Aidin Mehdipour

 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Bahen Building, BA 4170

10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada

E-mail: aidin.mehdipour@utoronto.ca

 

Education

 

·    Ph.D (Outstanding Thesis), Electrical Engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2007-2011.

    Thesis: Advanced carbon fiber composites for shielding and antenna applications

 

·    M.Sc, Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2003-2006.

 Thesis: Coupling of the external incident waves on microstrip lines in inhomogeneous media

 

·    B.Sc, Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran, 1998-2003.

 

Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships

 

·    Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2014

 

·    Governor General's Gold Medal : Technology, Industry and the Environment,
Awarded by the Government of Canada, 2011

 

·    Listed in 2013 Marquis Who's Who in the World

 

·    Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Concordia University, 2012, and

- Nominated for 2012 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award

 

·    Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, 2012

 

·    David J. Azrieli Graduate Fellowship, Awarded to the highest ranking graduate student in fellowship competition at Concordia University, Sep. 2009-Apr. 2010.

 

·    Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Scholarship, Concordia University Sep. 2009-Apr. 2010.

 

·    France and André Desmarais Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University, Sep. 2009-Apr. 2010.

 

·    Supplemental Funds for Conferences June 2010 Competition Award, Concordia University, July 2010.

 

·    Howard Webster Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Concordia University, Sep. 2010-Apr. 2011.

 

·    Doctoral Thesis Completion Award, Concordia University, January-April 2011.

 

·    Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Scholarship, Concordia University, Sep. 2010-Apr. 2011.

 

·    Campaign for a New Millennium Graduate Scholarship - School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Sep. 2010-Apr. 2011.

 

·    Two terms Tuition Fee Remission Award, Concordia University, 2009-2010.

 

·    Four-year Tuition Fee Remission Award, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science (ENCS), Concordia University, 2007-2011.

 

Research Interests

 

·    Nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, metamaterials, and artificial materials for electronic and electromagnetic applications

 

·    Metamaterial-inspired antennas, leaky wave antennas, dispersion engineering, miniaturization techniques,   reconfigurable antennas, mutifunctional antennas, UWB antennas and RF devices

 

·    Interdisciplinary research exploring new engineered materials for antenna/microwave/RCS applications, carbon fiber composites, carbon nanotubes and graphene for antenna/microwave circuits

 

·    Flexible electronics, wearable antennas, textile antennas for RFID and wireless communication systems

 

·    Antenna integration and miniaturization techniques, and electrically small antennas 

 

·    Reconfigurable antennas, cognitive radio systems

 

·    Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology and communication systems

 

·    Antennas on vehicles/aircrafts/automobile with composite/nanocomposite fuselage

 

·    Electromagnetic compatibility, EMC/EMI in RF and microwave circuits

 

·    Fundamental Electromagnetic Theory, computational Electromagnetics, Green’s function, numerical methods, Method of moment

 

Professional Research Experience

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2013-Present)

 

·    Design and development of Metamaterial antennas and Leaky-wave antennas, dispersion engineering, and beam steering techniques.

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montreal, Canada (2012-2013)

 

·    Design and development of reconfigurable antennas using advanced engineered materials such as metamaterials, nanocomposites and nanostructures, design nonmetallic antennas using dielectric resonators and carbon nanomaterials.

 

Research Assistant at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2007-2011)

 

·    Investigated the EM model and shielding characteristics of RCCF and CNT nanocomposite materials. Composite materials are used to build microstrip antennas so that various types of composite antennas and arrays are designed and fabricated for UHF-RFID, Bluetooth, WLAN, UWB, X-band and mm-wave applications. Successfully simulated and tested the performance of the antennas.

 

·    Performed a through research on the performance of microstrip patch antennas and arrays with ground plane made of isotropic and anisotropic nanocomposite material.

 

·    Calculated an exact solution for the Green’s function of a slab grounded by lossy isotropic/anisotropic nanocomposite material, to be used in the numerical modeling of any kind of microstrip structure with a composite ground plane.

