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Prof. Runa Kumari

Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Antenna (Dielectric Resonator, Antenna Array, Log periodic, Microstrip), Reconfigurable
Room No H / 208
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Research Scholars

Full-Time PhD (Awarded)
 
1.    Name: Sandeep Kumar 
      Title of Thesis:  Bandwidth and Gain-Enhanced High-Efficiency Composite Right/Left- Handed Metamaterial Antennas for Wireless Applications
      Role: Supervisor 
      Status: Defended thesis successfully (16th Jan 2021) 
      Present: Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology, BML Munjal University (Hero Group), Gurugram, Haryana -122413, India.
 
2.   Name: Vinnakota Sarath Shankar (JRF, UGC)
       Title of Thesis: Design and Analysis of Metasurface-Assisted Rectennas for RF Energy Scavenging
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Defended thesis successfully (17th Aug 2022) 
       Present: Assistant Manager, HBL Power System 
 
3.  Name: Rajasekhar Nalanagula
      Area of research: Design and Analysis of Circularly Polarized Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Wireless Applications 
      Role: Supervisor 
      Status: Defended thesis successfully (23rd Sept 2024).
      Present: Associate Professor, ECE Department, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology (A), Vizianagaram, AP, India
 
4.  Name : Priyalatha.P (DST, WOS-A) 
       Area of research: Pattern Synthesis and Mutual Coupling Analysis of Icosahedron-Based Spherical Antenna Arrays
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Defended thesis successfully (22nd Oct 2024).
      Present: Assistant Professor, WILP Division, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India.
 
5. Name: Rajamanuri Venkata Sravya
       Area of research: Enhancing the Performance of Patch Antenna in Terms of Bandwidth and Gain Using Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures (EBG)
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Defended thesis successfully (27TH  Mar 2025)
        Present: Faculty in ECE department at KLH Bowrampet campus
 
6. Name: Neha Parmar
       Area of research: Overmoded Waveguide Transducers for High-Power Microwave Systems
       Role: Co-supervisor 
       Status: Defended thesis successfully (28th Mar 2026)
 
 

Full-Time PhD (ongoing)

7.  Name: Ch Suresh Kumar 
       Area of research: SIW Filter and Sensor
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Ongoing 
 
8.  Name: M S Vaishnavi
       Area of research: Dielectric Resonator Antenna
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Ongoing 
 
 Part-Time PhD (ongoing)
 
9.   Name: Chetan C Chowdhary
      Area of research: Doherty Power Amplifier (DPA)
      Role: Supervisor 
      Status: Ongoing
 
10.  Name: Ramprasad Ravula 
       Area of research: SIW Antenna
       Role: Supervisor 
       Status: Ongoing 
 

Research Interest

  • Dielectric Resonator Antenna
  • Microstrip antenna
  • Log periodic Antenna
  • Reconfigurable Antenna 
  • Antenna Array 
  • Metamaterial
  • Electromagnetic Band Gap
  • RF Harvesting
  • Filtantenna