Research Interests
- Microwave Filters and Passive Components
- Wireless passive sensors for harsh environment applications
- Antennas, phased arrays, and reflectarrays
- Flexible electronics
- Micromachining
- Advanced packaging
- Ceramic materials, polymer materials, and ferroelectric materials & Material characterization
Ongoing Research Projects
- Customizable Antenna Array Using Pixelated and Reconfigurable Slot-Ring Antennas (DARPA)
- Integrating High Frequency Whispering – Gallery Mode Phononic Cavities with Efficient Electrically-Small Antennas: Pushing the Limits of Wireless Passive Sensing (NSF)
- EARS Directional Spectrum Sensing and Communications Utilizing Beam- and Frequency-Agile Parasitic Antenna Arrays (NSF)
Professional Activities
- General Chair: 2012 WAMICON and 2016 iWAT
- ExCom Member: IMS, WAMICON, SiRF, IMBioC
- TPC Chair: AP-S/URSI Int. Symp., RWS, WAMICON, SiRF, iWAT
- TPC Member: AP-S/URSI Int. Symp., IMS, RWS, WAMICON, SiRF, WiSNET, EuCAP, EuMW, IMBioC”
- Editor: IEEE TMTT, IEEE MWCL, IET MAP Special Issue, IEEE Microwave Magazine Special Issue
- IEEE AP/MTT Orlando Chapter Chair, 2007-2010
- IEEE Orlando Section Awards Chair (2012-2013), Chair (2011), Vice Chair (2009-2010), and Secretary (2008)
Honors & Awards
- UCF Lockheed Martin Professorship (2018-2023)
- UCF Reach for the Stars Award (2016)
- UCF Research Incentive Award (2011, 2016)
- UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award: (2010, 2015)
- UCF CECS Distinguished Researcher Award (2013)
- UCF CECS CAE Link Faculty Fellow (2010-2012)
- NSF Faculty Early Career Award (2009)