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Dr. Pradeep Kumar Rathore Assistant Professor

Research Interest

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Microelectronics, Device Fabrication Technology

Educational Qualifications

Degree	Board/University/Institute	Specialization	Year
PhD.	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	CMOS-MEMS Integrated Pressure Sensor	2015
M.Tech.	Tezpur University	Electronics Design & Technology	2009
B.Tech.	North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology	Electronics & Communication Engineering	2007
Diploma	North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology	Electronics & Communication Engineering	2005
Certificate Course (10+2)	North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology	Electronics Technician	2003
Matriculation	CBSE, KV NEHU	Science	2001

Working Experience

Sl. no.	Designation	Employer	From	To
1	Assistant Professor	National Institute of Technology Meghalaya	11-08-2014	Till date

Ph.D. & M.Tech. Thesis details

Ph.D. thesis

Thesis title: “CMOS compatible MEMS structures for pressure sensing applications”

Supervisor: Dr. B.S. Panwar, Professor, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi

M.Tech. thesis

Thesis title: “Design and fabrication of micro sensor for absolute pressure based on front side lateral etching technology”

Supervisor: Dr. Jamil Akhtar, Chief Scientist & Head, Sensors and Nanotechnology Group, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan

PG and UG thesis/projects guided

Sl. No.	Thesis / Project Title	Student Name (Roll Number / Enrolment Year)	Year of Award
Ph.D. Thesis
1	A Study on Design and Implementation of CMOS-MEMS Integrated Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors	Shashi Kumar (P16EC004)	Degree awarded in April 2021
2	Flexible Electronics based Sensors	Gaurav Kumar (2021)	On-going
3	Semiconductor / MEMS Devices and Technology	Eswararao Boddepalli (2021)	On-going
M.Tech. Thesis
1	Design & development of CMOS-MEMS integrated current mirror based MOSFET embedded pressure sensor	Shashi Kumar (T14EC018)	2016
2	Design and simulation of MEMS based piezoresistive accelerometers	Bijen Kambam (T15EC014)	2017
3	MEMS based FET Capacitive Pressure Sensor	Anirban Kar (T16EC004)	2018
4	A MEMS based non-invasive piezoelectric sensor for detection of lung and oral cancer	Diptarup Bhattacharya (T16EC001)	2018
5	MEMS based Blood Glucose Measurement Sensor	Deepak Kumar (T16EC008)	2018
6	Temperature compensation for piezoresistive pressure sensor	Shubham Sanjay Thupkar (T17EC003)	2019
B.Tech. Project
1	MEMS Based Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors	Mahip Gahlot (MU11EC21); Vikas Kumar (MU11EC28)	2015
2	Design Of CMOS Based Current Mirror Pressure Sensor	Swapnil Aswal (B12EC016); Dwigbijoy Churchung (B12EC011); Rakesh Kumar Meena (B12EC013)	2016
3	MEMS based capacitive accelerometer	Aman Kanwar (B13EC005); Nihal Bisen (B13EC012)	2017
4	Development Of Sensor Based System For Landslide Detection	Wanbor Dhar (B14EC013); Khiakupar Jyndiang (B14EC002)	2018
5	Development Of IOT Based Temperature Controlled Chamber For Testing MEMS Pressure Sensor	Invareency Nongkhlaw (B15EC007); Pynsuklin Jyndiang (B15EC002)	2019
6	CMOS-MEMS Integrated Pressure Sensing Structure Based On Current Mirror Sensing Technique	Asutosh Behera (B16EC017); Bhukya Kumar (B16EC027)	2020
7	Flexible Electronics based Sensors	Sakshay Kedia (B17EC035); Shashi Ranjan (B17EC028); Pynbiangborlang Lyngwarapthap (B17EC002)	2021

Administrative responsibilities

I(a). Institute level responsibilities:

