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Name of the applicant University Title of the proposed research project
1 Jack Condon Arizona State University, USA Metasurface-modulated Conformal Cavities for Source Localization
2 Mohamed Elsheshtawy Ain Shams University, Egypt Mutual Coupling Reduction in Dense Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Arrays at 2.4 GHz Using Sub-Wavelength EBG Structures
3 Laura Seldon Queen's University, Canada RF Performance Characterization of Shape Memory Alloy Based Deployable Antennas for CubeSats
4 Erik Pettersson Lund University, Sweden Smartphone Antenna Design Using Characteristic Modes for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks
5 Alexandra Pacheco Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia Rain Attenuation Forecasting in Q-Band Satellite Communications: A Deep Learning Approach
6 Nirbhay Bhojani Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India Design and Development of a Dual-Band High-Gain AMC-Backed Antenna Array with RF Switching for Microwave Breast Tumor Detection
7 Junseong Bae Incheon National University, Republic of Korea Low-profile wideband electromagnetic absorber
8 Mohamed Ahmed Nile University, Egypt Microwave Metasurface-Inspired Sensor for Non-Destructive Dielectric Characterization of Solid and Liquid Materials
9 Jake Happ Western Washington University, USA Smart Headband
10 Sathya Dev Cherala Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India Design and Development of High-Gain Antenna Array Based on Spoof Plasmon Polariton (SPP) Excitation Mechanism
11 Tomás Figueroa Torres University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Development of Electromagnetic Skin Structures for Resilient Wireless Infrastructure and Disaster-Resilient Communications in Puerto Rico
12 Bala Satya Phaneendra Billa Koneru Lakshmaiah College Of Engineering - KL University, India A Conformal Integrated-Aperture Multi-Band Antenna System for Intelligent Vehicles: V2X (5.9 GHz) and High-Gain Beamforming at K-/Ka-Bands (24/28/39 GHz) for Radar-Communication in Autonomous Vehicles
13 Venkata Dhanush Avula Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India Metasurface Based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Antenna Design for Beam Steering Applications
14 Nathan Young Arizona State University, USA Broadband, Dual-Polarized Millimeter-Wave Programmable Metasurface
15 Paul Lawrence Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Kenya Deep Learning-Accelerated Design of Compact Multi-Band Antennas for IoT Wearables Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
16 Giovannni Cuzzocrea Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Measurement-Efficient Microwave Imaging for In-Line Food Contaminant Detection
17 Konaark Berwal Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani, India Secure Integrated Vehicular Framework: Safeguarding V2X Networks through Waveform-Aided Watermarking
18 Ömer Mesut Çelebi Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Determining Microwave Hyperthermia Antenna Feeding Parameters for Breast Cancer Using Meta-Learning
19 Arjab Sengupta Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India A CSO- Optimized DGS-based Semi-Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Advanced Bio-Medical Sensing with High Sensitivity and FoM
20 Maxwell Mamishev University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Antenna-Based VLF Propagation Prediction for Observation of Satellite-Deployed Artificial Meteors
21 Kruthika Ramprasath Kumaraguru College of Technology, India Metamaterial-Inspired CSRR-Loaded Microstrip Sensor for Food Adulteration Detection
22 Qiushi Zhao Sichuan University, China Physics-Informed Super-Resolution Framework for High-Fidelity Two-Way Radio Wave Propagation over Irregular Terrain
23 Giulio Cosentino Politecnico di Torino, Italy A Preconditioned Volume Integral Equation for High-Contrast Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Media
24 Tamara Lesilolo Universitas Riau, Indonesia Portable Near-Field Radio Frequency Scanner for Non Contact Quantitative Wound Moisture
25 Faiyaz Tamboli SVERI's College Of Engineering, Pandharpur, India Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Environment-Robust Compact Printed Monopole Antennas in Emergency Communications
26 Akshara Nandikanti Stanley College of Engineering and Technology for Women, India Metamaterials based Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting
27 Noorulla Feroz R Kumaraguru College Of Technology, India AI-assisted Design and Optimization of Compact Metamaterial Rectenna Arrays for Sustainable RF Energy Harvesting in 5G/6G IoT Systems
28 Hamza Ehsan National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan Circularly Polarized Metasurface based SIW Leaky Wave Antenna for Millimeter Wave Applications
29 Abhiram Ghanta B M S College of Engineering, India Sustainable low-cost ambient RF energy harvesting system for wake-up circuits
30 Rümeysa Karaman Bogazici University, Turkey Real-Time Monitoring of Microwave Ablation Zones for Personalised Oncological Treatment
31 Ayush Kerhalkar Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India Design of Filtenna for Radio Astronomy and Other Electromagnetic Applications
32 Mohiminul Islam Sahed International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh Design and Experimental Implementation of an Arduino-Based Sonar System for Fish and Marine Life Detection
33 Anabel Castro Johnson Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama Design and Characterization of a 1-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) using a Low-Cost Anechoic Test Fixture
34 Zheyuan Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Electromagnetic Modeling of Spontaneous Emission in Single-Photon Sources
35 Amanda Guachichullca-Sánchez Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Low-cost RF sensing system based on 2.45 GHz patch antennas and S21 measurements with Machine Learning for air pressure measurement and contamination level classification.

