Electrical Engineering

Ali Bostani

EDUCATION

**** – present: PhD in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

• Research area: Computational Electromagnetics

****-****: M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, INRS_TELECOM, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

• Research area: Telecommunications, RF Engineering

2000-2005: B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY (National University of Iran), Tehran, Iran

• Research area: Microelectronics, Control Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE

2008-present: Research Assistant to Prof. Webb in CAD lab, McGill University, Montreal Canada

• Developed a finite element (FE) code to characterize the RF passive components specifically analysis the evanescent mode of periodic structures for the first time.

• Significantly reduced the computational cost of solving eigenproblems related to electromagnetic bandgap structures (EBG) analysis.

• Applied Model Order Reduction (MOR) in FE analysis of passband and stopband characteristics of periodic structures. This resulted in the computational complexity reduction for more than 10 times.

2007-2008: Research Assistant to Prof. Denidni in EBG Antennas Group, INRS-EMT, Montreal Canada

• Designed and fabricated a reconfigurable EBG antenna with the ability of beam scanning in azimuth plane.

• Designed and analyzed an ultra wideband antenna with band rejection in wireless LAN frequencies to avoid interference.

2005-2007: PLC Programmer, Technical Director of BAOELECTRIC Corp., Iran

• Cofounded the company and designed and implemented several control units with PLC.

• Worked with Siemens series and Schneider series of PLCs and smart relays using Step 7 and Zelio.

• Designed and implemented the control system of cooling tower of Iran national blood refinery.

2004- 2005: Supervisor of ultrasonics in NDTPARTODEZH Corp., Iran

• Supervised several ultrasonic inspections for oil pipelines in south of IRAN.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses at McGill University:

• ECSE 353(Electromagnetics): Lecturing, Tutoring, Grading

• ECSE351 (Electromagnetics): Tutoring, Grading

• ECSE451 (Fields and Waves): Grading

• ECSE330 (Electronics I): Lecturing, Tutoring, Grading

• ECSE334 (Electronics II): Tutoring, Grading

• ECSE291 (Electrical Measurement Lab): Grading

COMPUTER SKILLS

Application software: MATLAB (SIMULINK), ADS, IE3D, HFSS, ELECNET, QUARTUS II, ZELIO, SPICE, AUTOCAD, MS OFFICE

Programming languages: MATLAB, C, C++, VISUAL BASIC, ASSEMBLY

Operating systems: MS DOS, MS WINDOWS, LINUX

PUBLICATIONS

Journals:

• A. Bostani, J.P. Webb, “A sparse finite element method for modeling evanescent modes in the stopband of periodic structures”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 47, no. 5 pp. 1186–1189, 2011.

• M. A. Habib, A. Bostani, A. Djaiz, M. Nedil, M. C. E. Yagoub, and T. A. Denidni, "Ultra Wideband CPW-fed Aperture Antenna with WLAN Band Rejection", Progress In Electromagnetics Research Journal, vol. 106, pp.17-31, 2010.

• A. Bostani, J.P. Webb, “Efficient Finite Element Eigen-analysis of 3D Periodic Structures over a Frequency Band”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, in preparation.

Conference proceedings and presentations:

• A. Bostani, J.P. Webb “A Model-Order Reduction Method for the Passband and Stopband Characteristics of Periodic Structures”, to be presented at the IEEE European Microwave Conference, Manchester, UK, 2011.

• A. Bostani, J.P. Webb “A sparse finite element method for modeling evanescent modes in the stopband of periodic structures”, IEEE Biennial Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Chicago, USA, 2010.

• A. Bostani, T.A. Denidni "Design and fabricate an EBG reconfigurable Antenna with Beam scanning", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, South Carolina, USA, 2009.

• A. Bostani, T.A. Denidni "Design of a New Ultra Wideband Antenna with Band Rejectionin WLAN frequencies", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, San Diego, USA, 2008.

• A. Bostani, A. Vakili, T.A. Denidni "A Novel Method to Measure and Correct the Odometry Errors in Mobile Robots", IEEE CCECE, Niagara Falls, 2008.

LANGUAGES

• ENGLISH: Fluent in speaking, reading and writing.

• FRENCH: Intermediate in speaking and reading.

• ARABIC: Intermediate in speaking and reading.

• PERSIAN: Mother Tongue.

Citizenship status

• Permanent resident of Canada.

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