Ajay Poddar is an Indian-Americans electrical engineer at Synergy Microwave Corporation in Paterson, New Jersey.
He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his work with microwave oscillators.
Starting in 1991, Poddar worked at the Defense Research and Development Organization of India, a branch of the Indian government that supports the furtherance of science throughout a network of fifty-two laboratories across the country.
At DRDO, he was able to design a large number of scientific projects, including both Ka-Band and X-band RADAR.
According to IEEE's Microwave Theory and Technology Division, his research is currently focused on "...mobius metamaterial-inspired energy efficient electronic circuits."