Mohamed Emara
I am currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Electronics at Carleton University. My PhD research is focused on designing leaky-wave antennas and metasurfaces (transmitarray and reflectarray) for millimeter-wave beamforming. This research supports communication and instrumentation applications for 5G and 6G wireless networks.
Summary
- 6+ years of experience in antenna design and testing, RF circuit design, and EMI/EMC. This includes 3+ years in academia and 3+ years in industry.
Professional Profile
- Advanced knowledge of MATLAB, HFSS, CST, ADS, SolidWorks, Cadence, and Genesys
- Experience with RF front-end design and testing, advanced knowledge of LNAs, basic knowledge of mixers, oscillators, and power amplifiers
- Proven ability in antenna design for various applications in the RF, microwave and millimeter-wave bands, experience with antenna testing and debugging
- Basic understanding of digital signal processing (DSP)
- Agile learner and effective problem-solver, with strong communication and interpersonal skills
Education
- Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
- Doctor of Philosophy, Sept. 2019 – Present
- Master of Applied Science, Sept. 2016 – Apr. 2018
- Bachelor of Engineering, Sept. 2011 – Apr. 2016
Professional Experience
- Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Research Associate, Sept. 2016 – Present
- Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Teaching Assistant, Sept. 2012 – Present
- Tallysman Wireless Inc., Kanata, ON, RF & Antenna Design Engineer, Jun. 2016 – Aug. 2020
- Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Elsie MacGill Learning Center Scholar, Sept. 2015 – Aug. 2016
- Flextronics Canada, Kanata, ON, Junior Hardware Designer (Co-op), May 2014 – Aug. 2015
- CogniVue Corporation, Gatineau, QC, Junior Digital Circuit Designer (Co-op), May 2013 – Aug. 2013
Dissertations
- M. K. Emara, “Dispersion engineered radiative & guided-wave electromagnetic structures for efficient wave control”, Master’s Thesis, Carleton University, 2018.
Patents
- M. K. Emara, D. J. King, H. Nguyen, S. Abielmona and S. Gupta, “Multi-Directional Multi-Port Array Antenna Structure,” US Patent Application No. 62/745,241, 2018.
- M. K. Emara, J. Hautcoeur, G. Panther, and J. Botros, “Filar Antenna Element Devices and Methods,” US Patent Application No. 16/858,997, 2020.
Journal Publications
- M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, "Integrated Multi-Port Leaky-Wave Antenna Multiplexer/Demultiplexer System for Millimeter-Wave Communication," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5244-5256, Sept. 2021.
- D. J. King, M. K. Emara, and S. Gupta, "Millimeter-Wave Integrated Side-Fire Leaky-Wave Antenna and its Application as a Spectrum Analyzer," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5401-5412, Sept. 2021.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa and S. Gupta, "All-Dielectric Fabry-Pérot based Compound Huygens' Structure for Millimeter-Wave Beam-Forming," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 273-285, Jan. 2021.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa, and S. Gupta, "Fabry-Pérot based Compound All-Dielectric Huygens’ Structure for Circularly-Polarized Millimeter-Wave Beam-Forming," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1784-1788, Oct. 2020.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa, and S. Gupta, "Laser Drilled All-Dielectric Huygens’ Transmit-Arrays as 120 GHz band Beamformers," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 153815-153825, 2020.
- M. K. Emara, D. J. King, H. Nguyen, S. Abielmona and S. Gupta, "Millimeter-Wave Slot Array Antenna Front-End for Amplitude-Only Direction-Finding," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 5365-5374, July 2020.
- M. K. Emara, J. Hautcoeur, G. Panther, J. S. Wight and S. Gupta, "Surface Impedance Engineered Low-Profile Dual-Band Grooved-Dielectric Choke Ring for GNSS Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 2008-2011, March 2019.
- M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Experimental Demonstration of Active Phasers Based on Codirectional Coupling for Real‐time Analog Signal Processing,” in Microwave Optical Technology Letters, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 1778-1782, February 2019.
Conference Publications
- K. Wang, M. K. Emara, T. Smy, and S. Gupta, "Loss Compensated and Magnitude Equalized Reflective Metasurfaces," in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Jul. 2022, accepted.
- F. Baccin-Smith, M. K. Emara, and S. Gupta, "Bi-directional Leaky-Wave Antennas with Independent Beam-Scanning Laws," in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Jul. 2022, accepted.
- L. Rufail, M. K. Emara, A. Z. Ashoor and S. Gupta, "Metasurface Reflector with Independent Polarizations Control using a Supercell Concept," in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Jul. 2022, accepted.
- M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Investigation of Material and Scattering Losses in Antennas in Transmitting and Receiving Mode”, in the 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2022.
- M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Bidirectional Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas Using Side-Fire and Slot-Pair Configurations”, in the 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2022.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa and S. Gupta, “Millimeter-Wave Quarter-Wave Plate for Diffusion Bonded Slot Array Antennas”, in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, December 2021.
- J. G. N. Rahmeier, M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Dispersion Relation Extraction of Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas using Complex Eigenmodes”, in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, December 2021.
