Profile

Pragnan Chakravorty (VidwanID) received his B.E. degree in electronics engineering from Nagpur University, India; his M.Tech. degree in Radio-Frequency and Microwave Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; and his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. He did a Post-Doctoral Research in CNRS-Lab-STICC, UBO, France and served as a full Professor in a couple of engineering colleges of India. He began his career as a lecturer in the year 2001. He is the Founder and Principal Director of Clique for Applied Research in Electronic Technology, His research interests include Semiconductor device modeling for RF-IC applications, mm-wave devices for beyond 5G communications and defense equipment, antenna arrays for pattern synthesis and signal processing, phased array radars, design of passive and active microwave circuits over different circuit board technologies, computational intelligence/AI for optimization and acoustic arrays. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE and Fellow of IEI with several publications in international journals and conference proceedings. Some of his research articles have been published in top journals like IEEE Transactions in Antenna Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and so on. He served as a reviewer in many prestigious journals like IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, IET Microwave and Antenna Propagation, IET Electronic Letters, IET Signal Processing, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Applied Soft Computing to name a few. He made some outstanding contributions towards engineering sciences, for example, his article on a modified general diode equation, published in the IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems, makes him the only person in the World so far who has disproved a Nobel Laureate in Physics, i.e. William Shockley. Also, he has redefined the concept of signal in an article published in the, high impact, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. In the year 2022, he was nominated for the most prestigious scientific award of India: The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Important Contributions

§   Creation of a new fundamental equation for semiconductor devices

§   Creation of digital lobe pattern modulation (DLPM)

§   Creation of modulation scale multiple access (MSMA)

§   Re-defining of signal

§   Invention of radiation pattern corrector for mutually coupled antennas

§   Invention of a grating lobe suppressor in antenna arrays

Words From Pioneers

§   In Email Correspondence:

"You have some very clever and practical solutions to antenna array problems"

̶ Randy L. Haupt, PhD

(Fellow IEEE, Chairman IEEE APS Fellow Selection Committee)

Professor, EECS, Colorado School of Mines, USA

§   In Thesis Evaluation:

"This PhD thesis of Pragnan Chakravorty has the significance in theory and the value in applications. The overall contributions and novelty of the thesis are significant"

̶ Da Gang Fang, PhD

(Life Fellow IEEE, FCIS)

Professor, School of ESE , Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

§   In Thesis Evaluation:

"The work is elaborate and documented through an impressive number of high quality publications. Most of the theoretical studies and designs have been verified by experimental results"

̶ Debatosh Guha, PhD

(Fellow IEEE, FNAE, FNASc)

             Professor, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta, India

Selected Publications

Pragnan Chakravorty, “A Modified General Diode Equation”, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 2763-2767, IEEE, 2021. (IF: 2.565, SCI, JCR 2022) ( URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2021.3116456)

Pragnan Chakravorty, “What Is a Signal? [Lecture Notes]”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol.35, no. 5, pp. 175-177, IEEE, 2018. (IF: 15.204, SCI, JCR 2022) (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2018.2832195)

Pragnan Chakravorty and Durbadal Mandal, “Radiation Pattern Correction in Mutually Coupled Antenna Arrays Using Parametric Assimilation Technique”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 4092-4095, IEEE, 2016. (IF: 4.824, SCI, JCR 2022) (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2016.2578307)

Pragnan Chakravorty and Durbadal Mandal, “Grating Lobe Suppression with Discrete Dipole Element Antenna Arrays”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.15, no.1, pp. 1234-37, IEEE, 2016. (IF: 3.825, SCI, JCR 2022)

(URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2015.2502902)

Pragnan Chakravorty and Durbadal Mandal, “Microstrip Bandpass Filter Design using Split-Path Method and Optimized Curvature Corrections”, International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol.29, no.3, pp. 520-529, John-Wiley, 2015. (IF: 1.436, SCI, JCR 2022) (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnm.2109)

Pragnan Chakravorty, “A Microstrip Wideband Bandpass Filter Based on λ/2 Stub with Spurious Passband Suppression Scheme”, International Journal of Electronics, vol. 101, no. 3, pp 383-390, Taylor & Francis, 2013. (IF: 1.336, SCI, JCR 2021) (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2013.780305 )

Pragnan Chakravorty, “Analysis of Rectangular Waveguides – An Intuitive Approach”, IETE Journal of Education, vol. 55, no. 2, pp 76-80, Taylor & Francis, 2015. (British Library) (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09747338.2014.1002819 )

Granted Patents

Pragnan Chakravorty, “Discrete Dipole Element Antenna Arrays for Improved Radiation Patterns”, Indian Patent No: 387883, 2014

Recognitions      

i. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize Nominee (2022-2023), India’s Highest Scientific Award: the nomination is supported by Six IEEE Fellows including the nominator, an SSB Awardee ii. Finalist in Defence India Startup Challenge-2, IDEX, Ministry of Defence Govt. of India-2019. iii. First Prize winner in Research Presentation on Research Scholars' day-2017 at NIT Durgapur.