Dikshitulu K. Kalluri, PhD, is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received his BE in electrical engineering from Andhra University, India; a DIISc in high-voltage engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Dr. Kalluri began his career at the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, advancing to the rank of professor, heading the Electrical Engineering Department, and then serving as (dean) assistant director of the institute.

Since 1984, he had been with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, advancing to the rank of full professor in 1987. He coordinated the doctoral program (1986–2010) and codirected/directed the Center for Electromagnetic Materials and Optical Systems (1993–2002/2003–2007). As a part of the center, he established the Electromagnetics and Complex Media Research Laboratory. He had collaborated with research groups at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; New York Polytechnic University; and the University of Tennessee and has worked several summers as a faculty research associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He retired in May 2010 but continues his association with the university guiding doctoral students. He continues to teach his graduate courses online as professor emeritus. CRC Press published his two recent books: Electromagnetics of Time Varying Complex Media Second Edition, in April 2010, and the first edition of this book, in August 2011. He has published extensively on the topic of electromagnetics and plasmas. He supervised doctoral thesis research of 17 students.

Dr. Kalluri is a fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers and a senior member of IEEE.