Engineering Electrical
Resume:
SYED ABDULLAH NAUROZE
APT 3114, 30309, Atlanta, GA
ac6kmj@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering – Electromagnetics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Research topic: Next generation shape-shifting and origami-based RF structures using additive manufacturing technologies. 2014-18(expected)
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2014-18
Master of Engineering in Wireless systems - radio communication Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Thesis topic: Investigation of novel on-chip antennas for wireless application and single-chip sensors.
2008
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan Thesis topic: Implementation of OFDM physical layer for 802.11a 2001- 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant August 2015 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
• Origami-inspired reconfigurable RF components (FSS, absorbers, antennas and arrays)
• Design of 3D-printed smart encapsulations for realization of system-on-package solutions, integrated mm-wave RF components and shielding
• Multilayer flexible antenna arrays for X-band (10 GHz) using inkjet-printing technology
• Part of NSF I-Corps program to transition PhD research from lab to solve real-world problems
• Lead a group of 3 PhD students to work on integrating smart sensors for Eaton lights.
• Mentored high school teacher in GT SETUP program to introduce and engage the high school students in the cutting-edge technologies for the future. Co-op - 5G phased array antenna Aug – Dec 2017
Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA
• Design, optimize and evaluate single and dual band 5G phased array antennas.
• Ran process corner and material characterization simulations and evaluate overall performance variation due to fabrication tolerances
• Investigation of novel techniques for miniaturized 5G single-band antenna arrays that meet fabrication process and vendor requirements. This include reduced size antenna elements and integrated structures to reduce inter-element coupling. Guest Researcher Summer 2011
Research Institute of Microwave & Millimeter-wave studies – National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
• Helical antenna miniaturization for high-gain 2.4GHz WLAN applications.
• RIMMS is the one of the most renowned institutes for microwave and mm-wave research in Pakistan.
Research Graduate Jan 2008 - Nov 2008
Microsystems Tech Lab - Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
• Conducted research on investigation of novel on-chip antennas for high frequency applications
• The performance of the novel on-chip helical antenna was found better in terms of bandwidth, chip area and gain than previously published antennas. Research Graduate Sept. 2005-July 2006
University of technology Petronas (UTP), Malaysia
• Worked on fractal antenna design for MIMO systems in an Intel project
• Assisted a Prof. in an undergraduate course by conducting labs and tutorial sessions. Also, I assisted creating materials for lectures and final exams. TEACHING EXPERIANCE
Assistant Professor Jan 2012 – Aug 2014
National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
• Responsible for two undergraduate courses in electromagnetic theory and wave propagation & antenna theory
• Supervisor to four (4) undergraduate final year project groups Teaching Fellow Aug 2009 – Dec 2011
LUMS – School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan
• Responsible for four undergraduate courses: EM fields and waves, introductory electronics, digital logic circuits and signals & systems.
• Created all materials for tutorials, homework and helped in the preparation of final exams.
• Conducted PCB workshop for over hundred students.
• Conducted workshop for Research Methodology for EE students.
• Supervised nine (9) groups during their summer internship.
• Member of Accreditation and Industrial Liaison committee (AIL committee).
• Member of undergraduate curriculum committee.
Lecturer Dec 2008 - July 2009
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
• Taught two undergraduate courses in linear algebra and queuing theory
• Created all materials for lectures, tutorials and exams
• Managed and guided a teaching assistant for queuing theory course.
• Head of the mathematics and communication related courses committee. Teaching/Research Assistant Jan. 2005 - Aug. 2005
University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
• Taught two undergraduate courses in computer programming and electronics. Also supervised labs for these courses.
• Created all materials for lectures and final exams.
• Helped revise curriculum and graduation requirements for students in computer engineering to better prepare them for the job market. PUBLICATIONS
Book
1. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Novel On-Chip Antennas for 77GHz Automotive Radars. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmBH & Co., Germany, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8433-6542-0 Book chapter
2. Manos Tentzeris, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, “Flexible RF Components and Sensors Using Inkjet-printing Technologies” Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Wiley, 2017
3. Larissa Novelino, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, and Glaucio H. Paulino. Origami7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Meeting on Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education. Technology, Art, Education. 2018 (accepted) Journal papers
4. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, Larissa Novelino, Glaucio H Paulino.
