Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum
Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum (born 1978), FIET, SMIEEE is an electrical engineer, educator and Professor in the department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Recently, he was listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the year 2020 [1] by the researchers from Stanford University.[2] Earlier in 2020, he was also listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the year 2019.[3]

Biography
He earned his first class BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore in 2005. His doctoral advisor was Lei Zhu.[4] He is currently a Professor of EEE at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and was the former Head of Center for Career Development from April 2018 to March 2020[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11][12] .[13] Prior to joining Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in September 2005 as a faculty member, he did Postdoctoral research from the department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University USA from May–July, 2005 under mentorship of Raj Mittra and the department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore from October 2004-February 2005 under guidance of K. J. Vinoy. During August 2000-July 2001, he worked with Mphasis as a software engineer.
He is currently serving as an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation [14] and served as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques[15] from 2005 to 2007. He has been in the technical program committee of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Asia Pacific Microwave Conference,[16] etc. He is well known for his research works in the areas of MIMO wireless including MIMO antennas and spatial modulation. Some of his recent invited talks are in IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), [17] IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems,[18] IEEE International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)[19] and Annual International Conference of Antennas Test & Measurement Society.[20]
Awards and honors
His awards and honors include:
• Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Life Fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI)[24]
• Life Fellow of Antennas Test & Measurement Society of India (ATMS)
• IETE S. K. Mitra Memorial Award, 2017[25] • IETE M. Rathore Memorial Award, 2015[26]
• IEEE ANTS 2017 Best Paper Award (Third Prize)[27]
Published works
Kshetrimayum has written the following books:
- R. S. Kshetrimayum, Fundamentals of MIMO Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- B. Kumbhani and R. S. Kshetrimayum, MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels, CRC Press, 2017.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, Advanced Spatial Modulation Systems, Springer Nature, 2021.
Kshetrimayum has written or co-written the following articles:
- M. Mishra, S. Chaudhury, R. S. Kshetrimayum, A. Alphones and K. P. Esselle (2022). ""Space Efficient Meta-grid Lines for Mutual Coupling Reduction in Two-Port Planar Monopole and DRA Array". IEEE Access (published 27 January 2022). doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3146941.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - R. S. Kshetrimayum (2022). "Comment on "Compact UWB Monopole Antenna for Automotive Communications". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (published 14 December 2021). 70 (2): 1591–1591. doi:10.1109/TAP.2021.3133671.
- A. Bhowal, S. Aïssa and R. S. Kshetrimayum (2021). "RIS-Assisted Advanced Spatial Modulation Techniques for Ambient Backscattering Communications". IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (published 26 July 2021). 5 (4): 1684–1696. doi:10.1109/TGCN.2021.3100009.
- R. S. Sangam, R. S. Kshetrimayum (2021). "Hybrid spoof surface plasmon polariton and substrate integrated waveguide bandpass filter with high out‐of‐band rejection for X‐band applications". IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation (published 8 February 2021). 15 (3): 289–299. doi:10.1049/mia2.12049.
- A. Bhowal, R. S. Kshetrimayum (3 November 2020). "Advanced Optical Spatial Modulation Techniques for FSO Communication". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 69 (2): 1163–1174. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3035400.
- S. Chaudhuri, M. Mishra, R. S. Kshetrimayum, R. K. Sonkar, S. Bhattacharjee, B. Saha (2020). "High port-to-port isolation dual circularly polarised microstrip patch antenna with multifunction DGS". IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation (published 14 October 2020). 14 (15): 2035–2044. doi:10.1049/iet-map.2020.0094.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - R. S. Sangam, S. Dash, R. S. Kshetrimayum (2021). "Ultra-Broadband Bandpass Filter Using Linearly Tapered Coupled-Microstrip Line and Open Loop Defected Ground Structure". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (published 16 July 2020). 68: 181–185. doi:10.1109/TCSII.2020.3009415.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - S. Chaudhuri, M. Mishra, R. S. Kshetrimayum, R. K. Sonkar, H. Chel, V. K. Singh (2020). "Rectangular DRA Array for 24 GHz ISM Band Applications". IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (published 7 July 2020). 19 (9): 1501–1505. doi:10.1109/LAWP.2020.3007585.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - A. Bhowal, R. S. Kshetrimayum (28 April 2020). "Relay based Hybrid FSO/RF communication employing Hybrid Spatial Modulation and Transmit Source Selection". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68 (8): 5018–5027. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2020.2991054.
- R. S. Sangam, R. S. Kshetrimayum (2020). "Comment on Hybrid Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton and Substrate Integrated Waveguide Broadband Band pass Filter With Wide Out-of-Band Rejection". IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (published 13 February 2020). 30 (2): 222. doi:10.1109/LMWC.2019.2955179.
- A. Bhowal, R. S. Kshetrimayum (2019). "Transmit laser selection for two hop decode and forward FSO communication with pointing errors". IEEE Communications Letters (published 19 September 2019). 23 (12): 2301–2305. doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2942309.
- M. Manohar, R. S. Kshetrimayum, A. K. Gogoi (2014). "Printed Monopole Antenna with Tapered Feed Line, Feed Region and Patch for Super Wideband Applications". IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation (published 20 January 2014). 8 (1): 39–45. doi:10.1049/iet-map.2013.0094.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - R. S. Kshetrimayum, Lei Zhu (2005). "Guided-wave Characteristics of Waveguide Based Periodic Structures Loaded with Various FSS Strip Layers". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (published 10 January 2005). 53 (1): 120–124. doi:10.1109/TAP.2004.840527.
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