Approved Special Sessions

  • Special Session 1:
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Next-Genera3on Microwave, Antenna, and Sensor Systems
    Proposers: Zubair Akhter, Ravi Kumar Arya

  • Special Session 2:
    Adaptive and Resilient Antenna and Circuit Systems for Security, Defense, and Disaster Response
    Proposers: Surendra Pal and Shweta Srivastava

  • Special Session 3:
    Advance Techniques for Rugged and Ultra Low Power Wireless Transponders
    Proposers: Paolo Mezzanotte and Valentina Palazzi

  • Special Session 4:
    Advancements in RF Frontends and Enabling Software Solutions
    Proposers: Shubhankar Majumdar, Girish Chandra Tripathi, Arjuna Madanayake

  • Special Session 5:
    Advances in Antennas and Sensors for Health and Medical Applica5ons
    Proposers: Sima Noghanian

  • Special Session 6:
    Applications of RF/Microwave in Biomedical and Biosensing Devices
    Proposers: Debarati Ganguly, Dhiman Mallick

  • Special Session 7:
    From Data to Revolution: AI-ML in Agriculture, Healthcare And advances on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Applications for a Sustainable Future
    Proposers: Deepak Mishra, Jit Mukherjee and Rajesh R.

  • Special Session 8:
    Harnessing the Invisible: Innovations in RF Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Systems
    Proposers: Nasimuddin, Mohammad Hashmi and Taimoor Khan

  • Special Session 10:
    Integration of Advanced Materials for Microwave/mmwave/THz applications
    Proposers: Guru Subramanyam
  • Special Session 11:
    Intelligent Surfaces and Wearable Technologies for Future Wireless Systems
    Proposers: Debanjali Sarkar, Arvind Kumar

  • Special Session 12:
    Microwave Assisted Plasma Technologies: Devices, Processes, and Applications
    Proposers: Udit Narayan Pal, Shivendra Maurya, Alok Misra and S. Chakraborty

  • Special Session 13:
    Millimeter-Wave & THz Planar Vacuum Electronics for next-Gen Communications
    Proposers: Ayan K. Bandyopadhyay, Amitavo Roy Choudhury, S. Chakraborty, Subhendu Chakraborty

  • Special Session 14:
    Near-field Sensing and Imaging for Biomedical and Security Applications over MHz to THz Regime
    Proposers: Anirban Sarkar and Sukomal Dey

  • Special Session 15:
    New Frontiers in Advanced Beam Forming using Reconfigurable and Modulated Metasurfaces
    Proposers: Chinmoy Saha, Amit Kumar Singh and Satish Sharma

  • Special Session 16:
    Novel theory, design, analysis, and applications of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
    Proposers: Uday Khankhoje and Debidas Kundu

  • Special Session 17:
    Packaging and heterogeneous integration at high frequencies
    Proposers: Santanu Sinha

  • Special Session 18:
    Advances in signal processing techniques for radio astronomy, remote sensing, and satellite communications
    Proposers: Kaushal D. Buch, Ujjwal Gangele, Avik Bhattarcharya

Special Sessions

Proposals for Special Sessions for the 2025 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Conference (IEEE MAPCON) in Kochi, India, are due by April 23, 2025. Special sessions will be selected and finalized by April 30, 2025. Special session paper submissions follow the regular submission process. The deadline for paper submission is July 7, 2025. Please ensure you select the appropriate special session during submission if you wish for the paper to be considered for that session.

Important Dates:

Special Session Proposal Deadline – April 23, 2025
Special Session Acceptance Notification – April 30, 2025
Special Session Paper Submission Deadline – July 7, 2025

This document is a template for all the information relevant to a special session proposal for MAPCON 2025. Please complete this form and submit it to Dr. Shobha Sundar Ram (shobha@iiitd.ac.in) for evaluation by the Special Session Committee.

Please use the following for the email subject line: MAPCON 2025 Special Session Proposal

Important: Please carefully read the guidelines at the end of this document.

Click here to Submit Paper in Special Sessions