Ashutosh Kedar received his B.Sc., M.Sc., M. Tech and PhD in Physics, Microwave Electronics and Electronic Science from University of Delhi (DU), India. He has fulfilled his duties as lecturer at Department of Electronics Science (DOES), DU, from Sept 1999 till April 2003 and later as Research Associate (CSIR-DU) from April 2003 till Nov 2003.

He joined Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Bangalore, in 2003. He has contributed over there in design, development and realization of first active phased array radar (APAR) in the country. He has been leading since then the realization of active phased array antennas (APAA) for several projects at LRDE. He has been awarded “Technology group award’ for realization of first APAR and first four-walled search on move APAR in 2011 and 2018, respectively.

He has more than 100 technical publications including 45 in IEEE journals/magazines/conferences to his credit. He has published a book on ‘Sparse Phased Array Antennas: Theory and Applications’ from Artech House, USA. He has also contributed a chapter on Phased Array Antennas in Handbook of Microwave and Meterology, Springer Nature. He has an Indian patent on ‘Radiating element for phased arrays’.

He is a Life fellow of WAMS Society, Fellow IETE, Senior Member IEEE, Life Member ACES, Member AMTA and Member SMART-L. He has supervised more than 40 Undergrad and Post Grad thesis and is currently supervising a PhD thesis. He at present is with the ‘Directorate of Radar Antennas and Microwaves’ of LRDE and leading a project on Advanced RF and Microwave Technologies related to radar applications.

Dr. Kedar is a recipient of ‘Hari Ramji Toshniwal’ Award-2023 from IETE, India. He also received Best paper awards in ICMARS-2100 at Jodhpur, ATMS 2018, Pune, WAMS 2020 and Viterbi/CMI Vitesse Award in WAMS 2023 at Rourkela and Ahmedabad; and ‘IETE CDIL 2024’ Award at Bhopal. He received MTT-S 2025 Outstanding volunteer award. He has delivered more than 80 invited talks at various forums.

At present he is serving as an Editor of IETE Journal of Research, and is serving as reviewers for various IEEE periodicals including Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Transaction on IOT, Transaction on AESS, OJAP and ACCESS and for Wiley periodicals, etc. He is serving as Guest Associate Editor for IEEE OJAP (MAPCON Special Edition). His name is listed in IEEE AP-S 200 Top Reviewers 2024 and 2025.

He is an active volunteer of IEEE sine more than 15 years and served as IEEE AP/MTT Jt. Chapter Secretary 2023-24, Vice Chair 2025, Secretary IEEE AESS Chapter and Execom Member, IEEE Bangalore Section. Present serving as Chair of the IEEE AP/MTT Jt. Chapter, Bangalore, Bangalore. He is presently serving as Chair, IEEE MTT-S India Business Committee. He is also presently serving as executive committee member for MAPCON and WAMS societies. Under his leadership the chapter received best chapter awards from AP-S and MTT-S societies in 2026.

He was the TPC and Industry chair of flagship conference of IEEE AP and MTT societies, MAPCON 2022 at Bangalore, TPC Chair for flagship edition of IEEE SPACE 2024 and served as Track chair of CONECCT-2022, CONECCT-2023 conferences of IEEE Bangalore Section, Track Chair and Special Session Chair for MAPCON -2024. He also served as TPC chair for IEEE SPACE 2025 and IEEE Conecct 2025. He served as Co-Chair for MAPCON-2025.