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September 2026
College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award
Dr. Shuvashis Dey received the 2026 College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award at North Dakota State University.
September 14, 2026
Dr. Dey presents research at IEEE AMES 2026 in Leuven
Dr. Shuvashis Dey delivered “AME-Based Volumetric Manipulation of mm-Wave SIW slot Antenna for 5G and Beyond” at IEEE AMES 2026 in Leuven, Belgium. The work was coauthored by Roktim Barua, Md Ashif Islam Oni, and Dr. Dey and featured in the session “Additive Manufacturing for Complex Antenna Systems.”
August 12, 2026
Alumni talk at NIT Durgapur, India
Dr. Shuvashis Dey returned to NIT Durgapur for an alumni talk, “A Journey from NIT Durgapur to an Academic Career in RF Engineering in the United States,” sharing his academic journey and research experience.
August 2026
Fahad Raihan Saquib joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student
Fahad Raihan Saquib joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in August 2026. Welcome, Fahad!
Summer 2026
First NSF IRES cohort completes research at UTS Sydney
Eight U.S. students completed the first RF-CONNECT-led NSF IRES summer research program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, gaining international research experience in RFID sensing and machine learning. Dr. Shuvashis Dey visited Australia to coordinate the program and support the students’ research activities.
July 2026
Dr. Dey presents research and chairs a session at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2026
Dr. Shuvashis Dey presented two research papers at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, held July 12–17 in Detroit, Michigan. He also chaired the “RFID Antennas” session on July 17.
July 2026
Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku earns her master’s degree
Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku graduated with her master’s degree in July 2026. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Mojisola on this academic milestone.
July 2026
63rd Design Automation Conference Recognizes Mojisola Akinsiku as DAC Young Fellow
Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku was recognized as a DAC Young Fellow at the 63rd Design Automation Conference in July 2026. Congratulations, Mojisola!
June 2026
Dr. Dey presents RF-CONNECT Lab research at IEEE RFID 2026
Dr. Shuvashis Dey presented research from RF-CONNECT Lab at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on RFID, held June 16–18 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also served as Publication Chair for the conference.
May 13, 2026
NDSU Foundation support for field-deployable RFID sensing
Dr. Dey received a $1,000 NDSU Foundation Board of Trustees Endowment Fund award as principal investigator of “Enabling Field-Deployable RFID Sensing for Precision Agriculture Using a Rugged Mobile Computing Platform.”
April 2026
Collaborative antenna-array paper published in IEEE TAP
Our collaborative paper, “Multimaterial Additively Manufactured Wideband Dual-Polarized Conical Four-Leaf Antenna Array With Bandwidth Enhancement,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Led by Zhichao Sun, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Ashif Islam Oni and Dr. Shuvashis Dey.
March 2026
Dual-mode RFID temperature-sensing paper published
Dr. Shuvashis Dey, Srabana Maiti, and Nemai Chandra Karmakar have published “A Novel Flying Bird Dipole Resonator for Dual-Mode RFID-Based Temperature Sensing” in IEEE Sensors Journal. The paper investigates a flying-bird dipole resonator for RFID-based temperature sensing.
February 2026
Filtering metasurface paper published in IEEE TMTT
Our collaborative paper, “Additively Manufactured Filtering Metasurface With Excellent Out-of-Band Suppression,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Led by Ruihua Liu, the paper includes Md Ashif Islam Oni, Md Mirazur Rahman, and Dr. Shuvashis Dey from RF-CONNECT Lab.
January 2026
Collaborative Vivaldi-array paper published in IEEE TAP
Our collaborative paper, “Ultrawideband Low-Profile Metal–Dielectric Additively Manufactured Planar Vivaldi-Shaped Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Led by Zhichao Sun, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Ashif Islam Oni and Dr. Shuvashis Dey.
January 2026
Roktim Barua joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student
Roktim Barua joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in January 2026. Welcome, Roktim!
