Mahadev Sarkar received the B.Tech degree from the Murshidabad Engineering College, University of Kalyani, Kolkata, India. He is currently pursuing the M. Tech and Ph.D. (currently is in halt) degrees with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani—Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India.
From 2005 to 2008, he was an RF Design Engineer with the Core RF Design Group, Astra Microwave Technologies (Unit-III), Hyderabad. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Design Engineer-I with the Filters and TMA Design Group, Powerwave Technologies Research and Development India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. In February 2011, he joined the Product Development and Innovation Centre, Bharat Electronics Limited, Bengalaru, India, where he is currently involved in broad and narrow band receiver design projects in the RF Component Design Group. He delivers talks at various academic institutions to Ph.D. scholars/M. Tech students on recent microwave design trends. He had also been selected to conduct viva voce for final-year M. Tech. students as an External Examiner at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Trichy, Trichy, India, in 2016. He has authored or coauthored several technical papers in national and international journals, conferences and symposiums. His current research interests include microwave, millimeter (mm)-wave, and sub-mm-wave broadband and narrowband passive and semi-active component, highly sensitive RF receivers, and critical microwave components design.