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7/6/2010
The paper "Effect of Curvature on the Performance of a Cylindrically-Conformal Cavity-Backed E-patch Antenna" has been submitted for publication in the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
7/03/2011
I am chairing a session on electrically small antennas at the IEEE AP-S International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting currently held in Spokane Washington.
3/01/2011
All five papers have been accepted for presentation at the IEEE AP-S International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting to be held July 3-8, 2011 .
1/11/2011
Visited MIT Lincoln Laboratory, excellent place with very smart people and cool projects
1/03/2011
I am in Atlanta for the NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference.
12/18/2010
The paper "Waveguide Filter Design Using Optimized Pixelated Inserts" has been submitted for publication in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.
12/13/2010
The paper "A Reconfigurable Microstrip Leaky-wave Antenna with a Broadly Steerable Beam" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation .
11/29/2010
Passed my comprehensive exam.
11/17/2010
Officially a US citizen
11/12/2010
I was awarded a student participation grant for the 2011 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference
08/09/2010
Preparing for the AIAA conference that will be held in Texas, (September 2010).
07/14/2010
I won third place at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation best student paper competition, held in Toronto, Canada.
07/11/2010
I am in Toronto, Canada, for the IEEE APS/URSI international Symposium.
06/28/2010
The paper entitle " A Self-Tuning Electromagnetic Shutter" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
02/10/2010
The paper "In Situ Optimization of Metamaterial-Inspired Loop Antennas" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
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Matlab - HFSS Interface:
I developed this interface to perform in situ optimization of metamaterial inspired structures and various other RF devices. The design parameters are generated in Matlab then exported to HFSS where the structure is drawn and simulated. The simulation results are exported back to Matlab for post processing and optimization. Most of my designs involve optimizing pixilated grids or switches (ON or OFF states). This calls for an optimizer that can handle binary strings. I have been using a genetic algorithm (GA) as optimizer and it has worked very well so far but I am not limited to just GAs. I am currently working on other search algorithms such as the method of moving asymptotes (MMA) and the Taguchi Method.
If you are interested in learning more about my design process, do not hesitate to contact me or read some of my papers:
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