Optical And Microwave Technologies: Select Proceedings of ICNETS2, Volume IV

Sangeetha R.G.’s education includes a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E. in Computer and Communication Engineering. She completed her Ph.D. (2012) in Optical Networks at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has a national and a US patent to her credit. Her research publications are in reputed journals and conferences. She has 11 years of teaching experience. Currently, she is working as an Associate Professor in VIT University, Chennai campus and guiding M.Tech and Ph.D scholars. She is a member of IEEE and OSA. Her main research interests are in the area of Fiber Optic Communications, Optical Networks, and Free Space Communication. Currently, she is pursuing a Department of Science and Technology (DST)-sponsored project, titled “Test Bed for Hardware Implementation of All Optical Bi-Directional Switching Node” under the Fast-Track Young Scientist Scheme.

Dr. Usha Kiran K. completed her Ph.D. on Microwave Antennas at Gulbarga University, Karnataka in 2007. She then joined the Microwave Lab, ECE, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore as Project Associate and developed several RF MEMS SPDT and SPST switches from 2007 to 2009. She served as a Project Scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, where she worked on an RF MEMS Phase shifter from 2010 to 2012. Since 2012, she has been working at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai. She has published more than 80 papers in international and national journals, and for conferences on Microwave Antennas and RF MEMS. Presently, she is working on a DST-funded project on “MEM phase shifter based steerable antenna array”.