Email : meenakshi.rawat[at]ece.iitr.ac.in
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Software defined radio design for enhanced signal quality, Software defined solutions for Green Communication, Digital and RF predistortion techniques for hardware imperfections (power amplifiers, multipliers, mixers, antenna, Quadrature modulator), SDR solutions for mitigating interference in multi-band and MIMO transmission, RF/Digital hybrid techniques for beamforming.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |