Antenna & Microwave Laboratory (AML)

1. Dr. Jia-Chi S. Chieh (May 2018—Dec 2022)
2. Dr. Sima Noghanian (May 2019—May 2021)

1. Dr. Princy Paul (Sept, 2025 – continue)
2. Dr. Sanghamitro Das (Nov 10, 2020— March 2025)
3. Dr. Kaushik Debbarma (Aug 10, 2021—July 31, 2023)
4. Dr. Krishnamoorthy (Aug 27, 2022—Dec 31, 2022)
5. Dr. Patrizia Livreri (Nov 15, 2021—Dec 2021)
6. Dr. Shiv Narayan (Feb 2020—May 2020)
7. Dr. Sonika Biswal (2019—2020)
8. Dr. Sima Noghanian (July 2018—Feb 2019)
9. Dr. Xinhua Yu (Feb 2017—Feb 2018)
10. Dr. Guangli Yang (July 2016—Sept 2016)
11. Dr. Biswajit Dwivedy (2015—1 Year)
12. Dr. Meng Fanji (June 20, 2013—1 Year)
13. Dr. Runa Kumari (2014—1 Year)
14. Dr. Kumud Ranjan Jha (Sept 25, 2013—1 Year)
15. Dr. Yogesh Choukiker (2013—1 Year)
16. Dr. Santanu K. Behera (One month)
17. Dr. H.-G. Cho (Aug 2008—1 Year)

1. Yogesh Choukiker (NIT Rourkela, India, 2013, Graduated): MIMO Planar Antennas.
2. Runa Kumari (NIT Rourkela, India, 2014, Graduated): Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator
3. Biswajit Dwivedy (NIT Rourkela, India, 2015, Graduated): Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator Antennas and Arrays.
4. Sonika Biswal (Exchange from IIT Dhanbad, India: One-year duration, 2019-2020): Multibandand 5G Antennas.
5. Accursio Gulotta (Exchange from University of Palermo, Italy (Sept 2023-Dec 31, 2023): All metal Ka-band array antennas.
6. Luigi Miano (Exchange from University of Palermo, Italy (Sept 2023-Dec 31, 2023): Phased array antennas at Ka-band.

1. Petros Kapetanios (MS Thesis, Fall 2025-Present): Antennas for base stations
2. Arthur Gratas (MS Thesis, Fall 2025 –Present): Electrically small antennas
3. Kenneth Sherman (MS Project, Fall 2022—Present): 6G Millimeter wave antennas
4. Kevin Tao (MS Thesis, Spring 2023—Present): Millimeter wave 3D printed polarizers
5. Belinda Nguyen (MS, Project, Spring 2025): Lens Antennas
6. Akhil Jain (MS Thesis, Spring 2025): 3D printable leaky wave antennas

