Members

Ning Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow. Ning Yang was born in Taixin, Jiangsu Province, China on Dec. 1976. He received B. Eng degree in radio engineering from Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing, China. He obtained Ph.D on microwave engineering in 2004 under joint student program between SEU and Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), National University of Singapore. Since Oct. 2006, he has been a post-doc Research Fellow with Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. His current research interests include coplanar integrated circuits and antennas, left-handed transmission lines, SIW devices and active RF systems.

Toshiro Kodera, Postdoctoral Fellow. Toshiro Kodera was born in Hyogo, Japan. He received the B.E., M.E. and Dr. Eng. from Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Japan, in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He developed some numerical program and devices using ferrite media during this period. In 2001 he joined the Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology as a Lecturer. In 2005, he joined Wave Engineering Laboratories, ATR international, Kyoto Japan as an invited researcher, and in 2006 he was a researcher. In ATR, he engaged in R&D of GaAs MMICs for 802.15.3c Gbps wireless LAN system and PWM-EER transmitter. In 2008, he joined Caloz group of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. His current research is on the dispersion technology.

Armin Parsa, Postdoctoral Fellow. Armin Parsa received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1997 and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from Tarbiat modarres University, Tehran, Iran, in 2001. He received the Ph.D. degree form Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, in April 2008. During his Ph.D., he worked on development of a Green’s function for modeling a finite and electrically thick reinforced concrete slab. In May 2008, he joined the research group of Christophe Caloz at École Polytechnique de Montréal as a post-doc research fellow. His main research interests include propagation and scattering of waves, UWB and leaky wave antennas, high frequency techniques and computational electromagnetics.

Hoang Van Nguyen, Postdoctoral Fellow. Van-Hoang Nguyen received the B.A.Sc (with honors) and M.A.Sc degrees both in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and Carleton University in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2009. He is currently working toward the Ph. D degree at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include microwave/mm-wave circuits and devices, ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, and electromagnetic metamaterial broadband devices and components. In 2002-2003, he was a researcher at Sirenza MicroDevices Inc., where he developed linearization circuits for RF power amplifiers. In the summer 2004, he visited Advanced Silicon Devices and Materials Laboratory, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan as a Research Fellow, where he developed CMOS UWB low-noise amplifier. He is the recipient of the URSI Canadian Young Scientist Award for the best paper award presented at the 2007 International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics.

Dimitrios Sounas, Postdoctoral Fellow. Dimitrios L. Sounas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece on Sept. 1981. He received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the same university, in 2009. In August 2010, he joined the group of Prof. Christophe Caloz as a post-doctoral fellow. His research interests include analytical and numerical techniques in electromagnetics, metamaterials and graphene-based structures.

Shulabh Gupta, Ph.D. Student. Shulabh Gupta was born on 14th december, 1982 in India. He completed his Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics from Indian School of Mines, India and Masters of Science (MS) in Telecommunications from INRS-EMT, Universite du Quebec in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He is presently pursuing his Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Caloz. He has filed two patents and is a recipient of Young Scientist Award in URSI-GA, Chicago ’08 and EMTS Ottawa ’07. His current research interest is in dispersion engineered metamaterials for Ultra-wideband systems and devices and Fourier optics inspired leaky-wave structures and systems.

Louis-Philippe Carignan, Ph.D. Student. Louis-Philippe Carignan received his M.Sc.A degree from engineering physics at École Polytechnique de Montréal in December 2006. He is now a Ph.D. student at École Polytechnique de Montréal under supervision of David Ménard (engineering physics department) and Christophe Caloz (electrical engineering department). His main research activities include the study of magnetic anisotropy in nanostructured magnetic materials and the fabrication of microwave devices based on ferromagnetic nanowires.

Attieh Shahvarpour, Ph.D. Student. Attieh Shahvarpour was born in Hamedan, Iran, on November 29, 1979. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. of Electrical-Telecommunications and Telecommunications-Wave Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, where she researched on dielectric resonators and antennas, computational electromagnetics and optical devices. She joined Optical Institute of Technology, Iran Telecommunications Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, Iran, in 2006, where she was working on optical amplifiers. She is currently studying towards a Ph.D. degree at Prof. Caloz’s group, Poly-Grames Reseach Center, École Polytechnique de Montreal. Her main field of research includes nonlinear microwave devices and nonlinear metamaterials, while she is also working on integrated dielectric substrates and plasmonic structures.

