Biography
As an educator, Dandekar teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in wireless communications, notably including co-teaching of a hands-on Software Defined Radio laboratory class for undergraduate and graduate students in CoE and CCI about the fundamentals of analog and digital communication with a “Radio Wars” class project. A member of Drexel Engineering and ECE since 2001, Dandekar is also a past member of the IEEE Education Activities Board and co-founder of the EPICS-in-IEEE program, an international service-learning program for which he was recognized by a meritorious service award from the IEEE Educational Activities Board and Drexel President’s Award for Civic Engagement.
In 1992, Dandekar worked at the US Naval Observatory and, from 1993-1997, the US Naval Research Laboratory. His work as director of 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. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, and a master’s and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
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.