 

·    Participated in a joint Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec  (CRIAQ 1-14) project: “Electromagnetic characteristics and EMI study on carbon fiber composites”. Accomplished and submitted the final report in Sep. 2009. Proposed the EM models for the carbon fiber composite materials and verified with experimental results up to 40 GHz. Presented the progress of work in oral presentations for the representatives of industry. This collaborative project was between university and industry partners: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd, Delastek Inc. and NRC Institute for Aerospace Research.

 

·    Designed, simulated and fabricated several types of compact multiband, band-notched and wideband antennas for Bluetooth/Wimax/WiFi/WLAN/UWB applications.

 

Research Assistant at Center of Excellence on Applied Electromagnetic Systems, University of Tehran, Iran (2003-2007)

 

·    Acted as the senior research assistant in Iran Telecommunication Research Center project (ITRC-500/5755): “Design, development and fabrication of UWB antennas”. Successfully designed and tested various types of planar and non-planar wideband antennas such as monopole, slot, elliptical, and Vivaldi. The time and frequency domain dispersion characterization of the antennas were investigated.

 

·    Designed and fabricated new electrically small antennas approaching Chu-Wheeler limit: planar meander lines, fractals, and 3D spherical meander wire antennas.

 

·    In M.Sc. thesis, a fast method was proposed for EMC analysis of orthogonal microstrip lines in high speed circuits over 1-20 GHz frequency range along with experimental verification.

 

Publications

 

Journal Papers

 Published

 

 1) A. Mehdipour, T. A. Denidni, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Nonmetallic dielectric resonator antenna using carbon nanotube composite materials,” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagat. Lett., vol. 11, pp. 1293-1295, 2012.

 

2) A. Mehdipour, A. -R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and T. A. Denidni, “Compact multiband planar antenna for 2.4/3.5/5.2/5.8 GHz wireless applications.” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagat. Lett., vol. 11, pp. 144-147, 2012.

 

3) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak, and C. W. Trueman, “Green’s function of a dielectric slab grounded by carbon fiber composite materials,” IEEE Trans. on Electromagn. Compat., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 118-125, 2012.

 

4) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, C. W. Trueman, A.-R. Sebak, and S. V. Hoa, “Multiwall carbon nanotube-epoxy composites with high shielding effectiveness for aeronautic applications,” IEEE Trans. on Electromagn. Compat., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 28-36, 2012.

 

5) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa, “Carbon nanotube  composites for wideband millimeter-wave antenna applications,” IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagat., vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 3572-3578, 2011.

 

6) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Performance of microstrip patch Antenna on a reinforced carbon fiber composite ground plane,” Microwaves and Optical Technology Lett., vol. 53,no. 6, pp. 1328-1331, 2011.

 

7) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composites using multi-wall carbon nanotubes for wideband antenna applications,” IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagat., vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 2451-2456, 2010.

 

8) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa, “Full-composite fractal antenna using carbon nanotubes for multiband wireless applications,” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Lett., vol. 9, pp. 891-894, 2010.

 

9) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa, “Advanced carbon-fiber composite materials for RFID tag antenna applications,” Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES) Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 218-229, 2010.

 

10) A. Mehdipour, A. Parsa, A.-R. Sebak and C. W. Trueman, “Miniaturized CPW-fed antenna and band-notched design for UWB applications,” IET Microw. Antennas and Propag, vol. 3, Iss. 6, pp. 974-986, 2009.

 

11) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam, R. Faraji-Dana, and M. R. Kashani-Khatib, “A novel coplanar waveguide-fed slot antenna for ultrawideband applications,” IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagat., vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 3857-3862, 2008.

 

12) A. Mehdipour, H. Aliakbarian and J. Rashed-Mohassel, “A novel electrically small spherical wire antenna with almost isotropic radiation pattern,” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Lett., vol. 7, pp. 396-399, 2008.

 

13) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam, M. R. Kashani-Khatib  and R. Faraji-Dana, “An efficient feeder for differential elliptical antennas in UWB applications,” Microwaves and Optical Technology Lett., vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 2103-2107, 2008.

 

14) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam, R. Faraji-Dana, and A. Razik-Sebak, “Modified slot bow-tie antenna for UWB applications,” Microwaves and Optical Technology Lett., vol. 50, no. 2,  pp. 429-432, 2008. 

