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.
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.
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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One Undergraduate Scholar selected for MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship – 2022 Cycle 1 Awards (Cash Prize 1500 USD and Certificate).
Electromagnetics: Smith Chart, Transmission Lines
Antennas: Broadband, Microstrip, Substrate Integrated Waveguide
Microwave Passive Circuits: Couplers, Power Divider & Combiners, Filters
Radar: Monopulse Tracking
Microwave/Millimeter-wave Imaging
Machine Learning: Machine Learning in RF Microwave Ciruits
- Transmission Lines and Waveguides, Jan. 2022-23
- Microwave Components and Circuits, July 2022-23
- Network Analysis and Synthesis, July 2022-23
- Transmission Lines and Waveguides, Jan. 2021-22
- RF MEMS Circuit Design (IIIT Trichy, Jan. 2021-22)
- Electrodynamics And Electromagnetic Waves, July 2020-21, July 2021-22
- Microwave Electronics, July 2021-22
- Communication Systems, July 2020-21
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- Basics of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, July 2020-21
- Principles of Communication Engineering, Jan. 2019-20
- Basics of Electrical Engineering, July 2019-20
- Signals and Systems, Jan. 2018-19
- Antenna Design, Jan. 2018-19
- Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, July 2018-19
- Electromagnetic Wave Engineering, July 2018-19
- Design of Unidirectional Antennas Using High Impedance Surfaces, sponsored by DRDO, 2024-25.
- Desing and Development of Low-Cost Planar Broadband Antennas, Seed Grant, NITT, 2021-2023
- Design and development of low cost high gain antenna array, sponsored by Telenet Systems Pvt. Ltd., 2017.
- Design of X-band planar monopulse antenna, sponsored by Alpha Design Technologies Pvt. Ltd., 2014 - 16.
- Design and development of Ka-band monopulse planar array antenna, sponsored by Research Center Imarat (RCI), DRDO, Hyderabad, 2013-16.
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Ph.D. (Direct), Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Jan. 2013 - Feb. 2018 (9.28/10)
B.Tech (with Honours), Electronics & Communication Engineering, Kurukshetra University, 2006- 2010 (80.5/100)
12th, Haryana Board of School Education, 2005-2006 (9.8/10)
Assistant Professor at NIT Tiruchirappalii, June 2020 - Present
Assistant Professor at IIIT Allahabad, Dec. 2019 to June 2020
Assistant Professor at IIIT Nagpur, July 2019 to Dec. 2019
Assistant Professor at VJTI Mumbai, July 2018 to July 2019
Research Associate at IIT Bombay, Jan. 2018 to June 2018
- Editor, IETE Journal of Research
- Senior Member, IEEE, IEEE Young Professionals, APS, MTTS, Photonics Society
- Life Senior Member, WAMS Society
- Corporate Member (Lifetime), IETE
- Member (Lifetime), ATMS
- Corporate Member (Lifetime), IEI
- Received Innovation in Microwave Field award by IEEE MTTS-APS Joint Chapter Gujrat in Dec. 2023.
- Received IETE Sri C Viswanath Reddy Memorial Award 2023 in Sept 2023.
- Received Appreciation as a Session Chair at IEEE MAC 2023 organized at MNNIT Allahabad in March 2023 .
- Awarded as Faculty Advisor / Supervisor for IEEE 2022 Cycle 1 MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship award in 2022.
- Profile featured in the special edition of National Awareness Times (India’s National Weekly) on National Education Day in 2020.
- Appreciated for invited talk as Young Scientist Speaker at IEEE-INAE Workshop on Electromagnetics (IIWE 2018) in Dec. 2018
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- Received Student Travel Grant from European Microwave Association for EuCAP 2017, France.
- Received international conference grant of INR 90000 from IIT Bombay in 2017
- Excellence in Teaching Assistant (TA) award in ‘Radar Systems’ Course at IIT Bombay in 2016.
- Awarded with Hostel Organizational Color and Roll of Honour at IIT Bombay.
- Received Student Travel Grant from Bharti Center for Communications at IIT Bombay for presenting paper at ISMOT 2015, Germany.
- Qualified GATE-2012 and 2013 with 99.74 and 99.86 percentile, respectively.
- Recipient of MHRD fellowship from Govt. of India for pursuing Ph.D. degree at IIT Bombay.
- Awarded Gold Medal by Haryana State Governor for standing 1st position in B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication Engg.) in 2010.
- Achieved 1st position in District and 8th position in State in Class 12th in 2006
G. Kumar, Y.K. Verma, P. Mathur, H. Kumar, and P.K. Mishra, “SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE FED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR MONOPULSE TRACKING RADARS”, (Patent Application No. 201811050082, Indian Patent No. 464737, Granted on 01/11/2023).
- 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
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- Hemant Kumar, Mahima Arrawatia and Girish Kumar, “Broadband planar Log-periodic Dipole Array Antenna based RF Energy Harvesting System”, in IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 65(1), pp. 39-43, Jan. 2019. DOI:10.1080/03772063.2017.1385427
- Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, "Broadband monopulse microstrip antenna array for X-band monopulse tracking," in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 12, no. 13, pp. 2109-2114, 31 10 2018. DOI:10.1049/iet-map.2018.5332
- Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “A Broadband Planar Modified Quasi-Yagi Based on Log-Periodic Antenna”, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 73, pp. 23-30, Jan. 2018. doi:10.2528/PIERL17102005
- Hemant Kumar and Girish Kumar, “Coaxial Feed Pyramidal Horn Antenna with High Efficiency”, in IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 64(1), pp. 51-58, Jan. 2018. DOI:10.1080/03772063.2017.1323563
- 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
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- 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
- 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.
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- 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 27tt 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 21st 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.
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
- IET Electronics Letters
- IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation
- IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
- The International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering
- IETE Journal of Research
- International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Antennas: Concept and Design: Authors: Girish Kumar, Rinkee Chopra and Hemant Kumar E-Book Link
Please note: UG students from other institutions are also welcome for summer projects/ Internships. Prospective research students (PhD/Masters/UG) can contact me at juneja6031@gmail.com
