Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar, Ph. D.

, Fellow IEEE
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Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, INDIA
Ex-Director, I.I.T. Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, INDIA
Ex-Vice Chancellor, University of Pune, Pune, 411016, INDIA
Email: rks@ee.iitb.ac.in, Mobile: +91 9818001702

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Fellow of IEEE and accomplished educational leader, able academic

administrator and institution builder. Director (same as President) of a top ranked
technology institute in India (IIT) and Vice Chancellor of one of the largest
comprehensive universities.
• Innovative and inspiring teacher in electrical engineering through conventional as
well as electronic mode. Two times IEEE awardee for teaching and educational
leadership, and writer of a textbook with McGraw Hill Education, India.
• Multi-faceted personality with research in diverse areas in electrical engineering
and physics, and comprehensive knowledge of Indian classical music.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Indian Institute
of Astrophysics / Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 1985

• Major: Electrical Engineering

• Support Area: Radio astronomy and Image Processing
• Thesis title: “Maximum Entropy Restoration of Astronomical Images”
• Thesis Supervisors: Prof. S. Mahapatra and Prof. Ch. V. Sastry

Master of Technology (M. Tech.) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1977

• Major: Electrical Engineering

• Specialization: specialization in Electromagnetics and Optical fibers
• Dissertation title: “Propagation of light in an anisotropic optical fiber”
• Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dilip K Paul
• Highest GPA of 9.6/10 in the batch

Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) Jiwaji University, Gwalior, 1975.

• Major: Electronics Engineering

• Distinction: Gold Medal for securing top rank in the batch
Bachelor of Music (B. Mus. Diploma) Indira Kala Kheragadh Music University, 1975

• Major: Hindustani Classical music

• Specialization: Instrumental (Sitar)

Executive Development Program, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern

University, Chicago, USA, 2007.

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC and PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Started a Centre on Cyber Systems and Information Assurance at IIT Delhi.

• Established a Technology Department at University of Pune with an industry
oriented research focus.
• Contribution made in wide areas like Radio Astronomy and Antennas, Fiber Optic
Communication, Image processing, and Distance Engineering Education.
• A textbook on ‘Electromagnetic waves’ and a monograph on ‘Transmission lines’
published by McGraw Hill Education India.
• Creation of e-content in Electromagnetics and transmission lines, and Optical
communication.
• Design and development of a large Decameter Wave Radio Telescope at
Gauribidnur, India. It is one of the unique and largest low frequency radio
telescopes in the world.
• Established a Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program (C-DEEP) at
IIT Bombay.
• Development of image processing and data analysis software for low frequency
radio astronomy.
• Study of the Sun from microwave observations using the largest radio telescope,
the Very Large Array at New Mexico.
• Modeling and reconstruction of the 3-D structure of solar active regions and solar
flares, and estimation of the solar parameters.
• Study of flare stars to establish non-thermal radiation during non-flaring periods.
• Development of Maximum Entropy Image restoration algorithm for polarized
images of the Sun obtained with phase unstable aperture synthesis data.
• Establishing an advanced Fiber Optic laboratory at IIT Bombay
• Development of generalized framework for designing various types of optical
fibers like the ultra-low dispersion fibers, dispersion compensating fibers, large
effective area fibers etc.
• Innovative idea of optically controlled semiconductor antennas.
• Investigations of optically controlled microwave devices like phase shifter,
attenuator, polarizer etc.
• Optically reconfigurable microwave filters and other devices.
• Innovative use of de-convolution algorithm for detection of straight lines in a
digital image.
• Electrical modeling of photonic crystal devices for optical filter design.
EXECUTIVE WORK EXPERIENCE

Director, IIT Delhi, Sept 2011 – June 2015.

• IIT Delhi is a technical university of national importance established by an Act of

Parliament
• Director in Indian Institutions is same as the University President in the USA.
• Director is academic and administrative head of the institution.
• IIT Delhi is the highest ranked (According to QS, Indian Today, and Outlook
ranking) university in India imparting UG and PG education and carrying out
research of global standards in all disciplines of engineering and science.
• IIT Delhi is a fully residential institute spread over a campus of 350 acres, and has
about 9000 students and 500 faculty members in engineering, science,
management, and Social sciences.

Vice Chancellor, University of Pune, Mar 2010 – Sep 2011.

• University of Pune is one of the largest state funded comprehensive universities

with about 1000 affiliated colleges and institutions with total student registration
of more than 650 thousand.
• Vice Chancellor is the executive and academic head of the university.
• Established a new Technology department for promoting industrial research.
• Introduced online examination system and e-governance in university
functioning.

Deputy Director (Finance and External Affairs) IIT Bombay, 2008 – 2010.

• Deputy Director is responsible for financial management of the institute, and

external linkages with alumni and other international institutions.
• IIT Bombay is one of the largest IITs with about 8000 students and 500 faculty
members in engineering, science and management.
• Automated purchase process through e-tendering and e-auction.

Dean, Resource Mobilization, IIT, Bombay 2005 – 2008.

• Primarily responsible for fund generation from alumni and other sources.
• More than 25 M$ funds were raised during the tenure.

Registrar, IIT, Bombay 2005 – 2006.

• General administration at IIT Bombay, such as, staff welfare, recruitment,

institute upkeep etc.
Dean of Students’ Affairs, IIT, Bombay, 1998 – 2000.

• IIT Bombay is fully residential institute with about 8000 students residing in the
hostels.
• The Dean is overall in-charge of all student related activities except the
academics.
• Dean is also responsible for students’ welfare and sports and cultural activities.
• A new Technology Student Festival started during the tenure. The festival became
iconic that provides a platform for displaying technology development by college
students.
• He is in-charge of all the hostels and the hostel staff.

Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Bombay, 2003 – 2005.

• One of the largest departments with more than 60 faculty.

• Department has five sub groups namely, communications, Controls and
instrumentation, micro and nano electronics, power electronics and power
systems, signal processing.
• The Head is responsible for faculty recruitment, research funding and UG and PG
curricula and admissions.

Founder Head, Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP), IIT,
Bombay 2002 - 2006.

• Played a visionary role in setting up a Center to generate and disseminate the

video and web lectures from experts in IIT to the students of engineering colleges
in the country using multi-media technology. Developed policies for MOOCs and
other similar activities.
• The Centre also executes the National Project on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL), a major e-learning initiative of Govt. of India with a total financial
outlay of 20 M$.
• Served as Chairman of the NPTEL mission project for more than a decade.

Chairman, Hostel Coordination Unit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1995 –

1998.

• Responsible for operation of all the 13 hostels and messing facilities.

