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Paper Awards

  • Second Prize, 2024 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, “In-Situ Calibration of Active Electronically Scanned Antenna Arrays Through SAR Imaging,” Proceeding:USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 9–12 January 2024.
  • First Prize, 2020 CNC/USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, “Biological Cells Communication: Quorum Sensing versus Electromagnetic Signaling,” by Navid Barani and Kamal Sarabandi, CNC/USNC-URSI meeting, July 5-10, 2020, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
  • First Prize, at the 14th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet’19) “A New Phase Modulation Scheme for Ultra-Low Frequency Handheld Antennas Enabling Reliable Wireless Underwater Communication,” By Navid Barani and Kamal Sarabandi, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23-25, 2019.
  • Second Prize, 2019 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, for “A Machine Learning Based 77 GHz Radar Target Classification for Autonomous Vehicles.” By Xiuzhang Cai and Kamal Sarabandi, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, July 7-12, 2019. 
  • First Prize, 2019  IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization  Paper Award, for “Physics-Based Modeling and Electromagnetic Scattering Computation for Snow-Packs,”  by M. Zaky and K. Sarabandi, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO ’19),  Cambridge, MA, 19-21 May 2019.
  • 2016 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Intractive Sysmposiun Paper Award, “Estimating The Three Dimensional Structure of Heterogeneous Forests Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing and Sensor Extrapolation Techniques,” by Michael Benson, Leland Pierce, and Kamal Sarabandi, IGARSS 2016,  July 10-15, 2016, Beijing, China.  
  • First Prize, 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation/URSI Syposium paper contest, Jam, A., and K. Sarabandi, “A Horizontally Polarized Beam-Steerable Antenna for Sub-millimeter-wave Polarimetric Imaging and Collision Avoidance Radars,” Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation/URSI Symposium, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, June 26-July 1, 2016
  • The best paper award, the Wiesnet Medal, 2016 Eastern Snow Conference, Mousavi, M., R. Deroo, A. England, and K. Sarabandi, “Elevation Angular Dependence of Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometric (WiBAR) Remote Sensing of Dry Snowpack and Lake Icepack,”  Proceeding of the Eastern Snow Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 14-16, 2016.
  • Fourth Prize, 2014 URSI General Assembly paper Contest, Jiangfeng Wu, and Kamal Sarabandi, “MF Band Compact Helical Antenna Design and Imaging Techniques for Hydraulic Fractures Detection,” 2014 URSI General Assembly, Beijing, China, on August 17-23, 2014. 
  • First Prize, 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium paper contest, Jiangfeng Wu, and Kamal Sarabandi, “Super-miniaturized Borehole Antenna Design and Radio-wave Estimation of Sub-surface Hydraulic Fractures at MF Band,” Proceeding: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing,Quebec, Canada, July 13-18, 2014. 
  • Third Prize, 2011 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium paper contest, Elsherbini, A., and K. Sarabandi “Image Distortion Effects in Subsurface SAR Imaging of Deserts and Their Correction Technique,” Proceeding: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vancouver, Canada, July 24 – 29, 2011. 
  • First Prize, 2011 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting paper contest,  Vitaz, J.A., and K. Sarabandi, “Techniques for Enhanced Distinction of Planar Retro-Reflective Arrays,” USNC-URSI National Radio Science, Boulder, Colorado, 5-8 Jan. 2011. 
  • Second Prize, 2010 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting paper contest, Elsherbini, A., and K. Sarabandi, “Mapping of Sand Layer Thickness in Deserts Using SAR interforometrey,” USNC-URSI National Radio Science, Boulder, Colorado, 6-9 Jan. 2010. 
  • Second Prize, 2008 URSI General Assembly paper Contest, Elsherbini, A., and K. Sarabandi, “Compact Coupled Sectorial Loops Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications,”  2008 URSI General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, USA, on August 7-16, 2008.
  • 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Paper Award, Mojtaba Dehmollaian and Kamal Sarabandi, “Refocusing Through Single Layer Building Wall Using Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Proceeding: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007. (Selected among more than 2000 papers presented at the conference).
  • Third prize, IEEE IGARSS paper contest. Jumani, K., and K. Sarabandi, “An Investigation of PN Sequences for Multi-Static SAR/InSAR Applications,” Proceeding: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007. 
  • Third prize, IEEE AP-S’2007 paper contest. Brakora, K. F., and K. Sarabandi, “Integration of Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Waveguides to Monolithic MMW Subsystems Constructed Using Ceramic Stereolithography,” Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 10-15, 2007.
