Karun of IIT Roorkee

Biography:

Karun Rawat is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication and the Head of the Centre for Semiconductor Design Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He is the founding director of two startups in the areas of radio frequency integrated circuit design and wireless solutions. Prof. Rawat received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, in 2012. He is a member of the IEEE MTT Microwave High-Power Techniques Committee (TC-12) and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters. He also served Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad as a Scientist from 2003-2007. He received a Young Scientist Award (as a finalist) in the category of “Innovation in Engineering and Physical Science” from the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) and Scopus for high citations of his research work in 2019. He also received the “Outstanding Young Faculty” award from IIT Roorkee in 2020 and the Research Production Award for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011 from the University of Calgary during his Ph.D. Additionally, he received the Best Design Prize at the 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge in 2010, conducted by the Wireless Innovation Forum, USA. His current research interests include radio frequency (RF) power amplifier and transceiver design, radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design, RF sensing, detection and location estimation etc. His research has resulted in more than 100 publications in journals and conferences, several invited articles, two published books, one book chapter, and five patents.