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Dr. Saikat Ch. Bakshi
Dr. Saikat Ch. Bakshi

Assistant Professor Grade II

Office Address:

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut

Contact no:

Home Address:

Permanent Address: Kolkata, West Bengal

  • PhD: RF & Microwave (Stealth Technology), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (An Institute of National Importance)

  • Educational Qualifications

    • PhD: RF & Microwave (Stealth Technology), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (An Institute of National Importance)

    Journals

    S. Pramanik, S. C. Bakshi*, C. Koley, D. Mitra, A. Monti and F. Bilotti, “Active Metasurface-Based Wideband Polarization Converter With a Switchable Notch,” IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 1081-1089, Aug. 2023. (DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2023.3288068) (IF: 2.1)  

    *(Contributed Equally with The First Author)

    S. Pramanik, S. C. Bakshi*, C. Koley, D. Mitra, A. Monti and F. Bilotti, “Active metasurface based reconfigurable polarization converter with multiple and simultaneous functionalities,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 522-526, March 2023. (DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2022.3217130) (IF: 4.2)  

    *(Contributed Equally with The First Author)

    S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and F. L. Teixeira, “Multifunctional frequency selective rasorber with dual mode and continuous tunability,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5704-5715, Sept. 2021. (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3061127) (IF: 5.7)

    S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and F. L. Teixeira, “Wide-angle broadband rasorber for switchable and conformal application,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1205-1216, Feb. 2021. (DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2020.3044601) (IF: 4.3)

    S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and F. L. Teixeira, “FSS-Based fully reconfigurable rasorber with enhanced absorption bandwidth and simplified bias network,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 7370-7381, Nov. 2020. (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3008615) (IF: 5.7)

    S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “Comment on “sliding planar conjoined cutwire-pairs: A novel approach for splitting and controlling the absorption spectra”[j. appl. phys. 124, 105103 (2018)],” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 128, no. 12, pp. 126101, Sep. 2020. (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0013984) (IF: 3.2)

    S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “Design and analysis of a bi-functional ground plane with true reconfigurability,” Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 214-216, Feb. 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2018.6876) (IF: 1.202)

    S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra, and S. Ghosh, “A frequency selective surface based reconfigurable rasorber with switchable transmission/reflection band,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 29–33, Jan. 2019. (DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2878858) (IF: 4.2)

    S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and L. Minz, “A compact design of multiband terahertz metamaterial absorber with frequency and polarization tunability,” Plasmonics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1843-1852, Dec. 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-018-0698-2) (IF: 3.0)

    Conferences

    S. Pramanik, S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and C. Koley, “PIN Diodes Based Bi-Functional Metasurface with Polarization Conversion and Full Reflection Characteristics,” 2021 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, pp. 595-597, Dec. 2021. 

    S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “A FSS-Based Polarization Insensitive Switchable Rasorber/Absorber,” 2020 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC EUROPE, Rome, Italy, pp. 1-4, Sep. 2020.

    S. C. Bakshi, R. Dutta and D. Mitra, “Design of a Compact Single Layer Ultra-Wideband Absorber,” 2019 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Ahmedabad, India, Dec. 2019.  

    *(Recipient of Best Paper Award)

    S. Pramanik, S. C. Bakshi, D. Mitra and C. Koley, “Design and Analysis of a Reconfigurable Polarization Conversion Metasurface,” 2019 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Ahmedabad, India, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2019. 

    S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “A reconfigurable FSS backed continuously tunable CAA inspired absorber,” 2018 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Hyderabad, India, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2018.

    R. Dutta, S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “An Ultrathin Compact Polarization-Insensitive Hepta-Band Absorber,” 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), Kolkata, India, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2018.

    S. C. Bakshi and D. Mitra, “Design of dual-band dual-directional metamaterial absorber for space application,” 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Dhanbad, India, pp. 1-2, Feb. 2018. 

