Our Keynote Speakers

Dr Nasimuddin

Dr Nasimuddin received his B.Sc. degree in 1994, from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, and his M.Tech. (Microwave Electronics) and Ph.D. degrees in 1998 and 2004, respectively, from the University of Delhi, India. Dr Nasimuddin has worked as a Senior Research Fellow (1999-2003) in DST sponsored project on “Optical Control of Passive Microwave Devices” and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, Senior Research Fellowship in Engineering Science for the project entitled “Investigations of microstrip antennas as a sensor for determination of complex dielectric constant of materials” at Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as an Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2004-2006) in awarded Discovery project grant from Australian Research Council for project entitled “Microwave sensor based on multilayered microstrip patch/line resonators” at the Macquarie University, Australia. Currently, he is a scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR, Singapore. He has published 214 technical papers in journals/conferences and two granted/ 2filed four US patents with several antenna technologies licensed to companies on microstrip-based microwave antennas and components. He has edited two books (“Microstrip antennas” and Elements of Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Systems) and contributed two book chapters. His research interests include multilayered microstrip-based structures, millimeter-wave antennas, radio-frequency identification reader antennas, Global Positioning System/Global Navigation Satellite System, ultra-wideband antennas, metamaterials-based microstrip antennas, beamforming/beam-steering antennas, satellite antennas, RF energy harvesting systems, circularly polarized microstrip antennas, and small antennas for TV white space communications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE/IEEE APS and Chair/executive committee member of IEEE MTT/AP chapter/CRFID chapter Singapore. He has been organizing committee member of international/national conferences related to antenna and propagation. He was awarded a senior research fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India in Engineering Science (2001-2003); a Discovery Projects fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2004-2006); Singapore Manufacturing Federation Award (with project team) in 2014, the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2005, Exceptional performance reviewer award certificate in 2019 (IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation), and Top reviewer in 2021 IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation.

Dr. M.V. Reddy

Institute of Research Hydro-Québec, Canada

Dr. M.V. Reddy obtained his Ph. D (2003) in the area of Materials Chemistry/Solid State Electrochemistry from ICMCB-CNRS/ENSCPB, University of Bordeaux, France. Dr. M.V. Reddy currently working in Institute of Research Hydro-Québec, Canada. Previously (2003-May 2019) he had worked at National University of Singapore (NUS) (QS Ranking no13, No 1 in Asia), at the Department of Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore., he has been working on the nano/submicron sized materials for Energy (cathodes, anodes, supercapacitors and solid electrolytes), solar cells,and electrocatalysis, including novel methods of synthesis ex: Molten salt method (top1 publication list (source: scopus), characterization and evaluation of the electrochemical properties. For the last 20 years, He has been working on the materials synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of functional properties. He has published around 200 papers in various international journals and conducted several workshops related to functional materials and Energy storage and delivered 90 (Plenary(9), keynote (9) and Invited talks(37) and 18 contributed talks and webinar talks;7) at various conferences and conducted few workshops on Battery materials and Materials Synthesis and characterization techniques. His h-index; 63 and over 14700 citations. Recently cited top 2% highly cited researchers in area of Energy, Ranking 1002 out of 18600 reseachers. He is serving as editorial advisory board member in “Materials Research Bulletin” and Journal of Energy Storage several other open access Journals (Materials and Molecules, MDPI).Dr. Reddy is a Invited life member in International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). He won Outstanding Science Mentorship Award (2010- 2018), from Ministry of Education, Singapore and Inspiring Research Mentor Award (2011 to 2018) from NUSHS and referee for various international proposals, collaborated various international groups all over the world and advisory board member for many International conferences.