• Development of room allotment policy for UG and PG students.
• Recruitment and control of more than 300 hostel employees.

Hostel Warden, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1992 - 1995.

Assoc. Warden, Hostel 4, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 19989 - 1992.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Institute Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering IIT, Bombay. It is an

honor that is bestowed on high achieving professors of a department of IIT Bombay.

Professor of Electrical Engineering IIT, Bombay, 1990 - Present. Joined IIT Bombay as
Assistant Professor in 1987 and was directly promoted to Professor in 1990.

• Undergraduate Teaching: Electromagnetic Waves, Principles of Communication,

Basic Electronics, Analog circuits, Satellite communication, Fiber optic
communication, Image processing. (Typical class size of 60 -100)
• Postgraduate Teaching: Optical Communication, Computational
electromagnetics, Image processing. (Class size of 40-60)
• Research in Photonics, Fiber optics, Image processing, Printed antennas,
Optically controlled microwave devices.

Visiting Professor, Institute Superior de Electronics de Paris, France, June 2009.

Visiting Professor, High Frequency Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, June-Aug, 2005.

Adjunct Professor, CEEN, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA, 2002- today.

Visiting Professor, Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska,

Lincoln, USA (on Sabbatical leave) Aug 2000 – Dec 2001.

• Undergraduate Teaching: Electronic circuits, Digital signal processing, Satellite

communication.
• Graduate Teaching: Optical communication, Image processing.
• Participated in preparation of ABET

Faculty Research Associate University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., Dec. 1982-
Dec. 1984 and again Jan 1987 – Dec 1987.

• Research: Solar and Stellar radio astronomy with the VLA, the largest radio
telescope in the world. Modeling of sunspots and solar active regions and solar
flares.

Reader Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore Jan 1985 – Dec 1986.

• Research: Study of Galactic radio sources at decameter wavelength. Image

processing of radio images to correct for atmospheric distortion.

Electronics Engineer Indian Institute of Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute,

Bangalore. July 1978 – Dec 1982.
 • Research and development: Design and Installation of a large Decameter array
used for radio astronomy at Gauribidnur, India. The telescope is one of the largest
in the world at decameter wavelength.

HONORS, AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS

• Fellow IEEE
• Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow National Academy of Science, India
• Fellow Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers
• Fellow Institution of Engineers
• Fellow Optical Society of India
• Fellow Maharashtra Academy of Science, India

• IEEE William Sayle Education Award 2014: Only one award is given annually
across the world for leadership in electrical engineering education.
• IEEE UG Teaching Award 2011: Only one award is given annually across the
world for outstanding contribution to engineering undergraduate teaching. For
the first time since its inception, the award was given to a Professor outside the
USA.
• Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers - CEOT-94 Award
for outstanding contribution in the field of Photonics and Opto-electronics.
• 'Excellence in Teaching Award' of IIT, Bombay, 2004.
• VASVIK Award in Information and Communication technology, 2009: Only one
award is given every year across the country.
• Ram Lal Wadhawa Award of IETE for achievements in Radio Astronomy, Fiber
Optics and Electromagnetics, 2013. Only one award is given every year across the
country.
• ‘Excellence in Education Award’ by Top Management Consortium, Mumbai for
leadership in higher education, 2010.
• Dewang Mehta Business School Award for Outstanding contribution to
Education, 2010.
• Mahaganapati Award for Excellence in Academics and Research, 2010.
• Programme Chair for International Conference Photonics, 2002.
• Advisor, Sixth International Infrastructure Business Summit and Expo,
TELECOM India, 2004.
• Hon. Editor IETE Special Issue on 'Next Generation Networks', 2008.
• Editor, IETE Journal of Education.
• Member of Technical Programme Committees for many International and
National conferences.

 
 
 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member International Astronomical Union.

• Member Astronomical Society of India.
• Graduate Fellow University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Fiber Optic Communication

• Photonics
• Non-linear fiber optics
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Computational Electromagnetics
• Antennas
• Image Processing
• Radio Astronomy

COURSES TAUGHT (in India and in US)

• Fiber Optic Communication (PG)

• Digital Signal Processing (UG/PG)
• Principles of Communication (UG)
• Satellite Communication (UG/PG)
• Analog Circuits (UG)
• Basic Electronics (UG)
• Electromagnetic Waves (UG)
• Computational Electromagnetics (PG)
• Image Processing (PG)
• Radio Astronomy (UG/PG)

RECENT INVITED TALKS

• TEQUIP talk at IIT Bombay ‘Teaching Electromagnetic Waves in enjoyable

fashion’.
• Visionary talk on ‘ICT in Higher Education’ in Engineering Congress 2014 at
Hyderabad.
• Plenary Talk at IEEE conference ANTS-2014 at New Delhi.
• Graduation ceremony address at Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering 2013.
• J.C. Bose Memorial Lecture at Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineering, New Delhi 2013.
 • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Foundation Day Lecture 2013 at
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.
• Thematic lecture on ‘Invisible Universe’ at Indian National Academy of
Engineering, New Delhi.
• On ‘Higher Education Model for Developing Economies’ at Glion (Switzerland)
conference of Global University Presidents 2013.
• Convocation Address at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore 2013.
• Keynote Address at College of Engineering Trivendrum in a National Conference
on Advancements in Electrical Engineering, 2013.
• Keynote Address at Institution of Engineers on the occasion of Engineers day
2013.
• Indo-US Higher Education Summit at Gorge Town University, Washington DC
2012.
• Convocation Address of College of Engineering Pune, 2010.
• Convocation Address for National Defense Academy, Pune 2010.

THESES and DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (List Attached)

• Ph. D. 18
• M. Tech. 41
• B. Tech. > 50
• M. Sc. 2

SHORT COURSES CONDUCTED FOR INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS

• Fiber optic communication and Photonics (5 days) Four times

• Image processing (5 days)
• Antennas (3 days)
• Satellite communication (3 days)
• Telematics (5 days) Two times
• Computational Electromagnetics (5 days)
• Electromagnetic Waves (5days) Three times
• Many invited talks in short term courses on Antennas, Image processing, Fiber
optic communication, Electromagnetics, etc.

SPONSORED PROJECTS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• National Project for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL-II and III), under
the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.
• National Project for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL-I), under MHRD.
• Fiber optic communication by Ministry of Human Research Development, India.
• MIC Tapered slot antenna under Defence Science and Technology Research,
 India.
• Fiber optic communication and photonic switching Ministry of Human Research
• Development, India.
• VLSI designing of picture processing unit for DTV under Department of
Electronics, India
• Wavelength Division Multiplexed fiber optic links under All India Council of
• Technical Education, India.
• Optically controlled Semiconductor Antenna under Department of Electronics,
Govt. of India

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

• Automatic Signature Verification by Tata Infotech.