“Continuous-range Tunable Multi-layer Frequency Selective Surfaces Using Origami and Inkjet-printing” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2018 (submitted) 5. Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Yunnan Fang, Bijan Tehrani, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Ryan Bhar, Manos Tentzeris. “Nanotechnology-empowered Flexible Printed Wireless Electronics,” submitted to IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine 2018 (accepted) 6. Ajibayo Adeyeye, Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Tong-Hong Lin, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Bijan Tehrani, Manos Tentzeris. “Additively manufactured Inkjet-/3D-/4D- printed wireless sensors Modules,” submitted to International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems (IJHSES) 2018 (accepted)
7. Jo Bito, Ryan Bahr, Jimmy Hester, John Kimionis, Abdullah Nauroze, Wenjing Su, Bijan Tehrani, Manos M. Tentzeris. “Inkjet-/3D-/4D-printed autonomous wearable RF modules for biomonitoring, positioning and sensing applications”, Proc. SPIE 10194, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IX, 101940Z (May 18, 2017) 8. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Jimmy Hester, Bijan Tehrani, Wenjing Su, Jo Bito, Ryan Bahr, John Kimionis, Manos Tentzeris. “Additive Manufactured RF Components and Modules: Towards Empowering the Birth of Cost-efficient Dense and Ubiquitous IoT Implementations”, in Proc. IEEE, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 702-722, April 2017
9. Jo Bito, Ryan Bahr, Jimmy G. Hester, Syed A. Nauroze, Apostolos Georgiadis, Manos Tentzeris. “Solar and Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting System with 3D-printed Package for Energy Efficient Internet-of-Things (IoT) Wireless Sensors”, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 65, no. 5, pp.1831-1842, 2017
10. Rashad Ramzan, Omar Siddiqui, Abdullah Nauroze, Omar Ramahi. “A Microstrip Probe Based on Electromagnetic Energy Tunneling for Extremely Small and Arbitrarily Shaped Dielectric Samples”, IEEE Antennas Wireless Prop. Lett., vol. 14, pg. 1554-1556, March 2015 Conference papers
11. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Aline Eid, Manos Tentzeris “n-RiM: A Paradigm Shift in Realization of Fully Inkjet-printed Broadband Tunable FSS using Origami Structures”, IEEE- MTS Int. Microwave Symposium (IMS), Philadelphia, USA, 2018 (3MT competition winner) 12. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Bijan Tehrani, Manos Tentzeris, “An Inkjet-printed Origami-based Frequency Selective Surface with Wide Frequency and Bandwidth Tunability”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS - URSI), Boston, 2018
13. Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, “A Flexible Compact Rectenna for 2.4GHz ISM Energy Harvesting Applications”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Antennas and Prop & USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS - URSI), Boston, 2018 14. Bijan Tehrani, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Ryan Bahr, Manos Tentzeris, “On-Package mm-wave FSS Integration with 3D-Printed Encapsulation”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), 2017 15. Wenjing Su, Ryan Bahr, Syed A Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, “Novel 3D-printed Antennas for Origami/Shape-changing Configurations”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), 2017 16. H. Griguer, Manos Tentzeris, A. Nauroze, M. Drissi, “Novel ultra-thin Flexible Metamaterial Absorber for Human Body Protection from EMF Hazard”, 2017 XXXIInd URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI-GASS), Montreal, Canada (Gold medalist for 20th Archimedes IP Salon)
17. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, Larissa Novelino, Glaucio H Paulino “Inkjet- printed “4D” Tunable Spatial Filters Using On-demand Foldable Surfaces”, IEEE-MTS Int. Microwave Symposium (IMS), Hawaii, USA, 2017 (Finalist for 3MT competition) 18. Wenjing Su, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Ryan Bahr, Manos Tentzeris “Novel 3D printed Liquid- metal-alloy Microfluidics-based Zigzag and Helical Antennas for Origami Reconfigurable Antenna “Trees””, IEEE-MTS Int. Microwave Symposium (IMS), Hawaii, USA, 2017 19. