R. K. Shevgaonkar

• Fibre Optic Communication
• Photonics
• Non-linear fibre optics
• Antennas
• Image Processing
• Radio Astronomy

• EE301 Eectromagnetic Waves
• EE606 Fibre Optic Communication
• EE005 Electronics Lab

• 1985 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from I. I. T., Bombay/ (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore) on Maximum Entropy Restoration of Astronomical Images.
• 1977 Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur with specialization in Electromagnetics and Optical fibres.
• 1975 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics Engineering from Jiwaji University, Gwalior. Gold Medalist.

• 2008-to date: Deputy Director (Finance and External Affairs), IIT Bombay
• 2005-2008: Dean, Resource Mobilization, IIT Bombay
• 2003-2005: Head, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay.
• 2005 : Visiting Professor, ETH Zurich
• 2002-2006: Head, Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (C-DEEP), IIT, Bombay. The Centre has been setup to generate and disseminate the video lectures from experts in IIT to the students of engineering colleges in the country.
• 2000-2001: Visiting Professor, Computer and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA (on Sabbatical leave)
  Job: Teaching and research in Telecommunication.
• 1998-2000: Dean of Students’ Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
• 1990-to date: Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay.
  Job: Teaching and Research in Photonics, Fiber optics, Image processing, Printed antennas, Optically controlled microwave devices.
• 1987-1990: Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
  Job: Research in Image processing and Photonics.
• 1986-1987: Faculty Research Associate at University of Maryland, College Park, U. S. A.
  Job: Solar and Stellar radio astronomy with the VLA.
• 1985-1986: Reader at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.
  Job: Study of Galactic radio sources at decametre wavelength. Image processing of radio images to correct for atmospheric distortion.
• 1982-1984: Faculty Research Associate at University of Maryland, U. S. A.
  Job: Microwave radio astronomy with Very Large Array, New Mexico.
• 1978-1982: Electronics engineer at Indian Institute of Astrophysics /Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
  Job: Design, Installation of a large Decametre array used for radio astronomy at Gauribidnur, India.

• IETE - CEOT -94 Awards for outstanding contribution in the field of Photonics and Opto-electronics
• Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
• Fellow National Academy of Science, India (FNASc)
• Fellow Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers
• Fellow Optical Society of India
• ‘Excellence in Teaching’ Award 2004 IIT, Bombay

• Deputy Director Finance and External Affairs
• Dean Resource Mobilization
• Dean Student Affairs
• Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Bombay.
• Head, Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (C-DEEP), IIT, Bombay.
• Member, Advisory Committee of SAMEER, Bombay.
• Member, Board of Studies, B.A. Technical University, Lonere
• Member, Board of Studies, College of Engineering, Pune

Membership with the Professional Institution

• Senior Member IEEE
• Member International Astronomical Union.
• Member Astronomical Society of India.

Academic

• Setting up Fiber Optics Laboratory at IIT, Mumbai.
• Development of a video lecture series on fibre optic communication.
• Development of a video lecture series on Electromagnetic Waves.
• Development of a web cource on fibre optic communication.
• Development of a web cource on Electromagnetic Waves.
• Development of a video lecture series on fibre optic communication.
• Development of a 20 min. video program on fibre optics for UGC, Continuing Education Program.
• Development of educational software to effectively demonstrate the concepts of Electromagnetic Waves.
• Development of graphical package to bring out concepts of fibre optic communication more effectively.
• Development of CAD for Microwave Amplifier Design.
• Development of Beam Propagation software for non-linear pulse propagation in a fiber.
• FEM program for analysing dispersion characteristics of a fiber with arbitrary refractive index profile.

Extracurricular Activities

• Music : Bachelor of Music degree in Hindustani Classical music from Kheragadh University.
• Hindi Poem Writing, Painting etc.

Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400 076, India
Email : rks[AT]ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone (Internal(O)) : (0091 22) - 2576 7440
Phone (Internal(R)) : 8440
Office room no: 206
Fax: (0091 22) - 25723707

• “Electromagnetic Waves”, McGraw Hill Education India 2006
• “ Transmission Lines “ Ed. with V. Ramchandran and K. Shankar, IETE Publication, Tata McGraw Hill 1998.

More than 130 papers published in International Journals and Conferences

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES IN LAST FIVE YEARS

V.K. Gupta, P. Seshu, K.K. Issac, R.K. Shevgaonkar,‘Optimal steering of a paraboloid antenna using piezoelectric actuators’, Smart Materials and Structures, v 16, n 1, p. 67-75 (2007).

A.E. Daniel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “ Uniform dual band array with optimum side lobe level“, Microwave Opt. Tech. Lett., Vol. 3, p. 615 (2006).