• Hindi Script reading System by Tata Infotech.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

 
• Setting up Fiber Optics Laboratory at IIT, Mumbai.
• 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 analyzing dispersion characteristics of a fiber with arbitrary
refractive index profile.

SERVICE

• Chairman UG curriculum board under All India Council of Technical Education

(AICTE)
• Member of Council of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India.
• Member of Academic Council of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
(2010-2011)
• Member of Board of Management, National Institute of Food Technology,
Entrepreneurship and Management, Delhi (2012-2014).
• Non-Executive Director and Member of Board of Governors, Engineers India Ltd.
(2012-2014).
• Member of IIT Council, India.
• Chairman, Joint Entrance Examination for 2012 and 2013.
• Member of Standing Committee of IIT Council, India (2013).
• Invited Member of the Board of Governors of IIT Ropar, India.
• Member of Academic Council, Jawaharlal National University, New Delhi.
• Member of Research Council of National Physical Laboratory under Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India.
• Member of Academic Council, Allahabad University. India
• Member of Academic Council, Amaravati college of Engineering.
• Member of Board of Governors of Punjab Technical University. Chandigarh,
India.
• Member of the Committee for Higher Education reforms in Maharashtra, India.
• Member of National Committee for Reforms in Technical Education in India.
• Chairman of PG curriculum in Electronics and Telecommunication under All
India Council of technical Education.
• Chairman of UG curriculum in Electronics and Telecommunication under All
India Council of technical Education.
• Member, ICT mission project of Ministry of Human Resource Development,
India.
• National Principal Coordinator for developing e-learning learning material for
entire curriculum in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.
• Member, AICTE committee for revision of National Board of Accreditation
(NBA) norms according to the Washington Accord.
• Member of Accreditation team to NITs
• Expert Member, Selection committees of DTE, Mumbai University.
• Expert Member, IITs, NITs, DA-IICT, Gujrat University.
• Member, Academic Board, College of Engineering, Pune.
• Member, Academic committee for Electronics and Telecommunication, College
of Engineering, Pune
• Member, Advisory Board, VJTI, Mumbai.
• Member, Academic Council, Babasaheb Ambedkar Technical University, Lonere.
• Member, Senate of SGGS College of Engineering, Nanded.
• Member, Advisory Council, KJ Somaiya College, Mumbai University.
• External Expert, Department of Technical Education, Maharashtra.
• Member, Research Advisory Committee, SAMEER, Bombay.  
• Member, Board of Studies, University of Goa.
• Member of Departmental Under Graduate Committee, Department of Electrical
Engineering IIT, Bombay.
• Member of Under Graduate Programme Committee of IIT, Bombay.
• External expert for DRDO (Defense research and development organization),
over a period of 1991-1994.
• External expert for Goa, Public Service Commission.
• External expert for State Bank of India, Bombay.
• Examiner in GATE and other IIT's and Universities.
• Member of Scientific Advisory Committee SAMEER, Mumbai.
• External Expert for Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Music : Bachelor of Music degree in Hindustani Classical music (Sitar) from

Kheragadh Music University.
• Hindi Poem Writing
• Painting etc.

PUBLICATION

Books:
 
• “Electromagnetic Waves”, Published by McGraw Hill Education India, 2005. An
Undergraduate textbook for Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
students.
• “ Transmission Lines “ Ed. with V. Ramachandran and K. Shankar, IETE
Publication, Tata McGraw Hill 1998. A reference book.

e-Content :

• “Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission Lines”, 60 Video Lectures, NPTEL,

MHRD, Govt. of India 2007.
• “Fiber Optic Communication”, 40 Video Lectures for a full PG course. IIT
Bombay 2000.
• “Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission Lines”, Interactive Web course for
UG programme, NPTEL, MHRD, Govt. of India 2007.
• “Fiber Optic Communication” Interactive Web course for UG/PG programme,
NPTEL, MHRD, Govt. of India 2007.

Academic Refereed Journals:

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar and A.N. Chandorkar, “Optically

Controlled Frequency Reconfigurable Band Stop Filter with Multi-frequency
Switching”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 56, no. 5, May
2014.

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar and A.N. Chandorkar, “Optically

Controlled Frequency Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna with Low
 Photoconductivity”, IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 13,
2014.

• Shevgaonkar, R.K., ‘Higher Education model for Developing Economies’, Glion

Colloquium, Switzerland, June 2013.

• Patil, P. B., Pendharker, S. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Electrical modeling of

photonic crystal defects”, Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett., volume 54, Issue 11,
pp 2522–2528, November 2012.

• Bhangaonkar, A.S.; Kulkarni, S.V.; Shevgaonkar, R.K.; , "Study of the effects of

alternating magnetic field on point-plane corona," , IEEE Transactions on
Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol.18, no.6, pp.1813-1820, December 2011.

• Padmaja Bhanu B., R. K. Shevgaonkar ; A. N. Chandorkar; “Propagation

characteristics of plasmonic metal stripe waveguide”. SPIE – Vol 8173, 81731L,
2010.

• P. B. Patil, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Improved S-parameter Model for Photonic

Crystal Defects”, SPIE – Vol 8173, 81730E, 2010.

• Sanjay S. Pawar, R. K. Shevgaonkar and Abhay Karandikar, “Improved

SAC-OCDMA System with Multiple Incoherent Sources”, IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters, vol 20, p. 2099-2101 (2008).

• Sanjay S. Pawar, R.K. Shevgaonkar and Abhay Karandikar, “A Novel

Scheme to double the capacity of an SAC-OCDMA system”, Submitted to
Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters (2012).

• 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.K. Bashar, N. Ohnishi, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Cortex transform and its

application for supervised texture classification of digital images”, Proceedings of
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4567, p 141-152
(2001).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Performance Evaluation of WDM

Data De-multiplexed using Grating Filter,” To appear in J. of Optical and
Quantum Electronics (2002).

• M.K. Bashar, N. Ohnishi, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Cortex transform and its

application for supervised texture classification of digital images”, Proceedings of
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4567, p 141-152
(2001).

• S.K. Narayankhedkar, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Performance evaluation of WDM

Optical Network with Erbium doped fiber amplifier”, Proc. SPIE 4417, pp. 222-
233 (2000).

• J. Ravikanth, D.D. Shah, R. Vijaya, B.P. Singh and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “High

power EDFA Analysis”, Proc. SPIE 4417, pp. 396-402 (2000).

