Dr. G Shrikanth Reddy (Ph.D,SMIEEE)

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Associate ProfessorSchool of Computing and Electrical Engineering,
Address: School of Computing and Electrical Engineering,
Office: A-17 Building 3rd Floor, Room:A-33
IIT Mandi, Kamand Campus,
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh - 175005
India
Phone: 01905267221
EMail: gopishrikanth[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in

Research interests

  • Antenna and Wave propagation
  • Microwave passive components
  • FSS and EBG structures
  • Electrically Samll Antenna
  • MIMO/Diversity Antenna
  • Metamaterials

Education

  • PhD: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (2015)
    • Thesis title:Design and Analysis of UWB Antennas with MIMO/Diversity and Multi Band-notch Characteristics

Work Experience

Professional Experience (Teaching and Research)
  • June-2024: Associate Professor, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering IIT Mandi
  • Nov.2016- 2024: Assistant. Professor, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering IIT Mandi
  • Feb.2016 - Nov.2016: Post-Doctoral Scientist, ADWISR Center, State University of New York, Oswego, USA
    • Research topic: Compact VHF antennas for covert vehicular applications
  • Nov.2015 - Feb.2016: Asst. professor (On Contract, Defense Institute of Advance Technology (DIAT-DRDO) Pune, Maharashtra
  • May.2015 - Oct.2015:Research Associate, Dept. Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay,
    • Research Topic: Ultra Wideband Horn antenna
  • Nov.2014 - April.2015:Raman- Charpak Fellow, University of Pierre and Marie-Curie, Sorbonne University, UPMC-Paris France,
    • Research topic: Analysis of mode propagation within human tissue using transverse resonance technique
  • Jan.2012 - Nov.2014:Teaching Assistant, Dept. Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Awards, Honors, and Invited Talks

Invited Talks
  • IEEE APS/MTT Branch Chapter(s): IIT Kanpur-Kanpur Chapter, Kerala Chapter, IIT Kharagpur-Kharagpur Chapter, IIITDM Jabalpur,
  • Faculty Development/Quality Improvement Programs: IIT Indore, SSN collage Kalvakkam, Xavier College Mumbai, Govt. Engg. College Sunder-nagar HP, Pillai University Mumbai, MITS Gwalior MP, VJTI Mumbai, VES Engineering college Mumbai.
  • NKN lectures: Ultrawide band antennas, IIT Guwahati
Awards
  • IEEE- MTT Society-Affliated Member- Technical Committee-1:Field Theory and Computational Electromagnetics,
  • Senior Member IEEE
  • "Young Scientist Award", Union of International Radio Science (URSI-APRSC) 2019
  • Session Chair IEEE conference- iAIM-2017 (Poster Session), InCAP-2018 (Oral Session), IEEE MAPCON-2022 (Oral Session)
  • Best paper award (Session T-7) IEEE- International Conference on Antenna Innovations and Modern Technologies (iAIM-2017), Bangalore
  • DST-Early Carrier Research Award 2017
  • Indo-French Raman-Charpak Fellowship
  • Excellent Teaching Assistant award” for course of Electromagnetic Waves (Under Graduation Course), IIT Bombay
  • CST Microwave-Studio Publication Award
  • Best paper award: International Conference on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation & Remote Sensing, 2011, Jodhpur, India
  • Honors Degree “Bachelor of Engineering”
Travel Grants
  • European Microwave week (EuMW-2015) Travel Grant
  • Bharti Center of Communication IIT Bombay Travel Grant, APMC 2013, Seoul, Korea
  • DST Travel Grant 2015, 2011

