Dr. GAURAV SINGH BAGHEL

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Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Silchar, Assam, 788010, India

Email: gaurav@ece.nits.ac.in
Phone: +91-8638008151/+91-7987013588
Date of Joining: 25/06/2018
Academic Experience: 5+ years

Personal Webpage: http://ec.nits.ac.in/gaurav/

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Ph.D.:      Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, 2017
  • M.Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, India, 2012
  • B.Tech.:  Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India, 2010

EXPERIENCE

  • Jun 2018 – Till DateAssistant Professor, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, Assam, 788010, India
  • Aug 2017 – Jun 2018:  Postdoctoral Research Associate,  Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SPECIALIZATION

  • Gyrotron Oscillators & Amplifiers
  • Antennas
  • Metamaterial Based Devices
  • mm-wave Communication Systems
  • High-Frequency Solid State Devices
  • RFICs
  • IoT Systems
  • Microwave Imaging

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Gaurav Singh Baghel obtained his Bachelor of Technology from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh in  Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. He received his Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, in  Microwave Engineering and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in  RF & Microwave Engineering. He joined the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, in June 2018. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

PROJECT(S)

  1. Design Study of a High Power W-Band Multi-Cavity Gyroklystron

    Role: Co-PI
    Funding Agency: Microwave Tube Research & Development Centre, Defence Research & Development Organization (MTRDC-DRDO)
    Funding Duration: One year

  2. Design and modeling of a Ka-band, multi-beam gyroklystron amplifier for RADAR applications

    Role: PI
    Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India (SERB, GoI)
    Funding Duration: Three years

PATENT(S)

  1. Dr. Gaurav Singh Baghel, Dr. Ranjay Hazra, Mr. Subhra Sankha Sarma, and Dr. M. V. Swati, “A Resource Allocation System for Device-to-Device Communication,” German Patent-G11442DE,  April 06, 2022.

PUBLICATIONS (JOURNALS/CONFERENCES)

International Journals

  1. Sourav Ghosh, Gaurav Singh Baghel, M.V. Swati, Design of a highly-isolated, high-gain, compact 4-port MIMO antenna loaded with CSRR and DGS for millimeter wave 5G communications, AEU – International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2023, Doi:10.1016/j.aeue.2023.154721.
  2. M. V. Swati and Gaurav Singh Baghel, “Design, Analysis, and Simulation of a Three-Stage Stagger-Tuned, Clustered-Buncher Cavity Gyroklystron Amplifier,” in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 660-667, March 2023, DOi: 10.1109/TPS.2023.3244628.
  3. Sourav Ghosh, Gaurav Singh Baghel, and M. V. Swati, “A low-profile, high gain, dual-port, planar array antenna for mm-wave powered 5G IoT systems”, AEU – International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Volume 155, 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2022.154354.
  4. Gaurav Singh Baghel and M. V. Kartikeyan, “Output System of a 42 84 GHz 0.5 MW Dual Regime Gyrotron”, DSJ, vol. 71, no. 03, pp. 341-345, May 2021.
  5. M. V. Swati and Gaurav Singh Baghel, “Systematic Design Study of the Elliptical Sheet Beam Electron Gun for Terahertz TWT Applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 3854-3861, Nov. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2020.3027292.
  6. Gaurav Singh Baghel and M. V. Kartikeyan, “Output System of A 220-/247.5-/275-GHz, 1.0-MW, Triple-Frequency Regime Gyrotron,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 1558-1563, April 2018, doi: 10.1109/TED.2018.2808380.
  7. Gaurav Singh Baghel, M. V. Kartikeyan and M. K. Thumm, “A 220/247.5/275-GHz, 1.0-MW, Triple Frequency Regime Gyrotron,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1774-1780, April 2017, doi: 10.1109/TED.2017.2666084.
  8. Gaurav Singh Baghel, S. Illy and M. V. Kartikeyan, “I/O System for A 77/154-GHz, 0.5-MW Dual Regime Gyrotron,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 4459-4465, Nov. 2016, doi: 10.1109/TED.2016.2604249.
  9. Gaurav Singh Baghel and M. V. Kartikeyan, “Extended RF Behavior of a 77/154 GHz, 0.5 MW Continuous Wave Gyrotron,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 2538-2543, June 2016, doi: 10.1109/TED.2016.2550609.
  10. R. K. Dhakad, Gaurav Singh Baghel, M. V. Kartikeyan, and M. K. Thumm, “Output System for a 170-GHz/1.5-MW Continuous Wave Gyrotron Operating in the TE28,12 Mode,” in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 391-397, Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TPS.2014.2368254.