  • Best Paper Award, 25th Army Science Conference, Sarabandi, K., and G. Palafox, ”Reducing antenna visual signature using meta-materials,”  Proceedings: The 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Fl. Nov. 27-30, 2006.
  • Third prize, AMTA’2006 paper contest, Van Caekenberghe, K., K. Brakora, K. Jumani, M. Rangwala, Y. Wee, and K. Sarabandi, “A probe station based setup for on-wafer antenna measurement,” the 28th Annual Symposium of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA), Austin, Texas , October 22-27, 2006.
  • Third prize, IEEE AP-S’2006 paper contest. Brakora, K., and K. Sarabandi, “Subwave- length Periodic Lattices for the Design of MMW Components using Ceramic Stereolithography,” Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation & URSI Symposium, Albuquerque, July 9-14, 2006.
  • Third Prize, 2006 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting paper contest, Liao, D., and K. Sarabandi “Modeling and Simulation of Near-Earth Propagation in Presence of a Truncated Vegetation Layer,” Proceeding: National Radio Science Meeting (USNC/URSI), Boulder, Colorado, Jan. 5-8, 2006.
  • First prize, IEEE AP-S’2005 paper contest. Buell, K., H. Mosallaei, and K. Sarabandi, “Electromagnetic Metamaterial Insulator to Eliminate Substrate Surface Waves,” Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation & URSI Symposium, Washington D.C., June 4-10, 2005. 
  • Second prize, 2005 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting paper contest, Liao, D., and K. Sarabandi “Near-Earth wave propagation characteristics of an electric dipole in the presence of a vegetation or snow layer,” Proceeding: National Radio Science Meeting (USNC/URSI), Boulder, Colorado, Jan. 5-8, 2005.
  • Second prize, 2004 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting paper contest, Behdad, N. and K. Sarabandi “A novel Quad-pole antenna with very large bandwidth,” Proceeding: National Radio Science Meeting (USNC/URSI), Boulder, Colorado, Jan. 5-8, 2004.
  • First place, Antenna Appl. Symps.’03, paper contest. Behdad, N., and K. Sarabandi, “A Novel Approach for Bandwidth Enhancement of Slot Antennas”,Proceeding: Antenna Applications Symposium, Robert Allen Park, Monticello, Illinois, September 17-19, 2003
  • First prize, IEEE AP-S’2003 paper contest. Buell, K., D. Cruickshank, H. Mosallaei, and K. Sarabandi “Patch Antenna Over the RIS Substrate: A Novel Miniaturized Wideband Planar Antenna Design”, Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation & URSI Symposium, Columbus, OH, June 22-27, 2003.
  • Second Prize, IEEE IGARSS 2002, paper contest. C.G. Brown and K. Sarabandi, “Physics-based Simulation of high resolution polarimetric SAR/INSAR images of forested areas,” Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sensing Symp.,Toronto, Canada, June24-28, 2002. 
  • Third prize, IEEE MTTS’2001 paper contest.  Peroulis, D., S. Pacheco, K. Sarabandi, and L.P.B. Katehi, “Tunable lumped components with applications to reconfigurable MEMS filters,” Proc. IEEE Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp., Phoenix, Arizona, May 2001.
  • Third Prize, IEEE AP/URSI 2001 paper contest.  Azadegan, R., and K. Sarabandi, “Design of miniaturized slot antennas,” Proc. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. & URSI Symp., Boston,  MA, 14-18 July 2001.
  • First prize, IEEE APS’2000 paper contest.  D.E. Lawrence and K. Sarabandi “Analytical formulation for acousto-electromagnetic scattering behavior of a dielectric cylinder,” Proc. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. & URSI Symp., Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2000. 
  • Third prize, IEEE IGARSS’99 paper contest.  Wilsen, C.B., and K. Sarabandi, “Modeling of INSAR response to forest biomass variation,” Proc. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing Symp., Hamburg, Germany, 1999.
  • Second prize, IEEE AP-S’98 paper contest.  M.D. Casciato, and K. Sarabandi, “A Novel Approach to High Frequency Diffraction from Curved, Perfectly Conducting Surfaces,” Proc. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. & URSI Symp., Georgia, June 21-26, 1998. 
  • ¨Second prize, IEEE AP-S’95 paper contest.  A. Nashashibi, and K. Sarabandi, “A Technique for Measuring the Effective Propagation Constant of Dense Random Media”, Proceeding: IEEE International Antennas and Propagation & URSI Symposium, Newport Beach CA, June 1995.