Internet of Things Enabled Antennas for Biomedical Devices and Systems: Impact, Challenges and Applications

Praveen Kumar Malik is a Professor at the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. with a specialization in wireless communication and antenna design. He has over 40 research papers and three edited/authored books published to his credit. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech. and guiding students leading to Ph.D. His current interest areas are microstrip antenna design, MIMO, vehicular communication, and IoT. He has been a Guest Editor/Editorial Board Member of many international journals and a Keynote Speaker at many international conferences and invited as a Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair at many international conferences. He has been granted two design patents, and a few are in the pipeline.

Dr. Prasad Shastry, FIETE, Sr Member IEEE, Member Sigma Xi, is a Professor of microwave and wireless engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Before joining Bradley University, he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1982-91). He has over 40 years of experience teaching from the Undergraduate to Ph.D. levels in addition to over 49 years of R&D experience.

At Bradley University, he developed the curriculum, laboratories, and an active research program in the area of microwave and wireless engineering. He established a National Science Foundation-supported advanced microwave engineering laboratory for testing MMICs, an anechoic chamber for antenna measurements, and a microwave integrated circuit fabrication facility. His areas of research include wideband distributed amplifiers (DA), DA architecture-based circuits, reconfigurable circuits and antennas as well as wideband and multi-band antennas, wireless power transfer, and ambient RF energy harvesting. He has made significant contributions in his area of expertise in Industry-University collaborative projects. He has served as director of RF development at Validus Technologies (2006-2014) and advised Endotronix, Inc from its start-up phase.

He has a Ph.D. degree in microwave engineering from IIT-Bombay (1980). During his doctoral research, he invented the widely-used Linearly Tapered Slotline Antenna (LTSA). He has M.Tech (Microwave and Radar Engineering) degree from IIT-Kharagpur and B.E (Electronics) degree from UVCE, Bangalore University. He received Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1982, where he made pioneering research contributions to the area of Wideband Distributed Amplifiers. He served as a senior scientist at LRDE, Bangalore (1980-82) and at DRDL, Hyderabad (1974-75).

Dr. Shastry is the author/co-author of over a hundred manuscripts and publications. He holds two US patents on Electronically Tunable Active Duplexers. He has supervised numerous post-graduate and undergraduate student projects over 40 years. He has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions and other international journals, international conferences, and books as well as on expert review panels of the National Science Foundation, U.S.A.