    Books (Refereed)

    A. K. Das, S. C. Bakshi, A. Pramanik, (2023), “Convolution Neural Network for Sparse Channel and Image Reconstruction in Underwater Acoustic Communication,” In Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communication Systems: Technology and Application, Taylor & Francis (Book Chapter)

    Professional Experience

    • Assistant Professor, NIT Calicut, Sep. 2023 - Till Date

    • Employee of University's Research (Full Time), NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI), National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jan. 2023 - Sep. 2023

    • Research Fellow (Post-Doctoral), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jan. 2022 - Jan. 2023

    • Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2015

    Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Deep Ensemble Learning Method (Granted)

    Application of Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) using Haskell for Occupancy Estimation (Granted)

    Fast Detection of Breast Cancer from Histopathological Images: A CNN based approach (Granted)

    1. Winner of the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundations tax-free postdoctoral fellowship for education in Sweden from the cut-throat international competition held by the Wenner-Gren Foundations. I was selected as the lead researcher to lead the research in mm wave technology at Stockholm University of an elite group of one post-doctoral student funded by Swedish Space Agency and two doctoral students, Year: 2022
    2. Postdoctoral fellowship from University of Waterloo, Canada
    3. Postdoctoral fellowship from Carleton University, Canada
    4. Postdoctoral fellowship from Concordia University, Canada  (under Prof. Ahmed Kishk)                  
    5. Postdoctoral fellowship from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    6. Postdoctoral fellowship from National University of Singapore, Singapore
    7. Appeared as the most accessed article in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2021 for the paper “Multifunctional frequency selective rasorber with dual mode and continuous tunability”
    8. Best Paper Award in 2019 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Ahmedabad India, 2019
    9. Active Member of the Global Education Committee of IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC) Society where I am responsible for developing course materials for global study
    10. Expert at IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) WG2: Quantum sensing/imaging (WG-2 Lead: Christian Pichot) (a) Advance antenna technologies applied to medical devices (MRI, e-health, etc.) (b) AI/ML-based medical imaging, NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) (c) Quantum Sensing (including Quantum Radar) (d) Sub-THz communication, radar and sensing systems
    11. Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award for April 2018 by The Editors of AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier

    1. Active Member of the Education Committee of IEEE EMC Society:  responsible for developing course materials for global study
    2. Expert at IEEE APS New Technology Directions Committee (NTDC) Work Group 2 (WG2): Quantum sensing/imaging (WG-2 Lead: Christian Pichot) (a) Advance antenna technologies applied to medical devices (MRI, e-health, etc.) (b) AI/ML-based medical imaging, NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) (c) Quantum Sensing (including Quantum Radar) (d) Sub-THz communication, radar and sensing systems
    3. Invited talk on “Reconfigurable Rasorbers: The New Era of Stealth Technology”, at Temasek Laboratories, Singapore 
    1. Invited talk in the DST-SERB Sponsored Workshop, “Recent Trends in Electromagnetics and Optics RTEOp, 2023” at IIEST Shibpur 
    1. Invited Speaker at IEEE R10 EAC & IEEE Kolkata Section sponsored Workshop “Learning Networking with Outreach Engineering & Polytechnic Students of Remote Districts in West Bengal” held at Siliguri Government Polytechnic 

    Member of the Global Education Committee of IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC) Society

    Expert at IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) NTDC WG2

     

    Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier etc.

    Stealth Technology

    RF & Microwave Engineering

    Phased Array and Reflect Array Antenna for Space Application (In collaboration with ISRO)

    Radar System Design

    Radar/ Array Signal Processing

    Beamforming for 6G (In collaboration with Ohio State University, USA)

    Fundamental/Theoretical Aspects of Basic Electromagnetics

    Image Processing for Biological and Environmental Application

    Smart Agriculture

    Hyperspectral Imaging Camera Development for Drones (In collaboration with National University of Singapore, Singapore)

    Motivated Intern, BTech, MTech, PhD and PostDoc candidates mail me your CV at saikatbakshi@nitc.ac.in