Dr. Balamati Choudhury is working as a Senior Principal Scientist at Centre for Electromagnetics of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), Bangalore, India. Her active areas of research and teaching interests are in the domain of Stealth technologies, Soft Computing Techniques in Electromagnetic Design and Optimization, Computational Electromagnetics for Aerospace Applications, Metamaterial Design Applications, RF, and Microwaves. More specifically, the topics of the sponsored projects she has contributed to are: development of Ray Tracing Techniques towards RF Analysis of Propagation in an Indoor Environment, Low RCS design, Phased Arrays and Adaptive Arrays, Conformal Antennas. She was recipient of ICCCES/Outstanding Young Investigator Award for the year 2016–2017 for her contributions in Metamaterial Science by ICCES, USA. She was also the recipient of the CSIR-NAL Young Scientist Award for the year 2013–2014 for her contribution in the area of Computational Electromagnetics for Aerospace Applications. Dr. Balamati has authored or co-authored over 270 scientific research papers and technical reports, besides 4 books, 5 Springer Briefs, and 3 book chapters. Concurrently she is also contributing to academia being an Associate Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and has been nominated as Board of Studies member of R. V. College of Engineering (RVCE) by Karnataka government. Prof. Vinod K. Tewary is a theoretical physicist at the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division of theNational Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Colorado, USA. He received his PhD in Solid StatePhysics from Delhi University. Since then, he has worked as a research associate in the Atomic EnergyResearch Establishment, in Harwell, UK; a professor of Physics and Dean of Research at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; and an adjunct professor at Ohio State University, Columbus. His areas of research interest include multiscale modeling of nanostructures, modeling of mechanical properties of semiconductors and solid-state devices, crystal defects and photons in nanostructures, with special focus on lattice, continuum, and multiscale Green’s functions. He is a recipient of several awards for his contributions to the field, including the Distinguished Fellow and Lifetime achievement Awards, and the Eric Reissner Medal by ICCES (International Conference on Computational Engineering and Sciences) in 2017, 2013, and 2004, respectively. He received a Bronze Medal from the US government (Department of Commerce) for scientific research and technical leadership in 1996, the Multicultural award by Boulder (Colorado State) in 1994, and the Pride of India Award for Excellence in Sciences in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, in 1974 (re-elected in June 2024). Dr. Tewary has 3 books (including 2 edited books on nanomaterials) and over 130 research publications to his name, which include research papers, review articles, and book chapters. Dr. Krushna Kanth Varikuntla is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Innovations, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His research specializes in Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) for 5G/6G communication, strategic applications, and plasma-based high-power EMI protection. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Toledo, USA (2022–2023). He received his PhD from NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2020 for his thesis on Frequency Selective Surfaces Based on SIW: Design, Analysis, and Applications, earning the Outstanding Researcher Award (2019–2020). An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur (JNTUA) (BTech, 2012) and Pondicherry University (MTech, 2015), Dr. Varikuntla gained experience at CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, as Project Assistant-III and at Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore, as Project Engineer. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), European Microwave Association (EuMA), and International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and has held leadership roles, including founding IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) and Antenna and Propagation Society (APS-S) Student Chapters at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. Dr. Krushna Kanth has contributed significantly to his field, with over 40 publications, 2 Springer-authored books, 3 patents, and 3 international Best Paper Awards. He serves as an editor for a Springer book series on metamaterials and a reviewer for leading journals. He was awarded the DRDO Dare to Dream Innovation Contest (2019) and invited to DefExpo 2020 by the Indian Ministry of Defence. Research Interests: Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), aerospace applications, Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS), Radar Absorbing Structures (RAS), Radar Absorbing Materials (RAM), metamaterials, metasurfaces, antennas, phased array antennas, Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology, microwave integrated circuits, planar filters, radome design, antenna pattern measurements, RF plasma, high-power microwave (HPM) protection, Polarization Selective Surfaces, millimeterwave and terahertz (THz) radomes, radar cross-section (RCS) computation, Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) modeling.
