Prof. Karu Esselle has been elevated as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to resonance-based antennas.
Prof. Esselle graduated with First Class Honours in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa in 1984, and joins a select group of UoMgraduates who have received this rare honour.
He received the MASc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is currently Professor of Electronic Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, and was Associate Dean – Higher Degree Research (HDR) of the Division of Information and Communication Sciences.
Prof. Esselle has authored about 450 research publications and his papers have been cited about 3,300 times.
IEEE is the world’s largest professional organisation for technology. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting for this prestigious grade. Less than 0.1% of members are elevated to this highest grade of IEEE.
Professor Esselle’s elevation to IEEE Fellow grade recognises his extensive research contributions to resonance-based antennas, both high- and low-gain. Among them are patent-pending beam steering methods and extremely wideband planar resonant cavity antennas aka electromagnetic resonator antennas, ultra-wideband antennas and dielectric-resonator antennas.
More information about his research can be found at http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~esselle/