Millimeter-Wave Electronics Group
Queen's University at Kingston
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Group Leader

             Carlos Saavedra, Ph.D. (Cornell)

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Carlos Saavedra is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University and was Department Head from July 2020 to June 2025. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from Cornell University and a B.Sc. from the University of Virginia, all in Electrical Engineering. On sabbatical leaves, Prof. Saavedra has held visiting appointments at the University of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain, the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Twente, Netherlands. He has served as Co-Chair of the NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Group 1510 and has served on grant review committees at the US National Science Foundation. Prof. Saavedra has previously served in multiple professional roles, including Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and Guest Editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine, Chair of the IEEE AP-S/MTT-S Joint Kingston Chapter, Chair of the IEEE MTT Technical Committee on Signal Generation and Frequency Conversion, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Kingston Section, Member of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (Montreal) Steering Committee, Member of the IEEE NEWCAS (Vancouver) Steering Committee, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, the IEEE RFIC Symposium and others.



Group Members
  • Mehdi Babazadeh, PhD candidate
  • Sam Alexander, MASc candidate
  • Charlotte Goobie, BASc/MASc candidate (4+1)

Alumni

Visiting faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs)
  • Dr. Aditya Singh, PDF
  • Dr. Ian Goode, PDF
  • Dr. Lyda Herrera, PDF
  • Dr. Miguel Ruphuy, PDF
  • Dr. Arcesio Arbelaez, PDF
  • Dr. Xiao Yang, PDF
  • Dr. A. Corona, Visiting Faculty
  • Dr. Emmanuel Torres, PDF
  • Dr. Ahmed El-Gabaly, PDF
  • Dr. L. C. Moreira, PDF

Doctoral:
  • Matt Brown, PhD
  • Shabnam Andevari*, PhD
  • Ian Goode, PhD   
  • Aditya Singh, PhD   
  • Lyda Herrera*, PhD   
  • Arthur Torres Costa*, PhD   
  • Sean Whitehall, PhD
  • Hao Li, PhD
  • Mahdi Mohsenpour, PhD
  • A. Arbelaez*, PhD
  • F. Baumgratz*, PhD
  • Ahmed El-Gabaly, PhD
  • Jiangtao Xu*, PhD
  • Brad Jackson, PhD
  • Denis Zheng, PhD
    [*] co-supervised

Masters:
  • Hayden Banting, M.A.Sc.
  • John McRae, M.A.Sc.
  • Glad Dragos, M.Eng.
  • Lin Wang, M.Eng.
  • Eric Merkley, M.Eng.
  • Mina Wahib*, M.A.Sc.
  • Zhejian Zhao, M.Eng.
  • Jeet Mondal, M.A.Sc.
  • Fan Jiang, M.A.Sc.
  • Wen Li, M.Eng.
  • David Stewart, M.A.Sc. 
  • Shan He, M.A.Sc.
  • Min Wang, M.A.Sc.
 
  • Stanley Ho, M.A.Sc.
  • Justin Chan*, M.Eng.
  • A. M. El-Gabaly, M.A.Sc.
  • Francesco Mazzilli*, M.Sc. 
  • M. Rukanuzzaman*, M.Sc.
  • Gideon Yong, M.A.Sc.
  • Mariusz Jarosz, M.Sc.
  • Mridula Das, M.Eng.
  • Wei Yang, M.Eng.
  • T. Karamat*, M.Eng.
  • Brad Jackson, M.A.Sc.
  • Yang Zhang, M.A.Sc.
  • Denis Zheng, M.A.Sc.
Undergraduates:


  • Ashkon Noori
  • Benjamin Eisen
  • Isabella Lavrisa
  • Ian Goode
  • Matt Brown
  • Humberto Paz
  • Sarah Burton
  • Ryan Veenkamp
  • Nabil Akel
  • Antonio Sanchez
  • Pablo Neiman
  • Joe Fraresso
  • Jonathan Sewter
  • Jorge Leon

Recent Capstone Project Supervisees
  • Eva Blainey, Abby Brennan, Ian Keefe, Fiona Whitfield
  • Thomas Adriaanse, Noah Shannon, Tyler Wilson
  • Daniel Balicki, Ben Merriam and Christopher Pegrum
  • Elisha Martis, Rachel Smith, Denis Grajo and Stephen Obadinma
  • Alexander Spafford, Alec Glover, Michael Briggs, Michael Dowling
  • Andrew Dunsmoor, Clinton Lau, Mitchell Peterson
  • Justin Chow, Jeremie Jollivet, Riley Kirkpatrick, Jeremy Roy
  • Matt Hahn, Kevin Huang, Patrick Dang-Ho, Ash Niazi
  • Peter Davidge, Luke Durst, Mark Mitchell
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