Dr. Sampad Kumar Panda

M.Tech., Ph.D

Associate Professor and Deputy Head (R&D & Faculty and Staff Affairs)

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering,

School of Electrical Sciences

KL Deemed to be University, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram

Guntur Dt., Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

sampadpanda@kluniversity.in ; 

+91-9392665582

Dr. Sampad Kumar Panda is presently working as Associate Professor & Deputy Head-Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering K L Deemed to be University, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vijayawada campus. Prior to joining at the present organization, he has a Postdoctoral research experience from the Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus. He received his Ph.D. degree with the thesis entitled “Estimations of Ionospheric Properties Over Indian Sub-continental Region from GPS Signal Analysis” from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India in 2015 and M.Tech. degree from SRM University, Chennai, India in 2009.

His research interests include space weather sensing and solar-terrestrial interactions through ground and space-based observations. He has been working on ionospheric characteristics over the equatorial and low-latitude Indian region through GNSS Observations, Magnetometer recordings, Radio Occultation and Model predictions during quiet as well as disturbed geomagnetic conditions. He has carried out research on empirical modeling and analysis of the ionosphere, and validation of global ionosphere maps and models over low latitudes. His recent works involve the study of ionospheric zonal irregularity drift characteristics, investigating the characteristics of equatorial F-region irregularities, equatorial plasma bubbles and ionospheric scintillations, and mitigation of loss of locks over low latitudes. He implemented a research and development sponsored project titled “Equatorial plasma bubble and zonal irregularity drift characteristics of ionospheric scintillations and mitigations of loss-of lock through dynamic Kalman filter carrier tracking for high-performance GNSS navigation and positioning solutions” sponsored by SERB, Government of India.

Under his supervision, 1 Ph.D. scholar is awarded and 5 are continuing their research. He supervised two M.Tech. dissertation and 10 undergraduate projects at the present organization. He has published more than 57 refereed articles and 17 conference proceedings with national and international collaborations. He has established a Multi-frequency Multi-constellation GNSS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitoring receiver (Septentrio make PolaRx5S) and hosts the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) station at the present organisation. He is an editorial board member of Journals International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences, VW Applied Sciences, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, and International Journal of Geophysics. He serves as reviewer in more than 50 journals published by Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, Willey, MDPI, IOPScience, etc. He visited several countries like United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, Cyprus, South Korea, etc. for presenting his research outcomes in different symposium and conferences.

He received the ‘Award of Excellence in Research’ from the Novel Research Academy in 2021.He is recipient of the ‘Best Teacher Award’ at KLEF Deemed to be University for the Academic year 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. He received Silver Award (Second Prize) at International Reference Ionosphere 2019 workshop, Frederick University, Cyprus, 2-13 September 2019.

He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society as well as life member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Indian Radio Science Society (InRASS), Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), and International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS).