Indian-American electrical engineer (1948?2021)
Tapan Kumar Sarkar
(August 2, 1948 ? March 12, 2021) was an Indian-American
electrical engineer
and Professor Emeritus at the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at
Syracuse University
. He was best known for his contributions to
computational electromagnetics
and
antenna theory
.
Sarkar was the recipient of
IEEE Electromagnetics Award
in 2020.
Biography
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Sarkar was born on August 2, 1948, in
Kolkata
,
India
. He obtained his
Bachelor of Technology
from
IIT Kharagpur
and
Master of Engineering
from
University of New Brunswick
in 1969 and 1971, respectively. He received his
Master of Science
and
Doctor of Philosophy
degrees from
Syracuse University
in 1975.
[1]
Between 1975 and 1976, Sarkar worked for TACO Division of
General Instrument
. Between 1976 and 1985, he was a faculty member at
Rochester Institute of Technology
; he also briefly held a research fellowship position at Gordon McKay Laboratory for Applied Sciences in
Harvard University
in between 1977 and 1978.
[1]
In 1985, he became a professor at Syracuse University and held the position until his death.
[2]
He died on March 12, 2021, in
Syracuse, New York
.
[3]
[4]
Sarkar acted as an associate editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
in between 1986-1989 and for
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
in between 2004 and 2010. He was the 2014 president of
IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society
[3]
and the vice president of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). Sarkar also served as board member for journals such as
Digital Signal Processing
,
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
and
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
.
[2]
Sarkar was the president of OHRN Enterprises, Inc., an incorporated business specializing in computer services and system analysis.
[2]
Research and awards
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Sarkar's research interests focused on "numerical solutions of
operator
equations arising in electromagnetics and
signal processing
with 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 the
generalized pencil-of-function method
for
signal estimation
with 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 and
radar
signal processing.
[5]
He is also the co-author of the general purpose
electromagnetic solver
,
HOBBIES
.
[6]
In 2010, Sarkar was chosen as the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Antennas and Propagation Systems.
[7]
In 2020, he received
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."
[8]
He previously was the recipient of Best Paper Awards of the
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
in 1979 and National Radar Conference in the 1997.
[2]
Sarkar received
honorary doctorate degrees
from
Blaise Pascal University
,
Technical University of Madrid
and
Aalto University
, respectively in 1998, 2004 and 2012.
[8]
Selected publications
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- 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
.
S2CID
40311640
.
- 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
.
S2CID
122969497
.
- 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
.
S2CID
206795645
.
- 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
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- 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
.
ISBN
978-0890068953
.
- Salazar-Palma, M.; Sarkar, T.K.; Wicks, M.C. (2002).
Wavelet Application in Engineering Electromagnetics
.
Artech House
.
ISBN
9781580532679
.
- Sarkar, T.K.; Wicks, M.C.; Salazar-Palma, M.; Bonneau, R.J. (2005).
Smart Antennas
. Wiley-IEEE Press.
ISBN
978-0-471-72123-9
.
- Sarkar, T.K.; Salazar-Palma, M.; Mokole, E.L. (2008).
Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing
. Wiley-IEEE Press.
ISBN
978-0-470-28923-5
.
- Zhang, Y.; Sarkar, T.K. (2009).
Parallel Solution of Integral Equation?Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain
. Wiley-IEEE Press.
ISBN
9780470405451
.
References
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Hua, 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
.
S2CID
122969497
.
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"Dr. Tapan K. Sarkar"
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ecs.syr.edu
. Archived from
the original
on November 25, 2018
. Retrieved
March 15,
2021
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Lyons, Gregory (March 13, 2021).
"In Memoriam: Prof. Tapan Sarkar"
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mtt.org
. Retrieved
March 15,
2021
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Perrins, Richard (April 6, 2021).
"SU professor Tapan Sarkar remembered for academic excellence, generosity"
.
The Daily Orange
. Retrieved
April 7,
2021
.
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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
.
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Zhang, Y.; Sarkar, T.K. (2009).
Parallel Solution of Integral Equation?Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain
. Wiley-IEEE Press.
ISBN
9780470405451
.
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"Tapan Sarkar Chosen as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer"
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Syracuse Engineer
. Syracuse, New York: L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. Summer 2011. p. 25
. Retrieved
March 12,
2021
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"2020 IEEE Electromagnetics Award"
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
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68
(12): 7740. December 2020.
Bibcode
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2020ITAP...68.7740.
.
doi
:
10.1109/TAP.2020.3039030
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