Ali Pourghorban Saghati, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the Fouraker Fellowship from the department.
This competitive Fellowship is awarded to one top graduate student in the department who has demonstrated an outstanding educational and research record. Saghati, who is advised by Dr. Kamran Entesari. has been the first author of seven publications in high-impact IEEE peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. His recent paper on microwave miniaturization techniques was listed as the most popular paper of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in January 2016.
Saghati received his Master of Science degree with honors in electrical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran in 2014. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M. His research interests include miniaturized RF/microwave antennas and filters, reconfigurable multiband and broadband antennas, and microwave chemical sensing suitable for lab-on-a-board applications. Saghati was a recipient of the department’s graduate student scholarship in fall 2014.