Harish Rajagopalan was born in Mumbai, India. He received his B.E. degree from Government College of Engineering, Pune, India in August 2002 with distinction in Electronics and Telecommunications and M.S. degree from Auburn University in Dec 2004 in Electrical Engineering. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree at UCLA under the supervision of Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii. His research interests include Reconfigurable reflectarrays, MEMS based reconfigurable antennas, leaky-wave antennas, non-linear optics and Bio-medical applications for antennas. He is a student member of IEEE and APS societies. Personal Website
		harish@ee.ucla.edu

6. P. Izdebski, H. Rajagopalan, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Conformal Ingestible Capsule Antenna: A Novel Chandelier Meandered Design," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Special Issue on Body-Centric Antennas), Vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 900–909, April 2009.

5. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, and W. A. Imbriale, "RF MEMS Actuated Reconfigurable Reflectarray Patch-Slot Element," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 3689–3699, December 2008.

4. H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Dielectric and Conductor Loss Quantification for Microstrip Reflectarray: Simulations and Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1192-1196, April 2008.

3. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Equivalent Strip Width for Cylindrical Wire for Mesh Reflector Antennas: Experiments, Waveguide and Plane Wave Simulations," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2845 - 2853, Oct. 2006.

2. H. Rajagopalan, P. Vippa, M. Thakur, "Quadratic electro-optic effect in a novel nano-optical material based on nonconjugated conductive polymer, poly(ß-pinene)," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, 033109, Jan. 2006.

1. P. Vippa, H. Rajagopalan, M. Thakur, "Electrical and optical properties of a novel nonconjugated conductive polymer,poly(ß-pinene)," Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol. 43, pp. 3695 – 3698, Nov. 2005.

20. H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Novel Conformal All-Surface Mount RFID Tag Antenna Design," accepted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Charleston, SC, June 2009.

19. H. Rajagopalan, P. Izdebski, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Miniaturized Ingestible Antenna for Capsule Medical Imaging System," accepted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Charleston, SC, June 2009.

18. T. Koskinen, H. Rajagopalan, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Impedance Measurements of Various Types of Balanced Antennas with the Differential Probe Method," IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (IWAT), Santa Monica, CA, pp. 1–4, March 2009.

17. P. Izdebski, H. Rajagopalan, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Ingestible capsule antenna for bio-telemetry," IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (IWAT), Santa Monica, CA, pp. 1–4, March 2009.

16. H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "On the Assessment of Dielectric Loss in Microstrip Reflectarray for Low/High Loss Substrates," North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI), Boulder, CO, Jan 2009.

15. H. Rajagopalan, P. Izdebski and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Conformal Antenna Design for Ingestible Capsule Imaging System," North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI), Boulder, CO, Jan 2009.

14. H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Loss Quantification for Microstrip Reflectarray: Issue of High Fields and Currents," IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, San Diego, CA, pp. 1–4, July 2008.

13. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, and W. A. Imbriale, "Integration of RF MEMS Switches with the Reconfigurable Reflectarray Element: A Novel Patch-Slot Implementation," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, San Diego, CA, pp. 1–4, July 2008. (Student Paper Finalist Award)

12. H. Rajagopalan and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "RF MEMS Actuated Reconfigurable Reflectarray: A Novel Patch-Slot Element Design," North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI) 2008, Boulder, CO, Jan 2008. (Best Student Paper)

11. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "MEMS Based Reconfigurable Reflectarray Element," International Symposium on Elcetrocmagnetic Theory (EMTS) 2007, Ottawa, Canada, July 2007. (Invited)

10. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "S-Curve Characterization of Reconfigurable Reflectarray Element: Simulations and Measurements," North american Radio Science Meeting (URSI) 2007, Ottawa, Canada, July 2007.

9. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, W. A. Imbriale, "Reconfigurable Patch-Slot Reflectarray Elements using RF MEMS Switches: A Subreflector Wavefront Controller," IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.

8. S. Xu, H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, W. A. Imbriale, "A Novel Reflector Surface Distortion Compensating Technique Using a Sub-Reflectarray," IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.

7. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii,Amane, Miura, "Characterizations of Spaceborne Mesh Reflector Antennas with Complex Weaves:Extended PO/Periodic MoM and Equivalent Strip Width Verification," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2006.

6. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Reconfigurable reflectarray element characterization," European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Nice, France, Nov. 2006.

5. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Experimental and Numerical Analysis to determine the equivalent strip width for cylindrical wire for mesh reflector antennas," IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, July 2006.

4. A. Narayanan, J. Titus, H. Rajagopalan, P. Vippa, M. Thakur, "Single-crystal films of a combination of materials (co-crystal) involving DAST and IR-125 for electro-optic applications," American Physical Society March Meeting,Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006.

3. H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Equivalent Strip Width for Cylindrical wire: Experimental and Numerical Verification," National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2006.

2. R. Swamy, P. Vippa, H. Rajagopalan, J. Titus, M. Thakur, A. Sen, "Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect and Electroabsorption in a Novel Nano-Optical Material based on the Nonconjugated Conductive Polymer, Poly(ethylenepyrrolediyl) Derivative," American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 21-25, 2005.

1. M. Thakur, P. Vippa, H. Rajagopalan, "Poly-beta-pinene, a Novel Nonconjugated Conductive Polymer," American Physical Society March Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.