Author Archives: Taimoor Khan

About Taimoor Khan

Taimoor Khan (SM-17, M-14, GSM-11) awarded his PhD Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Patna in 2014. Dr. Khan joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Silchar, India as an Assistant Professor in the same year and presently he is working as an Associate Professor. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at Queen’s University Canada in September-October 2019 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand during July-December 2016. Before joining NIT Silchar, he served different organizations for more than 14 years during 2001-2014 including Delhi Technological University for more than three years. His active research interests include Ambient RF Energy Harvesting, Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling and Optimization of Electromagnetics Problems, Ultra-Wideband Antenna Technologies, Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures and Dielectric Resonator Antennas. He is the recipient of prestigious ISTE Syed Sajid Ali National Award for the year 2022 for Outstanding Research Work in the Field of Renewable Energy and IETE Professor SVC Aiya Memorial Award for the year 2020 for providing excellence guidance in the field of electromagnetic and microwave engineering. He has successfully guided seven Ph.D. Theses and has published 81 International Journal Articles, 60 International Conference Articles, 03 Indian Patents, and 06 Authored/Edited Books. He has successfully completed 01 SERB Funded Major Research Project, and 02 Minor Research Funded Projects of MHRD and AICTE and presently Executing 02 International Collaborative SPARC and VAJRA projects with Queen’s University Canada and California State University, Northridge, USA, respectively. He is a Fellow of IEI, Fellow of IETE, Fellow of ATMS, Life Senior Member WAMS, Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE AP Society, IEEE MTT Society and URSI Belgium and Life Member of ACES. Dr. Khan is accompanying as an Associate Editor with IET Electronic Letters, Associate Editor with a Hindawi-Wiley’s International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering and as a Section Editor with IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Khan is the Founder of IEEE MTT Society SBC at NIT Silchar (2019), Founder Chair of IEEE Silchar Subsection (2021), Founder General Chair of IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference, SILCON-2022), General Chair of SILCON-2023 and Founder Chair of IEEE APS Joint Section Chapter-Silchar (2023). Also, he served as an IEEE AP-S Chapter Activity Committee Member (2022), IEEE AP-S Paper Awards Subcommittee Member (2022), IEEE AP-S Chapter Award Committee Member (2022) and presently he is serving as a Co-Chair, IEEE AP Society Paper Award Committee for the year 2023-2024 and Immediate Past Chair, IEEE Silchar Subsection for the year 2023-2024.