• B.E, Electrical and communication engineering, University of Madras, 2004
• M.S, Microwave and optical engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, 2009
• Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical engineering, University of Siena, 2015

Journal Articles

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, 2023, "A Shaped Reflector Antenna Design Approach for Contoured Beam Synthesis With Surface Curvature Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 72, (2), pp. 10

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, 2023, "A new sequential differential ray tracing formulation for homogeneous and GRIN lenses using automatic differentiation", Optical Engineering, 62, (2), pp. 14

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, , "Heuristic UTD solution for scattering by a thin lossless anisotropic slab", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 68, (12), pp. 11

Conference Proceedings

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell, Ronald P Jenkins, Benjamin A Zerbe, Eric Whiting, Arkaprovo Das, Jacob T Young, Douglas H Werner and Pingjuan Werner, 2022, "A Toolkit for Multiscale Optical System Inverse-design", Proceedings of the SPIE, United States, 12217, (122170C), pp. 4

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas H Werner, 2022, "A Curvature Based Shaped Reflector Antenna Design Method for Contoured Beam Synthesis", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, United States

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Colin A Mussman, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas H Werner, 2022, "A New Curvature Based Shaped Reflector Antenna Design Methodology Publisher", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, United States

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas H Werner, 2021, "A Heuristic UTD Solution for Scattering by a Multilayer Anisotropic Slab", International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, United States

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas H Werner, 2021, "Application of heuristic UTD formulation for describing scattering by a thin and multilayer anisotropic slab", International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES), United States

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, 2021, "Highly-efficient GRIN Lens Optimization Through Differential Ray Tracing", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, United States

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, 2021, "Geometrical Optics Ray Tracing in a Thick Anisotropic Slab", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell and Douglas H Werner, 2021, "Anisotropic Slab Scattering: Oblique Incidence Case", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Sawyer D Campbell, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas H Werner, 2020, "Geometrical Optics Solution for Periodic Multilayer Anisotropic Slab Scattering", International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena

Manushanker Balasubramanian and Douglas H Werner, 2019, "Anisotropic Slab Scattering: A High Frequency Solution", International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting

Manushanker Balasubramanian and Alberto Toccafondi, 2016, "Accurate calculation of creeping ray parameters for radiation of sources on convex NURBS surfaces", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Alberto Toccafondi and Stefano Maci, 2015, "Radiation of a source on a convex NURBS surface", European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Alberto Toccafondi and Stefano Maci, 2014, "Including high-frequency surface diffraction in a hybrid FEBI-MLFMM-UTD method", European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014)

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Alberto Toccafondi and Stefano Maci, 2014, "Including high-frequency surface diffraction in a hybrid FEBI-MLFMM-UTD method", European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014)

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Alberto Toccafondi and Stefano Maci, 2012, "UTD computation for NURBS surfaces", European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)

Manushanker Balasubramanian, Arkaprovo andas, , , "Hessian-based Antenna Optimization with Automatic Differentiation", International applied computational electromagnetics society (ACES) symposium, UNIVERSITY PARK, United States

Garvith Mishra and Manushanker Balasubramanian, , "Inverse Design Techniques for Optimizing Passive Lumped Networks", International applied computational electromagnetics society (ACES) symposium, UNIVERSITY PARK, United States

Arkaprovo Das and Manushanker Balasubramanian, , "A T-Matrix EFIE-PMCHWT Method for Computing Electromagnetic Scattering from Composite Conductor-Dielectric Objects", International applied computational electromagnetics society (ACES) symposium, UNIVERSITY PARK, United States

• Postdoc Travel award, Penn State University, July 2022

• IEEE Senior Member, IEEE, March 2023

Service to Penn State:

• Assessment Activities, Evaluator, Interviewer, Millennium Scholars Program, February 2024 - February 2024

• Participation in Recruitment and Retention Activities, Judge, Millennium Scholars Program, Penn State University, February 2023

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Judge, Graduate Exhibition Judging, Penn State University, Graduate Exhibition Planning Committee, March 2023

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Session organizer, International applied computational electromagnetics society (ACES) symposium, May 2024 - May 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, International applied computational electromagnetics society (ACES) symposium, IEEE, May 2024 - May 2024