ADVANCEDRFTECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons
Abdul Rehman completed his Master's degree in Information and Telecommunication Engineering from Incheon National University South Korea in 2018. He received his PhD degree from University of Perugia, Italy in 2023. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher in Advanced RF Technologies (ART) Research Group at Tyndall National Institute. His research interest includes the design of reconfigurable passive microwave components such as filters and antennas using waveguide technology.
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Ajay Mothe is a dedicated researcher and engineer specializing in RF & antenna design. He received MTech in RF & Microwave Engineering from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), and BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from Trinity Academy of Engineering (TAE, Pune) in 2021 and 2018 respectively. He has also been part of cocurricular activities such as being part of IEEE student chapter, key organiser for technical events, member of different student activity groups.
He also has 2 years of work experience (from 2021 to 2023) with one of the space space start-up in India, Skyroot Aerospace. He was working on design, analysis and testing of RF and antenna components for rockets, where he also became a part of successful rocket launch mission. With a strong academic foundation, a track record of achievements and contributions, and industrial background, Ajay brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field.
Currently he is a PhD student with University College Cork (UCC), and a member of Advanced RF Technology Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland. His research interest includes 3D printed RF and antenna subsystems.
Andrés Fontana received his Ph.D. degree in high frequency electronics from the University of Limoges, Limoges, France, in 2022. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Advanced RF Technologies (ART) Group at Tyndall National Institute. His research interests include RF active and passive devices and subsystems, MMIC design, additive manufacturing and heterogeneous integration technologies for wireless communication applications.
Berkay Doğan is a Master's student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University College Cork. He was born in Niğde, Turkey. After graduating from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University in 2023, he commenced his Master's degree at University College Cork. Currently, he works as a postgraduate researcher at Tyndall National Institute, focusing on research areas related to reconfigurable filter and cavity filter design. Apart from his career, he is also a bass guitarist and a green belt in taekwondo.
Deepal Patil earned her B.Tech. degree from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, in 2015, and her MTech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India, in 2018. She successfully completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2023.
During 2017-2018, she served as a "Project Trainee" at CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratory (CSIR-NAL), Bengaluru, and later worked as a Research Assistant at CHRIST University. In this role, she played a key part in establishing the anechoic chamber radio-frequency (RF) Laboratory. Currently, she is a Post-doctoral Researcher with the Advanced RF Technologies group at Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland.
Her research interests encompass RF energy-harvesting systems, additive manufacturing of RF circuits and antennas, metamaterials, and frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs). Ms. Patil is an IEEE Antenna Propagation (AP) Society and Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) member.
Joe Steele received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and physics from University College Cork, Ireland, in 2022. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in electrical and electronic engineering also with the Tyndall National Institute and the School of Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. His current research interests include wideband planar balun design.
Kevin Martin received his BS Electronics Engineering and MS Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a PhD student with University College Cork (UCC), and a member of the Advanced RF Technology Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland. His research interests include antennas, self-interference RF cancellers, RF filters, and in-band full-duplex systems.
Kexin Li received the bachelor's degree in communication engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2019, and the master's degree in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2022. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and electronic engineering with the University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Her main research focuses on the design of reconfigurable RF front-end components.
Mohammed Nasser received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine, in 2017, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, in 2020. He is currently a Graduate Student with the Tyndall National Institute and the School of Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Mr. Nasser is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. His current research interests include designing reconfigurable planar and acoustic-resonator-based RF/microwave filters.
Steven Cheng received his Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2015 and 2017 respectively. He is currently a PhD student with Tyndall National Institute and University College Cork. He is also a member of the Advanced RF Technology Group at Tyndall National Institute, Ireland. His research interests include RF amplifiers, LNAs, co-designed filter-amplifiers, and reconfigurable active-passive RF components.