MS (EE) Thesis Students Advising

1. Pranav Mahajan (Fall, 2025): Design and Development of Miniaturized Antennas for Wearable Devices and Cellphones.
2. Gabriel Duran (Fall 2025): Multiple Beam Antenna Design Using Folded Rotman Lens and U- Slot Loaded Patch Antennas.
3. Drasti Tandel (Fall 2024): Design and Development of an Extremely Wideband Miniaturized Monocone Antenna with High Gain Attributes.
4. Allen Castro (Spring 2017): Novel Antenna Designs using 3D Printing and Inkjet Printing Technologies.
5. Anthony Wang (Spring 2017): Frequency reconfigurable antennas as multiple input multiple output antennas for portable and handheld devices.
6. Abhishek Singh (Fall 2009): Investigations on wideband dielectric resonator antenna and arrays on finite ground plane.
7. Alex R. Moody (Spring 2010): Investigations on Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Planar Monopole Antennas with Unidirectional Patterns by Employing Planar and Pyramidal Shaped Reflectors.
8. Anup N. Kulkarni (Spring 2012): Investigation on compact internal antenna solutions for future 4G LTE wireless devices with MIMO implementation.
9. Sandhya Krishna (Fall 2018): 5G millimeter-wave technology based Massive MIMO base station and access point designs with 1D Beam steering Series- fed planar microstrip patch array antennas with through element technology at Ka-band (27.5 GHz- 28.35 GHz).
10. Anubhava Jain (Spring 2009): Performance of Microstrip Patch Antennas and Arrays on Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures.
11. Ashish Tuteja (Spring 2010): Investigations on dual band orthogonally polarized and multimode reconfigurable corrugated choke feed horn antennas.
12. Bhakti Joshi (Fall 2014): Design of multiband antenna for portable devices with MIMO implementation.
13. Balamurugan Shanmugam (Spring 2012): Investigations and performance of a cavity backed novel modified balun free Archimedean spiral antenna and planar array implementation.
14. Christopher Meagher (Fall 2008): Investigations on Wideband Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Patch Antennas and Arrays Employing Spaced Dielectric Covers for Enhanced Gain Performance.
15. Connor Laffey (Spring 2020—Summer 2022): Multiple Mode Antennas for Null Steering (Defended thesis in June 2022).
16. Daria Lane (Fall 2015): Inkjet printed ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) antenna on flexible PET substrate materials for body wearable applications.
17. Dave West (Spring, 2014): FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE COMPACT MULTIBAND QUASI-LOG PERIODIC DIPOLE ARRAY (QLPDA) ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS.
18. Eleonora Tryosi (Exchange Student, Univ. of Pavia, Italy, 2010)): Design and Experimental Verification of Frequency Reconfigurable Circularly Polarized Patch Antennas, (Advisors: Prof Luca Perregrini and Prof. S. K. Sharma).
19. Elias Mireles (Fall 2011): Investigations and Design Of UHF (860-960 MHz) Band Novel Reader Antenna and Tag Antenna Mountable on Metallic Objects for Universal RFID Applications.
20. Hao-Lung Chu (Fall 2018): Investigations and Design of Wideband Dual Linear Polarized Massive MIMO Panel Array Antenna for 5G Communication Applications.
21. Henk Visser (Spring 2013): Multiband microstrip slot antenna with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) implementation for handheld devices
22. Ila Agnihotri (Spring 2020): Millimeter wave 3D Printed Waveguide Polarizer and Feedhorn antennas.
23. Jennifer Taylor Rayno (Summer 2012): Design and analysis of frequency reconfigurable compact spirograph planar monopole antenna (SPMA) elements for a beam scanning array.
24. Joshua Patin (Spring 2011): Design and analysis of a compact dielectric resonator circularly polarized antenna and four resonator bandpass filter at Ku-band for satellite communications applications.
25. Joseph Tallo (Spring 2023): Butler Matrix Multiple Beam Antenna.
26. Justin Church (Fall 2009): Investigations on the Sierpinski Fractal Microstrip Antenna for wideband radiation performance by employing novel feed mechanisms.
27. Kirthika Nahalingam (Spring 2011): A comparison of omni-directional ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip pentagon slot and directional wideband ψ-shape microstrip patch antennas for the microwave detection of breast tumors.
28. Manveer K. Brar (Fall 2011): Investigations on aperture coupled pentagon shape dielectric resonator antennas and arrays with wideband and multiband responses for wireless communications.
29. Mehak Garg (Summer 2012): Performance of a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna with controllable wideband and monopole-like omni-directional radiation patterns and beam focusing properties of circular array implementation.
30. Mohana Vamsi Komandla (Spring 2017): Investigations on High Impedance Surface (HIS) Based Pattern Reconfigurable antenna and Cavity Backed Dual Slant Polarized Massive MIMO Antenna with Beamforming.
31. Mukund Thyagarajan (Fall 2012): Performance of reflector antennas by employing triple mode feedhorn and a frequency reconfigurable spiral loaded planar dipole antenna.
32. Nathan R. Labadie (Fall 2009): Investigations on novel Volumetric Metamaterial Structures at Microwave frequencies for Antenna Applications.
33. Ningning Luo (Fall 2019): School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China: One year duration): Millimeter Wave Dual Circular Polarized Feedhorn Antenna.
34. Nhat Truong (Fall 2023): Miniaturized antenna and triple mode feedhorn.
35. Omar Flores, (Summer 2019): Low Noise Amplifier RFIC Design using SiGe.
36. Pankaj Dagar (Fall 2013): Compact Wide-Bandpass Filters Implemented Using Defected Ground Planes.
37. Phil Tran (Spring 2016): An Archimedean Spiral Antenna with Dielectric Loading Providing Directional Radiation Patterns Using a Novel Shape 3D Printed Ground Structures.
38. Rafid Damman (Spring 2016): DESIGN OF FREQUENCY TUNABLE COMPACT ANTENNA AND MILLIMETER TO TERAHERTZ ARRAY ANTENNAS.
39. Rahul Bakshi (Summer 2010): Investigations on Frequency Agile Behavior of Narrowband and Wideband Microstrip Patch Antennas by Employing Variable Height Ground Planes.
40. Roshin Rose George (Summer 2017): Wideband Circularly Polarized High Gain Fixed and Steered Beam Antennas at Ku-band and Feed Horn at Millimeter Wave Frequencies.
41. Ryan Bartsch (Spring 2017): DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RECONFIGURABLE MULTI- ELEMENT MICROSTRIP FREQUENCY AGILE ANTENNA ARRAY.
42. Shiv K. Varanasi (Fall 2010): Investigations on cavity-backed microstrip patch antennas with enhanced performance for wireless communication applications.
43. Sunil Rajgopal (Spring 2008): Ultra-Wideband Pentagon Shape Planar Microstrip Slot Antenna and Array for Wireless Communications.
44. Tavis Hall (Spring 2016): MODIFIED PIFA ANTENNAS WITH SINGLE AND DUAL BANDS FOR MIMO IMPLEMENTATIONS ON CYLINDRICAL GROUND PLANE.
45. Treasa Hlaing (Fall 2014): Novel Multiband Annular Ring Aperture Coupled Microstrip Patch Antennas In MIMO Implementation for Wireless Routers.
46. Tuan Q. Tran (Fall 2010): Performance of single layer multimode concentric circular microstrip patch antenna for reconfigurable radiation patterns.

