Faculty

Dr. Thummaluru Sreenath Reddy

Assistant Professor

E-mail: sreenath@iiitdm.ac.in | Room No: Cabin No. 308-A, Laboratory Complex

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sreenathreddyiitismdhn

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

Dhanbad

PhD in RF & Microwave Engineering (ECE)

August 2016 - July 2021

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

Dhanbad

M.Tech. in RF & Microwave Engineering (ECE)

July 2014 - May 2016

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Pulivendula

Pulivendula

B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering

August 2010 - May 2014

Specialization

  1. RF & Microwave Engineering

  2. Antenna Engineering

Research Interests

  1. Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Antennas, Metasurfaces and Metagratings, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Phased Array Antennas

Honours + Awards + Recognitions

  1. 09. Received the Young Scientist Award (YSA) in the URSI combined Atlantic/Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-AP-RASC 2022) from May 29 to June 3, 2022, in Gran Canaria, Spain.

  2. 08. URSI Young Scientist Award: Received Young Scientist Award at URSI GASS 2021 conference, held in Rome, Italy from 28 August to 04 September 2021.

  3. 07. Raman-Charpak Fellowship 2019-20: Received Raman-Charpak fellowship from Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA). Through this fellowship, I have done part of my Ph.D. work at Pierre and Marie Curie Campus - Sorbonne University, Paris for six months.

  4. 06. URSI-InRaSS Young Indian Radio Scientist Award: Received URSI-InRaSS Young Indian Radio Scientist Award at 2019 URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science (URSI, AP-RASC 2019) Conference held in New Delhi, India on March 9 to March 15, 2019.

  5. 05. Selected for Institute of Eminence (IoE)-IISc Postdoc Fellowship program.

  6. 04. Finalist in URSI Student Paper Competition: One among the seven students across the world who are shortlisted for student paper competition in URSI, AP-RASC 2019 Conference held in New Delhi, India on March 9 to March 15, 2019. I presented a paper entitled "Radar Cross Section Reduction of MIMO Antenna using Angularly Stable Frequency Selective Surface???, in this competition.

  7. 03. Featured Article in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine: Rajkishor Kumar, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Improvements in Wi-MAX Reception: A New Dual-Mode Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna," Vol. 61 (01), pp. 41-49, 2019.

  8. 02. Best Paper Award in Session for a paper entitled "Conformal Metamaterial Absorber using Multiple Resonators for Flexible Microwave Components," authored by Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, in Session-6 of 10th Annual Conference of Antenna Test and Measurement Society of INDIA (ATMS), Hyderabad, 07-08 February 2017.

  9. 01. Received International Travel Grant from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India for presenting a paper in 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Work Experience

Teaching

  1. 01. Currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of ECE, IIITDM Kancheepuram from 17 February 2022 onwards.

  2. 02. Worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of ECE, IIIT Kota from 06 September to 08 November 2021.

Research

  1. 01. IOE-IISc Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore from 11 November 2021 to 11 February 2022.

  2. 02. Visiting Researcher at Pierre and Marie Curie Campus (UPMC), Sorbonne University, Paris, France from 01 March 2020 to 01 September 2020.

Professional Membership

  1. Member of IEEE

  2. Member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

  3. Member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

  4. Member of IEEE Young Professionals

Professional Service

  1. 04. Academic Editor for the journal: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Hindawi Publications since July 2022.

  2. 03. Academic Editor for the journal: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Hindawi Publications since April 2022.

  3. 02. Chair of the IEEE Student Branch, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad from June 2019 to June 2021.

  4. 01. Serving as a reviewer for many reputed international journals and conferences. Reviewed 213 articles till 20-07-2022.

Journal Publications

  1. 01. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Mohammad Ameen, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Four-Port MIMO Cognitive Radio System for Mid-Band 5G Applications", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 67 (08), pp. 5634-5645, 2019.

  2. 02. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Rajkishor Kumar, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Isolation Enhancement and Radar Cross Section Reduction of MIMO Antenna with Frequency Selective Surface", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 66 (03), pp. 1595 - 1600, 2018.

