.fr
4 Prof. Debatosh Guha University of Calcutta, Fellow IEEE, Fellow INAE dguha@ieee.org
5 Prof. Shiban Koul IIT Delhi ---
6 Dr. Gaurav Trivedi IIT Guwahati gaurav.vb.trivedi@gmail.com
7 Dr. Ravi Gangwar IIT (ISM) Dhanbad ravi@iitism.ac.in
8 Prof. M M Sharma MNIT, Jaipur mms.ece@mnit.ac.in
9 Dr. Hemant Kumar NIT, Thrichy hemant@nitt.edu
10 Dr. Shyam NITK, Surathkal shyamfec@nitk.edu.in
11 Dr. Neela Chattoraj BIT, Ranchi nchattoraj@bitmesra.ac.in
12 Prof. Bhaskar Gupta Jadavpur University, Kolkata gupta_bh@yahoo.com
13 Prof. J S Roy KIIT University, Bhubaneswar drjsroy@rediffmail.com
14 Dr. Abdulla CUSAT, Kochi abdulla@cusat.ac.in
15 Dr. Basudeb Ghosh IIST, Trivandrum basuiitr@gmail.com
16 Dr. Daniel Rammal, Senior Engineer Airbus, France Mohamad.rammal@gmail.com
17 Johannes Schumacher (Founder) Celestial Space Technologies, TU Berlin, Germany Johannes@celestialspacetechnologies.com
18 Mayank Sharma (CEO and Co-Founder) Celestial Space Technologies, TU Berlin, Germany Mayank@celestialspacetechnologies.com
19 Navneet Singh (CEO) Kepler Aerospace, Bangalore ceo@kepleraero.com
20 Kiran Sharma Kepler Aerospace, Bangalore bdo@kepleraero.com
21 Manish (CEO) Xtragen, Bangalore Manish@xtragen.in
22 Prof. Nilesh J Vasa IIT Madras, Engg. Design Department njvasa@iitm.ac.in
23 Prof.I.A.Palani IIT Indore palaniia@iiti.ac.in
24 Prof. Pramod Gopinath CUSAT,International School of Photonics. pramod@cusat.ac.in
25 Prof. Sajan Daniel George Dept. of Atomic and Molecular Physics, MANIPAL sajan.george@manipal.edu
26 Dr. Ramya Selvaraj (Asst. Prof.) NIT Raipur, Electrical Engg dept. rselvaraj.ee@nitrr.ac.in
27 Dr. V. Sathiesh Kumar (Professor) Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai sathiieesh@gmail.com
28 Dr. Ezhilmaran V (Asst. Prof.) Dept. of Manufacturing, College of Engg Guindy, Anna University, Chennai ezhilmaran25@gmail.com
29 Dr.ing Parvathy Anitha Sukkurji, Senior Researcher, Daimler Truck AG, Germany parvathyas@gmail.com
30 Dr. Srinivasa Rakesh, Senior Engineer, Caterpillar Inc., Chennai chrakesh@gmail.com
31 Dr. Vani Damodaran Manager New Products Forus Health, Bengaluru vani@forushealth.com

Research Areas Covered

AI in Healthcare: Development of Non Invasive Antennas for Therapeutic Modalities
5G RF Energy Harvesting for IoT Greens : Smart Indoor platforms and Smart City Applications
Antennas for 5G MIMO Applications
Optoelectronics and Laser Spectroscopy
Image Processing , Machine Learning and NLP

Ongoing Projects/Submitted

Sl. Agency Status Sanctioned Amount
1 DST-SERB Submitted Under Process
2 IGSTC-WIZER Submitted Under Process
3 MieTy- NSF Submitted Under Process

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Event 1

One day Seminar Lecture on Microwave to Terahertz: A Paradigm Shift and IEEE Awareness Program

Chief Guest : Dr Gautam Chattopadhyay, Senior Scientist, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA

IEEE Awareness Speakers:
Dr. B S Manoj, Professor, IIST Trivandrum
Dr. Chinmoy Saha, Professor, IIST Trivandrum, IEEE SIGHT Co-Chairman & R10 Coordinator

Research Publications

  1. D Ganguly, J.C Dash, Ragesh G K, “Development of a Circularly Polarized Conformal Antenna Array for RF Energy Harvesting at 2.4 GHz for IoT Powered Smart Indoor Applications” IEEE URSI Antenna and Propagation Symposium, Florence, Italy, July, 2024 (Submitted)

  2. D Ganguly, J C Dash, Y Antar, “Development of a Non-invasive Antenna Array for Non-Thermal Electroporation in Therapeutic Modality of Skin Tissue Tumors”, IEEE URSI Antenna and Propagation Symposium, Florence, Italy, July, 2024 (Submitted)

  3. Satya Singh and Milind Thomas Themalil, "Investigations on a 2T2R MIMO Microstrip Patch Antenna for Next Generation Wireless Networks", IJMOT-2022-7-262406, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 630-638, International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology, USA, Nov 2022.

