Anthony Grbic
Anthony Grbic received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, metasurfaces, electromagnetic band-gap materials, frequency selective surfaces), plasmonics, antennas, microwave circuits, wireless power transmission systems, and analytical electromagnetics/optics.
Dr. Grbic received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award as well as an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2008. In January 2010, he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2011, he received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, a Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, and a Booker Fellowship from the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI). In 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Michigan. Anthony Grbic served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. He is currently Vice Chair of AP-S Technical Activities, Trident Chapter, IEEE Southeastern Michigan section. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Steve Young received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003, the M.S. degree in Engineering Science from Naval Postgraduate School in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2016. Between 2003 and 2009, he served in the U.S. Navy and Department of Energy Naval Reactors division, designing nuclear reactor plant instrumentation and control systems. In 2018, he joined Anthony Grbic’s research group in the University of Michigan’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include optical properties of natural and engineered electromagnetic structures (including stratified media, photonic crystals, dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces), nonlinear electromagnetics, and wireless power transmission.
Dr. Young is also President of Xondas, Inc., a Michigan wireless power transfer company. He is a licensed professional engineer.
Jorge Ruiz-García received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2015. During six months, he worked as an intern in CREATIS-Lyon, Lyon, France, where he carried out his Master’s Thesis project. From 2015, he worked in industry. He joined the Institut d’Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique de Rennes (IETR), Rennes, France, in 2017, where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electronics in 2021 in collaboration with the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA). Dr. Ruiz-García spent 5 months as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Siena in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, he joined Prof. Anthony Grbic’s research group in the EECS Department at the University of Michigan as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include the design of metasurface antennas and beam-formers for microwave, mm-wave and optical applications. Dr. Ruiz-García was a recipient of the Best Paper Award in Electromagnetics at the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in 2021.
Faris Al Solamy received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from King Abdulaziz University, KSA, in 2012. From Feb. 2013 to August 2015, he worked as an antenna engineer at KACST (King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology). During that period, he has spent most of his time in South Africa, to work on collaborative project between KACST and CSIR. His tasks included the design of a wide scanning angle antenna for radar applications. In August 2015, he joined the research group as a graduate student.
Current Members
Chun-Wen Lin received his B.S. (Awarded top 1% academic performance) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2016 and 2018, respectively. From 2015 to 2018, he had been working in the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, National Taiwan University. During this period, he pursued research in absorptive frequency selective surfaces. In 2017, he also interned at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as a Research and Development engineer and earned the Honorable Mention among more than 150 interns in the final competition. He joined the group as a Ph.D. student in September 2019. His current research interests include electromagnetics, optics, and curved metamaterials. He is the recipient of the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship at University of Michigan.
Zachary Fritts graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Bioengineering in the spring of 2020. While there, he worked in the lab of Dr. Tamer Ibrahim, where he helped develop and build a transmit array for ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human head. He also held internships at Philips Respironics and Ort Braude College of Engineering in Israel. Zachary joined Dr. Grbic’s lab as a graduate student in the summer of 2020. His research interests include metasurface design, RF and microwave circuits, time-varying electromagnetic structures, and biomedical imaging. He is the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Malik Almunif received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Taibah University in 2018 with first honors degree. During his undergraduate, he had two internships at KAUST in the Information System Lab working on embedded positioning systems. Since 2018, he is working in the UM-KACST joint Center for Microwave Sensor Technology. He joined Professor Grbic’s group in January 2021 as a graduate student.
Andrew J. Park received his B.S. (Received the Dean’s award for graduating first rank in electronic
engineering) and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Kyung Hee University in 2019 and 2021,
respectively. From 2017 to 2021, he worked in the Applied Electromagnetics Lab at Kyung Hee
University. During this period, he helped develop an AESA radar-integrated M&S software supported by
the Agency for Defense Development (ADD). His work also includes a microwave method to remotely
assess the abdominal fat thickness and glucose real-time monitoring. He joined Dr. Grbic’s lab as a Ph.D.
student in June 2022. His current research interests include applied electromagnetics, metasurfaces, and
radar technologies.
