Goutam Chattopadhyay of NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Prof. Goutam is giving an outstanding lecture that philosophically and scientifically explains how microwave technology decides where we belong in the universe. His research about space exploration also includes advanced radar to be implemented in space, where devices launched from Earth to orbit will work under extreme conditions such as vacuum and extremely low temperature, along with harmful radiation. THz technology can sense particles in a specific way, like water, with all its isotopes already tested on Earth's surface. Because of its molecular stability, it interacts with high frequencies in many different ways, and will match/resonate at some region of the microwave spectrum. its explained how earth water might actually not originating on earth upon its creation, but brought here by ice covered meteors or something equivalent. like at other planets, at mars that corroded and lost its water reserves leaving massive rust and red soil, at enceladus with extremely low temperature saturn moons with under frozen surface's ocean filled with liquid water and methane and so on. 

Biography:

Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, a Visiting Professor at the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, a BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA) and IETE (India), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, and development of space instruments for the search for life beyond Earth.

He has more than 350 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than twenty patents. He also received more than 35 NASA technical achievement and new technology invention awards. He received the IEEE Region-6 Engineer of the Year Award in 2018, Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India in 2017. He was the recipient of the best journal paper award in 2020 and 2013 by IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, best paper award for antenna design and applications at the European Antennas and Propagation conference (EuCAP) in 2017, and IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award in 2014.

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Address:NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, , La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States, 91109

Debabani Choudhury of SeraTech

Prof. Debabani is giving a lecture about her experience in her field of expertise, and mostly talks about the newly forming division of IEEE MTT-S, Broadening Participation Committee, which targets all the outreach regions and extends its professional membership to engage in collaboration with all potential researchers and industry, even students.

Biography:

Debabani Choudhury (M’91–SM’06–F’11) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1991.,She was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), working on terahertz (THz) devices and components for space-based heterodyne receiver applications. She was with Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL Labs) and Millitech Corporation, where she developed various millimeter-wave (mmWave)/terahertz (THz) technologies for space, defense, government, and automotive applications. She has a broad range of expertise in RF, mmWave, and THz devices, circuits, antennas, system, packaging, heterogeneous integration, and EM and related technologies. She is currently with Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, USA, where she leads the research and development of RF/mmWave/sub-THz technologies and architectures for the next-generation communication platform integration.,Dr. Choudhury served as a member for the IEEE 5G-Initiative Committee and the Chair for the MTT-S and ComSoc Collaboration Team. She is a member of the multiple IEEE MTT-S Technical Co-Ordination Committees and the IEEE AP-S Fellows Evaluation Committee (FEC). She serves as the Chair for multiple IEEE 5G-Summits. She was the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE 5G World Forum 2018 and 2019. She serves on several technical program and steering committees for the IEEE and SPIE conferences. She was a Guest Editor for several journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE, the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and the IEEE Microwave Magazine.

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Address:SeraTech , , Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Nuno Borges Carvalho of Instituto de Telecomunicacoes – Universidade de Aveiro

Prof Nuno is giving a remarkable lecture on how wireless power transfer is becoming a hot topic worldwide, as we move from wired to wireless power. It's the same as in telecommunications with cell phones and portable gadgets. We don't need to charge our cellular phones or other gadgets actively. Still, we can use nonstop, radiating power sources, such as Base Station (BTS-like) systems, that can serve many mobile and dynamic users at any time. Essentially, all the works now depend on digital form, which can only be accessed through devices like cell phones. It's in economics, business, education, management, communication, and power itself: it's all gonna be inside a multipurpose device, which is really fragile when the power has trouble.

Biography:

Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05-F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received his Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, the director of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at UA, and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics (Wiley, 2020). He has been a reviewer and author of over 400 papers in magazines and conferences. He is the Editor in Chief of the Cambridge Wireless Power Transfer Journal, an associate editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine, and former associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation Journal.
He is the co-inventor of six patents. His main research interests include software-defined radio front-ends, backscatter communications, wireless power transmission, nonlinear distortion analysis, and measurements in microwave/wireless circuits and systems. He has been involved in the design of dedicated radios and systems for newly emerging wireless technologies.

Dr. Borges Carvalho is a member of the IEEE MTT ADCOM, the past chair of the IEEE Portuguese Section, TC-20 and TC-11, and also belongs to the technical committees, TC-25 and TC-26. He is also the Chair of the URSI Commission A (Metrology Group). He was the recipient of the 1995 University of Aveiro and the Portuguese Engineering Association Prize for the best 1995 student at the University of Aveiro, the 1998 Student Paper Competition (Third Place) of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS), and the 2000 IEE Measurement Prize.

He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the RFID Council and was a previous Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. In 2022 he is the IEEE-MTT President-Elect.