A.E. Daniel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “ Slot loaded rectangular microstrip antennas for tunable dual band operation “, Microwave Opt. Tech. Lett., Vol. 3, p. 441 (2005).

R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Image Restoration in Radio Astronomy”, Ann. Indian Nat. Acad. Engg., vol. 2, pp. pp.105-109 (2005).

V.K. Gupta, P. Seshu, K. Kurien Issac, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Beam Steering and Shaping of Smart Cylindrical Antenna”, AIAA Journal, vol. 43, pp. 165-173 (2005).

S.K. Narayankhedkar, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Inter-channel cross talk in fiber Bragg grating based Add/Drop multiplexer”, Information Sciences-Informatics and Comp Sc., vol. 149, p. 53 (2003).

Pallavi Manohar, D. Manjunath and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks from Edge Disjoint Path Algorithm, IEEE, Communication Letters, vol 6, p. 211 (2002).

J. Ravikanth, D.D. Shah, R. Vijaya, B.P. Singh and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Analysis of High power EDFA in Saturated regime at 1530 nm and its performance evaluation in a DWDM system”, Microwave and Opt. Tech. Letters, 32, pp. 64-70 (2002).

M. Mani Roja, R.K. Shevgaonkar ‘Geometrical parameters identification for zero dispersion in square lattice photonic crystal fiber using counter plot’, Int. Conf. on Signal Processing and Networks, ICSCN-2008, Jan 2008.

P.B. Patil, R.K. Shevgaonkar, ‘Analysis of a finite length 2-D Photonic Crystal waveguide’, Nat. Comm. Conf. Feb. 2008.

R.K. Shevgaonkar, M. Mani Roja, ‘Tolerance Analysis of Square Lattice Photonic Crystal Fibers’, Nat. Comm. Conf. Feb. 2008.

R.K. Shevgaonkar, P.B. Patil, (Invited) ‘Photonic Crystal Devices for Communication’, Proc. Nat. Workshop on Advanced Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, (AOMD-2007) Dec. 2007.

P.B. Patil, R.K. Shevgaonkar, ‘Numerical analysis of propagation in a finite length 2-D Photonic Crystal waveguide with single defect’, Int. Conf. in Microwaves and Optoelectronics (ICMO-2007), Nov. 2007. R.K. Shevgaonkar, ‘Engineering Education for Sustainable Development’, Intl. Conf. on Sustainable Development held at Beijing, China, Nov. (2006).

S.S. Pawar, R.K. Shevgaonkar,’Statistical Analysis of Incoherent SAC OCDMA System’, Photonics 2006 (2006).

R.K. Shevgaonkar, ‘Optical Code division Multiple Access System’, Photonics 2004, p. 182 (2004).

K. Ramkumar, R.K. Shevgaonkar,’Performance of Wavelength-Time OCDMA with Gaussian Pulses and Doubple Optical Hard Limiter’, Photonics 2004, p. 233 (2004).

A.E. Daniel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Slot loaded rectangular microstrip antennas for tunable dual band operation”, IEEE AP S Digest, California, p. (2004).

A.E. Daniel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “ Dual band non-uniform array with optimum side lobe levels”, Proc. Asia Pecific Microwave Conf., p. (2004).

V. Singh, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Effects of phase errors and shot noise on asynchronous coherent optical CDMA”, Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf. (2004).

J.K. Behera, R.K. Shevgaonkar,’Optimal Design of Raman Amplifier’, Photonics 2004, p. 113 (2004)

S.S. Pawar, R.K. Shevgaonkar,’Incoherent OCDMA Scheme for Zero MUI’, Photonics 2004, p.184 (2004).

Shyamala Iyer and R.K. Shevgaonkar: “Challenges to traditional notions of IPR posed by New Technologies. National Seminar on Challenges posed by IPR regimes”, BITS Pilani, September (2004).

V. K. Gupta, P. Seshu, K. Kurien Issac, and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Piezoelectric Actuated Antenna Shells”, Proceedings of the 11th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, vol. 3, pp. 1336-1340, April 1-4, 2004, Tianjin, China.

A.E. Daniel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “ Design of stub loaded dual frequency rectangular microstrip antenna”, Proc. ICMARS, India, p. 14 (2003).

P. Manohar, D. Majunath, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Effect of Objective Function on Virtual Topology”, Proc. National Communication Conference NCC-2002, Jan. (2002).

M.K. Bashar, N. Onishi, B.K. Mohan, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Unsupervised texture classification of images using cortex filters”, Proceedings of the Fifth Asian Conference on Computer Vision, vol. 2, p 828-33 (2002).

J. Patel, K. Su, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Differentiated MPLS Service (DMS) Architecture with QoS recovery”, Proc. National Communication Conference NCC-2002, Jan. (2002).