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Dr. Hemant Kumar

Assistant Professor, ECE

hemant@nitt.edu

juneja6031@gmail.com

hemant.kumar.c2018@iitbombay.org

Office Address: Chamber 216, ECE Department, NIT Tiruchirappalli, 620015

Office Contact: 0431-250-3328

Collaboration: Collaboration is an essential part of advancing research in any area. I'm always interested in working with other researchers and exploring new avenues of inquiry. If you have an idea for a project or research question that you think I might be interested in, please don't hesitate to get in touch. You can reach me by email at juneja6031@gmail.com or by using the contact number on this page. I look forward to hearing from you and exploring the possibilities of collaboration.

Recent News

Dec. 13, 2023: Received the Innovation in Microwave Field award by IEEE MTTS-APS Joint Gujrat in Dec. 2023

Dec 03, 2023: One of our paper accepted in IETE Journal of Research in collaboration with NIT Goa. Congratulations to Main/First Author, M Ayyappan, co-authors Abhijeet, and Dr. Pragati Patel

Oct 30, 2023: Delivered an invited tutorial at ISAP 2023 in Malaysia

Sept 15, 2023: Received the prestigious IETE Sri C Viswanatha Reddy Memorial Award 2023

July 30, 2023: Karyashala (A High-end Workshop) on "Recent Trends and Future Prospects for Beyond 5G in RF, Microwave and Millimetre Wave Technologies" successfully organized from 23 to 29 July, 2023.

List of Speakers: 1. Chief Guest: Prof. K P Ray (DIAT Pune), 2. Guest of Honour: Dr. Prashant Kumar Mishra (DRDO), 3. Valedictory Guest: Dr. Sukomal Dey (IIT Palakkad), 4. Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh (IIT Indore), 5. Dr. G Shrikanth Reddy (IIT Mandi), 6. Dr. Rajesh Singh (DIAT Pune), 7. Dr. Nagendra Kushwaha (IIIT Pune), 8. Dr. Pragati Patel (NIT Goa),9. Dr. E S Gopi (NIT Tiruchirappalli) 10. Dr. Basudev Majumder (IIST Thiruvananthapuram), 11. Dr. Debdeep Sarkar (IISc Bangalore), 12. Dr. Ravi Kumar Arya (ZICUST China), 13. Dr. Biswajeet Mukherjee (IIITDM Jabalpur). For more details Click here

List of Participants: Selected Candidates have been informed through email

Inauguration Ceremony on 23 July 2023 For more details Click here

July 13, 2023: Enrolled as Senior Member,URSI

May 26, 2023: Delivered an invited talk at ICMOCE 2023, IIT Bhubaneshwar

May 16, 2023: Two PG Scholars joined the Research Group. Welcome, Abhishek and Harish

May 13, 2023: Enrolled as Life Senior Member, Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium Society (WAMS Society)

April 12, 2023: My proposal for Karyashala (High-end Workshop) on "Recent Trends and Future Prospects for Beyond 5G in RF, Microwave and Millimetre Wave Technologies" has been approved. Workshop to be conducted from 23 to 29 July, 2023. For more details Click here

March 25, 2023:One of my paper accepted and published in IEEE MWTL. Congratulate me

March 07, 2023: One of our paper accepted in IETE Journal of Research in collaboration with NIT Goa. Congratulations to Main/First Author, M Ayyappan, and his Supervisor, Dr. Pragati Patel

