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Prof.Amitesh Kumar

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Electronics Engineering

Email: amitesh[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5759

Personal Page: Under Construction

About Me: Dr. Amitesh Kumar has been a faculty member in the Department of Electronics Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad since 2011, and is currently Associate Professor. Prior to this, he has served as a faculty in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. He did M. Tech. and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. He is a senior member of IEEE and OPTICA. His research interests include Photonic Integrated Circuits, Fiber Optic Sensors, Microwave Photonics, and Radio-over Fiber Technologies for 5G and Beyond.

Research Interest: Photonic Integrated Circuits, Fiber Optic Sensors, Microwave Photonics, and Radio-over Fiber Technologies for 5G and Beyond.

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Under Graduate Level
      • Analog Communication
      • Analog Interface Electronics
      • Basic of Electronics Engineering
      • Digital Circuit
      • Electronic Devices
      • Fiber Optics and Laser Instrumentation
      • Microprocessors and their application
      • Network Theory and filter Design
  • Post Graduate Level
      • Advanced Optical Communication
      • Fiber optic sensors
      • Microwave Photonics
      • Optoelectronics and Photonics Devices
      • Photonic Sensors

Academics

Degree

Subject

Institute/University

Year of Passing

Bachelor of Engineering

(BE)

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India

2008

Master of Technology

(M. Tech)

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India.

2010

PhD

Microwave Photonics

 

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India.

 2017

Position

Organization

Positions held/Pay band

From

To

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

(Under  MHRD, Govt. of India)

Associate Professor

13/04/2022

Continuing

Assistant Professor

(Pay band: PB-4)

10/06/2021

12/04/2022

Assistant Professor

(Grade-II & I)

27/12/ 2011

09/06/2021

National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India

(Under  MHRD, Govt. of India)

 

Assistant Professor  

 

15/04/2011

 

26/12/  2011

Awards and Honors

Publications

Books Published

Patent

  1. Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam, Jaisingh Thangaraj, and Vishnu Priye "An Optical Weighbridge with Multiple Optical Load Cells Based on Cantilever Structure for Measuring Weight" Indian patent (Published).

