Sarita  Prasad

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Research Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

1999: Associate’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Niihama National College of Technology, Niihama City, Ehime, Japan

2001: B.S in Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

2003: M.S in Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

2010: Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Biography

Dr. Sarita Prasad has almost two decades of experience designing, building and testing High Power Microwave (HPM) sources and systems. She is extremely successful at conducting experimental validation of HPM sources and getting one-on-one agreement between simulation and experiments. She excels in HPM system sub-component design and integration; includes both electrical and mechanical design aspects. She is an outstanding project leader; she is able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing and guiding teams and meeting project deadlines.

Work

  • Jan 2011 – June 2016: Research Assistant Professor & Manager of Pulsed Power, Beams and Microwaves Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
  • July 2016 – May 2018: Physicist, Raytheon (Directed Energy), Albuquerque, NM
  • Aug 2018 – Jan 2020: Senior Microwave & Sensor Engineer, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM
  • July 2018 – Present: Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Albuquerque, NM
  • Feb 2020 – Present: President/CEO, Innovative Microwave System Prototypes (IMS-Pro LLC)

Awards

  • Won Inter-zone Robot Contest (Niihama National College of Technology) 1998
  • Won Japanese Speech Contest 1998
  • Japanese Government Scholarship April 1995 – March  1999
  • Japanese Government Scholarship (partial) April 1999 – March  2001
  • Passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test (top-level) 2001
  • Rotary Club of Japan Scholarship April 2001 – March 2003
  • NPSS Outstanding Graduate Student Award  2008
  • Art Guenther, Outstanding Pulsed Power Student Award 2010
  • DURIP ONR Instrumentation Grant ($250k USD) 2013
  • AFOSR Grant (Pushing the Frontiers of Relativistic Magnetron) ($3M USD) 2015                                         
  • DURIP ONR Instrumentation Grant ($450k USD) 2015
  • Raytheon IRAD ($90k USD) 2018
  • Sandia National Labs Lab Directed Research and Development (SNL LDRD) ($1.05M USD) 2019   

Classes Taught At UNM

  • Teaching assistant “Experimental Techniques in Plasma Physics” ECE 553L Fall - 2007
  • Instructor “Instrumentation”206L Spring - 2011
  • Instructor “Digital Electronics I” ECE 321 Summer - 2011
  • Instructor “Pulsed Power and Charged Particle Acceleration” ECE 557 Fall - 2012
  • Instructor “High Power Microwave Sources” ECE 558 Spring - 2013
  • Instructor “High Power Microwave Sources” ECE 558 Spring - 2015
  • Instructor “Pulsed Power and Charged Particle Acceleration” ECE 557 Fall - 2016 

Professional Societies

Member: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for 18 years.