Nanophotonics, RF through THz Integrated Circuits, Systems & Sensors, RF Integrated
Circuits, Systems & Sensors, Plasmonics.

Kola Thirupathaiah, Senior Member, IEEE, completed his master’s in fiber optics and optical communications at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH), India 2004. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) in Uttarakhand, India 2016. Presently, he serves as an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation in Hyderabad. Dr. Thirupathaiah actively engages in various technical activities as the IEEE student branch councilor, fostering a vibrant learning environment. He also maintains a collaborative partnership with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi. His contributions extend beyond academia; Dr. Thirupathaiah is an esteemed member of the IEEE Photonic Society and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS). His research interests span several dynamic fields, including nanophotonic devices, graphene plasmonics, radio frequency integrated circuits, terahertz frequency integrated circuits, and advanced tunable materials at THz frequencies.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Consultant, ASPIRE-Project (AARE19-062) 03/2023 - Present
Department of Electrical Engineering Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Assistant Professor 03/2021 - Present
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, K L University, Hyderabad, Telangana,
India
Assistant Professor 06/2018 - 06/2020
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai,
Tamilnadu, India
Assistant Professor 10/2015 - 05/2018
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Teaching Assistant 10/2010 - 06/2015
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
(IITR), Roorkee, India
Assistant Professor 08/2005 - 06/2010
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, SS Institute of Technology, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Senior Lecturer 10/2004 - 07/2005
Department of Physics, RJC Degree College, Khammam, India

Ph.D. (Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering) 07/2010 - 09/2016
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Uttarakhand, India
Dissertation: “Multiband photonic integrated circuits using plasmonic MIM waveguide”
Master of Science (MS), (Fiber Optics & Optical Communications) 10/2002 - 10/2004
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India
Project: “Design and study of Optical Waveguides”
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Electronics 07/1996 - 08/1999
Kakatiya University (KU), Warangal, India

AWARDS
• IEEE MTTS Roorkee Student Chapter Second Prize from the Department of Electronics and
Communication, IIT Roorkee, for best Poster Presentation- 2013.
• PGCET-2002 (Post Graduate Common Entrance) with University first rank.
• Secured School First rank in SSC at Z.P.H.S.
GRANTS & FUNDINGS
• Department of Electrical Engineering, Abu Dhabi University-Abu Dhabi, UAE, ASPIRE-Project
(AARE19-062) funding for The 67th IEEE Internationational Midwest Symposium on Circuits
and Systems (MWSCAS 2024), August 11-14, Springfield, MA, USA.
• Department of Electrical Engineering, Abu Dhabi University-Abu Dhabi, UAE, ASPIRE-Project
(AARE19-062) funding for The 2023 International Conference on IEEE Numerical Simulation
of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD) was held from September 18-21 at Politecnico di Torino,
Turin, Italy.
• Institute funding for IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE-2014),
December 2014, Johor Bahru-Malaysia.
• 2010-2014 Indian Institute of Technology (IITR) fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. under MHRD
Scheme.

