Younes Ra’di is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Syracuse University (2022-Present). His research area is in Applied Electromagnetics and Microwave Engineering. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor and the Founding Director of the RF and mm-Wave Facility in the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) of The City University of New York (2018-2022). Before moving to ASRC, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2017-2018). Before moving to the University of Texas at Austin, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (2016). He received his D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (with Focus on Applied Electromagnetics) with distinction from Aalto University in Finland under the supervision of Prof. Sergei Tretyakov (2015). He received his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees (in 2011 and 2009, respectively) both in Electrical Engineering (with Focus on Applied Electromagnetics) from the University of Tabriz, Iran.

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Graduate Students

Javaria Aslam earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan, in 2019. She later pursued her Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in RF & Microwave from the Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter Wave Studies (RIMMS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including antennas, radars, active and passive microwave systems design, metasurfaces, as well as non-reciprocal networks and devices. She joined Dr. Ra’di’s group as a graduate student in the summer of 2023.

Pardha Sourya Nayani received his bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India (2018). During his undergraduate, he worked on metamaterials for wireless power transmission applications. From 2018-2021, he worked as Project Engineer at JSW Steel Plant where he was part of commissioning Asia’s largest Pellet plant. He received his Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with specialization in Applied Electromagnetics and RF engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2023. During his master’s degree, he worked in several domains, including bianisotropic metasurfaces, all-optical switching, and physics-aware neural networks. He joined Dr. Ra’di’s group as a graduate student in the summer of 2023. He is recipient of Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship.

Morteza Moradi received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2012) and his Master of Science degree in electrical and communication engineering from Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran (2016). He joined Dr. Ra’di’s group as a graduate student in the summer of 2023. He is the recipient of Gerst-Hair Fellowship award from Syracuse University. He has extensive experience in RF and medical engineering fields and holds a US patent in orthopedic instruments (granted in 2020).

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