2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (USRS) finalists


Name of the applicant University Title of the proposed research project
1 Tobias Paccione Bucknell University, USA Reactively Tuned Yagi-Uda Array
2 Veronika Batianova V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine Microwave shear hyperbolic metasurfaces
3 Arunya Paul Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be Universitym, India Machine Learning-Optimized Hollow Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Biomedical Electromagnetic Sensing Applications
4 Joel Bergstrand Lund University, Sweden Drone Antenna Design Using Characteristic Modes for 6G Applications
5 Mitchell Mahlum University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Compact, Pattern-Reconfigurable Antennas for Long-Range HF Communications
6 Jessica Li University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Benchtop test platform for space-time modulation phenomena
7 Fatemeh Ravanbakhsh KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden High-Resolution THz Imaging Using Frequency-Orthogonal Beams and Silicon Lens Antennas
8 Yansong Chen Southeast University, China Design of ultra-wideband antenna and its band-resistance characteristics
9 Bruce Gunter University of Illinois - Chicago, USA Wearable Nanomaterial-Based Antennas and RF Circuits for Healthcare IoT Applications
10 Tongbo Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Research on Reconfigurable Antennas for FTTR Systems
11 Raghul D Sri Sairam Engineering College, India LoRa Rollback System for Reliable Sub-GHz Communication in Remote IoT Nodes
12 Marco Vinueza Bustamante Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Ecuador RF-Energy Harvesting Node: Design and Implementation of a Rectifying Antenna Prototype
13 Bishal Saikia National Institute of Technology Silchar, India Design and Development of a Miniaturized Antenna for Wireless Power Transfer and Data Telemetry Applications in a Capsule Endoscopy System
14 Nathan Young Arizona State University, USA Broadband, Dual-Polarized Millimeter-Wave Programmable Metasurface
15 Sarath Kumar S Kumaraguru College of Technology, India Miniaturized metamaterial inspired wideband antenna for satellite application
16 Tao Xin University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China, China Study of Large-Angle-Scanning Array Antennas
17 Manjuri D Kumaraguru College of Technology, India Design and Analysis of Metamaterial inspired Wearable Antennas for Smart Health Monitoring Applications
18 Sri Deepika Vudattu Vit-Ap University, India Design and Optimization of Graphene-Based Reconfigurable SIW Antennas for THz Applications
19 Sofia Olive The University of New Mexico, USA Characterizing High-Frequency RF Signal Propagation Through Plasma for Hypersonic Communication Systems
20 Nivedita Sundaresan Sri Sairam Engineering College, India Ultra-wideband Dual Polarized Vivaldi Antenna Array for High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
21 Jeremiah Apolista Western Washington University, USA Adaptive 3D-Printed Conformal Antenna for V2X Communication in Autonomous Vehicles
22 Tommaso Pignatelli Politecnico di Torino, Italy A New Discrete Paradigm for Operator Filtering and Regularization of Electromagnetic Integral Equations
23 Robert Dergharapetian University of California, Irvine, USA New Amplification Systems of Guided Modes at THz and Their Potential Use for Active Leaky Wave Antennas
24 Jimm Beh University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia Radio Propagation Prediction in Indoor Environments: An Artificial Intelligence Approach
25 Dipesh Aggarwal University of Alberta, Canada Low-profile multi-band reconfigurable antennas for conformal integration on airborne platforms
26 Luke Braden Western Washington University, USA Step into the Future: Smart Shoes Enabled by a 3D-Printed 2.4GHz Conformal Antenna
27 Parth Bhatt Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University, Delhi NCR, India Design and Development of a Triple-Band Microstrip Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Wireless Applications
28 Sanjay S Kumaraguru college of technology, India Wireless Powering of IoT Devices Using Rectenna Systems
29 Glauco Fontgalland University of Mount Union, USA A Lightweight 3D DoA Receiver and Decoder System in the Presence of Unknown Reflections and EMI
30 Priyanka S Sri Sai Ram Engineering College Optimizing Vehicle Communication-Alternatives to Horn Use and Signal Effectiveness
31 Tasneem Khodair University of Glasgow, UK Eco-friendly Antennas for Next-Generation Wearable Electronics
32 Md Nazmus Sadat Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Comprehensive Design and Realization of Dual-Band and Ku-Band Reflectarray Antennas Using Compact Split-Ring Unit Cells
33 Ahmed Mahmoud American University of Sharjah, UAE Hologram Antenna Design and Simulation for Indoor 6G Applications
34 Heeseung Choi Yonsei University, Korea A 7.5-8.5 GHz Wideband Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface using 1-Bit GaAs HEMT Phase Shifter