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Biography
Amir I. Zaghloul received the Ph.D. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1973 and 1970, respectively, and the B.Sc. degree (Honors) from Cairo University, Egypt in 1965, all in electrical engineering. In 2001 he joined Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) as Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to Virginia Tech, he was at COMSAT Laboratories for 24 years performing and directing R&D efforts on satellite communications and antennas, where he received several research and patent awards, including the Exceptional Patent Award. He held positions at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1968-1978), University of Toronto, Canada (1973-74), Aalborg University, Denmark (1976) and Johns Hopkins University, Maryland (1984-2001). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of the 1986 Wheeler Prize Award for Best Application Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is also an Associate Fellow for The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Member of Commissions A & B of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), member of the IEEE Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP), member of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB), and member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Antennas Propagation Society. Dr. Zaghloul was the general chair of the “IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI Meeting,” Washington, D.C., July 2005.
Research Interests :
- Antennas
- Phased Arrays
- Satellite Communications
- Wireless Communication
- RF Systems
Selected Publications:
- “System Aspects and Transmission Impairments of Active Phased Arrays for Satellite Communications,” A.I. Zaghloul, O. Kilic, and E.C. Kohls, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, in press, 2006.
- “On the Characterization of Co-Channel Interference in a High-Density Traffic Environment,” M.A. Nguyen and A.I. Zaghloul, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in press, 2006.
- “Enhanced Antenna Pattern Measurements for Satellite Systems,” O. Kilic and A.I. Zaghloul, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, April 2006.
- “UWB Interference to Narrowband Receivers,” D. Zeng, A.I. Zaghloul, A. Annamalai and E.F.C. Laberge, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2006.
- “Interference Cancellation Receiver for Heavy-Traffic Aeronautical Mobile Environment,” M.A. Nguyen and A.I. Zaghloul, IEEE Digital Avionics System Conference (DASC), Washington, DC, October-November 2005.
- “Auxiliary Vector Selection Algorithms for Adaptive Beamforming,” B.L. Mathews, L. Mili and A.I. Zaghloul, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Washington, DC, July 2005.
- “Comparison of Return Loss Calculations with Measurements of Narrow-Band Microstrip Patch Antennas”, H.A. Abdallah, W. Wasylkiwaskyj, K. Parikh and A. Zaghloul, The Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES) Journal, Vol. 19, No 3, November 2004.
- ”A Hybrid Antenna Element for Dual-Band Applications,” C.B. Ravipati and A.I. Zaghloul, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Monterey, California, June 2004.
- “Performance Evaluation of Root Based Direction Finding Algorithms Using Hardware Emulation of the Antenna Array,” I. Kopriva, W. Wasylkiwskyj, M. Doroslovacki and A.I. Zaghloul, Invited Paper, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Pisa, Italy, May 2004.
- “MEMS-Based Modular Phased Array for Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Terminals,” A.I. Zaghloul, O. Kilic, L.Q. Sun, E.C. Kohls, M.E. Zaghloul and R.W. Kreutel, IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2003.