Our Faculty

• Ph.D. in 2022, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
• M.Tech. in 2012, Digital Signal Processing, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, GB Pant Engineering College, Pauri, Uttarakhand, India (Gold Medal)
• B.Tech. in 2010, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, GB Pant Engineering College, Pauri, Uttarakhand, India (First class with distinction

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Senior Scale, UPES Dehradun, Uttarakhand (Feb 2025- Nov 2025)
• Assistant Professor, Dehradun Institute of Technology (DITU) Dehradun, Uttarakhand (Aug 2024- Feb 2025)
• Assistant Professor, Women Institute of Technology Dehradun, Uttarakhand (Oct 2013-July 2016)
• Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand (July 2012- Oct 2013)

Research Experience:

• Project Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (Feb 2024- Aug 2024)
  • Worked on a project that aimed to advance the field of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) by developing and proposing 3GPP standardization frameworks with the key objectives to enhance spectral efficiency, improve sensing coverage, and ensure seamless integration of sensing and communication functionalities for applications like smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and indoor positioning systems.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Padova, Italy (June 2022- Oct 2023)
  • Worked on a project in that focuses on Beam Management for 5G New Radio (NR)/RAN reduced capability (RedCap) devices in compliance with the 3GPP guidelines for millimeter wave communications with the objective of energy sustainability for specific scenarios like Indoor Factory and Smart agriculture.
• Early Doc Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (Jan 2022- Apr 2022)
  • This work focused on 6G research, specifically Non-Terrestrial networks, wherein I investigated the optimal sector beamwidth for a cell served by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) acting as a base station (BS) using millimeter wave communications and provided guidelines towards the optimal beamforming configurations for users in rural areas.
• Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (July 2021- Dec 2021)
  •  Worked on a project titled “Build end-to-end 5G test bed”, where we proposed a solution to overcome the digital divide while sustaining efficient resource allocation in non-terrestrial networks (NTN) in 6G mobile communications and next-generation wireless communications

Research Interest 

• 5G New Radio (NR), 3GPP RAN architectures, Non-Terrestrial networks (NTN), specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), energy sustainable solutions, statistical analysis, optimization.
• Underwater acoustic communication, statistical channel modeling, cooperative techniques, angle of arrival analysis, Doppler effect, and vector sensor receivers.

Technical Skills

• Programming languages/Solvers: MATLAB, GAMS, C, C++.
• Basic Softwares: LATEX, Mathematica, Microsoft Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ Visio.
• Optimization Tools: MATLAB (optimization toolbox) and GAMS.

• Received financial grant from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to attend 27th National Conference on Communications (NCC), July 2021, virtual event.
• Received travel grant of INR 20,000 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to attend IEEE COMSNETS, 2020 held in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Received financial grant of USD 700 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to attend IEEE Sensors, 2018 held in New Delhi, India.
• Received travel grant of INR 1,50,000 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to attend IEEE Oceans, 2018 held in Kobe, Japan.
• Awarded Ministry of Education (Government of India) scholarship for research starting from July 2016.
• Awarded Ministry of Education (Government of India) scholarship for studying Master of Technology during 2010-2012.

Research Talks Delivered

• Delivered a research talk on ‘Connecting the Unconnected across extreme environments’ at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Haridwar Campus.

Invited Talks

• Delivered a talk on ‘Next Generation Wireless Communication’ at Parul University.

• Attended a 3 Day Online Workshop on “Quantum Computing and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)” under the aegis of Continuing Education Programme, IIT Delhi.

Membership

• IEEE member, IEEE Communications Society

Awards

• Gold medal in M.Tech. by Uttarakhand Technical University 2012.
• Third prize in All India Essay Writing Event organized by Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) and United Nations Informations Center for India and Bhutan (UNIC) 2011.
• First prize in debate competition organized by Indian Society for Technical Education (students chapter) 2007.
• Certificate of merit for several competitions at school and college level such as debates, essay writing, extra curricular activities etc.

Conferences

• M. Rawat, Matteo Pagin, Marco Giordani, Louis-Adrien Dufrene, Quentin Lampin, Michele Zorzi, ”Minimizing Energy Consumption for 5G NR Beam Management for RedCap Devices”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023.
• M. Rawat, Marco Giordani, Brejesh Lall, Abdelaali Chaoub, and Michele Zorzi, ”On the Optimal Beamwidth of UAV-Assisted Networks operating at Millimeter Waves”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) workshops, Glasgow, Scot land, 2023.
• M. Rawat, B. Lall and S. Srirangarajan, “Angle of Arrival Distribution for Coherent Scatter ing from an Undulating Sea Surface,” 27th National Conference on Communications (NCC), Virtual Event, Jul. 2021.
• M. Rawat, B. Lall and S. Srirangarajan, “Analysis of underwater acoustic channel based on angle of arrival distribution,” International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 2020, pp. 606-609.
• M. Rawat and B. Lall, “BER of dual-hop underwater acoustic communication using Vector Sensors,” IEEE SENSORS, New Delhi, India, 2018, pp. 1-4.
• M. Rawat, B. Lall and S. Srirangarajan, ”Capacity of dual-hop underwater acoustic commu nication using Vector Sensors,” IEEE OCEANS, Kobe, Japan, 2018, pp. 1-5.
• M. Rawat and S.Soni, “Semi-analytical approach to predict path loss in urban environment,” International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), Dhanbad, India, 2012, pp. 317-320.

Professional Service

• Technical Program Committee member for IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Con ference (WCNC) 2023, held in 26- 29 March in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Technical Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Access, Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA), IET Communication, and National Conference on Communication (NCC).
• Member of IEEE, Member of ISTE, Technical Event Coordinator for ISTE Student’s Chapter.
• Session Chair at IEEE OCEANS 2018, held in Kobe, Japan.
• Rapporteur for the fourth edition of Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) Tech Deep Dive Conference, held online from 25 to 28 October 2021.

Events Organised at Amrita

• Organized a research talk titled “Clean Energy Powering the World: Renewable, Smart, and Digital” delivered by Dr. Megha Gupta, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), on 19th December 2025.
• Organized an Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (EAP) in collaboration with TIDES Business Incubator, IIT Roorkee on 17th March 2026, aimed at promoting innovation and startup culture among students.