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Resume

 

Education

 

  • 2014 Jan - Present Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Class of 2013 M.Sc. Communications Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Class of 2010 B.Tech. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, College of Engineering Roorkee, India

 

 

 

Research Positions

 

  • 3/2014 - Present   Research Scholar, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), SG, advisors: Prof. Yong-Xin Guo and Prof. Nitish V. Thakor 

  • 10/2012 - 2/2014   Research Engineer, Microwave & RF, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS, SG, advisor: Prof. Yong-Xin Guo 

  • 7/2011 - 9/2012     Research Attachment, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, SG, advisors: Dr. Nasimuddin and Prof. Arokiaswami Alphones

  • 8/2009 - 5/2010     Final Year Project, Electronics & Telecommunication Department, College of Engineering Roorkee, India, advisor: Prof. B.D. Patel

  • 5/2009 - 7/2009    Summer Intern, Center of Research in Microwave Tubes (CRMT), Indian Institute of Technology-BHU, India, advisor: Prof. P.K. Jain 

 

 

Corporate Positions

 

  • 4/2016 - Present   Co-Founder, Synapse Technologies Pte. Ltd., Singapore 

  • 6/2010 - 6/2011     Software Engineer, AMS Advantage ERP, CGI Group Inc. Montreal, Canada

  • 6/2004 - 7/2006     Co-owner (Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Supply Chain management), Caplet Pharmaceuticals, India

 

 

Book Chapters

 

[1] K. Agarwal and Y. X. Guo, “AMC backed Flexible Near-Endfire Wearable Antennas for On-Body Communications,” in Electromagnetics of Body-Area Networks: Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems, Douglas H. Werner and Zhi-Hao Jiang (Editors), Chapter 3, Pg: 61 - 86, Wiley/IEEE, 2016. 

 

 

Journal Publications 

 

[10] K. Agarwal, R. Jegadeesan, Y. X. Guo and N. V. Thakor, "Wireless Power Transfer Strategies for Neural Implants", under review of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, submitted 2016.

 

[9] R. Jegadeesan*, K. Agarwal*, Y. X. Guo, S. C. Yen and N. V. Thakor, "Wireless Power Delivery to Flexible Subcutaneous Implants using Capacitive Coupling", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, accepted, In Press, 2016. (*Equal contributing first authors) 

 

[8] K. Agarwal, Y. X. Guo and B. Salam, “Wearable AMC backed Near-Endfire Antenna for On-Body Communications on Latex Substrate”, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 346–358, Mar. 2016. (cited by 1) (Most popular journal paper for IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology from  March 2016 - July 2016) 

 

[7] K. Agarwal and S. Dutta, "Miniaturized Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna on Reactive Impedance Surface for Dual-Band ISM and WiMAX Applications", International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2015. (cited by 1) (Invited Contribution)

 

[6] R. Jegadeesan, S. Nag, K. Agarwal, N. V. Thakor and Y. X. Guo, “Enabling Wireless Powering and Telemetry for Peripheral Nerve Implants”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 958–970, May 2015. (cited by 6) 

 

[5] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Triple-band compact circularly polarized stacked microstrip antenna over reactive impedance meta-surface for GPS applications”, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 8, no. 13, pp. 1057–1065, Oct. 2014. (cited by 7)  (Most viewed/downloaded journal paper for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation from May 2014 - Feb. 2015) 

 

[4] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Unidirectional wideband circularly polarized aperture antennas backed with artificial magnetic conductor reflectors”, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 338–346, Apr. 2013. (cited by 16)

 

[3] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Wideband Circularly Polarized AMC Reflector Backed Aperture Antenna”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1456–1461, Mar. 2013. (cited by 30)

 

[2] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “RIS-based Compact Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 547–554, Feb. 2013. (cited by 46) (Shortlisted as Finalist for Best Student Paper Contest IEEE AP/MTT SG Chapter for student papers published between Oct 2012 - Sep 2014)

 

[1] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Compact Asymmetric-Slotted-Slit Patch based Circularly-Polarized Antenna with RIS Substrate”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL), Wiley Periodicals Inc., vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2505–2510, Nov. 2012. (cited by 4)

