Professor

Prof. Dr. Rama Rao T

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Interests

  1. Intelligent Antennas and its Applications
  2. AI ML assisted RF & Photonic Wireless Communications

Education

2000

Sri Venkateswara University,
Tirupati
India
PhD

2000

University of Hyderabad,
India
PG Dip. in Telecommunications

Professional Service

  • Jun 2025 – till date Professor, Dept. of ECE, SRM University – AP, Amaravati. AP, India.
  • Nov.2020 – May 2025 Professor, Dept. of ECE, SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India.
  • Jul 2007 – Oct 2020 worked as ´Professor & Head´, Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Eng. & Technology, SRM IST (Deemed University), Kattankulathur, Chennai, India.
  • Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 worked as ‘Visiting Scholar’ at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia.
  • Jan 2004 – Jun 2006 worked as ‘Profesor Visitante’ at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain.
  • Aug 2002 – May 2003 worked as ‘PostDoctoral Research Fellow’ at Department of Communication Engineering, National Chio Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
  • Mar 2001 – Apr 2002 worked as ‘Assistant Research Professor’ at Center for PersonKommunikation, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Research Interest

  • AI assisted Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays (RAA) for 6G & beyond Intelligent Wireless Applications.
  • Microwave Photonics for Quantum Communications

Awards and Fellowships

  • IETE – 2013 Smt Manorama Rathore Memorial Award (IETE Diamond Jubilee year 1953-2013) for significant contributions in the field of Electronics & Communications.
  • Young Scientist for the XXVIth URSI (International Union of Radio Science) General Assembly, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 13-21 Aug. 1999.
  • Participated in the ICTP School: School on Data and Multimedia Communications using Terrestrial and Satellite Radio links, Trieste, Italy, 7-25 Feb., 2000.
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, September 2014
  • Co-General Chair IEEE ANTS 2021; 13-16 Dec 2021 Hyderabad, India (https://ants2021.ieee-comsoc-ants.org/)

Memberships

  • Fellow IETE, The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India F-228544)
  • Senior Member, IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Member 41254107)
  • Member – OSA, The Optical Society, USA (Member Number: 1711624)
  • Member URSI – International Union of Radio Science (No.M1730313621)
  • Life Member – Society of EMC Engineers India (LM-1118)
  • Life Member – Optical Society of India (OSI)
  • Life Member, Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) LM-2382-2020
  • Life Member ISCA, The Indian Science Congress Association, India (No.L16099)

