Ph.D. Students

Adnan Basir Patwary

Adnan is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and working as a Research Assistant in the Integrated Biomedical, RF Circuits and Systems Lab (iBioRFCASL). He received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh in June 2017. His research interest includes Microwave Circuits, Ultrawideband (UWB) Antennas, and RF Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Design. He is currently working on developing UWB phased array antenna with electromechanical beam steering capability along with the front end RFICs and microwave transmitter circuits for wireless power transfer (WPT) applications.

Email: adnanbasir.patwary@utdallas.edu

Karthik Kakaraparthy

Karthik has started his Masters program in Electrical Engineering at the University of North Texas in Spring 2020. He has done his thesis research work under the supervision of Dr. Ifana Mahbub and successfully completed his Masters program in Summer 2021. He has worked on the design of CMOS-based compressive sensing circuits for neural data acquisition, and rough surface modeling for a reverse electro-wetting-based energy harvesting model for a self-powered biosensor. He has started his doctoral degree program in Fall 2021, and his current research focuses on applications related to millimeter wave, 5G, and 6G technology. Specifically, he has his interests aligned with designing highly focused beam-steering antenna arrays with ultra-high gain and bandwidth for efficient drone-to-drone communications. His research interests also include design of wearable and flexible antennas for on-body flexible electronics-based applications.

Email: karthik.kakaraparty@utdallas.edu

Rafsan Mahin

Rafsan Mahin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas working as a Research Assistant in the Integrated Biomedical, RF Circuits and Systems Lab (iBioRFCASL). He received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), OIC, Bangladesh in November 2018. His current research work focuses on radio frequency integrated circuits and systems designs for wireless power transfer (WPT) applications, integrated transmitter and receiver circuit co-design for WPT applications, and distributed phased array antenna modeling. 

Email: rafsan.mahin@utdallas.edu

Sakib Reza

Sakib Reza joins the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) from Fall-2022 as a PhD student. Before joining UTD, he received his MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2021. His MSc thesis was focused on developing Finger Regulated Simultaneous Noise and Input Matching (FRSNIM) technique with wideband impedance settlement for CMOS low noise amplifiers. Working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Integrated Biomedical, RF Circuits and Systems Lab in UTD, his research interests are in the field of innovative radio-frequency (RF) circuits and systems with major applications to wireless communications, medical electronics and various emerging areas.

Email: sakib.reza@utdallas.edu

Nabanita Saha

Nabanita Saha is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.  She received her B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. Her research interest includes Wireless Power Transfer, Antenna Design and Optimization and RF and Microwave circuits.

Email: nabanita.saha@utdallas.edu

Pallav Kumar Sah

Pallav Kumar Sah is a first-year doctoral student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas under Professor Ifana Mahbub. Before coming to Dallas, he completed a Graduate program, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at The University of North Texas (January 2021-August 2022), worked on designing and developing an optimized control system for independent controls of inputs of Doherty power amplifier and received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India (July 2015-July 2019). His research interests include RF Circuits, Wireless Power Transfer Network, Wireless Communication and Integrated Circuit Design.

Email: pallavkumar.sah@utdallas.edu

Abu Hena Murshed

Abu Hena Murshed received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering (ETE) from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2021. Then he worked there as an undergraduate research assistant at CUET on a meta-surface based wireless body area network (WBAN) antenna project. He is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include metamaterials and meta-surface-based antenna for next generation wireless communication system and its related mathematical equations characterization.

Email: abuhena.murshed@utdallas.edu