MAPCON 2025: List of Workshops
Date: December 14, 2025

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Morning Session (08:30 A.M. to 01:00 P.M.)

(Tea Break: 10:30 - 11:00 A.M.)

Afternoon Session (02:00 P.M. to 06:30 P.M.)

(Tea Break: 04:00 - 04:30 P.M.)

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1.

Quantum Initiative Workshop (Hands-on Workshop: Design and Simulation of Quantum Superconducting Circuits with ADS)

Keysight

Technologies
  1. Amlan Chakrabarti, Director, AKCSIT, University of Calcutta, India
  2. Soumya Dey, R&D Program Manager Keysight Technologies, India
  3. Anil-Kumar Pandey, Principal R&D Engineer, Keysight Technologies, India
  4. Uday Sannigrahi, Research Scholar (M.Tech), University of Calcutta, India
  5. Shobhit Tiwari, R&D Expert, Keysight Technologies, India

7.

Advanced Workshop on Precise VNA Calibration, Validation, S-Parameter Measurement, and Analytical Visualization

Maury Microwave
  1. Zacharia Ouardirhi, Senior VP (Sales), Maury Microwave
  2. Vishal Gupta, Maury Microwave
  3. Giampiero Esposito, Maury Microwave

2.

Waves, Wires & Wizards: Towards Solving Ubiquitous Connectivity

A.Mohandas & D.Krishnaswamy (C-DOT, Goverment of India)
  1. Dilip Krishnaswamy, Executive Vice- President, C-DOT, India
  2. Navin Kumar, Professor and Chairman (ECE Dept.), Amrita School of Engineering
  3. Manoj B. S., Senior Professor and Associate Dean, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
  4. Anand Mohandas, Lead - 6G System Innovation Lab, Scientist “E”, C-DOT

8.

Innovations in Drone Threat Mitigation: From Detection to Neutralization

Ragesh G K Debarati Ganguly B S Manoj
  1. Oluwakayode Onireti, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
  2. Abhishek Awasthi, Paras Antidrone Technologies Pvt. Ltd

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Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

IEEE EMC Society
  1. Vignesh Rajamani, Rohde and Schwarz
  2. Tom Braxton, Illinois Institute of Technology
  3. John LaSalle, Northrop Grumman
  4. Jaleel Akthar, BIS Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur
  5. Vikass Monebhurrun, Associate
    Professor, Centralexupélec GeePs Paris, France

9.

Design and Development of Small Satellites: A Full System Perspective

IIST & ISRO
(Goverment of India)
  1. Priyadarshanam Hari, Professor, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
  2. Jan Budroweit, Communication System Engineer, Germany Aerospace Center (DLR)

4.

Innovations in Wireless Power: Beamforming, On-Demand Energy, and Sustainable RF Harvesting

Ifana Mahbub & Nuno Borges Carvalho
  1. Nuno Borges Carvalho Professor, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
  2. Chinmoy Saha, Professor, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
  3. Diego Masotti, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
  4. Jasmin Grosinger, Professor, University of Siegen, Germany
  5. Ifana Mahbub, Associate Professor, UT Dallas
  6. Gopika R., Research Scholar, IIST Thiruvananthapuram

10.

Theoretical & Computational Electromagnetics

MAPCON 2025
  1. Ramakrishna Janaswamy, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  2. Uday Khankhoje, Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, India

5.

Advanced Industry Workshop- 1
  1. Astra Microwave
  2. Microwave Vision Group
  3. APC Technologies
  4. Win Semiconductor
  1. Next-Gen Radar Systems: Innovations in Microwave Engineering and Signal Processing Algorithms (Dr. V.K. Anandan, CTO, SVP, Astra Microwave)
  2. Advancing Antenna Development with State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Techniques for Space, Defense, and Personal Communication Systems. (Lars Foged, Vice President, R&D, Microwave Vision Group)
  3. Technical Talk by APC Technology (Ranu Bhatnagar, APC Technologies)
  4. Introduction of latest mm-wave GaAs and GaN device technology in WIN Semiconductor foundry service (Cheng-Kuo Lin, AVP, WIN Semiconductors)

11.

Advanced Industry Workshop - 2
  1. MathWorks
  2. Dassault Systemes
  1. Top-Down Design of an RF Receiver and Antenna Front-End Integration (Sumit Garg, Principal Application Engineer, Mathworks India Shashank Kulkarni, Development Manager, Mathworks India)
  2. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) (Joel Kirshman, SIMULIA Industry Business Senior Consultant)

6.

Special Workshop by Rohde & Schwarz

Rohde & Schwarz
  1. Electromagnetic material measurements with resonant methods in 1-30 GHz frequency range (Marzena Olszewska-Placha, QWED, Poland
  2. Electromagnetic material measurements with a Fabry-Perot open resonator in 10-170 GHz frequency range (Bartlomiej Salski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
  3. Topic: R&S VNA mmWave portfolio up to 1.1THz (Christian Dille, Research and Universities, Rohde and Schwarz)
  4. State-of-the-art and novel microwave and millimeter-wave material characterization techniques (1– 500GHz and more) using resonant and transmission line methods (Bernd Schincke, Training Center, Rohde and Schwarz)

12.

Recent Advances in Antenna and Device Measurement Techniques and Standardization

AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association), Ashutosh Kedar & Mahesh A.
  1. Olav Breinbjerg, ElMaReCo, Copenhagen, Denmark
  2. Lars Foged, Vice President, R&D, Microwave Vision Group
  3. Neeraj Kumar, Accordyne, India
  4. DC Pande, LRDE, DRDO, India

13.

Advancing Humanity and Society through STEM: Driving Innovation for a Resilient Future

(OPEN TO ALL MAPCON 2025 PARTICPANTS)

IEEE MTT-S SIGHT, IEEE AP-S SIGHT & COPE, IEEE MTT-S Broadening Participation Committee (BPC) & IEEE DataPort
  1. Goutam Chattopadhyay, NASA JPL, USA
  2. Cristophe Fumeaux, University of Queensland
  3. Chinmoy Saha, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
  4. Debabani Choudhury, SeraTech Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
  5. Ajay Poddar, Synergy Microwave, USA
  6. Sampath Veeraraghavan, Alexa AI Group, Amazon, USA
  7. Jawad Siddiqui, RMC, Canada
  8. GS Mani, IEEE Pune JCAME
  9. K.N. Siddiqui (Cardiologist), B.M. Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata, India
  10. Glauco Fontgalland, University of Mount Union Alliance, USA
  11. Sujata Gupta Kedar, Mt. Carmel College, Bengaluru, India
  12. Anjali Diwan, Marwadi University, India
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