De. Rajeev Jyoti

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Title: “Spaceborne RF front-end systems technologies for Communication, Navigation and Microwave Remote sensing Payloads ”

Speaker’s Profile:
"Rajeev Jyoti, Distinguished Scientist and Associate Director, Space Applications Centre, ISRO. He received the M.Sc. degree in physics and the M.Tech. degree in Microwave Electronics from Delhi University, Delhi. He is a top ranker in M Tech of Delhi University. He started his professional carrier at SAC/ISRO in the development of antennas systems for communication and Microwave remote sensing satellites at the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India. He was awarded United Nation Long term (16 months) fellowship in ESA, ESTEC, The Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Distinguished Scientist and Associate Director, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad. Recently he led the team which accomplished the development of India’s first constellation of 3 satellites having X band RADAR Imaging payload for Disaster applications. Other significant contributions are RADAR Imaging Satellite (RISAT1 & 1A), NASA-ISRO SAR, Airborne SAR sensors at L/S band, RADAR Altimeters for Chandryaan 2 planetary mission and Ku band Scatterometers for ISRO programs. During his 35 years of illustrious engineering and research carrier, he has developed many new technologies for space and ground antennas. He has contributed significantly to the design, analysis and development of numerous state-of-art technologies namely gridded antennas, multiple beam antennas, Un-furlable antenna, butler matrix, High power Circulator Switch assembly, Corrugated feeds and phased array antennas for communication (INSAT/GSAT), Microwave Remote Sensing (RISAT) and Indian Navigation (IRNSS) satellites. He has served as Group Director of Antenna Systems Group & Deputy Project Director of India’s first RADAR Imaging Satellite (RISAT 1) under Microwave remote sensing programme. He has 14 patents and more than 170 papers to his credits. He is the recipient of IETE Raj Mitra Award-2008, ISRO performance excellence-2016, ISRO Individual Merit award-2012 and ISRO Team award-2012 for RISAT 1 Payload Design , Realisation and data Products for the year 2012. He has also been awarded 5 times ISRO Team Leadership award for his contribution in Antennas development for ISRO space programs. Recently he was also recipient of IEEE Indian council Outstanding Industry award 2020 Currently he is serving as Member of IEEE APS industry Initiative Committee, IEEE MTTs Education Committee, IEEE MTTs Aerospace Technical Committee. Presently he is also serving as the Vice President of ISSE-Ahmedabad Chapter, Chairman of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) Ahmedabad Chapter. He is Associate editor of IEEE APS Magazine and IETE journal. He is a Fellow Member of IETE, Senior member of IEEE and Founder Chair of the Joint Chapter of IEEE AP & MTT, Ahmedabad "