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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
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2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
98
Citations
40132
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
98

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - IEEE Electromagnetics Award “For fundamental contributions to reflector antennas, near-field measurements and diagnostics, antenna and human interactions, and optimization algorithms in electromagnetics.”
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the design and measurement of reflector and handheld-device antennas.
  • 1985 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to reflector antennas, near-field measurement techniques, and high-frequency electromagnetic diffraction.

Overview

Yahya Rahmat-Samii is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions to aerospace engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering. Additional work touches on civil and structural engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The main topics of their work include antenna design and analysis, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, microwave engineering and waveguides, antenna design and optimization, energy harvesting in wireless networks, wireless body area networks, and millimeter-wave propagation and modeling.

Frequent coauthors in their research are:

  • Junbo Wang
  • Anastasios Papathanasopoulos
  • Lingnan Song
  • Botian Zhang
  • Arman Afsari

Key recent papers authored by collaborators include:

  • 3-D Printed Microfluidics Channelizing Liquid Metal for Multipolarization Reconfigurable Extended E-Shaped Patch Antenna, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Enabling the Internet of Things With CubeSats: A review of representative beamsteerable antenna concepts, 2020, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
  • Optimization Assisted by Neural Network-Based Machine Learning in Electromagnetic Applications, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • 3-D-Printed Shaped and Material-Optimized Lenses for Next-Generation Spaceborne Wind Scatterometer Weather Radars, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Adaptive Beamforming by Compact Arrays Using Evolutionary Optimization of Schelkunoff Polynomials, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Publication venues in which this scientist frequently appears include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
  • 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI)
  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Yahya Rahmat-Samii has been recognized with multiple awards, including the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2011 for contributions related to reflector antennas, near-field measurements and diagnostics, antenna and human interactions, and optimization algorithms in electromagnetics. They were elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for contributions to the design and measurement of reflector and handheld-device antennas. Additionally, they were named IEEE Fellow in 1985 for work on reflector antennas, near-field measurement techniques, and high-frequency electromagnetic diffraction.

Best Publications

  • Particle swarm optimization in electromagnetics

    J. Robinson;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Microstrip antennas integrated with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures: a low mutual coupling design for array applications

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms

    Yahya Rahmat-Samii;Eric Michielssen

  • Wide-band E-shaped patch antennas for wireless communications

    F. Yang;Xue-Xia Zhang;Xiaoning Ye;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Reflection phase characterizations of the EBG ground plane for low profile wire antenna applications

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering

    Fan Yang;Yahya Rahmat-Samii

  • Fractal antennas: a novel antenna miniaturization technique, and applications

    J.P. Gianvittorio;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Implanted antennas inside a human body: simulations, designs, and characterizations

    Jaehoon Kim;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Advances in Particle Swarm Optimization for Antenna Designs: Real-Number, Binary, Single-Objective and Multiobjective Implementations

    Nanbo Jin;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Electromagnetic Penetration Through Apertures in Conducting Surfaces

    Chalmers M. Butler;Yahya Rahmat-Samii;Raj Mittra

  • EM interaction of handset antennas and a human in personal communications

    M.A. Jensen;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Particle swarm, genetic algorithm, and their hybrids: optimization of a profiled corrugated horn antenna

    J. Robinson;S. Sinton;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • A reconfigurable patch antenna using switchable slots for circular polarization diversity

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Patch antennas on externally perforated high dielectric constant substrates

    J.S. Colburn;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Performance analysis of antennas for hand-held transceivers using FDTD

    M.A. Jensen;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Low-profile enhanced-bandwidth PIFA antennas for wireless communications packaging

    K.L. Virga;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Fractal FSS: a novel dual-band frequency selective surface

    J. Romeu;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Parallel particle swarm optimization and finite- difference time-domain (PSO/FDTD) algorithm for multiband and wide-band patch antenna designs

    N. Jin;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR RECONFIGURABLE PHASE- DIFFERENTIATED ARRAY DESIGN

    Dennis Gies;Yahya Rahmat-Samii

  • Genetic algorithms and method of moments (GA/MOM) for the design of integrated antennas

    J.M. Johnson;Y. Rahmat-Samii

Frequent Co-Authors

Fan Yang
Fan Yang Tsinghua University
Leena Ukkonen
Leena Ukkonen Tampere University
Raj Mittra
Raj Mittra Pennsylvania State University
Lauri Sydanheimo
Lauri Sydanheimo Tampere University
Toni Bjorninen
Toni Bjorninen Tampere University
Michael A. Jensen
Michael A. Jensen Brigham Young University
Hossein Mosallaei
Hossein Mosallaei Northeastern University
John L. Volakis
John L. Volakis Florida International University
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Markku Kivikoski
Markku Kivikoski Tampere University

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