Dr. Debalina Ghosh Associate Professor
School of Electrical Sciences
( Electronics & Communication Engineering)

Research Interests

  • Remote sensing
    • Microwave and Optical Sensors for Healthcare
    • Optical sensor Structural Health Monitoring
  • RF and Microwave Engineering
    • Antenna and Antenna Arrays
    • Microwave Absorvers and Polarisers
    • Computational Methods
    • Radio frequency identification (RFID) system
  • Communication Systems
    • Wireless Communication (Front-end Design, MIMO Systems, THz Communications)
    • Green Communication (Cognitive Communication, Energy Harvesting)
  • Computational Techniques (Traditional and Evolutionary Nature-Inspired Methods)
  • Radar Systems
    • Vehicular MM-wave Radar
    • Ground Penetrating Radar
    • Through-wall Imaging Radar

Contact Details

  • SES-120
  • 674-713-5714
  • deghosh@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. EECS 2007 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
  MS EECS 2005 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
  BE Electrical Engineering 2002 Jadavpur University, Kolkata
 

Biosketch

Academician with 20 years of experience successfully contributing to the research domains of applied Electromagnetics Engineering, with special emphasis on radar systems. Enthusiastic in Electromagnetic Engineering teaching with commitment to fostering academic development and success for every student.

Teaching

Theory Courses
  1. Electromagnetic Field Theory (EE3L011)
  2. Electromagnetic waves and Radiating Systems (EC3L005)
  3. Control Systems (EE3L003)
  4. Advanced Communication Engineering (EC6L001)
  5. Antenna Theory (EC6L013)
  6. Modern Radar Systems (EC6L022)
  7. Computational Electromagnetics (EC6L016)
  8. Measurement and Electronic Instruments (EE3L002)
  9. Electrical Technology (EE1L001)
  10. Satellite Communication Engineering (EC3L008)
Practical (Laboratory) Courses
  1. Digital Electronics Circuit lab (EC2P004)
  2. Electrical Technology (EE1P001)
  3. Introduction to Electronics (EC2P001)
  4. Analog Electronics Circuits Laboratory (EC2P003)
  5. Communication Engineering Laboratory (EC3P001)
  6. Measurement and Electronic Instruments Laboratory (EE3P001)
  7. Advanced Communication and Radiating System Laboratory (EC6P001)

Projects

 
  • Design and Development of Doppler Radar System for Inbore Measurement

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ARMREB, DRDO, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2022.

  • Design and Development of a Software Defined Radar for Road Safety Applications

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: State Transport Authority, Odisha, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.

  • Bone health classification using machine learning

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: SERB - DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.

  • Add on Radar for Jamming UAVs

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ATB, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2020.

  • DST-FIST Grant for settingup/upgradation of Microwave-Optical Engineering and Sensing Laboratory

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2018.

  • Enhancement of the Bandwidth of Planar Antennas using Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: SERB - DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2012. 

  • Design of RFID Tags for use on Metallic Surfaces

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: Intelleflex Corp., California, US,
    Year of Commencement: 2008.

 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1S. R. Kerketta and D. Ghosh Machine Learning Classification of Human Osseous Tissue through Microwave Sensing Progress in Electromagnetic Research C (PIER C), February 2023
2A. Sarkar, and D. Ghosh Accurate sensing of multiple humans buried under rubble using IR-UWB SISO radar during search and rescue Elsevier: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, December 2022
3P. K. Panda and D. Ghosh, High-gain dual-band antenna with AMC surface for satellite communications, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Taylor & Francis, November 2020
4S. R. Kerketta and D. Ghosh, Microwave Sensing for Human Bone Health Evaluation, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, September 2020
5Sarkar and D. Ghosh, Detection of Multiple Human Equidistant From IR-UWB SISO Radar Using Machine Learning, IEEE Sensors Letters, January 2020
6P. K. Panda and D. Ghosh, Wideband and High Gain Tuning Fork Shaped Monopole Antenna using High Impedance Surface, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Elsevier, September 2019
7S. R. Kerketta and D. Ghosh, Bandwidth Enhancement of Monopole Antenna using Stubbed Ground Plane, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Wiley, June 2019
8P. K. Panda and D. Ghosh, Wideband Bow-tie Antenna with increased Gain and Directivity by using High Impedance Surface, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Wiley, March 2019
9Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Cat Swarm Optimization with Normal Mutation for Fast Convergence of Multimodal Functions, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, May 2018
10P. K. Panda and D. Ghosh, Isolation and Gain Enhancement of Patch Antennas using EMNZ Superstrate, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Elsevier, March 2018
11Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Synthesis of Linear Aperiodic Array Using Cauchy Mutated Cat Swarm Optimization, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Elsevier, January 2017
12Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Synthesis of Thinned Planar Antenna Array Using Multi-objective Binary Cat Swarm Optimization, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, April 2016
13Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Constraint-based Synthesis of Linear Antenna Array using Modified Invasive Weed Optimization, Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, EMW Publishing, Vol 36, pp. 9-22, June 2014
14Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Linear antenna array synthesis using cat swarm optimization, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Elsevier, Vol. 68, pp. 540-549, June 2014
15Pappula, L., D. Ghosh, Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Matrix Equations originating in Electromagnetic Wave Interactions, Communicated to Expert Systems with Applications, Science direct, September 2012
16D. Ghosh and T. K. Sarkar, Three Antenna Array Design for Buried Object Detection, Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Wiley Interscience, Vol 52, Issue 2, pp. 338-343, December 2009
17D Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar and E. L. Mokole, Design of a Wide-Angle Biconical Antenna for Wideband Communications, Progress in Electromagnetic Research B, Vol. 16, pp. 229-245, 2009

