Short Biography:

Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM), India. He did his M.Tech. and PhD from IIT Dhanbad in 2015 and 2021 respectively. He has researched in developing mostly dielectric resonator antenna (DRA). Development of the circularly polarized compact antenna is one of his major areas of contribution. He has published over 50+ papers in the leading international journals and conferences along with a reference book on CP-DRA published by Artech House, London, United Kingdom. He was awarded Certificate of honor, Research Publication Awards etc. for his research contributins. Dr. Chowdhury is also serving in editorial board member of international journal of antennas and propagation, Wiley. He is a Senior Member of URSI, Belgium, Member of IEEE, and potential reviewer of many international journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and propagation, IEEE Access, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, AEU etc.,

Sponsored Projects

• PI: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury, “Design and Development of a Millimeter Wave Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Ka - Band (26.5 GHz-40 GHz) Satellite-IoT Applications” SERB Sponsored Project, 29. 8 Lakh (Ongoing)
• PI: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury, “Analysis and Development of Circularly Polarized Antenna System using Combined Dielectric Resonator and Metamaterial Technology”, ABV-IIITM Sponsored Project, 9.6 Lakh (Ongoing)
• Co-PI: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury, “Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable THz Antenna with Machine Learning Approach for 6G Application”, TTDF-DoT, GoI Sponsored Project, 16.31 Lakh (Ongoing)

 Workshops Organized:

• Organizer: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury, “Recent trends in antenna design and technology for next generation communication ecosystem”, High-end workshop Organized Under accelerate vigyan scheme sponsored by SERB, 4-10 March 2024. 
• Co-organizer: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury, “Recent trends in Dielectric resonator Antennas”, High-end workshop Organized Under accelerate vigyan scheme sponsored by SERB, 5 Lakh (Completed)
• Co-organizer: Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury,  “Intelligent Transportation Systems towards Safe, Clean and Sustainable Mobility”, Two day TIIC sponsored workshop on 12^th-13^th May, 2023 at ABV-IIITM Gwalior

Book/Books Chapter Publications:

• Invited Book Published: Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, Rajkishor Kumar and Rakesh Chowdhury, “Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna”. Artech House Publishers, Boston, MA, USA, 2021, ISBN: 9781630818173.

Journals:

1. Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Investigation on Different Forms of Circular Sectored DRA for Improvement in Circular Polarization Performance", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation”, Vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 5596-5601, Oct. 2018.
2. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan, and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Machine Learning Enabled Al 2 O 3 Ceramic Based Dual Band Frequency Reconfigurable Dielectric Antenna for Wireless Application", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Accepted for Publication, 2024.
3. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan, Rakesh Chowdhury, and M. H. Jamaluddin, "Quad Port MIMO Al ₂O₃ Ceramic Based Integrated Reconfigurable Wideband Sensing and Communication Dielectric Antenna for 5G Cognitive Radio." IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing TechnologyAccepted for Publication, 2024.
4. Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "An Approach to Generate CP in a Modified Shaped Cylindrical DRA Using PMC Boundary Approximation", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 17, no. 09, pp. 1727-1731, Sep. 2018.
5. Pravakar Mallick, Mohammad Ameen, Rakesh Chowdhury, Arun Ray and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Wideband Circularly Polarized Cavity-backed Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Low RCS for Aerial Vehicle Communications", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 21, Issue 07, pp. 1418-1422, 2022.
6. Mohammad Ameen, Pravakar Mallick, Rakesh Chowdhury, Arun Kumar Ray and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Wideband Low-RCS Step-Type Cavity-backed Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications", Accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 22, Issue 09, pp. 2170 - 2174, 2023.
7. Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Investigation of New Sectored Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antennas Operating at TM101 and TE111 Mode for CP", Progress in Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 167, pp. 95-109, 2020
8. Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Circularly Polarized Rectangular DRA Fed with Unequal Parallel Microstrip Lines for Wi-MAX Applications", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Wiley Journals, Vol. 59, no. 05, pp. 1182-1188, May 2017.
9. Rakesh Chowdhury, Rajkishor Kumar and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A Coaxial Probe Fed Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna using Unequal and Adjacent-Slided Rectangular DR for WLAN Applications", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFMiCAE), Wiley Journals, 28, no. 04, Article No. e21210, November 2017
10. Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Wideband CP Rectangular DRA Fed with Dual Pair of Right-angled Microstrip Line", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFMiCAE), 26, no. 08, pp. 713-723, July 2016.
11. Rakesh Chowdhury, Naveen Mishra, Md. Muzammil sani and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Broadside Circularly Polarized Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Fed with Dual-vertical Microstrip Line for Wideband Applications", IEEE Access, 05 , pp. 19478 - 19485, September 2017.
12. Naveen Mishra, Dilip Kumar Choudhary, Rakesh Chowdhury, Khusboo Kumari and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "An Investigation on Compact Ultra-thin Triple Band Polarization Independent Metamaterial Absorber for Microwave Frequency Applications", IEEE Access, 5, pp. 4370-4376, April 2017.
13. Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "An Ultra-Wideband Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna with MIMO Configuration", IEEE Access, Vol. 08, pp. 139658 - 139669, 2020.
14. Rajkishor Kumar, Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A New Dual-mode Wideband Circularly Polarized Rectangular DRA Coupled with Stubs and Asymmetric Ground Plane for WiMAX applications", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFMiCAE), Wiley Journals, 27, 09, Article No. e21150, July 2017.
15. Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Hybrid Wideband Dual-cylindrical Circularly Polarized DRAs Excited with S-Shaped Microstrip Feed for Sub-6 GHz Frequency Range", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFMiCAE), Wiley Journals, Vol. 30(02), Article No. e22054, 2020.
16. Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Electrically Coupled Dual Semi-Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Inverted Arrangement for Wideband Applications", International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFMiCAE), Wiley Journals,Vol. 29(1), Article No. 21928, 2019.
17. Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary"Design and Analysis of Multiple Input Multiple Output Antenna for Wideband Applications using Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 131, Article No. 153598, 2021
18. Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary,"Design and Analysis of Multi-layer Multi-permittivity Circularly Polarized DRA for Ultra-Wideband Applications", Accepted for Publication in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL), Wiley Journals.
19. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Frequency reconfigurable wideband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna for sub-6 GHz applications with machine learning optimization", AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, Accepted for publication, Sep 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2023.154872
20. Naveen Mishra, Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan and Rakesh Chowdhury," Dual-Band Miniaturized Composite Right Left-Handed Transmission Line ZOR Antenna for Microwave Communication with Machine Learning Approach", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, Accepted for publication, Feb 2024.
21. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan and Rakesh Chowdhury, Jamaluddin MH. Design and Optimization of Dual Port Dielectric Resonator Based Frequency Tunable MIMO Antenna with Machine Learning Approach for 5G New Radio Application, Accepted for publication, International journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2024; e5856. doi:10.1002/dac.5856
22. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Recent development in reconfigurable dielectric resonator antenna and microwave filter: design and application." Accepted for publication, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, e5859, 2024.O.I: 10.1002/dac.5859
23. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan, and Rakesh Chowdhury, " Machine Learning Enabled Two Port Wideband MIMO Hybrid Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna for n261 5G NR Millimeter Wave, Accepted for publication, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, In Production.
24. Jayant Kumar Rai, Uditansh Patel, Poonam Tiwari, Pinku Ranjan, and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Machine Learning Enabled Compact Frequency‐Tunable Triple‐Band Hexagonal‐Shaped Graphene Antenna for THz Communication." International Journal of Communication Systems(2024): e6044.
25. Jayant Kumar Rai, Sachindra Pandey, Pinku Ranjan, Rakesh Chowdhury, Anand Sharma, and Gourab Das, "High‐Gain Triple‐Band T‐Shaped Dielectric Resonator Based Hybrid Two‐Element MIMO Antenna for 5G New Radio, Wi‐Fi 6, V2X, and C‐Band Applications With a Machine Learning Approach." International Journal of Communication Systems(2024): e6038.
26. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan, and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Dual-Band High Tuning Range Frequency Reconfigurable Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for n7, n30, n38, n40, n41, n46, n47, n53 and n79 5G New Radio Application with Machine Learning Approach." Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering(2024): 1-11. 
27. Jayant Kumar Rai, Swati Yadav, Pinku Ranjan, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Gourab Das, "A compact quad element MIMO CPW fed ultra‐wideband antenna for future wireless communication using machine learning optimization." International Journal of Communication Systems(2024): e5995. 
28. Md Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Bilateral rectangular shape dielectric resonator antenna coupled with offset microstrip lines for wideband circular polarization." International Journal of Communication Systems: e5947. 
29. Jayant Kumar Rai, Pinku Ranjan, and Rakesh Chowdhury, "Dual-band high tuning range frequency reconfigurable dielectric resonator antenna for sub-6 GHz applications." International Journal of Electronics Letters(2024): 1-9. 

Selected Conference Publications:

• Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Analysis of Sectorization Technique in Conventional Dielectric Resonators for Circular Polarization”, URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS), 01-4 Dec, 2022, IIT Indore,India
• Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary "A new Technique to Generate Circular Polarization in Periodically Deformed Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna using PMC Boundary", 2019 URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), 09-15 March, 2019, New Delhi, India
• Rakesh Chowdhury, Rajkishor Kumar, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A New Technique to Enhance the Impedance Bandwidth of CDRA using Drilling Holes", 11th International Conference on Industrial and Information System (ICIIS), 03-04, 2016, IIT Roorkee, India.
• Rakesh Chowdhury, Md. Muzammil Sani and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A Broadside Circularly Polarized Semi-cylindrical DRA Excited with Unequal Pair of Vertical Microstrip Line", 39th Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 19-22 November, 2017, Singapore.
• .Rajkishor Kumar, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A Rectangular DRA Loaded with SRR and Excited with Question-Shaped Microstrip Feed for Application in Wideband Circular Polarization", Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 5- 9 December, 2016, New Delhi, India.
• Rajkishor Kumar, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Slot Coupled Wideband Circularly Polarized Cylindrical Ring DRA for Wi-MAX Applications", Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 5- 9 December, 2016, New Delhi, India
• Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Three-element Homogeneous Layer of Cylindrical DRA for Wideband Applications", 39th Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 19-22 November, 2017, Singapore
• Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "An Omni-directional Elliptical Ring DRA Excited with C-shaped Feed for Wideband Applications", 39th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 19-22 November, 2017, Singapore
• Mohammad Ameen, Rakesh Chowdhury, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary,"ACS-fed Electrically Small Metamaterial Inspired Dual Polarized Antenna Enabled with Staircase Radiating Strips for UMTS/WiMAX/WLAN Applications", Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 587 - 594, June 17-20, 2019, Rome, Italy
• Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A Wideband Plus shaped Split Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wireless Applications", 2018, 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP),Feb. 09-11, 2018, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India
• Muzammil Sani, Rakesh Chowdhury andRaghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Excited with V-shaped Patch for Wideband Applications", 10th Annual International Conference of the Antenna Test & Measurement Society (ATMS), pp. 119-121, Feb. 07-08, 2017, Hyderabad, India
• Rakesh Chowdhury and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary"High Gain Aperture-Fed Truncated Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wideband Applications", 8th Annual International Conference of the Antenna Test & Measurement Society (ATMS), 96 - 99, Feb. 03-04, 2015, Bangalore, India