Tapan Sarkar
Tapan Kumar Sarkar | |
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| Born | August 2, 1948 |
| Died | March 12, 2021(aged 72) Syracuse, New York,U.S. |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Known for | Generalized pencil-of-function method |
| Awards | IEEE Electromagnetics Award(2020) |
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| Thesis | Analysis of arbitrarily oriented thin wire antenna arrays over imperfect ground planes(1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bradley J. Strait |
| Website | ecs |
Tapan Kumar Sarkar(August 2, 1948 – March 12, 2021) was an Indian-Americanelectrical engineerand Professor Emeritus at theDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceatSyracuse University.He was best known for his contributions tocomputational electromagneticsandantenna theory.
Sarkar was the recipient ofIEEE Electromagnetics Awardin 2020.
Biography
[edit]Sarkar was born on August 2, 1948, inKolkata,India.He obtained hisBachelor of TechnologyfromIIT KharagpurandMaster of EngineeringfromUniversity of New Brunswickin 1969 and 1971, respectively. He received hisMaster of ScienceandDoctor of Philosophydegrees fromSyracuse Universityin 1975.[1]
Between 1975 and 1976, Sarkar worked for TACO Division ofGeneral Instrument.Between 1976 and 1985, he was a faculty member atRochester Institute of Technology;he also briefly held a research fellowship position at Gordon McKay Laboratory for Applied Sciences inHarvard Universityin between 1977 and 1978.[1]In 1985, he became a professor at Syracuse University and held the position until his death[2]in 2021.[3][4]
Sarkar acted as an associate editor for theIEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibilityin between 1986-1989 and forIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagationin between 2004 and 2010. He was the 2014 president ofIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society[3]and the vice president of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). Sarkar also served as board member for journals such asDigital Signal Processing,Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and ApplicationsandMicrowave and Optical Technology Letters.[2]Sarkar was the president of OHRN Enterprises, Inc., an incorporated business specializing in computer services and system analysis.[2]
He died on March 12, 2021, inSyracuse, New York.[3][4]
Research and awards
[edit]Sarkar's research interests focused on "numerical solutions ofoperatorequations arising in electromagnetics andsignal processingwith application to system design. "He is the author or co-author of more than 380 journal articles, as well as 16 books and, 32 book chapters.[2]Along with his doctoral student Yingbo Hua, he developed thegeneralized pencil-of-function methodforsignal estimationwith complex exponentials. Based on Sarkar's past work on the original pencil-of-function method, the technique is used in electromagnetic analyses of layered structures, antenna analysis andradarsignal processing.[5]He is also the co-author of the general purposeelectromagnetic solver,HOBBIES.[6]
In 2010, Sarkar was chosen as the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Antennas and Propagation Systems.[7]In 2020, he receivedIEEE Electromagnetics Award"for contributions to the efficient and accurate solution of computational electromagnetic problems in frequency and time domain, and for research in adaptive antennas."[8]He previously was the recipient of Best Paper Awards of theIEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibilityin 1979 and National Radar Conference in the 1997.[2]
Sarkar receivedhonorary doctorate degreesfromBlaise Pascal University,Technical University of MadridandAalto University,respectively in 1998, 2004 and 2012.[8]
Selected publications
[edit]- Journal articles
- Sarkar, T.; Nebat, J.; Weiner, D.; Jain, V. (November 1980). "Suboptimal approximation/identification of transient waveforms from electromagnetic systems by pencil-of-function method".IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.28(6): 928–933.Bibcode:1980ITAP...28..928S.doi:10.1109/TAP.1980.1142411.
- Wei, Cao;Harrington, R. F.;Mautz, J. R.; Sarkar, T. K. (April 1984). "Multiconductor Transmission Lines In Multilayered Dielectric Media".IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.32(4): 439–450.Bibcode:1984ITMTT..32..439W.doi:10.1109/TMTT.1984.1132696.
- Djordjevic, A. R.; Sarkar, T. K.;Harrington, R. F.(June 1986). "Analysis of Lossy Transmission Lines with Arbitrary Nonlinear Terminal Networks".IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.34(6): 660–666.Bibcode:1986ITMTT..34..660D.doi:10.1109/TMTT.1986.1133414.
