CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. SANTANU KUMAR BEHERA

Associate Professor

Department of Electronics Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela– 769008, ODISHA, India.

Email: skbehera@nitrkl.ac.in, prof.s.k.behera@gmail.com

Phone: +91- 9437331615, +91-661-246 2462; Fax: +91-661- 2462999

Educational Experience:

Degree

Awarded Specialization Institute/University

Course Duration Details

Year of

Commencement

Year of

Completion

Total

Period

Bachelor of

Technology

(B.Tech)

Electronics &

Tele-Com.

Engg

VSSUT Burla July, 1986 June, 1990 4 years

Master of

Technology

(M.Tech)

M.E.Tel.E Jadavpur University August, 1999 April, 2001 1.5

years

Doctor of

Philosophy

(Ph.D)

Microstrip

Antenna Jadavpur University March, 2002 April, 2008 6 years

Grand Total of Educational Experience 11.5

years

Professional Experience:

Organization Designation

Service Period

From To Total

Experience

Directorate of Technical Education &

Training Odisha, Cuttack

Lecturer

& Sr. Lecturer

May.

1992

June

2007

15 years, 2

months

National Institute of Technology Rourkela Asst. Professor July

2007

June

2012 5 years

National Institute of Technology Rourkela Associate

Professor

July

2012 till date

2 years, 7

months

Grand Total of Professional Experience 22years, 9

month

Membership of Professional Bodies:

Senior Member: IEEE

Member: IET

Life Fellow: IETE

Life Fellow: IE

Life Member: CSI

Life Member: ISTE

Life Member: SEMCEI

Current Area of Research:

Microstrip Antenna

Dielectric Resonator Antenna

Metamaterials

Fractal Antenna

Microwave Filters

Sponsored Project Completed:

Project Title Role Funding

Agency

Amount

of Grant

(INR.)

Duration Period

Status

From To

Analysis of

Microstrip

Radiator using

PSO Technique

Principal

Investigator

Indian Space

Research

Organization

(ISRO)

11.08

Lacs

Aug.

2009

July

2012

3

years Completed

Analysis of

Dielectric

Resonator

Antenna Array

Principal

Investigator

Indian Space

Research

Organization

(ISRO)

10.6

Lacs

Aug

2012

July

2014

2

years Completed

Ph.D. Scholars Supervised:

Name of the

Research Scholar Title of Ph.D Thesis

Year of

Registration

Year of

Completion

Runa Kumari

Investigations on Possible Realization of

Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator

Antenna

2009 July 2014

Yogesh Kumar

Choukiker

Investigations on some Compact

Wideband Fractal Antennas 2010

Oct’2014

Natarajamani S.

Some studies on designs of Plannar

Antennas for UWB Applications

2008 Nov’2014

Biswajit Dwevedi Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator

Antennas 2014 Continuing

MTech( R )

Ayaskant Panigrahi Design of wideband DRA Array 2013 Continuing

Master Students Supervised:

Name of the Student Title of Master Thesis Guided Year of

Completion

Yogesh Kumar

Choukiker

Analysis of Dual Band Rectangular Microstrip

Antenna Using IE3D/PSO 2011

Sonu Agrawal Design and Analysis of Hexagonal Shaped Fractal 2013

Antennas

Prasana Manuel K. Design and analysis of two port MIMO antennas with

wideband isolation 2013

Imran Khan Design of dielectric resonator antenna arrays for

wireless applications 2013

P. Mahender

Dielectric resonator antenna for Short Range Wireless

Communication Applications 2013

A. Sumantha Reddy

Design of Compact Zeroth-Order Resonant Antenna

Based on CRLH TL 2013

Significant Performances

1. Conference Organized:

General chair in the Int. Conf. on Electronic Systems (ICEC2011), at National Institute of

Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India during Jan 7-9, 2011.

Served as TPC member in the IEEE sponsored International Conference on Information

and Communications Security (ICICS 2011), Singapore.

