Education

Experience

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Avionics, IIST Trivandrum - (July., 2022 - present)

•  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Avionics, IIST Trivandrum - (December, 2018 - June. 2022)

•  Assistant Professor on Probation, Dept. of Avionics, IIST Trivandrum - (December, 2017 - December, 2018)

•  Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus- (From August 2017-December 2017)

•  Research Associate (RA) – Integrated System Laboratory (ISL), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay- (December, 2016 – July, 2017)

• Teaching Assistant (TA) – Integrated System Laboratory (ISL), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay- (December, 2011 – December, 2016)

Research Work / Area

• Planar and non-planar antenna design for future wireless applications.

• Design of microwave active and circuits and components at system/PCB level

• RF and microwave integrated circuit design (MMIC design with group III-V compound)

• RF near field and far-field wireless power for biomedical and internet of things (IoTs)

• Microwave and mm wave product design for satellite applications

Publications

Awards

• M. Tech RF & MW project thesis work of student Mr. Sidhharth Upadhyay selected for “SAME (Society of Aerospace Manufacturing Engineers) best M. Tech project award” for the year 2022, Award and citation conferred on 2025.   

• Led a Team consisting of student members (B. Tech and M. Tech) to work on an Antenna Prototype Design Challenge SWANtenna 20 (for Radio Astronomy Applications) and selected among one of the top 5 designs across the country sponsored and conducted by Inter-University for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in 2020.               

• Awarded Abdul Kalam Best Paper Award (First Position) and Vikram Sarabhai Second Best Paper Award in IEEE-INAE workshop on Electromagnetics, 2018, IIWE-2018, Trivandrum. 

• Awarded DST-INSPIRE FACULTY in Faculty of Engineering Division by Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA) for the session of January 2017.

• Awarded the Institute Research Associateship (RA) fellowship from Industrial Research Consultancy Center (IRCC), IIT Bombay (December 2016-June2017)

• Awarded Travel support from IIT Bombay-Bharati Center for School of Telecommunication for presenting Paper in APMC 2017.

• Awarded Travel support Fund from IIT Bombay (Institute Fund) for presenting paper in, IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting - Vancouver 2015.                                                           

• Awarded MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource & Development) Fellowship, for pursuing PhD in Electrical Engineering department, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from July 2012-2016 December.

• Secured 99.8 percentile (690 AIR) in GATE ECE Exam (2010) conducted for pursuing Higher studies in India.

• Awarded University Gold Medal for securing highest percentage of marks in the department of Jadavpur University in postgraduate 2011.

• Awarded Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) scholarship M. Engg. at Jadavpur 2009.

 •Awarded National Merit Scholarship from West Bengal Government for securing 671 Rank in Higher Secondary Education in West Bengal State.

• July - November. 2024- RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

 • July - November. 2024 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2024 - Microwave Circuits and System (AVR 612) (Theory)  offered to M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2024 - Microwave Circuit Lab (AVR 631) (Lab) - M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2024 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2024 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Lab) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2023- RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

 • July - November. 2023 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2023 - Microwave Circuits and System (AVR 612) (Theory)  offered to M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2023 - Microwave Circuit Lab (AVR 631) (Lab) - M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2023 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2023 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Lab) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2022- RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2022 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• Jan - May. 2022 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2022 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Lab) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2021- RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2011 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2021 - Microwave Circuits and System (AVR 612) (Theory)  offered to both B.Tech ECE (Avionics) and M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2021 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2021 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Lab) - M. Tech  RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2021 - Basic Electronics Engineering (AV 121) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionic), B.Tech  Aerospace, B.Tech  Engineering Physics,  IIST

• July - November. 2020- RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech ECE (Avionics) Students, IIST

• July - November. 2020 - Microwave Circuits and System (AVR 612) (Theory)  offered to both B.Tech ECE (Avionics) and M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2020 - Microwave Circuit Lab (AVR 631) (Lab) - M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2020 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • Jan - May. 2020 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Lab) - M. Tech RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2019 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech Avionics Students, IIST

• July - November. 2019 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech Avionics Students, IIST

• July - November. 2019 - Microwave Circuits and System (AVR 612) (Theory)  offered to both B.Tech and RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

 • July - November. 2019 - ECAD Lab

• Jan - May. 2019 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) - RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2019 - Phased Array Antenna (AVR 865) (Lab) - RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• July - November. 2018 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 333) (Lab) - B. Tech Avionics Students, IIST