PUBLICATIONS

1. K. Thirupathaiah and M. Qasymeh, ”A Nanoplasmonic Directional Coupler Utilizing a
Backed Conductor on Dielectric Substrate With Finite Width,” EEE Journal of Quantum
Electronics, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 7200209 (1-9), Dec. 2024. DOI:10.1109/JQE.2024.3485503
2. K. Thirupathaiah and M. Qasymeh, ”Miniaturized Dual-Band Filters Utilizing Square Ring
Resonators with Coupling Gaps,” Accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE 24th
2024 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD-
2024), New Delhi, India, 2024.
3. K. Thirupathaiah, M. Qasymeh, ”Ultra Compact Nanoplasmonic Dual-Band Filters with
Tunable Silica Stubs for Nanoscale Networks,” 67th IEEE Internationational Midwest Symposium
on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2024), Springfield, MA, USA, pp. 1162-1166,
DOI:10.1109/MWSCAS60917.2024.10658727
4. K. Thirupathaiah and M. Qasymeh, ”Terahertz Dual-Band Antennas Using Step Impedance
Resonators with Coplanar Waveguides for Subwavelength Wireless Networks,” IEEE Access,
vol. 12, pp. 92484-92493, 2024, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3423725.
5. K. Thirupathaiah, M. Qasymeh and A. Ramakrishna, ”Nanoplasmonic Broadband Filters
Using Broadside Edge Coupled Coplanar Waveguide,” 2023 33rd International Telecommunication
Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp.
124-127. DOI:10.1109/ITNAC59571.2023.10368518
6. K. Thirupathaiah, and M. Qasymeh, ”Optical Ultra-Wideband Nano-Plasmonic Bandpass
Filter Based on Gap-Coupled Square Ring Resonators,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 106095-
106102, Oct. 2023, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3318878
7. K. Thirupathaiah, Montasir Qasymeh, “An UWB Band-Pass Filter Using Plasmonic Series
and Parallel SRRs with Coupling Gaps”, 2023 International Conference on Numerical
Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), Turin, Italy, 2023, pp.49-50, DOI:10.1109/
NUSOD59562.2023.10273577.
8. K. Thirupathaiah, et al, “Nanoplasmonic Ultra Compact, Low Insertion Loss UWB Band-
Pass Filter Using Square Ring Resonators”, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Numerical
Simulation of Optoelectronic Device (NUSOD-2022), pp. 207-208. doi.org/10.1109/
NUSOD54938.2022.9894761.
9. K. Thirupathaiah, et al, “Nanoplasmonic Directional Coupler Using Asymmetric Parallel
Coupled MIM Waveguides”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 401-404,
15 April, 2022, DOI:10.1109/LPT.2022.3161930.
10. K. Thirupathaiah, et al, “Nanoplasmonic Multiband Band Pass Filters For THz Wireless
Communications”, 2021 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference
(RAPID), 2021, pp. 1-2, DOI:10.1109/RAPID51799.2021.9521462.
11. K. Thirupathaiah, et.al, “A Nanoplasmonic Branchline Coupler for Subwavelength Wireless
Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 20, pp. 662-668, Aug., 2021, DOI:
10.1109/TNANO.2021.3101981.
12. K. Thirupathaiah, Srinivas Konda, “A Nanoplasmonic Ultra Wide Band Antenna for Wireless
Communications”, 6th International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics
and Telecommunications (ICMEET 2021), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol.2, pp.
839. Springer, Singapore. DOI:org/10.1007/978-981-16-8554-5-48
13. K. Thirupathaiah et.al, “Nanoplasmonic Multiband Filters Using SIR for Wireless Networks”,
IEEE 21st International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Device
(NUSOD), 2021, pp. 111-112, DOI:10.1109/NUSOD52207.2021.9541517.
14. K. Thirupathaiah, “Nanophotonic MIM bend structure waveguides”, 2017 IEEE International
Conference on Technological Innovations in Communication, Control and Automation
(TICCA), Chennai, 2017., DOI:org/10.1109/TICCA.2017.8344581.
15. K. Thirupathaiah, et al, “Concurrent Dual Band Filters Using Plasmonic MIM Waveguide
Ring Resonator,” ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 13, no. 5, pp.
1813-1818, 2017.
16. K. Thirupathaiah, Iyer B, N. P. Pathak and V. Rastogi, “Metal-Silica-Metal Plasmonic
Waveguide Based Concurrent Dualband Directional Coupler”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference
on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2014) Johor Bahru- Malaysia, December 2014.,DOI:
org/10.1109/APACE.2014.7043784.
17. K. Thirupathaiah, Iyer B, N. P. Pathak and V. Rastogi, “Plasmonic Metal- Insulator-
Metal-Waveguide Based Concurrent Dualband Antenna for Nanoscale Wireless Links”, IEEE
Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics(APACE2014) December 2014 Johor
Bahru Malaysia, 2014, DOI:10.1109/APACE.2014.7043783.
18. K. Thirupathaiah, Iyer B, N.P. Pathak, V. Rastogi, ”Design and simulation of plasmonic
MIM slot waveguide based dualband bandpass filter,” Proceedings of Recent Advances in
Photonics (WRAP- 2013), IIT Delhi, 2013., DOI:org/10.1109/WRAP.2013.6917645
19. K. Thirupathaiah, Iyer B, N.P.Pathak and V. Rastogi “Concurrent Dualband Diplexer
for Nanoscale Wireless Links”, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, vol. 26, no. 18, pp.
1832-1835, Sept.15, 2014, DOI:10.1109/LPT.2014.2337016.
20. K. Thirupathaiah, N.P. Pathak and V. Rastogi, “Concurrent dual-band filters using plasmonic
slot waveguide”, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, vol. 25, no. 22, pp. 2217-2220,
Nov. 15, 2013, DOI:10.1109/LPT.2013.2283880.