Sl. no.	Section/ Office/ Institute level Committee	From	To	Position Held	Responsibilities
1	Associate Warden, Bamboo Huts Boys Hostel, NIT Meghalaya	July 2015	Jan 2016	Associate Warden	Hostel Management
2	Warden, Bamboo Huts Boys Hostel, NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2016	March 2017	Warden	Hostel Management
3	Co-ordinator, Virtual Lab Nodal Center - NIT Meghalaya	Aug 2015	May 2017	Co-ordinator	To promote the usage of Virtual Labs at NIT Meghalaya and nearby institutes
4	Deputy Centre-In-Charge, CCMT 2016 at NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2016	Dec 2016	Deputy Centre-In-Charge	M.Tech. admissions through CCMT 2016
5	Centre-In-Charge, CCMT 2017 at NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2017	Dec 2017	Centre-In-Charge	M.Tech. admissions through CCMT 2017
6	Co-ordinator Summer Internship Committee 2018, NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2018	Dec 2018	Coordinator	Training of students from other institutes at NIT Meghalaya
7	Co-ordinator Summer Internship Committee 2019, NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2019	Dec 2019	Coordinator	Training of students from other institutes at NIT Meghalaya
8	Vice-President (Sports), Students Activity Center (SAC), NIT Meghalaya	July 2018	August 2020	Vice-President (Sports)	Organizing various sports events at Intra-NIT Meghalaya and All India Inter – NIT level
9	Professor-in-charge, Center for Technology Enabled Learning (CTEL), NIT Meghalaya	Jan 2019	Till date	Professor-in-charge	Management & development of in-house course video lectures by faculty members of NIT Meghalaya and other institutes
10	Faculty Advisor, B.Tech. EC 2019 Batch	July 2019	Till date	Faculty Advisor	To mentor and guide students regarding their issues related to both their academics and non-academics issues
11	Swayam Coordinator, NIT Meghalaya	Aug 2020	Till date	Coordinator	To disseminate information regarding Swayam and NPTEL Courses

I(b). Department level responsibilities:

Sl. No.	Responsibilities	From	To
1	Faculty-In-charge, MEMS Simulation Lab	2016	Till Date
2	Coordinator - B.Tech. (EC) Major Project	2017	2020
3	Coordinator - M.Tech. (EC) Major Project	2016	2017
4	Co-odinator, Department Innovation Center for EC Department	2018	2019

I(c). Establishment of New Courses and Labs:

Sl. No.	Courses and Labs established	From
1	Introduction to MEMS & Microsystems	2016
2	Microsensor Technology	2020
3	MEMS Simulation Lab (Institute Funding)	2016
4	Sensors & Transducers Lab (TEQIP-III Funding)	2021
5	Remotely accessible Electronics Lab (Institute Funding)	2021

I(d). Other activities and responsibilities:

Sl. No.	Responsibilities
1	Member, Department Research Committee (DRC)
2	Organizing Committee Member, 2017 IEEE Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing & Communication organised by EC Department, NIT Meghalaya held on 6-7 April 2018
3	Organizing Committee Member, 2019 IEEE Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing & Communication organised by EC Department, NIT Meghalaya held on 1-2 March 2019
4	Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Signal Processing Techniques for Real Time Applications organised by EC Department, NIT Meghalaya under TEQIP-III during 23-27 March 2018

Courses Taught at UG and PG Level

Under-graduate (UG) courses	:	Basic Electronics, Electronic Devices, Electronic Circuits, Microelectronics, Digital Logic Design, Introduction to MEMS & Microsystems, Microsensor Technology, Signals and Systems, Physics of Semiconductor
Post-graduate (PG) courses	:	Physics of Semiconductor, Introduction to MEMS & Microsystems