• July - November. 2018 - RF and Microwave Communication (AV 313) (Theory) - B. Tech Avionics Students, IIST

• July - November. 2018 - Microwave Circuit Lab (AVR 631) (Lab) - RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2018 - Antenna Theory and Design (AVR 621) (Theory) -RF&MW Students (Avionics), IIST

• Jan - May. 2018 - Radar Systems (AV 323) (Theory) - B. Tech Avionics Students, IIST

• August - Nov. 2017 - RF & Microwave Engineering (EEG 581) (Lab) - M.E Communication Engineering Students, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

• August - Nov. 2017 - RF & Microwave Engineering (EEG581) (Theory) - M.E Communication Engineering Students, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Journal Publications

[J18] Madhusudhan Goud Rangula, Princy Paul, Basudev Majumder and Krishnamoorthy Kandasamy, "An ultra-broadband low profile modified chessboard metasurface with improved backscattering reduction", Optics Communications, Vol 574, pp. 131-213 2025, Jan 2025

[J17] Basudev Majumder, S. S. Vinnakota, M. Goud Rangula and K. Kandasamy, "Dual Frequency Multi-Functional via-Less Leaky Wave Antenna Featuring Enhanced Frequency Sensitivity and Dual Beam Scanning Capability," IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 76858-76869, 2024,

[J16] S. S. Vinnakota, R. Kumari and B. Majumder, "Metasurface Assisted Broadband Compact Dual Polarized Dipole Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1912-1916, Aug. 2023,

[J15] Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari and Basudev Majumder, QH. Abbasi, “Numerical demonstration of a dispersion engineered metallic metasurfaces assisted mm-wave wireless sensor” Optics Continuum, vol. 1, no. 8, pp. 1795 – 1810, August 2022

[J14] Basudev Majumder, Sidhharth Upadhyay, Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, “Dielectric Metasurfaces Inspired Directional Multi-Port Luneburg Lens as a Medium for 5G Wireless Power Transfer- A Design Methodology”, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1-10, May 2022 

[J13] Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari, Himanshu Meena, Basudev Majumder, “Rectifier Integrated Multibeam Lunenburg Lens Employing Artificial Dielectric- as a Wireless Energy Harvesting Medium at mm wave band.”, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1-14, June 2021

[J12] Karthik Rudramuni, Basudev Majumder, Puneeth Kumar T R, Krishnamoorthy Kandasamy and Qingfeng Zhang, “Dual Band Asymmetric Leaky Wave Antennas for Circular Polarization and Simultaneous Dual Beam Scanning”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1843- 1852, April 2021

[J11] Karthik Rudramuni, Basudev Majumder, Puneeth Kumar T R, Krishnamoorthy Kandasamy " Dual Band Dual Polarized Leaky wave structure with forward backward beam scanning for Circular Polarization Flexible Antenna Applications ", in Microwave and Optical Technology Letter, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 2075- 2084, May 2020

[J10] Sarath Sankar0 Vinnakota, Runa Kumari and Basudev Majumder “Dual Polarized High Gain Resonant Cavity Antenna for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, vol.29, no. 12, pp. 1-12, December 2019.

[J9] Karthik Rudramuni, Basudev Majumder, Krishnamoorthy Kandasamy, "Goubau Line Based End Fire Antenna", in International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, vol.29, no. 12, pp. 1-12, December 2019.

[J8]Karthik Rudramuni, Basudev Majumder, Puneeth Kumar T R, Krishnamoorthy Kandasamy and Qingfeng Zhang, "Dispersion Engineered Transmission Line Loaded Slot Antenna for UWB Applications", IEEE Antennas and Wireless and Propagation Letter, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 323- 327, February 2019

[J7] Basudev Majumder, Krishnamoorthy K, and K.P. Ray, “A Zero Index Meta-Lens Loaded Wideband Directive Antenna Combined with Reactive Impedance Surface”, IEEE Access, vol. 6, no 1, pp. 28746-28754, December. 2018.

[J6] Basudev Majumder, Krishnamoorthy K, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K.P. Ray, “Compact Broadband Directive Antenna Loaded with Cavities and Single and Double Layers of Metasurfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no 11, pp. 4595-4606, November 2016.

[J5] Basudev Majumder, Krishnamoorthy K, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K. P. Ray, “Frequency Reconfigurable Slot Antenna Enabled by thin Anisotropic double layer Metasurfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no 4, pp. 1218-1225, April 2016.

