Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Welcome to Department of Electrical Engineering

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  • The IEEE DEIS Summer School 2025 on the theme of 'Insulating and Multifunctional Dielectrics' was hosted for the first time in India, at IIT Kanpur, from 20th to 25th September.
  • IIT KANPUR Certificate Program on PYTHON + MATLAB/ OCTAVE-Based Simulation and Design of 5G/ 6G Wireless Technologies, 1st September to 26th September 2025
  • Dr. Meena Mishra, DRDO graced us as the Guest of Honour for the 58th Convocation.
  • Farewell to the class of 2025 organized by EEA on 22nd April 2025
  • Workshop on "Metamaterial Antennas and Applications" was successfully conducted from April 18-20 2025, coordinated by Prof. Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary and Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava
  • Invited Lecture by Prof. Akhilesh Jaiswal (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) titled "Unconventional Computing Paradigms from Extreme-Edge to Extreme-Scale" was successfully conducted on 15th April 2025
  • EMI/EMC (Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility) and Electrical Safety Test Facility, accredited by National Accreditation for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) was launched on 5 April, 2025 at IIT Kanpur under the leadership of Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar
  • Happy Hours for UG students organized by EEA on 24th March 2025
  • Invited Lecture by Prof. Souvik Mahapatra (IIT Bombay) titled “A Device (TCAD) to Circuit (SPICE) Framework for BTI and HCD Aging” was successfully conducted on 24th February 2025
  • Lecture by Prof. Saurabh Lodha (IIT Bombay) titled “Engineering the strain and neuromorphic performance of 2D-TMD transistors” was successfully conducted on 25th February 2025
  • Invited Lecture by Mr. Milind Dhighrasker, Senior Director, ON Semiconductors titled “Overview of Design Challenges for SiC-based Traction Inverters” on 31st January 2025
  • Invited Lecture by Prof. William G. Whittow, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering (WSMEME) at Loughborough University titled “Recent Advances in Reconfigurable RF Frontend Systems” was successfully conducted on 6th January 2025
  • Bonfire Evening - Relive the Joys of College Days organized by EEA on 4th January 2025
  • Invited Lecture by Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury (Stanford university) titled “Unleashing the Potential of Wideband Gap Materials” was successfully conducted on 2nd January 2025
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Admissions 2026-27 Semester-I Announcements Read More...

 

Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at IIT Kanpur. The EE department is one of the oldest departments at IIT Kanpur. It was one of the first five departments with which IIT Kanpur started in 1960. Subsequently, the Advanced Centre for Electronics Systems (ACES) came into existence in early 1970 by a grant from the Ministry of Defence to undertake manpower training and to carry out research and development related to defense. Subsequently, several sponsored projects in many subject areas with large interdisciplinary content were handled through ACES. ACES is now an integral part of the EE department and houses the majority of EE laboratories and facilities. The department is currently the largest multidisciplinary department at IIT Kanpur. It covers practically all sub-disciplines in Electrical and Communication Engineering including Power Systems, Power Electronics, Microwaves, RF techniques, Microelectronics, VLSI, Photonics, Control Systems, Robotics, Speech, and Audio Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Wireless Communication, Computer Networks, Future wireless networks like 5G/6G, Wireless sensor networks, and IoT networks. Read more

 
 

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Head of the Department
Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan
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  91-512-259-7454/ 7409 (Head's Office)
91-512-259-7164 (EE Office)

Contact for Faculty position aspirants:
Prof. Shubham Sahay
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Web-page co-ordinator:
Prof. Abhilash Patel
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DPGC Convener:
Prof. Abhishek K Gupta
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DUGC Convener:
Prof. Suvendu Samanta
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PG Admission Committee Convenor:
Prof. Shubham Sahay
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Most Downloaded Papers in Popular Transactions and Journals

  • "Nonlinear Formation Control Strategies for Agents without Relative Measurements under Heterogeneous Networks" by A. Sen, S.R. Sahoo and M. Kothari, , International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1653 - 1671, March 2018.
  • "Adaptive Low Rank Matrix Completion" by R. Tripathi, B. Mohan and K. Rajawat in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 14, pp. 3603-3616, July 2017
  • "Performance Evaluation of 7-nm Node Negative Capacitance FinFET-Based SRAM" by Tapas Dutta,Girish Pahwa,Amit Ranjan Trivedi,Saurabh Sinha,Amit Agarwal,Yogesh Singh Chauhan,pp no.1161-1164 in June,2017
  • "A unified analytical drain current model for Double-Gate Junctionless Field-Effect Transistors including short channel effects" by Raksharam and A.K. Dutta in Solid-State Electronics,April 2017
  • "Analytical models for the 2DEG concentration and gate leakage current in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs" by Nadim Ahmed and A.K. Dutta in Solid-State Electronics, Vol.132, pp. 64-72,April 2017
  • "An Angularly Stable Dual-Band FSS with Closely Spaced Resonances using Miniaturized Unit Cell" by Saptarshi Ghosh and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 218-220, March 2017
  • "Pole-Zero Approach to Analyze and Model the Kink in Gain-Frequency Plot of GaN HEMTs" by Sheikh Aamir Ahsan,Sudip Ghosh,Sourabh Khandelwal,Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Vol.27, pp. 266-268,March 2017
  • "Asynchronous Optimization Over Heterogeneous Networks via Consensus ADMM" by S. Kumar, R. Jain, and K. Rajawat in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 114-129, Mar. 2017
  • "Compact Model for Ferroelectric Negative Capacitance Transistor With MFIS Structure" by Girish Pahwa, Tapas Dutta, Amit Agarwal, and Prof. Y. S. Chauhan in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1366-1374, Mar. 2017
  • "Analysis and Modeling of Cross-Coupling and Substrate Capacitances in GaN HEMTs for Power-Electronic Applications" by Sheikh Aamir Ahsan, Sudip Ghosh, Sourabh Khandelwal, and Prof. Y. S. Chauhan in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 816-823, Mar. 2017
  • "Anomalous Transconductance in Long Channel Halo Implanted MOSFETs: Analysis and Modeling" by Harshit Agarwal, Chetan Gupta, Sagnik Dey, Sourabh Khandelwal, Chenming Hu, and Prof. Y. S. Chauhan in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. pp, no. 99, pp. 1-9, Jan. 2017
  • "Intelligent Condition Based Monitoring Using Acoustic Signals for Air Compressors" by Nishchal K Verma, Rahul K Sevakula, Sonal Dixit and Al Salour in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 65, no.1, pp. 291-309, 2016
  • "Analytical surface potential and drain current models of dual-metal-gate double-gate tunnel FETs (DMG-DGTFETs)" by Vishwa Prabhat and A.K. Dutta in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 2190-2196, 2016
  • "Analysis and Compact Modeling of Negative Capacitance Transistor with High ON-Current and Negative Output Differential Resistance—Part II: Model Validation" by Girish Pahwa, Tapas Dutta, Amit Agarwal, Sourabh Khandelwal, Sayeef Salahuddin, Chenming Hu, and Prof. Y. S. Chauhan in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4986-4992, 2016
  • "Analysis and Compact Modeling of Negative Capacitance Transistor with High ON-Current and Negative Output Differential Resistance—Part I: Model Description" by Girish Pahwa, Tapas Dutta, Amit Agarwal, Sourabh Khandelwal, Sayeef Salahuddin, Chenming Hu, and Prof. Y. S. Chauhan in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4981-4985, 2016
  • "Radial Basis Function Neural Network Nonlinear Equalizer for 16-QAM Coherent Optical OFDM" by S. T. Ahmad and Prof. P. K. Kumar in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 28, No. 22, pp. 2507-2510, 2016
  • "Three Element MIMO Antenna System with Pattern and Polarization Diversity for WLAN Applications" by Yashika Sharma, Debdeep Sarkar, Kushmanda Saurav and Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2016
  • "A Compact Microstrip-fed Triple Band-Notched Ultra-Wideband Monopole Antenna" by Debdeep Sarkar, Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava and Kushmanda Saurav published in IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 13, pp. 396-399, 2014.
  • "Resource Allocation and Fairness in Wireless Powered Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks" by Sanket S. Kalamkar, Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj, Prof. Adrish Banerjee, and Prof. Ketan Rajawat published in IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, NO. 8, August 2016.
  • "Polarization-Insensitive Single and Broadband Switchable Absorber/ Reflector and its Realization using a Novel Biasing Technique" by Saptarshi Ghosh, and Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 3665-3670, 2016.
  • "Multi-sensor data fusion methods for indoor localization under collinear ambiguity" by Sudhir Kumar (completed MTech. in 2015) and Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde published in Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Vol. 30, August 2016, Pages 18–31.
  • "Analytical Drain Current Modeling of Double-Gate Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors" by Arnab Pal (completed MTech. in 2015) and Prof. Aloke K. Dutta published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices VOL. 63, NO. 8, AUGUST 2016

