Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum (born 1978), FIET, SMIEEE is an

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the ...

, educator and Professor in the department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is a public technical university established by the Government of India, located in Amingaon area, North Guwahati city, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute ...

. Recently, he was listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the year 2021 by the researchers from Stanford University. Earlier in 2021 and 2020, he was also listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the year 2020 and 2019.

Biography

He earned his first class BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from the

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranke ...

in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various in ...

Singapore in 2005. His doctoral advisor was Lei Zhu. He is currently a Professor of EEE at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and was the former Head of Center for Career Development from April 2018 to March 2020. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in September 2005 as a faculty member, he did Postdoctoral research from the department of Electrical Engineering,

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

USA from May–July, 2005 under mentorship of

Raj Mittra Raj Mittra (born 1 July 1932)Tatsuo Itoha (1992), Electromagnetics Volume 12, Issue 3-4 pg. 285 is an Indian-born electrical engineer and academician. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering at University of Central Florida. Previou ...

and the department of Electrical Communication Engineering,

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was ...

Bangalore from October 2004-February 2005 under guidance of K. J. Vinoy. During August 2000-July 2001, he worked with Mphasis as a software engineer. He is currently serving as an Editor of

IEEE Communications Letters ''IEEE Communications Letters'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the IEEE Communications Society since 1997 and covering communications technology. The editor-in-chief is Marco Di Renzo (Laboratory of Signals and Systems ...

, an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and served as an editorial board member of

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques ''IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques'' (T-MTT) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal with a focus on that part of engineering and theory associated with microwave/millimeter-wave technology and components, electronic de ...

from 2005 to 2007. He has served on the organizing committees of several IEEE conferences in various capacities, such as a General Chair of the National Conference on Communications (NCC) 2023, TPC Chair (communications track) of the NCC 2016, TPC Co-chair of IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC) 2015. He has been in the technical program committee of

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

International Conference on Communications The International Conference on Communications (ICC) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The conference grew out of the Global Communications C ...

(ICC),

Global Communications Conference The Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The first GLOBECOM was organised by the Communications Socie ...

(GLOBECOM), Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, etc. He is well known for his research works in the areas of

MIMO In radio, multiple-input and multiple-output, or MIMO (), is a method for multiplying the capacity of a radio link using multiple transmission and receiving antennas to exploit multipath propagation. MIMO has become an essential element of w ...

wireless including MIMO

antennas In radio engineering, an antenna or aerial is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies a ...

and

spatial modulation Spatial modulation is a technique that enables modulation over space, across different antennas (radio) at a transmitter. Unlike multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) wireless (where all the transmitting antennas are active and transmitting digi ...

. Some of his recent invited talks are in IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM) and IEEE India Council International Conference (IEEE INDICON).

Awards and honors

His awards and honors include: • Fellow of the

Institution of Engineering and Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...

(IET) • Senior Member of

• Fellow of IETE • Fellow of IEI • Life Fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI) • Life Fellow of Antennas Test & Measurement Society of India (ATMS) • IETE S. K. Mitra Memorial Award, 2017 • IETE M. Rathore Memorial Award, 2015 • IEEE ANTS 2017 Best Paper Award (Third Prize)"IEEE ANTS 2017 Best Paper Awards"
Retrieved 12 January 2018.

Published works

Kshetrimayum has written the following books: * R. S. Kshetrima, Fundamentals of

Wireless Communications,

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambr ...

, 2017. * B. Kumbhani and R. S. Kshetrimayum, MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels,

CRC Press The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books. Many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics. Their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information tec ...

, 2017. * A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, Advanced Spatial Modulation Systems,

Springer Nature Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and M ...

, 2021. Kshetrimayum has written or co-written the following articles: * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

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