October 2025
Oni publishes first-author metantennas review in IEEE Access
Congratulations to Md Ashif Islam Oni on the publication of “Advances in Metantennas: Classification and Future Prospects” in IEEE Access, coauthored with Yang Yang and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The review examines metasurface antenna designs, performance, and opportunities for 5G and beyond.
October 2025
Chipless RFID soil moisture paper published in IEEE Access
Dr. Shuvashis Dey, Md Mirazur Rahman, and Nemai Karmakar have published “Design and Experimental Analysis of Time Domain Reflectometry-Based Chipless RFID Soil Moisture Sensor” in IEEE Access. The paper studies time-domain reflectometry for chipless RFID soil moisture sensing.
September 2025
Collaborative RF and AI tissue-assessment study published
Our collaborative paper, “A Novel Dielectric Fingerprinting Tool for Histopathology Assessment Leveraging AI and RF: A Feasibility Study Using Gastrointestinal Tissues,” has been published in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. Led by Sunil Gaddam and coauthored by Dr. Shuvashis Dey, the study explores RF and AI methods for tissue assessment.
August 2025
Shrestha Rakshit joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a master’s student
Shrestha Rakshit joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a master’s student in August 2025. Welcome, Shrestha!
June 2025
NSF IRES award for international RFID and AI research
Dr. Dey is principal investigator of a $450,000 NSF International Research Experiences for Students project, “International Research Experience on RFID Sensing System with Application of Machine Learning for Accurate Sensing.” The three-year project supports eight U.S. students each summer in an eight-week research program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Its first cohort participated in summer 2026.
June 2025
Maiti leads IEEE Sensors Journal paper on 3D-printed leaf moisture sensing
Congratulations to Srabana Maiti on the publication of “An Additively Manufactured Novel RFID-Based 3-D Printed Leaf Moisture Sensor for Smart Farming” in IEEE Sensors Journal, with Md Mirazur Rahman and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The study experimentally validates a 3D-printed UHF RFID sensor for monitoring leaf moisture.
June 2025
Maiti publishes first-author soil moisture sensor paper
Congratulations to Srabana Maiti on her first-author paper, “Design and Analysis of a Novel UHF RFID Soil Moisture Sensor for Smart Farming,” published in the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification with Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The work investigates RFID sensing for soil moisture measurement.
May 2025
Srabana Maiti earns her master’s degree
Srabana Maiti graduated with her master’s degree in May 2025. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Srabana on this academic milestone.
May 2025
Susmita Ghosh earns her master’s degree
Susmita Ghosh graduated with her master’s degree in May 2025. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Susmita on this academic milestone.
April 22, 2025
Dr. Dey chairs workshop and delivers invited talk at IEEE AMES 2025
Dr. Shuvashis Dey chaired the workshop “Additively Manufactured RF Systems: From Materials to Millimeter-Wave and Beyond” and delivered an invited talk at IEEE AMES 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop brought together academic and industry researchers to discuss multi-material 3D printing for RF components, antennas, and sensing.
April 2025
NSF INTERN support for satellite antenna research
Dr. Dey received a $54,999 NSF INTERN supplement to the lab’s MRI award for “Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) enabled Metamaterial Assisted Earth Station Antenna Systems for Satellite Communication.” The award supports industry-linked research in additively manufactured RF systems.
April 2025
NSF INTERN support for beam-steering metasurface antennas
Dr. Dey received a $54,999 NSF INTERN supplement to the lab’s MRI award for “Development of a Multi-beam Beam-steering Metasurface Antenna for 5G and Beyond, with Future Applications in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).”
March 2025
Rahman publishes first-author review on antenna gain enhancement
Congratulations to Md Mirazur Rahman on his first-author review, “Application of Metamaterials in Antennas for Gain Improvement: A Study on Integration Techniques and Performance,” published in IEEE Access with Yang Yang and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The article examines metamaterial integration techniques and their effects on antenna gain.