• S.P. Survaiya, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Large Effective Area fibers for DWDM
system”, Proc. SPIE 4417, pp. 417-424 (2000).

• J. K. Patel, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Analysis of Diffuse Indoor Infrared Data links”,

J. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 32, pp. 1319-1323 (2000).

• S. P. Survaiya, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Dispersion Characteristics of an optical

fiber having linear chirp refractive index profile”, IEEE Transaction J. Lightwave
Technology, Vol.17, No.10, pp. 1797-1805, (1999).
• K. R. Suresh Nair, B. Singh, Y. G. K. Patro, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Mode size
measurement of integrated optic channel waveguide at 1310 nm wavelength”,
Communication in Instrumention, vol. 6, pp. 25-33, Jan (1998).

• K. R. Suresh Nair, Y. G. K. Patro, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Mode size studies on

polarization variation in Titanium-diffused z-cut Lithium Niobate Channel
Waveguides”, Microwave and Opt. Tech. Letters, Vol. 19, pp. 448 - 451 (1998).

• N. Rajput, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Selection of Transforms for better Image

Compression”, SPIE Proc. Vol. 3460, pp. 468-477 (1998).

• K. R. Suresh Nair, Y. G. K. Patro, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Studies on Design of

Titanium Indiffused Lithium Niobate Integrated Optic Channel Waveguides and
Directional Couplers”, J. of Optics, vol 27, No.3, pp.121-138, July - Sept.
(1998).

• S. P. Survaiya, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Dispersion Compensating fiber without

using Higher Order mode over the EDFA window", J. of Optics, vol 27, No.3,
pp.139-146, July - Sept. (1998).

• R.C. Agrawal, S.C. Sahasrabudhe, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Preservation of

Topological properties of a simple closed curve under digitalization”, J. Comp.
Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 99-111 (1997).

• K. R. Suresh Nair, Y. G. K. Patro, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Titanium indiffused

Lithium Niobate integrated optic 2 x 2 switch”, IETE Journal (1997).

• K. R. Suresh Nair, A. Bhatnagar, Y. G. K. Patro, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Fiber

attachment and packaging of integrated optic directional coupler at 1300nm
wavelength", J. of Optics, Vol. 26, pp. 73-77 (1997).

• S. P. Survaiya, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Design of Subpicosecond dispersion -

flattened fibers”, IEEE Photonics Tech. Letters, vol-8, No.6, pp. 803-805 (1996).

• R. C. Agrawal, R. K. Shevgaonkar, S. C. Sahastrabudhe, “A fresh look at the

hough transform”, Pattern Recog. Letters, vol.17, pp. 1065-1068 (1996).

• A. Goel, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Wideband dispersion compensating optical fiber”,

IEEE Photonics Tech. Letters, vol.8, No.12 (1996)

• Malik, R., Shevgaonkar, R. K., Ananthakrishnan, S., “High resolution digital

spectrometer for studying Solar radio burst”, J. Inst. Engrs., vol-72, p. 137
(1992).

• Alissandrakis, C. E., Kundu, M. R., Shevgaonkar, R. K., “VLA observations of

 Solar active regions at 6 to 20cm”, Astron Astrophys., 251, p. 276 (1991).

• Deshpande, A. A., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Sastry Ch. V., “The Decametre
Radio Telescope at Gauribinur: Antenna array and its control system”, IEEE
vol. 35, (1990)

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “Time variability of Solar active regions
at
• centimetric wavelengths”, Astrophys. J., 342, p. 586 (1989).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Kundu, M. R., and Jackson, P. D., “Variability of the

metric emission from the Sun”, Astrophys. J., 329,p. 982 (1988).

• Kundu, M. R. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Detection of dMe flare star YZ Cains

Minor simultaneously at 20 and 90cm wavelengths”, Astrophys. J., 334, p 1001
(1988).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K. , “Maximum entropy method for polarized images”,

Astron. Astrophys., 176, p 159 (1987).

• Kundu, M. R., McConnell, D., White, S. M., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Very
Large-Array observation of a complex gradual Solar burst at 6cm wavelength”,
Astron. Astrophys., 176, p 131 (1987).

• Webb, D.F., Holman, G.D., Davis, J.M., Kundu, M.R., Shevgaonkar, R.K., “The
plasma and magnetic field properties of coronal loops observed at high spatial
resolution”, Astrophys. J., 315, pp. 716-728, (1987).

• Kundu, M. R., Melozzi, M., Shevgaonkar, R. K., “A study Solar filaments for
high resolution microwave observations”, Astron. Astrophys., 167, p. 166
(1987).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Maximum entropy method for phase unstable aperture

synthesis”, Astron. Astrophys., 162, p 349 (1986).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Minimum relative entropy method - a solution to missing

short baseline problem”, J. Astrophys. Astron., 7, p 275 (1986).

• Hebbal S.R., Ronan, R.S., Withbrow, G.L., Shevgaonkar, R.K., Kundu, M.R.,
“Solar Coronal brightpoints observed with the VLA”, Astrophy. J., 306, pp. 740-
750 (1986).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “VLA observations of a radio plage at

centimeter wavelengths”, Solar Phys., 98, p 119 (1985).

• Kundu, M. R. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Microwave emission from late type

 dwarf stars UV Ceti. and YZ canis Minor”, Astrophys. J., 297, p 644 (1985).

• Melozzi, M., Kundu, M. R., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Simultaneous

observations of Solar flares at 6 and 20cm wavelengths using VLA”, Solar
Phys., 97, p 345 (1985).

• Kundu, M.R. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Microwave emission from late type dwarf
stars UV Centi and YZ CMi”, Astrophys. and Space Sci. Lib., 'Radio Stars', 116,
p 229 (1985).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “Dual frequency observations of

Solar microwave bursts using VLA”, Astrophy. J., 292, p 733, (1985).

• Kundu, M. R., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Multiple wavelength observations of

Pre-flare Solar active region using VLA”, Astrophy. J., 291, p 860 (1985).

• Deshpande, A. A., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Sastry, Ch. V., “Observation of

Rosette nebula using the decametre wave radio telescope at Guauribidnur”,
Astrophys. Space Sci., 102, p 21 (1984).

• Schmahl, E. J., Shevgaonkar, R. K., Kundu, M. R., and McConnell, D.,

“Sharp edges in Solar microwave spectra; neutral current sheets or cyclotron
lines?”, Solar Phy., 93, p 305 (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “Three dimensional structure of two

solar active regions from the VLA observation at 2, 6,and 20cm wavelengths”,
Astrophy. J., 283, p 413 (1984).

