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World Ranking
599
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to modeling of radar remote sensing, and to establish the connections between the incoherent and coherent domains of radar polarimetry.

Overview

Kamal Sarabandi is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Antenna Design and Optimization

Recent papers authored by Sarabandi cover various aspects of radar, antenna design, and millimeter-wave technologies. Some of these publications are:

  • "Machine Learning-Based Target Classification for MMW Radar in Autonomous Driving," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • "Series-Fed Beam-Steerable Millimeter-Wave Antenna Design With Wide Spatial Coverage for 5G Mobile Terminals," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "Design of a 2-bit Dual-Polarized Reconfigurable Reflectarray With High Aperture Efficiency," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "A Low-Profile Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Quasi-Endfire Phased Array for mmWave 5G Smartphones," 2022, IEEE Access
  • "Fixed-Frequency Beam Steering Leaky-Wave Antenna With Integrated 2-Bit Phase Shifters," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Sarabandi frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Aditya Varma Muppala
  • Adib Y. Nashashibi
  • Behzad Yektakhah
  • Tanner J. Douglas
  • Bratin Ghosh

Their work is published predominantly in venues such as:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI)
  • 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)
  • IEEE Access

Recognition in Sarabandi's career includes a number of fellowships:

  • IEEE Fellow, awarded in 2000, for contributions to modeling of radar remote sensing and for establishing connections between incoherent and coherent domains of radar polarimetry
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2019

Best Publications

  • An empirical model and an inversion technique for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces

    Y. Oh;K. Sarabandi;F.T. Ulaby

  • Microwave Radar and Radiometric Remote Sensing

    Fawwaz T. Ulaby;David G. Long;William J. Blackwell;Charles Elachi

  • Michigan microwave canopy scattering model

    Fawwaz T. Ulaby;Kamal Sarabandi;Kyle McDONALD;Michael Whitt

  • Antenna miniaturization and bandwidth enhancement using a reactive impedance substrate

    H. Mosallaei;K. Sarabandi

  • A Frequency Selective Surface With Miniaturized Elements

    K. Sarabandi;N. Behdad

  • Magneto-dielectrics in electromagnetics: concept and applications

    H. Mosallaei;K. Sarabandi

  • Design of reconfigurable slot antennas

    D. Peroulis;K. Sarabandi;L.P.B. Katehi

  • Dual-band reconfigurable antenna with a very wide tunability range

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A substrate for small patch antennas providing tunable miniaturization factors

    K. Buell;H. Mosallaei;K. Sarabandi

  • Electromechanical considerations in developing low-voltage RF MEMS switches

    D. Peroulis;S.P. Pacheco;K. Sarabandi;L.P.B. Katehi

  • Refocusing Through Building Walls Using Synthetic Aperture Radar

    M. Dehmollaian;K. Sarabandi

  • Estimation of forest biophysical characteristics in Northern Michigan with SIR-C/X-SAR

    M.C. Dobson;F.T. Ulaby;L.E. Pierce;T.L. Sharik

  • Semi-empirical model of the ensemble-averaged differential Mueller matrix for microwave backscattering from bare soil surfaces

    Y. Oh;K. Sarabandi;F.T. Ulaby

  • A varactor-tuned dual-band slot antenna

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A Monte Carlo coherent scattering model for forest canopies using fractal-generated trees

    Yi-Cheng Lin;K. Sarabandi

  • A novel approach for miniaturization of slot antennas

    R. Azadegan;K. Sarabandi

  • Wideband, Wide Angle, Polarization Independent RCS Reduction Using Nonabsorptive Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces

    Arezou Edalati;Kamal Sarabandi

  • Compact slot and dielectric resonator antenna with dual-resonance, broadband characteristics

    A. Buerkle;K. Sarabandi;H. Mosallaei

  • Antenna-filter-antenna arrays as a class of bandpass frequency-selective surfaces

    A. Abbaspour-Tamijani;K. Sarabandi;G.M. Rebeiz

  • Single-Layer High-Order Miniaturized-Element Frequency-Selective Surfaces

    F. Bayatpur;K. Sarabandi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fawwaz T. Ulaby
Fawwaz T. Ulaby University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hossein Mosallaei
Hossein Mosallaei Northeastern University
Nader Behdad
Nader Behdad University of Wisconsin–Madison
Linda P. B. Katehi
Linda P. B. Katehi Texas A&M University
Brian M. Sadler
Brian M. Sadler United States Army Research Laboratory
Dimitrios Peroulis
Dimitrios Peroulis Purdue University West Lafayette
Yogesh B. Gianchandani
Yogesh B. Gianchandani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Gabriel M. Rebeiz University of California, San Diego
Pedram Mousavi
Pedram Mousavi University of Alberta
John W. Halloran
John W. Halloran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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