Shrivishal Tripathi Editor

Dr. Yadwinder Kumar is presently working as a senior assistant professor, department of electronics and communication engineering, Yadavindra Department of Engineering (YDoE) Punjabi University, India. He has taught courses including antenna and wave propagation, microwave engineering, analog communication, circuit theory, microwave integrated circuits, antenna system engineering, computer networks, and optical communication system at the undergraduate and graduate level. His areas of research interest include antenna design and microelectronics. He has published research papers in journals and conferences. Shrivishal Tripathi is currently working as an assistant professor, department of electronics and communications engineering, Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee International Institute of Information Technology, Chhatisgarh, India. He has published papers in reputed journals like IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, Springer Wireless Personal Communication, IET Antenna, and Propagation, IET Electronics Letters, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (Taylor and Francis), and Wiley’s Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. He is a member of the IEEE society and MTT society. His research interests include ultrawideband (UWB) antennas, reconfigurable antenna, MIMO antenna, SIW antenna, wireless body area network (WBAN), specific absorption ratio (SAR), energy harvesting, cognitive radio, signal modulation/demodulation techniques, MIMO/OFDM system, and Ad-hoc network. He has taught courses including electromagnetic field theory, microwave & radar theory, analysis of digital communication techniques, microprocessors and microcontrollers, network analysis, and synthesis, and signals and systems at undergraduate and graduate levels. Balwinder Raj is currently working as an associate professor, department of electronics and communications engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR) Chandigarh, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. He has published 70 research papers in journals of national and international repute. His areas of interest include novel semiconductor devices, classical/Non-Classical nanoscale devices modeling, ultra-low power VLSI/ULSI design and technology, nanoscale memory design, digital VLSI circuit design, and reconfigurable FPGA implementation.

Dr. Shrivishal Tripathi is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur. Prior to this, he was associated with BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad and NIIT University, Neemrana as an Assistant Professor. He got his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur in Electrical Engineering Department. He has received his M.E (Electronics and Electrical Communication) from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh in 2011. Before that, he has done B. Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from Dr. K.N. Modi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad in 2009. His main research interest includes UWB Antenna, MIMO Antenna, Reconfigurable Antenna, Antenna for IoT, Antenna for 5G, SAR Analysis, FMCW Radar, and RF/Microwave circuit design. One project sanctioned by Department of Science and Technology (DST) is under progress as a Principle Investigator (PI). He has completed two project as Co-PI sanctioned by Indira Gandhi Krishi Vidyalaya (IGKV), Raipur. He has published many papers in reputed Journals like IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, Springer Wireless Personal Communication, IET Antenna and Propagation, and Wiley’s Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. Moreover, several papers presented in many IEEE international/national conferences (held in India and abroad). He has organized many workshops/FDP in the areas of RF/Microwave and communication. He is focal person coordinator of IIRS-ISRO outreach program.

Dr. Balwinder Raj is currently working as Associate Professor in ECE Department, NITTTR Chandigarh. Earlier he was working at National Institute of Technology (NIT Jalandhar), Punjab, India 2012-2019. He did B. Tech, Electronics Engineering (PTU Jalandhar), M. Tech-Microelectronics (PU Chandigarh) and Ph.D-VLSI Design (IIT Roorkee), India in 2004, 2006 and 2010 respectively. For further research work, European Commission awarded him Mobility of life research fellowship for postdoc research work at University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy in 2010-2011. He also worked as visiting researcher at KTH University Sweden, Oct-Nov. 2013. He has visited countries like Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Thailand, for research collaborative projects, Invited Lectures and conferences.Dr. Raj received best teacher’s award from ISTE New Delhi, in July 2013, Dr. Raj received Young Scientist Award from Punjab Academy of Sciences on 9th Feb 2015. He has also received best research paper award in International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering held at Pattaya, Thailand from 11th to 12th July 2015 and early carrier research award from SERB-DST Govt. of India in 2017. Dr. Raj has authored/co-authored 04 books, 08 book chapters and more than 90 research papers in peer reviewed international/national journals and conferences. He guided 7 PhDs and currently 4 PhD scholars are working with him. He guided more than 30 M.Tech students. Dr. Raj completed 3 research projects from DST Delhi, SERB Delhi and CIMO Finland. Currently he is handing two research projects from SERB Delhi and ISRO. His areas of interest in research are Classical/Non-Classical Nanoscale Semiconductor Device Modeling, FinFET based Memory design, Low Power VLSI Design, Digital/Analog VLSI Design and FPGA implementation.