 

15) A. Mehdipour, and M. Kamarei, “Fast analysis of external fields coupling on orthogonal interconnections in multilayered MMICs,” IEEE Trans. on Electromagn. Compat., Vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 927-931, 2007.

 

16) A. Mehdipour, H. Aliakbarian and M. Kamarei, “Investigation of crosstalk and coupling effects of incident plane waves in orthogonal microstrips in high-Speed integrated circuits using full-wave and quasi-static methods,” Wireless Personal Communication Journal - Springer, vol. 52, Issue 1, 2010. (Published online in May 2008).

 

17) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam and R. Faraji-Dana, “Complete dispersion analysis of Vivaldi antenna for ultra wideband applications,” Progress In Electromagnetic Research (PIER),          vol. 77, pp. 85-96, 2007.

 

Conference Papers and Presentations

 

1) A. Mehdipour, T.  A. Denidni, and  A. R. Sebak, “Multiband antenna loaded by metamaterial-based ZOR and CSRR with monopolar radiation pattern,” in  IEEE AP-S International Symp., Lake Buena Vista, FL, July 2013.

 

2) A. Mehdipour, T. A. Denidni, A.-R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Anisotropic carbon fiber nanocomposites for mechanically reconfigurable antenna applications,” in  IEEE AP-S International Symp., Lake Buena Vista, FL, July 2013.

 

3) A. Mehdipour, A. R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Advanced conductive carbon fiber composites for antenna and microwave applications,” in  IEEE AP-S International Symp., Special Session, Chicago, IL, July 2012 (invited paper).

 

4) A. Mehdipour, A. Sebak , C. W. Trueman , I. D. Rosca, S. V. Hoa, “Conductive carbon fiber composite materials for antenna and microwave applications,” Keynote talk, in 29th Intren. Radio Sci Conf (NRSC 2012), April 2012 (invited paper).

 

5) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, A. R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa, “Reinforced continuous carbon fiber (RCCF) composite materials for microwave applications,” in  ASC/CACSMA Conference on Composites, Montreal, QC, Canada, Sep. 2011.

 

6) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, A. R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa, “Advanced carbon fiber composite (CFC) materials for antenna applications,” in ASC/CACSMA Conference on Composites, Montreal, QC, Canada, Sep. 2011.

 

7) A. Mehdipour, A. R. Sebak, C. W. Trueman, I. D. Rosca, and S. V. Hoa, “Carbon-Fiber Nanotubes for X-band Conformal Antenna Applications,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., Toronto, ON, Canada, July 2010.

 

8) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, C. W. Trueman, A. R. Sebak, and S. V. Hoa, “High frequency shielding properties of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composites,” in ASC/CACSMA Conference on Composites, Newark, DE, Sep. 2009.

 

9) A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, C. W. Trueman, A. R. Sebak, and S. V. Hoa, “Shielding effectiveness analysis of reinforced continuous carbon fiber (RCCF) composites: numerical and experimental study,” in ASC/CACSMA Conference on Composites, Newark, DE, Sep. 2009.

 

10) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak and C. W. Trueman, “Compact microstrip-fed antenna for 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz wireless communication systems,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., Charleston, SC, June 2009.

 

11) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak and C. W. Trueman, and S. V. Hoa “Carbon-Fiber composite T-match folded bow-tie antenna for RFID applications,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., Charleston, SC, June 2009.

 

12) J. Rashed-Mohassel, A. Mehdipour, and H. Aliakbarian, “New schemes of size reduction in space filling resonant dipole antennas,” in European Conf. Antennas Propagat. (EuCAP), Berlin, Germany, March 2009, pp. 2430-2432.

 

13) A. Mehdipour and A. Parsa, “Scattering by parallel conducting rods for cylindrical wave incidence using Floquet modes,” in International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory (MMET’08), Odesa, Ukraine, 2008, pp. 550-552.

 

14) A. Mehdipour, C. W. Trueman, A. R. Sebak, I. D. Rosca and S. V. Hoa, “Shielding effectiveness analysis of multilayer carbon-fiber composite materials” in XXIXth Assembly of Union Radio Science International (URSI), Chicago, IL, Aug. 2008.