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Address:Instituto de Telecomunicacoes – Universidade de Aveiro Campus Universitario, , Aveiro , Centro, Portugal, 3810-193

Naoki Shinohara of Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University

Prof Naoki gives invaluable insights into the world of wireless power transfer, where you can power all the gadgets you bring. He introduces a future where the next generation might not need any wired charging. Prof. Naoki introduced us to many of his research projects and is still evolving to prepare for society's needs someday. Such a project named "Ohisama Satellite" that means satellite "Sun" as it brings life to our electronic gadgets no matter how long its not supported by a power contact, the idea breaks from giving a base station power transmitter that can charge any device on land and bring it to space, especially at the geostationary orbit. Where the sunlight didn't have a day and night concept, always facing the same side of the Earth, no scattering effect by molecules in vacuum space, and there's no atmospheric attenuation for harvesting solar power in space. Therefore, it can generate more power and send it back to earth with a microwave beam or even a laser beam, based on how it will be used, for a broader area (less in energy density) or a narrower area (higher in energy density). In geostationary orbit, it will take about 10 degrees of beamwidth to cover the entire Earth-facing side of the Earth's surface. Another ambitious project, along with this, was a ground-based power transfer that can support drone operations at a specific flight altitude without the risk of shutting down in mid-flight. Prof. Naoki and his research group are also among the pioneers in the field of wireless power transfer, having already released standards widely used, such as the International Telecommunication Union Recommendation (ITU-R).

Biography:

Naoki Shinohara received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering, the M.E. and Ph.D (Eng.) degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1991, 1993 and 1996, respectively. He was a research associate in Kyoto University from 1996. From 2010, he has been a professor in Kyoto University. He has been engaged in research on Solar Power Station/Satellite and Microwave Power Transmission system. He is IEEE Fellow and URSI Fellow. He was IEEE MTT-S Distinguish Microwave Lecturer (2016-18), and is IEEE MTT-S AdCom member (2022-2027), IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 25 (Wireless Power Transfer and Conversion) former chair and member, IEEE MTT-S MGA (Member Geographic Activities) Region 10 regional coordinator, IEEE WPT Initiative Member, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference & Expo founder and Steering committee member, URSI commission D former chair, the first chair and technical committee member on IEICE Wireless Power Transfer, Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications former president and adviser, Space Solar Power Systems Society president, Wireless Power Transfer Consortium for Practical Applications (WiPoT) chair, and Wireless Power Management Consortium (WPMc) chair. His books are “Wireless Power Transfer via Radiowaves” (ISTE Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), “Theory and Technology of Wireless Power Transfer: Inductive, Radio, Optical, and Supersonic Power Transfer” (CRC Press), and “Wireless Power Transfer: Theory, Technology, and Applications (2nd Edition)” (IET), and some English, Japanese, and Chinese text books of WPT.

Email:

Address:Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, RISH, Room S-344H, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, 6110011

Kamran Ghorbani of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - RMIT

Biography:

Imran Mehdi (BSEE 1985, MSEE 1986 and Ph.D 1990, University of Michigan) is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.  He joined JPL in 1990 and is currently a Technical Group Supervisor leading research and development in submillimeter-wave/THz applications and instruments for space science. His responsibilities include developing THz components, technologies and subsystems for current and future NASA missions.  These devices and components were implemented on the ozone-monitoring Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument which is still operational as well as the (Microwave Instrument on Rosetta Orbiter) MIRO instrument which represents the first submillimeter-wave receiver operational in deep-space. From 1999 he led the effort of developing broadband solid-state sources from 200 to 2500 GHz for the Heterodyne Instrument for Far Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory, a cornerstone European Space Agency mission.  He is an IEEE Fellow and served as the Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology from 2019-2022.  He is recipient of a number of NASA awards including the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for developing advanced THz components and sub-systems. He currently leads the Submillimeter-Wave Advanced Technology group at JPL which is focused on developing space instruments for space exploration and discovery and have implemented complex instruments for airborne, balloon and space platforms. Dr. Mehdi has over 100 publications and is an elected member of the IEEE-Microwave Theory and Techniques Administrative Committee (AdCom, 2023-2028). He is the Chair of the Publication Committee of MTT-S overseeing the publication portfolio of the MTT-S. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Access as well as a board member for the Editorial Board of IEEE Access. His current interests include millimeter and submillimeter-wave devices and technology, nanotechnology, high-frequency space instrumentation, 3D Submm-wave systems, and development of compact, low-power heterodyne receiver arrays for deep-space missions.

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Address:NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, , Pasadena, California, United States, 91109

Jaleel Akhtar of Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institure Technology Kanpur

Biography:

M. Jaleel Akhtar is a Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. He earlier worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany, and as a Scientist with the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India. He received the Ph.D./Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, in 2003. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of IETE (India).

His current research interests include metamaterial inspired RF sensors and imaging, microwave-biomedical interaction, functional RF materials, FSS and metasurface based RF systems, RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, nano-biosensors, and nanomaterials based wideband microwave absorbers for stealth technology and EMI/EMC applications.

He has more than 400 publications in various peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, has authored two books, four book chapters, and holds three patents on planar RF sensors.

He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. candidates and over 75 masters’ students for their theses. He has been the lead investigator of more than 15 projects in various domains of RF and microwave technology. He is presently leading a major project involving establishment of a world class fully accredited EMI/EMC Test Facility at IIT Kanpur, India He is a recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award (ETA) 2021 from IIT Kanpur, and the CST University Publication Award in 2009 from the CST AG, Darmstadt, Germany. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal during 2020-2023 and is currently an Editor of the IETE Technical Review, IETE Journal of Research and SADHANA – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Journal.

Email:

Address:Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, , Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 208016