Dr. MEENAKSHI RAWAT
Professor
IIT Roorkee
Contact:
Dr. Meenakshi Rawat
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
(M.): +911332284808
email:meenakshirawat@ieee.org, meenakshi.rawat@ece.iitr.ac.in
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Professional Membership Activities and Contributions:
Membership:
- Member, IEEE.
- Member of IEEE Women in Microwave.
- Member, IEEE MTT, IEEE COMSOC, IEEE TCAS.
- Faculty Advisor, IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter.
Technical Reviewer:
- Reviewer of several IEEE Transactions, letters, and journals.
- PMRC member for DEAL DRDO as an expert on software-defined radios for three project committees.
- Recurrent reviewer for SERB SURE, SERB POWER, CRG, and SRG grant schemes.
Research Experience:
- Research assistant in iRadio labs at the University of Calgary from 2008 to 2012.
- Postdoctoral research fellow in iRadio labs from 2012 to 2013.
- Postdoctoral research scientist at Ohio State University.
Industrial Experience:
- Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (a Fortune Global 500 company and India’s premier petroleum industry) from Aug. 2007 to July 2008.
- Telco Construction Equipment Company Limited (a joint venture between TATA Engineering India and Hitachi Construction Machinery Ltd. of Japan), Jamshedpur, from July 2006 to July 2007.
Administrative Experience:
- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (IT & Admission), 27 April 2024-till date. (Ongoing)
- Professor In-charge, Ranking, July 2023 till date. (Ongoing)
- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (Curriculum), 1 September 2023-26 April 2024.
- Faculty Advisor, Cultural Society, Spic Macay & Cinema Club, June 2022-December 2023.
- Member of the committee for IoT lab setup in TIDES Incubation Centre.
- Floor management committee in the IITR’s convocation 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023.
- Vice-president, Faculty Club, 2022- (Ongoing).
- Member, ad-hoc executive committee, Faculty Club, 2017-2021.
- Acted as a judge for Smart India Hardware Hackathon 2018 (SIHH 2018).
- Steering Committee Member: SPARK (Summer Internship Programme at IIT Roorkee), 2016.
Teaching:
- Digital signal processing and applications
- Multirate Digital Signal Processing
- Adaptive signal processing and techniques
- Communication systems and techniques
- Communication Lab
- IC application lab
- NPTEL Course: Basics of Software Defined Radio and its applications.
Research theme:
- Software-defined radios
- Digital and analog/RF predistortion for power amplifiers
- SDR solutions for multiband transmission
- Implementation aspects of MIMO and Beamforming
