Research Interests
Theory, simulation and demonstration of novel electromagnetic metamaterials across the spectrum, from microwave through optical. Applications of metamaterials for antennas and imaging devices, with a focus on security imaging and satellite imaging. General studies on advanced metamaterials and plasmonics, including nonlinear optics, enhanced spontaneous emission, negative refraction, transformation optics, electromagnetic cloaking, and many other topics
Selected Grants
Metasurface Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar (MACTRad): W-Band Metasurface Cloud Sensor
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MetaCept, Inc. · 2023 - 2026Active Metasurface Antennas
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Kymeta Corporation · 2023 - 2025Large-scale Adaptive Metamaterial Apertures for Space (LAMAS)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2023 - 2024Project Stratum: Enabling Rapid Revisit with Satellite Metasurface Microwave Antenna Technology
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2021 - 2023Collaborative Research:SWIFT: SMALL: Enabling Seamless Coexistence between Passive and Active Networks using Reconfigurable Reflecting Surfaces
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023Beam-Steering Metasurface Antenna for Soil Moisture Sensing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Multi3D LLC · 2021 - 2023Digital Materials with Simultaneous Electromagnetic Functionality
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2021 - 2022Demonstration of Proof of Concept Multi-Physics Approach for Near-Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Dynamic Changes in Pressure and Salinity in Hydraulically Fractured Networks
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas at Austin · 2019 - 2022Smith Addendum 1 Amendment 10
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MetaCept, Inc. · 2019 - 2022Next Generation Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Novel Radio Frequency and Optical Devices
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2018 - 2021Metasurfaces for Industrial Imaging with Millimeter waves
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MetaCept, Inc. · 2019 - 2021Dynamically Reconfigurable, Conformal, Metasurface Apertures for Communications and Sensing Applications in Aerospace Platforms
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2018 - 2020Detecting Human Presence Using Dynamic Metasurface Anetennas
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy · 2018 - 2020Extending the Coupled Dipole Model for Metasurface Antenna Design
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Kymeta Corporation · 2020 - 2020Rapid Prototyping of Beam-Shaping Metamaterial Antennas via Additive Manufacturing of a Highly Conductive Filament
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Multi3D LLC · 2019 - 2020Integration of Photovoltaic Panels with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for Autonomous Devices
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2019 - 2019The Information Content of Ocean Noise: Theory and Experiment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - San Diego · 2013 - 2019Multipath Array Processing for Co-Prime and Under-Sampled Sensor Arrays
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2013 - 2018Adapting Towed-Array Tilt for Passive Detection Gain Based on 3-D Noise Field Directionality Estimates
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2018Metamaterial Physical Layer Implementations of Advanced Computational and Compressive Imaging Schemes at Infrared Bands
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2012 - 2017Discrete Dipole Approximation as a robust technique for antenna design and metamaterial devices
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Kymeta Corporation · 2016 - 2017Theory and Simulation of Optical Metasurfaces
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC · 2016 - 2016Hydrodynamic Wake Control with Flui-Permeable Metamaterials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2013 - 2016Transformation Optical Materials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2009 - 2016Broadband Field Directionally Mapping Using Small Maneuverable Acoustic Sensor Arrays
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2011 - 2015Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Mediated Self-Assembly of Nanocomponents Into Active Metamaterial Structures: Nonlinear Meta
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Montana State University · 2012 - 2014Automated Micromanufacturing for Optical Sensing and Computational Imaging, Metamaterials, and Quantum Computing
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2012 - 2014Advanced Metacrystal Media for Aerospace Applications
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2009 - 2014Advanced MetaCrystal Media for Aerospace Applications
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2009 - 2014DURIP: Laser
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2011 - 2012Detection of Biomolecules by Nanoscale Plasmon Ruler
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Radar Blockage Elimination
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2011 - 2012External Relationships
- Astrobeam Corp.
- Echodyne
- Evolv Technologies
- Extellis Corp.
- Intellectual Ventures
- Kymeta
- Lumotive Corporation
- MetaVenture Partners (MVP)
- Metacept Corporation
- Pivotal Commware
- Resolv Corp.
- UCSD
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