Project Engineer

Ugur Olgun

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HIGHLIGHTS

Five years hands-on experience with antenna and microwave circuit design

Practical projects on antenna miniaturization, feeding networks, impedance matching circuits

Conducted anechoic chamber measurements (far-field and near-field) for antennas and EM propagation

Extensive experience with microwave test equipment utilization (spectrum analyzer, VNA etc.)

Experience with ambient RF power harvesting technology, charging batteries by the energy from thin air

Authored several IEEE journal and conference papers

EDUCATION

PhD., ECE Dept., The Ohio State University, August 2012 (expected), GPA:3.92/4.00

Grad Minor, ECON Dept., The Ohio State University, June 2011, GPA:3.75/4.00

B. Sc., EE Dept., Bilkent University, May 2008, GPA:3.83/4.00

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Associate

ElectroScience Laboratory, OSU, Columbus, Ohio

September 2008 Present

1) NSF Connection One project (ongoing): design and fabricate a quad-band (GSM, DCS, PCS, WiFi-BT) ambient

RF power-harvesting module. Design includes the miniaturized antenna and the rectifying RF circuitry.

2) NSF Connection One project (ongoing): design and fabricate conformal textile DCS/WiFi-BT antennas, which

will be embroidered on clothes (jacket, t-shirt, etc.).

3) AFRL-GPS Project: Design and fabricate a compact GPS antenna operating at L1 and L2 bands.

4) USDA insect radar project: design a complete RFID radar system (interrogator, tags, antennas, etc.) that can track

the insects from 200 away.

5) NSF Connection One project: evaluate the modality of RFID sensors on aircraft.

6) Elintrix: evaluate the effect of human body on near field communication systems.

7) Technology Service Corporation: design and fabricate an X-Band patch antenna array on a cylindrical surface

Product Engineer

Optisis Communications (Ankara) Co., Ltd., Ankara, Turkey

January 2008 August 2008

1) Debugged the test procedures for communication systems of handheld radios.

2) Designed remote computer controller circuit and its driver software.

Intern

Dept. of Microwave System Tech., Aselsan (Ankara) Co., Ltd., Ankara, Turkey

June 2006 August 2006, June 2007 August 2007

1) Designed and fabricated rectangular patch antennas for 2.45 GHz for electronic toll collection systems.

HONORS & AWARDS

Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum 3rd place in Engineering, 2012

One of the twelve recipients of OSU Presidential Fellowship, 2011

John D. and Alice Nelson Kraus Memorial Student Poster Contest 1st place, 2010

Antenna Measurement and Techniques Association (AMTA) Student Paper Contest 3rd place, 2010

One of ten recipients of IEEE MTT-S (Microwave Theory and Techniques Society)

Undergraduate/Pregraduate Scholarship, 2008

The Ohio State University student fellowship, 2008

Bilkent University High Honor student, student fellowship, 2004-2008

Ranked 102nd in nation-wide university entrance exam among 1.7e9 examinees, 2004

Scholarship for Higher Education in the USA - T.C. Ministry of Education, 2004

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: HFSS, FEKO, Ansoft Designer, ADS, MATLAB

Programming Tools/Languages: MATLAB, C/C++ (basic), Java

Prototype fabrication: Machine tools (milling and drilling press), PCB milling machine

EM measurements: Spectrum analyzers, Network analyzers and oscilloscopes, anechoic chamber

measurements (far-field and near-field)

Languages: Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (basic)

PROFESSONAL ORGANIZATION & SERVICES

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), student member, 2006

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, student member, 2010

IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, student member, 2010

Bilkent Engineering Society, student member, 2005

Bilkent Chess Society, member, 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

Ugur Olgun, Kenneth E. Browne, William F. Moulder, and John L. Volakis, "RFID antennas and

technology", Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques & Applications, Eds.: I. John L. Volakis, Chi-

Chih Chen, Kyohei Fujimoto, McGraw-Hill Professional 2010

Journal Papers

Ugur Olgun, Chi-Chih Chen, and John L. Volakis, "Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Technology and its

Applications", IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, submitted.

Ugur Olgun, Chi-Chih Chen, and John L. Volakis, "High Efficiency Rectifier Circuit for Batteryless

Wireless Sensors ", IET Electronics Letters, submitted.

Ugur Olgun, Chi-Chih Chen, and John L. Volakis, "Ultra-low Power Capable RF Power Harvester", IEEE

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, accepted for publication.

Ugur Olgun, Chi-Chih Chen, and John L. Volakis, " Investigation of Rectenna Array Configurations for

Enhanced RF Power Harvesting", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.10, no.1, April.

2011.

Ugur Olgun, Celal Alp Tunc, Vakur B. Ert rk and Ayhan Altintas, "On the Capacity of Printed Planar

Rectangular Patch Antenna Arrays in the MIMO Channel: Analysis and Measurements", IEEE Antennas

and Propagation Magazine, vol.52, no.6, Dec. 2010.

Ugur Olgun, Celal Alp Tunc, Defne Aktas, Vakur B. Ert rk and Ayhan Altintas, "Particle Swarm

Optimization of Dipole Arrays for Superior MIMO Capacity ", Microwave and Optical Technology

Letters, Feb. 2009.

Conference Papers

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen and J. L. Volakis, A Conformal X-Band Cylindrical Patch Antenna Array

System, AMTA 33nd Annual AMTA Symposium, October 2011

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen and J. L. Volakis, Comparative Analysis of Rectenna Array Configurations for

Optimal Power Harvesting, AMTA 32nd Annual AMTA Symposium, October 2010

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen and J. L. Volakis, Wireless Power Harvesting with Planar Rectennas for 2.45

GHz RFIDs, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, August 2010

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen and J. L. Volakis, Low-Profile Planar Rectenna for Batteryless RFID Sensors,

IEEE APS-URSI International Symposium, July 2010

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen, D. Psychoudakis and J. L. Volakis, Improving the Read Range of RFID

Sensors, IEEE Sensors International Symposium, September 2009

Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen, D. Psychoudakis and J. L. Volakis, High Gain Lightweight Array for Harmonic

Portable RADAR, IEEE APS-URSI International Symposium, June 2009

Ugur Olgun, Celal Alp Tunc, Defne Aktas, Vakur B. Ert rk and Ayhan Altintas, "Optimization of Linear

Wire Antenna Arrays to Increase MIMO Capacity Using Swarm Intelligence", The Second European

Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2007), 11 - 16 November 2007, Edinburgh, UK.

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