Ankita Kumari

Ankita Kumari received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University (JVWU), Jaipur, India in 2015, and the M.Tech. degree in Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, India, in 2018. Her M.Tech. research focused on compact rat race coupler based microstrip balun. She has received her PhD degree in 2026 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India. Her PhD work focuses on “Slow Wave Transmission Lines Based Planar RF Sensors for Non-destructive Testing and Subsurface Imaging”. She has received the Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) to pursue her research for 1 year in September 2025 from IIT Kanpur. She is currently working on GHz and THz imaging system based on slow wave transmission lines and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.
Ankita has won the 3-minute thesis award in 2024 MAPCON and also a recipient of the best paper award in MAPCON 2023. She has also received the 2024 IEEE MTT-S SIGHT funding of $2000 for her project ‘Solar Solution Challenge’.

Ankita has also been a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Sensor Journal and Microwave and Optical Technology Letters.

Ankita is an active member of IEEE MTT-S as well as an active volunteer. Currently, she is one of the member of YP subcommittee and look after the events in region 10 (India). She served as the webmaster, secretary of the IEEE MTT-S student branch chapter (SBC) IIT Kanpur. The IEEE MTT-S SBC IIT Kanpur has received the best chapter award in MAPCON 2024 for her volunteering work as the chair of the IEEE MTT-S SBC IIT Kanpur. She has successfully organized a 3-minute thesis competition in the BPC workshop “Spectrum Rising: RF to Millimeter-Wave & Beyond” at IIT Guwahati.