International Conferences

  1. B. Biswas, F. A. Talukdar and Gaurav Singh Baghel, “Design and Simulation of a Capacitive MOS Gas Sensor,” 2022 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SILCON55242.2022.10028834.
  2. Rajesh Das, Taimoor Khan, and Gaurav Singh Baghel, “A Broadband U-Slotted 2×2 Array Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Energy Harvesting,” 2022 IEEE 11th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), 2022, pp. 18-21.
  3. Sukwinder Singh, S Yuvaraj, Gaurav Singh Baghel, MV Kartikeyan, “Design studies of a RF interaction cavity for a 4 MW, 170 GHz triangular corrugated coaxial cavity gyrotron,” IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Monterey, CA, USA, 24-26 April 2018, pp. 1-2.
  4. Gaurav Singh Baghel, and E. M. Choi, “Possibility of Dual-frequency Gyrotron for K-DEMO Prototype,” KSTAR Conference 2018, Muju, Korea, 21-23 Feb 2018.
  5. M. V. Kartikeyan, Gaurav Singh Baghel, A. R. Choudhury and M. Thumm, “A megawatt-class 220 GHz conventional cavity gyrotron,” IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), Monterey, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 1-2.
  6. S. Yuvaraj, Sukwinder Singh, Gaurav Singh Baghel and M. V. Kartikeyan, “Mode selection and interaction structure design of a megawatt-class, sub-THz wave coaxial cavity gyrotron,” International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, 2015, pp. 307-309.
  7. Gaurav Singh Baghel, M.V. Kartikeyan, “RF Behavior of A 42/84 GHz, 0.5 MW, Dual Frequency Gyrotron,” 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 23-28 Aug. 2015.
  8. Surya Prakash Singh, Gaurav Singh Baghel, M. Thottappan, and P. K. Jain, “Modeling and simulation of a 250 GHz metal PBG waveguide for gyrotron amplifier,” International Conference on Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), Kumaracoil, 2012, pp. 828-831.

National Conferences

  1. Gaurav Singh Baghel, M. V. Swati, J. C. Mudiganti and M.V. Kartikeyan, “Investigation of MIG for a 95 GHz, Second Harmonic Gyrotron,” National Workshop on Vacuum Electron Devices & its Applications (VEDA-2022), MTRDC Bengaluru, India, 19-21 Jan 2023.
  2. M. V. Swati, and Gaurav Singh Baghel, “PIC Simulation of a Four-Cavity Gyroklystron with Misalignments in RF Section,” National Workshop on Vacuum Electron Devices & its Applications (VEDA-2022), MTRDC Bengaluru, India, 19-21 Jan 2023.
  3. Gaurav Singh Baghel, and M.V. Kartikeyan, “Output System of a 42/84 GHz, 0.5MW, Dual Regime Gyrotron,” National Symposium on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications (VEDA-2019), NIT Patna, India.
  4. Sukwinder Singh, Yuvaraj S, Gaurav Singh Baghel, and M.V. Kartikeyan, “Study of Plasma loaded Gyrotron Coaxial cavity with Triangular corrugations on the insert,” National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications (VEDA- 2016), IPR Gandhinagar, India.
  5. Yuvaraj S, Sukwinder Singh, Gaurav Singh Baghel, and M.V. Kartikeyan, “RF behavior of a 165 GHz, 1.5 MW, Triangular Corrugated Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron,” National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications (VEDA-2016), IPR Gandhinagar, India.
  6. Gaurav Singh Baghel, S. Karmakar, Amitavo Roy Choudhury, S. Kamath, M.V. Kartikeyan, “Cavity Design and Extended Interaction Studies of a W-band Gyrotron,” National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications (VEDA-2015), 3-5 December 2015, Bangalore, India.
  7. Gaurav Singh Baghel, S. Karmakar, Sukwinder Singh, S. Yuvaraj, Ravi K. Dhakad, S. Kamath, M.V. Kartikeyan, “Output System of W-band Gyrotron,” National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications (VEDA-2015), 3-5 December 2015, Bangalore, India.

