YOUNES RA'DI

Younes Ra’di is a Research Assistant Professor and Founding Director of RF and mm-Wave Laboratory in the Photonics Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC). He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (with honors) degrees both in electrical engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering, Radio Science, from Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Sergei Tretyakov. During his doctoral studies his research was mainly focused on bi-anisotropic particles, optimal materials for strong light-matter interactions, and functional metasurfaces. From Feb. 2016 to Sep. 2016, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the group of Prof. Anthony Grbic at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, where he worked on Magnet-Free Nonreciprocal Metasurfaces and Tunable Metasurfaces. Before moving to ASRC, from Oct. 2016 to June 2018, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Metamaterials & Plasmonics Research Laboratory led by Prof. Andrea Alù at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Over the last few years, Dr. Ra’di has received several research awards, grants, and funding including MDPI Best Paper Award (2019), URSI Young Scientist Best Paper Award (2019), Aalto ELEC Doctoral School Funding (2013-2015), HPY Research Foundation Grant (2013), Nokia Foundation Grant (two times in 2013 and 2014), and SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach (for three consecutive years starting from 2017). He has authored and co-authored several scientific contributions published in peer-reviewed journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. In particular, some of his papers have appeared in several high-impact journals including Physical Review Letters (Featured in Physics and Selected as Editor’s Suggestion), Physical Review X (Featured in Physics and Selected as Editor’s Suggestion), ACS Photonics, and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Some of his recent research works have been picked up by international media outlets.
Professional Experiences
June 2018 - Present
Research Assistant Professor
Founding Director of RF and mm-Wave Laboratory
Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)
City University of New York, USA
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Oct. 2016 - June 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Metamaterials and Plasmonics Research Group
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Advisor: Prof. Andrea Alù
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Feb. 2016 - Sep. 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Radiation Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
Advisor: Prof. Anthony Grbic
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Jan. 2012 - Feb. 2016
Graduate Research Assistant
Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics of Complex Media Research Laboratory
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
Aalto University, Finland
Advisor: Prof. Sergei Tretyakov
Education
Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2015
Doctor of Science (Technology) in Electrical Engineering, Radio Science
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
School of Electrical Engineering
Aalto University, Finland
Advisor: Prof. Sergei Tretyakov
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Sep. 2009 - Sep. 2011
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication, Fields and Wave
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Tabriz, Iran
Advisor: Prof. Saeid Nikmehr
Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2009
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication, Fields and Wave
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Tabriz, Iran
Advisor: Prof. Saeid Nikmehr