Tapan Sarkar

Tapan Kumar Sarkar
Born(1948-08-02)August 2, 1948
DiedMarch 12, 2021(2021-03-12) (aged 72)
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forGeneralized pencil-of-function method
AwardsIEEE Electromagnetics Award (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAnalysis of arbitrarily oriented thin wire antenna arrays over imperfect ground planes (1975)
Doctoral advisorBradley J. Strait
Websiteecs.syr.edu/faculty/sarkar/index.html

Tapan Kumar Sarkar (August 2, 1948 – March 12, 2021) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He was best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics and antenna theory.

Sarkar was the recipient of IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2020.