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
- Industry and Innovation Research Institute
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
Arasavali, N., Kumar, M.V., Gottapu, S.R., Kumar, O.P., Kakade, P., Vincent, S., ... Kumar, S. (2025). Optimal Satellite Selection using Quantum Convolutional Autoencoder for Low-Cost GNSS Receiver Applications. Scientific Reports, 15 (1). http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91959-0
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
Murthy N, M., & Kakade, P.D. (n.d.). Review on Strain Monitoring of Aircraft Using Optical Fibre Sensor. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, 625-634. http://doi.org/10.24425/ijet.2022.141282
Deodhar, Y., Sankar Reddy, J.J., Kakade, P.D., & Kakade, R. (n.d.). Investigation of Different Transfer Functions for Optical Limiting Amplifier used in a 2R Burst Mode Optical Regenerator. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, 409-416. http://doi.org/10.24425/ijet.2021.137827
Conference papers
Deodhar, Y., & Kakade, P.D. (2022). BER Evaluation in the cascade of 2R BMORs in the presence of Atmospheric Turbulence. 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 1-2. http://doi.org/10.1109/wrap54064.2022.9758332
Kulal, D., Pai, K., Padiyar, R., & Kakade, P.D. (2019). Significance of 2R Continuous Mode Optical Regenerators (CMORs) in Optical Network Impaired by Optical Linear Crosstalk. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER), 1-6. http://doi.org/10.1109/discover47552.2019.9008100
Nalamati, N., De Souza, J., & Kakade, P.D. (2018). Performance analysis of WDM-FSO PON using RZ OOK in presence of interchannel crosstalk. 2018 3rd IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT), 2399-2403. http://doi.org/10.1109/rteict42901.2018.9012598
Kakade, P.D. (2018). Bit Error Rate and Power Penalty Evaluation for DC-Coupled Burst Mode Receiver in the Presence of Multipath Intrachannel Crosstalk. 2018 3rd International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), 1-4. http://doi.org/10.1109/i2ct.2018.8529782
Desai, P.N., Phillips, A.J., & Sujecki, S. (2012). Performance evaluation for 2R burst mode optical regenerator cascades in presence of co-channel phase uncorrelated crosstalk. 2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 1-4. http://doi.org/10.1109/icton.2012.6254385