Sponsored Projects

  • PI: Design and analysis of FSS structures for Various RF and Microwave applications
      • Sponsoring Agency: SERB- ECRA Grant
      Amount/Duration: 51.97 Lakhs, Nov.2017- March. 2021 (Finished)
  • PI: Design of Electrically small antenna for UHF applications
      • Sponsoring Agency: IIT Mandi (Seed Grant)
      Amount/Duration: 5.53 Lakhs, Nov. 2017 - March 2020 (Finished)
  • PI: Design of IoT Trans-receiver with MIMO/Diversity antenna Scheme
      • Sponsoring Agency: DST-ICPS division
      Amount/Duration: 49.26 Lakhs, Oct. 2019-Sep. 2023 (Jointly with IIT Guwahati)
  • PI: Multimode Resonator Based Electrically Small antenna for wireless devices
      • Sponsoring Agency: SERB-Core Research Grant
      Amount/Duration: 29 lakhs. Jan. 2023-2026
  • Co-PI: Designing advanced, efficient, compact, highly reliable sensor and biomarker system to combact Alzheimer, heart attack and early stage cancer
      • Sponsoring Agency: TIH-iHUB HCI foundation IIT Mandi, DST-Nation Mission on Cyber Physical system (ICPS)
      Amount/Duration: 62 lakhs, Feb.2023-2025

Available Research Position

  • Required 1 JRF or SRF who is also motivateed to do PhD. Interested candidate can apply through advertisement published in: https://www.iitmandi.ac.in/sites/default/files/2023-03/advt_srf_jrf_mar2023.pdf
  • Positions are available for PhD and Mtech by Research program in the field of Frequency selective surfaces, Reconfigurable antennas and RF system design. Interested candidate may apply against the PhD/Mtech research advertisement at IIT Mandi website.

