Educational Background

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.

B.E., Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2001.

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Awards & Honors

University of California, Los Angeles Fellowship, 2003.

MTT-S Undergraduate/Pregraduate Scholarship, 2003.

Third Place, IEEE Region 1 Paper Contest, 2001.

The Society of American Military Engineers Scholarship, 2001.

Bausch & Lomb Award, 1997.

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Professional Experience

Graduate Student Researcher, Microwave Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 - Present.

Firewall/UNIX Administrator, Barclays Capital, New York, 2002 - 2003.

Network Engineer, Barclays Capital, New York, 2000 - 2002.

System Administrator, Allee King Rosen & Fleming, Inc., New York, 1999 - 2000.

Research Assistant, Department of Electronic Engineering, King’s College, London, U.K., 1999.

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Research Interests

Left-Handed Metamaterials for Microwave Engineering Applications.

Leaky-Wave Antennas.

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Selected Publications

A. Lai, K.M.K.H. Leong, and T. Itoh, “Leaky-wave steering in a two-dimensional metamaterial structure using wave interaction excitation,” IEEE-MTT Int'l Symp.,San Francisco, CA, Jun. 2006. (Download)

A. Lai, K.M.K.H. Leong, and T. Itoh, “Dual-mode compact microstrip antenna based on fundamental backward wave,” Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Suzhou, China, Dec. 2005. (Download)

K.M.K.H. Leong, A. Lai, and T. Itoh, “Application of a series coupler based on infinite wavelength phenomena,” Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Suzhou,
China, Dec. 2005. (Download)

A. Lai, W.Y. Wu, K.M.K.H. Leong, T. Itoh, and C. Caloz, “Quasi-optical manipulations of microwaves using metamaterial interfaces,” IEEE AP-S/URSI Int. Symp., Washington D.C., Jul. 2005. (Download)

A. Lai, K.M.K.H. Leong, and T. Itoh, “A novel N-port series divider using _infinite wavelength phenomena,” IEEE-MTT Int'l Symp.,Long Beach, CA, Jun. 2005. (Download)

A. Lai, C. Caloz, and T. Itoh, “Composite right/left-handed transmission line metamaterials,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 34-50, Sep. 2004. (Download)

C. Caloz, A. Lai, and T. Itoh, “Wave interactions in a LH mushroom structure,” IEEE AP-S USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Monterey, CA, Jun. 2004. (Download)

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