Dr. Sampad Kumar Panda

Dr. Sampad Kumar Panda is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, KL Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2015 in the areas of GNSS and Ionospheric Remote Sensing. He also holds Postdoctoral experience from Frederick University, Cyprus. Prior to his Ph.D., he completed an M. Tech. in Remote Sensing and GIS and an M.Sc. in Physics and Electronics. He received the Best Teacher Award at his present institute during the academic year 2019–2020 and the Award of Excellence in Research from Novel Research Academy in 2021. His research interests include Space Physics and Remote Sensing, GNSS, Ionospheric Scintillations, and their mitigations, Ionospheric Radio Occultation applications, etc. Currently, he is the PI of a project Equatorial Plasma Bubble and Zonal Irregularity Drift characteristics of Ionospheric Scintillations and Mitigations of the loss of lock through Dynamic Kalman filter Carrier Tracking for High-Performance GNSS Navigation and Positioning solutions under the Core Research Grant scheme from SERB, Government of India. He established a PolaRx5S real-time Ionosphere monitoring GNSS Reference Station in April 2021. He is a member of IEEE, the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, and a life member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, the Indian Society of Geomatics, and the Indian Radio Science Society.