Publications

Book Publications
  • Chapter: Compact and Broadband Printed antennas, Part III-Wireless communication systems- Handbook of Metamaterial-Derived Frequency Selective Surfaces, Springer Publications,
Patent
  • Indian Patent: MIMO antenna, Design no. 338999-001, Dated- 12/02/2021 Authors: Ms. Shilpa kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy
Journal Publications (published)
  1. A Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, P Jyotibhusan, “Highly Angular-Stable Optically Transparent Microwave Absorber with Wide Absorption Bandwidth”, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Practice and Applications Letters Volume: 4, Issue: 4, December 2022
  2. JC Dash, S Kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy, “MIMO Antenna Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Modified Inverted-Fork Shaped Structure”, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Volume: 45, Issue: 4, 2022)
  3. Jyotibhusan Padhi, G. Shrikanth Reddy & Awanish Kumar, “Multiple stubs loaded efficient electrically small antenna for DCS/WiMAX/5G NR-n77/n78 applications”, JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2022.
  4. J Padhi, A Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, “Parasitic element loaded efficient electrically small antenna for indoor wireless applications”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 64 (10), 1793-1799, 2022
  5. Awanish K., G. Shrikanth Reddy, Jyotibhusan P., Rushiraj , Shiv Narayan, "Wideband, polarization independent EM wave absorber using cross arrow resonator and lumped SMD resistors for C and X band applications", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering Volume32, Issue7, July 2022.
  6. Awanish K., Jyotibhusan P., G. Shrikanth Reddy, Shiv Narayan "Asymmetric Meander Line Slot-Based X-Band Leaky Wave Antenna",Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 63 (11), 2846-2851
  7. J C Dash, K Nagalakshmaiah, G. Shrikanth reddy, Jayanta Mukherjee, " Electrically Small Hemi-cyllindrical Shaped Multilayer VHF antenna for underground Mine Communication", IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation 14 (6), 491-497.
  8. S. Kharche, G. Shrikanth reddy, R. Gupta, Jayanta Mukherjee, " A wideband Circularly Polarized Diversity Antenna for Satellite and Mobile Communication", IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 11, pp. 1861 - 1867, 2017(Among top 50 most frequently accessed IEEE documents for Nov 2017).
  9. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, S. Kharche, Jayanta Mukherjee, S K Mishra, “ Cross-Configured Directional UWB antenna for multidirectional pattern diversity characteristics”, IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, Vol. 63, Issue 2, pp. 853 – 858, 2015.
  10. G Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, Sanjeev. K. Mishra, and Jayanta Mukherjee, “Compact Bluetooth/UWB Dual-Band Planar Antenna with Quadruple Band-Notch Characteristics”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol 13, pp. 872 – 875, 2014.
  11. Shilpa Kharche, G Shrikanth Reddy, Biswajeet Mukherjee, Rajiv Gupta, and Jayanta Mukherjee “MIMO Antenna for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX and UWB Applications”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 52, pp 53-62, 2014.
  12. Anil Kamma, G Shrikanth Reddy, Rajesh Singh Parmar, Jayanta Mukherjee “Dual–Band Filter for WiMAX and WLAN with improved upper stop band performance.”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 50, pp 131-138, 2014.
  13. G. Shrikanth. Reddy, Ashish Chittora, Shilpa Kharche, Sanjeev K Mishra and J. Mukherjee, “Bluetooth/UWB Dual-Band Planar Diversity Antenna with WiMAX and WLAN Band-Notch Characteristics”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, VOL. 54, pp.303-319, 2013.
  14. A. Kamma, S. R. Gupta, G. Shrikanth. Reddy, and J. Mukherjee ,“Multi-Band Notch UWB Band Pass Filter with Novel Contiguous Split Rings Embedded in Symmetrically Tapered Elliptic Rings.” Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, VOL. 39, pp.133-148, 2013.
  15. B. Mukherjee, P. Patel, G. Shrikanth Reddy, and J. Mukherjee, “A Novel Half Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Array of Slots for Wideband Applications”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, VOL. 36, pp. 207-221, 2013.
  16. G. Shrikanth Reddy, S. K. Mishra, S. Kharche, and J. Mukherjee, “High Gain and Low Cross-Polar Compact Printed Elliptical Monopole UWB Antenna Loaded with Partial Ground and Parasitic Patches” Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, VOL. 43, pp.151 - 167, 2012.
  17. G. Shrikanth Reddy and Z C Alex, “Planar L-S Band Antenna backed by Surface wave structure”, Microwave and Optical Technology letters, VOL.54 NO.7, pp. 1556 – 1559, July 2012.
  18. G Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex “Planar Monopole Antenna with Spiral AMC Ground for Millimeter Wave Application” International Journal for Microwave and Optical Technologies, VOL.6, NO.2, pp. 77 – 81, MARCH 2011.
Conferences and Symposia
  1. Ankita Deo, G. Shrikanth. Reddy, M. Arrawatia, P. Shah, “A partially transparent GSM band loop antenna for Solar-RF energy harvester”, IEEE Microwave and Antenna Conference, India, 2022
