This book discusses the latest developments and outlines future trends in the fields of microelectronics, electromagnetics and telecommunication. It includes original research presented at the International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunication (ICMEET 2019), organized by the Department of ECE, Raghu Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India. Written by scientists, research scholars and practitioners from leading universities, engineering colleges and R&D institutes around the globe, the papers share the latest breakthroughs in and promising solutions to the most important issues facing today’s society.
Dr. P. Satish Rama Chowdary is Professor and Vice Principal, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam. He has 19 years of teaching and 2 years of industrial experience along with 5 years of research experience. He is currently guiding three PhD scholars in the field of machine learning, IoT and artificial intelligence. His research interests are computational electromagnetics, Fractal Antennas and Image Processing. He has earlier co-edited proceedings of ICMEET-2016 published by LNEE. He has also Chaired several technical and special sessions in FICTA-2018, SCI, 3rd ICMEET, IC3T Conferences. He is a member of IEEE, ISOI, IACQER, and SCRS.
Dr. V.V.S.S. Sameer Chakravarthy is a Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam. His research interests include Computational Intelligence, Smart Antenna, Data Modelling, Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computing Tools. He has 17 years of teaching and industrial experience with 5 years of research experience. He is a member of IEEE and also serving as EC members in the Vizag Bay Sub-section. He has three research scholars working in the field of smart antennas, evolutionary computing tools and RF energy harvesting. He served as a Chair in 3rd ICMEET, IC3T, 2nd SCI Conferences. He is a member of professional bodies like Instrumentation Society of India, IISc Bangalore and Soft Computing Research Society.
Dr. Jaume Anguera, IEEE Fellow, is CTO and co-founder of the technology company Fractus Antennas (Barcelona). Professor at Ramon LLull University where he teaches subjects related to antennas and is a member of the GRITS research group. Inventor of more than 130 patents, most of them licensed to telecommunication companies and author of more than 230 scientific widely cited papers and international conferences. His h-index is 47 with more than 6500 citations. The most salient contribution is Virtual Antenna™ technology (antenna booster technology) where he is the lead inventor together with his peer colleague Dr. A. Andújar. Author of 6 books. He has participated in more than 21 competitive research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry, by CDTI, CIDEM (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the European Commission for an amount exceeding € 6M being principal researcher in most of them. He has taught more than 20 antenna courses around the world (USA, China, Korea, India, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Tunisia, Spain). With over 20 years of R&D experience, he has developed part of his professional experience with Fractus in South Korea in the design of miniature antennas for large Korean companies such as Samsung and LG. He has received several national and international awards (ex. 2004 Best Ph.D Thesis COIT, 2004 IEEE New Faces of Engineering, 2011 Alé Vinarossenc - Vinaròs, 2014 Finalist European Patent Award). He has directed the master/doctorate thesis to more than 100 students, many of them have received awards for their thesis. Founder of the ciènciaprop® scientific dissemination program. His biography appears in Who’sWho in Science and Engineering. He is associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation and reviewer in several IEEE scientific journals.
Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as a Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M.Tech. in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 29 years of teaching experience. His research interests include data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as a program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Satapathy is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
Prof. Vikrant Bhateja is an Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow, and also the Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. His areas of research include digital image and video processing, computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks, soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90 quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Bhateja has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the above domain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been the track chair and served in the core-technical/editorial teams for international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-AISC Series and INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is an Associate Editor in International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also an editorial board member of the International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience Publishers. At present, he is the guest editor for two special issues floated in the International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global publications.