March 2025
Collaborative D-band beam-scanning paper published
Our collaborative paper, “An Angle-Multiplexed Multifocal Method for D-Band 2-D Beam-Scanning Transmitarray Leveraging 3-D Transmission Line Component,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Led by Jiexin Lai, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Mirazur Rahman, Md Ashif Islam Oni, and Dr. Shuvashis Dey.
September 4, 2024
EDRF award for real-time plant monitoring
A $100,000 Economic Diversification Research Fund project led by Dr. Dey develops 3D-printed wireless and flexible sensing for real-time plant growth monitoring.
August 2024
Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student
Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in August 2024. Welcome, Mojisola!
May 7, 2024
Centennial Endowment award for wireless drug delivery
Dr. Dey received a $5,000 NDSU Foundation Centennial Endowment Fund award as principal investigator of “Microwave Rectenna and Cellulose Nano Fiber (CNF) Thin Film Based Wireless Drug Delivery System for Therapeutic Treatment.”
May 7, 2024
Gordon A. Larson award for precision-agriculture sensing
Dr. Dey received a $19,800 NDSU Foundation Gordon A. Larson Agricultural Research Fund award as principal investigator of “Towards an Inexpensive, Ubiquitous Wireless Soil Salinity and Nutrient Sensing System for Precision Agriculture.”
October 2023:
USDA-ARS funding awarded to Dr. Dey as co-PI
Dr. Dey has received funding from United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) as a Co- Principal Investigator (Co-PI) as a part of the Congressional appropriation for an amount of approximately $1.2M.
September 2023:
$770,100 NSF MRI grant for a DragonFly IV 3D printer
Dr. Dey has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Grant as the Principal Investigator (PI). With the generous support of $770,100 from NSF, our lab will be able to acquire the state-of-the-art DragonFly IV 3D printer from Nano Dimension. The DragonFly IV provides a hybrid printing system by using simultaneous deposition of dielectric and conductive inks to enable the production of additively manufactured electronic circuits such as multi-layer PCBs, radio frequency devices such as antennas, embedded semiconductors, sensors, and other components for various applications. You can read more about the award and the instrument below:
Award: http://bit.ly/3LP0erH
Dragon Fly IV 3D printer: https://www.nano-di.com/dragonfly-iv
2023–2024 Fellowship
Oni receives a 2023–2024 NDWRRI graduate fellowship
Md Ashif Islam Oni has been awarded 2023-2024 North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute (NDWRRI) Graduate Fellowship which will support his research project “Towards a Low-cost, Pervasive Metasurface-based Dielectric Resonator Wireless Soil Salinity and Moisture Sensing System for Precision Agriculture”. Congratulations!!
2023–2024 Fellowship
Mirazur Rahman receives a 2023–2024 NDWRRI fellowship
Md Mirazur Rahman has been awarded 2023-2024 North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute (NDWRRI) Fellowship which will support his research project “Smart radiometer for soil moisture detection in view of an efficient irrigation system”. Congratulations!!
2023
Srabana’s wireless gas sensing paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023
Srabana Maiti's paper on "Novel Radio Frequency (RF) Based Wireless Gas Sensing using Polypyrrole (PPy) Smart Films" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations!
2023
Oni’s wearable metasurface antenna paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023
Md Ashif Islam Oni's paper on "Multi-band Wearable Metasurface Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network Applications" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations!
2023
Mirazur Rahman’s chipless RFID temperature sensing paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023
Md Mirazur Rahman's paper on "Towards Chipless RFID based Temperature Sensing for IoT Applications" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations!
November 2022:
$39,947 ND EPSCoR equipment award for textile antennas and sensors
Dr. Dey received the ND EPSCoR State Office equipment award of US $39,947 for his project “Enabling Fabrication of Embroidery Based Wearable Textile Antenna and Sensors for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) and Internet of Everything (IoE)”!!
August 2022:
NDSU undergraduate research funding for RF biomedical sensing
Dr. Dey received the NDSU Undergrad Biomedical Research Program Fund of US $5,635 for his project Non-Invasive Monitoring of Arterial Waveform to Determine Biophysiological Parameters using Radio Frequency Based Sensors!!