Conferences (International)

1P.K. Sahu and Debalina Ghosh A study on real-time vehicle speed measurement techniques Springer, 7th International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, India, May 2023
2P. K. Sahu and D. Ghosh Detection of On-Road Vehicle Speed Using Software-Defined Radar IEEE International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE 2023), Bhubaneswar, India, May 2023
3N. Shrivastava, D. Ghosh and P. K. Sahu Bone Health Classification using Machine Learning IEEE International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE 2023), Bhubaneswar, India, May 2023
4P. Routray and D. Ghosh Analysis of a Wideband Hybrid Metamaterial as an Absorber vis-a-vis a Polarizer IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Bangalore, India, December 2022
5P. Routray and D. Ghosh Quadruple Polarization Insensitive Multilayered Metamaterial Absorber IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), June 2022
6Amit Sarakar, Debalina Ghosh. Detection of Human Target Location under Simulated Randomized Rubble Using Global Fresnel's Reflection Coefficient, Sensor Signal Processing for Defence, UK, September 2021
7S. Roychowdhury, Debalina Ghosh, Machine Learning Based Classification of Radar Signatures of Drones, IEEE International Conference on Range Technology (ICORT), August 2021
8Shilpi Ruchi Kerketta, Debalina Ghosh, Microwave Analysis on Bone Mineral Density, International Symposium on Antennas & Propagation (APSYM), India. December 2020
9S. R. Kerketta and D. Ghosh, Gain Enhancement of Extremely Wide Band Stubbed Monopole Antenna Backed by Dielectric, INDICON, India, December 2019
10Deepak Kumar, Amit Sarkar, Shilpi R Kerketta, D. Ghosh, Human Activity Classification Based On Breathing Patterns Using IR-UWB Radar, IEEE 16th India Council International Conference (INDICON), December 2019
11Amit Sarkar, D. Ghosh, Through-Wall Heartbeat Frequency Detection Using Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radar, ICORT, India, April 2019
12S. A. H. Basha, D. Ghosh, P. K. Sahu, 4-QAM and 16-QAM Modulation Employing Single Dual Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator and FBG for OFDM-radio-over-fiber System, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), September 2017
13P. K. Panda, and D. Ghosh, Isolation enhancement of patch antennas using metamaterial superstrate, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, July 2017
14Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Unequally spaced linear antenna array synthesis using multi-objective Cauchy mutated cat swarm optimization, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, July 2017
15P. K. Sahu and D. Ghosh, Performance analysis of next-generation passive optical network (XG—PON), IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, San Diego., July 2017
16M. S. Manikandan, A. K. Yadav, D. Ghosh, Elimination of Impulsive Disturbances from Archive Audio Signals using Sparse Representation in Mixed Dictionaries, IEEE TENCON, 2017
17D. Ghosh, P. K. Sahu, UWB in Healthcare, International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Cairns, Australia, September 2016
18S. R. Kerketta and D. Ghosh, Gain enhancement of millimeter wave antenna using superstrate, IEEE Indian Antenna Week (IAW 2016), July 2016
19Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Synthesis of aperiodic linear antenna array using multi-objective cat swarm optimization, IEEE International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar, December 2015
20Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Planar Thinned Antenna Array Synthesis using Multi-objective binary cat swarm optimization, IEEE Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 2463-2464, July 2015
21Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Aperiodic antenna array synthesis using Multi-objective invasive weed particle swarm optimizer, Proceedings of International Conference on Microwaves, Antenna, Propagation and Remote Sensing (ICMARS), Jodhpur, December 2014
22Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Planar Thinned Antenna Array Synthesis using Multi-Objective Optimization, IEEE Indian Antenna Week, Chandigarh, May 2014
23Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Large array synthesis using invasive weed optimization, IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), ISM Dhanbad, pp. 1-6, December 2013
24P. K. Panda, and D. Ghosh, Mushroom-like EBG structures for reducing RCS of patch antenna arrays, IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), ISM Dhanbad, pp. 1-4, December 2013
25Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Antenna Array Pattern Nulling by Phase Perturbations using Invasive Weed Optimization, 9th International Radar Symposium India, LRDE, Bangalore, pp. 1-5, December 2013
26Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Sparse Antenna Array Synthesis using Multi-Objective Optimization, IEEE Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, (AEMC), Bhubaneswar, December 2013
27P. K. Panda, and D. Ghosh, Comparison of different EBG Structures for RCS reduction of Patch Antenna Arrays, IEEE Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, (AEMC), Bhubaneswar, December 2013
28Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Linear antenna array synthesis for wireless communications using particle swarm optimization, 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), South Korea, pp. 780-783, January 2013
29Pappula, L. and D. Ghosh, Application of the real coded genetic algorithm for target sensing, 6th IEEE International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), Kolkata, pp. 69-72, December 2012
30D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar and E. L. Mokole, A Spherically-capped Wide-angle Discone Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Operation, 2008 URSI General Assembly, Chicago, August 2008
31D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, Design of Through-the-Earth Communication System using Helical Antennas, 2008 AP-S Symposium, San Diego, pp. 1-4., July 2008
32D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, An Antenna Array for the Detection of Objects Buried in the Earth, URSI 2007, Ottawa, Canada, July 2007
33D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, Transmission and Reception by Non-Reflecting UWB Antennas, EUROEM 2004, Magdeburg, Germany, July 2007
34D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, A Non-Dispersive Spiral Antenna for UWB Applications, 2007 IEEE AP-S Symposium, Hawaii, pp. 4745-4748., June 2007
35D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, An Antenna Array for the Detection of Objects Buried in Various Soil Media, 2007 IEEE AP-S Symposium, Hawaii, pp. 1809-1812., June 2007
36S. Burintramart and D. Ghosh, Low-Noise Amplifier Design for UNII Band, Syracuse University, May 2007
37D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, Extraction of the Signature of a Buried Object, 2006 IEEE AP-S Symposium, Albuquerque, July 2006
38D. Ghosh, T. K. Sarkar, Extraction of the Signature of a Buried Object Using GPR, 2006 IEEE Radar Conference, pp. 296-301., April 2006
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Life member SSI
  • Fellow IETE
  • Senior Member IEEE
 

