My Research Topics

Antenna Design:

Design of slotted waveguide antennas. Design of reconfigurable, multiband, ultrawideband, and filter antennas. Design of wearable antennas. Design of dielectric resonator antennas. Design of fractal antennas.

Phased Arrays

Novel analytical methods for the synthesis of arrays with specified beamwidths and sidelobe levels. Optimization techniques. Machine learning methods applied for the synthesis of arrays with specified nulls, beamwidths and sidelobe levels.

Material Characterization

Novel analytical techniques for the measurement of the electrical properties of materials. Free-space techniques. Machine learning for determining the complex permittivities of low- and high-loss materials.

Machine Learning for Electromagnetics

Machine learning for the design of antennas, including slotted waveguide antennas. Machine learning for the synthesis of antenna arrays. Machine learning for material characterization.

Skills and Tools I Use in Research

• EM simulation tools: ANSYS HFSS and SIMULIA CST
• RF Design using Advanced Design System (ADS)
• COMSOL Multiphysics
• PCB Prototyping
• 3D Printing (FDM and SLA Printers)
• C/C++ and Python Programming
• Matlab, Scilab, Mathematica, and LabVIEW
• LaTeX and Beamer