Institute of Technology, BHU
Department of Electronics Engineering
FACULTY PROFILE
B. N. Basu received the M. Tech and Ph. D. degrees from the Institute of
Radiophysics and Electronics, Calcutta University, India, in 1966 and 1976,
respectively. In the past, he was associated with Institute of Radiophysics and
Electronics, Calcutta; Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad;
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; Regional Institute of Technology,
Jamschedpur and Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI)
Pilani. Currently, he is a Professor and Coordinator at the Center of Research
in Microwave Tubes, Electronics Engineering Department, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi. He was also associated with CEERI, Pilani, as a
Distinguished Visiting Scientist/Short-Term Consultant of the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. He was seconded by CSIR and
British Council to work at the University of Lancaster, U.K., under an
academic-link program. His areas of current research and publications include
helix-TWT modeling, broadbanding of TWTs, synthesis of electron guns and
gyro-TWT amplifiers. He has authored around 100 research papers in journals, and
also a book entitled Electromagnetic Theory and Applications in Beam-Wave
Electronics (Singapore: World Scientific, 1996). Dr. Basu is a member of the
Technical Committee on Vacuum Devices of IEEE Electron Devices Society. He
serves a number of national level review committees. He is recipient of the S.
V. C. Aiya Memorial Award of the Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers, India.
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B. B. Pal is a Professor with the Department of Electronics Engineering,
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His name has
been included in several Who's Who of the world. He is the Coordinator of the
Special Manpower Development in VLSI Design sponsored by the Ministry of
Information Technology, Government of India, and the Coordinator of the Center
of Research in Microelectronics and Center of Advanced Studies in
Microelectronics and Microwave Engineering. He has published more than 180
technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. His areas of interest
are VLSI design, high speed and novel semiconductor devices, and optoelectronic
devices. Prof. Pal received the Outstanding Man of the Twentieth Century
certificate and the 2000 millennium medal of honor. He is a life member and
founder of the Semiconductor Society of India, the Optical Society of India, and
the Nikhil Bharat Bengali Literature Society.
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D. S. Venkateswarlu was born in 1940. He received the B.E. degree in telecommunication engineering in 1960, the M.E. degree in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1962, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton, U.K. From 1963 to 1967, he was a Commonwealth Scholar at the Department of Electronics, University of Southampton, and worked in the area of gas laser. He worked at the National Physics Laboratory, New Delhi, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, and Solid State Physical Laboratory, Delhi, before joining Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore, in 1968, where his specialization was in the area of development and production of microwave tubes. Through Bharat Electronics, he visited M/S Philips, The Netherlands, and M/S Mullords, U.K., extensively. While at Bharat Electronics, he contributed to the successful development and production of several high-power magnetrons and dispenser cathodes. He has been a Professor with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, since 1982. He is credited with more than 50 publications. His research interests include high emission density cathodes, development of high power microwave tubes, and computer aided design.
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P. Chakrabarti received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in radio physics and
electronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1981 and 1983,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the Institute
of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1988. For a brief
period, he worked as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani,
India. He joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, in 1986 as an Assistant
Professor and became Associate Professor in the same department in 1988.
Currently, he is working as a Professor in the Department of Electronics
Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Since 1984, he
has been actively engaged in research in the area of semiconductor devices in
general, and particularly optoelectronic devices. He has published over 50
research papers in international journals and has presented research papers at
various international conferences in India and abroad. He has also worked as a
principal investigator in many sponsored projects. His current area of interest
includes theoretical modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices for high
speed and integrated optoelectronic applications. Dr. Chakrabarti is a recipient
of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Fellowship during the
year 1993-1994 and the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Visiting
Fellowship, Government of India, during the year 1994-1995. He is a lifetime
member of the Indian Society for Technical Education and the Institution of
Engineers (India), and also a Fellow of Optical Society of India.
