IIT Bhubaneswar

Prof. PK Sahu

Prof. Prasant Kumar Sahu

Dean – Alumni Affairs & International Relations
Professor
 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. E&ECE 2008 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  • Senior Member Optical Society Of America (OSA) – 2018
  • Fellow IE(I) (2018)
  • Memebr ISSE-2017
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, India (MNASc)-2016
  • Fellow IETE – 2013
  • Senior Member IEEE – 2012
  • Life Member System Society of India -2010
  • Indo-Italian Research Fellowship (2007-08)
Prof. PK Sahu

Prof. Prasant Kumar Sahu

Dean – Alumni Affairs & International Relations
Professor
 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. E&ECE 2008 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  1. Mishra, P., Sahu, P.K., Kumar, H. and Jha, R. (2023), Human Pulse and Respiration Monitoring: Reconfigurable and Scalable Balloon-Shaped Fiber Wearables. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2300429. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202300429
  2. Manish Mishra & Prasant Kumar Sahu (2023) Fiber Bragg Gratings in Healthcare Applications: A Review, IETE Technical Review, 40:2, 202-219,  DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2022.2069608
  3. S. Malik, Y. H. Chung and P. K. Sahu, “On the performance of a hybrid frequency–phase-keying-based MIMO hybrid RF/FSO communication link,” in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 840-851, October 2022, DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.459216.
  4. Sarthak Mohapatra, Mitul Abhangi, Sudhirsinh Vala, Prasant Kumar Sahu, S. Rath and N. V. L. Narasimha Murty, Comparative study of Single Crystal (SC)-Diamond and 4H-SiC bulk radiation detectors for room temperature alpha spectroscopy, Journal of Instrumentation, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/06/P06020
  5. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Review on the developments and potential applications of the fiber optic distributed temperature sensing system, J. IETE Technical Review, pp. 1-15, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2021.1874551
  6. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath and N.V.L. Narasimha Murty, Defect characterization and numerical modelling of single-crystal ultra-pure intrinsic diamond, Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 106, June 2020, 107822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2020.107822
  7. Malik, S, Sahu, PK. Free space optical system design using particle swarm optimization. Int J Commun Syst. 2020;e4452. DoI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4452
  8. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, M-ary phase shift keying based single-input-multiple-out free space optical communication system over gamma-gamma fading channel and with pointing errors, OSA J. Applied Optics, vol. 59, no. 1, 2020.
  9. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, Free space optics/millimetre-wave based vertical and horizontal terrestrial backhaul network for 5G, Elsevier- J. Optics Communication, vol. 459, 2020.
  10. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath, Pratap K. Sahu, Shikha Varma and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Impact of nitrogen induced defect dynamics on UV response of diamond photodetectors, Superlattices and Microstructures, Volume 142, June 2020, 106504, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2020.106504.
  11. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath and N.V.L. Narasimha Murty, Defect characterization and numerical modelling of single-crystal ultra-pure intrinsic diamond, Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 106, June 2020, 107822. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2020.107822
  12. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Fabrication, Characterization and Technology Computer Aided Design Modelling of Single Crystal Diamond Photodetector, Sensor Letters , American Scientific Publishers, Volume 17, Number 6, June 2019, pp. 444-447(4). https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2019.4092
  13. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Fabrication, Characterization and Technology Computer Aided Design Modelling of Single-Crystal Diamond Photodetector, Sensor Letters , American Scientific Publishers, Volume 17, Number 6, June 2019, pp. 444-447(4), Doi: https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2019.4092
  14. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Sahu, Measurement of temperature and strain simultaneously with high spatial resolution for a long sensing range,IET Optoelectronics, IET Digital Library, 2019/6/24
