RASHID MIRZAVAND

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Eng Dept

Engineering Research Chair, University of Alberta

Research Interests

RF/Microwave/mm-wave Circuits, Sensors, and Antennas
Wireless Communication and Sensing Systems
Reconfigurable Circuits and Surfaces (AI-Assisted)

RF Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
Applied, Computational, and Bio- Electromagnetics
Instrumentation and Measurements (AI-Assisted)

Brief Biography

Rashid Mirzavand (Senior Member, IEEE) is the Director of the Intelligent Wireless Technology Laboratory, an Assistant Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, and Engineering Research Chair in Intelligent Wireless Communication and Sensing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Fellow with the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Mirzavand is the co-founder and the chief technology officer of three companies in smart sensor, near-field measurement, and wireless power transfer technologies from the University of Alberta. He is the (co)author of more than 200 papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His primary research interests include but are not limited to, RF/microwave/mm-wave circuits, sensors, antennas, numerical methods, and measurement systems.

Dr. Mirzavand received various awards, such as the Best AUT M.Sc. Researcher in 2007, the Best AUT Ph.D. Researcher in 2011, the Best MICT National Researcher in 2013, the National Elite Foundation Young Professor Grant in 2014, the AITF Elite PDF in 2015, the Honorable CMC Industrial Collaboration in 2017, the TEC Edmonton Innovation in 2019, the CMC Industrial Collaboration in 2021 as the Supervisor, and the UofA Innovation in 2021.