Seminar/ Conference/ Workshop/FDP etc. attended

Sl. no.	Year	Nature of Training	Duration	Organization where training was provided
1	2015	National Seminar on Computing Communication and Control (NSC3-2015)	25-04-2015	University of Technology & Management (UTM) Shillong
2	2016	National Symposium on Nano Science and Technology (NSNST-2016)	29 – 30 June 2016	Centre for Nano Science & Engineering (CeNSE), IISc Bangalore
3	2016	NESAC- Academia and Students Interaction Meet	24 June 2016	North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Govt. of India, Dept. of Space, Meghalaya
4	2016	2-Day Familiarization Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies	15 – 16 February 2016	NIT Agartala (under INUP Program organized by IIT Bombay and IISc, Bangalore)
5	2016	Workshop on Accreditation and Transformation of Technical Education	22 – 23 January 2016	TEQIP, NIT Meghalaya
6	2018	4^th National Workshop on NEMS/MEMS & Theranostic Devices	26 – 28 February 2018	Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati
7	2018	Two days workshop on Outcome based Accreditation (Challenges and Opportunities)	22 – 23 September 2018	TEQIP, NIT Meghalaya
8	2018	Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty	2 – 6 July 2018	TEQIP, IIT Indore

9	2020	Five-day FDP on 'Modeling, Simulation and Fabrication of Future Nano-electronic Devices and Sensors (MSFNS-20)'	24-28 August 2020	NIT Calicut
10	2020	Five days online workshop on "Outcome-based education and NBA Accreditation Process"	19-23 October 2020	TEQIP, NIT Meghalaya
11	2021	Five day Short Term Training Program on “Sensors and Transducers (ICT086)”	21/06/2021 to 25/06/2021	National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata
12	2021	Five day Short Term Training Program on “Digital Electronics using VHDL (ICT088)”	28/06/2021 to 02/07/2021	National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata
13	2021	Three day Workshop on “HDL based VLSI System Design using ModelSim”	17 -19 June 2021	Pantech E-Learning
14	2021	Three day Workshop on “Schematic based VLSI System Design using LTSPice”	24- 26 June 2021	Pantech E-Learning
15	2021	Three day Workshop on “Linear Integrated Circuit design using TINA TI”	8 -10 July 2021	Pantech E-Learning

Seminars/ Conferences/ Short-Term Courses/ Workshop Organized

Sl. no.	Type	Title of the Program	Sponsoring Agency	From	To	Role
1	Conference	IEEE 2^nd International Conference on Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication (IESC 2019)	IEEE	01-03-2019	02-03-2019	Publicity & Publication Chair
2	Conference	IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication (IESC 2017)	IEEE	06-04-2017	07-04-2017	TPC Co-Chair
3	FDP	Five days FDP on “MEMS Technology & Microsensors”	AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy	26-07-2021	30-07-2021	Coordinator

Papers presented at conferences

Sl. no.	Title of the Program	Organized by	From Date	To Date
1	International Conference on Biomaterial and Bioengineering (ICBB-2012)	Hong Kong, China	19-12-2012	20-12-2012
2	IEEE Multi-Conferences on Sensing and Control (MSC-2013)	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India	28-08-2013	30-08-2013
3	IEEE Annual IEEE India Conference 2013 (INDICON-2013)	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India	13-12-2013	15-12-2013
4	2014 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT 2014)	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India	06-01-2014	07-01-2014
5	IEEE 2^nd International Conference on Smart Sensors and Applications (ICSSA 2018)	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Hilton Kuching, Malaysia	24-07-2018	26-07-2018
6	A two-day Conference on Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV-2020)	Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur	5-3-2020	6-3-2020

Lectures delivered

Sl. no.	Topic of Lecture	Program name	Organized by	Date
1	CMOS-MEMS Integrated Microsensors	Faculty Scholar Seminar Series	NIT Meghalaya	26 February 2015
2	Overview of MEMS and Pressure Sensors	ATAL Sponsored Five Days Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Sensors Technology	Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.	8 – 12 February 2021

