Abbas Semnani
Abbas Semnani is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Adaptive Radiofrequency and Plasma Lab (ARPL) at the University of Toledo. Before joining UToledo in 2019, he spent seven years at Purdue University, focusing on the physics and applications of plasma–electromagnetic interactions. His research interests include high-power microwaves, tunable and compact antennas, reconfigurable RF electronics, and microwave plasma sources and applications. Dr. Semnani received the 2019 IEEE ‘Tatsuo Itoh’ Award, the NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowship in 2022, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2024.
Dr. Abbas Semnani received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran in 2000 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 2002 and 2009, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Toledo.
Before joining UToledo in 2019, he was with Purdue University from 2012, where he was focused on plasma-EM interactions and plasma for high-power RF tuning. Prior to that, he served as a Research and Teaching Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, from 2009 to 2012. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting scholar at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2008, where he was focused on novel computational techniques for solving time-domain inverse scattering problems.
Dr. Semnani received the 2019 IEEE MTT-S “Tatsuo Itoh” award, and his current research interests include high-power microwaves, low-temperature plasmas, reconfigurable RF electronics, tunable antennas, and RF nanotechnology.
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ARPL's Alumni
– Sandeep Narasapura Ramesh, Ph.D., 2020-2024, Theory and design of frequency selective plasma limiters
– Krushna Kanth Varikuntla, Postdoctoral Associate, 2021-2023, Plasma frequency selective surfaces
– Samsud Moon, M.Sc., 2021-2023, Magnetic control of electrons mobility in capacitively coupled plasmas
– Md Tanvir Ahmed, MSc., 2021-2023, Absorptive frequency selective surfaces
– Taylor Ann Buckey, Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2024
– Adam Abed, Undergraduate Co-op, Summer 2023
– Amina Lokhandwala, Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2022