August 2022:
Srabana Maiti joins RF-CONNECT Lab
Srabana Maiti joins the research group at RF-Connect Lab as a Masters Student. She brings in expertise in sensing applications for precision agriculture. Welcome!!
June 2022:
Oni and Mirazur Rahman receive IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 travel grants
Md Mirazur Rahman and Md Ashif Islam Oni from "NDSU RF-Connect Lab" have been awarded the prestigious student travel grant from IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 Symposium. This is the flagship event of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. The travel grant was awarded to only 20 students across the world and my students who joined me in January 2022 have secured two of them!
May 2022:
White Memorial Endowment funding for leaf wetness sensors
Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Carl A. & Jean Y. White Memorial Endowment Fund of US $4,400 for Development of Low-Cost, Printable Chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based Sensors for Leaf Wetness Detection!!
May 2022:
Centennial Endowment funding for arterial waveform sensing
Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Centennial Endowment Fund of US $5,000 for his project Non-Invasive Monitoring of Arterial Waveform to Determine Biophysiological Parameters using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Based Sensing Technique!!
May 2022:
Board of Trustees funding for outdoor antenna and sensor measurements
Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Board of Trustees Endowment Fund of US $1,000 for his project Enabling Outdoor Measurement and Field Analysis of RF Antennas and Sensors for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications!!
February 2022:
RCA award supports SIMUSERV software training
Dr. Dey received Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Research Support Services Award to participate in software training sessions offered by SIMUSERV GmbH!!
January 2022:
Md Ashif Islam Oni joins RF-CONNECT Lab
Md Ashif Islam Oni joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Mr. Oni brings expertise in Metamaterials and Broadband Antenna Designing for Beyond-5G Applications. Welcome!!
January 2022:
Md Mirazur Rahman joins RF-CONNECT Lab
Md Mirazur Rahman joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Mr. Rahman brings expertise in Phased Array Antenna System. Welcome!!
January 2022:
Susmita Ghosh joins RF-CONNECT Lab
Susmita Ghosh joins the RF-Connect Lab. She brings expertise in biomedical and sensing applications. Welcome!!
December 2021:
$75,000 ND EPSCoR equipment award
Dr. Dey received an Equipment Award from the North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR) worth US $75,000!!
November 2021:
Coauthored paper published in the IEEE 5th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE 2021, Indonesia)!
Fatema–Tuz Zohra, Omar Salim, Shuvashis Dey, H. Masoumi and Nemai Karmakar, “A Novel Machine Learning Based Conveyor Belt Health Monitoring Incorporating UHF RFID Backscattered Power”. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICITISEE53823.2021.9655974
October 2021:
Coauthored paper published in the IEEE International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET 2021, Turkey)!
Fatema–Tuz Zohra, Omar Salim, Shuvashis Dey, H. Masoumi and Nemai Karmakar, “A Novel Mining Conveyor Belt Modelling for UHF RFID Sensor based Health Monitoring”.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEET53442.2021.9659730
October 2021:
$15,000 NDSU EPSCoR seed award for a smart phased array antenna system
Dr. Dey received STEM Research and Education- Seed Award to Collect Preliminary Data from NDSU Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) worth US $15,000 for his project on Smart Phased Array Antenna System!!
August 2021:
Dr. Shuvashis Dey joins NDSU
Dr. Shuvashis Dey joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NDSU!!