Served as Financial Co-chair in the 4th

edition of IEEE Int. Conf. on Applied

Electromagnetics (AEMC 2013), KIIT Campus Bhubaneswar during Dec. 18-20, 2013.

2. Departmental Activities Performed:

Assisted the Head of the Department of the Department of Electronics and Communication

Engineering, NIT Rourkela in NBA work for BTech (EC) programme in 2014.

PIC, Direct Purchase for the financial year July 2012- July2014.

3. Contribution as a Reviewer

Reviewer of the IEEE, Antenna & Wave Propagation Letter.

Reviewer of the IET Journal of Microwaves Antennas and Propagation

Reviewer of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Taylor and Francis

Reviewer of IETE Journal of Research, India.

4. Invited talks Delivered:

Lecture on “Optimization Techniques for Planar antennas” at Ahmedabad arranged by IEEE Gujurat

Section

5. Conferences Attended:

IEEE- AEMC – 2007 Kolkata, India

IEEE- AEMC-2009 Kolkata, India

IEEE-ICICS-2011, Singapore

IEEE- AEMC-2013, Bhubaneswar, India

6. Workshops Attended

1st IEEE-Indian Antenna Week-2010, Puri, India

7. List of Publication:

Papers published in Journals

1) Santanu Kumar Behera, Y Choukiker. Design and Optimization of Dual Band Microstrip

Antenna Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and

Terahertz Waves (Springer). 31: 1346–1354. 2010.

2) S. K. Behera, “Design of Sequentially Fed Balanced Amplifying Antenna for Circular

Polarization”, ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology, Vol.1, Issue 4, pp. 213-217,

2010.

3) Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Miniaturized Dual band Dielectric Resonator

Antenna for IEEE 802.16d Fixed WiMAX Applications”, International Journal of RF and

Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), 11/2012; 22(6):682-689.

4) Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “A Compact Multi Band Triangular shaped

DielectricResonator Antenna Array with Slotted Ground Plane”, International Journal of

Advanced Computer Engineering and Architecture (IJACEA), Vol. 2, No. 2, Jun 2012, pp 171-

178.

5) Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna for

Broadband Applications”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), ISBN 978-

93-80864-71-10, No-7, 2011, pp 16-20.

6) Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Design of Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator

Array for NATO-K band Applications”, International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems

Engineering (IJSISE), (Accepted).

7) Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “A Wideband Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator

Array with Overlaid Microstrip Feed Line”, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation,

7(7):582-587, 2013.

8) Natarajamani S, Behera, S. K and Patra. S. K, "A triple band-notched planar monopole

antenna for ultra wide band applications," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol.54,

pp.539-543, Feb 2011.

9) Natarajamani. S, Behera. S. K and Patra. S. K., “Planar ultra wideband fractal antenna with

3.4/5.5 GHz dual band-notched characteristics”, Int. J. Signal and Systems Engineering. 2013.

10) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, Santanu Kumar Behera, Rajeev Jyoti, “Modified Sectorial

Shape Fractal Antenna for Wireless LAN Application”, International Journal of RF and

Microwave Computer Aided Engineering (Wiley) USA, 22(1):68–74. 2012.

11) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Behera, “Optimization of planar Antenna for ISM band

using Particle swarm optimization Technique”, International Journal of Microwave and

Optical Technology, 6(3):124–129. May 2011.

12) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Behera, “ACS-Fed Koch Fractal Shape Antenna for

Wideband Application”, International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering

(IJSISE), UK, ISSN (Online): 1748-0701, Jan. 2011.

13) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Behera, “Design of microstrip radiator Particle swarm

optimization Technique”, ICTACT Journal of communication Technology, Vol 2(3), pp 382-

386, 2011.

14. Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Behera, “Sierpinski Square Fractal Antenna for UWB

application with a band notch characteristic”, IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation,

8(7):506-512, May 2014..

15.Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Sharma, S K Behera, “Hybrid Fractal Shape planar

monopole Antenna covering multiband wireless communications with MIMO implementation

for handheld mobile devices”, IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, Vol.62,

No.3, March 2014.

