Practical Antenna: Design, Analysis, and Applications Hardback - 2024

Abhishek Kumar Awasthi completed his B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College Ghaziabad (UPTU Lucknow) in the year 2008. He did his M. Tech. in Digital Communication from Ambedkar Institute of Technology Delhi (GGSIP University Delhi) in 2011 and doctoral degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering (RF and Microwave) of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2018. Currently he is working as a Deputy Manager RF, Paras Antidrone Technologies Private Limited, Mumbai, India. Prior to that he has worked at Remote Sensing Center at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL USA as an Associate Research Engineer. His major research interests include design, optimize, fabricate, and develop various active and passive microwave circuits for the radars. Particularly, he is working on the radars with application in ice sounding and soil moisture measurement. He has also actively worked on the assembly and field test of the radar for soil moisture and snow measurements. Apart from radar design, he has worked on the antenna array design for various applications. He has mainly worked on design of the antenna arrays which includes the study of inter-element coupling and its effects on the performance of the antenna arrays, design of compact and ultra-wide band antenna arrays, shared aperture antenna arrays, antenna arrays for airborne applications.

Abhinav Sharma received his B. Tech. from H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, India, in 2009 and the M. Tech. and Ph. D. from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, in 2011 and 2016. He is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. He has taught subjects such as data communication networks, microprocessor and embedded system, artificial intelligence and machine learning, communication systems. He has publications in many national and international journals and conferences. His field of interest includes adaptive array signal processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, optimization techniques and smart antennas.

Kushmanda Saurav received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunication from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India, in 2009, the M. Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, in 2011,
and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2017. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Royal Military College Canada. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu, India. His research interests include microwave and millimeter wave antennas and frequency selective surfaces. He has published more than 75 research papers in esteemed journals and conferences. He has served as reviewers in IEEE, IET and Wiley Journals. He is actively involved in the professional activities of the IEEE. He is a senior member of IEEE and currently the faculty advisor of IEEE MTTS and APS Student Branch Chapters of IIT Jammu. He has rich experience of supervising M. Tech. and PhD students and undertaking sponsored projects.