Research Scholar

 
Sr. No. Scholar Thesis Title

Year of
Graduation
1 Lakshman Pappula Aperiodic Antenna Array Synthesis using nature inspired techniques 2017
2 Prakash K Panda

Performance Enhancement of Antennas using Metsurfaces

2020
3 Shilpi R Kerketta

Microwave Sensing System for Bone Health Evaluation

2022
4 Amit Sarkar

Human Vital Signs Detection through Obstructive Environment using Radar System

2023
5 Punyatoya Routray

Analysis and design of metamaterial based absorber and polarizer and their applications

 
6 Vaibhav

Millimetre-wave Radar Design and Analysis

 
7 Nishtha Srivastava

Machine Learning in Bio-Radar

 
 
 

Professional Experience

Administrative Activities at IIT Bhubaneswar:         07/2009 - 06/2010:             Assistant Warden;                                07/2009 - 07/2011:             Member, Senate;     02/2010:             Co-Coordinator, Alma Fiesta;                                02/2010 - 03/2012:             Professor-in-charge, Computer Center and Networking (currently known as CITSC);                                02/2010 - 03/2012:             Chairperson, School Purchase Committee, School of Electrical Sciences;                                02/2010 - 03/2011: Member, Institute Vision and Mission Committee;                                02/2010 - 03/2014: Member, Computer Purchase and Maintenance Committee (CPMC);                                02/2010 - 03/2014: Chairperson, Women’s Grievance Redressal Committee (currently known as WWC);                                02/2010 - 03/2012: Member, Institute Purchase Committee (IPC); 02/2010 - 05/2018: Faculty Advisor, School of Electrical Sciences;     02/2014 - 07/2018: PG Coordinator, School of Electrical Sciences;     05/2014 - 05/2018: Member, Institute Complaint’s Committee (ICC);                                07/2016 - 04/2022: Member, School Purchase Committee, SES;                                07/2018 - 12/2020: PhD Coordinator, SES;                                08/2018 - 07/2021: Member, Library Committee, Central Library;                                01/2021 – Continuing:             Chairperson, Institute Complaint’s Committee (ICC);                                                          04/2022 - Continuing: QIP Coordinator, SES  

Books, Chapters & Patents

  • S. R. Kerketta, D. Ghosh, Detection of Onset and Progression of Osteoporosis Using Machine Learning, Machine Learning for Healthcare Applications, John Wiley & Sons, pp 137 – 150 March 2021
  • P. K. Panda, and D. Ghosh, High Gain Slot Antenna by Using Artificial Magnetic Conductor, Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series (LNNS, volume 109), pp 272-277 October 2020
  • H. S. Pradhan, P. K. Sahu, D. Ghosh, S. Mahapatra, Brillouin Distributed Temperature Sensor Using Optical Time Domain Reflectometry Techniques, Fiber Optic Sensors, Current Status and Future Possibilities, Series on Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, Volume 21, pp 207-221 May 2017
  • D. Ghosh, P.K. Sahu, G.Panda and S. Mukhopadhyay, 35TH National Systems Conference Proceeding, Edited by D. Ghosh, P.K. Sahu, G.Panda and S. Mukhopadhyay, MACMILLAN advanced Research Series December 2011
  • D. Ghosh, Inverted F Antenna System and RFID Device Having the Same, US Patent No US9317798B2 April 2016
 

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