September 2026 | College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award Dr. Shuvashis Dey received the 2026 College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award at North Dakota State University. |
September 14, 2026 | Dr. Dey presents research at IEEE AMES 2026 in Leuven Dr. Shuvashis Dey delivered “AME-Based Volumetric Manipulation of mm-Wave SIW slot Antenna for 5G and Beyond” at IEEE AMES 2026 in Leuven, Belgium. The work was coauthored by Roktim Barua, Md Ashif Islam Oni, and Dr. Dey and featured in the session “Additive Manufacturing for Complex Antenna Systems.” |
August 12, 2026 | Alumni talk at NIT Durgapur, India Dr. Shuvashis Dey returned to NIT Durgapur for an alumni talk, “A Journey from NIT Durgapur to an Academic Career in RF Engineering in the United States,” sharing his academic journey and research experience. |
August 2026 | Fahad Raihan Saquib joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student Fahad Raihan Saquib joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in August 2026. Welcome, Fahad! |
Summer 2026 | First NSF IRES cohort completes research at UTS Sydney Eight U.S. students completed the first RF-CONNECT-led NSF IRES summer research program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, gaining international research experience in RFID sensing and machine learning. Dr. Shuvashis Dey visited Australia to coordinate the program and support the students’ research activities. |
July 2026 | Dr. Dey presents research and chairs a session at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2026 Dr. Shuvashis Dey presented two research papers at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, held July 12–17 in Detroit, Michigan. He also chaired the “RFID Antennas” session on July 17. |
July 2026 | Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku earns her master’s degree Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku graduated with her master’s degree in July 2026. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Mojisola on this academic milestone. |
July 2026 | 63rd Design Automation Conference Recognizes Mojisola Akinsiku as DAC Young Fellow Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku was recognized as a DAC Young Fellow at the 63rd Design Automation Conference in July 2026. Congratulations, Mojisola! |
June 2026 | Dr. Dey presents RF-CONNECT Lab research at IEEE RFID 2026 Dr. Shuvashis Dey presented research from RF-CONNECT Lab at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on RFID, held June 16–18 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also served as Publication Chair for the conference. |
May 13, 2026 | NDSU Foundation support for field-deployable RFID sensing Dr. Dey received a $1,000 NDSU Foundation Board of Trustees Endowment Fund award as principal investigator of “Enabling Field-Deployable RFID Sensing for Precision Agriculture Using a Rugged Mobile Computing Platform.” |
April 2026 | Collaborative antenna-array paper published in IEEE TAP Our collaborative paper, “Multimaterial Additively Manufactured Wideband Dual-Polarized Conical Four-Leaf Antenna Array With Bandwidth Enhancement,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Led by Zhichao Sun, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Ashif Islam Oni and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. |
March 2026 | Dual-mode RFID temperature-sensing paper published Dr. Shuvashis Dey, Srabana Maiti, and Nemai Chandra Karmakar have published “A Novel Flying Bird Dipole Resonator for Dual-Mode RFID-Based Temperature Sensing” in IEEE Sensors Journal. The paper investigates a flying-bird dipole resonator for RFID-based temperature sensing. |
February 2026 | Filtering metasurface paper published in IEEE TMTT Our collaborative paper, “Additively Manufactured Filtering Metasurface With Excellent Out-of-Band Suppression,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Led by Ruihua Liu, the paper includes Md Ashif Islam Oni, Md Mirazur Rahman, and Dr. Shuvashis Dey from RF-CONNECT Lab. |
January 2026 | Collaborative Vivaldi-array paper published in IEEE TAP Our collaborative paper, “Ultrawideband Low-Profile Metal–Dielectric Additively Manufactured Planar Vivaldi-Shaped Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Led by Zhichao Sun, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Ashif Islam Oni and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. |
January 2026 | Roktim Barua joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student Roktim Barua joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in January 2026. Welcome, Roktim! |
October 2025 | Oni publishes first-author metantennas review in IEEE Access Congratulations to Md Ashif Islam Oni on the publication of “Advances in Metantennas: Classification and Future Prospects” in IEEE Access, coauthored with Yang Yang and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The review examines metasurface antenna designs, performance, and opportunities for 5G and beyond. |
