Specialisation:

Telecommunication; Radio Astronomy, Optical Communication and Photonics, Electromagnetics and Antennas.

Major Professional Contributions:

Established the comprehensive Bennett University from its primitive stage.

Started a Centre on Cyber Systems and Information Assurance at IIT Delhi in collaboration with University of Nebraska, USA.

Established a Technology Department at University of Pune with an industry oriented research focus.

Contribution made in wide areas like Radio Astronomy and Antennas, Fiber Optic Communication, Image processing, and Distance Engineering Education.

A textbook on ‘Electromagnetic waves’ and a monograph on ‘Transmission lines’ published by McGraw Hill Education India.

Creation of e-content in Electromagnetics and transmission lines, and Optical communication.

Design and development of a large Decameter Wave Radio Telescope at Gauribidnur, India. It is one of the unique and largest low frequency radio telescopes in the world.

Established a Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program (C-DEEP) at IIT Bombay.

Development of image processing and data analysis software for low frequency radio astronomy.

Study of the Sun from microwave observations using the largest radio telescope, the Very Large Array at New Mexico.

Modeling and reconstruction of the 3-D structure of solar active regions and solar flares, and estimation of the solar parameters.

Study of flare stars to establish non-thermal radiation during non-flaring periods.

Development of Maximum Entropy Image restoration algorithm for polarized images of the Sun obtained with phase unstable aperture synthesis data.

Establishing an advanced Fiber Optic laboratory at IIT Bombay

Development of generalized framework for designing various types of optical fibers like the ultra-low dispersion fibers, dispersion compensating fibers, large effective area fibers etc.

Innovative idea of optically controlled semiconductor antennas.

Investigations of optically controlled microwave devices like phase shifter, attenuator, polarizer etc.

Optically reconfigurable microwave filters and other devices.

Innovative use of de-convolution algorithm for detection of straight lines in a digital image.

Electrical modeling of photonic crystal devices for systematically designing optical filters. 

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