[J4] Basudev Majumder, Krishnamoorthy K, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K.P. Ray, “Wideband Compact Directive Metasurfaces Enabled Pair of Slot Antennas,”, Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 17, pp. 1310-1312, 2015.

[J3] Krishnamoorthy K, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K. P. Ray, “Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Split Ring Resonators Loaded Square Slot Antenna,”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 3640-3645, 2016

[J2] Krishnamoorthy K, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K. P. Ray, "Low-RCS and Polarization-Reconfigurable Antenna Using Cross-Slot-Based Metasurfaces”, IEEE Antennas Wireless. Propagation. Letter, vol.14, no., pp.1638-1641, 2015.

[J1] Krishnamoorthy K, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee, and K. P. Ray, “Low Profile Pattern Diversity Antenna using Quarter-mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 55, 105-111, 2015.

International Conference Paper

[C25] Chiranjit Majumder, Ritan Das, Basudeb Ghosh, Basudev Majumder “Design of Broadband High Gain Full Active Bias LNA with Improved Noise Figure for OTH Radar's Receiver Applications”, IEEE I2CT conference , April 2024, Mumbai India.

[C24] Sreekavya K, Basudeb Ghosh, Basudev Majumder “Dual Band Dual Polarized Reflectarray Antenna operating at C and X Band”, IEEE Wireless, Antenna & Microwave Symposium, February.2024, Visakhapatnam, India

[C23] Basudev Majumder, Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, R Madhusudhan Goud, K Kandasami, “Beam Switchable Compact Retroreflector Based on Dielectric Based Meta surface”, 11th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, November.2023, Guangzhou China.

[C22] Basudev Majumder, Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Sreekavya M K, Basudeb Ghosh “Microstrip Fed All metal lens antenna- As an energy harvesting Medium for 5G Applications”, IEEE MTTS & APS MAPCON 2023, December 2023.

[C21] R Madhusudhan Goud, K Kandasami, Basudev Majumder, “Broadband Linear to Circular and Multi-Band Cross Polarization Conversion Reflective Metasurface for Ku, K and Ka Band Applications”, 11th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, November.2023, Guangzhou China.

[C20] R Madhusudhan Goud, K Kandasami, Basudev Majumder, “Dual-Functional Metasurface Reflector for Wideband Polarization Conversion and RCS Reduction Applications”, IEEE MTTS & APS Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Conference  2023, December 2023

 [C19] Chiranjit Majumder, Basudeb Ghosh, Basudev Majumder, “A kW-range Solid-State Power Amplifier Design for OTH Radar’s Transmitter Application.”,  IEEE MTTS & APS Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Conference 2023, December 2023

 [C18] Basudev Majumder, Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Himanshu Meena, “Design of an Artificially Engineered All Metallic Lens Antenna.”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC, Hongkong, Dec.2020

 [C17]: Basudev Majumder, Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Dinesh Gupta “Metamaterial-Inspired Cavity backed CPW fed Dipole Slot Rectenna for UMTS and Wi-Fi Applications” accepted to URSI-RCRS-2020

[C16]: Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Basudev Majumder and Runa Kumari, Krishnamoorthy K “Suspended Metasurface Loaded Dual Band Dual Polarized Dipole Antenna Array with Polarization Flexibility for RF Energy Harvesting” Accepted 2019 Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AP-RASC) 2019

[C15]: Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Basudev Majumder and Runa Kumari, “Dual Polarized High Gain Aperture Coupled Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting Applications” IEEE INAE Workshop on Electromagnetics, IEEE IIWE, Trivandrum, Dec. 2018

[C14]: Karthik Rudramuni, Krishnamoorthy K and Basudev Majumder, “Periodic Spiral-Slot-Loaded Dual-Band Dual Polarized Half-Width Microstrip Leaky-Wave Antennas with Forward and Backward Beam Scanning Properties” IEEE IIWE, Trivandrum, Dec. 2018 (won IEEE Travel Grant Award)

[C13]: Basudev Majumder, K. Kandasamy, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “A Novel Beam Steerable Dipole Antenna using Phase Varying Metasurface as Reflector”, IEEE International Conference on Antenna Innovations and Modern Technologies iAIM 2017, Bangalore, India

[C12]: Basudev Majumder, K. Kandasamy, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “Dual Band Dual Polarized Frequency Re-Configurable Antenna Using Meta-surface”, IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2015, Nanjing, China.