 

15) A. Mehdipour, A. Parsa, A.-R. Sebak and C. W. Trueman, “Planar bell-shape antenna fed by a CPW for UWB applications,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., San Diego, CA,  July 2008.

 

16) A. Mehdipour, A.-R. Sebak and C. W. Trueman, “A novel ultrawideband slot-antenna with dual band-notched characteristics,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., San Diego, CA,  July 2008.

 

17) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam and R. Faraji-Dana, “An efficient feeding structure for differential elliptical antennas in UWB applications,” in IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems (ICUWB), Singapore, Sep. 2007, pp. 483-486.

 

18) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam and R. Faraji-Dana, “A novel spherical bifurcated UWB antenna for ultra wideband communications,” in European Conf. Antennas Propagat. (EuCAP), Edinburg, UK, Nov. 2007.

 

19) A. Mehdipour, K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam and R. Faraji-Dana, “A new planar ultra-wideband antenna for UWB applications,” in IEEE AP-S International Symp., Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007, pp. 5127-5130.

 

20) A. Mehdipour, H. Aliakbarian and M. Kamarei, “A novel ultra wideband antenna for UWB applications,” in Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), UK, April 2007, pp. 213-216.

 

21) A. Mehdipour, H. Aliakbarian and M. Kamarei, “Bandwidth improvement of mono-conical antenna using edge blending technique,” in 23rd International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), Verona, Italy, March 2007.

 

22) A. Mehdipour, H. Aliakbarian and M. Kamarei, “Investigation of crosstalk and coupling effects of incident plane waves in orthogonal microstrips in high-speed integrated circuits using full-wave and quasi-static methods,” in 9th Annual Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), San Diego, CA, Sep. 2006, pp. 199-203.

 

23) A. Mehdipour and M. Kamarei, “Coupling of the external incident fields on coupled microstrip crossovers in multilayered high-speed circuits,” in International Symp. on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM) and Canadian Radio Science (URSI/CNC), Montréal, QC, Canada, July 2006, pp. 179-182.

 

24) A. Mehdipour and M. Kamarei, “Optimization of the crosstalk of crossing microstrips in multilayered media using lumped circuit model,” in International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory (MMET’06), Kharkiv, Ukraine, June 2006, pp. 279-281.

 

Technical Reports

 

·    A. Mehdipour, C. W. Trueman, A. R. Sebak, S. V. Hoa, and I. D. Rosca, “Electromagnetic characteristics and electromagnetic interference (EMI) study on carbon fiber composites”. Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ 1-14 project) final report, September 2009. Industry partners: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd, Delastek Inc. and NRC Institute for Aerospace Research.

 

Patents submitted

 

·    A. Mehdipour, I. D. Rosca, C. W. Trueman, A. R. Sebak, and S. V. Hoa, “Multi-band antennas with variable electrical conductivity made of polymer nanocomposites,” fall 2011.

 

Teaching Experience

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Transmission Line Circuits and Electromagnetic Waves, Concordia University, winter 2011.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Applied Advanced Calculus, Concordia University, winter 2011.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetism, Concordia University, winter 2010.

 

·    Teaching Assistant and Lab demonstrator, Microwave Engineering, Concordia University, fall 2008.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Microwave Theory, University of Tehran, fall 2006.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Advanced Electrical Circuit Theory, Amirkabir University of Technology, winter 2004.

 

·    Lab. demonstrator, Electronic I., Amirkabir University of Technology, winter 2003.

 

·    Lab. demonstrator, Electronic I, Amirkabir University of Technology, fall 2003.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Electrical Circuit Theory, Amirkabir University of Technology, winter 2003.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Electrical Circuit Theory, Amirkabir University of Technology, fall 2003.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Filter & Synthesis Circuit, Amirkabir University of Technology, winter 2001.

 

·    Teaching Assistant of Advanced Electrical Circuit Theory, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), fall 2001.

 

Professional Affiliations

 

·    Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2007.

 

·    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) since 2007.

 

·    IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society since 2007.

 

·    Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES) sine 2009

 

CAD Skills

 

·    Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS)

 

·    Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS)

 

·    MATLAB Programming