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

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, n 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.

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

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.