Amitabha Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata, West Bengal in the year 1964. He received his B.Tech. (E&ECE) Degree from IIT Kharagpur in 1986, M.E. (E&TCE) from Jadavpur University in 1994 and Ph.D. (E. & ECE) from IIT Kharagpur in 1998. He is a fellow of Summa Foundation, USA and a senior member of IEEE, USA.
Dr. Bhattacharya‘s research interest is in the areas of Microwave Imaging, Microwave Propagation, High Power Microwaves, and Microwave Stealth Technology. He has published more than 100 international research publications, two technical reports for Indian Defense, written a Tata McGraw Hill published a textbook on “Digital Communication” and co-authored a book chapter on “Modal Analysis of Reflector backed Hybrid Printed dipole antenna”. He has also developed 4 NPTEL online courses on microwave Technology. He has been Principal Investigator of 17 completed and 2 ongoing research projects and consultancies sponsored by agencies like DRDO, ISRO, Indian Army, BARC, MHRD, Wipro, etc., has conducted 18 short term courses especially training scientists from HAL, ISRO, DRDO, Indian tri-services, etc. in the areas of Electromagnetic Environments and Microwave Technologies. Dr. Bhattacharya has supervised six Ph.D. thesis and thirty-seven postgraduate theses. Presently he is supervising seven research students.
