Dr. M. Jayakumar

Biography

Dr. Jayakumar joined Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in July 2004 after serving satellite communication industries for eight years. His area of research includes, radio frequency systems, antennas, RF integrated circuits and wireless communication systems. Dr. Jayakumar obtained his PhD from the University of Delhi in 1996 in the area of Microwave planar components and circuits using high temperature superconducting materials. Most of his experimental works were carried out in National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi mainly adopting indigenously developed high temperature superconducting materials. As a part of his research work he has developed a Novel Cavity Resonator operating at 24GHz based measurement system to measure the electromagnetic properties of high temperature superconducting thin films and bulk samples. This fetched him to get the IEEE student award in one of the IEEE conference (IEEE – InterMag –MMM - 1994) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He was awarded Dr. K.S. Krishnan Research Fellowship by the department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in Engineering Science during his research work. He started his professional career in teaching and research from Thapar University Patiala for a brief period. Dr. Jayakumar served Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Indian Space Research Organization, Trivandrum from 1996 to 2001 as Scientist in the radio frequency systems for space vehicle projects. He has several contributions in various satellite launch missions in the specialized antenna and subsystems. Major contributions includes, Antenna systems for space vehicle to geo-satellite telemetry links, Miniaturized planar conformal antennas for ultra-thin sounding rockets, Portable ground station telemetry planar antenna, Analysis of pre and post mission link data. Dr. Jayakumar worked as Senior Manager – Satellite Spectrum Management in Agarni Satellite Services Limited, Mumbai from 2001 to 2004. He was actively participating and dealing with International satellite spectrum management for operating a private satellite network in India to initiate direct to home television network services. He contributed in the satellite orbit-frequency coordination and transponder channel allocation and management with several satellite operators from European and American continents. He was a member of delegations to ITU Geneva, Switzerland, for several satellite coordination committee meetings and conferences. Currently, he is actively carrying out research in the area which includes Gallium Nitride device based RF systems, Compact conformal antennas for air-borne vehicle communication links, Antenna systems for wireless systems like MIMO, Dielectric properties of specialized materials for identifying its suitability in RF systems, Substrate integrated waveguide based antennas and filters, Millimeter wave MIMO and Miniaturization of antenna and RF subsystems. He is having more than 50 research publications in Journals and conferences and a co-author in two book chapters published by Nova Publishers Inc USA. He is supervising five doctoral students and several post graduate projects. Currently he is a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus. He is also member of various academic and administrative committees in various institutions and organizations. He is a member and Honorable Secretary of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Coimbatore Center.

Research Interest

Microwave & Wireless Engineering