Colloquium: Prof. Sima Noghanian

Friday Feb 13, 2015, 4:00–5:00pm, 211 Witmer Hall. Refreshments at 3:30pm in 215 Witmer Hall.

Antenna Design for Biomedical Applications

Wireless biomedical devices impose many challenges on the design of antennas. This talk will provide an overview of recent research activities in the Applied Electromagnetics Engineering Laboratory (AEMEL) at the University of North Dakota on antenna and electromagnetic system designs for biomedical applications. In the first part of the talk the research on microwave imaging for cancer detection will be presented and the second part will be dedicated to the design of wearable and implantable antennas and sensors.

Dr. Sima Noghanian
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of North Dakota

Sima Noghanian received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, she was a researcher at YottaYotta Corporation, Edmonton, Canada. She received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2002, which she took at the University of Waterloo. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, during 2002-2003. From 2003 to 2008, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. She is currently an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of North Dakota. Her research interests include antenna design and modeling, wireless channel modeling, ultra-wideband antennas, and microwave imaging. Dr. Noghanian is a senior member of IEEE, as well as a member of Eta Kappa Nu, a member of International Union of Radio Science URSI Commission B, and a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. She is also a registered Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba. She serves as an area editor for AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications