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: A/Prof. Nemai Chandra Karmakar

Last Updated

February 2017

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/mm-wave 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 uniqueness about Chipless RFID? A chipless RFID has the potential to remove and/or co-exists with the optical barcode. The tag can also offer flexibility in operation as a chipped tag does. It can also be directly printed on paper and plastic. It is called a smart label. 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 without an intelligence chipset, the reader contains all signal processing and intelligence capabilities. Based on the tag types, specific readers are designed. Specific anit-collision and hand-shaking algorithm are designed for chipless RFID system. Text Box: What type of Chipless tag MMARS has developed? MMARS has 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 a 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. MMARS filed 10 patent applications on inventions and published 12 books, 36 book chapters, hundreds of refereed journal and conference papers are published in the field. So far 15 PhD completions have happened in the field.

Qualifications:

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

MHEd 2007, PGDipTHE (Education) 2001, SMIEE1999

Employment History:

Teaching Assistant, EEE, BUET, Dhaka, B'desh, 87-89

Assistant Engineer, Atomic Energy Comm, B'desh, 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, 04-11

Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia, 12-

Details of Research Grant (2000-present). Career total $16 M as CI and $3 as researcher.

2017-2019: Next generation Li-Fi Technology, $600,000 (with nextLiFi, Melbourne, Australia)

2016-2020 ARC Discovery Project Grant: Airborne passive radiometer for high-resolution soil moisture monitoring, $660,000 (with Rudiger)

2016 Contract Research: Chipless RFID for smart packaging, $35,000 (with SCG Packaging, Thailand)

2015-2017 Xerox University Affairs Committee Grant: MIMO SAR for mm-wave chipless RFID systems, $127,000 (with Stowe, Palo Alto, CA, USA)

2015 ARC LIEF Grant (LE150100047, LE 2015 R1): Airborne passive radiometer for high-resolution soil moisture monitoring, $540,000 (with Walker; Rudiger, Hacker, Lucas)

2015 Contract Research: Partial discharge data acquisition system for smart antenna" $63,000 (with AusNet Services, Vic, Australia)

2014 Contract Research: Development of 30-bit chipless RFID Tag, (with RFIDTech, Vic., Australia)

2013-2016 ARC Linkage Project Grant: Discreet reading of printable multi-bit chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on polymer banknotes. (with Yerramilli, Innovia Security and Hilderbrandt, SatNet)

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 Reed, FE Technologies, Geelong, Vic.)

2010-2013 ARC SRI in Bionic Vision: Stimulation of the visual cortex: a flexible strategy for restoring high-acuity pattern 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; CSIRO, 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), (with Brown; Industry Partner: Regni Health & Science, 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)

Since 2012-2016, executed numerous contract research projects worth $270,000.

Peer Reviewed Publications:

12 refereed books, 11 patent applications, ~400 refereed book chapters, journal and conference papers, keynote/invited speeches/workshops and 15 successful PhD supervision . (Google Scholar Citations: 3,874; h-factor: 29)

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 Invited Speaker IEEE IMS2017, Organiser in EuMW2017.

Photos: MMARS RFID project group

MMARS Research Reports for 2013, 2015, 2016

Photos: With international distinguished researchers at APMC 2011 in Melbourne, Australia, December 2011

Photos: Attendees and presenters of workshop on RFID and Sensors at APMC 2011 organised by Dr. Karmakar