Kapil Dandekar

Kapil R. Dandekar

E. Warren Colehower Chair Professor
Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Graduate Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office of the Dean

Kapil R. Dandekar

E. Warren Colehower Chair Professor
Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Graduate Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office of the Dean

Biography

Kapil R. Dandekar (IEEE S’95-M’01-SM’07, AIMBE F’23) received a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1997. He received MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In 1992, he worked at the US Naval Observatory and, from 1993-1997, he worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory. In 2001, Dandekar joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is currently the E. Warren Colehower Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, the Director of the Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory (DWSL), and Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Graduate Education in the Drexel University College of Engineering. DWSL has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, Army CERDEC, National Security Agency, Office of Naval Research, FAA, DARPA, and private industry. Dandekar’s current research interests and publications involve wireless communications, reconfigurable antennas, and smart textiles. Intellectual property from DWSL has been licensed for commercialization. Dandekar is also a past member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board and co-founder of the EPICS-in-IEEE program.

Degrees / Education

  • PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
  • MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1998
  • BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1997

Research Areas

Research Interests

Wireless Communications, Antennas, Software Defined Radio, Functional Fabrics, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Engineering Education

Areas of Study

Academic Distinctions

  • 2023 - Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering 
  • 2019 - College of Engineering Outstanding Innovation Award
  • 2016 - Provost’s Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholarly Activity, Drexel University
  • 2015 - Drexel University College Outstanding Research Award, Drexel University College of Engineering
  • 2013 - President’s Award for Civic Engagement, Drexel University
  • 2012 - Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Educational Activities Board
  • 2007 - Department Research Award, Drexel University Electrical and Computer Engineering

Select Publications

  • M. A. S. Tajin, M. S. Hossain, W. M. Mongan and K. R. Dandekar, "Passive UHF RFID-Based Real-Time Intravenous Fluid Level Sensor," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 3863-3873, 1 Feb.1, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3342129.
  • M. A. S. Tajin, K. Anim and K. R. Dandekar, "Incident Power and Relative Phase Distribution Mapping in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Using Energy Harvesting," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 6111-6119, July 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3266844.
  • M. Jacovic, X.R. Rey, G. Mainland, K.R. Dandekar, "Mitigating RF jamming attacks at the physical layer with machine learning," in IET Commun. 17, 12–28 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12461.
  • D. Patron, W. Mongan, T. P. Kurzweg, A. Fontecchio, G. Dion, E. K. Anday, and K. R. Dandekar, “On the use of knitted antennas and inductively coupled RFID tags for wearable applications,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 10471057, Dec. 2016, issn: 1932-4545. doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2016.2518871.
  • N. Gulati and K.R. Dandekar, “Learning State Selection for Reconfigurable Antennas: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Special Issue: Antenna Systems and Propagation for Cognitive Radio), vol. 62, no. 3, March 2014,issn: 0018- 926X. doi: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2276414.
  • D. Piazza, N.J. Kirsch, A. Forenza, R.W. Heath, Jr., and K.R. Dandekar, “Design and Evaluation of a Reconfigurable Antenna Array for MIMO Systems” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 3, March 2008, issn: 0018-926X. doi: 10.1109/TAP.2008.916908.
  • C. Liang and K.R. Dandekar, “Power management in MIMO ad hoc networks: A game theoretic approach,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1164-1170, April 2007, issn: 1536-1276. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2007.348307.
  • C. Sahin, D. Nguyen, S. Begashaw, B. Katz, J. Chacko, L. Henderson, J. Stanford, and K. R. Dandekar, “Wireless communications engineering education via augmented reality,” in 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Oct. 2016, pp. 17. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2016.7757366.
  • D. Nguyen, C. Sahin, B. Shishkin, N. Kandasamy, and K.R. Dandekar,“A Real-Time, Protocol-Aware Reactive Jamming Framework Built on Software Defined Radios”, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF), 2014, isbn: 978- 1-4503-2995-8. doi: 10.1145/2627788.2627798. [Online]. Available: http://doi.acm.org/10. 1145/2627788.2627798.
  • K.R. Dandekar, S. Sinha and N. Ampofi-Anti, “IEEE-Based Implementation of Engineering Projects in Community Service,” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Con- ference, 2011, doi: 10.1109/GHTC.2011.70.

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