M. Jaleel Akhtar received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, in 2003. He was a Scientist with the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India, from 1994 to 1997, where he was involved in the design and development of high-power microwave devices. From 2003 to 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist and a Project Leader with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany, where he primarily worked in the areas of industrial microwave technology. In 2009, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), Kanpur, India, where he is currently a Chair Professor. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. candidates and over 80 masters’ students for their theses. He has been the lead investigator of more than 15 projects in various domains of RF and microwave technology. He is presently leading a major project involving establishment of a world class fully accredited EMI/EMC Test Facility at IIT Kanpur, India.

Dr. Akhtar has authored two books and four book chapters. He has authored or co-authored over 150 papers in various peer-reviewed international journals and over 250 papers in international conference proceedings. He holds three patents on planar RF sensors for various applications. His current research interests include metamaterial inspired RF sensors, microwave, mm-wave and THz imaging, FSS and metasurface based RF systems, RF energy harvesting, and functional materials-based wideband microwave absorbers for stealth technology and EMI/EMC applications.

Dr. Akhtar is the Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of IETE. He is a recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award (ETA) 2021 from IIT Kanpur, and the CST University Publication Award in 2009 from the CST AG, Darmstadt, Germany. He is elected Administrative Committee (AdCom) member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), and 2025 MTT-S Education Committee Chair. He was the General Co-Chair of IEEE MAPCON-2023, and the MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC 2021). He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal during 2020-2023, and is currently serving as an Editor of the IETE Technical Review, the IETE Journal of Research, and SADHANA - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Journal.