CAREER Highlights

  • Dec, 2019: Saptarshi attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2019 at San Francisco, California where he presented his research on adjoint electromagnetic method for sub-surface imaging applications.

  • Nov, 2019: Saptarshi attended the 9th Annual Lunarcubes workshop at Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, California to brainstorm recent developments of ground penetrating radar diagnostics in cubesats. We also celebrated the organizer Dr. Pamela Clarke's (NASA JPL) birthday at the workshop.

  • Nov, 2019: Saptarshi attended the 2019 ASNT Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada to explore the progress of electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation in industries. He also served as an ambassador for the conference and participated in council meetings.

  • July, 2019: Saptarshi attended the 46th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation in Portland, Oregon. He presented two conference papers related to electromagnetic adjoint imaging and time reversal for NDE of composites and co-authored in other papers.

  • July, 2019: Saptarshi attended the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in Atlanta, Georgia to explore the progress of electromagnetics in the field of advanced manufacturing. The conference involved a visit to the famous Coca Cola factory in Atlanta.

  • April, 2019: Saptarshi served as a mentor for students, a session co-chair for the Electromagnetic NDE session and presented a conference paper at the ASNT Research Symposium 2019.

  • September, 2018: Saptarshi served as a co-chair for the Advanced composite NDE methods session and presented two conference papers at the Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation Workshop.

  • July 2018: Saptarshi joined as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Geosciences group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He will be working on developing electromagnetic adjoint imaging methods for enhanced characterization of the Earth's sub-surface.


  • June 2018 : Saptarshi successfully defended his PhD and got awarded his degree.

  • June 2018: NSF Proposal accepted. "Manufacturing USA: Microwave Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) with Metamaterial Lens for High Resolution Characterization of Multimaterial Interfaces in Composites", Saptarshi was actively involved in writing the proposal.


  • March 2018: Saptarshi received the ASNT Student travel grant to attend the ASNT Research Symposium where he will present his graduate fellowship research.


  • November, 2017: Saptarshi received the ASNT Graduate Fellowship award. Topic: "Hybrid Electromagnetic Imaging System (HEMIS) for Rapid Inspection of Composites" - This proposal aims at developing a novel, hybrid electromagnetic imaging system for NDE of composites that combines benefits of both near field and far field inspection methodologies.

  • July, 2017: Saptarshi attended the 2017 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, where he presented a research paper on microwave imaging for breast cancer detection.


  • June-September, 2016: Saptarshi worked as a Software Engineering Intern at the Sigrity R&D Team at Cadence Design Systems, San Jose. During this time he worked on the design of multiple trace over hatch (meshed) ground planes and its numerical validation for rigid flex circuits. He also worked on signal and power integrity of non ideal transmission lines.

  • August-September, 2015: Saptarshi received the NSF International Research fellowship to work as an Intern at Indian Institute of Technology Chennai, India. During this time, he conducted experimental Studies on breast tumor phantoms for microwave TR imaging.


  • September 2015: Saptarshi attended the 2015 American Society for Composites conference, where he presented a research paper on microwave time reversal detection of disbonds on metal-composite joints.


  • July 2015: Saptarshi attended the 2015 Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, where he presented 2 research papers on microwave time reversal imaging for NDE of composites and differential geometry based eddy current imaging.

  • August 2013: Saptarshi started his PhD program in the Electrical Engineering Department at Michigan State University, after completing his Bachelor of Technology degreee in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology, India. He had received admits from Ohio State University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.