List of Publications

Journal publications:
1	:	P.K. Rathore, J. Akhtar, Fabrication of a membrane type double cavity vacuum sealed micro sensor for absolute pressure based on front-side lateral etching technology, Sensor Review, Vol. 31, Issue No. 1, pp. 41-46, 2011. (https://doi.org/10.1108/02602281111099071)
2	:	P.K. Rathore, P. Varshney, S. Prasad, B.S. Panwar, Finite element method based absolute pressure sensitivity optimized membrane type double cavity vacuum sealed piezoresistive sensor, Sensor Review, Vol. 33, Issue No. 4, pp. 352-362, 2013. (https://doi.org/10.1108/SR-05-2012-645)
3	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, CMOS-MEMS based current mirror MOSFET embedded pressure sensor for healthcare and biomedical applications, Advance Materials Research, Vol. 647, pp. 315-320, 2013. (https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.647.315)
4	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, J. Akhtar, A Novel CMOS-MEMS Integrated Pressure Sensing Structure Based On Current Mirror Sensing Technique, Microelectronics International Journal, Vol. 32, Issue No. 2, pp. 81-95, 2015. (https://doi.org/10.1108/MI-11-2014-0048)
5	:	Swamy Baldev, Shukla Kaustub, Sushanta Gogai, Pradeep Rathore, Rangababu Peesapati, Design and Implementation of Efficient Streaming Deblocking and SAO Filter for HEVC Decoder; IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 127-135, 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2018.2812518)
6	:	Sasidhar M, Pradeep Rathore, Rangababu Peesapati; Decimal Multiplication using Compressor based-BCD to Binary Converter; International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (Elsevier), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-6, 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jestch.2018.01.003)
7	:	Shashi Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, B.S. Panwar, J. Akhtar, “Development of a Current Mirror Integrated Pressure Sensor using CMOS-MEMS Cofabrication Techniques”, Microelectronics International Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 203-210, 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1108/MI-05-2017-0022)
8	:	Shashi Kumar, Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu, Jamil Akhtar, “Fabrication and Testing of PMOS Current Mirror Integrated MEMS Pressure Transducer”, Sensor Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 141-151, 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1108/SR-07-2019-0182)
9	:	Shashi Kumar, Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu, Jamil Akhtar, “Design and simulation of a novel dual current mirror based CMOS-MEMS integrated pressure sensor”, IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 268-278, 2021. (https://doi.org/10.1049/smt2.12028)
10	:	Swamy Baldev, Anumandla Kiran Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu,, “A Directional and Scalable Streaming Deblocking Filter Hardware Architecture for HEVC Decoder”, Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 84, pp. 104029, 2021. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2021.104029)