1. Brandon Marshall (Fall 2025): Redesign and Optimization of a Broadband Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna (BAVA) with Side Dielectric Lens (SDL) for Sub-6 GHz Operation
2. Amar Lingineni (Spring 2010): Effective Technical and Management Planning for Implementing WiMAX.
3. Anusha Kalikonda (Summer 2013): Body Wearable Antennas: Investigations of Wideband Microstrip E-shape Patch Array Antenna on Curved Surfaces.
4. Jason Thomas (Fall 2011): Design of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System in the 430MHz Band for Soccer Goal Line Situations.
5.  Kiran Thota (Fall 2008): Impact of RFID’s in Theft Prevention for Retail Industry.
6. Samer Hamade (Spring 2015): Microstrip array antennas with circular polarization for Ku-band Transmit/Receive Communications.

1. Luis Flores (Fall 2025): The Design of High-Selectivity & Low Insertion Loss Tx & Rx Cavity Combline Filters

1. Penelope Romero Pimentel (May 2025-continue): Antennas for brain tumor detection 
   
2. Petros Kapetanios (June 2025-August 2025): Broadband antennas
   
3. Arthur Gratas (Feb 2024-August 2025): Miniaturized antennas 
   
4. Sriabhigna Yellapragada, Visiting Undergraduate Semester (Spring 2025)
   
5. Eric Smith (May 2024-August 2024): Miniaturized antennas
   
6. Myles Lazarus (Nov 2023- Feb 2024): RIS Structures
7. Brandon Marshall (May 2022—May 2023): Luneburg Lens Antennas
8. Helena Clavin (May 2021—Dec 2022): Vivaldi Antennas
9. Nhat Truong (Mar 2020—Aug 2021): Planar Array Antennas
10. Andrew Valdivia (May 2020—Dec 2020): Wideband Antennas
11. Mark Navarro (May 2019—Dec 2019): Multiband Antennas
12. Rasha Shayya (May 2019—Jul 2019): 3D Printed Antennas
13. Nicholas Farrela (Jun 2019—Dec 2019): Multiband RF Microwave Filters
14. Dane Fairchild (Oct 2018—May 2019): 5G Communication Antennas and Beamforming
15. Philip T. Ngyuen (Jun 2018—May 2019): Waveguide Polarizers and Beamforming Networks
16. Tommy Khoury (Jun 2018—May 2019): Miniaturized Antennas and Antenna Integration Issues
17. Connor Laffey (Jun 2018—Aug 2018): 3D Printed Array Antennas
18. Layth Hozi (Jun—Aug 2017): Rectangular Patch Antenna Simulation, Fabrication and Measurements
19. Alejandro "Allen" Castro (Fall, 2012—Aug 2015): Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) Planar Monopole Antennas
20. Arturo Morales (Summer and Fall 2009): Microstrip Antenna for Breast Cancer Detection
21. Danierick Gomes (Exchange student from Brazil: Jun 2015—Aug 2015): Substrate Integrated Horn Antennas
22. Margie Ramos (Summer and Fall 2009): Microstrip Antenna for Breast Cancer Detection
23. Michael Hlavaty (Summer 2011): Printed Antenna for Portable Devices
24. Treasa Hlaing (Summer and Fall 2010): Wideband and Ultra-Wideband Antennas for Breast Cancer Detection
25. Rafid Damman (Summer, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012): Linear Microstrip Array Antenna with Wide Bandwidth for Beam Scan Performance
26. Sean Fernandez (Spring, Summer, Fall 2012, and Spring 2013): Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Multiband Planar Antennas for Wireless Routers
27. Felipe Fideles (Exchange student from Brazil: Summer and Fall 2012): Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Planar Yagi-Uda Antenna
28. Christian Rempel (Exchange student from Brazil: Summer 2012): Wideband Beam Steering Antennas
29. Jack Powell (Summer 2013—Fall 2013): Effect of Via and Metal Conductivities on Multiple Radiating Modes Microstrip Patch Antennas