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B. R. Vishvakarma was born in Dhananjaipur, Jaunpur (U.P.), India, in 1944. He received the B. Sc. (Engg.), M.Sc. (Engg.), and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 1969, 1972, and 1977, respectively. From 1973 to 1975, he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology (IT), BHU, where he carried out research work on microwave scattering and ferrite devices. He taught at MNR Engineering College, Allahabad, Allahabad, India, from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor with Mosul University, Iraq, where he was engaged in teaching and research work on electronic scanning antenna, propagation of microwave through sand and dust storms, and radar. In 1984, he rejoined the Department of Electronics Engineering, IT, BHU, as a reader, where he is presently working as a Professor of electronics engineering, His professional interests include the area of microwave and millimeter wave propagation, radar, scattering, ferrite devices, electronic scanning antennas, microstrip antennas, piezoelectric effects in bone, electromagnetic interaction (both energetic and informational) with biographical media. He has published more than 150 research papers in international reference journals and proceedings. He has also published one monograph on microwave ferrite junction circulator and a textbook Electromagnetic Fields and Applications.
Dr. Vishvakarma is in the reviewer's list of several reference journals in India and abroad. He has chaired and/or co-chaired sessions in several symposia/conferences and has acted as organizing secretary for seminars. His two papers on microwave/millimeter wave propagation were awarded a Certificate of Merit (1993, 1994) and a paper on microstrip antenna was awarded the Institution Medal of Institution of Engineers (India) for 1996-1997. He has been listed in Reference Asia, Learned Asia, Biography International, and the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, USA. He is a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association, an associate member of the Institution of Engineers (India), and a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.
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P. K. Jain received the B. Tech degree in electronics engineering, and the M.
Tech and Ph.D. degrees in microwave engineering, from the Institute of
Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1979, 1981, and 1988,
respectively. In 1981, he joined the Centre of Research in Microwave Tubes,
Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu
University, as a Lecturer and Reader. His research interests include CAD/CAM and
modeling of microwave tubes and their subassemblies, including broadbanding of
helix traveling-wave tubes (TWTs), cyclotron resonance measure devices including
gyro-TWTs and their performance improvement. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.
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K. P. Singh was born in Jaunpur, UP, India, in January 1947. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 1969 and 1973, respectively. From 1973 to 1974, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, as a postdoctoral Fellow where he worked on high power microwave interaction with plasmas. He became a faculty member of the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU, in 1975. Presently, he is serving as a Senior Professor in the same department. In 1992, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Aden, P.D.R. Yemen, on foreign assignment for the Government of India. He was a Visiting Scientist with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ontario, from 1982 to 1985. Later, he worked as an Airborne Systems Scientist at the same center in 1985. He was engaged in the research and analysis of airborne microwave scatterometers, radiometers, and synthetic aperture radar data from various targets. He also was involved with the calibration of these airborne microwave remote sensors. His research interests include microwave remote sensing, electromagnetic wave interactions with various media, and communications.
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S. K. Srivastava is a Professor with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from
Banaras Hindu University in 1968. He has published over 75 research papers in
the area of thin films, solar cells and silicon and thick film microsensors,
including MOS devices. He was formerly the chairman of the department and is
presently the coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Electronics
Engineering. His current research activities are in the areas of photovoltaic
panel design, silicon technology, MOS devices and microsensor arrays.
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R. Dwivedi received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering in 1978 from
Banaras Hindu University. He has published over 50 research papers in the area
of solar cells, MOS devices and IC compatible sensors. He has worked as a
lecturer for about five years and since April 1986 he is reader in the
Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu
University. His current research activities are in the areas of photovoltaic and
MOS devices, silicon technology and IC compatible sensors.
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R. U. Khan received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering
from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in
1971, 1973, and 1987, respectively. He joined the Department of Electronics
Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, (India) as a
Lecturer in 1980. The present areas of interest are millimeter-wave solid-state
devices, MESFETs, MOSFETs, and III-V semiconductor compounds. He has published
more than 30 papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Khan received
the Foundation life membership of the Semiconductor Society of India.
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Satyabrata Jit was born in West Bengal, India, on November 2, 1970. He received
the B.E. degree from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, in 1993, and the
M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Kanpur, India, in
1995. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He is a Faculty Member in the
Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu
University. His present research interests concern optoelectronic devices and
switching using III-V semiconductors and multiple quantum-well structures.
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Last Updated: April 22, 2004
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