International Journals

  1. Saurabh Agarwal, Kurmendra, Chandra Prakash, Sumar Kumar Mitra, and Amitesh Kumar, " Ultra-High Quality Factor NOMS Device Incorporating Photonic Crystal Cavity for Femto-Gram Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, VOL. 24, pp. 1-7, 2025.
  2. Saakshi Basangar, Amitesh Kumar, Deep Pal, Kavita Jha, and Vikas Kumar, “Enhanced Detection of Milk Fat Adulteration Using SMS Fiber Sensor Enhanced Detection of Milk Fat Adulteration Using SMS Fiber Sensor,” Fiber and Integrated Optics, Taylor & Francis, vol. 00, no. 00, pp. 1–19, 2024.
  3. Randhir Kumar Sah, Amitesh Kumar, and Deep Pal, “Design and Analysis of FBG-Based Vibration Sensor for Low Frequency Applications,” Fiber and Integrated Optics, Taylor & Francis, vol. 44, no. 01, pp. 29–49, 2025.
  4. D. Pal, A. Kumar, V. Kumar, S. Basangar and P. Tomar, "Development of an OTDR-Based Hand Glove Optical Sensor for Sign Language Prediction," in IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, Feb. 01, 2024.
  5. Annapurna Kumari, and Amitesh Kumar, " Impact of laser phase noise on the ranging accuracy of a cooperative MIMO FMCW photonic radar system," Applied Optics (OSA) Vol. 62, No. 36, PP. 9523-9535, 2023.
  6. A. Gautam and Amitesh Kumar, "Highly Sensitive FBG Based Tilt Sensor Using PM-IM Conversion and EFD Interrogation Technique," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 71, pp. 1-9, May 11, 2022.
  7. Deep Pal, Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam, and Jaisingh T. "FBG Based Optical Weight Measurement System and Its Performance Enhancement Using Machine Learning", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1 March 1, 2022.
  8. Kumar Kinjalk, Amitesh Kumar and Abhinav Gautam "High-Resolution FBG based Inclination Sensor using Eigen Decomposition of Reflection Spectrum," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 9124-9131, Nov. 2020.
  9. Abhinav Gautam, Kumar Kinjalk, Amitesh Kumar and Vishnu Priye, "FBG Based Respiration Rate Sensing with Arduino Interface," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 20, No. 16, August 15, 2020.
  10. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, Kumar Kinjalk, Jaisingh Thangaraj, and Vishnu Priye, "A Low-Cost FBG Based Online Weight Monitoring System," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 20, No. 8, April 15, 2020.
  11. Deep Pal, Amitesh Kumar, Nave Avraham, Yoram Eisenbach, Yevgeny Beiderman, Sergey Agdarov, Yafim Beiderman, Zeev Zalevsky, " Noninvasive Blood Glucose Sensing by Secondary Speckle Pattern Artificial Intelligence Analyses,"  Journal of Biomedical Optics 28(8) 087001, August 2023.
  12. Deep Pal, Sergey Agadarov, Yevgeny Beiderman, Yafim Beiderman, Amitesh Kumar, Zeev Zalevsky, "Non-invasive Blood Glucose Sensing by Machine Learning of Optic Fiber-based Speckle Pattern Variation,"  Journal of  Biomedical Optics 27(9) 097001, September 2022.
  13. Randhir Kumar Sah, Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam, Vinay Kumar Rajak, Temperature independent FBG based displacement sensor for crack detection in civil structures, Optical Fiber Technology, Volume 74, 103137, 2022.
  14. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, Jaisingh Thangaraj, Devendra Chack, Vishnu Priye, "Optical weight measurement system using FBG based D-IM edge filter detection", Optical Fiber Technology  Elsevier, Nov.  2020.
  15. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, R.R. Singh, and Vishnu Priye, " Optical Sensing and Monitoring Architecture for Pipelines using Optical Heterodyning and FBG, Filter", Optik Int. J. Light Electron Elsevier Volume 127, Issue 20, (Oct. 2016) Pages 9161–9166.
  16. Annapurna Kumari, Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam, “Photonic generation and theoretical investigation of phase noise in quadrupling and 12-tupling millimeter wave Signal using optical self-heterodyne system”, Optik, Int. J. Light Electron Elsevier, Volume 231, Feb. 2021.
  17. Amitesh Kumar, and Vishnu Priye, "Photonic generation of high frequency millimeter-wave and transmission over optical fiber," Applied Optics (OSA) Vol. 55, No. 22, PP. 5830-5839, 2016.
  18. Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam and Vishnu Priye "Microwave Photonic Mixer Using DP-DDMZM for Next Generation 5G Cellular Systems", Fiber and Integrated Optics, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 39 No. 4, 149-168, 2020.
  19. Annapurna Kumari, Amitesh Kumar and G. S. T. Reddy, “Performance analysis of the coherent FMCW photonic radar system under the influence of solar noise,” Frontiers in Physics, Vol. 11, no. June, pp. 1–14, 2023, doi: 10.3389/fphy.2023.1215160.
  20. Kritika Awasthi, Nishit Malviya and Amitesh Kumar, “Silicon Subwavelength Grating Slot Waveguide based Optical Sensor for Label Free Detection of Fluoride Ion in Water,” IETE Technical Review, Taylor & Francis, August 2023, doi: 10.1080/02564602.2023.2246429.
  21. Amitesh Kumar, Vishnu Priye, and R.R. Singh, "All optical measurement of unknown wideband microwave frequency," Opto-Electronics Review, Volume 24, Issue 4, PP. 191–195, 2016.
  22. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, Vishnu Priye, "Microseismic wave detection in coal mines using differential optical power measurement," Optical Engineering. 58(5), 056111 (2019).
  23. Sunil N. Thool, Devendra Chack and Amitesh Kumar "Coherent Detection-Based Optical OFDM, 60 GHz Radio-over-Fiber Link Using Frequency Quadrupling, and Channel and Carrier Phase Estimation" Frontiers in physics, 9:749497, October 2021.
  24.  Devendra Chack, Shamsul Hassan and Amitesh Kumar (2021) "Broadband and Mode insensitive MMI based mode power splitter for MDM" Laser Physics (IOP) Volume 31, 126205, December 2021.

International Conferences

Presented one paper at the 4th International Conference on    Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology (PHOTOPTICS 2016, 27-29 February 2016, Rome, Italy.