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

[14] S. Dutta and K. Agarwal, "Unidirectional AMC Reflector backed L-band Annular Slot Antenna", IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (COMCAS' 2015), Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2015. (Poster presentation) 

 

[13] K. Agarwal, R. Jegadeesan, Y. X. Guo and N. V. Thakor, "Evaluation and Optimization of Near-Field Inductive Coupled Wireless Power Links in Rat Model", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS' 2015), Vancouver, Canada, July 2015. (Oral presentation)

 

[12] K. Agarwal and Y. X. Guo, "Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Humans in Wearable and Biomedical Implant Antennas", IEEE Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (APEMC' 2015), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2015. (Oral presentation) (cited by 2)

 

[11] K. Agarwal, R. Jegadeesan, Y. X. Guo and N. V. Thakor, "Modeling and Design of Wireless Data Telemetry and Power Transfer for Biomedical Implants", IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM' 2015), Hong Kong SAR, February 2015. (Oral presentation)

 

[10] K. Agarwal, Y. X. Guo, B. Salam and C.W.A. Lu, “Latex based Near-Endfire Wearable Antenna backed by AMC Surface”, International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio’2013), Singapore, December 2013. (Oral presentation) (cited by 3)

 

[9] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Design of Compact Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas using Meta-surfaces”, 43rd European Microwave Conference (EuMC’2013), Nuremberg, Germany, October 2013. (Oral presentation) (cited by 5) (EuMA Student Travel + Conference Grant Award)

 

[8] K. Agarwal, T. Mishra, M.F. Karim, Nasimuddin, M. O. Chuen, Y. X. Guo and S.K. Panda, “Highly Efficient Wireless Energy Harvesting System using Metamaterial based Compact CP Antenna”, International Microwave Symposium (IMS’2013), Seattle, USA, June 2013. (Poster presentation) (cited by 5)

 

[7] K. Agarwal, Y. X. Guo, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Stacked Microstrip Antenna over RIS for GPS Applications”, International Wireless Symposium (IWS’2013), Beijing, China, April 2013. (Oral presentation) (cited by 4)

 

[6] N. Jeevanandham, Nasimuddin, K. Agarwal and A. Alphones, “Dual-band Circularly Polarized Hexagonal-Slot Antenna”, 42nd European Microwave Conference (EuMC’2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2012. (Poster presentation) (cited by 5)

 

[5] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Wideband Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna over Meta-Surface”, 42nd European Microwave Conference (EuMC’2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2012. (Oral presentation) (cited by 1) (EuMA Student Travel + Conference Grant Award)

 

[4] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Compact Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Antenna over RIS”, Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO’ 2012), Mauritius, September 2012. (Oral presentation) (International Union of Radio Science URSI Young Scientist Award)

 

[3] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Compact Asymmetric-Cross Slotted Microstrip Antenna on Reactive Impedance Surface”, Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP’2012), Singapore, August 2012. (Poster presentation)

 

[2] K. Agarwal, Nasimuddin and A. Alphones, “Miniaturized RF Slotted-Slit-Microstrip Antenna on Meta-Surface”, Asia Pacific EMC Week (APEMC’2012) IEEE Tropical Symposium on RF Nanotechnology, Singapore, May 2012. (Oral presentation) 

 

[1] K. Agarwal, B.D. Patel, “CST Simulation of a Wideband E-shaped Microstrip patch Antenna for 5-6 GHz Wireless Communications”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Microwave & Millimeter Wave Technologies (IEEE MTT-S), Dehradun, India, October 2010. (Oral presentation).

