Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in electronics and communication engineering from The L.N.M. Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India, in 2014, and his Master of Technology degree in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India, in 2018. He has defended the thesis for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at I.I.T. Ropar, India in 2026. His research interests include System Design for RFEH and WPT and ITS Solutions, PCB Prototyping

He received his BE degree in electronics and communication from Madhav institute of technology and science Gwalior (MITS) in 2019 and  received M.Tech in signal processing and communication (SPCOM) from Indian institute of technology Ropar. His area of interest is in the field of antenna design for 5G and Currently working on the implementation of chip less tag for 5G using biodegradable material 

She received her Btech degree from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra in 2018 and did her MTech from National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in 2022. She has also worked with ZF group as an Application Software Engineer for a brief period. She has earlier worked in the areas of Image processing and Design of Active Devices at high frequency. She is currently working towards PhD on the topic of next generation  communication systems with reconfigurable intelligent surface design and implementation. 

He received his B.Tech. in electronics and communication engineering from H.N.B. Garhwal University (A Central University), Uttarakhand in 2020. He completed his M.E. in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, in 2022. He has a six months teaching experience at Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab. He also worked at I.I.T. Patna as a project fellow for a brief period. His area of interest is mmWave antenna designs for I.S.M. Band applications, meta-structure, and meta-antenna design using additive manufacturing techniques.

He received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, in 2022. He completed his M.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, in 2024. He worked as an Embedded Software Engineer Intern at iHub-AWaDH from 2021 to 2022 and also has good knowledge in device modeling of 2D material-based FETs and MATLAB tools. Now, as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, his areas of interest include designing multibeam antenna arrays for UAVs.

He received his BE degree in Electronics Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS), Gwalior, in 2020. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University, completed in 2021. He completed his ME in Communication Systems from Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC), Jabalpur, in 2023. He has interned with Sagar Smart City, focusing on UI/UX design, and conducted research on antenna arrays during a research internship at IIT Patna. His research includes the design and analysis of microstrip patch antenna arrays for sub-6 GHz 5G applications. He has also undergone vocational training at BHEL Bhopal, BSNL Sagar, and West Central Railway Jabalpur. His current research interests include advanced antenna design, next-generation communication systems, and integrating AI-driven algorithms for 5G and beyond.

He received his M.Tech degree in Communication, Networking, and Signal Processing (CNSP) under the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Roorkee. As part of his M.Tech project, he implemented a hardware prototype of a Cell-Free System using SDR, which won the Best Demo Award at the 2024 Research Scholars Day. He completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh. His current research interests include Advanced Antenna Design for Next-generation Communication Systems and IoT Applications.

He completed his B.Tech in Automobile Engineering from Noida International University in 2020, followed by an M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad) in 2023. As part of his M.Tech thesis, he developed an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for Surveillance and Reconnaissance with a strong emphasis on defence applications. Since 2023, he has continued this work under the Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) program funded by TiHAN IIT Hyderabad, focusing on advancing the project towards real-world deployment. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Robotics, with a particular focus on their applications in defence and autonomous systems

He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Government Polytechnic College, Amritsar, in 2017, and his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, in 2020. He completed industrial automation training at Siemens and subsequently worked as an Automation Engineer in 2021. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, where he contributed to various automation projects in post-harvest technology in collaboration with Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. In July 2025, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar as a PhD student. His research focuses on AI/ML-based design and optimization of antennas.

He received his B.Sc. in Electronic Science from the University of Delhi in 2020. He completed his M.Sc. in Informatics from the University of Delhi in 2022. He obtained his M.Tech. in Computer Science & Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2024, where he carried out his dissertation work titled “Robust Deep Learning Model for Classification of Motor Imagery Tasks.” He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in sAIDE, IIT Ropar (since July 2025). His research interests include Deep Learning and Machine Learning.

Received BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala in 2023. Received MTech in RF and THz Communications from National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2026. Area of Interest : Design and analysis of  Antenna, RIS, meta surfaces and other hard ware components for next generation communication systems.

