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Chandrakanta Kumar

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Space Scientist and Project Director at ISRO | IEEE Leader.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Professional Service & Leadership

IEEE Bangalore Section

Chair, 2025

  • Achieved global #1 position for the first time
  • First section globally to touch 23k, 24k and 25k membership 
  • Propelled 33% membership growth in 2025
  • Contributed about 5% of Global IEEE Membership

Chair Elect, IEEE Bangalore section 2024

  • Elected to take over Chair of IEEE Bangalore Section in 2025 through voting
  • Elected with 53% voting in favor, in a 3-corner contest
  • Work with 16k+ strong members across Karnataka for the vision 2025

Vice Chair (Technical Activities) 2021, 2022, 2023

  • Improved quality of the events and flagship conferences—CONECCT, BTC, BHTC
  • This consistently improved the membership growth

Joint Secretary, 2020

  • Prompt switching over to virtual mode of events due to COVID-19
  • Maintained positive membership growth (one among very few globally) even in COVID years 
  • One among the top 5 performers of ExeCom during July-Dec
  • Initiated Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference (BHTC)

Technical Co-Sponsorship (of conferences) co-chair 2017, 2020

Chair, Chapter co-ordination Activities 2018, 2019, 2020

  • Revitalized the interaction between the section and its chapters
  • First meeting (2018) nine office bearer attended from six chapters and that increased to forty office bearers from twenty-three chapters/AGs in 2020

Executive Committee Member, 2017- till date 

IEEE AP-MTT Joint Chapter of IEEE Bangalore Section

Chair, 2024

  • Chapter rose to world #2 position with 950+ members
  • Membership grew from 530+ to 950+ nearing 80% growth
  • Received the Best Large Chapter Award of IEEE Bangalore Section

Chair Elect, 2022-2023

  • Organized maiden edition of MAPCon 2022 (joint conference of APs & MTTs) with 700+ delegates
  • MAPCon emerged as the largest conference of the society outside USA
  • Received the Outstanding chapter award (worldwide-1st Place) 2023 form AP-Society
  • Outstanding Chapter Winner 2023 of MTT-S

Secretary 2019, 2020, 2021

  • Revived the chapter that became almost inactive
  • Increased membership from 50 (2019) to 152 (2021)
  • Received the Best Small Chapter Award (2020) of the Section

IEEE AESS Chapter of IEEE Bangalore Section

Chair, Jan 2026-till date

Chair Elect, 2024, 2025

  • Initiated the conference ‘SPACE (Space Aerospace and defenCE) 2024’ of the chapter
  • ‘SPACE’ with 1000+ attendees a big success with AESS is now (2026) owning it
  • Successfully bid for RADARCON 2027 to be held in Bangalore

National Advisory & Scientific Committees

  •  Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

  1. Member of Individual Membership Committee 2026 onwards.
  2. Member of the Fellow committee 2022-2024.

  • Member of the Fellow committee, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), 2022-till date.
  • Member of ‘Technical Review Committee’ of LRDE/Defence Research and Development Organization 2024.
  • Member of the ‘Program Advisory Committees (PAC)’ of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), 2024-2025.
  • Member of the ‘Committee for reviewing the technical specification for Anechoic Chamber’ at Indian Institute of Space Technology, 2020

Scientific and Technical Conference

Year 2026

  1. TPC Chair, IEEE AP-S and MTT-S joint conference MAPCon-2026, Nagpur, India, 14-18 Dec, 2026
  2. TPC Chair, IEEE Space Aerospace and Defense Conference; SPACE 2026, Bangalore, India, 19-21 July, 2026

Year 2025

  1. General Co Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE India Council Conference, IEEE-INDICON 2025, Bangalore, India, 18-20 Dec, 2025
  2. General Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2025, Bangalore, India, 10-13 July, 2025
  3. TPC Chair, IEEE Space Aerospace and Defense Conference; SPACE 2025, Bangalore, India, 21-23 July, 2025
  4. Publication Chair, IEEE AP-S and MTT-S joint conference MAPCon-2025, Kochi, India, 14-18 Dec, 2025
  5. Executive Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE-Bangalore Technology Conclave 2025, Bangalore, India, 12-13 Sept, 2025

Year 2024

  1. Publication Chair, IEEE AP-S, MTT-S and EMC-S joint conference MAPCon-2024, Hyderabad, India, 9-13 Dec, 2024
  2. TPC Chair, IEEE Space Aerospace and Defense Conference; SPACE 2024, Bangalore, India, 22-23 July, 2024

Year 2023

  1. Organizing Committee Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2023, Bangalore, India, 14-16 July, 2023

Year 2022

  1. Finance Chair, IEEE AP-S and MTT-S joint inaugural conference MAPCon-2022, Bangalore, India, 12-16 Dec, 2022
  2. Organizing Committee Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2022, Bangalore, India, 8-10 July, 2022

Year 2021

  1. Organizing Committee Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2021, Bangalore, India, 9-11 July, 2021
  2. TPC Chair, IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference, R10-HTC-2021, Bangalore, India, 30th Sept-2nd Oct, 2021

Year 2020

  1. Core team member that started and organized the Humanitarian Technology Conference of Bangalore Section and served as TPC Chair and Publication Chair, of its inaugural edition. IEEE-B-HTC 2020, Bangalore, India, 8-10 Oct, 2020
  2. TPC Co-chair, IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2020, Bangalore, India, 2-4 July, 2020
  3. Track Chair, Antenna Systems for Futuristic Applications: IEEE Bangalore Section Conference, IEEE-CONECCT 2020, Bangalore, India, 2-4 July, 2020

Year 2019

  1. Member, TPC: The IEEE Region 10 Symposium, IEEE-TENSYMP 2019, Kolkata, India, 7-9th June, 2019.

Year 2018

  1. Member, TPC: IEEE-INAE Workshop on Electromagnetics (IIWE), Trivandram, India, 6-8th Dec., 2018.
  2. Member, TPC Review Committee and Finance Committee: Indian Conference on Antennas & Propagation (InCAP), by IEEE AP Society, Hyderabad, India, 16-19th Dec., 2018.
  3. Co-Chair, TPC: International Conference on Electronics, Communication, Computer Technologies and Optimization Techniques (ICEECCOT), Technically Sponsored by IEEE Bangalore Section, Mysore, India, 14-15th Dec., 2018.

Year 2017

  1. Co-Chair, Industry Liaison: Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC) 2017, Organized by MIT, Aurangabad, India19th –22ndDec, 2017.
  2. TPC Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Antenna Innovation and Modern Technologies for Ground Aircraft and Satellite Applications (iAIM 2017), IEEE Bangalore Section, Bangalore, India, 24-26 Nov 2017.
  3. Member, National Advisory Committee: International Conference on Advancement in Engineering and Technology (ICAET), Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India, Mar. 24th -25th, 2017

Year 2016

  1. TPC Chair: IEEE-INAE Symposium on Electromagnetic Education and Research, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, TN, India, Dec. 12-13, 2016.

Year 2013

  1. Scientific Committee Member: Indian Antenna Week (IAW) 2013
  2. TPC member: International Conf. on Microwave and Photonics-2013, ISM Dhanbad, India.

Year 2011

  1. Sponsor Chair: Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC) and IAW, Organized by IEEE Calcutta Section, Kolkata, India, 18th –22nd Oct, 2011. 

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