Dr. S. Raghavan, Professor (H.A.G.), Retd. (Age: 69 Years) VISITING PROFESSOR for two years (up to 2022) Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.) Tiruchirappalli
Dr.S.Raghavan, Professor (H.A.G.) Retd. Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), Trichy has about 44 years of teaching and research experience. Proud Holder of credit point average (indicator of an individual's National academic achievement) of 540 (in the National scale of Required 150 CPA for (High Academic Grade-H.A.G.).His interest includes Microwave Integrated Circuits, BioMedical Engineering, RF MEMS, BioMEMS, Metamaterial, Frequency Selective Surfaces FSS and Microwave Engineering. Established State of the art massive Library in N.I.T.Converted N.I.T. medical dispensary into a full fleged hospital. A proud research scholar of Prof. Bharathi Bhat and Prof. S K Koul, CARE, IIT Delhi, has established state of the art Microwave Integrated Circuit Lab (unique in South India) and Microwave Laboratory in N.I.T., Trichy with the help of Govt. of India funding. Won Best Teacher award twice and conferred with Honorary Fellowship of Ancient Sciences and Archaeological Society of India, Contributed significantly in Knowledge centers His first Research Scholar Dr.T.Shanmughanantham earned a Gold medal for the Best Thesis of the year based on the newness and the number of journal papers published. Was a Senate member and B.O.S.member of National Institutes foe many years. Short time visiting Fellow in California State University, North Ridge, (CSUN) USA. Awarded to conduct Tutorial in APEMC 2010, Beijing, China Chair of two sessions in an International conference Hangzhou, China. Organizing Chair of Indian Antenna Week 2014, Chandigarh. Invited to be asession chair in PIERS 2013 symposium Taipei, Taiwan. Actively participated in APMC Japan, EuMW Poland and France. Visited Singapore ((NTU) and Malasia.Chair in InCAP 21 and conducted in workshop on FSS FILTERS. Has to his credit 160 research papers in national and International Journals, 150 in IEEE Explore, 180 International conferences, and 28 National conferences. Also, 3 patents publications in FSS. Guided 18 PhD scholars. Senior Member/Fellow in more than 25 international (including 4 IEEE Societies viz. MTT, APS, EMBS and WIE, IETE, IEI, CSI, TSI, InRaSS) and national Professional Societies His last research scholar Dr.V.Krushnakanth won DARE TO DREAM contest of DRDO and awarded Rs 5 Lakhs by Defence Minister Hon.Rajnanth Singh. Life time achievement (Microwaves) award by then Chairman ISRO Dr Kiran Kumar. Patron of the first ever international IEEE conference IMICPW 2019 in NIT Tricky and IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (APS) Madras Chapter. Life time achievement Award winner. He was an Executive Member in Telemedicine Society of India. (Both International and National). Earned Smt.Ranjana Pal award of IETE for the contribution in the field of M.I.C.Member of TSI and also in the Tamil Nadu Chapter of TSI. Also, the founding faculty advisor of IEEE MTT and APS student branch Chapters NIT Trichy. S. Raghavan is the author of Microwave Integrated Circuit (M.I.C.) Components Design through MATLAB CRC Press. Author of Three chapters on Metamaterial-FSS Based Radome using SIW Technology, Metamaterials in Medicine and Application of Frequency Selective Surfaces in the Medical Field in CRC and Springer Publications. Made an impact in MICROWAVE ENGINEERING EDUCATION among the student community at large. Popularized CAD of Microwave Integrated Circuits and fitting examples can be seen in Microwave 101.National Institute of Technology.