Dr. Navneet Gupta is a Professor and Head of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India. He joined the Institute in the year 2005 and became full Professor in the year 2021. He was Associate Dean of Sponsored Research and Consultancy Division at the same institute during 2018 to 2022 (August). He was Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan-Tech), Taipei, Taiwan during May-July 2014.
Prof. Gupta has research interests in the area of Modeling of Micro/Nano Electronic Devices, Flexible and Wearable Electronics, Computational Material Science and Electromagnetics. He has published 75 research papers in international journals of high repute. He has also presented 65+ papers in various conferences in India and abroad. 8 Ph.D students have graduated working under his supervision.
Prof. Gupta has received research funding from various Government agencies which include UGC, DST, SERB, DRDO and MHRD. He completed two international projects; one with University of Sofia, Bulgaria and another with Tel-Aviv University, Israel in the area of flexible antennas and nano-sensors.
He has authored five text books in the area of Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics and Materials Science published by International and national publishers. He received Prof. S. S. Ranganthan Memorial Teaching Excellence Award 2022, Outstanding Engineering Services to Society Award by Institution of Engineers (India), Rajasthan State Centre, DST Young Scientist Award in Physical Sciences, Gold Medal in Master’s degree. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Senior member of IEEE and life members of Semiconductor Society of India, Material Research Society of India (MRSI) and Optical Society of India (OSI). He is an expert reviewer of many reputed International Journals including IEEE, Springer, Elsevier and IE (I).