• Sastry, Ch. V., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Ramamuja, M. N., “Observation of

slowly varying component of Solar Radio emission at decametre wavelength”,
Solar Phy., 87, p 391, (1983).

• Sastry, Ch. V and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Diffuse radio emission from coma
cluster of galaxies at decametre wavelengths”, J. Astrophs. Astr., 4, p 47
(1983).

• Dwarakanath, K. S., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Sastry, Ch. V., “Observation of the
supernova remnant HB9 and IC443 at 34.5 MHz”, J. Astrophy. Astr., 3, pp 207
(1982).

• Sastry, Ch. V., Dwarkanath, K. S., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “ The structure of
Cygnus loop at 34.5 MHz”, J. Astrophy. Astr., 2, 339 (1981).

• Sastry, Ch. V, Dwarkanath, K. S., Shevgaonkar R. K., and Krishan V.,

“Observation and interpretation of the slowly varying component of Solar radio
emission at decametre wavelengths”, Solar Phy., 73, 363 (1981).
 • Paul, D. K., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Multimode propagation in anisotropic
optical waveguide”, Radio Science, 16, p 525, (1981).

Refereed Proceedings:
 
• Sarang Pendharker, R. K. Shevgaonkar, and A. N. Chandorkar, “Optically
Controlled Bandgap Reconfigurable Structure using Photo-induced Periodic
Stubs” IEEE IMaRC 2013, Delhi, Dec 14-16, 2013.

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar, and A.N. Chandorkar, “Beam

Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna using Photo-induced Parasitic Elements,”
IEEE Photonics Conference 2013, 8-13 Sept. 2013, Bellevue Washington USA.

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar, and A.N. Chandorkar, "Photo-induced

patch antenna for frequency and beam reconfiguration," International Conference
on Fibre Optics and Photonics 2012, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical
Society of America, 2012), paper T3A.4.

• Shevgaonkar, R.K., Patil, P.B., (Invited) ‘Designing Optical Filters with Electrical
Models of Photonic Crystal Defects’ CAOL 2013, Ukraine, Sep. 2013.

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar, A.N Chandorkar; , "Optically Controlled

Frequency Switching Band Stop Filter," IEEE Asia Pacific conference of
Antennas and propagation (APCAP), Singapore, Aug. 27-29 2012.

• S. Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar, A.N. Chandorkar, "A novel T-shaped optically

controlled microwave phase shifter," IEEE International Conference on
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS),
Isreal, pp.1-3, 7-9 Nov. 2011.

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K Shevgaonkar, A.N. Chandorkar, "Optically Controlled

Single-Fed Circular Polarization Switching Patch Antenna," 2011 IEEE Indian
Antenna Week (IAW), Kolkata, pp.1-3, 18-22 Dec. 2011

• Sanjay S Pawar, R. K Shevgaonkar; , "Modelling of FBG for encoding/decoding

in SAC-OCDMA system," Next Generation Networks, 2010 International
Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-4, 24-25 Sept. 2010

• P. B. Patil, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Spectral Characteristics of Multiple Defects in a

Photonic Crystal Waveguide,” IEEE Proc. of 7th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Wireless and
 Optical Communications Networks (Next Generation Internet), WOCN2010,
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 2010.

• P. B. Patil, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Improved S-parameter Model for Photonic

Crystal Defects”, SPIE Proc. of 10th International Conference on Fiber Optics and
Photonics, Photonics 2010, IIT Guwahati, (Dec. 2010).

• Sarang Pendharker, R.K. Shevgaonkar and A.N Chandorkar, “Optically

Controlled Microwave Demultiplexer”, SPIE Proc. of 10th International
Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Photonics 2010, IIT Guwahati, (Dec.
2010).

• B. Padmaja Bhanu, R. K. Shevgaonkar, A. N. Chandorkar, “Propagation

Characteristics of Plasmonic Metal Stripe Waveguide”, SPIE Proc. of 10th
International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Photonics 2010, IIT
Guwahati, (Dec. 2010).

• P. B. Patil, R.K.Shevgaonkar, “Electrical Modeling of a defect in Photonic

Crystal Waveguide,” Proc. of 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and
Optical Communication Networks, WOCN 2009, Cairo, Egypt, April. 2009.

• Sarvagya Dwivedi, R.K.Shevgaonkar, P. B. Patil, “Polar Grid Microstructured

Fiber Raman Amplifier”, Proc. of 12th International Symposium and Microwave
and Optical Technology, ISMOT 2009, University of Delhi and University of
Nevada, Reno, USA, December 16-19, 2009.

• P.B. Patil, R.K.Shevgaonkar, “Electrical Modeling of Single defect in Photonic

Crystal Waveguide,” Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Photonics, Devices and
Systems, Photonics 2008, Prague, Czech Rep., Aug. 2008.

• P.B. Patil, R.K.Shevgaonkar, “Spectral Characteristics of Defects in Photonic

Crystals,” Int. Conf. on Fiber and Photonics, Photonics 2008, Delhi, Dec. 2008.

• R. K. Shevgaonkar, P. B. Patil, “Photonic Crystal Devices for All Optical

Communication Systems”, (Invited Talk), 9th International Conference on Fiber
Optics and Photonics, Photonics 2008, Delhi, (Dec. 2008).

• Sanjay S Pawar, R. K. Shevgaonkar and Abhay Karandikar, “Experimental

Demonstration of Discrete Sources SAC-OCDMA System”, Accepted for
publication and presentation at International Conference on Fiber and Photonics,
Photonics 2008, Delhi, Dec. 2008.

• 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.

• P.B. Patil, R.K.Shevgaonkar, “Analysis of a Finite Length 2-D PCW”, Proc. of

National Conference of Communication, IIT Bombay, 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.

• A.S. Bhangaonkar, S. V. Kulkarni, and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Evaluation of

Radiated Electric Field during Partial Discharge using Particle Motion Physics,”
Proc. of International Conference on Power Systems, ICPS-2007, Bangalore, 12-
14 December, 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.

• 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).
• 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).

• J. Patel, K. Su, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Differentiated MPLS Service (DMS)

Architecture with QoS recovery”, Proc. National Communication Conference
NCC-2002, Jan. (2002).

• S. P. Survaiya, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Analysis of cascaded dispersion

compensation system”, LEOS Proc. CLEO/RIM’2001, pp. 1320-21 , (2001).

• R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Advances in Fibre Optics Communications”, Fiber U 2000,

workshop on Fibre optic technology and application held at Mumbai, India,
February (2000). (Invited)

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Fiber Bragg Grating as DEMUX

in Optical Networks”, 12P-14, Fifth Opto-electronics and Communication
Conference OECC 2000, Japan, (2000).

