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- 2025, Term expires at end of, Adcom Elected Members**
- Chair, Subcommittee: Outstanding Chapter Awards, Member and Geographic Activities Committee, Standing Committees**
- Chair, Education Committee, Standing Committees**
- Chapter Awards, Member and Geographic Activities Committee, Standing Committees**
- Education, Strategic Planning Committee, Standing Committees**
- Elected by MTT-S Members At Large, Adcom Elected Members**
- Member, MAPCon ExCom, Meetings and Symposia Committee, Standing Committees**
- Member, TC-17 Microwave Materials and Processing Technologies, Technical Committees**
- Member, Subcommittee: DML Selection, Technical Coordination & Future Directions Committee, Standing Committees**
- Vice Chair, Meetings and Symposia Committee, Standing Committees**
Biography
M. Jaleel Akhtar is a Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. He earlier worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany, and as a Scientist with the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India. He received the Ph.D./Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, in 2003. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of IETE (India).
His current research interests include metamaterial inspired RF sensors and imaging, microwave-biomedical interaction, functional RF materials, FSS and metasurface based RF systems, RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, nano-biosensors, and nanomaterials based wideband microwave absorbers for stealth technology and EMI/EMC applications.
He has more than 400 publications in various peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, has authored two books, four book chapters, and holds three patents on planar RF sensors.
He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. candidates and over 75 masters’ students for their theses. He has been the lead investigator of more than 15 projects in various domains of RF and microwave technology. He is presently leading a major project involving establishment of a world class fully accredited EMI/EMC Test Facility at IIT Kanpur, India He is a recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award (ETA) 2021 from IIT Kanpur, and the CST University Publication Award in 2009 from the CST AG, Darmstadt, Germany. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal during 2020-2023 and is currently an Editor of the IETE Technical Review, IETE Journal of Research and SADHANA – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Journal.