Conference publications:
1	:	S. Rabbani, P.K. Rathore, G. Ghosh, B.S. Panwar, MEMS structure for energy harvesting, COMSOL Conference 2010, Period - 29-30 October 2010, Place -Bangalore, India, Page -1-5, 2010. (https://www.comsol.co.in/paper/mems-structure-for-energy-harvesting-8215)
2	:	B.S. Panwar, P.K. Rathore, P. Varshney, S. Prasad, Modeling and Simulation of a Wideband PZT Micro-Cantilever Structure for Energy Harvesting, Indo-French Symposium on Sensors Technologies and Systems (IFS12), Period -March 1-4, 2012, Place -Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Page -48-49, 2012.
3	:	P. Varshney, B.S. Panwar, P. Rathore, S. Ballandras, B. Francois, G. Martin, J.M. Friedt, T. Retornaz, Theoretical and experimental analysis of high Q SAW resonator transient response in a wireless sensor interrogation application, IEEE Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS-2012), Period -May 21-24, 2012, Place -Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Page -1-6, 2012. (DOI: 10.1109/FCS.2012.6243714)
4	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, CMOS-MEMS based Current Mirror MOSFET Embedded Pressure Sensor for Healthcare and Biomedical Applications, International Conference on Biomaterial and Bioengineering (ICBB-2012), Period -December 19-20, 2012, Place -Hong Kong, China, Page -315-320, 2012.
5	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, Design and optimization of CMOS-MEMS integrated current mirror sensing based MOSFET embedded pressure sensor, IEEE Multi-Conferences on Sensing and Control (MSC-2013), Period -August 28-30, 2013, Place -Hyderabad, India, Page -443-448, 2013. (DOI: 10.1109/CCA.2013.6662789)
6	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, H.J. Pandya, High Sensitivity Square Ring Channel Shaped MOSFET Embedded Pressure Sensor Integrated with a Current Mirror Readout Circuitry, IEEE Sensors 2013 (SENSORS-2013), Period -November 3-6, 2013, Place -Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Page -1066-1069, 2013. (DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2013.6688395)
7	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, CMOS-MEMS Integrated MOSFET Embedded Bridge Structure based Pressure Sensor, IEEE Annual IEEE India Conference 2013 (INDICON-2013), Period -December 13-15, 2013, Place -Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Page -1-6, 2013. (DOI: 10.1109/INDCON.2013.6725926)
8	:	P.K. Rathore, B.S. Panwar, High Sensitivity CMOS Pressure Sensor Using Ring Channel Shaped MOSFET Embedded Sensing, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT 2014), Period -January 6-7, 2014, Place -Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Page -1-5, 2016. (DOI: 10.1109/CONECCT.2014.6740290)
9	:	S. Kumar, P.K. Rathore, J. Akhtar, A comparative study on p- and n-channel MOSFET embedded pressure sensing structures integrated with current mirror readout circuitry, 2016 IEEE International Students’ Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS-2016), Period -March 5-6, 2016, Place -Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, 2016. (DOI: 10.1109/SCEECS.2016.7509262)
10	:	Diptarup Bhattacharya, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Shubhankar Majumdar, “Non-Invasive Piezoelectric Sensor for Detection of Lung Cancer”, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES 2018), Coimbatore, pp. 1-4, 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/CESYS.2018.8723897)
11	:	Shashi Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu, “Sensitivity enhancement of current mirror readout circuit based piezoresistive pressure transducer using differential amplifier”, 17^th IEEE Sensors Conference, New Delhi, 2018, pp. 1-4, 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2018.8589726)
12	:	Shashi Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu, “Implementation of operational amplifier for the designing of novel piezoresistive pressure sensor”, 2018 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA), Kuching, Malaysia, pp. 126-129, 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/ICSSA.2018.8535927)
13	:	Shashi Kumar, Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Pradeep Kumar Rathore and Peesapati Rangababu, “An idea of implementing CMOS operational amplifier in summer configuration for the designing of highly sensitive pressure transducer”, 2019 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication (IESC2019), Shillong. (DOI: 10.1109/IESPC.2019.8902445)
14	:	Shashi Kumar, Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Peesapati Rangababu and Pradeep Kumar Rathore , “ A stress-sensitive CMOS operational amplifier based pressure sensor with varying input and gain ”, 2019 IEEE 9th International Conference on System Engineering and Technology (ICSET), Selangor, Malaysia, 7th October 2019. (DOI: 10.1109/ICSEngT.2019.8906336)
15	:	Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Shashi Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu and Jamil Akhtar , “A novel MEMS-based Blood Glucose Measurement Sensor using Twin-Cantilever Structure ”, AIP Conference Proceedings - A two-day Conference on Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV-2020), Jaipur, India, 5th March 2020. (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0031309)
16	:	Shashi Kumar, Gaddiella Diengdoh Ropmay, Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Peesapati Rangababu and Jamil Akhtar , “ A Comparative Study on Sensitivity Enhancement of p-and n-channel MOSFET based Current Mirror Integrated Pressure Sensor Using Differential Amplifier ”, AIP Conference Proceedings - A two-day Conference on Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV-2020), Jaipur, India, 5th March 2020. (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0031312)

