Dr Priyanka Desai Kakade MSc, PhD, FHEA
Lecturer: Degree Apprenticeship BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology
Summary
I joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2023 and am currently a Lecturer in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Course leader for Degree Apprenticeship BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology. I received the BTE College's Outstanding Academic Advisor Award for 2023-2024. I attained the Fellowship of Higher Academy (FHEA), UK in 2023.
About
I gained my B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the SNDT University, Mumbai, India, in 2007. Following this, between 2008 and 2013, I completed my M.Sc. in Photonic Communications and attained a PhD in Optical Communications from the University of Nottingham, UK. My main research expertise is in numerical modelling of optical systems. I teach across various levels of BEng programme as well as the MSc programme with the particular focus on analogue & digital electronics and communication engineering.
Teaching
Department of Engineering and Mathematics
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Subject area
Electrical, Electronic and Future Technologies
Modules taught
Communication Engineering, Level 7 (Module leader)
Further Analogue and Digital for Apprentice, Level 6 (Module leader)
Communication Systems and Computer Networks , Level 5 (Module leader)
Maths and Computational Methods, level 4 (Module leader)
Analogue and Digital for Apprentice, Level 4
Railway Communications, level 5
Research
Current research projects
Her research interests include optical amplification and regeneration, free space optical (FSO) communication and optical fibre communication (OFC). She has extensive experience in mathematical modelling using MATLAB and Mathcad. In her core research area of optical communication, she has been involved in projects focused on 1) the use of burst mode optical regenerators for long-haul OFC , 2) the numerical modelling and simulation design for dual-stage EDFA for use in long-haul OFC, 3) the use of burst mode optical regenerators for mitigating the impact of atmospheric turbulence on the FSO communication system performance. Priyanka has also recently lent her expertise to the aeronautical engineering domain through the following two projects that were centered on 1) the design of a mechanically robust optical data backup system using a copper data pipe and 2) analyzing the engineering feasibility of a Direct Fusion Drive.
Publications
Journal articles
Jain, Y., & Kakade, P. (2023). Analyzing the engineering feasibility of the direct fusion drive. Acta Astronautica, 206, 57-71. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.02.011
Mishra, A.R., Kakade, R.N., & Kakade, P. (2022). Dual-stage EDFA for improving the performance of long-haul optical systems. IEEE Access, 10, 13496-13514. http://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3146978
Bandele, O.J., Desai, P., Woolfson, M.S., & Phillips, A.J. (2016). Saturation in cascaded optical amplifier free‐space optical communication systems. IET Optoelectronics, 10 (3), 71-79. http://doi.org/10.1049/iet-opt.2015.0083
Desai, P.N., Phillips, A.J., & Sujecki, S. (2012). Modeling of Burst Mode 2R Optical Regenerator Cascades for Long-Haul Optical Networks. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 4 (4), 304. http://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.4.000304