Prof. Pramod Kumar

Prof. Pramod Kumar is a Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi. He previously served for 17 years at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, M.Tech. in Microwave Engineering, and PhD in Wireless Sensor Networks from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal. With over 20 years of teaching and research experience, he has published more than 60 research papers in reputed journals and conferences, along with several book chapters. He has successfully supervised three PhD scholars, with three more scholars currently pursuing their research under his guidance, and has guided 21 M.Tech. dissertations. He has served on the Technical Program Committees of numerous IEEE and Springer conferences, reviewed manuscripts for reputed international journals, and edited several conference proceedings. He has also served as General Chair of IEEE conferences, including AICECS 2024, INCIP 2025, and INCIP 2026. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Life Member of ISTE. His research interests include RF and microwave devices, microstrip and smart antennas, reconfigurable antennas, IoT-based wireless sensor networks, and ECG-based heart rate variability analysis.