Short Biography

Dr. Rakesh Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at IIIT, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM), India. He has researched in developing the mostly dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), Development of the circularly polarized compact antenna is one of his major areas of contribution. He has published over 30+ 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 Award etc. He is a Senior Member of URSI, Member of IEEE, and potential reviewer of international journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and propagation, IEEE Access the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, AEU etc.

Research Interest

Millimeter wave antennas, Metamaterial Antennas, Beem Steering Technology, Dielectric Resonator Antennas, Circularly Polarized and High Gain Antennas, Multiple input multiple output antenna systems

Professional Experience:

• Jan-2023 to Present: Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, IIITM Gwalior, MP
• Aug, 21 to Dec-22: Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Presidency University, Bangalore

Academic Profile:

• Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad, India, 2021.
• M.Tech:  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad, India, 2015.
• B.Tech.: WBUT University, Kolkata, 2013.

List of Publications (Journals)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, Accepted for Publication.
• Mohammad Ameen, Pravakar Mallick, Rakesh Chowdhury, Arun Ray and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, “Wideband Low-RCS Step-Type Cavity-backed Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2023
• 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, 167, pp. 95-109, 2020. 
• 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. 
• 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 
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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

List of Publications (Conference)

• 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), Dec. 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