Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
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Tarakeswar Shaw

Joined Institute on : 15-Dec-2025

  • Assistant Professor
  • Electronics and Communication Engg
  • PhD, Postdoc (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Contact Address

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi-835215 (Jharkhand), India

Kolkata, West Bengal

  • Phone Office - 09734262609
  • Phone Residence - 09734262609
  • Email - tarakeswar.shaw@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 2 Years

Research : 9 Years

Individual: 2 Years
Professional Background

Tarakeswar Shaw received his M.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Howrah, India, in 2015, with a specialization in microwave engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from IIEST in 2021. His Ph.D. research aims to construct a simple, compact, and highly efficient planar WPT system using metamaterial (MTM) structures for air and biomedical applications. He did his Postdoctoral Research under the Carl Trygger Fellowship with the Division of Solid-State Electronics, Microwaves in Medical Engineering Group (MMG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University (UU), Uppsala, Sweden. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 journal and conference articles. His current research interests include electromagnetic metamaterials, metamaterial-based liquid and biomedical sensors, highly efficient wireless power transfer systems using metamaterials for free-space and implantable biomedical devices, the Fat-IBC system, and biomedical antennas.

       Dr. Shaw was a recipient of the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Research Fellowship Award for Electronics and IT under MeitY, Government of India. He also serves as an active reviewer for different reputed journals such as Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Journal on Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Access, IET Power Electronics, and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation etc.
Research Areas

RF and Microwave Engineering (Microwave in Bio-medical Applications):

Metamaterial-based efficient WPT system design for free-space, on-body, and in-body applications, Miniaturization of the antenna and electrically small antenna design using metamaterial, Performance improvement of the antenna using metamaterial, Construction of the Biomedical antenna and Sensor, Design of low-loss Metamaterial (MTM) and metasurface for Electromagnetic applications, Metamaterial-based compact and highly sensitive Biomedical sensors for health Monitoring, and Design of Fat-IBC and Fat-IBPT system, etc.
Award and Honours
  • Recipient of the Post Graduate Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India, for the period 2013-2015.
  • Recipient of the Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship for Electronics & Information Technology from the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India, for the period 2015-2020.
  • The progress of PhD Research selected for the presentation in “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT/ITES Second Workshop for Presentation of Research Work” at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2017, organized by MeitY, Government of India.
  • Recipient of the best paper award in the poster session of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), Kolkata, India, 2018.
  • Recipient of the “International Travel Grant” to attend “Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC-2019)” in Singapore under “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme”.
  • International Visit: i. Attended and presented research work in IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Singapore, December 2019.

   ii. Attended and presented research work in 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 17-22 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland.

  • Recipient of the “Carl Trygger Scholarship (CTS 21:1763)” for the Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Division of Solid-State Electronics, Uppsala University, Angstromlaboratoriet, Lagerhyddsvagen 1, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden, March 2023-February 2025, under the project “Battery Free In-body network”.
Publications

International Journal Publications:

  1. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, J. Engstrand, R. L. Karlsson, T. Voigt, and R. Augustine, “High-speed intra-body communication system through fat tissue using wearable antennas for health monitoring,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Accepted on 6 Oct. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2025.3621087.
  2. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, J. Engstrand, R. L. Karlsson, T. Voigt, and R. Augustine, “Design and analysis of low-profile antenna shielding to enhance the performance of wearable Fat-IBC system,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 25, no. 8, 2025.
  3. Tarakeswar Shaw, Gopinath Samanta, and Debasis Mitra, “Efficient wireless power transfer system for implantable medical devices using circular polarized antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4109–4122, 2021.
  4. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Wireless power transfer system based on magnetic dipole coupling with high permittivity metamaterials,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1823–1827, 2019.
  5. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Metasurface-based radiative near-field wireless power transfer system for implantable medical devices,” IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 1974–1982, 2019.
  6. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Design of miniaturized, low-loss and flexible multiband metamaterial for microwave application,” Applied Physics A (Springer), vol. 124, no. 4, pp. 338:1–11, 2018.
  7. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, G. Samanta, T. Voigt, D. Mitra, and R. Augustine, “Rotation insensitive implantable wireless power transfer system for medical devices using metamaterial-polarization converter,” Scientific Reports (Nature), vol. 14, no. 1, p. 19 688, 2024.
  8. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, D. Mitra, P. K. Rangaiah, M. D. Perez, and R. Augustine, “Metamaterial integrated highly efficient wireless power transfer system for implantable medical devices,” AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier), vol. 173, p. 155 010, 2024.
  9. Tarakeswar Shaw, G. Samanta, D. Mitra, B. Mandal, and R. Augustine, “Design of metamaterial based efficient wireless power transfer system utilizing antenna topology for wearable devices,” Sensors, vol. 21, pp. 3448: 1-22, 2021.
  10. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Design of highly directive slot antenna using metamaterial structure under optimal condition,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), vol. 31, no. 9, pp. e22387:1– 11, 2021.
  11. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Efficient design of electrically small antenna using metamaterials for wireless applications,” CSI Transactions on ICT, (Springer), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 51–58, 2017.
  12. Tarakeswar Shaw, Deepanjan Bhattacharjee, and Debasis Mitra, “Gain enhancement of slot antenna using zero-index metamaterial superstrate,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), vol. 27, no. 4, pp. e21078:1–10, 2016.
  13. Tarakeswar Shaw, Aritro Roy, and Debasis Mitra, “Efficiency enhancement of wireless power transfer system using MNZ metamaterials,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, vol. 68, pp. 11–19, 2016.
  14. A. P. Acharya, T. K. Das, and Tarakeswar Shaw, “Design and analysis of compact flower-shaped wideband slotted monopole antenna for RFID reader applications,” AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier), vol. 169, p. 154 718, 2023.
  15. Sanchita Kayal, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Design of miniaturized highly sensitive liquid sensor at microwave frequency,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), vol. 30, no. 11, pp. e22387:1– 9, 2020.
  16. Sanchita Kayal, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Design of metamaterial-based compact and highly sensitive microwave liquid sensor,” Applied Physics A, vol. 126, no. 1, pp. 13:1–9, 2020.
  17. Goutam Kumar Das, Tarakeswar Shaw, Debasis Mitra, and Monojit Mitra, “Directivity enhancement of wire monopole antenna using magnetic metamaterials,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), vol. 29, no. 8, pp. e21778:1–8, 2019.
  18. Gopinath Samanta, Jeet Ghosh, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Design of a polarization insensitive wideband absorber using graphene based metasurface,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, vol. 86, pp. 27-33, 2019.
  19. Rhitam Datta, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Miniaturization of microstrip yagi array antenna using metamaterial,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, vol. 72, pp. 151–158, 2017.
  20. Moumita Sarkar, Tarakeswar Shaw, Rhitam Datta, Pujayita Saha, and Debasis Mitra, “Design of a compact planar quasi-yagi antenna with enhanced gain and bandwidth using metamaterial,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, vol. 62, pp. 125–131, 2016.