• J. Ravikanth, D.D. Shah, R. Vijaya, B.P. Singh and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “High

Power EDFA Analysis”, Intl Conf. On Optics and Photonics, vol. 1, pp. 333-336
(2000).

• D.D. Shah, J. Ravikanth, R. Vijaya, B.P. Singh and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Non-

linear Fiber loop mirror as an All-Optic Pulse shaping device”, Proc. Intl . Conf.
On Comm. Comp. And Devices, vol.2, pp. 535-538, (2000).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar, R. K. Shevgaonkar, K. G. Narayankhedkar, “Experimental

Investigations on the Performance of Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier at Liquid
Nitrogen Temperature”, Eighteenth International Cryogenic Engineering
Conference, ICEC 18, P3D.6, (2000).

• J. K. Patel, M. Govindarajan, R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Wireless diffuse Infrared

Multi-path Data links; Channel capacity, eye-safety and receiver design”,
 Millennium Conf. on Ant. & Prop., AP2000, Davos, (2000).

• J. K. Patel and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Physical Layer modeling of Indoor optical

wireless LANS”, Proc. on Comm. Conf. NCC-2000, pp 134-137, Jan (2000).

• D. D. Shah, S. P. Survaiya and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “A Novel technique for walk-

off compensation in 4 Gbytes/sec very long distance Bit parallel WDM link”,
Proc. on Comm. Conf. NCC-2000, pp. 138-140, Jan (2000).

• D. D. Shah, S. K. Narayankhedkar and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “A Novel technique

for walk-off compensation in Bit parallel WDM link using linear chirp grating,”
Proc. XXVI National Symposium of the Optical Society of India on Optics and
Opto-electronics, India, (2000).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Inter-channel Cross-talk in

Optical Networks due to Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier,” Proc. XXVI National
Symposium of the Optical Society of India on Optics and Opto-electronics, India,
(2000).

• S.K. Narayankhedkar, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Add drop multiplexer for WDM

optical networks”, Proceedings of the ICCCD 2000, India, vol. 2, pp. 565-568
(2000).

• J. K. Patel, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Physical Layer modelling of Indoor optical

wireless LANS”, Proc. on Comm. Conf. Ncc-2000, Jan (2000).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Crosstalk in WDM Channels

demultiplexed using Uniform Fiber Bragg Grating” NCC-99, Kharagpur, Jan-Feb
(1999).

• S. P. Survaiya, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Mode Converter for broadband dispersion

Compensation”, Proc. CLEO/RIM’99, ThB3, pp. 595-596 , (1999).
• S.K. Narayankhedkar, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Nonuniform fiber gratings in optical
networks”, Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-
Optics, CLEO/Pacific Rim'99, Korea, 1999, pp. 499-500.
• R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Fiber Bragg gratings for WDM applications”, Indo-French
workshop held at Nice, France, September (1999) (invited).

• J. K. Patel, M. Govindarajan, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Exponential channel model for

indoor diffused infrared wireless communications”, Proc. ICECOM’99, Conf. on
Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, Durbovnik, Croatia, Oct. (1999).

• J. K. Patel, M. Govindarajan, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “ On Design trade-offs for

optimum transmitter power in indoor non-directed optical wireless channels’,
Proc. APCC/OECC’99, Asia Pacific Conf., on communications, Oct., pp. 606-607
 (1999).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Nonuniform Fiber Gratings in

Optical Networks” Proc. CLEO/Pacific Rim’ 99 Seoul, P1.90, pp. 499-500,
Korea. (1999).

• K.R. Suresh Nair, Y.G. K. Patro, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Characterization of

Ti:NbO3 integrated optic Directional Coupler at 1300 nm” Proc. of Adv. in
Microwaves and Lightwave Symp. pp 95-99. March (1998).

• S. P. Survaiya and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Dispersion Compensating Fiber carry

LP01 mode”, Proc. of Adv. in Microwaves and Lightwave Symp. pp 174-178.
March (1998).

• S. Adhikari and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “An Iterative Approach to Scattering

Problems”, Proc. of Adv. in Microwaves and Lightwave Symp. pp 421-424.
March (1998).

• S. P. Survaiya and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Dispersion Compensating fiber with very

high negative dispersion”, OECC-98 Techn. Digest, pp. 260-261 (1998).

• R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Fiber Bragg grating devices for WDM applications”

Photonics-98, pp 1075-1080 (1998) (Invited).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar, S.P. Survaiya, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Propagation of High

Speed Data through Bragg Grating” Photonics-98, pp 291-294 (1998).

• K.R. Suresh Nair, Y.G. K. Patro, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Polarisation studies on

mode field sizes on titanium indiffused lithium niobate waveguides at 1310 nm.”
Photonics-98, pp 1005-1008 (1998).

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Performance Evaluation of WDM

Data Demultiplexed using Grating Filter” International Photonics Conference,
Taiwan, Dec(1998).

• S. Adhikari and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Scattering Characteristics of Thin Dielectric

Elliptical Discs”, National Symposium on Antenna and Propagation, pp. 43-46,
Kochi, (1998).

• S. Adhikari and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Electromagnetic Scattering from Thin

Dielectric Discs”, Proc. of the International Conference on Computers and
Devices for Communication CODEC-98, pp59-62, Calcutta, (1998)

• S. K. Narayankhedkar and R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Interchannel Crosstalk in WDM

Fiber Optic System”, XXIV National Symposium of Optical Society of India on
Optics and Opto-electronics, Calcutta, Jan-Feb (1997).
• Pandya, H. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Restoration of low frequency images”,
INCURSI - 96, Calcutta, Jan(1996).

• S. Ranade, R.K. Shevgaonkar, Y.G.K. Patro, “Prediction of phase noise in a TWT

based transmitter for a pulsed Doppler Radar”, 22nd Intl Power Modulator Symp.,
pp. 122-124 (1996).

• Srinivasaraghavan, K and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Analysis of planar antennas

using method of moments”, INCURSI - 96, Calcutta, Jan(1996).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Recent advances in fibre optic communication”, National

Laser Symp., Bombay, Jan(1996) (Invited).

• Goel and R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Multiple cladding optical fiber for wideband

dispersion compensation”, Int. Conf. Photonics - 96, vol II (1996)

• Agrawal, R. C, Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Sahasrabudhe, S. C., “A modified

Hough transform for detection of multiple straight lines”, ACCV'95, Singapore,
Dec(1995).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Moment method analysis of printed semiconductor

antennas”, Nat. Symp. on Recent advances in Microwaves and Lightwaves, Delhi,
Dec(1995) (Invited).