Research Collaboration

Sl. no.	Collaborator	Organization
1	Prof. B.S. Panwar	IIT Delhi (Former) & DIT University Dehradun (Present)
2	Prof. Jamil Akhtar	CEERI Pilani (Former) & Manipal University Jaipur (Present)
3	Dr. Hardik Pandya	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
4	Dr. Jaspreet Singh	Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh
5	Dr. Peesapati Rangababu	National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya, Shillong
6	Dr. Kulwant Singh	Manipal University Jaipur
7	Dr. Jagadeesh Chandra	Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam
8	Dr. Gyanendra Singh	Dept. of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
9	Dr. Shashi Kumar	Senior Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

1	Project title	:	Development of High Sensitivity CMOS-MEMS Integrated Pressure Sensor and System for Space Application (Ref: ISRO/RES/3/807/18-19)
	Project type	:	Sponsored Project
	Funding agency	:	Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India
	Project investigators	:	Dr. Pradeep Kumar Rathore, NIT Meghalaya (PI) Dr. P. Rangababu, NIT Meghalaya (Co-PI) Dr. Jaspreet Singh, SCL Chandigarh (Co-PI)
	Funding amount	:	INR 32,46,000/-
	Status	:	On-going
2	Project title	:	Design and Development of Highly Sensitive Non-Conventional Ring Channel Shaped MOSFET Based Current Mirror Integrated Pressure Sensors (Ref: DST/TDT/DDP-36/2021)
	Project type	:	Sponsored Project
	Funding agency	:	Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
	Project investigators	:	Dr. Pradeep Kumar Rathore, NIT Meghalaya (PI) Dr. P. Rangababu, NIT Meghalaya (Co-PI) Prof. B.S. Panwar, DIT University (Co-PI) Dr. Jaspreet Singh, SCL Chandigarh (Co-PI)
	Funding amount	:	INR 44,93,601/-
	Status	:	On-going
3	Project title	:	Capacitive Micro-machined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) for Medical Imaging and Under Water Communication
	Project type	:	Sponsored Project
	Funding agency	:	SERB, Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
	Project investigators	:	Prof. B.S. Panwar, DIT University (PI) Dr. Pradeep Kumar Rathore, NIT Meghalaya (Co-PI)
	Funding amount	:	INR 36,33,696 /-
	Status	:	On-going
4	Project title	:	Vetting of DPR for the project setting up of Tribal Research Institute at Chidere (Babadam), West Garo Hills (Ref: PW/CE/BD/58/2020/2)
	Project type	:	Consultancy Project
	Funding agency	:	Office of the Chief Engineer, P.W.D (Buildings), Government of Meghalaya
	Project investigators	:	Dr. C. Marthong, Dr. M.L. Patton, Dr. H.M. Kalita, Dr. D.K. Sarma, Dr. R.S. Das, Dr. S. Debbarma, Dr. P.K. Rathore (All investigators are from NIT Meghalaya)
	Funding amount	:	INR 31,46,000/- (Consultancy Charges)
	Status	:	Completed
5	Project title	:	Fabrication and characterization of n-channel and p-channel MOSFET based Current Mirror Integrated Pressure Sensors (Ref: CeNSE/PE_Shashi/2018)
	Project type	:	INUP - Research Project
	Funding agency	:	Indian Nanoelectronics Users Program (INUP), Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc) / Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
	Project investigators	:	Mr. Shashi Kumar (PhD Student, NIT Meghalaya) Dr. Pradeep Kumar Rathore (Supervisor, NIT Meghalaya)
	Funding amount	:	--
	Status	:	Completed
6	Project title	:	AI Empowered Advanced Wireless Communication Systems (Ref: SR/FST/ET-I/2020/689)
	Project type	:	FIST DST Project
	Funding agency	:	Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
	Project investigators	:	Dr. P. Rangababu, Dr. A. Dandapat, Dr. Ch.V. Ramarao, Dr. P. Saha, Dr. A. Sarkhel, Dr. S. Bandari, Dr. S.S. Yadav, Dr. S. Majumdar, Dr. B. Pushpa Devi, Dr. S.S. Devi, Dr. P.K. Rathore (All investigators are from EC Department, NIT Meghalaya)
	Funding amount	:	INR 80,00,000/-
	Status	:	On-going

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