M. V. Kartikeyan

M.V. Kartikeyan (Senior Member, 2003) was born in Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), India, in 1961. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1985 and 1992 in physics and electronics engineering respectively from the Banaras Hindu University, India. Dr. Kartikeyan is the recipient of a Hildegard-Maier Research Fellowship for Electrical Sciences of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for long-term Cooperation and worked at the Institut für Hochleistungsimpuls- und Mikrowellentechnik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He joined the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 2003 as an Associate Professor and since September 2009 he is working as a Full-Professor. His research interests include Millimeter Wave Engineering (Electron Cyclotron Masers and other High Power Devices and Components), Microstrip Antennas for Communications, Computational Electromagnetics, Microwave Integrated Circuits, and RF & Microwave Design with Soft Computing Techniques. Dr. Kartikeyan is the principal author of a book entitled “Gyrotrons-High Power Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology,” for the Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2004). Dr. Kartikeyan is a Life Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (IE), India.