Dr Rupa, LALLER, Research Scientist, email: rlaller@nus.edu.sg

Professional Affiliations:
Member, IEEE
Chair, IEEE MTT-S Student Branch Chapter, IIT Delhi, India 2024
Secretary, IEEE MTT-S Student Branch Chapter, IIT Delhi, India 2023

Education:
Doctor of Philosophy | Antenna (RF & Microwave) Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Cgpa - 9.3/10) - Aug. 2021 – May 2026 (Delhi, India)
Masters of Technology | Electronics and Communication - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (Cgpa - 8.7/10) - Aug. 2019 – May 2021 - Punjab, India
Bachelor of Technology| Electronics and Communication - University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University (Cgpa - 8.02/10) - Aug. 2015 – May 2019 - Haryana, India

Research Interest:
Design and analysis of various antennas and arrays

Teaching Assitantship and Technical Experience:
Operational Incharge at the RF & Microwave lab of Central Research Facility IIT Delhi (2023)
Conducted RF and Microwave passive components fabrication and testing training Program at Microwave-Lab, CARE, IIT-Delhi (2024)
Teaching assistant in CAD of RF and Microwave Circuits LAB - CRL-711 ( 2023 & 2025), Microwave Laboratory ELP-719 (2024) and Engineering Electromagnetics- ELL-212 (2025) at IIT Delhi.

Honors and Awards:
International Travel Support Award-2025, awarded by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) India.
Prof. B.N. DAS Best Student Paper Award-2024, awarded by IEEE Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Conference-2024 (MAPCON-2024).
Research Excellence Travel Award-2024, awarded by IIT Delhi.
IEEE MTT-S Chapter Chair Meeting Grant-2024, awarded by IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S).
Koul-Basu Travel Grant-2024, awarded by IIT Delhi.
Research Scholar Travel Award-2024, awarded by IIT Delhi.
Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship (2019-2025).
GATE Qualified (General Aptitude test for engineering) (2019,2021,2022).

Journal Publications:
1. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar, A. Basu, A. K. Poddar and U. L. Rohde, ”An Inductive Decoupling Approach for High Isolation in Compact Copolarized Planar In-Band Full Duplex Antenna,” in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1585-1589, July 2025.

2. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”Highly Isolated Copolarized Microstrip Full-Duplex Antenna by Surface-Waves Suppression,” in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 4154-4158, Dec. 2024.

3. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”A Compact Slot-Loaded Quarter-Wave Patch with Resonance Frequency Formulation for Wi-Fi and Wi-Max Applications” IETE Journal of Research, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 7272–7278, 2024.

Conference Publications:
1. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”An Efficient Decoupling Technique for the Nearly Placed Microstrip Antennas,” 2025 IEEE CNC-USNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 3199-3200.

2. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”Mutual Coupling Reduction between the Closely Placed Patch Antennas,” 2024 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Hyderabad, India, 2024, pp. 1-4.

3. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”A Decoupling Scheme for Closely Spaced Microstrip Patch Antenna,” 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 1-4.

4. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”Decoupling Technique for the E-plane Array Microstrip Antenna Configuration,” 2023 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Ahmedabad, India, 2023, pp. 1-4.

5. R. Laller, M. P. Abegaonkar and A. Basu, ”In-band Full-duplex Bistatic Antenna with reduced Mutual Coupling,” 2022 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Bangalore, India, 2022, pp. 1747-1750.