 

Total number of times cited (from 2013 to present) : 190 (i-10 index: 6, h-index: 7)      [Source: Google Scholar]

 

 

Graduate Thesis

 

  • M.Sc. Thesis, "Wideband Circularly Polarized Metasurface Backed Aperture Antenna", submitted to School of EEE, NTU, Singapore (2012)

 

 

Graduate Coursework Modules

 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6101 Digital Communication Systems (AY 2011/2012, Sem 1) 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6105 RF Engineering Techniques (AY 2011/2012, Sem 1) 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6108 Computer Networks (AY 2011/2012, Sem 1) 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6109 MIC & Printed Antenna Design (AY 2011/2012, Sem 1)

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6107 RF Circuit Design (AY 2011/2012, Sem 2) 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6122 Optical Fibre Communications (AY 2011/2012, Sem 2)  

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6124 Satellite, Fixed & Mobile Radio Systems (AY 2011/2012, Sem 2) 

  • NTU M.Sc. EE6303 Electromagnetic Compatibility & Interference (AY 2011/2012, Sem 2)  

  • NUS Ph.D. EE5831R Electromagnetic Wave Theory (AY 2013/2014, Sem 2) 

  • NUS Ph.D. EE5303R Microwave Electronics (AY 2014/2015, Sem 1) 

  • NUS Ph.D. EE5308R Antenna Engineering (AY 2014/2015, Sem 1) 

  • NUS Ph.D. EE6004R Selected Advanced Topics in EM Modelling (AY 2014/2015, Sem 2) 

  • NUS Ph.D. EE6831R Advanced Electromagnetic Theory and Applications (AY 2014/2015, Sem 2) 

  • NUS Ph.D. EE6833R Selected Topics in Microwave and Antenna Engineering (AY 2015/2016, Sem 2)

  • NUS Ph.D. EE6990 Research Attachment (AY 2013/2014, Sem 2)

  • NUS Ph.D. EG5911 Research Methodology & Ethics (AY 2014/2015, Sem 1)

  • NUS Ph.D. ES5101 Technical Communication for Engineers (AY 2014/2015, Sem 2)
     

        

 

Teaching/Graduate Assistantships

 

  • B.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) EE2032 Signals & Communications Design Lab (AY 2014/15, Sem 2 - Present) (GA)

  • B.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) EE1002 Introduction to Circuits and Systems Lab (AY 2015/16, Sem 1 - Present) (GA)

 

 

Professional Memberships/Activities

 

  • IEEE Graduate Student Member # 92110209 (March 2012 - Present) 

  • IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (AP-S) (March 2012 - Present) 

  • IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S) (Jan 2013 - Present) 

  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) (Jan 2015 - Present) 

Reviewer for Journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP)  [2013 - Present]

  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT)  [2013 - Present]

  • IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT)  [2016 - Present]

  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) [Oct 2015 - Present] 

  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine [Aug 2015 - Present]   

  • IET Electronics Letters [March 2016 - Present]

  • IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (MAP) [Aug 2014 - Present]

  • Taylor & Francis: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEWA) [Feb 2013 - Present]

  • Taylor & Francis: IETE Journal of Research [July 2016 - Present] 

  • Taylor & Francis: Waves in Random and Complex Media [May 2016 - Present]

  • Hindawi: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation [Oct 2014 - Present]

  • De Gruyter: Frequenz: Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications [Feb 2016 - Present]

Region 10 (Singapore Section) activities:

  • Successful organization of founding conference: IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP’ 2012) SG (Student Helper)

  • Successful organization of founding conference: IEEE International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio’ 2013) SG (Main Student Helper)

  • Successful organization of conference: IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob' 2016) SG (Main Student Helper)

 

Mentorships

  • Mr. Saugata Dutta (Ph.D. Candidate, School of EEE, NTU, Singapore) (AY 2014/15 - Present)

 

Honors

 

  • 3/2014 - Present   NUS Research Scholarship  ~240K SGD (includes full tuition fees and monthly stipend up to 4 years of doctoral candidature)

  • 9/2013   European Microwave Association (EuMA) Student Grant at EuMC’2013 Conference (Nuremberg, Germany) (Travel grant + conference) 

  • 9/2012   European Microwave Association (EuMA) Student Grant at EuMC’2012 Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (Travel grant + conference)

  • 9/2012   Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science (URSI) at Radio’2012 Conference (Mauritius) (Given to 3 Grad students from Singapore (Myself), Malaysia and India. Conference + hotel stay + cash prize + certificate)

 

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