Engineering

Sai Radavaram

Sai Radavaram

Dr. Sai Radavaram is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah Tech University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where his research centered on advanced antenna design and applied electromagnetics. Before joining Utah Tech, he taught at Troy University and worked in the Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory at UAH. His research spans wideband and reconfigurable antennas, phased arrays, multimode and flexible antennas, and electrically large antennas. He has contributed to federally funded projects, published extensively in leading journals, and serves on IEEE technical committees. Outside of academia, Dr. Radavaram enjoys hiking and experimenting with new recipes.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2021

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2015

B.S., Electrical Engineering

  • Anna University, Chennai, India, 2013

Courses

  • MECH 2215 - Electrical Circuits Lab
  • ECE 2100 - Semiconductor Devices
  • ECE 2280 - Microelectronics
  • ECE 2285 - Microelectronics Lab
  • ECE 3300 - Electromagnetics & Transmission Lines
  • ECE 3305 - Electromagnetics & Transmission Lines Lab
  • ECE 3600 - Electric Machinery
  • ECE 3605 - Electric Machinery Lab
  • ECE 4300 - Antenna and RF Engineering
  • ECE 4610 - Power Electronics

PREVIOUS TEACHING

  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Troy University
  • Instructor for Circuits, Electronic Devices, Microcontrollers, Robotics, Automation, and Optoelectronics

EXPERIENCE

  • 5 years of teaching experience

RESEARCH & INTERESTS

  • Computational and applied electromagnetics
  • Antenna theory, design, and analysis
  • Reconfigurable and phased array antennas
  • Multifunctional and multimode antenna systems
  • Conjugate match feeds for offset reflectors

PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS

  • “Open-Source 3D Printed Laboratory for Education: Illuminating Optics and Optoelectronics Demonstrations,” Physics Education, 2024
  • “A Novel Approach to Improve Isolation in Single-Layered Closely Spaced Patch Elements,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, 2023
  • “A Wideband Circular Patch Antenna with Pattern Diversity and Reduced Sidelobes,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, 2021
  • “A Wideband Coplanar L-Strip Fed Rectangular Patch Antenna,” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2021
  • “Stably Polarized Wideband Circular Microstrip Antenna Excited in TM12 Mode,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2021
  • “Wideband Radiation Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna Loaded with Two Inverted U-Slots,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2019

PRESENTATIONS

  • “A Low-Profile, Closely-Spaced 1×4 MIMO Array with Low Mutual Coupling,” IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2025
  • “A Conformal Wideband Patch Antenna with an Integrated L-Strip Feed,” SoutheastCon, 2023
  • “A Wideband Circular Patch Antenna Excited in Higher Order Broadside TM12 Mode,” IEEE APS/URSI Symposium, 2021
  • “Conformal Wideband Antennas with Single and Double U-Shaped Slot,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2018