1. 2026 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder, Colorado: Nhat Truong and Arthur Gratas
   
2. 2024 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder, Colorado: Drasti Tandel
   
3. 2023/2024 University Graduate Fellowship, SDSU: Nhat Truong
   
4. 2023 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder Colorado: Rudraishwarya Banerjee
5. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology: Rudraishwarya Banerjee, SPC Finalist Student
6. 2022 DRI Post-Doctoral Fellowship program: Dr. Sanghamitro Das
7. 2021 Hewlett-Packard Award, ACSESS, SDSU: Rudraishwarya Banerjee
8. 2020 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Honorable Mention Award, Student Paper Contest (SPC): Ghanshyam Mishra
9. 2020 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)’s Student Paper Finalist: Sonika Biswal and Ghanshyam Mishra
10. 2019-2020 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant: Ghanshyam Mishra
11. 2019 EMTS Young Scientist Award: Ghanshyam Mishra
12. 2019 California State University Chancellor’s Awards: Ghanshyam Mishra
13. 2019 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder Colorado, USA: Ghanshyam Mishra
14. 2019/2020 University Graduate Fellowship, SDSU: Rudraishwarya Banerjee
15. 2018/2019 University Graduate Fellowship, SDSU: Ghanshyam Mishra and Ila Agnihotri
16. 2018 Tioga Research Award for Outstanding Poster and Oral Presentation, ACSESS 2018, San Diego: Ghanshyam Mishra
17. 2017 Director’s Award for Outstanding Poster and Presentation, ACSESS 2017, San Diego: Ghanshyam Mishra
18. 2017 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder Colorado, USA: Roshin R. George
19. 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Student Paper Contest, Honorable Mention Award, Puerto Rico, USA: Behrouz Babakhani
20. 2016 USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, Boulder, Colorado, USA: Alejandro Castro
21. 2016 USNC-URSI Student Travel Awards, IEEE APS-URSI Symposium, Vancouver, Canada: Behrouz Babakhani
22. 2015 EEE Antenna and Propagation-Society Harold A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award: (N. Labadie, S. K. Sharma, and G. Rebeiz, “A Circularly Polarized Multiple Radiating Modes Microstrip Antenna with Beam Peak and Null Steering Satellite Receive Applications”, IEEE Trans Antennas and Propagation, USA, Vol. 62, No. 7, July 2014, pp. 3490-3500)
23. 2014 Los Alamos award for Outstanding Poster and Presentation, ACSESS 2014, San Diego: Behrouz Babakhani
24. 2012 Student Paper Finalist and Young Scientist Travel Grant, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Nagoya, Japan: Nathan Labadie
25. 2011 Student Paper Contest (SPC) Finalists (based on double blind review), IEEE International Antennas & Propagation Society Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting to be held from July 3-8, 2011, Spokane, WA, USA: Balamurugan Shanmugam
26. 2011 College of Engineering, The Dean's Award in Student Research Symposium: Nathan Labadie
27. CLASTECH 2010: K. Nahalingam, A. Kulkarni, and E. Mireles (Jointly 1st Prize)
28. 2009 College of Engineering, The Dean's Award in Student Research Symposium: Alex R. Moody
29. CLASTECH 2009, Nathan Labadie, 1st Prize
30. CLASTECH 2008, Christopher Meagher, 2nd Prize
31. 2008 College of Engineering, The Dean's Award in Student Research Symposium: Christopher Meagher