  15. S. Malik, P.K. Sahu, A comparative study on routing protocols for VANETs, Elsevier-Heliyon, vol. 5, no. 8, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02340.
  16. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Dynamic range enhancement of OTDR using lifting wavelet transform-modified particle swarm optimization scheme, J. IET Optoelectronics., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Jul. 2019. DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2018.5163
  17. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Strain resolution enhancement in Rayleigh-OTDR based DSS system using LWT-MPSO scheme, J. Elsevier Optik, vol. 176, no. 1, pp. 102-113, Sep. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2018.09.060
  18. Satya Ganesh Dontamsetti and P. K. Sahu, Speech Based Access of Agricultural Dealers Information in Odia Language, Journal of Appl. Theory Comput. Technol., 2016, 1(1), 8-16. DOI: 10.22496/atct20161026106
  19. H. S. Pradhan, P. K. Sahu, Brillouin distributed strain sensor performance improvement using FourWaRD algorithm, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Elsevier, December 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2015.11.190
  20. P Padhy, PK Sahu, R Jha, “Metal Wire Waveguide Based All Plasmonic Refractive Index Sensor For Terahertz Frequencies,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015
  21. H S Pradhan, PK Sahu, Brillouin distributed temperature sensor employing phase modulation and optimization techniques, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 126 (7), 788-794, 2015
  22. Pradhan, H.S.; Sahu, P.K..  “High-performance Brillouin distributed temperature sensor using Fourier wavelet regularised deconvolution algorithm”, IET Optoelectronics, vol.8, no.6, pp.203-209,  December 2014
  23. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Sahu.  “Characterisation of Raman Distributed Temperature Sensor using Deconvolution Algorithms”,  IET Optoelectronics,  October 2014
  24. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, P.K. Sahu.  “150 km long distributed temperature sensor using phase modulated probe wave and optimization technique”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 441-445, ISSN 0030-4026,  January 2014
  25. Sanjaykumar Gowre, Sudipta Mahapatra, S.K. Varshney, P.K. Sahu.  “Dispersion characteristics of all-glass photonic crystal fibers”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 18, pp. 3730-3733, ISSN 0030-4026,  September 2013
  26. Bijayananda Patnaik, P.K. Sahu.  “Ultra high capacity 1.28 Tbps DWDM system design and simulation using optimized modulation format”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 13, pp. 1567-1573, ISSN 0030-4026,  July 2013
  27. Bijayananda Patnaik, P.K. Sahu.  “Optimized ultra-high bit rate hybrid optical communication system design and simulation”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. 170-176, ISSN 0030-4026, ,  January 2013
  28. Sanjaykumar Gowre, Sudipta Mahapatra, and P. K. Sahu.  “A Modified Structure for All-Glass Photonic Bandgap Fibers: Dispersion Characteristics and Confinement Loss Analysis”,  ISRN Optics, vol. 2013, Article ID 416537, 5 pages,  2013
  29. Bijayananda Patnaik and P. K. Sahu.  “Design and study of High Bit-rate Free- space Optical Communication System employing QPSK Modulation”,  Int. J. Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, Inder Science, vol. 6, no. 1,  2013
  30. Patnaik, B.; Sahu, P.K..  “Inter-satellite optical wireless communication system design and simulation”,  IET Communications, vol.6, no.16, pp.2561-2567,  November 2012
  31. Vijay Kumar, Ganapati Panda, Prasant Kumar Sahu.  “DHT Based 4 QAM OFDM Baseband System and Channel Estimation”,  International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, vol. 2, no. 5, pp 80-84,  November 2009
  32. Sahu, P.K.; Gowre, S.C.; Mahapatra, S..  “Optical time-domain reflectometer performance improvement using complementary correlated Prometheus orthonormal sequence”,  IET Optoelectronics, vol.2, no.3, pp.128-133,  June 2008
  33. Soto, Marcelo A.; Sahu, P.K.; Bolognini, Gabriele; Di Pasquale, F..  “Brillouin-Based Distributed Temperature Sensor Employing Pulse Coding”,  IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.8, no.3, pp.225-226,  March 2008
  34. Soto, M.A.; Sahu, P.K.; Faralli, S.; Bolognini, G.; Di Pasquale, F.; Nebendahl, B.; Rueck, C..  “Distributed temperature sensor system based on Raman scattering using correlation-codes”,  Electronics Letters , vol.43, no.16, pp.862-864,  August 2007
Book/ Book Chapter
  1. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan and P. K. Sahu, “SNR Enhancement of Brillouin Distributed Strain Sensor using Optimized Receiver”, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICACNI 2015, Volume 1, Part IV, Pp:377-384, ISBN: 978-81-322-2537-9