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Ayyappan M, Abhijeet Gaonkar, Pragati Patel & Hemant Kumar (2023): A Low-Profile Quad Element High Isolation MIMO Antenna for Enhanced Mobile Broadband Applications, IETE Journal of Research, doi: 10.1080/03772063.2023.2286288
Hemant Kumar (2023): Planar Mercator Smith Chart: An Alternative Approach for Active and Passive Microwave Circuits, in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, doi: 10.1109/LMWT.2023.3258520
Ayyappan M, Pragati Patel & Hemant Kumar (2023): A Dual Port Hybrid Super-wideband MIMO Antenna with Diminished CCL and High BDR for IoT Applications, IETE Journal of Research, DOI:10.1080/03772063.2023.2191997
Manan Gupta & Hemant Kumar (2023): Compact, Broadband and High Gain Uniplanar Quasi-Yagi Microstrip Antenna for End-Fire Radiation, IETE Journal of Research, DOI:10.1080/03772063.2022.2162451
Syed Maaiz Syed Shabbeer Basha, Srivatsan Sridhar, Sandeep Kaushik & Hemant Kumar (2022): MilliNet: Applied Deep Learning Technique for Millimeter-Wave Based Object Detection and Classification, IETE Journal of Research, DOI:10.1080/03772063.2022.2098190
Ankit Nimbolkar, Hemant Kumar & Girish Kumar (2021) Alternatives to Metamaterial Based Antennas for Gain and Bandwidth Enhancement, IETE Journal of Research, DOI:10.1080/03772063.2021.1886878
Suman P. Wadkar, S. M. Rathod, Hemant Kumar, Girish Kumar and B. G. Hogade, “Normal Mode Helical Antenna on Small Circular Ground Plane” in IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 66(5), pp. 617-624, May 2020 DOI:10.1080/03772063.2018.1510748
Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Monopulse Comparators [Application Notes],” in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 13-100, March 2019. DOI:10.1109/MMM.2018.2885670

K. Srinivasan, K. G. Singh, A. P. Singh, M. Sainath and H. Kumar, "Design of S-band Frequency Tunable Substrate Integrated Waveguide Band Pass Filter with EBG Slots," 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), Rourkela, India, 2022, pp. 1-4, DOI: 10.1109/WAMS54719.2022.9847942
D. Vishrutha and H. Kumar, "Analyzing 3D Smith Chart Using MATLAB: An Insightful and Illustrative Approach," 2021 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP), Jaipur, India, 2021, pp. 332-335, DOI: 10.1109/InCAP52216.2021.9726471
M. Gupta and H. Kumar, "Compact and Broadband Uniplanar Quasi-Yagi Microstrip Antenna," 2021 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP), Jaipur, India, 2021, pp. 190-193, DOI: 10.1109/InCAP52216.2021.9726395

H. Kumar and G. Kumar, "Cavity Backed Substrate Integrated Waveguide Horn Antenna with Enhanced Gain for 5G Applications," 2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propogation (InCAP), Hyderabad, India, 2018, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/INCAP.2018.8770715

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Coaxial fed Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) H-plane Horn Antenna with Air-filled Concave Structure,” in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Boston, USA, July 2018, pp. 1919-1920. DOI: 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2018.8609073

S. M. Rathod, Suman P. Wadkar, Hemant Kumar, Girish Kumar and B. G. Hogade, “Effect of variation of height on the performance of normal mode helical antenna,” in 2017 IEEE Applied electromagnetics conference, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Dec. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/AEMC.2017.8325625

Arun Kumar Singh, Hemant Kumar, Girish Kumar, and Malay Ranjan Tripathy, “Seven Element Wideband Planar Log-periodic Antenna for TVWS Base Station,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Singapore, Nov. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-FALL.2017.8293475

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Compact planar log-Periodic dipole array based Yagi-Udaantenna,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), San Diego, USA, July 2017, pp. 2157-2158. DOI: 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2017.8073121

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Compact planar Yagi-Uda antenna with improved characteristics,” 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Paris, 2017, pp. 2008-2012. DOI: 10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928412

Suman P. Wadkar, S. M. Rathod, Hemant Kumar, Girish Kumar and B. G. Hogade, “Normal mode helical antenna at 1.8 GHz with small circular ground plane”, 2016 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSYM), Cochin, 2016, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/APSYM.2016.7929145

Sumit Sharma, Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Single feed dual band circularly polarized stub loaded tunable microstrip patch antenna”, 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, Dec. 2016, pp. 1- 4. DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2016.7931492

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “An inverted suspended microstrip antenna array integrated with ratrace comparator at X-Band for monopulse tracking,” 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, Dec. 2016, pp. 1- 4. DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2016.7931366

H. Kumar, G. Kumar, Y. Verma and P. K. Mishra, “Compact waveguide monopulse comparator at Ka-band for monopulse tracking,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, USA, July 2016, pp. 1357-1358. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696385

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Microstrip antenna array with ratrace comparator at X-band for monopulse tracking radar,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, USA, July 2016, pp. 513-514. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7695965

Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Design and Parametric Analysis of Pyramidal Horn Antenna with High Efficiency,” proceeding of International Symposium on Microwave and Optical Technology ISMOT 2015, Dresden, Germany, pp. 134-137. ISMOT 2015

Invited Lectures and Talks Delivered (updated till March 2021)

Delivered the expert talk on “Horn Antenna: Design and Analysis” during the online faculty development program on Antenna: Design and Analysis organized by St. Xavier’s Technical Institute, a Govt. Aided Autonomous & Minority Institute Recognized by Govt. of Maharashtra, Approved by AICTE, Mahim, Mumbai, during 1-6 March 2021.
Delivered an invited talk on “Broadband monopulse Microstrip Antenna array for radar applications" in two-weeks workshop on "“Recent Trends on Metamaterial Antennas for Wireless Applications and Deep Learning Techniques” sponsored by Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) organized at NITT during 15th -26th February 2021.
Delivered the expert talk on “Applications of Broadband Antennas” during the online faculty development program on Antenna: Design and Analysis organized by St. Xavier’s Technical Institute, a Govt. Aided Autonomous & Minority Institute Recognized by Govt. of Maharashtra, Approved by AICTE, Mahim, Mumbai, during 7-12 December 2020.

Delivered an invited talk on “Broadband Antennas and Arrays” in one-week online STTP on “Design and Simulation of Miniature Antennas for IOT Applications” organized at MVGR College of Engineering during 23-28 November 2020.

Delivered the expert talk on “Planar Antennas and Arrays: Trends and Applications” during the online International faculty development program on Electromagnetics to 5G jointly organized by BIET Jhansi in association with SPIU Uttar Pradesh, ISTE & NUMEREGION during 7-11 September 2020.

Delivered an invited talk on “Antennas and Arrays: Recent Trends and applications” in the one-week Faculty development program on Recent Advances in RF and Microwave Engineering organized by Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur (JEC) on 3rd Feb. 2020.

Delivered an invited talk on “Antenna Design using IE3D” in the one-week National Workshop on Modelling and Simulation on Microstrip Antenna, Circuits and Materials organized by Department of Physics and Electronics at Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya on 2nd Feb. 2020.

Delivered a guest lecture on “Antennas and Arrays” at the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur in Nov. 2019.

Delivered an invited talk on “Antennas and Arrays: Recent Trends and applications” in the Faculty development program organized by Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics Engineering of K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology (KJSIET) Sion, Mumbai in association with Entuple Technologies Pvt. Ltd., on 2nd July 2019.

Delivered an invited lecture in IEEE-INAE Workshop on Electromagnetics (IIWE 2018) organized by IEEE-APS Kerala and Madras Chapter and INAE in association with IIST, Trivandrum in Dec. 2018

Delivered an invited talk on “Broadband Antennas and Arrays” in one-week STTP on “Commercial Trends in Antennas and Microwave Technologies: Inclination Toward Start-Ups” organized at ST. Francis Institute of Technolgy (SFIT), Mumbai on 27t^t June, 2018.

Delivered an invited talk on “Broadband Antennas and Monopulse Tracking” in AICTE-ISTE approved one-week STTP on “RF Antenna: Design and Analysis” organized by Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics Engineering of K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering (KJSCE) Vidyavihar, Mumbai on 21^st June, 2018.

Delivered talk to faculties and students from different colleges/universities about hands on session on “IE3D Antenna design software tool” organized by Dr. Babasaheb Amberkar Technological University, Lonere, Maharashtra through CEP in Feb. 2017.

Delivered a talk on “An inverted suspended microstrip antennas integrated with ratrace monopulse comparator” in QIP Sponsored one-week workshop on “Wave Theory and Application” organized by Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, Maharashtra in Jan. 2017.

Invited lecture on “Antenna Design” in ISTE approved two weeks short term training program on “Recent Trends in Antenna & Wireless Communication” organized by Atharva College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra in June 2016.

Delivered talk to faculties and students from different colleges / universities about hands on session on “IE3D Antenna design software tool” in QIP Sponsored one-week workshop on “Antenna, RF and Microwave System Design” organized by Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, Maharashtra in Jan 2016.

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