Publications

  • "Reconfigurable Radiation Pattern MIMO Antenna for Indoor 5G and WLAN Applications"; Deepa T and Rama Rao T; Accepted for publication in Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology (2025)
  • Graphene based linear array antenna and quad-port multiple input and multiple output antenna for terahertz wireless communication”; Govind Kumar Pandey and Rama Rao T; Accepted with  Microsystem Technologies, (Dec 2024)
  • "Study on Mode Properties of GaAs based Hybrid Plasmonic Terahertz Waveguide"; Pallavi M and Rama Rao T; Journal of Optics, Vol.26, No.8; (Jun 2024)
  • Graphene based series feed linear array antenna for terahertz short range wireless communication”; Govind Kumar Pandey, Rama Rao T, Manoj Kumar Rana; Optical and Quantum Electronics, 56, 1039, (May 2024)
  • “Numerical investigation and circuit analysis of interdigitated photoconductive antenna for terahertz applications”; Vaisshale R, T. Rama Rao and Shyamal Mondal; Optical & Quantum Electronics, Vol.56, Article No.1131, (Jun 2024)
  • “A QoS Improving Downlink Scheduling Scheme for Slicing in 5G Radio Access Network (RAN)”; Manoj Kumar Rana, Tommaso Pecorella, Bhaskar Sardar, T. Rama Rao Member, Debashis Saha; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.73, Iss.03, P. 4219 – 4233, (Mar 2024)
  • "Compound reconfigurable symmetric slotted mimo antenna with abs enclosure for indoor wireless applications"; Deepa T, Rama Rao T, Sandeep Kumar P; AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol 174, 155059, (Jan 2024)
  • "Graphene based waveguide fed hybrid plasmonic terahertz patch antenna"; Pallavi Mahankali , Shyamal Mondal , Rama Rao T and Susila M; Frequenz, vol. 78, no. 1-2, pp.71-78, (Oct 2023)
  • “Multifunctional twelve port frequency agile diversity antenna for indoor wireless applications”, Deepa T, Sandeep Kumar P, Rama Rao T, Sachin Kumar,; Nature Scientific Reports, 13:7979, (May 2023)
  • "Graphene based Quad Port Terahertz MIMO Antenna for Wireless Indoor Communications"; Govind Kumar P, T. Rama Rao and Shyamal Mondal; Optical & Quantum Electronics, 55, 746, (Jun 2023)
  • “Optimization of strip-based hybrid plasmonic terahertz waveguide with distributed Bragg reflector layers”; M Pallavi, Rama Rao T, Shyamal Mondal, Susila M; Optical Engineering 62(3), 037108, (Mar 2023)
  • "Quad Port Multipolarized Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna for Sub 6 GHz Applications"; Deepa T, Sandeep Kumar P, Rama Rao T; International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Vol.2023, Article ID 8882866, (Mar 2023)
  • “Well-to-Wheel Performance of Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles and Electric Vehicles”; Harshit Saini, Rama Rao T, Sanjai Saini, A Geetha, Vijay Sharma; Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, Vol.45, Iss.01, P.2089-2111, (Mar 2023).
  • “Compact Dual-band MIMO Cubical Antenna for Automotive Applications”; Lekha K, Sandeep Kumar P, Malathi K, M. Gulam Nabi A, Sachin Kumar, T Rama Rao;  International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 110, No. 4, P.768–787, (2023)
  • “On the Design and Performance Analysis of Flexible Planar Monopole Ultra-Wideband Antennas for Wearable Wireless Applications”; Deepa T, Rama Rao T, Sandeep Kumar P, Malathi K, Mohammed Gulam N A, Devisowjanya P, Sachin Kumar; International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 2022, Article ID 5049173, (Sep 2022)
  • “Quad-Port Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) - Backed Non-Isomorphic Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Antenna for Wearable Applications”; Thennarasi G, Sandeep K P, Malathi K , Sangeetha V, Sachin K and T Rama Rao; Flexible and Printed Electronics, Vol.7, No.3, (Sept 2022)
  • "A Compact Ultra-Wideband Multi-Mode Bandpass Filter With Sharp-Rejection Using Stepped Impedance Open Stub and Series Transformers", K V P Kumar, V Krishna V, R Rjkumar and T Rama Rao; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol.69, Issue.12, P.4824-4828 (Dec 2022)
  • "Interdigitated Photoconductive Terahertz Antenna for Future Wireless Communications"; Vaisshale R, T. Rama Rao, Shyamal Mondal; Microwave and Optical Technology Letters; Vol.64, Issue12, P. 2189-2196, (Dec 2022)