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Jimmy Hester, Wenjing Su, Manos Tentzeris, “Inkjet-printed substrate Integrated waveguides (SIW) with “drill-less” vias on paper substrates”, IEEE-MTS Int. Microwave Symposium (IMS), San Francisco, USA, 2016 20. Wenjing Su, Ryan Bahr, Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, “3D printed reconfigurable helical antenna based on microfluidics and liquid metal alloy”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Prop and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), 2016 21. Syed Abdullah Nauroze, John Kimionis, Jo Bito, Wenjing Su, Jimmy Hester, Kunal Nate, Bijan Tehrani, Manos Tentzeris, “Additive manufacturing technologies for near- and far-field energy harvesting applications”, Radio & Wireless Symp (RWS) 2016 IEEE, pp. 159-161, 2016 22. Abdullah Nauroze, Manos Tentzeris, “A Novel Printed Stub-loaded Square Helical Antenna”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), pp. 774-775, 2015
23. Amir Khurram Rashid, Shan Ullah, Abdullah Nauroze, “Three-Dimensional Loaded Strip- Dipoles for Application in Frequency Selective Structures”, 34th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), August 2013
24. Omar Sidiqui, Abdullah Nauroze, Rashad Ramzan and Omar Ramahi, “Tunneling of Electromagnetic Energy through Wires in Guided Media”, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Prop and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (APS-URSI), July 2013 25. Nauroze Syed, “In-wafer Helical Antenna for Automotive Radar”, IEEE 7th European Conference on Antenna & Propagation (EuCAP), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2013 26. Abdullah Nauroze, Omar Sidiqui, Rashad Ramzan and Omar Ramahi, “Energy Tunneling In Wire-Loaded Microstrip Cavities”, IEEE International Conference On Meta Materials, Photonic Crystals And Plasmonics (META), March 2013 27. Ben Slimane, S.; Xuesong Li; Bo Zhou; Nauroze Syed; Dheim, “Delay Optimization in Cooperative Relaying with Cyclic Delay Diversity”, IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 3553-3557, May 2008
RELEVANT TECHNICAL SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Software skills HFSS, CST Microwave studio, ADS, MATLAB Hardware skills Inkjet-printing of various conductive and polymer based inks on different substrates, 3D printing (SLA and FDM), network analyzers, VNA, antenna measurements in anechoic chamber, antenna fabrication, GHz oscilloscopes & signal generators, Interests antenna design, mm-wave packaging, additively manufactured RF components, deployable RF structures
AWARDS RECEIVED
• Best presentation and three-minute thesis (3MT®) winner at International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2018 (Boston, USA)
• Three-minute thesis (3MT®) finalist at IMS 2017 (Hawaii, USA)
• Selected for NSF I-Corps program and awarded of $50,000 as initial funding grant to do customer discovery of proposed product from PhD research (2017)
• Awarded graduate assistantship by Georgia Institute of Technology for PhD at Athena Lab (2017-present).
• Recipient of 2017 gold medal award at 20th Archimedes Inventions and Innovative Technology Salon held at Moscow
• Awarded graduate research assistantship by Georgia Institute of Technology for PhD at Athena Lab (2015-17)
• Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to pursue PhD studies at Georgia Institute of Technology
(a highly prestigious and competitive scholarship awarded every year by US government to selected few throughout the world to pursue graduate studies in USA)
• Awarded two travel grants by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan to attend EuCAP conference at Gothenburg (Sweden) and META conference at Sharjah (UAE) in April 2013 and March 2013 respectively. The most number of travel grants awarded by HEC to an individual in 2013.
• Received cash prize of $500 by FAST-NUCES (Islamabad) for excellence in research.
• Best Project Award 2007 in Wireless Networks project at Radio Communication Systems, KTH Sweden.
• Awarded scholarship by Swedish Institute in collaboration with HEC (Pakistan) for master studies in Sweden (a highly prestigious and competitive award given to selected students annually by HEC)
• Awarded sponsorship by University of Technology Petronas (Malaysia) for research in antenna design.
• Best final year project (OFDM physical layer in 802.11a) in class of fifty students.
• One of top 5 highest scoring students in the whole university and second (2nd) highest scorer of class during undergraduate studies.
• Received distinctions in every semester of the undergraduate degree.
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