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New PhD student in antennas and electromagnetics

ASPC Lab welcomes PhD Candidate Farzad Ahmadi (primary adviser Dr. Igor Tsukerman) to the team. Farzad will be working on antenna design, electromagnetic band gap structures and meta-materials for advanced array signal processing.

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NASA grant for undergraduate research

Dr. Madanayake’s 2014 NSF EARS REU intern Degrafth Palmore as won an Ohio Space Grants Consortium (OSGC) scholarship from NASA for his ongoing research with the ASPC team in 2015-16. Congratulations, Degrafth!

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ASPC lab welcomes new WIE student interns

ASPC Lab welcomes incoming ECE freshman Julia Hariharan, as well as ECE sophomores Adrianna Dunlap and Yamini Yamini as part time summer research interns. Adrianna and Yamini are supported by NSF as part of our broader impacts activities.

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Advanced ROACH2-FPGA workshop at NRAO Greenbank

A workshop covering advanced topics related to ROACH2 based digital system design was organized by Arjuna Madanayake in collaboration with John Ford, Arindam Sengupta and Jason Ray at the Greenbank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia.

This two-day workshop was attended by University of Akron graduate students Nilan Udayanga, Vishwa Seneviratne, Suranga Handagala, Sravan Pulipati, Reza Oliveira (visiting from UFPE, Brazil), and Gihan Mendis. The students learned advanced topics such as ROACH2 clock nets, 10 MHz reference oscillators, compiling for 16-input RF ADC, and designing communications using 10 Gbps Ethernet IP cores.

The highlight of the trip was the climb to the focal plane of the Robert C. Byrd telescope!

The dish antenna is 485 feet tall and is the largest moveable structure on land ever built.

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ASPC Lab hosts NE Ohio ROACH2 workshop

Dr. Arjuna Madanayake and Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni organized the first NE Ohio undergraduate/graduate workshop on “ROACH2 based FPGA Systems” at the ASPC Lab on May 30 2015. Four students from the University of Toledo and six students from the University of Akron (including an exchange student from UFPE, Brazil) participated. This workshop is an NSF Broader Impacts activity.

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