Rate My Professor Kamran Ghorbani

Professor Kamran Ghorbani is a Professor in the School of Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where he currently serves as the Research Leader for the RF & Antennas group, responsible for strategic planning and management of the research group. He received his B.Eng (Hons.) degree in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in 2001, both from RMIT University. His career began as a Graduate RF Engineer at AWA Defence Industries from 1994 to 1996, working on early warning radar systems, followed by a role as Senior RF Engineer at Tele-IP from 1999 to 2001, developing VHF transceivers for commercial aircraft. In 2001, he joined the Department of Communication and Electronic Engineering at RMIT (now the School of Engineering) as a continuing academic.

Professor Ghorbani's research focuses on radar and microwave devices and systems, ferroelectric materials, metamaterials, RF energy harvesting, multifunctional microwave structures, and phased-array antennas, with keywords including smart skin structures, tunable sensors, and high impedance surfaces. He has led more than 20 defence-related projects with partners such as DSTG, PMB, DSO, AFRL, DefendTex, and GKN Aerospace (DMTC), alongside ARC Linkage Grants with BAE Systems and Rutgers University. Projects include metamaterials, radar for early fire detection, embedded antennas for automobiles, conformal load-bearing structures, slotted waveguide antennas, radar for projectiles, microfluidic cooling systems, tunable microwave filters, and ISAR. Key publications encompass 'Aligning multilayer graphene flakes with an external electric field to improve multifunctional properties of epoxy nanocomposites' (Carbon, 2015), 'Dynamic nanofin heat sinks' (Advanced Energy Materials, 2014), 'Utilising microstrip patch antenna strain sensors for structural health monitoring' (Smart Materials and Structures, 2011), 'The effect of ply orientation on the performance of antennas in or on carbon fiber composites' (Smart Materials and Structures, 2011), and 'Ultrahigh-Sensitivity Microwave Sensor for Microfluidic Complex Permittivity Measurement' (IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021). His scholarship exceeds 7,253 citations on Google Scholar. Awards include the IEEE MTT-S N. Walter Cox Award (2021), IEEE MTT-S Certificate of Recognition (2016), and RMIT Research Award (2013). He is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, AdCom member of IEEE MTT-S, Chair of MTT-S MGA Committee, and Vice-Chair of MTT-S Technical Coordination & Future Direction Committee. He chaired APMC 2011, AMS 2014, and APMC 2016 TPC, and co-chaired IMaRC 2014 TPC.