Projects/Grants/Patents/Fellowships

Projects:

[P5].  Sensor Antenna Transmitter System for Material Properties Retrieval in Wireless Sensor Nodes (Grant No. : ERIP/ER/202505002/M/01/)

Financial Outlay: INR 28,68,384

Funding Agency: DRDO, Ministry of Defence, GoI.

Role: Principal Investigator, Co-PI: Prof. KM Bhurchandi

Duration: 3 years (2025-28)

Status: Ongoing

[P4].  Electromagnetic Knee Imaging Sytems (Grant No. : N-22029/8/2025-DIC)

Financial Outlay: INR 25,00,000

Funding Agency: MeitY, GoI

Role: Principal Investigator

Duration: 5 years (2025-30)

Status: Ongoing

[P3].  Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (FIST) to Develop mmWave Measurement Facility (Grant No. : )

Financial Outlay: INR 1,43,00,000 

Funding Agency: DST, GoI

Role: Co-Coordinator

Duration: 5 years (2025-30)

Status: Ongoing

[P2].  Fluid Dynamics in Wireless: Development of Fluid Antennas for 6G Networks.

Financial Outlay: INR 53,00,000/-

Funding Agency: DoT, GoI

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Duration: 3 years(2024-27)

Status: Ongoing

[P1].  Seed Grant In-house project: Development of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) based High-Performance Filtering Antennas.

Financial Outlay: INR 1,00,000

Funding Agency: VNIT Nagpur

Role: Principal Investigator

Duration: 1 year (2022-23)

Status: Completed

Patents:

[P1]. AN OCTA-BAND SELF-MULTIPLEXING ANTENNA (SMA) FOR SUB 6GHZ APPLICATIONS.  (File No. 202441039762): Under Examination

Grants Received:

[G6]. International Travel Grant from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India,  for  PIERS-2023, in Prague,  Czech Republic.

Financial Outlay: INR 30,000

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: July 2023.

Purpose: For  PIERS-2023, in Prague,  Czech Republic

[G5]. International Travel Grant, SERB-DST, India: Received SERB ITS Award For presenting a paper at APCC-2022, Jeju Island, South Korea.(ITS/2022/002208)

Financial Outlay: INR 1,39,700

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: November 2022.

Purpose: APCC-2022, Jeju Island, South Korea

[G4]. Research Grant: Recipient of  EuCAP-2019 Grant (500 Euro) as a Young Researcher.

Financial Outlay: EURO 500

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: March 31-April 6, 2019.

Purpose: For  EUCAP-2019, Krakow,  Poland

[G3]. Visvesvaraya Conference Support Grant: Recipient of  International Conference Support Grant

Financial Outlay: INR 50,000

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: March 31-April 6, 2019.

Purpose: For  EUCAP-2019, Krakow,  Poland

[G2]. International Travel Grant from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India,  for  EUCAP-2019, Krakow,  Poland.

Financial Outlay: INR 89,500

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: March 31-April 6, 2019.

Purpose: For  EUCAP-2019, Krakow,  Poland

[G1]. International Travel Grant, SERB-DST, India: Received travel grant under the DST International Travel Support (ITS) Scheme, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India (ITS/2018/004647)

Financial Outlay: INR 73,347

Role:  Principal Investigator

Duration: November 6-9, 2018.

Purpose: To visit Japan for APMC2018

Fellowships Received:

[F6]. Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) under Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, MeitY, Govt. of India.

[F5].  'Scientific High-Level Visiting Fellowship (SSHN) 2024' by the Government of France

[F4]. Summer Faculty Research Fellow at IIT Delhi June 3, 2024 - July 15, 2024.

[F3]. Selected for DST-SIRE Fellowship 2022 (SERB File Number: SIR/2022/000034): Implementation Filtering Antenna Array Architectures for 5G Applications at Chung-Ang University Seoul, South Korea.

[F2]. Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Fellowship (2015-2019) from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

[F1]. Postgraduate Fellowship (2013-15) from Ministry of HRD, Government of India.