- Djordjevic, A. R.; Sarkar, T. K.;Harrington, R. F.(June 1987). "Time-domain response of multiconductor transmission lines".Proceedings of the IEEE.75(6): 743–764.doi:10.1109/PROC.1987.13797.S2CID40311640.
- Hua, Y.; Sarkar, T. K. (February 1989)."Generalized pencil-of-function method for extracting poles of an EM system from its transient response".IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.37(2): 229–234.Bibcode:1989ITAP...37..229H.doi:10.1109/8.18710.S2CID122969497.
- Hua, Y.; Sarkar, T. K. (May 1990)."Matrix pencil method for estimating parameters of exponentially damped/undamped sinusoids in noise".IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.38(5): 814–824.doi:10.1109/29.56027.
- Hu, Fengduo; Sarkar, T. K.; Hua, Yingbo (January 1993)."Utilization of Bandpass Filtering for the Matrix Pencil Method".IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.41(1): 442–446.Bibcode:1993ITSP...41..442H.doi:10.1109/TSP.1993.193174.S2CID206795645.
- Sarkar, T. K.; Pereira, O. (February 1995). "Using the matrix pencil method to estimate the parameters of a sum of complex exponentials".IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.37(1): 48–55.Bibcode:1995IAPM...37...48S.doi:10.1109/74.370583.
- Sarkar, T.K.; Ji, Z.; Kim, K.; Medouri, A.; Salazar-Palma, M. (2003). "A survey of various propagation models for mobile communication".IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.45(3): 51–82.Bibcode:2003IAPM...45...51S.doi:10.1109/MAP.2003.1232163.
- Books
- Salazar-Palma, M.; Sarkar, T.K.; Garcia-Costillo, L.E.; Roy, T.; Djordevic, A. (1998).Iterative and Self-Adaptive Finite-Elements in Electromagnetic Modeling.Artech House.ISBN978-0890068953.
- Salazar-Palma, M.; Sarkar, T.K.; Wicks, M.C. (2002).Wavelet Application in Engineering Electromagnetics.Artech House.ISBN9781580532679.
- Sarkar, T.K.; Wicks, M.C.; Salazar-Palma, M.; Bonneau, R.J. (2005).Smart Antennas.Wiley-IEEE Press.ISBN978-0-471-72123-9.
- Sarkar, T.K.; Salazar-Palma, M.; Mokole, E.L. (2008).Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing.Wiley-IEEE Press.ISBN978-0-470-28923-5.
- Zhang, Y.; Sarkar, T.K. (2009).Parallel Solution of Integral Equation-Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain.Wiley-IEEE Press.ISBN9780470405451.
References
[edit]- ^abHua, Y.; Sarkar, T.K. (1989)."Generalized pencil-of-function method for extracting poles of an EM system from its transient response".IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.37(2): 229–234.Bibcode:1989ITAP...37..229H.doi:10.1109/8.18710.S2CID122969497.
- ^abcde"Dr. Tapan K. Sarkar".ecs.syr.edu.Archived fromthe originalon November 25, 2018.RetrievedMarch 15,2021.
- ^abcLyons, Gregory (March 13, 2021)."In Memoriam: Prof. Tapan Sarkar".mtt.org.RetrievedMarch 15,2021.
- ^abPerrins, Richard (April 6, 2021)."SU professor Tapan Sarkar remembered for academic excellence, generosity".The Daily Orange.RetrievedApril 7,2021.
- ^Sarkar, T. K.; Pereira, O. (February 1995). "Using the matrix pencil method to estimate the parameters of a sum of complex exponentials".IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.37(1): 48–55.Bibcode:1995IAPM...37...48S.doi:10.1109/74.370583.
- ^Zhang, Y.; Sarkar, T.K. (2009).Parallel Solution of Integral Equation-Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain.Wiley-IEEE Press.ISBN9780470405451.
- ^"Tapan Sarkar Chosen as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer".Syracuse Engineer.Syracuse, New York: L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. Summer 2011. p. 25.RetrievedMarch 12,2021.
- ^ab"2020 IEEE Electromagnetics Award".IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.68(12): 7740. December 2020.Bibcode:2020ITAP...68.7740..doi:10.1109/TAP.2020.3039030.
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