John Le received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. While there he spent one summer working at the Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, and another summer in the UT MidIR Photonics Lab. John joined Professor Grbic’s group in 2022 and his research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures. He is a recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship.
Amirhossein Babaee received the Electrical Engineering degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2021. During his undergraduate program, he was a research assistant at Applied Electromagnetic Laboratory (AEML), and his research area was in metamaterials/metasurfaces and optical computing. His research interests include the electromagnetic metasurfaces and time-varying structures.
Administrative Staff
Michelle Chapman
Radiation Laboratory Research Process Manager
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
Phone: (734)763-2273
Fax: (734) 764-2106
Email: chapman @ umich.edu
Past Postdoctoral Research Fellows
| Dr. Faris Al Solamy | Jun. 2022 – present |
| Dr. Jorge Ruiz-Garcia | Feb. 2022 – present |
| Dr. Jordan Budhu | Jan. 2019 – Jul. 2022 |
| Dr. Steve Young | Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2020 |
| Dr. Younes Ra’di | Feb. 2016 – Sep. 2016 |
| Dr. Carl Pfeiffer | Jan. 2015 – Feb. 2016 |
| Dr. Francis Elek | Sep. 2013 – Sep. 2014 |
| Dr. Mohammadreza F. Imani | May 2013 – Jan. 2014 |
| Dr. Derrick Love | Jan. 2009 – Jan. 2010 |
Past Visitors
| Mr. Mohammed Ali Al-Afari Research Engineer KACST, Saudi Arabia | Sep. 2015 – Jan. 2016 |
| Dr. Davor Zaluski Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia | Sep. 2014 – Feb. 2015 |
| Dr. Mauro Ettorre Research Scientist Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Rennes, France | Oct. 2010 – Oct. 2011, June 2012 – Aug. 2012 |
Past Visiting Ph.D. Students
| Michele Del Mastro University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France | May 2019 – Dec. 2019 |
| Francesco Verni Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni (DET), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy | Sep. 2017 – Jul. 2018 |
| Mahsa Ebrahimpouri Hamlkar School of Electrical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2017 |
| Francesco Foglia Manzillo University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France | Apr. 2016 – Oct. 2016 |
| Josip Loncar Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia | Jun. 2015 – Jul. 2016 |
| Dario Bojanjac Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia | Sep. 2014 – Feb. 2015 |
| Erio Gandini University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France | Jun. 2011 – Dec. 2011 |
Alumni
| Faris Al Solamy Postdoctoral Scholar University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | Ph.D. 2022 | Cody Scarborough Assistant Professor Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO | Ph.D. 2022 |
| Brian Raeker Senior Systems Engineer KBR Inc. Ann Arbor, MI | Ph.D. 2021 | Luke Szymanski Technical Staff Group 92: Advanced Sensors & Techniques, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Boston, MA | Ph.D. 2021 |
| Zhanni Wu Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Ph.D. 2021 | Nikolaos Chiotellis Antenna Research Engineer Apple Corp. Cupertino, CA | Ph.D. 2019 |
| Brian Tierney Electrical Engineer Radar Advanced Concepts Group, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington DC | Ph.D. 2016 | Lai Wei Analyst Quantitative Investment Strategy Team, Nomura Securities New York, NY | M.Sc. 2013 |
| Carl R. Pfeiffer Electronics Engineer Sensor Directorate, AFRL, Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, OH | Ph.D. 2015 | Mohammadreza F. Imani Assistant Professor School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University Phoenix, AZ | Ph.D. 2013 |
| Gurkan Gok Sr. Engineer – Research Raytheon Technologies Research Center East Hartford, CT | Ph.D. 2014 | Scott M. Rudolph Electrical Engineer Naval Research Laboratory Washington DC | Ph.D. 2011 |
| Adam Weiss Electrical Engineer Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI | M.Sc. 2014 | Erin M. Thomas Research Engineer SRI International Ann Arbor, MI | M.Sc. 2010 |
| Amit M. Patel Research Staff Member HRL Laboratories Malibu, CA | Ph.D. 2013 | David DuRussel Associate Staff MIT Lincoln Laboratory Boston, MA | M.Sc. 2009 |