Research Interests

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Research Interests

Smart antenna systems

Metamaterial guided-wave structures

Periodic structures and frequency selective surfaces

Dielectric resonator antennas

Green's function method

Numerical methods (integral equation methods)

Modeling of microwave structures

Wire antennas and scatterers

Dissertations and Theses

Doctoral Dissertation

"Waveguide and Metaguide Excitation of Dielectric Resonator Antenna Arrays Using Slots and Probes," under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed A. Kishk, Alexander B. Yakovlev, and Allen W. Glisson, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, USA, December 2005.
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Master's Thesis

"The Equivalent TEM Mode Theory for Simple Closed-form Solutions to Problems of Null Steering and Elimination of Backscattering from Straight Wires," under the supervision of Dr. Mostafa N. Fahmy, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, July 2002.
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Bachelor's Graduation Project

"9600-baud Packet Radio Modem for Amateur Satellite Communication Systems," under the supervision of Dr. Magdy Fekry, Dr. Hebatallah Mourad, and Dr. Mona Riad, Cairo University, Egypt, 2000.

Graduate Students

Graduated Students (sorted by defense date)

Student Name	Degree	Thesis/Dissertation	Defense Date	Current Post and Employer	PhD Topic/ Current Research
Mohamed A. Nasr	Master's	Inverse Scattering from Buried Cylinders with Application to Blood Properties Determination	14 Apr 2014	PhD Candidate - ?
Ahmed M. Kord	Master's	Composite Right/Left-Hand Waveguide with Double-Ridge Corrugations: Analysis and Applications	22 Mar 2014	PhD Candidate - U Texas Austin, USA
Mohamed A. Hankal	Doctoral	Performance Evaluation of Versatile Spectrum Sensing Techniques over Generalized Gamma Fading Channels	15 Mar 2014	Assistant Professor - Sanaa University, Yemen
Mamdouh H. Nasr	Master's	Application of the Eigenmode Projection Technique to Electromagnetic Scattering and Resonance Problems	9 Feb 2014	PhD Candidate - Stanford University, USA
Islam S. Afifi	Master's	Cloaking a Large Dielectric Sphere Using Metamaterial Covers	20 Nov 2013	PhD Candidate - ?
Ahmed E. Khorshid	Master's	Broadband High-Efficiency Class-J Power Amplifier for a Cognitive Radio System	16 Jul 2013	PhD Candidate - University of California Irvine, USA	Body Area Networks
Mohamed A. Othman	Master's	Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering and Resonance Problems using Cavity Modal Expansion	5 Sep 2012	PhD Candidate - University of California Irvine, USA	Metamaterials, Plasmonics, Microwave Devices
Wael S. Elshennawy	Doctoral	Direction-of-Arrival Estimation and Beamforming of Non-uniform Planar Arrays	29 Aug 2012	Orange	N/A
Sherif A. Shakib	Master's	The Recursive Iterative Surface Equivalence Approach for Electromagnetic Scattering from Conducting Bodies	19 Jul 2011	PhD Candidate - University of Texas A&M, USA	Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Biosensors on CMOS Technology
Mohamed A. Abugabal	Master's	Formation Evaluation Using Electromagnetic Techniques	5 Jul 2011	Vodafone	N/A
Mohamed A. Moharram	Master's	A Body-of-Revolution Moment Method Approach with Application to Linear Particle Accelerator Cavity Design	29 Jun 2011	PhD Candidate - Concordia University, Canada	Computational EM, Antennas for MIMO Applications and Solar Cells
Enas S. Sakr	Master's	Analysis and Applications of a Periodically Loaded Transmission Line with Amplitude- and/or Position-Modulated Loads	26 May 2011	PhD Candidate - Purdue University, USA	Photonic Crystal Emitters

Current Students

Student Name	Degree Pursued	Research Topic(s)	Expected Graduation Date	Current Employer
Ayman Negm	Master's	Investigation of Machine Learning Techniques for the Problem of Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering	Sept 2014	Cairo University
Boules Maurice	Master's
Mostafa Zaki	Master's