Ashutosh Kedar received his M.Sc., M. Tech and PhD in Physics, Microwave Electronics and Electronic Science from University of Delhi (DU), India. He has fulfilled his duties as lecturer at Department of electronics Science (DOES), DU, from Sept 1999 till April 2003 and later as Research Associate (CSIR-DU) from April 2003 till Nov 2003.

He joined Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Bangalore, in 2003. He has contributed over there in design, development and realization of first active phased array radar (APAR) in the country. He has been leading since then the realization of active phased array antennas (APAA) for several projects at LRDE. He has been awarded “Technology group award’ for realization of first APAR and first four-walled search on move APAR in 2011 and 2018, respectively.

He has around 110 technical publications including 43 in IEEE journals/magazines/conferences to his credit. He has published a book on ‘Sparse Phased Array Antennas: Theory and Applications’ from Artech House, USA. He has also contributed a chapter on Phased Array Antennas in Handbook of Microwave and Meterology, Springer Nature. He has an Indian patent on ‘Radiating element for phased arrays’.

He is a Life fellow of WAMS Society, Fellow IETE, Senior Member IEEE, Life Member ACES, Member AMTA and Member SMART-L. He has supervised more than 35 Undergrad and Post Grad thesis and is currently supervising a PhD theses. He at present is with the ‘Directorate of Radar Antennas and Microwaves’ of LRDE and leading a project on Advanced RF and Microwave Technologies related to radar applications.

Dr. Kedar is a recipient of ‘Hari Ramji Toshniwal’ Award-2023 from IETE, India. He also received Best paper awards in ICMARS-2100 at Jodhpur, ATMS 2018, Pune, WAMS 2020 and Viterbi/CMI Vitesse Award in WAMS 2023 at Rourkela and Ahmedabad; and ‘IETE CDIL 2024’ Award at Bhopal.

At present he is serving as an Editor of IETE Journal of Research, and is on the board of reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Open Journal of Propagation and IEEE ACCESS. His name is listed in IEEE AP-S 200 Top Reviewers 2024.

He is an active volunteer of IEEE and at present is the Chair of the IEEE AP/MTT Jt. Chapter, Bangalore, Secretary IEEE AESS Chapter, Bangalore and Execom Member, IEEE Bangalore Section. He is presently serving as executive committee members for MAPCON and WAMS societies.

He was the TPC and Industry chair of MAPCON 2022 flagship conference of IEEE AP and MTT societies at Bangalore, TPC Chair for inaugural edition of IEEE SPACE 2024 and served as Track chair of CONECCT-2022, CONECCT-2023 conferences of IEEE Bangalore Section, Track Chair and Special Session Chair for MAPCON -2024.Currently he is serving as TPC chair for IEEE SPACE 2025 and Track and Industry Engagement Chair for MAPCON-2025.