UCLA Antenna Research, Analysis, and Measurement (ARAM) Laboratory | Bringing the evolution of electromagnetics and antennas to new levels

Fostering creative research in modern electromagnetics, communications, and antennas...

Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Attract the best and most motivated students.
Publish enduring scientific papers and books.
Create visibility by active participation.
Develop partnership with industrial and governmental agencies.

Published over 40 books and book chapters, and over 1100 papers.
Over 100 Ph.D./M.S. students graduated.
Pioneered new designs and techniques.
Won over 50 awards.
Featured on the cover-page of 20 magazine issues.
Presidency of IEEE AP society and URSI-USNC.
Editorship of several journals and special issues.
Hosted over 20 postdoctoral and visiting scholars.

Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was interviewed by IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society(AP-S) in the series of "Legends of Electromagnetics", in which major contributors to the antennas and propagation field are interviewed about their research career and their experiences within the AP-S. To watch the interview, click here.
“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.” - Albert Einstein
PhD Candidate Junbo Wang received the 22/23 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics for his dissertation entitled "Beam Steerable Antennas for CubeSats: Novel Synthesis Methods and Implementations of Reflectarrays and Transmitarrays". (June 2023)
PhD Candidate Junbo Wang and Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored a journal paper titled "Enabling the Internet of Things With CubeSats: A review of representative beamsteerable antenna concepts" which was recently featured on the cover of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (December 2021). For details, click here.
PhD Candidate Anastasios Papathanasopoulos and Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored a book chapter titled "Fundamentals of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams" which was recently published in a book titled "Electromagnetic Vortices: Wave Phenomena and Engineering Applications". For details, click here.
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored a journal paper with his former PhD student, Prof. Lingnan Song, who is is now an assistant professor at Beihang University, Beijing, China. The article is titled "Advances in Communication and Biomedical Antenna Developments at the UCLA Antenna Lab: Handheld, Wearable, Ingestible, and Implantable" and was featured in the brand new "Bioelectromagnetics" column of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. For details, click here.
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored and edited a book with his colleague Prof. Erdem Topsaka, Virginal Common Wealth University. The book is entitled, “Antenna and Sensor Technologies in Modern Medical Applications”. For details, click here.
Junbo Wang, a PhD student of Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii’s group, received First Place Award and the prize money in the 2021 Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI Student Paper Competition, for his paper entitled “K-Band Circularly Polarized Beam Steerable Reflectarray Enabling CubeSat Internet of Space: Conceptualization and Validation.” This was presented at the USNC-URSI Virtual Conference (January 2021).
Yubin Cai received the 2020 Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award in Physical and Wave Electronics for his thesis titled "Design of Electrically Small Loop Antennas with Wide-Band Frequency Tuning Capability to Facilitate Mars Exploration".
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored and edited a book with his former PhD student, Prof. Fan Yang, who is now a full professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The book is entitled, “Surface Electromagnetics with Applications in Antenna, Microwave and Optical Engineering". For details, click here.
Prof. Rahmat-Samii awarded the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. For details click here

PhD Candidate Junbo Wang received the 22/23 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics for his dissertation entitled "Beam Steerable Antennas for CubeSats: Novel Synthesis Methods and Implementations of Reflectarrays and Transmitarrays".

PhD Candidate Junbo Wang and Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii co-authored a journal paper titled "Enabling the Internet of Things With CubeSats: A review of representative beamsteerable antenna concepts" which was recently featured on the cover of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.

Junbo Wang wins first place in the 2021 Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI Student Paper Competition for his paper titled "K-Band Circularly Polarized Beam Steerable Reflectarray Enabling CubeSat Internet of Space: Conceptualization and Validation".

Anastasios Papathanasopoulos wins third place in the 2020 AMTA Student Paper Competition for his paper titled "Multi-Layered Flat Metamaterial Lenses: Design, Prototyping and Measurements".

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