  1. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, and Vishnu Priye. "Highly sensitive FBG-based low-strain sensing system using carrier-suppressed phase modulation". SPIE Photonics West, 2 - 7 February 2019, San Francisco, California, United States.
  2. Abhinav Gautam, Ritu Raj Singh, Amitesh Kumar, Jaisingh Thangaraj, Vishnu Priye. "FBG Based Optical Surveillance Network for Oil and Gas Pipelines". Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2018, 16-20 Sept. 2018, Washington, DC, USA.
  3. Abhinav Gautam, Amitesh Kumar, Vishnu Priye, and Jaising Thangaraj, "Optical Weight Measurement System Using FBG based Edge Filter Detection Technique," 2019 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Guwahati, India, 2019, pp. 1-3.
  4. Tanooja Mishra, Abhinav Gautam, and Amitesh Kumar "Performance Analysis of Microwave Photonic Filter for Digital Modulation Scheme," 2019 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Guwahati, India, 2019, pp. 1-3.
  5. E. S. Rohit, A. Gautam, R. R. Singh, A. Kumar, and V. Priye, "Analysis and Optimization of Edge-Filter Interrogation Scheme for FBG Sensors," in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper JTu2A.83.
  6. Gautam, R. R. Singh, A. Kumar, and J. Thangaraj, "FBG based sensing architecture for traffic surveillance in railways," 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Dhanbad, 2018, pp. 1-2.DOI: 10.1109/ICMAP.2018.8354567.
  7. R. Kumar, A. Kumar, and A. Kumari, "Frequency shifter for photonic multiple microwave frequency measurement," 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Dhanbad, 2018, pp. 1-2.
  8. Amitesh Kumar, and V. Priye, "Photonic generation of microwave signal using a dual-parallel dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator," in 12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper S5A-66.
  9. Amitesh Kumar, R. C. Vissampalli, and V. Priye, "Photonic microwave Up-converter Based on four-wave mixing in an SOA Using single laser source," in 12th International  Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (Optical Society of  America, 2014), Paper S5A-62.
  10. Amitesh Kumar, R.R. Singh, and V. Priye, "Instantaneous microwave frequency measurement using dual-drive Mach Zehnder Modulator," IEEE Conference, pp. 1 - 4, ISBN: 978-1-4799-6499-4, Dec. 2014.
  11. Amitesh Kumar, V. Priye, and Kowshik Moyya, "Performance analysis of photonically generated microwave signal using a dual-parallel dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator in Dispersive Media," 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics, and Laser Technology (IEEE, 2016), pp. 266-271, Rome, Italy.
  12. Jaisingh T, Amitesh Kumar, Vishnu Priye, "Heuristic Approach For Survivability in WDM Optical Networks With The Impact of Four Wave Mixing", IEEE ICMAP,13, December 2013
  13. Amitesh Kumar, and V. Priye, "Optimization of wavelength converter in WDM networks using genetic algorithm," in  IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies, January, (IEEE CONECCT2013 1569684119) 2013.
  14. R.R. Singh, Amitesh Kumar, Abhinav Gautam, and Vishnu Priye, "Microwave Frequency Estimation with high Accuracy based on Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Phase Modulator", IEEE ICMAP,15, December 2015.
  15. Abhinav Gautam, R.R. Singh, Amitesh Kumar, and Vishnu Priye, "Architecture of Optical Sensing and Monitoring for Pipelines using FBG," 3rd International Conference (RAIT 2016), March, 2016.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • Principal Investigator of the research project entitled " Design and Development of Artificial Intelligence Based Fiber Optic Respiration Rate Measurement System for Psychophysiological Health Monitoring", funded by SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Recommended grant:  Rs. 21  Lakhs  (Ongoing)
  • Principal Investigator of the research project entitled " Design and Development of Non- Invasive Optical Respiration Rate Measurement System for Psychophysiological Health Monitoring in MRI Environment", funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Recommended grant:  Rs. 18.359  Lakhs  (Ongoing)
  • Co-Principal Investigator of the research project entitled "FIST-2019 Project of Department of Electronics Engineering", funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Sanctioned grant:  Rs. 190 Lakhs  (Ongoing)
  •  Principal Investigator of the research project entitled "Study On Opto-electronics Devices And System Processing Signals at Microwave Frequencies", funded by IIT (ISM) Dhanbad under the Faculty Research Scheme. Sanctioned grant: Rs. 8.0 lakhs (Completed)
  • Principal Investigator of the minor research project on "Analysis of Chromatic Dispersion in Radio over Fiber System", funded by TEQIP-III. Sanctioned grant: Rs. 2.31 lakhs (Completed)
  • Member project implementation group of the research project entitled "Optical Sensors Based Traffic Weighbridge", funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Sanctioned grant: Rs. 42.39 lakhs (Completed).

Guidance

Ph. D. Supervision (Supervised/Ongoing): 11

S.N

Name of research scholars

Research area of Ph. D. Work

Status of work/ Sole or Joint

1

 

Dr. Saurabh Agarwal

Design and Modeling of MOEMS Photonic Crystal Waveguide Based Devices

Completed

 

2

Dr. Abhinav Gautam

Fiber Optic Sensors

Completed

3

Dr. Annapurna Kumari

Microwave Photonic Measurements

Completed

4

Dr. Deep Pal

Advanced Optical Sensors for Biomedical Applications: A Machine Learning Approach 

Completed

5

Mrs. Kritika Awasthi

Silicon Photonics

Joint (main guide)

6

Mr. Randhir Kumar Sah

Fiber Optic Sensors

Sole

7

Mr. Sumit Sagar

Optoelectronic Devices

Joint

8

Mrs. Kavita Jha

Microwave Photonics

Sole

9

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Gupta

Fiber Optic Bio-sensors

Sole

10

Mr. Jaskaran Singh Phull

Microwave Photonic Sensors

Sole

11

Mr. Ashish Ranjan Yadav

Fiber Optic Bio-sensors

Sole
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