Dr. Ahmad Safaai-Jazi

Biography:

Ahmad Safaai-Jazi received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 1971, the M.A.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) from McGill University, Canada, in 1978, all in electrical engineering. From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Safaai-Jazi was an Assistant Professor with the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology. In 1984, he returned to the Department of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, where he conducted extensive research on propagation of ultrasound waves in optical fibers. He joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1986, where he is a Professor. Dr. Safaai-Jazi is the author or co-author of more than one hundred twenty refereed journal papers and conference publications. He has also contributed two book chapters and holds four patents. He was the co-recipient of the Wheeler Award for the best application paper from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1995. Dr. Safaai-Jazi received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2002.

Research Areas:

• Wideband antennas
• UWB communications
• Wideband material characterization
• Guided-wave optics
• Optical fibers and devices

Selected Publications:

• A. Muqaibel, A. Safaai-Jazi, and S. Riad, “Fork-Coupled Resonators for High Frequency Characterization of Dielectric Substrate Materials,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, in press, 2006.
• R. Albandakji, A. Safaai-Jazi, and R. Stolen, “Simple Models for Predicting Transmission Properties of Photonic Crystal Fibers,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 48, No. 7, pp. 1286-1290, July 2006.
• A. Muqaibel, A. Safaai-Jazi, A. Attiya, B. Woerner, and S. Riad, “Path-Loss and Time-Dispersion Parameters for Indoor UWB Propagation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 550-559, March 2006.
• A. Muqaibel, A. Safaai-Jazi, A. Bayram, A. M. Attiya, and S. M. Riad, “Ultrawideband Through-the-Wall Propagation,”  IEE Proc. on Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 152, No. 6, pp. 581-588, Dec. 2005.
• A. Safaai-Jazi, A. M. Attiya, and S. Riad, “Channel Measurement and Simulation,” in An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems, Ch. 2, pp. 29-71, Prentice Hall, 2005.
• T. L. Gradishar and A. Safaai-Jazi, “Gratings Superposed Spatially by Writing in Laterally Separated Regions,” Optics Express, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1161-1171, February 2005.
• Bayram, A. M. Attiya, and A. Safaai-Jazi, “Frequency-Domain Measurement of Indoor UWB Channels,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 118-123, January 2005.
• M. Attiya and A. Safaai-Jazi, “Simulation of Ultra Wideband Indoor ropagation,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 103-108, July 2004.
• J. Clark and A. Safaai-Jazi, “Multifilar Hemispherical Helical Antennas,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Monterey CA, June 20 –25, Conf. Proc., Vol. 3, pp. 3303-3336, 2004.
• A.Muqaibel and A. Safaai-Jazi, “A New Formulation for Characterization of Materials Based on Measured Insertion Transfer Function,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 1946-1951, August 2003.