[C11]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, "Design of Multi-Band Antenna Using Zeroth Order Resonator Loaded with SRR and Modified Ground Plane”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC, Nanjing, China, Dec.2015

[C10]: Basudev Majumder, K. Kandasamy, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “A High Gain EBG Backed Slot Antenna Loaded with Anisotropic Mu-Negative superstrate,”, IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting - Vancouver 2015

[C9]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “Design of SRR Loaded Reconfigurable Antenna for UWB and Narrow Band Applications”, IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting - Vancouver 2015

[C8]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “Beam-Tilted and Wide Beam Antennas using Hybrid Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures”, IEEE 45th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Paris, France, Sep. 2015.

[C7]: B. Majumder, K. Krishnamoorhty, J. Mukherjee and K. P. Ray, "A novel miniaturized complimentary split ring loaded electromagnetic band gap structure for isolation improvement and absorber applications at microwave frequencies," 2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014, pp. 49-51,

[C6]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “A Circular Polarization Reconfigurable Antenna Based on Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Band-Gap Structures”, Metamaterials 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 2014.

[C5]: Basudev Majumder, K. Kandasamy, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “A Compact Electromagnetic Band Gap Ground Controlled Tunable Dual Mode Band Pass Filter”, 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, (ANTEM), 2014, Victoria, Canada

[C4]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “Reconfigurable Zeroth Order and Half Wave Length Resonator Antenna For Pattern Reconfiguration Using Tunable EBG Structures”, 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, (ANTEM), 2014, Victoria, Canada.

[C3]: Basudev Majumder, K. Kandasamy, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “A Novel Compact Comb Shaped EBG Structure for Coupling Reduction in WIMAX band”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), Bhubaneswar, India, Dec. 2013.

[C2]: K. Kandasamy, Basudev Majumder, J. Mukherjee, K.P. Ray, “Dual Polarized Reconfigurable Dual Band-Notched UWB Antennas with Novel Tunable EBG Structure”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), Bhubaneswar, India, Dec. 2013.

[C1]: S. R. Gupta, Basudev Majumder, Jayanta Mukherjee, “Geometric variations of metal baffle in horn antenna for improved gain”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), Bhubaneswar, India, Dec. 2013

• Athul Parameswaran (SC24D067 Ph.D. Avionics, 2024-Current)- Future RF Energy Harvesting Circuits and Systems design. [currently Ongoing]

 •Ritan Das (SC23M087, M. Tech RFMW 2023-Current)- working on MMIC based Medium to High Power Amplifier (PA) Design [Currently Ongoing]

• Chiranjit Majumder (SC22M049, M. Tech RFMW 2022-2024)- Thesis Title: “Design and Development of RF Systems of the Transmitter and Receiver of an OTH Radar” [Currently PhD Pursuing at IIT Kanpur]

• T S Sruthi (M. Tech RFMW 2022-2024)- Thesis Title: “Design of X Band 10 Watt MMIC Power Amplifier for Space Applications” [Currently at Embedded Hardware Engineer, Cyient Ltd]

• Atul Kumar (B. Tech Avionics, 2020-2024)- Thesis Title: “Dual Polarized Beam Switchable 1-Bit Coded Reflective Metasurface” [Currently at Human Space Flight Centre, (HSFC), Bangalore, ISRO]

• Aditya Singh Parihar (B. Tech Avionics, 2017-2022)- Thesis Title: “Designing of Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting System” [Currently at ISTRAC, Bangalore, ISRO]

• Siddhartha Upadhyay ((M. Tech RFMW 2020-2022))- Thesis Title: “Dielectric Metasurface Inspired Directional Multi-port Luneburg Lens as a Medium for 5G Wireless Power Transfer- A Design Methodology”. [Currently at Tech Lead-Mahindra & Mahindra R&D]

•Harshita Bharti (B. Tech Avionics, SC17B088, 2017-2021)- Thesis Title: “Design of an Active Integrated Patch Antenna.” [M. Engg at IISC, Bangalore, Currently at Digital Design Engineer- Alphawave Semi]

 •Himanshu Meena (B. Tech Avionics, SC16B081, 2016-2020)- Thesis Title: “Design of an Artificially Engineered All Metallic Lens Antenna.” [Currently at Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh, shortly]

•Dinesh Gupta (M. Tech RFMW 2017-2019) - Thesis Title: “Metamaterial-Inspired Cavity backed CPW fed Dipole Slot Rectenna for UMTS and WiFi Applications.” [Currently at Senior Hardware Engineer Honeywell]