, a current senior member of the IEEE, obtained his B.Sc (EEE) and M.Sc (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, his PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in 1999, Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching in Higher Education from The National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Master in Higher Education from Griffith University, Australia. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Engineer in Electronics Institute, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Dhaka, Bangladesh, a Research Assistant at the Communications Research Group, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, as a Microwave Design Engineer at Mitec Ltd., Brisbane, Australia where he contributed to the development of land mobile satellite antennas for the Australian Mobilesat. Dr. Karmakar currently works in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University as an Associate Professor within the department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and he is the director of Monash Microwave, Antennas, RFID and Sensors (MMARS) Lab.