Biography: 

Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a Visiting Professor at Caltech in Pasadena, USA. Dr. Chattopadhyay received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (USA) and the IETE (India), an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, the 2025 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. His research focuses on microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, as well as space instrumentation for the search for life beyond Earth. Dr. Chattopadhyay has authored over 400 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than 20 patents. He has received over 35 NASA Technical Achievement and New Technology Invention Awards. In 2025, he received the NASA-JPL North Star Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a NASA-JPL scientist. In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Armstrong Medal by the Radio Club of America (RCA) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to radio science. He also received the NASA-JPL People Leadership Award in 2023 and the IEEE Region 6 Engineer of the Year in 2018.