2025 Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one individual exhibiting high aptitude or potential for research to attend the joint 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, which will be held from 13 - 18 July 2025, in Ottawa, Canada. This year’s awardee has been selected by the IEEE AP-S Member and Geographic Activities Committee (coordinated by Prof. Atif Shamim).
This year for the IEEE AP-S/URSI 2025 in Ottawa, we are pleased to announce Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh as the RMTG Awardee!!
Saptarshi Ghosh (S’14–M’18-SM’23) received B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India, in 2009, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, he was associated with Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2018, he joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, where he is currently working as an Associate Professor since 2024 and leading the “Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory”. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan from May to July 2022.
Dr. Ghosh is a recipient of several awards, including Young Faculty Research Fellowship from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) (2025), INAE Young Engineer Award (2022), IETE-IRSI (83) Young Scientist Award (2022), Motohisa Kanda Award from IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society (2022), Young Scientist Award from URSI-AT-AP-RASC (2022, 2018), Matsumae International Foundation (MIF) Fellowship from Japan (2020), INAE Young Innovative Student Projects Award at PhD Level (2018), Academic Excellence Award (2013), Best Paper Awards in different national and international conferences (2018, 2017, 2016, 2013). He has also received Outstanding Reviewer Awards from IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2021) and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2020-2018). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters since January 2021. He is the founding Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in Madhya Pradesh Section, India and has served various committees of several national and international conferences. Several research scholars under Dr. Ghosh have received multiple awards and accolades, such as Young Scientist Award from URSI AT-RASC (2024), Prime Minister Research Fellowship from Government of India (2023), IEEE AP-S Fellowships (under UG, PG, and PhD categories- all in 2023), Department of Science and Technology (DST) Awsar Award (2023), International Travel Grants from various organizations (2024, 2023), and Best Paper Awards (2024, 2022).
Dr. Ghosh and his research group have authored and co-authored over 02 book chapters, 70 peer-referred articles and 100 conference proceedings. Additionally, his group has been granted 02 patents. His research interests include frequency selective surface, electromagnetic metamaterial, and other periodic structures.