Contact Information:

Dr. Nemai Chandra Karmakar
(Associate Professor)
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University
Bldg 72, PO Box 35
Clayton Campus, VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA
Phone: (613) 9905 1252
Fax: (613) 9905 3454

Email: nemai.karmakar@monash.edu

Email: nemai.karmakar@gmail.com

Text Box: Professor Nemai Chandra Karmakar

Last Updated

January 2012

Photos: Dr. Karmakar in his PhD Anechoic Chamber at UQ, Sept. 2011

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Text Box: What is Chipless RFID? A chipless RFID is a fully printable passive microwave circuit that responds to an interrogating signal with a pre-defined frequency, time and hybrid-domain signatures. Since the tag has no application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the cost of the tag is comparable to the optical barcode. Text Box: What is unique about Chipless RFID? A chipless RFID has the potential to remove and\or co-exists optical barcodes. The tag can also offer flexibility like a chipped tag. It can also be directly printed on paper and plastic. It is called smart labels. Text Box: What type of reader is needed for Chipless RFID? A dedicated reader is designed to read a specific chipless tag. Since the tag is fully dumb-contains no intelligence chipset, the reader contains all signal processing and intelligence capabilities. Based on frequency, time and hybrid domain tag types, readers are designed. Conventional anit-collision and hand-shaking algorithm cannot be used in chipless tag system. Text Box: What type of Chipless tag MMARS developed? MMARS pioneered in developing frequency signature based chipless tag in both microwave and mm-wave frequency bands. Gen1 tag is a dual-polarised stopband multi-resonator filter also called re-transmission tag. A mm-wave back-scattering chipless tag is also developed with 29-bit data capacity. A time-domain tag is also designed based on TDR principle. Two patent applications are filed on the invention. Four books, twenty six book chapters, approximately one hundred fifty refereed journal and conference papers are published in the field.

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Qualifications:

BSc (EEE) 1987, MSc (EEE) 1989, 1991, PhD(EEE) 1999,

MHEd 2007, PGDipTHE (Education) 2001, SMIEE1999

 

Employment History:

Assistant Engineer, Atomic Energy Comm, Bdesh, 87-89

Research Assistant, Univ of Saskatchewan, Canada 99-92

Design Engineer, Mitec Ltd, Brisbane, Australia, 92-95

Lecturer (Part-time), QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 95-96

Research Officer, UQ, Microwave Lab, Australia, 97-98

Research Engineer, Radar Lab, NTU, Singapore, 98-99

Assistant Professor, NTU, Singapore, 99-04

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia, 2004-2011

Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia, 11-

Details of Competitive Grant Funding (2000-present):

2011-2013: ARC Discovery Project: Electronically controlled phased array antenna for universal Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) applications

2011-2012: Smart SME program (Multimedia Victoria): Mt. Buller Vehicle Tracker Project (with Mr. Robert Reed, FE Technologies, Geelong, Vic.)

2010-2013: ARC SRI in Bionic Vision (with Lowery, Kleeman, Ho et al)

2009-2012: ARC Linkage Project Grant: Back-scatter based RFID system capable of reading multiple chipless tags for regional and suburban libraries (with Karthikeyan, Industry Partner: FE Technologies)

2009-2011: ARC Linkage Project Grant: Printable Multi-Bit Radio Frequency Identification for Banknotes (with Sweigers; Industry Partners: Securency and SatNet, VIC)

2009-2011: ARC Linkage Project Grant: Smart Information Management of Partial Discharge in Switchyards using Smart Antennas (with Vashishtha; Industry Partner: SP-AusNet, VIC)

2007-2010: ARC Linkage Project Grant: Radio Frequency Wireless Monitoring in Sleep Apnoea (Particularly for Paediatric Patients), over 3 years (with A/P I. Brown; Industry Partner: Regni Health, VIC )

2006-2009: ARC Linkage Project Grant, “Investigation into improved wireless communication for rural and regional Australia”, (with PactSat Comm., NSW)

2006-2008: ARC Discovery Grant: Chipless RFID for Barcode Replacement, (with G. Swiegers, CSIRO)

2001-2003: National Science and Technology Board, Singapore: Strategic Project: Micro-electromechanical Identification Tag (MEMIT) (with Law, Shen, Aditya)

2000-2002: NTU-MINDEF Research Fund: VSAT Active Antenna Array: (with Lee, Aditya, Law)

 

Peer Reviewed Publications:

3 books; 31 book chapters, 70 journal papers, 162 conference papers, 2 Australian and International patents applications, 2 invited lectures, numerous conference abstracts, session chair in reputable international conferences, reviewers of prestigious journals like IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations etc. (~900 ISI Citations; h-factor 19)

 

Member of Editorial Board: (i) International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering; (ii) International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems; (iii) International Journal of Automated Identification Technology; and (iv) International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems; Member of Organising Committee of APMC 2011: Publishing Editor, Full-Day Workshop Organiser; Invitation for E-book Series, Bentham Science Publishers, The Netherlands.