Manoj Kumar Meshram was born in Balaghat (MP), India, in 1971. He received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and the M.E. degree in Microwave Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in the year 1994, 1998, and 2001, respectively.
From 1999-2001, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, where he carried out his research work on microstrip array antenna and ferrite devices. In August 2001, he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun, India, where he carried out his research work on microstrip antenna and MMIC. In July 2002, he joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, where he is working as Associate Professor presently. He received INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Fellowship 2008-09 from Govt. of India to visit South Korea under Bilateral Exchange program in which he joined Hanyang University (Electronics and Computer Division), South Korea and worked on the design and development of antenna for WCDMA and Wi-Fi repeater. In the year 2010, he has been awarded the BOYSCAST (Better Opportunity to Young Scientist in Chosen Area of Science and Technology) fellowship for one year for conducting advance research at McMaster University (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with Prof. Natalia K. Nikolova, where he was engaged in design and development of UWB and MIMO antennas. Recently, he has awarded INSA-DFG Fellowship 2017 from German Research Foundation to carry out research activities in Germany under Bilateral Exchange Program.
His research interests include microwave and millimeter wave technolgy, metamaterial, reconfigurable antennas, frequency scanning antenna for radar system, microstrip antenna, UWB antennas, MIMO antennas for handheld devices, Meta tapered slot antenna, ferrites, MMIC, and microwave imaging. He has published about 100 papers in International Journals. He is in the reviewer’s list of several reference journals in India and abroad. He is expert member of the project review committee of the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India. He has successfully executed the project entitled “Design and Development of Wide Band Vivaldi Antenna Array for Airborne Applications” for the transfer of technology under the CARS scheme of DARE, and it is being processed for batch production by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bengaluru.
He has a founder and Secretary of the society named Academic Society of Science Engineering and Technology, India. He is also a founder and Managing Editor of the Journal “International Journal of Advancement of Microwave Technology). Dr. Meshram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, member ofI ndian Science Congress Association, India, Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), India, and a Life Member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India. He is a recipient of Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award2015 (appreciated under Technology-Edge category) during the Festival of Innovation on 8th March, 2015 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. He received the Best Paper Award during the 87th session of the Indian Science Congress Association in January 2000 at Pune University, Pune, India.