Biographical note

Dr. Sanyog Rawat is presently associated with the Department Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur. He has been into teaching and research for more than seventeen years. He graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Microwave Engineering and Ph.D. in the field of Planar Antennas. He has published more than 80 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book series and IEEE/Springer conferences. He has supervised nearly 30 M.Tech. Dissertations and 03 Ph.Ds. He has also edited the books on Proceedings of the International conference on Soft Computing Theories and Applications (SoCTA-2016, 2017), Proceedings of International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovations and Computing (SSIC-2017) and International Conference on Engineering Vibrations, Communication and Information Processing (ICoEVCI, 2018) for Springer publication. His current research interests include reconfigurable RF printed circuits, passive and active microwave integrated circuits. He is also an active member of professional bodies, i.e., Fellow IETE and Member IE.

Dr. Arvind Kumar did his B.Tech. in Electronics & Telecommunication from J. K. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Allahabad (1996), M.E. in Instrumentation & Control, MNNIT Allahabad (1999), Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra (2014). He also did his B.Sc. (Maths) in 1992 from Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (U.P.). Presently, he is serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra. He has more than 22 years of teaching experience. He has supervised one Ph.D. and more than 30 M.Tech. scholars. He has more than 50 research papers in journals and conferences in his credit. His research interests include wireless communications, OFDM/MIMO-OFDM, massive MIMO systems, Digital and image processing, optical communication, antenna and wave propagation.

Dr. Pramod Kumar received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2002 and M.Tech. degree in Microwave Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology & Science; Gwalior, India, in 2007. He obtained Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor-Senior Scale in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. His current areas of research are wireless sensor networks, design of antennas and microwave components for wireless communications. He is on the board of reviewers of journals like the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IET Networks, AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Wireless Personal Communication (WPC), International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies. International journal of Communications, etc. 

Dr. Jaume Anguera, IEEE Fellow, is the co-founder and CTO of the technology company Fractus Antennas (Barcelona). He is Associate Professor at Ramon LLull University and a member of the GRITS research group. He is Inventor of more than 130 patents, most of them licensed to telecommunication companies. He is the inventor of Virtual Antenna™ technology, which enables full functional multi-band wireless connectivity to wireless devices through miniature and off-the-shelf antenna boosters. He is Author of more than 250 scientific widely cited papers and international conferences (h-index 49) and author of 7 books. He has participated in more than 21 competitive research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry, by CDTI, CIDEM (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the European Commission for an amount exceeding € 6M being principal researcher in most of them. He has taughtmore than 20 antenna courses around the world (USA, China, Korea, India, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Tunisia, Spain). With over 21 years of R&D experience, he has developed part of his professional experience with Fractus in South Korea in the design of miniature antennas for large Korean companies such as Samsung and LG. He has received several national and international awards (ex. 2004 Best Ph.D. Thesis, two prizes, one given by Telefónica Mobile, 2004 IEEE New Faces of Engineering, 2014 Finalist European Patent Award). He has directed the master/doctorate thesis to more than 110 students; many of them have received awards for their thesis (COIT, COITT, Ministry of Education). His biography appears in Who’sWho in the World and Who’sWho in Science and Engineering. He is the associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation, Electronics Letters, International Journal of Electronics and Communications and reviewer in several IEEE and other scientific journals. He is Vice-chair of the working group “Software and Modeling” at EurAAP.