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Meenakshi Rawat

Associate Professor

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Software defined radios, Enhancing linearity of transmitter, Digital and RF predistortion for power amplifiers, SDR solutions for mitigating interference in multi-band transmission, RF/Digital hybrid predistortion

From To Designation Organisation
2006 2007 Designer Telco construction Equipment company Limited (Joint Venture between TATA Engineering India, and Hita
2007 2008 Officer Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Award Institute Year Awarded
Best Paper award in ARFTG 83rd, Microwave Measurements for Emerging Technologies, June 6th, 2014 - Tampa, Florida, Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina, Tampa, USA. . 2014
Best poster award in ARFTG 82nd Microwave Measurement Conference, November 18th - 22nd, 2013, Columbus, Ohio, USA. . 2013
First Team Prize in 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge: Won first prize in 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge 2010, conducted by Wireless Innovation Forum. This was a worldwide championship in which student engineering teams design, develop and test software defined and cognitive radio technologies that address specific problems relevant to the advanced wireless community. . 2010
Best Design Price (team) in 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge: This award was won by the University of Calgary team as a part of 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge 2010, conducted by Wireless Innovation Forum. The main technical role in the project was proposing system architecture, its hardware development and measurement. This award was in addition to the overall champion award that the team won in this competition. . 2010
Research Production Award: This was awarded for three consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012) by the department of electrical engineering, University of Calgary for high number of publications in reputed journals and conferences. . 2010
Won “Most Innovative Robot” prize in All India Inter-collegiate Technical Festival ‘Colosseum’ held in 2004. . 2014
Best poster award in ARFTG 82nd Microwave Measurement Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA . November 18th - 22nd, 2013
Received Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) under Visvesvaraya Ph.D. scheme of Meity Digital India Corporation 2018-2023
Received Institute Research Fellowship (IRF) . 2022-24
Received faculty Fellow fellowship under iHUB DivyaSampark . 2022-23
Degree Subject University Year Studied
B.Tech Electrical Engineering College of Technology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 2006
M.Sc. Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 2010
Ph.D. Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2012
Scheme Sponsoring Agency Other Faculties Year Sponsored
Scheme for financial assistance for setting up of Electronics and ICT academy Department of Electronics and information technology 5years
Radio Frequency Front End Signal Processing Algorithms Lekha Wireless Pvt. Ltd 1year
Physical Layer development for Reconfigurable SDR Vedang Radio Pvt. Ltd 2years
Software defined techniques for hardware limitations in spectrum and power efficient 4G/5G communication Science and Engineering Research Board, Delhi, India), Government of India 3years
Hybrid (RF/ Digital) pre-distortion linearizer design for 13.75-15.5 GHz high power travelling wave tube amplifier Extramural Research and Intellectual Property Rights, Government of India 3years
RF-DSP co-design techniques for energy/spectral efficent massive MIMO/carrier aggegation in 5G communication IMPRINT-2 Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, India, Government of India 3years
Characterization and Digital pre-compensation techniques for 3G+ signals in dual-band transmitters Faculty Initiation grant, IIT Roorkee 2years
Jio 5G Innovation Lab Jio platforms Limited Jan.2021- Dec.2026.
Development of Digital predistortion technique for linearization of high power amplifier in VHF/UHF Board of research in nuclear sciences (BRNS) May 2023- May 2025
Membership Details
Reviewer of IEEE microwave conference (IMS) 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Reviewer of 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE).
Reviewer of Journal of Zhejiang University Science and Computers
Reviewer of Journal of circuit, systems and computers (JCSC)
Reviewer of Journal IEEE Communication letters
Reviewer of Journal IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements
Reviewer of Journal IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems-I.
Reviewer of Journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Reviewer of Journal IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technique
Member of IEEE communications Society
Member of IEEE Society
Short courses co-chair for ARFTG 82nd Microwave Measurement Conference, November 18th - 22nd, 2013, Columbus, Ohio.
Session Co-chair for "MM wave and Terahertz design systems' during International Microwave and RF Conference (iMARC), 2014.
Technical Program Committee member for IEEE UPCON 2015.
Session Chair for "MM wave and Terahertz design systems' during International Microwave and RF Conference (iMARC), Bangalore, India, Dec. 15-17, 2014.
Technical Program Committee Member" for UPCON-2015, 4-6 December 2015
Program committee member for 11th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2016), 3-4 December 2016
Publication chair for 14th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON 2017) was organized by IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section at IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand during 15-17 December 2017.
Faculty advisor for IIT Roorkee IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter
Technical chair for the session, "Antenna Design" in IEEE National Conf. on Commun. (NCC), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Feb. 2019.
Technical chair for the session, “Waveguides and Waveguide Components”, in 7th IEEE MTT-S International Microwave & RF Conference (IMaRC-2019), IIT Bombay, December 2019
Chaired the session on “Women in microwave” in 7th IEEE MTT-S International Microwave & RF Conference (IMaRC-2019), IIT Bombay, December 2019
Title Course Code Course Semester
Digital signal processing and applications EC-522 EC-522 Autumn
Adaptive signal processing and techniques EC-614 Spring
Signal Processing TIEC-01 TIEC-01 Autumn
Training Seminar TEC-491 TEC-491 Autumn
Topic Scholar Name Status of PhD Registration Year
Hybrid Linearization Techniques for Broadband 5G and Beyond Transmitters Ashish Kumar Thesis Submitted (14 Feb 2023) 2017
Adaptive Digital Beamforming using Software Defined Radios For 5G Communication Systems. Dusari Nageswara Rao Progress December 2019
Energy Efficient MIMO/Massive MIMO communication with practical power amplifiers for intelligent transportation systems Anurag Vijay Agrawal completed December 2014
Linearizer Development for wideband signal transmission using software defined radios Karan Gumber completed December 2014
Performance and physical layer security of RF and FSO links for 5G wireless-powered networks and beyond Rupender Singh Completed December 2015
Digital predistortion linearization for multi-band/multi channel software defined transmitters Praveen Jaraut Completed July 2014
Software - defined -solutions for nonlinearities in sub 6GHz to mmWAVE Transmitters Girish Chandra Tripathi Completed August 2016
Mitigation of hardware impairments in MIMO System Shipra Ongoing Dec, 2017
Linearization Techniques for Ultra-wideband Transmission Systems Gatte Srikanth Ongoing 2021
High power microwave generation Aditya Singh Thakur ongoing 2018
High power gyrotron and it's allied components Debasish Mondal Ongoing 2018
Investigation on second Harmonic Gyrotrons Surbhi Adya Ongoing 2017
Effect of Hardware Impairment in the Communication Aditya Ongoing 2022
Modulation Classification and Recognition Renu Rani Ongoing 2023
Digital/RF Solutions to enhance SIgnal Quality for Frequency up-converters Devashish Arora Ongoing .
Title Place Date Delivered
Linearization implementation challenges and techniques for 5G waveforms IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Boston June 2019
Advanced Applications of Nonlinear Vector Network Measurements for broadband RF Power Amplifiers Design and Linearization IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS-2018), Philadelphia June 2018
Broadband Behavioral Modeling and Linearization Techniques for 5G International Microwave Symposium (IMS-2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A June 2017
Artificial Neural Networks Based Digital Predistortion for Signal Quality Enhancement in MIMO/Multiband Transmitters Radio &Wireless Week, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. 2019
Conference Name Sponsored By Date
82nd Microwave Measurement Conference Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) 18/11/2013

Meenakshi Rawat and Patrick Roblin, “Multi-band/multi-channel power amplifier linearization” as a chapter in “Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers: Theory, Design & Applications”, IET publications, vol. 2, pp. 345-386, 2019.