RF advanced packaging, antennas, and biomedical RF applications, with a focus on thermal and electromagnetic co-design of antenna-in-package solutions and additive manufacturing of RF and millimeter-wave front ends.

Novel mm-wave antenna arrays co-designed for high efficiency electromagnetic radiation and effective thermal management

Development and optimization of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (p-MUTs) and MEMS devices for biomedical imaging, robotics, and structural health monitoring.

RF/mm-wave additive manufacturing and advanced packaging of mm-wave transceivers and active phased arrays using beamforming integrated circuits.

Mode shape analyis of MEMS devices using laser doppler vibrometry

Research in wireless sensors, micromechanical resonators, oscillators, MEMS readout circuits, and RF design. Current work focuses on wireless, implantable MEMS capacitive intraocular pressure sensors for continuous glaucoma monitoring, funded by the Department of Defense.

Design of a mm-wave front-end transceiver for precision timing synchronization and localization in jammed and congested spectral environments.

Ferroelectric materials, additive manufacturing and processing, tunable capacitors and filters, and hybrid packaging of tunable circuits.

Reconfigurable metasurfaces for absorption, reflection, and EM wave manipulation

Piezoelectric materials, RF circuits, tunable capacitors, capacitive-piezoelectric RF MEMS resonators, magnetic field sensing, micro/nano fabrication, thin film characterization, and FEM modeling.

Passive RF energy harvesting systems for wireless sensors and low-power electronics

Chaotic antenna arrays as incoherent illumination sources for mm-wave interferometric imaging arrays