Hadi Razavipour, Ph.D. Student. Hadi Razavipour was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1985. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, in Communication Engineering in 2008. From 2006, he has been with the Information and Communication Technology Institute (ICTI) of IUT doing research in the field of microwave ferrite devices, computational and numerical electromagnetics, and dielectric resonator oscillators. He is currently studying towards the Ph.D. degree at Prof. Caloz’s group, Poly-Grames Research Center, École Polytechnique de Montréal. His main field of research is nano-structured magnetic metamaterials.

Babak Nikfal, Ph.D. Student. Babak Nikfal received his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1996, and his M.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, in 2001. He joined the Company TAKTA as a technical manager of data satellite earth station, Tehran, Iran, in 2001. He has been with the company Asia Communication Developers (ACD) working in field of data and wireless network, Isfahan, Iran, in 2003. He joined the Information and Communication Technology Institute (ICTI) of IUT as RF circuit designer in 2006. He moved to Canada in 2009 and started his collaboration as a Research Associate at the Poly-Grames research center under supervision of Prof. Caloz. He is currently studying towards Ph.D. degree at École Polytechnique de Montréal in the group of Prof. Caloz. His research area includes novel analog signal processing (ASP) concepts for microwave and ultra-wideband systems.

Juliano Brianeze, Ph.D. Student. Juliano Rodrigues Brianeze was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1978. After living several years in Mato Grosso state, he moved to Campinas, São Paulo, where he concluded his B.S. and M.Sc., both in Electrical Engineering, at the State University of Campinas, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. During his Master he worked with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms applied to electromagnetic problems and designed a modified Yagi antenna to an airborne remote sensing radar, which became a product and was also patented. In 2008 he became an Electronic Engineer at Orbisat da Amazônia Indústria e Aerolevantamento S/A, where he worked with the design, test and maintenance of antennas, microwave devices and RF hardware for radars. In July of 2010 he joined the group of prof. Caloz as a Ph.D. student at École Polytechnique de Montréal. His main research topics have been electrically small antennas and active microwave circuits.

Nima Chamanara, Ph.D. Student. Nima Chamanara was born in 1981 in Iran. He received his BS and MS degrees from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He is a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. His research area includes developing computational methods for multi-physics simulation of the new emerging technologies.

Simon Couture, M.Sc. Student. Simon Couture was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1986. He received the B.A.Sc in electrical engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal. He is currently a master student under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Caloz. His main research interests are ferrite-based devices, electromagnetic theory and numerical methods.

Milad Dagher, M.Sc. Student. Milad Dagher was born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1987. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of Balamand in 2004. He started his M.A.Sc degree in Concordia University in 2009. Later on that year, he transfered to École Polytechnique where he is currently persuing his M.Sc degree under the supervision of Professor Christophe Caloz. His main field of research is nano-electromagnetics, specifically in carbon nanotube traveling wave structures.

Samer Abielmona, Research Associate. Samer Abielmona obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in 1999 from Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada, specializing in electronics and microwave engineering. In 1997, he joined Newbridge Networks, Ottawa, Canada, as a telecommunication engineer working on Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches. In 2000, he was involved with firmware (H/W and S/W) design on multi-platform and multi-standards switches for Alcatel Canada. In 2001, he joined Carleton University, first as a research associate working on antenna measurements, then obtaining his Master’s degree in 2005. In 2006, he joined Dr. Caloz’s leading-edge research group as a research associate working on a wide myriad of projects: Dispersion engineering, antenna design, smart antennas, active devices, UWB systems, pulse communication. He scratches his head every time he encounters Maxwell’s equations. He plays soccer for fun!

Abdelkarim Ouadid, Research Associate. Abdelkarim Ouadid received the B.S. degree in engineering from École Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale (ENIM), Rabat, Morocco, specializing in digital control in 1998, and the M. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Canada, in 2004, specializing in telecommunications systems and microelectronics. From 2006 until joining Dr. Caloz’s research group as a research associate in 2010 he was working for Lyrtech Inc, Québec City, Canada, as an FPGA specialist. His mandates at Lyrtech included a large spectrum of applications ranging from real time video processing, digital signal processing, MIMO application on the advanced development solution platform, high speed ADC/DAC interfacing, etc. He brings his expertise in the digital signal processing to support the group in some research and technology transfer projects.