  2. P. K. Sahu and Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, “Performance Enhancement of Brillouin Distributed Temperature Sensor Using Optimized Fiber,” Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Informatics, Volume 243, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 81-89, ISBN: 978-81-322-1664-3, 2013
  3. Utpal Das, P.K. Sahu, Bijayananda patnaik, “Ultra High Bit-rate Fiber Optic Hybrid (WDM and TDM) Communication System Design and Simulation,” Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2, Volume 28 , Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies pp 159-168, ISBN:978-3-319-07349-1, 2014
  4. 35th National Systems Conference: Advanced Research Series edited by D. Ghosh, P.K. Sahu, G. Panda and S. Mukhopadhyay ISBN: 978-935-059-045-4
  5. Himanshu Shekhar Pradhan, P.K. Sahu, D. Ghosh and Sudipta Mahapatra, “Brillouin Distributed Temperature sensor using Optical Time domain reflectometry Techniques Fiber Optics Sesnors: Current Status and Fiuture possibilities, ISSN: 2194-8402, Springer
  • Advanced Modulation Formats and Signal Processing Schemes,
  • Communication System Design and Modelling,
  • Fiber Optics Device Design and Simulation,
  • High Bit-rate System Design, Optical Communication,
  • Optical Sensor,
  • Photonic-electronic Signal Processing,
  • Speech Signal Processing;
  • Free space Optic;
  • Remote sensing;
  • Deep Space Communication;
  • Bio-medical sensor Design;
  • Fiber Sensor-based Structural Health Monitoring System Design.
  1. Design and Development of Doppler Radar System for Inbore Measurement
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ARMREB, DRDO, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2022.
  2. Design and Development of a Software Defined Radar for Road Safety Applications
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: State Transport Authority, Odisha, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.
  3. Bone health classification using machine learning
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: SERB – DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.
  4. Add on Radar for Jamming UAVs
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ATB, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2020.
  5. DST-FIST Grant for settingup/upgradation of Microwave-Optical Engineering and Sensing
    Laboratory
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2018.
  6. Speech Based Access of Agricultural Commodity Prices and Weather Information in Indian
    Languages/ Dialects – Odiya Language
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. N V L N Murty,
    Funding Agency: DeitY, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2014.
  7. Robust Nonlinear Channel Equalization and Identification Using Bio-Inspired techniques
    Principal Investigator: Prof. G. Panda,
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2010.
  8. Design and Implementation of three Virtual class rooms at IIT Bhubaneswar
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2010.
  • Introduction to Electronics (EEA 2002),
  • Measurements and Electronics Instruments (EES 2002),
  • Analog and Digital Communication (EEA 3004),
  • Modern Radar System (EE S 60079),
  • Information Theory & Coding (EES 6001),
  • Optical Communication (EC6L012),
  • Advance Communication Engineering (EEA6001),
  • Electromagnetic Engineering (EES2001),
  • Design and Simulation Lab (EC6P005),
  • Analog Communication (EC2L005),
  • Analog Ciommunication Lab (EC2P005),
  • Digital Communication (EC3L006),
  • Digital communication lab (EC3P003)
  1. Dean (Alumni Affairs and International Relations): June 2022 to continuing;
  2. DPC Chair (Technical), 2022 to continuing;
  3. Academic council member, VSSUT, Burla 2023-continuing;
  4. Professor in charge VARCoE: July 2019 to March 2023;
  5. Senate member, IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2019-2022;
  6. Senate Member, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2016-2019;
  7. Senate Member, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2020-Continuing;
  8. HoS (Electrical Sciences): July 2016 to June 2019;
  9. PIC, Networks and Security Services, 2016-2022;
  10. Chairman, CITSC 2016-2019;
  11. PG Coordinator (ECE):2012-2014;
  12. Chairman, CITSC 2012-2015 ;
  13. HoS (Electrical Sciences) 2010-2012;
  14. EAA Coordinator 2009-2011, PIC-Telephone network, PIC-Timetable;
  • Senior Member Optical Society Of America (OSA) – 2018
  • Fellow IE(I) (2018)
  • Memebr ISSE-2017
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, India (MNASc)-2016
  • Fellow IETE – 2013
  • Senior Member IEEE – 2012
  • Life Member System Society of India -2010
  • Indo-Italian Research Fellowship (2007-08)
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