Graduate Students

Present PhD Students | Past MS Students | Past PhD Students | Past Post-Docs

Present Ph. D. Students

Peng Jin
General Topic: Metamaterial-Engineered Small Antennas

Chia-Ching Lin
General Topic: Metamaterial-Engineered Small Antennas

Sawyer Campbell
General Topic: Active Coated Nano-Particles

Paul Gensheimer
General Topic: Particle-Beam Based THz Source

Ian Zimmerman
General Topic: Thermal Based THz Source

Ning Zhu
General Topic: Power Harvesting

Past Students

MS Students
Ed Kablaoui
Characterization of the Performance of Electromagnetic Pulse-Driven Arrays, 1993
Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Maryland

Jeff Johnson
Application of Two Dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain Algorithm to Scattering from a Dipole Array, 1996

Tom Rose
Finite-Difference Time-Domain Modeling with Bioelectromagnetic Applications, 1996

Zhongwei Wu
Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Modeling of Passive and Active Microwave/RF Structures, 2000
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

John Cramer
Finite Difference Time Domain Analysis of Lightning in the Earth Ionospheric Waveguide, 2001
Research Engineer
Vaisala, Tucson, AZ

Robert Hsu
Design, Fabrication, and Measurement of Planar X-Band Electromagnetic Band Gap Resonator and Filters, 2002
Engineer
Foxconn, Taipei, Taiwan

Seongho Yoon
Improving the Performance of Patch and Rectifying Antennas, 2003
Project Engineer, Antennas for mobile phones
Samsung, Seoul, Korea

James Cheng
Propagation Characteristics of Metamaterial Based Transmission Lines, 2003
Antenna Engineer
Spread Spectrum Systems, San Diego, CA

Dongho Lee
The Interaction of a Printed Dipole Antenna with a CLL-Based Artificial Magnetic Conductor Block, 2004
Research Engineer
RF & Antenna Team, Mobile Handset R&D Center
LG Electronics, Inc

Pascal Imhof (with Prof. Juan Mosig, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Metamaterial-based Epsilon Negative (ENG) Media: Analysis and Designs, 2006
Electrical Engineer - Energiewirtschaft

PhD Students

Ammar Darkazanli
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Modeling and Applications to Fast Imaging and Guidance of Ultrasound Surgery, 1993
Software Manager at Boston Scientific and Guidant Corporation
Boston, MA

Joshua L. Kann (Lead Advisor, Prof. Tom Milster, Optical Sciences Center)
Numerical Modeling of Near-field Scanning Optical System, 1995

Justin Judkins
Finite Difference Time Domain Modeling of Optical Devices, 1995
Vice President of Research, Ridgetop Group Inc, Tucson, AZ

Cindy Kaus (Ph. D., Mathematics)
Topological and Geometrical Considerations for Maxwell’s Equations on Unstructured Meshes, 1997
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN

Tao Liang
Design and Modeling od Grating Assisted Devices for Microwave and Optical Applications, 1997
Project Engineer
Intel, Boston, MA

David Wittwer
Extension of FDTD Absorbing Boundary Condition Methods to Lossy Dielectrics for the Modeling of Microwave Devices, 1998
Senior RF Engineer
Research Center, Galtronics, Phoenix, AZ

Mike Hill
Reconfigurable and Micromachined Microwave Structures, (with Dr. John Papapolymerou) 2001
Project Engineer
Intel, Chandler AZ

Henry (Ho-Yuen) Pang
Novel Super-Resolution Algorithms and Enhanced Noise Removal Algorithm for Image Restoration Systems and Applications, 2002
Aureon Laboratories, Yonkers, NY

John Galbraith
Vision Based Obstacle Avoidance Using Biological Models, 2002
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Allison Kipple
Fundamental Investigations of Double-Negative (DNG) Metamaterials Including Applications for Antenna Systems, 2004
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Amy Galbraith
Resolution Enhancement of Multi-Look Imagery (with Dr. Kurt Thome, OSC) 2004
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Aycan Erentok
Metamaterial-Based Electrically Small Antennas, 2007
Senior Design Engineer, Antennas
Nokia GmbH, Nokia Mobile Phones
Ulm, Germany

Samel Arslanagic
Electromagnetic Radiation and Scattering from Small Canonical Structures of Double-Negative Metamaterials, (with Prof. Olav Breinbjerg, DTU, Technological University of Denmark) 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
DTU, Lingby, Denmark

Steve Franson
High Data Rate Modulation Issues in Millimeter-Wave Metamaterials, 2007
Microwave Systems Solutions, Crane Electronics Group, Chandler, AZ

Josh Gordon (Ph. D., College of Optical Sciences)
Coated Nano-Particles for Optical Metamaterials and Nano-Photonic Applications, 2008
NIST-Boulder
Boulder, CO

Post-Docs

Dave Davidson
Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Fabrice Auzanneau
Group Leader
CEA Saclay, Paris France

Mashiro Tanaka
Associate Professor
Gifu University, Japan

Edwin Marengo
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University, Boston MA

Mike Potter
Associate Professor
University of Calgary, Canada