  3. 03. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Polarization Controllable and Wide-Angle Frequency Tunable Metamaterial Absorber", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 124 (20), p. 204901, 2018.

  4. 04. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Mu-negative Metamaterial Filter based Isolation Technique for MIMO Antennas", Electronics Letters, Vol. 53 (10), pp. 644 – 646, 2017.

  5. 05. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Rajkishor Kumar, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Isolation and Frequency Reconfigurable Compact MIMO Antenna for wireless local area network Applications", IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 13 (04), pp. 519-525, 2019.

  6. 06. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Naveen Mishra, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Design and Analysis of an Ultrathin Triple-band Polarization Independent Metamaterial Absorber", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 82, pp. 508-515, 2017.

  7. 07. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Suresh Chejarla, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Structural Investigation of Metamaterial Unit-cells: Development of Incident Angle Insensitive Metamaterial Absorbers", Material Research Express, Vol. 06 (05), p. 055804, 2019.

  8. 08. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Naveen Mishra, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Design and Analysis of an Ultrathin X-band Polarization-Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 58 (10), pp. 2481-2485, 2016.

  9. 09. Tanjir Alam, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Improved Multi-functional MIMO Cognitive Radio System for Integrated Interweave-Underlay Operations", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 70 (01), pp. 631-640, 2022.

  10. 10. Mohammad Ameen, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, “A Compact Multilayer Triple-band Circularly Polarized Antenna using Anisotropic Polarization Converter”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 20 (02), pp. 145-149, 2021.

  11. 11. Tanjir Alam, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Integration of MIMO and Cognitive Radio for Sub-6 GHz 5G Applications", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 18 (10), pp. 2021-2025, 2019.

  12. 12. Rajkishor Kumar, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "A New Dual-mode Dual-L-slot Coupled Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 61 (01), pp. 41 - 49, 2019.

  13. 13. Suresh Chejarla, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Flexible Metamaterial Absorber with Wide Incident Angle Insensitivity for Conformal Applications", Electronics Letters, Vol. 55 (03), pp. 133 - 134, 2019.

  14. 14. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Reducing the RCS of a MIMO Antenna using an Angularly Stable FSS", URSI Radio Science Bulletin, Vol. 2019 (371), pp. 42-52, 2019.

Conference Publications

  1. 01. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Reducing the RCS of MIMO Antenna Using Angularly Stable FSS", Accepted in SPC Finalists' presentations and Young Indian Radio Scientist Award, 2019 URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), 09-15 Mar. 2019, New Delhi, India.

  2. 02. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Flexible Ultrathin Incident-Angle Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber for Curved Surfaces", 2018 India Conference on Antenna and Propagation (InCAP), Dec. 16 -19, 2018, Hyderabad, India.

  3. 03. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, Naveen Mishra, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Design of Double-Negative Ultrathin Metamaterial Absorber Using an array of Electric Field Resonators", 11th International Conference on Industrial and Information System (ICIIS), 182-184, Dec. 03-04, 2016, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.

  4. 04. Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, and Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, "Reconfigurable MIMO Filtenna for Spectrum Underlay Cognitive Radio," Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), June 17-20, 2019, Rome, Italy.

  5. 05. Tanjir Alam, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Two-Port MIMO Wide-Band Antenna with Two-Port MIMO Reconfigurable Antenna for Cognitive Radio Platforms", 2018 India Conference on Antenna and Propagation (InCAP), Dec. 16 -19, 2018, Hyderabad, India.

  6. 06. Suresh Chejarla, Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Polarization-angle Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber for Wide Incident Angles", 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Feb. 09-11, 2018, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India.

  7. 07. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Conformal Metamaterial Absorber using Multiple Resonators for Flexible Microwave Components", 10th Annual International Conference of the Antenna Test & Measurement Society (ATMS), pp. 83 - 85, Feb. 07-08, 2017, Hyderabad, India.

Patents

  1. 01. Sreenath Reddy Thummaluru, and Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary, "Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filter Based Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Antenna for Interweave and Underlay Cognitive Radio Operation", filed for an Indian Patent. (Application number: 202131037215)

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