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Ramesh Abhari

Ramesh Abhari joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University in 2013. Previously, she worked at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she was a tenured associate professor.  She was also a visiting associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Stanford University. Dr. Abhari pioneered the application of electromagnetic bandgap structures (EBG) for suppression of power/ground noise and the use of substrate integrated waveguides (SIW) as bandpass high-speed interconnects.

She is a senior IEEE member and has been a member of IEEE Pressboard, and technical and organizing committees for IEEE Conferences, including the 2012 International Microwave Symposium, 2010 International Antenna and Propagation Symposium, and Signal and Power Integrity Workshop. She has received numerous grants (total amount of $2M) from industry, academia, federal and provincial funding agencies, such as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Quebec research fund in natural sciences and technology (FQRNT), and Canada Foundation for Innovation. 

Dr. Abhari has advised and graduated more than 30 PhD and master's students. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, few of which received best student paper awards.

Her current research interests include novel design of passive structures, multi-antenna systems, Signal Integrity and EMC, microwave and mm-wave circuits, and bio-electromagnetics.

Courses

Undergraduate:

  • Electromagnetics I (ELEN 104)
  • Electromagnetics II (ELEN105)
  • Microwave and RF Circuits and Components (ELEN 144)
  • Electric Circuits I (ELEN50)

Graduate:

  • Electromagnetics I (ELEN 201 Graduate)
  • Signal Integrity (ELEN624)
  • Antennas I and II (ELEN 715 and ELEN716)
  • Microwave Circuit Analysis and Design (ELEN706)
  • Bio-Electromagnetics (ELEN203/BIOE203)
  • Microwave Measurement Theory and Technique (ELEN726)
Publications
  • Khoshniat and R. Abhari, “Design and Evaluation of Radiated Emission Metamaterial Absorbers,” IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Aug. 2019, vol. 61, no.4, pp. 1314-1321.
  • Benjamin Horwath and R. Abhari, “Design and Evaluation of a Vertically-Integrated Passive 2-D Beam Switching Antenna Array at 60 GHz,” Journal of RF Microwave Computer-Aided Eng., Oct. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.21930
  • Horwath and R. Abhari, “Characterization of a 4x4 SIW Butler Matrix at 60GHz for Two –Dimensional Beam Steering”, Inter. Journal of RF Microwave Computer-Aided Eng. Nov. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.21614
  • Memarzadeh Tehran, M. Niayesh and R. Abhari, “A Cavity-Backed Antenna Loaded With Complimentary Split Ring Resonators” International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 70 (7), April 2016.
  • Abdulhadi, and R. Abhari, “Multi-Port UHF RFID Tag Antenna for Enhanced Energy Harvesting of Self-Powered Wireless Sensors,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, April 2016.
  • Payndehjoo and R. Abhari, “Isolation Enhancement between Tightly Spaced Compact Unidirectional Patch-Antennas on Multi-Layer EBG Surfaces,” Inter. Journal of RF Microwave Computer-Aided Eng. May 17, 2014.
  • Payndehjoo and R. Abhari, “Compact Multi-Band PIFAs on a Semi-Populated Mobile Handset with Tunable Isolation,” IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation. vol. 6, no. 9, Sept. 2013, pp. 4814 – 4819.
  • Payndehjoo and R. Abhari, “Highly-Isolated Unidirectional Multi-Slot-Antenna Systems for Enhanced MIMO Performance,” Inter. Journal of RF Microwave Computer-Aided Eng. vol. 23, no. 4, Jul 2013.
  • Asanee Suntives and R. Abhari, “Miniaturization and Isolation Improvement of a Multiple Patch Antenna System by Using Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures,” Microwave and Optics Technology Letter, 55, no. 7, July 2013, pp. 1609–1612.
  • Shahidzadeh Mahani, and R. Abhari, “A Flexible High Speed Interconnect Using Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Technology,” IEE Electronics Letters. vol.48, no. 23, Nov 2012, pp. 1500 - 1501.
  • Payndehjoo and R. Abhari, “Investigation of Parasitic Elements for Coupling Reduction in Multi-Antenna Hand-Set Devices” Inter. Journal of RF Microwave Computer-Aided Eng., vol. 24, no. 1, Jan 2014.
  • Abdulhadi and R. Abhari, “Design and Experimental Evaluation of Miniaturized Monopole UHF RFID Tag Antennas,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation letters, vol. 11, Feb. 2012, pp. 248-251.
  • Zhaolong Li, Mohammad Shahidzadeh Mahani, and R. Abhari, “Experiment of Substrate Integrated Waveguide Interconnect Measurement for High Speed Data Transmission Application,” Microwave and Optics Technology Letters, 54, Feb. 2012, pp. 401–405.