Dr. T. Shanmuganantham is working as a teaching and research faculty in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Pondicherry University.
He holds administrative responsibilities as Faculty Advisor, NAAC Coordinator, BoS Member, School Board Member, PG Admission Committee Member, Hostel Warden, Placement Coordinator for the department, Coordinator for NMEICT and established the different laboratories in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Pondicherry University.
He received the B.E. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from University of Madras in the year 1996, M.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in the year 2000 and Ph.D. degree (Received Gold Medal for Best Thesis) in the field of Antenna Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli in the year 2010 under the guidance of Prof.S.Raghavan, Senior Professor (HAG), Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT, Tiruchirappalli. He has 22+ years of teaching experience. His research interest includes Antennas, Microwave/Millimetre-Wave Engineering and MEMS/NEMS, Specific antennas for Automotive, Healthcare, Satellite, Space, and Wireless industries.
He has published 210 papers in Peer Reviewed SCI/Web of Science/Scopus Indexed Journals, 420 papers in Conference proceedings such as IEEE Xplore and 12 Book Chapters Published in Springer Nature and Elsevier.
Professor Shanmuganantham is a Fellow of Antenna Test and Measurement Society (ATMS) elected by ISRO Scientists and also elected as Senior Member in IEEE (USA), Member in IEEE Antenna & Propagation Society, Member in IEEE Circuits & System Society, Member in IEEE Microwave Theory & Technique Society, Life Member in ISSS, IETE, IE (India), CSI (India), ISTE, EMC, ILA, OSI and ISI. He is also Member of School Board, Pondicherry University, Member of Board of Studies in Pondicherry University, University of Madras, Annamalai University and Christ University. His biography was included in ‘Marquis who is who in the world’, USA in 2010 & 2018, also his biography was selected in ‘Asia Pacific Who’s who’ in 2018.
He is on the Editorial Board Member of ICTACT Journal on Microelectronics, he is served as office bearer for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (India Chapter) from 2016 to 2019. He conceptualized and initiated five flagship IEEE sponsored conferences in India from 2014 – 2019 in the fields of Antennas, Microwaves, Circuit & Systems and he is elected as Chairman for IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society-Madras Section for 2020-2021.
He received more than 25 Best Paper awards from IEEE, Springer sponsored Conferences. 10 Ph.D. degree students have been awarded under his guidance and He is currently guiding 04 Doctoral Research Scholars. He has completed two sponsored projects worth Rs.57 lakhs. He is potential reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Microwave Theory and Techniques, Access, PIER Journals, John Wiley, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and many IEEE Conferences. He has been invited to many national and international conferences and he has lectured extensively in many Universities/Institutions. He visited many countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan in connection with various academic assignments.
His publication details and Citation indices are as follows: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=xguuaycAAAAJ&hl=en

Antennas, Microwave/ millimeter-wave/ Terahertz Engineering, MEMES/NEMS, RF Design & Technology, Optical Communication