Microwave Engineering Laboratory

	Mohammed Azad PhD Student Research Area: Miniature Antenna Design, Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures
	Brief Background: Mohammed Ziaul Azad is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (EE) in the Microwave Engineering Laboratory under Dr. Ali’s supervision.
	Azad received his Master of Engineering degree in EE from USC in 2007. Earlier he received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, in 2002. He is the author or coauthor of several refereed journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include antenna miniaturization, diversity antennas, antennas for mobile phone and WLAN, GPS antennas, RF circuit design, and electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures.
	Rashed Bhuiyan PhD Student Research Area: Wireless Sensors for Power System Monitoring and Diagnostics
	Brief Background: Rashed H. Bhuiyan joined the Microwave Engineering Laboratory as a graduate research assistant in January 2006. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
	Prior to joining USC, he received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. both in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. At USC, he is working on wireless sensing and monitoring of electric ship power system.
	Rashidul Islam PhD Student Research Area: Dosimetry, SAR, Temperature Rise in Human Head/Body due to EM Radiation
	Brief Background: Md. Rashidul Islam has joined the Microwave Engineering Lab as a Research Assistant in August 2007. He completed B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, in February 2004. Having completed his B.Sc., he joined AKTEL where he worked for 3 years as a Microwave Transmission Network Designer. His current research interests include flexible antennas, ultra wideband antennas, reconfigurable antennas, specific absorption rate (SAR) and engineered materials for wireless applications. He has a research paper on Speech Processing which was published in ICECE 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
	Xiaohua Jin PhD Student Research Area: Wireless Buried Sensors for Infrastructure Health Monitoring
	Brief Background: Xiaohua Jin became the member of Microwave Engineering Laboratory in May, 2007. She received her B.E. and M.S. degrees in Automation of Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Then she got her Ph. D. in mathematics from University of South Carolina. She has a good skill in engineering design and mathematics simulation. Her research work is focused on wireless embedded sensors for structural health monitoring.
	Taher Sharabati PhD Student Research Area: To be Defined Email:
	Brief Background: Taher Sharabati earned his BSEE and MSEE degrees from St. Cloud State, MN and University of Toledo, OH respectively. In July 2001, he joined Motorola platform and reference design team working on reference design and platform of Next generation chipsets.
	Istvan Szini PhD Student Research Area: Adaptive Antennas Email:
	Brief Background: Istvan Szini joined the Microwave Engineering Laboratory as a graduate student in summer 2005. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of South Carolina. Prior to joining USC, he took his Masters credits in Electronic Systems at University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo Brazil (1995), and Bachelor degree on Electrical Engineering at University Mogi das Cruzes in Sao Paulo Brazil (1990). Istvan has over 24 years of professional experience in telecommunications industry, starting as electronic technician in Ford Electronic Division, Senior Research & Development Engineer in NEC Brazil developing Fiber Optical Transmission Systems (eight years) and CDMA/PHS and WLL wireless networks (two years), in the last ten years have been working in Motorola Inc. Libertyville/IL/US, nowadays Istvan is Principal Staff Engineer part of Antenna Technology Center of Excellence research, providing innovative antenna solutions for mobile devices.