Admissions - 2026-27 Semester I

The Department of Electrical Engineering offers PhD, MTech and MS by Research [MS(R)] admission with specialization in the area of

  1. Control and Automation (CA)
  2. Microelectronics and VLSI (MVLSI)
  3. Optoelectronics and Optical Communication (OPTEC)
  4. Power Engineering (PE)
  5. RF and Microwaves (RF)
  6. Signal Processing, Communication and Networks (SPCOM)

Please visit this page regularly for updates.

Apply here: Online Application Portal


Announcements

19 March 2026
  • Selection criteria for the MS(R) program during 2026-2027 Semester 1:
    All candidates will be selected on the basis of marks/CPI (wherever applicable as per the eligibility criteria), GATE Score, and interview. For the purpose of shortlisting, only the first preference will be considered.
  • Selection criteria for the PhD program during 2026-2027 Semester 1:
    Candidates with Master's degree in engineering will be selected on the basis of marks/CPI and interview. Candidates with a bachelor's degree in engineering or science (4 year program) will be selected on the basis of marks/CPI, GATE AIR (wherever applicable as per the eligibility criteria), and an interview. Candidates with a master's degree in science or allied area will be selected on the basis of marks/CPI in the master’s and bachelor’s degree and GATE AIR/JRF (wherever applicable as per the eligibility criteria), and an interview. For the purpose of shortlisting, only the first preference will be considered. However, candidates who have their second preference as ‘Optoelectronics and Optical Communication (OPTEC)’ or ‘Control and Automation (CA)’ or ‘Signal Processing, Communication and Networks (SPCOM)’ may also be called for interview in the respective stream, in addition to their first preference.
  • Shortlisting criteria for the MTech program during 2026-2027 Semester 1: All candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of marks/CPI (wherever applicable as per the eligibility criteria) and GATE Score (as per eligibility criteria), via the COAP portal. Additional selection criteria (if any) will be updated in this website in due course. Candidates applying for part-time, sponsored, or external registration will be selected based on interview instead of GATE score.
  • All candidates must upload (a) marksheets of their qualifying degree, (b) GATE score card (if applicable), (c) NOC from the employer (if applicable) in the prescribed format, and apply only to streams they are eligible for (see eligibility criteria).
  • Candidates belonging to the reserved category (OBC-NCL/EWS/SC/ST/DAP) should provide appropriate category certificate in the prescribed format of Government of India for OBC-NCL/EWS/SC/ST/DAP, or else they will be admitted as general students. There is no reservation for candidates belonging to the OBC category.

The dates for interviews (if applicable) along with other relevant details will be announced in due course of time. Please keep checking this page continuously.

 

Specializations

  

Control and Automation

  

Microelectronics and VLSI

  

Optoelectronics and Optical Communication

  

Power Engineering

  

RF And Microwaves

  

Signal Processing, Communications & N/ Ws