Biography
Kurt Schab is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He joined the SCU faculty in September 2018. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and physics from Portland State University, Portland, OR in 2011, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2018 he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His research focuses on the intersection of numerical methods, electromagnetic theory, and antenna design.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Portland State University, 2011
B.S., Physics, Portland State University, 2011
Awards
Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award, UIUC, 2016
Courses
ELEN104 - Electromagnetics I
Research
Non-linear / time-varying antenna systems, symmetry in computational electromagnetics, bounds on performance parameters of antennas and scatterers.
Publications
K. R. Schab, D. Huang, and J. J. Adams, “Models and validation of direct antenna modulation on-off keying,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, in review.
M. Gustafsson, M. Čapek, and K. R. Schab, “Trade-offs between antenna efficiency and Q-factor,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, in review.
L. Jelı́nek, K. R. Schab, and M. Čapek, “The radiation efficiency cost of resonant tuning,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, to appear.
K. R. Schab, B. Yang, B. Hughes, and J. J. Adams, “Lower bounds on substructure antenna Q-factor,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Apr. 2018.
K. R. Schab, L. Jelı́nek, M. Čapek, C. Ehrenborg, D. Tayli, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, and M. Gustafsson, “Energy stored by radiating systems,” IEEE Access, 2018.
M. Čapek, M. Gustafsson, and K. R. Schab, “Minimizing antenna quality factor,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, June 2017.
K. R. Schab, L. Jelı́nek, and M. Čapek, “Recoverable energies of dissipative electromagnetic systems,” eprint arXiv: 1701.06313 [online], Jan. 2017.
K. R. Schab and J. T. Bernhard, “A group theory rule for predicting eigenvalue crossings in characteristic mode analyses,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Oct. 2016.
K. R. Schab, J. M. Outwater Jr., M. W. Young, and J. T. Bernhard, “Eigenvalue crossing avoidance in characteristic modes,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, July 2016.
K. R. Schab and J. T. Bernhard, “Radiation and energy storage modes on conducting bodies,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Dec. 2015.
S. E. Banducci, N. Ward, J. G. Gaspar, K. R. Schab, J. A. Crowell, H. Kaczmarski, and A. F. Kramer, “The effects of cell phone and text messaging conversations on street crossing,” Human Factors, Nov. 2015.