International Conference Publications (Selected):

  1. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, and R. Augustine “Analysis of shielding and discontinuous phantom medium effect on the performance of fat-intra body communication system,” 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 30-April 4, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden.
  2. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, and R. Augustine “Design of fat-intra body power transfer system for implantable biomedical devices,” 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 30-April 4, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden.
  3. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, G. Samanta, M. D. Perez, and R. Augustine “A compact wideband biocompatible circularly polarized implantable flexible antenna for biomedical applications,” 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 17-22 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland.
  4. Tarakeswar Shaw, P. Dasmahapatra, B. Mandal, D. Mitra, and R. Augustine “An efficient wireless power transfer system using transmission and reflection characteristics of metamaterial,” 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 17-22 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland.
  5. Tarakeswar Shaw, A. Dellabate, D. Brizi, M. D. Perez, A. Monorchio, and R. Augustine, “Enhancement of wireless transmission into the human body by using metasurface matching layer,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, 14-19 July 2024, Florence, Italy.
  6. A. Dellabate, D. Brizi, Tarakeswar Shaw, M. Perez, R. Augustine, and A. Monorchio, “An electromagnetic metasurface for impedance matching in microwave biomedical applications,” 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland.
  7. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, and R. Augustine “Resonator-based wearable system for efficient intra-body communication through fat tissue for biomedical applications,” IEEE Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Conference, (MAPCON), 9–13 December 2024, Hyderabad, India.
  8. Tarakeswar Shaw, B. Mandal, D. Mitra, P. K. Rangaiah, M. D. Perez, and R. Augustine, “Wireless power transfer system design using zero-index metamaterial for implantable medical devices,” 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), IEEE, pp. 1–5, 26-31 March 2023, Florence, Italy.
  9. Tarakeswar Shaw, Bappaditya Mandal, Debasis Mitra, and Robin Augustine, “Wireless power transfer system design in reactive near-field for implantable devices,” 14th IEEE European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 15-20 March 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  10. Tarakeswar Shaw and G. Samanta, “Miniaturized Slot Antenna Design Using High Permittivity & Permeability Property of Metamaterial,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP-2021), 13-16 Dec. 2021, Jaipur, India.
  11. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Design of efficient wireless power transfer system using metamaterial for bio-implantable devices,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), 19-22 Dec. 2019 Ahmedabad, India.
  12. Tarakeswar Shaw, Sanchita Kayal, and Debasis Mitra, “Design of magnetic resonance coupled efficient wireless power transfer system using metamaterial,” IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), 13-15 Dec. 2019, Mumbai, India.
  13. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Wireless power transfer system design for biomedical implants at 2.45 GHz,” IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 10-13 Dec. 2019, Singapore.
  14. Abir Bhattacharya, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Performance enhancement of wireless power transfer system by controlling transmission and reflection properties of metamaterials,” IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), 28-30 Nov. 2018, Kolkata, India. [Recipient of best paper award]
  15. Tarakeswar Shaw and Debasis Mitra, “Electromagnetic metamaterial based sensor design for chemical discrimination,” IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), 11-13 Dec. 2017, Ahmedabad, India.
  16. Tarakeswar Shaw, Deepanjan Bhattacharjee, and Debasis Mitra, “Miniaturization of slot antenna using split ring resonators,” 5th IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 18-21 Dec. 2015, Guwahati, India.
  17. Sanchita Kayal, Tarakeswar Shaw, and Debasis Mitra, “Flexible miniaturized highly sensitive liquid sensor at microwave frequency,” IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), 13-15 Dec. 2019, Mumbai, India.
Member of Professional Bodies

IEEE [Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) & Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)]