He received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from ABVGIET, Pragatinagar (Shimla) and completed his M.Tech. in Communication Systems and Networks from NIT Hamirpur. His research interests include 6G wireless communications, AI/ML for wireless systems, adaptive radio, channel estimation, spectral efficiency, intelligent waveform design,  beamforming, joint sensing,  communication and power transfer.

He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, in 2023 and completed his M.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in 2025, where he worked on forecasting peak electricity load and its time of occurrence. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar as a full-time Ph.D. scholar in July 2026, where he is working on AI driven beam steering, adaptive beamforming, and antenna optimization for 6G communication systems.

He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar as a full-time Ph.D. scholar in July 2026 under the supervision of Dr. Ashwani Sharma. His research interests include Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, antenna and RF system design, and next-generation wireless communication systems.

He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India, in 2026. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar as a full-time Ph.D. scholar in July 2026. His research interests include Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML), Embedded Machine Learning and Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT).

She received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra, India, in May 2025. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar as a full-time Ph.D. student in July 2025. Her research interests include communication systems and machine learning techniques for next-generation 6G networks.

She is currently a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. She received her Master of Technology degree in Power Systems and Control from Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India and her Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her research primarily focuses on wireless power transfer systems and their emerging applications. 

Under project funded by TIH-IoT

Under project funded by NMICPS TiHAN Foundation

Khushi Rao received her B.Tech degree in  Electronics and Communication Engineering with a specialization in Internet of Things, from DCRUST in 2026. She previously worked as a Research Intern at the IoT Laboratory, IIT Roorkee, where she developed an  intelligent IoT-based vehicular safety system and worked on a research paper in this area. She is currently a Project Associate at IIT Ropar, conducting research on machine learning-based drone detection and localization. Her research interests include machine learning, RF sensing, UAV technologies, software-defined radio (SDR), cyber-physical systems (CPS), web development and embedded systems.

Under project funded by MOES

He recieved his Electrical Engineering from Poornima University jaipur in 2020.He worked at Bharti Airtel as an Account manager .He also worked as Quality analyst trainee at Havells India limited. He is currently working as a project associate at IIT ROPAR . The project title is: An Underwater Wireless charging System for AUV with Integrated Near field Localization. 

Under project funded by MOES

He received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun (India) in 2012. He completed his M.Tech in VLSI Design from the Faculty of Technology, University Campus, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, in 2015. He worked as a Trainee Engineer at HCL Infosystems Ltd., Rudrapur, for some time. He also obtained a Master of Arts degree in History from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in 2020. His area of interest is Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, Antenna Engineering and Communication Systems, Wireless communication and networks.

Thesis Title:- Miniaturized Energy Autonomous Battery-less IoT Sensor Node

Defended on: 22 April 2026

Current Position: Post Doc in TTDF 6G project, AMR lab, IIT Ropar.

Thesis Title:- Polarization-Diverse Full-duplex antenna for WBAN applications

Defended on: 18 March 2026

Current Position: Faculty at Gov. Engineering College, Himachal.

Thesis Title:- Efficient Harvesting Of H-field Distributions By Novel Coil Structures For Misalignment Insensitive Wireless Power Transfer Applications

Defended on: 19 Jan 2026

Thesis Title:- Quality-aware synthesis of antenna systems for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in IoT applications

Defended on: 20 Jan 2025

Post-PhD position:   Assistant Professor, IIIT DM Kancheepuram

Thesis Title:- Misalignment Insensitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Powering Implanted Biomedical Devices

Defended on: 16 july 2024

Post-PhD position:   Postdoc Fellow at IIT Bombay

Current Position: Senior wireless power engineer, Dolby Laboratory India Pvt. Ltd..

Thesis Title:-  Mitigation of Lateral Misalignment Problem in Wireless Power Transfer Applications

Defended on: 2 August 2023

Post-PhD position:   Senior Antenna Engineer at NuCurrent  Company

Current Position: Faculty at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus.

Thesis Title:-   Performance Enhancement of Wireless Power Transfer Rectenna System for IoT Applications

Defended on: 11 May 2023

Post-PhD position: Post-Doc at the University of Alberta, Canada
Current Position: Post-Doc at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Post position: Joined as Assitant Professor in JIIT Noida.