- M. K. Emara and Shulabh Gupta, “A Comparative Study of Corrugated Ground Planes for GNSS Multipath Mitigation,” in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, July 2020, pp. 1-2.
- M. K. Emara and Shulabh Gupta, “Broadside Radiation Problem in Leaky-Wave Antennas: A Metasurface Perspective,” in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, July 2020, pp. 1-2.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa and S. Gupta, “All-Dielectric Huygens' Metasurface Pair for mm-Wave Circularly-Polarized Beam-Forming,” in the European Conference on Antennas & Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020.
- M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Multi-Port Leaky-Wave Antennas as Real-Time Analog Spectral Decomposers,” in the European Conference on Antennas & Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020.
- J. Botros, M. K. Emara, R. E. Amaya and S. Gupta, “Millimeter-wave Bandpass Frequency Selective Structure Using Stacked Dielectric Slabs,” in the European Conference on Antennas & Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020.
- M. K. Emara, K. Madhoun, R. Madhoun and S. Gupta, “A Low-cost Light-weight 3D-printed Choke Ring for Multipath Mitigation for GNSS Antennas,” in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, July 2019, pp. 1-2.
- M. K. Emara, T. Tomura, J. Hirokawa and S. Gupta, “Reflection-Cancelling Dielectric Huygens’ Metasurface Pair for Wideband Millimeter-Wave Beam-Forming,” in the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, July 2019, pp. 1-2.
- M. K. Emara, D. J. King, H. Nguyen, S. Abielmona and S. Gupta, “Multi-port Slot Array Antenna for Millimeter-wave Direction Finding and Beam-forming Applications,” in the European Conference on Antennas & Propagation (EuCAP), Krakow, Poland, April 2019, pp. 1-3.
- D.J. King, M. K. Emara and S. Gupta, “Millimeter-wave Near-field Spectrum Analyzer Based on Integrated Side-fire Antennas,” in the European Conference on Antennas & Propagation (EuCAP), Krakow, Poland, April. 2019, pp. 1-3.
- M. K. Emara, S. Gupta, J. Hautcoeur, G. Panther and J. S. Wight, "A Low-Profile Dual-Band Tunable AMC Structure for GNSS Antennas and Its Performance Trade-Offs," 2018 18th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), Waterloo, ON, 2018, pp. 1-4.
- M. K. Emara, J. S. Wight and S. Gupta, "Active Phasers based on Co-directional Couplers for Millimeter-wave Analog Signal Processing," 2018 18th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), Waterloo, ON, 2018, pp. 1-3.
- M. K. Emara, K. Maheshwari, J. S. Wight and S. Gupta, "Amplitude-equalized Microwave Phasers," 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES), Denver, CO, 2018, pp. 1-2.
Invited Talks
- "Introduction to Professional Development", IEEE YP Ottawa, June 2021
- “Antennas & Metasurfaces for 5G Applications”, IEEE Ottawa, November 2019.
- “GNSS Antennas for Autonomous Vehicles: What You Need to Know”, Carleton University, November 2019.
Leadership Positions
- Judge, IEEE Young Professionals Hall of Fame Award (IEEE, 2021)
- Event Coordinator, IEEE Ottawa APS/MTTS (IEEE, 2021 – Present)
- Committee Member, IEEE Canada Young Professionals (IEEE, 2021 – Present)
- Chair, Eastern Canada IEEE Young Professionals (IEEE, 2021 – Present)
- Chair, IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals (IEEE, 2019 – 2020)
- IEEE Ottawa Outstanding Affinity Group Award, 2019
- IEEE Canada Outstanding Young Professional Affinity Group Award, 2019
- IEEE Young Professionals Hall of Fame Award, 2020
- Coordinator, IEEE Conference on Wireless in Space and Extreme Environments (IEEE, 2019)
- Treasurer, IEEE Young Professionals Ottawa (IEEE, 2018 – 2019)
- Judge, IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition (IEEE, 2019)
- Mentor, International Student Office (Carleton University, 2012 – 2016)
- Ambassador, International Student Office (Carleton University, 2013 – 2015)
- Committee Member, Peer Conduct Board (Carleton University, 2013 – 2014)
- Notetaker, Paul Menton Centre (Carleton University, 2012 – 2014)
- Coordinator, Terry Fox Run (Terry Fox Foundation, 2012, 2013)
- Facilitator, Orientation Week (Carleton University, 2012)
Awards & Nominations
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (2020-2023)
- IEEE Antennas & Propagation Symposium Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention (2020)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021)
- Adrian D.C Chan Award for Volunteer and Community Service Nomination (2020)
- Graduate Student Travel/Research Grant (2018, 2020)
- Student Paper Competition Winner (2nd Place) at the International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (2018)
- University Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement Nomination (2018)
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Nomination (2018, 2020)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2016-2017)
- Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2016)
- Dean’s Honour List and Faculty Scholarship (2011-2016)
- Krishnan Suthanthiran and Richard Kind Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Aerospace Engineering (2015)
- Electrical Engineering Design Competition Winner (1st Place) at the Department of Electronics, Carleton University (2013)
- Richard J. Van Loon Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2012)