16. Natarajamani S, Behera, S.K and Patra. S. K, "A triple band-notched planar antenna with

3.4 and 5.5 GHz dual band-notched characteristics”, Journal of Electromagnetic wave and

Application, 27(9):1178-1186, 2013.

17. Natarajamani S, Behera, S.K and Patra. S. K, "A compact planar Diversity antenna for ultra

wide band application with band-notch function," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,

54(4), pp.758-764, 2013.

Conference: 1) Natarajamani. S. S, Behera. S.K., Patra. S. K and Mishra. R. K.; "Design of multi slotted

and multi frequency patch antenna," Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), pp.1-3,

14-16 Dec. 2009.

2) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K, Patra.S.K and Mishra.R.K. CPW-FED Octagon shape slot

Antenna for UWB Application, in IEEE 5th International conference on Microwaves, Antenna

Propagation and Remote Sensing, Dec.2009, Jodhpur.

3) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K. and Patra, S. K., "A compact wide band patch antenna for

WLAN application," IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication and

Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), pp.1-4, 29-31 July 2010.

4) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K. and Patra.S.K., "Compact Slot Antenna for UWB Application

and Band-Notch Designs," IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and

Communication Networks (CICN), , pp.11-15, 26-28 Nov. 2010.

5) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K. and Patra.S.K., "Compact CPW-fed dual-band antenna for

WLAN/UWB application," IEEE International Conference on Communication Control and

Computing Technologies (ICCCCT), pp.5-8, 7-9 Oct. 2010.

6) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K. and Patra.S.K., "Planar ultra wideband antenna with 5.5GHz

band dispensation characteristics," Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), pp.1-4, 17-19

Dec. 2010.

7) Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K. and Patra.S. K., "Inverted U-shaped Dielectric resonator

antenna for WLAN," IEEE International Conference on Communication Control and

Computing Technologies (ICCCCT), pp.9-11, 7-9 Oct. 2010.

8) Natarajamani.S, Behera. S. K and Patra. S. K. “A Planar UWB antenna with Band notch

characteristics”, International Conference on Electronic Systems, Jan.2011.

9) Aravinda Reddy.K., Natarajamani.S, Behera.S.K, "Antipodal Vivaldi antenna UWB antenna

with 5.5GHz band-notch characteristics," International Conference on Computing, Electronics

and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), pp.821-824, 21-22 March 2012.

10) Y. Choukiker, S. K. Behera. Some results on Dual band Microstrip patch Antenna: Procc.

on National Conference on Communication Technology, NIT Rourkela, India,2008.

11) Y. Choukiker, S. K. Behera, D Mishra, R K Mishra. Optimization of Dual band microstrip

Antenna Using PSO: IEEE Applied Electromagnetic conference, page 1-4, Kolkata, India,

ISBN 978-1-4244-4819-7, Dec 2009.

12) Y. Choukiker, S. K. Behera, B K Pandey, R Jyoti. Optimization of Planar antenna for ISM

band using PSO: IEEE Second International Conference on Computing, Communication and

Networking Technology, page 1-4,ISBN 978-1-4244-6592-7, Karur, Tamilnadu, India, July

2010.

13) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S. K. Behera. Microstrip Line-Fed Modified Sierpinki Fractal

Monopole Antenna for Dual wideband Applications: IEEE International Conference on

communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICCCNT’2010), page 17-20, ISBN:

978-1-4244-7770-8, Kanayakumari, Tamilnadu, India, April 2011.

14) Y. Choukiker, S. K. Behera. Design of Planar Monopole Antenna for 2.4 GHz WLAN:

IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks

(CICN2010), page 16–19, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, Nov. 2010.

15) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S K Behera. CPW-Fed Compact Multiband Sierpinski Triangle

Antenna: Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), page 1–3, Kolkata, India, Dec 2010.

16) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S. K. Behera . Compact ACS-Fed Koch Fractal Shape Antenna

for Wideband Application: Procc. On International Conference on Electronic System, page

247–251, NIT Rourkela, India, Jan 2011.

17) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, Sujeet Rai, S. K. Behera. Modified Half-Circle Fractal Antenna

Using DC Theorem for 2.4/5.2 GHz WLAN Application: IEEE National Conference on

Communication (NCC’11), page 1–4, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan 2011.

18) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, Sujeet Rai, S. K. Behera. Modified Fractal Shape Antenna for

Wideband Application: IEEE International Conference on Device and Communication

(ICDecCom’11), page 1–3, BIT Ranchi, February 2011.

19) Sujeet Rai,; Yogesh Kumar Choukiker,; S. K. Behera. Irregular Circular Fractal Slot

Antenna for Dual Wideband Applications: IJCA Proceedings on International Symposium on

Devices MEMS, Intelligent Systems Communication (ISDMISC), page 1–4, SMIT, Majhitar,

India, April 2011, Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

20) Yogesh Kumar Choukiker, S. K. Behera. Design of Wideband Fractal Antenna with

Combination of Fractal Geometries: IEEE Eighth International Conference on Information,

Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS 2011), Singapore, 13-16 December, 2011.

21) Ashok Kumar Ramavath, Yogesh Kumar Choukiker and S. K. Behera Design of Hybrid

Fractal Antenna for UWB Application: IEEE International Conference on Computing,

Electronics and Elect.

22) Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Ring Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband

Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and

Communication Systems, CICN-2010, ISBN 978-0-7695-4254-6/10, Bhopal, India, pp 7-10,

Nov 2010.

23) Runa Kumari, Kapil Parmar and S. K. Behera, “Conformal Patch Fed Stacked Triangular

Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International conference on

Emerging Trends in Robotics and Communication Technologies, INTERACT-2010, ISBN 978-

1-4244-9006-6/10, Chennei, India, pp 104-107, Dec 2010.

24) Runa Kumari, S. K. Behera and R. K. Mishra, “Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna

for K and Ka-band Applications”, International Conference on Electronic Systems, ICES 2011,

ISBN 978-93-80697-50-5, Rourkela, India, pp 264-267, Jan 2011 .

25) Runa Kumari, Kapil Parmar and S. K. Behera, “A Dual band Triangular shaped DRA

Array for WLAN/WiMAX Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), 2011,

ISBN 978-1-4577-1110-7, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2011.

26) Runa Kumari, and S K Behera, “A Compact Dual Resonance Dielectric Resonator Antenna

Array with partial ground plane”, IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in

Information Technology, RAIT- 2012, Dhanbad, India, Mar 2012.

27) Runa Kumari, and S. K. Behera, “Mutual Coupling Reduction in C-shaped Dielectric

Resonator Antenna array for MIMO Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference

(INDICON) 2012, Cochin, India, Dec 2012 (Communicated).

28) Mahender P, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Compact Dual Band Hemispherical

Dielectric Resonator Antenna”, International Conference on Electronic Systems, ICES 2011,

ISBN 978-93-80697-50-5, Rourkela, India, pp 252-254, Jan 2011 .

29) Kapil Parmar, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “M-Shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna

for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Devices & Communications

(ICDeCOM-2011), ISBN 978-1-4244-9190-2/11, Ranchi, India, Feb 2011.

30) Kapil Parmar, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Half Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator

Antenna for Dual band Applications”, International Symposium on Devices MEMS Intelligent

Systems and Communication (ISDMISC-2011), ISBN 978-93-80747-80-2, Sikkim, India, April

2011.

31) Sreenu Mudavath, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Compact CPW fed Dielectric

Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON),

2011, ISBN 978-1-4577-1110-7, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2011.

32) Sreenu Mudavath, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Compact CPW fed Stacked

Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International

Conference on Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012, ISBN

978-1-4673-0210-4, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu, India, Mar 2012.

Personal Information:

Date of Birth: 23rd

February 1967.

Nationality: Indian

Father’s Name: Mr Musei Behera

Marital Status: Married

Permanent Address: Kalyani Bhawan, Darkhapatna, Kalyani Nagar, Cuttack, Odisha, India.

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