Uday Khankhoje, IIT Madras

Brief bio-sketch

Appointments:

• Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering (IIT Madras), Apr 2021 –

• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering (IIT Madras), Sept 2016 - Mar 2021

• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering (IIT Delhi), Oct 2013 – Sept 2016

• Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California, Sept 2012 – Aug 2013
  Advised by Prof. Mahta Moghaddam

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech/NASA), Jan 2011 – Sept 2012
  Advised by Dr. Jakob van Zyl, and informally by Dr. Tom Cwik

Education:

• PhD & MS, Electrical Engineering, Caltech, 2005 – 2010
  Minors in Physics & Applied Physics
  PhD Thesis: Photon confinement in photonic crystal cavities (link, PDF)
  Advised by Prof. Axel Scherer, Caltech Nanofabrication Group and
  informally by Profs. Hyatt Gibbs and Galina Khitrova, The University of Arizona Tucson

• B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2001 – 2005
  Thesis advised by Prof. R K Shevgaonkar

Honours

• IETE-Smt Ranjana Pal Memorial Award, given for “significant achievements in the field of RF communications, electromagnetics, antennas, microwaves and high frequency electronics,” IETE, 2025

• Best teacher award for excellence in teaching (Electrical Engineering), IIT Madras, 2022

• Young Faculty Recognition Award (YFRA), IIT Madras, 2021

• IEEE Senior Member, 2016

• Institute award for teaching excellence, IIT Delhi, 2015

• Atwood fellowship for graduate studies, California Institute of Technology, 2005-06