Dr. D. Kundu

Research Expertise

Analytical techniques for surface electromagnetics, metamaterial and metasurface, reconfigurable intelligent surface, phased array, reflectarray, beamforming, scattering and polarization control of the electromagnetic wave. 

Biosketch

Dr. Debidas Kundu received his Ph. D. degree from Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in June 2018. After submitting his thesis, he was with BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus as a Visiting Faculty from January 2018 to December 2018. In 2018, he received the DST-INSPIRE Faculty award and subsequently joined the ECE Department of IIT Roorkee as an INSPIRE Faculty in January 2019. From April 2022 to April 2023 he worked as visiting researcher (Post-Doc) at Carleton University, Canada. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, from July 2023 to June 2025, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, from July 2025 to June 2026. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He is an author and co-author of more than 40 reputed journals and conference publications. He serves as an active reviewer for renowned journals, such as IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Trans. on Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE AWPL, AIP Applied Physics Letters, AIP journal of Applied Physics, OSA Optics Express, Scientific Reports, etc. He is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from URSI-RCRS and URSI-GASS in 2020 and 2023, respectively. 

Honors and Awards

• DRDO Dare to Dream 5.0 Award in 2026

• Young Scientist Award from URSI-General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS), 2023

• Young Scientist Award from URSI-Regional Conference on Radio Science (RCRS), 2020

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award in July 2018

• Finalist for Best Student Paper Award in IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 2016

• Design Challenge Award from Computer Simulation Technology (CST) in 2015

• Certificate of Merit for High Rank in Secondary Examination in 2005

• National Merit Scholarship at Secondary Stage in 2003

Professional Activities

Reviewer Experience

• AIP Journal of Applied Physics

• AIP Applied Physics Letters

• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

• IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

• IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

• OSA Optics Express

Membership

• Senior Member, IEEE

• Member, IEEE AP-S

• Member, IEEE MTT-S