PhD student Amin Rastgordani receives IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society fellowship
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Second-year PhD student Amin Rastgordani received a 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) $5,000 Fellowship. This year, 48 students earned the prestigious award, which supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows worldwide.
Rastgordani specializes in antennas, electromagnetics, and RF/microwave technologies and is currently enhancing self-interference cancellation for full-duplex communications. He is a researcher in Professor Danilo Erricolo’s Andrew Electromagnetics Laboratory.
“I was able to enhance the structure, improving the efficiency and self-interference cancellation,” Rastgordani said. “It is possible that we will be able to use this structure for future communication, especially in telecommunication systems.”
Since joining UIC, Rastgordani has been collaborating with Erricolo on advancing techniques for improving self-interference cancellation in in-band full-duplex communication systems. These systems enable antennas to transmit and receive signals simultaneously, significantly boosting transmission capacity and reducing latency. However, the challenge lies in mitigating the substantial self-interference that arises when transmitting and receiving on the same frequency, which has historically constrained the system’s performance.
Rastgordani chose to pursue his studies at UIC to join Erricolo’s research group and has found his academic experience in the U.S. highly rewarding.
Prior to UIC, he served as a researcher in Warsaw, Poland, and gained valuable industry experience in Germany. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and communications from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.
Alongside his research in the Andrews Electromagnetics Lab, Rastgordani also contributes to the academic community as a teaching assistant