  2. Ankita Deo, G. Shrikanth. Reddy, M. Arrawatia, P. Shah, “A Patch antenna fed with L-probe to harvest solar and RF energy”, IEEE Microwave and Antenna Conference, India, 2022
  3. J.Padhi, A. Kumar, G. Shrikanth. Reddy, “ Top loaded ESA and its quality factor analysis”, IEEE Microwave and Antenna Conference, India, 2022
  4. J.Padhi, A. Kumar, G. Shrikanth. Reddy, “ Gain enhancement of Electrically Small indoor base-station LTE antenna with unidirectional radiation pattern”, IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Japan, 2022
  5. A Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, S Narayan, “Dual-Band, Polarization Insensitive, and Flexible EM Wave Absorber with High Angular Stability and Low Cross Reflection Level”, 2022 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC), 1-4,2022
  6. A Kumar, J Padhi, G. Shrikanth Reddy, S Narayan, “Multifunction Metasurface Structure for Absorption and Polarization Conversion Application”, 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), 1-5
  7. Jogesh D., G Shrikanth Reddy, Nagalakshmiya, Jayanta M.“triple-Band Quad-Element Polarization/Pattern Diversity Directional MIMO Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Application”,IEEE-European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid Spain
  8. Rushiraj Jawale, Jyotibhushan P., G Shrikanth Reddy, “Frequency Reconfigurable Rectangular Loop Antenna”, IEEE-InCAP 2021, India
  9. Jyotibhushan P., G Shrikanth Reddy, “Electrically Small Quasi-Isotropic Planar Antenna Loaded With Split-Ring Resonator”, IEEE-InCAP 2021,India
  10. Ankita Deo, G Shrikanth Reddy, Mahima Arrawatia “A Hybrid Energy Harvesting System Using Meandered Square Loop Rectenna for IOT Devices”, IEEE-APMC, Australia 2021
  11. Rushiraj Jawale, Awanish Kumar, G Shrikanth Reddy, “Band Switchable Monopole Antenna for UWB, 5G and Cognitive Radio Applications”, IEEE-APS-URSI 2021, Singapore
  12. Jyotibhushan P, G. Shrikanth Reddy, “Electrically Small Surface Mountable Chip Antenna for 5G WiMAX / WLAN Applications”, IEEE-APS-URSI 2021, Singapore
  13. Awanish K, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Shiv Narayan, “Flexible EM wave absorber with high angular stability and low cross-polarization level”, IEEE-URSI GASS, Rome 2021, (Accepted)
  14. Jyotibhushan P, A Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, "Meander Line and Loop Resonator Loaded Dual Band Electrically Samll antenna", IEEE-URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science ( RCRS), 2020 ( Accepted).
  15. A Kumar, Jyotibhushan P, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Shiv Narayan., “Dual Band-Polarization Insensitive frequency selective surface Absorber", IEEE IMaRC-2019, India.
  16. G. Shrikanth Reddy, “Elliptical UWB-Monopole antenna with low Cross-polarization using non-concentric slotted open ended rings", IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Singapore, 2019.
  17. G. Shrikanth Reddy, A Kumar, “Improved Polarization insensitive Dual Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorber", URSI-APRSC- 2019 ( Young Scientist Award), India,
  18. S. Kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy, J. Mukherjee, R. Kumar Gupta, “Circularly Polarized L Shaped diversity antenna for WiMAX applications", IEEE- InCAP 2018, India.
  19. G. Shrikanth Reddy, A Deo, “A study on radiation characterstics of GSM Band Diversity Antenna using different type of Mobile hand-set casing", IEEE Electrical Desing of Advance packaging and System International symposium, 2018, India.
  20. D. K Sharma, G. Shrikanth Reddy, P V Parimi, “Ultra-Wideband Compact Circularly polarized antenna usign coupled dipole", IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting, 2018, USA.
  21. G. Shrikanth Reddy, S. Kharche, “Elliptical UWB Antenna loaded with Rectangular Split Loop Resonator (RSLR) and Semi-Elliptical Slot for Multi band Rejection”,IEEE International Conference on Antenna Innovations and Modern Technologies (iAIM-2017) Bangaluru, India, (Best paper).
  22. S. Kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy, J Mukherjee, R K Gupta, “Mutual Coupling Reduction by using tilted Variable Length SRR like structure in UWB MIMO Antennas”,IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting 2017.
  23. G. Shrikanth Reddy, S. Kharche, Jayanta Mukherjee, "Symmetric/Asymmetric CPW Feed Compact UWB Antenna with Polarization Diversity Characteristics", IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC-2016), New-Delhi, India.
  24. S. Kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy, R. Gupta, Jayanta Mukherjee, "Mutual coupling reduction using shorting post in UWB antenna",IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC-2016), New-Delhi, India.
  25. A. Patri, U. Shah, Jayanta Mukherjee, “ Fish Eye Shaped Dielectric Lens”, IEEE APS/URSI 2016. (Presented)
  26. A. Patri, G Shrikanth Reddy, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Metamaterial Inspired Antenna for TTE Communication in mines”, IEEE APS-URSI 2016.
  27. G Shrikanth Reddy, S. Kharche, Jayanta Mukherjee “Dual Orthogonal CPW Feed Single Element UWB Antenna with Polarization Diversity”, The 45th European Microwave Conference (EuMC)/The 12th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2015, Paris France
