Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

Biography

Dr Pathak is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He received his Ph.D. in the area of Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuits from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India in 2005. Prior to his current assignment at IIT Roorkee in 2006, he held the position of post doctoral research fellow at ’NRD Super Broadband Research Centre, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan’, as well as Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi. He was invited by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for delivering invited talk in 9th National Frontiers of Engineering Symposium for Young Indian Engineers held at Jodhpur (June 2015). He is recipient DST Fast Track Research Grant for Young Scientists (2007), IETE India National Research Fellowship in the area of ’Microwave and Radar Engineering’ (2004, 2005) and DRDO, Government of India, ’Junior Research Fellowship’ in the area of ’Integrated Optics’ in the year of 1999. Dr Pathak is serving as Vice Chairman of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society MTT-S) Uttar Pradesh Chapter (2014-Till Date), Faculty advisor, IEEE MTT-S IIT Roorkee student branch (2011-Till date), Coordinator student activities and member executive committee of IEEE Uttar Pradesh section (2015-16). He has acted as reviewer of IEEE transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Sensor Journal and IETE Journal of research. Dr Pathak has guided 6 PhD theses and supervised 26 MTech dissertations in the area of RF Integrated circuits and systems. He has published more than 85 papers in reputed international journals and conferences and has one US patent to his credit.

Research Interest

Dr Pathak’s current research interests are: RF Integrated Circuits and Systems: Multiband, multifunctional Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, Materials for intelligent RF systems, Contactless RF sensors for Human Vital Sign Detection, Structural health Monitoring and Veterinary Applications Nano-Electromanetics: Plasmonics for Nanophotonics, Graphene Plasmonics for Terahertz Integrated Circuits, Spoof Plasmonics for RF Integrated Circuits