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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
82
Citations
29913
World Ranking
451
National Ranking
209

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE 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.”
  • 1992 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to iterative solutions of numerical models in electromagnetic theory.

Overview

Tapan K. Sarkar was affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on fields related to electrical and electronic engineering, signal processing, and aerospace engineering, with additional interests in plant science and computational mechanics.

Their work encompassed several main topics, including:

  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques
  • Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
  • Antenna Design and Optimization
  • Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements

Sarkar contributed papers to numerous publication venues. The most frequent among these were:

  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sarkar included:

  • "Fast and Robust Variable-Step-Size LMS Algorithm for Adaptive Beamforming," 2020, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • "Robust Adaptive Beamforming Based on Covariance Matrix Reconstruction With Annular Uncertainty Set and Vector Space Projection," 2020, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • "Robust Wideband Adaptive Beamforming Based on Focusing Transformation and Steering Vector Compensation," 2020, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • "Antenna position optimization method based on adaptive genetic algorithm with self-supervised differential operator for distributed coherent aperture radar," 2021, IET Radar Sonar & Navigation
  • "On the Shape-Dependent Problem of Singularity Cancellation Transformations for Weakly Near-Singular Integrals," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Frequent collaborators included Karen Hawkins, Peter Tuohy, Thomas Siegert, Toshio Fukuda, and James Conrad.

Sarkar received recognition in the form of awards such as the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2020, which cited contributions to computational electromagnetic problems and adaptive antenna research. They were also named an IEEE Fellow in 1992 for work on iterative solutions for numerical models in electromagnetic theory.

Best Publications

  • Matrix pencil method for estimating parameters of exponentially damped/undamped sinusoids in noise

    Y. Hua;T.K. Sarkar

  • Using the matrix pencil method to estimate the parameters of a sum of complex exponentials

    T.K. Sarkar;O. Pereira

  • Analysis of Multiconductor Transmission Lines

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  • A survey of various propagation models for mobile communication

    T.K. Sarkar;Zhong Ji;Kyungjung Kim;A. Medouri

  • Generalized pencil-of-function method for extracting poles of an EM system from its transient response

    Y. Hua;T.K. Sarkar

  • On SVD for estimating generalized eigenvalues of singular matrix pencil in noise

    Y. Hua;T.K. Sarkar

  • Multiconductor Transmission Lines In Multilayered Dielectric Media

    Cao Wei;R.F. Harrington;J.R. Mautz;T.K. Sarkar

  • Time-Domain Response of Multiconductor Transmission Lines

    A.R. Djordjevic;T.K. Sarkar;R.F. Harrington

  • Wideband frequency-domain characterization of FR-4 and time-domain causality

    A.R. Djordjevic;V.D. Likar-Smiljanic;T.K. Sarkar

  • Comments on "Application of FFT and the conjugate gradient method for the solution of electromagnetic radiation from electrically large and small conducting bodies"

    D. Borup;O. Gandhi;T. Sarkar

  • Smart Antennas

    T. K. Sarkar;Michael C. Wicks

  • An L-shaped array for estimating 2-D directions of wave arrival

    Y. Hua;T.K. Sarkar;D.D. Weiner

  • A planar near-field to far-field transformation using an equivalent magnetic current approach

    P. Petre;T.K. Sarkar

  • Analysis of a wide radiating slot in the ground plane of a microstrip line

    M. Kahrizi;T.K. Sarkar;Z.A. Maricevic

  • A deterministic least-squares approach to space-time adaptive processing (STAP)

    Tapan Kumar Sarkar;Hong Wang;Sheeyun Park;R. Adve

  • L-shaped array for estimating 2-D directions of wave arrival

    Y. Hua;T.K. Sarkar;D. Weiner

  • Compensation for the effects of mutual coupling on direct data domain adaptive algorithms

    R.S. Adve;T.K. Sarkar

  • Near-field to near/far-field transformation for arbitrary near-field geometry utilizing an equivalent electric current and MoM

    T.K. Sarkar;A. Taaghol

  • An unconditionally stable scheme for the finite-difference time-domain method

    Young-Seek Chung;T.K. Sarkar;Baek Ho Jung;M. Salazar-Palma

  • Survey of numerical methods for solution of large systems of linear equations for electromagnetic field problems

    T. Sarkar;K. Siarkiewicz;R. Stratton

  • Analysis of Lossy Transmission Lines with Arbitrary Nonlinear Terminal Networks

    A.R. Djordjevic;T.K. Sarkar;R.F. Harrington

  • The finite element method in electromagnetics

    Magdalena Salazar-Palma;Luis-Emilio García-Castillo;Tapan K. Sarkar;Carretera de Valencia

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Wicks
Michael C. Wicks University of Dayton
Yingbo Hua
Yingbo Hua University of California, Riverside
Raviraj S. Adve
Raviraj S. Adve University of Toronto
Madhavan Swaminathan
Madhavan Swaminathan Pennsylvania State University
Teng Long
Teng Long Beijing Institute of Technology
Chang-Hong Liang
Chang-Hong Liang Xidian University
Ana I. Perez-Neira
Ana I. Perez-Neira Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Chi Hou Chan
Chi Hou Chan City University of Hong Kong
George V. Eleftheriades
George V. Eleftheriades University of Toronto
Karl F. Warnick
Karl F. Warnick Brigham Young University

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