BOOKS/CHAPTERS

  1. Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Dr. Gaurav Singh Baghel, Dr. M. V. Swati, Signals and Systems, 2ed, An Indian Adaptation, Wiley India, 2021;
  2. Gaurav Singh Baghel, M. V. Swati, Sourav Ghosh (2021) MIMO Antennas: A 5G Communication Perspective. 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems. Springer Series in Wireless Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15- 6390-4_1, 2).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Member, IEEE Electron Device Society
  • Member, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
  • Member, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Institute Level

  • Sept. 2023 – Till Date: Nodal Officer, e-tendering
  • Aug. 2019 – Till Date: Faculty Mentor for B. Tech. 2019-23 Batch.
  • Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2022:  Associate Warden.

Department Level

  • Sep. 2018 – Till Date: Associate Lab In-charge, Basic Electronics Laboratory
  • Aug. 2019 – March 2022: Jt. Convenor, Industry Consultation Committee for Dept. of ECE
  • Sep. 2019 – March 2022: Member, Quality Assurance & Accreditation Committee
  • Dec. 2019 – Till Date: Coordinator, Departmental Official Language Implementation Committee
  • May 2020 – March 2022:  Coordinator Departmental Infrastructure Committee
  • Jun. 2020 – March 2022: Member, Departmental Ph.D. Monitoring Committee
  • Jun. 2020 – March 2022: Member, Departmental Purchase Committee
  • April 2022 – Till Date: Member, Departmental Infrastructure Committee
  • April 2022 – Till Date: Member, Departmental PG Program Committee
  • April 2022 – Till Date: Co-coordinator, Departmental Purchase Committee

Ph.D. Scholars Guided

  1. Mr. Bedabrata Biswas (2020, FT, Ongoing, Gas Sensors);
  2. Mr. Lokenath Kundu (2020, FT, Ongoing, MMIC);
  3. Mr. J. Ashok Kr. (2020, PT, Ongoing, Antennas);
  4. Mr. Rajeev Kr. Mishra (2020, PT, Ongoing, Communication Systems);
  5. Ms. Ankhi Debnath (2021, PT, Ongoing, Antennas);
  6. Mr. Saroj Kanti Ghosh (2021, PT, Ongoing, IoT Systems);
  7. Mr. Rajesh Das, (2022, FT, Ongoing, Rectenna Systems);
  8. Mr. Abhishek Dhar, (2023, PT, Ongoing, MIMO Systems);

M.Tech. Scholars Guided

  1. Ms. Jyoti Pandit (2018-20); ” Performance Improvement of Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna Using Metamaterials “
  2. Mr. Dharmendra Prajapati (2019-21); ” Performance Analysis of Wireless Power Transfer in Bi-directional DF relaying aid MRC over Nakagami –m fading “
  3. Mr. Rajesh Das (2021-22); ” Millimeter Wave Antenna for Energy Harvesting “
  4. Ms. Anandi Datta (2021-22); “End-to-End Malaria Disease Detection using Deep Learning Techniques “

B.Tech. Projects

  1. [2019], Study of Wearable Antenna with EBG Structure
  2. [2019], Smart Antenna Implementation using FPGA
  3. [2020], Design and Simulation of Antenna for Microwave Imaging
  4. [2021], Flood mapping with SAR radar
  5. [2022], Graphene-based terahertz filters
  6. [2022], Playing Atari games using Reinforcement Learning
  7. [2023], Design studies of antenna system for 5G IRS system.
  8. [2023], Optimization in beamforming with large antenna arrays by channel estimation using Neutral Networks.

Workshops Organized

  1. Workshop on Recent Advancement in Microwave Engineering (RAME-2019), TEQIP-III, NIT Silchar, April 1-5, 2019, Coordinator
  2. Workshop on RF Energy Harvesting Systems (REHS-2020), TEQIP-III, NIT Silchar, July 17-21, 2019, Coordinator
  3. Webinar on RF & Millimeter-Wvate Technologies (RMWT- 2020), TEQIP-III, NIT Silchar, August 29-September 2, 2020, Coordinator
  4. High-end Workshop (Karyashala) on Futuristic Trends in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies: An ML Approach FMMT (2023), DST-SERB, NIT Silchar, June 1-7, 2023, Coordinator

Conferences Organized