  • "6G and beyond: Investigation of broadband terahertz interdigitated photoconductive antenna by exploiting laser parameters"; Nisha Flora B, Jitendra Prajapati, Vaisshale R, T. Rama Rao and Shyamal Mondal; Microwave and Optical Technology Letters; Vol.64, Iss.12, P.2197-2206, (Dec 2022)
  • “3-D twelve-port multi-service diversity antenna for automotive communications”; Lekha K, Sandeep Kumar P, Malathi K, Preetam Kumar, M. Gulam Nabi A, Sachin Kumar, T Rama Rao; Nature Scientific Reports, 12, Article No. 403 (Jan 2022)
  • "Conformal Quad-Port UWB MIMO Antenna for Body-Worn Applications"; Thennarasi G, Sandeep Kumar P, Malathi K, Sachin Kumar, T Rama Rao and Mohammed Gulam N A; International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Volume 2021, Article ID 9409785  (Dec 2021).
  • “Quad-Port Multiservice Diversity Antenna for Automotive Applications"; by Lekha K, Sandeep Kumar P, Lulu Wang, Malathi K,Sachin Kumar, Mohammed Gulam Nabi A and T  Rama Rao; Sensors, 21, 8238, (Dec 2021).
  • “On the design and performance analysis of wristband MIMO/ diversity antenna for smart wearable communication applications”, Thennarasi G, Sandeep Kumar P, Malathi K, T Rama Rao, M. Gulam Nabi; Nature Scientific Reports, 11, Article number: 21917, (Nov 2021)
  • "Compact Dual-Band Bandpass Filter with High Passband Isolation Using Coupled Lines and Open Stub", K V P Kumar, V Krishna V and T Rama Rao; Microwave and Optical Technology Letters; Vol.63, Issue. 11, (Nov 2021)
  • “Performance Investigations of a Quad-band Microstrip Antenna for Body Wearable Wireless Devices”; Varshini Karthik and T. Rama Rao, ACES Journal, Vol. 36, No. 8, (Aug 2021)
  • “Microstrip Dual-Band Bandpass Filter with Wide Bandwidth Using Paper Substrate”, K V P Kumar, V Krishna V, Ayman A and T Rama Rao; IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 31, No. 7, P.833-836, (July 2021)
  • “Truncated elliptical Self-Complementary antenna with Quad-Band notches for SWB MIMO systems”, DineshKumar Rahejaa, SachinKumar, BinodKumar, Kanauji, SandeepKumar Palaniswamy, Rama Rao T, Malathi K; AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Volume 131, (March 2021)
  • “L-RPL: RPL powered by laplacian energy for stable path selection during link failures in an Internet of Things network”; M.Pushpalatha, T.Anushaa, Rama Rao T, RevathiVenkataraman; Elsevier's Computer Networks, Vol. 184, (Jan 2021).
  • “Implementation of a compact dual-band bandpass filter using signal interference technique on paper substrate”; Phani Kumar K, Ayan Arora, Abhishek M, Sarika Sarika, Manoswita Bhattacharjee, Chittaranjan Nayak and T Rama Rao; AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol.123, (Aug 2020)
  • "SINR based Association Algorithm for Indoor Device-to-Device Communication Networks", Sreedevi A G and T. Rama Rao, Springer's Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Vol.13, P.1921–1930, (June 2020)
  • “Compact Frequency and Bandwidth Reconfigurable Microwave Filter”; Saffrine K, Malathi K, M. Gulam Alsath, Sandeep Kumar P, T. Rama Rao, K. Indhumathi, Sangeetha S & Yogeshwari P S; Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 115, pages1755–1768, (July 2020).
  • “Security and privacy attacks during data communication in Software Defined Mobile Clouds”; Vaishnavi M, Revathi Venkataramana and T. Rama Rao; Elsevier, Computer Communications, Vol.153, P. 515-526, (March 2020).
  • Integrated 4G/5G Multiservice MIMO Antenna for Hand-Held Devices”; Sangeetha S, Malathi K, Gulam Nabi Alsath, Sandeep Kumar P, Rama Rao T, Saffrine K & Yogeshwari P S; Wireless Personal Communications,  Vol.111, P. 2023–2043, (Apr, 2020)
  • “Enhancing Machine Learning Aptitude Using Significant Cluster Identification for Augmented Image Refining”, S. Dhanalakshmi, S.Latha, T. Rama Rao, Deepak Verma and CSA Sriharsha; Intnl. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol.34, No.09, 2051009 (Aug 2020)
  • “Tunable Band-Notched High Selective UWB Filtering Monopole Antenna”; Saffrine K, Deepa T, Malathi Ki, M Gulam Nabi Alsath, Sandeep Kumar P, T Rama Rao, Sangeetha S, Yogeshwari P S, Padmathilagam S, Geetha G; IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation; Vol.67, Issue:8, (Aug. 2019)

Contact Details

  • E-mail id: ramarao.t@srmap.edu.in
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