• Survaiya, S. P., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Low dispersion fibre for WDM
systems”, Nat. Symp. on Recent advantages in Microwaves and Lightguides,
Delhi, Dec(1995).

• Agrawal, R. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Cursive script recognition using feature

based approach”, Proc. Pattern Recognition, Image processing and Computer
vision, Narosa publishing Ed. P. P. Das and B. N. Chatterji, p 176, (1995).

• Agrawal, R. C., Shevgaonkar, R. K. and Sahastrabudhe, S. C., “Detection of

multiple straight lines using modified hough transform”, Proc. PRIPCV, Narosa
publishing, p 217 (1995).

• Sonare, P. S. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Mutual coupling between small

microstrip patches”, Proc. 9th National convention of Electronics and Telecom
Engg. held at Roorkee, pp.30-31, Mar(1994).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Agrawal, D., and Badriprasad. G., “A study of evolution of

non-Soliton pulses into solitons in an optical fibre”, CEOT - 94, An Int.
conference on Emerging optoelectronics technologies held at Bangalore,
Jul(1994).
• Agrawal, R. C. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “A technique CLEAN for detecting
multiple straight lines in a binary image using discrete Hough Transform”,
EUSIPCO - 94, VII European signal processing conference held at Edinburgh,
U.K., Sep(1994).

• Survaiya, S. P. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Low dispersion characteristics on an

optical fibre”, APSYM held at CUSAT, Nov(1994).

• K.R. Suresh Nair, Y.G. K. Patro, R.K. Shevgaonkar, “Analysis of velocity

matched coplanar waveguide integrated optic modulator electrode structure”
APSYM held at CUSAT, pp 200-203, Nov(1994).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Agrawal, R. C., “Restoration of long exposure images in

optical astronomy”, XXI National Symposium of Optics held at IIT Madras,
Feb(1994).

• Survaiya, S. P., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Maiti, S. K., “Designing the refractive
index profile of an optical fibre for specific dispersion characteristics”, XXI
National Symposium of Optics held at IIT Madras, Feb(1994).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K. and Agrawal, R. C., “Detection of straight lines in discrete

images”, Int. conference on Robotics, Vision and parallel processing for industrial
automation, held at Ipoh, Malaysia, May(1994).

• Rajyadhyaksha, S. G. and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “VLSI implementation of real

time PIP for a DTV system”, Symposium of recent advance in Signal processing
and Comm. SPCOM -93 held at Bangalore (1993).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Agrawal, R. C., “Restoration of seeing limited images”,

Astronomical Soc. of India Meeting held at Bombay (1993).

• R. C. Agrawal, Deshmukh, N., Shevgaonkar, R. K., “The Discrete Hough

transform : A novel techniques for detecting straight lines in binary images”, 3rd
Int. Conference Advance Science Pattern Recognition and digital techniques held
at Calcutta Dec. (1993).

• Kulkarni, A., Shevgaonkar, R. K., Sahastrabudhe, S. C., “Edge detection using

scale space knowledge”, IEEE Int. conference on computer, Comm., and Power
Engg. (TENCON) held at Beijing Oct., pp. 986-990 (1993).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Agrawal, R. C., “Restoration of long exposure images

seen through a turbulent medium”, IEEE conf. on Image processing held at
Singapore, September (1992).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Majamudar, R. A., “Maximum Entropy reconstruction from

image projections”, IEEE Symposium on Medical Imaging held at Santa Fe, New
 Mexico, November (1991).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K. and Kundu, M. R., “Dual frequency variability study of an

active region”, Proc. IAU Symposium 142 on Basic plasma processes on the Sun
held at Bangalore, 1-5 December (1989).

• Shevgaonkar, R.K., “Deconvolution and Self-calibration in Radio astronomy”,

Proc. workshop on the 'Image processing in Astronomy ' held at Ooty,
India(1987).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “Variability of meter wavelength Solar

Radio emission”, Proc. Workshop on ‘Stellar and Solar coronal structure and
dynamics’ held at Sunspot, USA (1987).

• Habbal, S. R., Ronan, R., Withbroe, G. L., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R.
“Temporal and Spatial variation of Solar coronal bright points observed with the
VLA”, 165th American Astro. Soc. Meeting held at Tucson, USA (1985).

• Schmahl, E. J., Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu M. R., 164th American Astro.
Soc. meeting held at Baltimore, USA (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., “Simultaneous dual wavelength

observations on an impulsive microwave burst using the VLA”, Proc.
IAU/COSPAR, Solar Maximum mission, Ed. P. Simon (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., and Kundu, M. R., 164th American Astro. Soc. Meeting held
at Baltimore, USA (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “MEM for polarized and closure data”, NRAO workshop on
Imaging with Radio telescope array held at Socorro, USA (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Maximum Entropy Method for low frequency mapping”,

Proc. NARO Symposium on ' Low frequency astronomy held at Green bank,
USA (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Three dimensional structure of two Solar active region for
a VLA observations”, Invited talk, National Radio Science meeting (URSI)
held at Boulder, USA (1984).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., Paul, D. K., and Choudhary, B. B, “Effect of dielectric

anisotropy on the bending loss in optical waveguide”, 82nd Special conference
on Physics of optical fibres, American ceramic society Chicago (1980).

• Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Design and construction of a broad band multibeam

tracking type Radio telescope for Solar observation”, 5th Astronomical society of
India meeting held at Nainital (1979).
 • Shevgaonkar, R. K. and Paul, D. K., “Wave propagation in an over-sized
anisotropic optical fibre”, XIth IETE Symposium held at New Delhi (1977).

• Paul, D. K., and Shevgaonkar, R. K., “Hybrid mode characteristics of an

anisotropic dielectric optical fibre”, XIth IETE AP Symposium held at New
Delhi (1977)

Ph. D. THESES GUIDED :

• Some Aspects of Digitalization. (R.C. Agrawal)

• Analysis and Development of Lithium Niobate 2 x 2 active switch. (K.R. Suresh
Nair)
• Moment method analysis of MIC Tapered slot antenna. (P.S. Sonare)
• Low Dispersion Fibres for WDM Applications. (S.P. Survaiya)
• Electromagnetic scattering from thin elliptical discs. (Saumya Adhikari)
• Image Representation by blobs. ( Anoop Kulkarni)
• Wavelength Division Multiplexed Fiber Optic Link using Erbium Doped Fiber
Amplifier. (S.K. Narayankhedkar)
• Quasi-optical microwave power combiner. (A. Agrawal)
• WDM pulsed Fiber laser source. (D.D. Shah)
• Tunable Dual band Microstrip Antennas ( Asha Elizabeth)
• Investigation of Optical Spectrally coded CDMA systems (Sanjay Pawar)
• Photonic Crystal Devices (Preeti Bhamre Patil)
• Optically Reconfigurable Microwave Devices (Sarang Pendharker)