  4. Milind Thomas Themalil, Satya Singh, Divanshu Jain, Dinesh Yadav, Mohamad Rammal and Mayank Sharma, "Miniaturization Capability of the Pixel Antenna for Nanosatellite Footprints", VLSI, Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Springer, ISBN: 978-981-19-0311-3, Lect. Notes Electrical Eng., Vol. 877, doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-0312-0, 4 Sept 2022.

  5. Dr. Ragesh G K and Dr. Ajay Kumar, “Node Localization Based on Unsupervised Approach and Secure Routing for Healthcare Management in Delay Tolerant Networks”, The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer. (In Submission)

  6. Dr. Ragesh G K and Dr. Ajay Kumar, “Trust-Based Secure Routing and Message delivery Protocol for Signal Processing Attacks in IoT Applications”, The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2022. (SCIE indexed)

  7. Christina Gamal, Kang An, Xingwang Li, Varun G Menon, Dr. Ragesh G K, Mostafa M. Fouda, Basem M. ElHalawany, “Performance of Hybrid Satellite-UAV NOMA Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE-ICC), May 2022, Seoul, South Korea (Flagship Conference of IEEE)

  8. Xingwang Li, Yike Zheng, WaliUllah Khan, Ming Zeng, Dong Li, Ragesh G. K, Lihua Li, “Physical Layer Security of Cognitive Ambient Backscatter Communications for Green Internet-of-Things”, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2021 (SCIE indexed)

  9. Chaithralakshmi V G, Anamika P, Della Thomas, 'Design and Implementation of Sun Tracking Solar Power System', Women in Optics and Photonics 2023, Jan 2-3, 2024, IIT Madras

  10. Thomas D. (2023), Marine Biofouling Analysis by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, In: Dr. Vivek K. Singh, Prof. Y. Deguchi, Dr. Zhenzhen Wang, and Dr. Durgesh K. Tripathi (eds). Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) : Concepts, Instrumentation, Data Analysis and Applications, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. First published:20 March 2023, Print ISBN:9781119758402, Online ISBN:9781119758396 DOI: 10.1002/9781119758396

  11. Aswathy Pavithran, Santhosh Kumar, Kala S, Della Thomas, 'Image Segmentation using Particle Swarm Optimization and simulated Annealing', International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies ICPC2T 2024, January 18-20, 2024, NIT Raipur.

Honors

Dr. Debarati Ganguly is Invited for delivering a talk for “IEEE Young Professionals”, at Wireless Antennas and Microwave Symposium, WAMS, 2024, to be held at Vizag, Feb. 28-Mar., 3rd, 2024.
Dr. Debarati Ganguly has received Best Paper Award (2nd position in Academia) at IEEE Microwaves and Antenna Propagation Conference, MAPCON, Ahmedabad, 10-14th Dec, 2023.


Dr. Milind Thomas received the Air India Scholastic Award, 2023.
Dr. Debarati Ganguly has been invited for panel discussion for “Women in Engineering Session” at IEEE Microwaves and Antenna Propagation Conference, MAPCON, Ahmedabad, 10-14th Dec, 2023, Topic: Future for Microwave Professionals: Opportunities and Challenges.
Dr. Della Thomas delivered a talk for the ATAL-FDP on "Industry5.0 - A Human Centric Solution" at college of engineering Adoor,Jan, 18th, 2024.
Advanced Optoelectronic Sensors,Applications, Modelling and Industry 5.0 Perspective.


DST-DAAD 2022 Awardee- Dr. Ragesh G K
D Ragesh G K is the recipient of prestigious UKI-FNI (UK India Future Networks Initiative) Funding Grant-2022 from EPSRC, United Kingdom, (Grant Amount: 40 lakhs INR)
Dr. Ragesh G K has received BRITISH Council’s Going Global Partnership Programme- Exploratory Grant Awardee (Grant Amount: 15 lakhs INR)

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