Rajarshi Mahapatra received a Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and B.Tech. and M. Tech. degree in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta. Currently, he is working as a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur. He also served as the Dean (Academics) of IIITNR. Earlier, he worked for Collins Aerospace, Hyderabad, on software-defined radio and electronic warfare. In his postdoctoral research in CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France, he was engaged in the FP7 Call4 BeFEMTO and Greentouch project. Dr. Rajarshi Mahapatra has worked extensively in the domain of physical layer design and analysis of a wireless communication system. His research interests include 5G & 6G communication, Integrated sensing and communication, molecular communication, and energy-efficient communication. His team designed and developed software-defined radio and direction-finding systems for EW applications in Collins Aerospace. He has about 18 years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He has guided Ph.D. scholars in the area of wireless communication. He has published several research papers in various refereed Journals and IEEE Journals. He regularly reviews premier IEEE Transactions and other peer-reviewed Journals and IEEE conferences. He has been organizing many workshops on 5G in recent years. He has also developed several high-valued research labs including the 5G test bed. He has successfully completed and undertaken high-value sponsored projects in wireless communications. He has been awarded a National scholarship, an MHRD scholarship for research, and an EU-FP7 fellowship for a European project. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communication Society, & IEEE Education Society.- Evaluation panel member, Incubation center, RAFTAR, IGKV, Raipur
- Technical Education, Member, State Steering Committee, CG
- General Chair: Special Session on Energy Efficient Wireless and Optical Networks (EEWON) in IEEE ICRCICN 2015
- Vice Chair Track 1: IEEE ScalCom-2015
- Design & develop a prototype of the 5-channel direction-finding system in Rockwell Collins Hyderabad
- Design & develop the PHY layer of OFDM-based SDR using MATLAB, USRP, PicoSDR and Xilinx
- Member: IEEE Internships/Entrepreneurship Strategic subcommittee, IEEE Region 10 and MGA
- European Union-FP7 Scholarship for BeFemto project.
- Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship in India, July 2002-Sept 2006
- National scholarship in India, 1995