Ph. D. Dissertations under progress :

• EMI/EMC mitigation studies (Sulabha Ranade)

• Plasmonic optical filters (Padmaja Bhanu)
• Wireless Communication (Anshu Mittal)

M.Tech. Dissertations Guided (Partial list) :

• Pattern recognition of typed of handwritten characters. (1990)

• A rule based expert system for image classification. (1991)
• Restoration of Images obtained form the projection data. (1991)
• Computation of Images obtained from Projection Data (1991)
• Shape Registration (1992)
• Design of a network interface for IBM PCs. (1992)
• Low noise high power transmitter in pulsed Doppler radar. (1993)
 • Study of the dispersion characteristics of an optical fibre using FEM. (1994)
• Restoration of radio astronomical images. (1994)
• Multi-scale shape analysis recognition. (1995)
• MIC tapered slot antenna.(1995)
• Study of Dispersion Compensation for WDM Optical Fiber Links (1996)
• Inter-channel cross-talk in WDM Fiber Optic System. (1997)
• Moment method Analysis of printed Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna. (1997)
• Analysis of Printed Dipoles using Method of Moments (1997)
• A Hindi Script Reading System (1998)
• Adaptive Image Compression Using Non-orthogonal Transforms (1998)
• Digital Image Segmentation based on Textural Cues (1998)
• Feature Extraction in Fingerprints and their classification (1998)
• Wavelength Division Multiplexed Fiber Optic Link (1998)
• Hindi Script Reading System (1999)
• Simulation of Wireless Infrared Link (1999)
• Performance Evaluation of WDM System (1999)
• Active Contour Models for Detection of Linear Features in Satellite Images
(1999)
• Automatic Signature Recognition (1999)

B.Tech. Projects Guided :

• Development of a PC compatible general purpose program to compute the

Antenna
• characteristics. (1989)
• Design and fabrication of microstrip antenna. (1989)
• Propagation characteristics of an over sized anisotropic optical fibre. (1989)
• Non-Coherent MTI radar and clutter properties of radar systems. (1990)
• Low frequency radio astronomical modelling of the Ionosphere. (1990)
• Rectangular cross-section anisotropic optical fibres directional coupler. (1990)
• Image Restoration of long exposure images observed through a time varying
screen. (1990)
• Analysis of coupling between two parallel anisotropic fibres of circular cross
section. (1990)
• Adaptive arrays for multiple target tracking. (1991)
• Phased arrays using anisotropic optic fibres. (1991)
• Voice link using optical fibre. (1991)
• Full duplex RS-232C fibre optic link. (1991)
• Character recognition using Zorknite moments. (1992)
• Design and fabrication of Ultra high Frequency Voltage Controlled Oscillator
(1992)
• Registration of synthetic aperture radar images. (1992)
• Bionomal transformer in MIC form (1993)
 • Image restoration using Neural Network. (1993)
• Image restoration using Hough Transform. (1993)
• Development of CAD package and amplifier design at radio frequency. (1993)
• Light wave propagation in Non-linear optical fibre. (1994)
• Non-linear Optics (1994)
• Restoration of aperture function using constrained least square minimization.
(1994)
• Handwritten character recognition using Moments invariant. (1994)
• Optically excited semiconductor antennas.(1995)
• Digital communication through optical fibre link. (1995)
• Cursive script recognition. (1995)
• Non linear fibre optics.(1995)
• Non linear fibre optics.(1996)
• Edge Detection using Morphological State Space (1996)
• Digital Communication using Optical Fiber (1996)
• Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Optical Fiber Communication (1996)
• Text Recognition of Devnagri Script (1997)
• Non-linear Crosstalk Analysis in Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Fiber
Link (1997)
• Image Reconstruction from Projections (1998)
• Rotational and Scaling invariant image matching (1998)
• Simulation of WDM Link (1998)
• Fading Channel modeling for mobile communication (2000)
• Optically controlled microwave devices.

Postgraduate Courses Taught :

• Fiber Optic Communication : An advanced course on linear and non-linear

fiber optic communication. The course covers propagation of light in optical
fibers, Lasers, detectors, fiber optic links, integrated optical devices- directional
couplers and switches, non-linear optics - SPM, XPM, Soliton propagation,
Raman amplification, Erbium doped fiber amplifier, Wavelength Division
Multiplexed systems.

• Image Processing : A broad-based course on principles of image processing

covering Image representation, various transforms, Image enhancement,
Restoration, Compression, Segmentation, Registration and Image analysis.

• Fiber Optic Laboratory : The laboratory has experiments on fibers like NA

measurement, Mode launching, Microbending loss measurement, LED/Laser
characteristics, Fiber digital communication like with voice and data multiplexed.
Optical fiber splicing and connectorization etc.

• Digital Signal Processing : Linear systems, Z- and Fourier Transforms, FFT,

 Frequency response, DSP architectures, FIR, IIR filter designs, Linear phase
filters, DSP algorithms, DSP applications.

• Radio Astronomy: Introduction to astronomy, Coordinate systems, Radiation

processes like bremsstrahlung, cyclotron, synchrotron etc, Radio telescopes- Total
power and correlation type, Aperture synthesis techniques, Image processing
techniques for radio astronomy, Observations of radio sources like, the Sun,
supernova remnants, pulsars, radio galaxies etc.

Undergraduate Courses Taught :

• Electromagnetic Waves: A fundamental course on time varying fields,

Transmission lines, Wave propagation, Waveguides and Antennas.

• Communication System : A basic course on communication covering - Fourier

transform, Amplitude, Frequency and Phase Modulation and Digital Modulation
Techniques.

• Analog Circuits : A basic course on linear active circuits covering BJT, FET,
based electronics circuits and OPAMP based circuits.

• Basic Electronics : An introduction course on electronics covering types of

devices, Amplifier, filters, Oscillators, Rectifiers and digital electronics circuits.

• Microwave and Optical Communication : An advanced course covering

satellite orbits, Earth stations, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, CSMA etc, and Fiber
optic communication - Optical fiber analysis, Lasers, Detectors, Fiber optic
systems, Integrated optical devices, Fiber optic links.

• Data and Telecom Transcievers: The course covers the physical layer aspects
of high speed transmission covering aspects of noise, signal distortion, PLLs,
frequency synthesizers, data and clock recovery circuits, antenna systems for
mobile communication.