Rate My Professor Karu Esselle

Esselle has held key leadership positions at Macquarie University, including Director of the WiMed Research Centre from 2016 to 2018, Past Associate Dean for Higher Degree Research in the ICS Division, and Chair of the Postgraduate Coursework Program Committee in the School of Engineering. He chairs the Board of Management of the Australian Antenna Measurement Facility (AusAMF). A Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE) and Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), he was an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2017 and chaired its Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee in 2018 and 2019. Other roles include elected voting member of the IEEE AP-S Administrative Committee (2015-2017), Chair of IEEE New South Wales Section (2016-2017), member of IEEE AP-S Field Awards Committee and New Technologies Committee, and member of IEEE MTT Society TC-10 Technical Committee. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Access. Notable publications include "3-D printable synthetic metasurface to realize 2-D beam-steering antenna" (2023, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation), "Advancements, challenges, and prospects of water-filled antennas" (2023, IEEE Access), "Making UWB antennas unidirectional: phase coherence with an ultra-wide band frequency selective surface reflector" (2024), "Enhancing radiation characteristics of antenna arrays over a sparse area" (2024), and "Characterization of materials to realize metasurface design through 3D printing" (2024). He has produced over 600 research outputs across 35 projects.