Biographical note

Dr. Hari Vasudevan is M.E. in Production Engineering from VJTI Mumbai and Ph.D from IIT Bombay. He has also done a 3 months full time certificate programme (ERP-BaaN) from S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai under the University Synergy Programme of BaaN Institute, Netherlands. His areas of interest include manufacturing engineering, manufacturing systems and strategy, market orientation of manufacturing firms and world class manufacturing. He is an approved Ph.D guide of Mumbai University and NMIMS (Deemed to be university). He is the President of Indian Society of Manufacturing Engineering (ISME), Life member of ISTE, New Delhi, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers India, fellow of ISME and a Senior Member of IEDRC. He has 25 years of teaching experience and 2 years of industry experience. Presently, he is working as the Principal of D J Sanghvi College of Engineering. He has published over 70 papers in International conferences and Journals as well as in National conferences and Journals.

Dr. Amit A. Deshmukh obtained B.E. (Electronics) from V.I.T., Pune University in 1997. He obtained M.Tech. Degree in 2000 and Ph. D. in 2004 from Department of Electrical Engineering, I. I. T. Bombay. His thesis work during masters and doctoral was on Compact broadband and dual band microstrip antennas. He worked as Research Assistant in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Further, he worked as Assistant Professor in Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mukesh Patel School of Technology and Management (NMIMS – DU) and D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering. He also worked as Member of Technical staff in R&D division of Air Tight Network Pvt. Ltd., Pune. Currently, he is working as Professor & Head of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Vile – Parle (W), Mumbai, India. He has together (Teaching, Industry, and Research) more than 17 years of experience. He has published more than 200 research papers in various International and National Journals and Conferences. He is on reviewer list of many International Journals like, IEEE Magazine on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transaction of Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IET Microwave Antennas and Propagation, PIERS journals, International Journal of Electronics, IETE Journal of Research, Elsevier Electronics and Communication Journal. He has delivered many lecture talks in National/International conferences and workshops in the areas of patch antennas.

Dr. K. P. Ray is M. Tech in Microwave Electronics from University of Delhi and PhD from Department of Electrical Engineering IIT, Bombay. He joined SAMEER (TIFR) in 1985 and have been working in the areas of RF and microwave systems/components and developed expertise in the design of antenna elements/arrays and high power RF/microwave sources for RADAR and industrial applications. He has successfullyexecuted over 40 projects sponsored by Govt. agencies/industries in the capacity of a designer, a chief investigator and a project manager. He was guest/invited//adjunct faculty in Electrical Department at IIT, Bombay, University of Mumbai and CEERI (CSIR) Pilani for post graduate courses. Since November 2016, He is working as Professor & Head of the Department of Electronics Engineering at DIAT, Pune. Has co-authored a book with Prof G. Kumar for Artech House, USA and published over 300 research papers in international/national journals and conference proceedings. He holds 3 patents and filed three patents. He has been in advisory capacity for many international/national conferences, engineering colleges, chaired many sessions and delivered several invited talks. Has been on the Editorial Board of International Journal on RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, John Wiley, and a reviewer of IEEE AWPL, IET (Formerly IEE, UK), International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (USA), PIERS (USA), International Journal of electronics (USA), Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (USA), International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology (IJMOT) USA, International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology Hindwai, AEU Elsevier, SADHNA Springer, IETE (India) and many international/national conferences and chaired many sessions. He is a senior member of IEEE (USA), a fellow IETE, and life member of Instrument society of India and Engineers of EMI/EMC society of India.