1. Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave Communications

1. Antennas, Metamaterials, RF & Microwave Circuit/System Design, EMI/EMC, Computational Electromagnetics

1. Institute Gold Medal in M.Tech. at NIT Jalandhar.

2. Merit Certificate from RTM Nagpur University for securing 2nd rank in University in B.E. (ECE).

3. Travel Grant for FIE 2014 at Beijing, China by COE on Combedded Systems under TEQIP II (1.2.1).

Teaching

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Hindustan University, Chennai (July 2017- March 2018). Courses taught: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Antennas and Wave Propagation, and Software Defined Radio.

2. At VNIT Nagpur: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Waveguides and Antennas, Computational Electromagnetics

Research

1. Ongoing Sponsored Project: Detection and Diagnosis of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Attack on Critical Network, Agency: DST-SERB, Scheme: Core Research Grant (CRG), Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Value: 82.84 Lakhs.

1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member

2. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Member

3. IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Member

1. Reviewer for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Wireless Personal Communications, International Journal of Electronics.

1. RF and Microwave Circuit Design

2. Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility

3. RF System Design

4. Antenna Theory and Design

1. Conference proceeding published as a Book Chapter: P. Saxena, A. Kothari and S. Saxena, "Synthesis of Antenna Array Pattern Using Ant Lion Optimization Algorithm for Wide Null Placement and Low Dynamic Range Ratio," In Intelligent Computing Techniques for Smart Energy Systems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 607, pp. 47-56, Springer, Singapore, 2020.

1. P.P. Kumar and P. Saxena, “A novel antipodal tapered slot antenna integrated with half mode substrate integrated waveguide based bandpass filter for K and Ka band applications,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2021 (accepted).

2. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Mathematical Modeling of n-sided Polygon Metamaterial Split Ring Resonators for 5.8 GHz ISM Band Applications,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 5959-5971, 2017.

3. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Ant lion optimization algorithm to control side lobe level and null depths in linear antenna arrays,” AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 1339-1349, 2016.

4. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Optimal pattern synthesis of linear antenna array using grey wolf optimization algorithm,” International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2016, Article ID 1205970, 11 pages, 2016.

5. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Linear antenna array optimization using flower pollination algorithm,” SpringerPlus, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016.

1. V. Sandeep Kiran, P. Saxena and N. Anveshkumar, "Design of a Circularly Polarized Textile Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting," 2020 IEEE 4th Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT), Chennai, India, 2020, pp. 1-5.

2. P.P. Kumar and P. Saxena, “High gain metamaterial loaded antipodal tapered slot antenna for millimeter wave applications,” 2020 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, 2020.

3. P.P. Kumar and P. Saxena, "Design and analysis of 20-60 GHz broadband left handed metamaterial," 2020 Twenty-sixth National Conference on Communications (NCC), Kharagpur, 2020.

4. S. Paul, P. P. Kumar and P. Saxena, “A novel compact 360° azimuth scanning antenna array for L-band applications,” 3rd International Conference on VLSI, Communication and Signal Processing (VCAS 2020), Allahabad, Oct. 9-11, 2020.

5. B.S. Chaitanya, P. P. Kumar and P. Saxena, “Reduction of mutual coupling in dual band antenna array using novel metamaterial structure,” 3rd International Conference on VLSI, Communication and Signal Processing (VCAS 2020), Allahabad, Oct. 9-11, 2020.

6. A. Mondal and P. Saxena, “Synthesis of thinned antenna arrays using salp swarm optimization techniques,” 3rd International Conference on VLSI, Communication and Signal Processing (VCAS 2020), Allahabad, Oct. 9-11, 2020.

7. A. Mondal and P. Saxena, “Thinning of concentric circular antenna array using binary salp swarm algorithm,” 2019 IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Allahabad, Dec. 6-8, 2019.

8. S. Raksanta, P.P. Kumar and P. Saxena, “A sub-1GHz rectangular dielectric resonator antenna for IoT,” 2019 5th IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), Bangalore, Nov. 15-16, 2019.

9. P. Patel, G. Kumari and P. Saxena, “Array pattern correction in presence of antenna failures using metaheuristic optimization algorithms,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, Chennai, April 4-6, 2019.

10. P. Saxena, A. Kothari and S. Saxena, “Synthesis of antenna array pattern using ant lion optimization algorithm for wide null placement and low dynamic range ratio,” International Conference on Intelligent Computing Techniques for Smart Energy Systems, Jaipur, Dec. 2018.

11. G. Kumari, R.K. Barik, P. Saxena and S.S. Karthikeyan, “Compact substrate integrated waveguide power divider with slot-loaded ground plane for dual-band applications,” 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference, Kolkata, Nov 28-30, 2018.

12. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Multi-constrained non-linear array synthesis using ant lion optimization with penalty function method,” 2017 Twenty-third National Conference on Communications, Chennai, Mar. 2017, pp. 426-431.

13. P. Saxena and A. Kothari, “Performance analysis of adaptive beamforming algorithms for smart antennas,” International Conference on Future Information Engineering (FIE 2014), Beijing, China, Jul. 6-8, 2014. Proceedings published in IERI Procedia (Elsevier), vol. 10, pp. 131-137, 2014.