  28. Pragati Patel, G Shrikanth Reddy, Biswajeet Mukherjee, Jayanta Mukherjee, “New Wideband Quadrature Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna”, The 45th European Microwave Conference (EuMC)/The 12th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2015, Paris France.
  29. Kaustubh Chhabilwad, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee “Compact Dual Band Notched Printed UWB MIMO Antenna with Pattern Diversity,” IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting - Vancouver 2015.
  30. Kaustubh Chhabilwad, G.Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Planar Multiband MIMO Antenna System Operating in GSM 1800, LTE2300, LTE2500, WLAN and WiMAX Bands.”, Accepted in EuCAP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
  31. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Shilpa Kharche, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Ultra Wideband Printed Monopole Antenna with Curve Shaped Extended Asymmetric CPW Ground Plane for Stable Unidirectional Radiation Pattern”, 51th IEEE International Symposium on Antenna and Propagation and UNSC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), 2014, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
  32. Shilpa Kharche, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Rajiv Gupta, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Antenna for Ultra Wideband Repeater applications”, IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Sendai, Japan, 2014.
  33. K. G. Chhabilwad, G. Shrikanth Reddy, J. Mukherjee “Planar Spatial Diversity Sectored UWB Antenna with WiMAX and WLAN Band Notch Characteristics”, IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Sendai, Japan, 2014.
  34. Anil Kamma, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Rajesh Singh Parmar and Jayanta Mukherjee, “A Novel and Compact UWB Filter with Improved Upper Stop Band”, , 15th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2014), Tampa, USA.
  35. Anil Kamma, G.Shrikanth Reddy, Kaustubh Chhabilwad, Jayanta Mukherjee, “A Novel Compact Dual Band Antenna Using Modified Elliptical Ring Monopole” National Conference on Communication 2015.
  36. G. Shrikanth Reddy, A. Patri, J. Mukherjee, "Gain Enhancement of Dual-Band Microstrip Antenna using Electromagnetically Coupled Patches (ECP) on Superstrate Layers", i-AIM 2015, Ahmedabad, India, 2015
  37. Anil Kamma, G. Shrikanth Reddy, P. Suggisetti, J. Mukherjee “A Novel and Compact Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Filter Using Modified Split Ring Resonator (MSRR)” , International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC-2014) Dec, 2014, Bengaluru. (Finalist for student best paper Award)
  38. Anil Kamma, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Rajesh S. Paramar and Jayanta Mukherjee, “Reconfigurable Dual-Band Notch UWB Antenna”, NCC 2014, India
  39. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, Jayanta Mukherjee, “ Compact Printed Monopole UWB Antenna loaded with Non – Concentric Open – Ended Rings for Triple Band – Notch Characteristic”, 25th IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave conference (APMC) 2013, Seoul, Korea.
  40. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Anil Kamma, Shilpa U. K, Jayanta Mukherjee, “ Printed compact Elliptical monopole antenna for UWB applications”, Antenna and Test measurement symposium, 2013, Kolkata, India, 2013.
  41. Anil Kamma, Swapnil R. Gupta, G. Shrikanth Reddy and Jayanta Mukherjee, “ Compact UWB Ring Sectoral Monopole Antenna with Dual Polarization”, IEEE INDICON 2013, India.
  42. Shilpa K, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Jayanta Mukherjee and Rajiv K Gupta, “Efficient High gain Hexagonal patch antenna with superstrate layer,” Antenna and Test measurement symposium, 2013, Kolkata, India, 2013.
  43. Anil Kamma, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Sanjeev Kumar Mishra, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Printed Band - notched U shaped Ultra Wide Band Antenna with Modified Split Ring Resonator”, 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Singapore 2012.
  44. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex, “Miniaturized surface wave dipole antenna for Millimeter wave applications” PIER-S 2011 Suzhou, China.
  45. Pradeep Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex, “Planar Monopole Antenna with Band Notch Characteristic using EBG Structures”, IEEE INDICON 2011, Hyderabad, India.
  46. Pradeep Kumar, G. Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex, “Dimensional Analysis of Mushroom Type EBG Structures”, ICMARS 2011, Jodhpur, India.
  47. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex, “SSRR Based Metamaterial Antenna for Millimeter wave application”, Antenna and Propagation Symposium, DEC 2010, Cochin, India.
  48. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Z C Alex, “Microstrip antenna with Partial Ground for 60 GHz application” IEEE CNC International Conference DEC 2010, Calicut, India.
  49. G. Shrikanth Reddy, Pradeep Kumar, Z C Alex, “Umbrella shaped Microstrip Antenna with AMC Ground for 60 GHz Application” ICMARS 2010, ICRS Jodhpur India.
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