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Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering
Research Interest
Meta-Materials, Microwave Antennas, Microwave Absorbers, Microwave Cloaking, Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FD-TD) Technique, Electromagnetics
Office
ACES-328,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
UP, India-208016
Education
PhD, IIT Kanpur (2008)Thesis Title: Studies on Inhomogeneous Dielectric Resonators for Improved Mode Separation in MIC Environment using Efficient FDTD Algorithm and its Application to Band-pass FilterThesis Supervisor:Prof. Animesh Biswas
M.Tech, IIT Kanpur (2004)
B.Tech, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology,Sultanpur U.P., 2002
Selected Publications
Alok Kumar Saxena and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, "A Three-Dimensional Unconditionally Stable 5-Step LOD-FDTD Method", in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 3, March 2014.
Somak Bhattacharyya, Saptarshi Ghosh and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, "Triple Band Polarization- Independent Meta-material Absorber with Bandwidth Enhancement at X-band." in Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 114, 094514, Sept 2013.
Debdeep Sarkar, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Kushmanda Saurav, "A Compact Microstrip-fed Triple Band-Notched Ultra-Wideband Monopole Antenna," in IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 13, pp. 396-399, 2014.
Saptarshi Ghosh, Somak Bhattacharyya, Yadunath Kaiprath and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, "Bandwidth-Enhanced Polarization-Insensitive Microwave Metamaterial Absorber and its Equivalent Circuit Model," in Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115 , 104503 , March 2014.
Kushmanda Saurav, Debdeep Sarkar and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, "Dual-Polarized Dual-Band Patch Antenna Loaded with Modified Mushroom Unit Cell," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 13, pp. 1357-1360, 2014.
Awards & Fellowships
Cadence Gold Medal-2005: Best M.Tech. Thesis in any of the Engineering Departments for Good Academic Performance, Innovation in Thesis, Development of New Technology and/or Substantial Betterment of Existing Technology.
Best Teaching Assistantship Award: Best teaching assistantship award for year 2005-06-1st Semester in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT KANPUR.
Appreciation Letter: Received Appreciation Letter from GE Global Research Centre, Bangalore India for significant contribution on Wireless HEV Charger Program.
Young Research Fellowship Award: Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has been selected for Young Research Fellowship (Class of 1979 Research Fellowship) for his excellent contribution at IIT Kanpur.
Best Paper Award in Session for paper entitled "Design of an Ultra Thin Dual Band Microwave Meta-material Absorber," authored by Saptarshi Ghosh, Debdeep Sarkar, Somak Bhattacharyya and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, in Session 1 of Sixth Annual Conference of Antenna Test and Measurement Society of INDIA (ATMS) held in Kolkata during 11-13 February, 2013
IEI (The Institution of Engineers, INDIA) Young Engineer Award 2014:Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has been selected for IEI (The Institution of Engineers, INDIA) Young Engineer Award 2014 for his significant contribution towards Electrical Engineering discipline.
Additional information
Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering.
He obtained his MTech and PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2004 and 2008 respectively. After having industrial research experience at General Electric (GE), Global Research Centre, Bangalore, he joined IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 2009.
Prof. Srivastava’s research areas include Meta-Materials, Microwave Antennas, Microwave Metamaterial Absorbers, Microwave Metamaterial Cloaking, Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FD-TD) Technique, and Electromagnetics. Prof. Srivastava has been a patron of the institute not just as a long standing faculty, but also as an alumnus, and brings immense knowledge and leadership skills with him. He has served on numerous committees of the institute in various capacities. He has also served as Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He is involved in several research projects with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Education (MoE), General Electric (GE) etc.,
Prof. Srivastava received several awards and recognition including the Young Fellowship Award (Class of 1979 Research Fellowship) and Dr. Shukla Faculty Research Fellowship, Excellence in Teaching Award-2020, and 'IEI (Institution of Engineer, INDIA) Young Engineer Award for the year 2014-15 for his significant contribution in Electrical Engineering. He has received Motohisa Kanda Award 2022 for the highest citations among all the papers published in the last 5 years (2017-2021) in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He has received several Best Paper Awards in international conferences. He is currently Sanjay & Rachna Pradhan Chair Professor at IIT Kanpur.
For more information please visit: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~kvs/.