October 2025 | Chipless RFID soil moisture paper published in IEEE Access Dr. Shuvashis Dey, Md Mirazur Rahman, and Nemai Karmakar have published “Design and Experimental Analysis of Time Domain Reflectometry-Based Chipless RFID Soil Moisture Sensor” in IEEE Access. The paper studies time-domain reflectometry for chipless RFID soil moisture sensing. |
September 2025 | Collaborative RF and AI tissue-assessment study published Our collaborative paper, “A Novel Dielectric Fingerprinting Tool for Histopathology Assessment Leveraging AI and RF: A Feasibility Study Using Gastrointestinal Tissues,” has been published in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. Led by Sunil Gaddam and coauthored by Dr. Shuvashis Dey, the study explores RF and AI methods for tissue assessment. |
August 2025 | Shrestha Rakshit joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a master’s student Shrestha Rakshit joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a master’s student in August 2025. Welcome, Shrestha! |
June 2025 | NSF IRES award for international RFID and AI research Dr. Dey is principal investigator of a $450,000 NSF International Research Experiences for Students project, “International Research Experience on RFID Sensing System with Application of Machine Learning for Accurate Sensing.” The three-year project supports eight U.S. students each summer in an eight-week research program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Its first cohort participated in summer 2026. |
June 2025 | Maiti leads IEEE Sensors Journal paper on 3D-printed leaf moisture sensing Congratulations to Srabana Maiti on the publication of “An Additively Manufactured Novel RFID-Based 3-D Printed Leaf Moisture Sensor for Smart Farming” in IEEE Sensors Journal, with Md Mirazur Rahman and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The study experimentally validates a 3D-printed UHF RFID sensor for monitoring leaf moisture. |
June 2025 | Maiti publishes first-author soil moisture sensor paper Congratulations to Srabana Maiti on her first-author paper, “Design and Analysis of a Novel UHF RFID Soil Moisture Sensor for Smart Farming,” published in the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification with Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The work investigates RFID sensing for soil moisture measurement. |
May 2025 | Srabana Maiti earns her master’s degree Srabana Maiti graduated with her master’s degree in May 2025. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Srabana on this academic milestone. |
May 2025 | Susmita Ghosh earns her master’s degree Susmita Ghosh graduated with her master’s degree in May 2025. RF-CONNECT Lab congratulates Susmita on this academic milestone. |
April 22, 2025 | Dr. Dey chairs workshop and delivers invited talk at IEEE AMES 2025 Dr. Shuvashis Dey chaired the workshop “Additively Manufactured RF Systems: From Materials to Millimeter-Wave and Beyond” and delivered an invited talk at IEEE AMES 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop brought together academic and industry researchers to discuss multi-material 3D printing for RF components, antennas, and sensing. |
April 2025 | NSF INTERN support for satellite antenna research Dr. Dey received a $54,999 NSF INTERN supplement to the lab’s MRI award for “Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) enabled Metamaterial Assisted Earth Station Antenna Systems for Satellite Communication.” The award supports industry-linked research in additively manufactured RF systems. |
April 2025 | NSF INTERN support for beam-steering metasurface antennas Dr. Dey received a $54,999 NSF INTERN supplement to the lab’s MRI award for “Development of a Multi-beam Beam-steering Metasurface Antenna for 5G and Beyond, with Future Applications in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).” |
March 2025 | Rahman publishes first-author review on antenna gain enhancement Congratulations to Md Mirazur Rahman on his first-author review, “Application of Metamaterials in Antennas for Gain Improvement: A Study on Integration Techniques and Performance,” published in IEEE Access with Yang Yang and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. The article examines metamaterial integration techniques and their effects on antenna gain. |
March 2025 | Collaborative D-band beam-scanning paper published Our collaborative paper, “An Angle-Multiplexed Multifocal Method for D-Band 2-D Beam-Scanning Transmitarray Leveraging 3-D Transmission Line Component,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Led by Jiexin Lai, the paper includes RF-CONNECT Lab authors Md Mirazur Rahman, Md Ashif Islam Oni, and Dr. Shuvashis Dey. |
September 4, 2024 | EDRF award for real-time plant monitoring A $100,000 Economic Diversification Research Fund project led by Dr. Dey develops 3D-printed wireless and flexible sensing for real-time plant growth monitoring. |
August 2024 | Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku joins RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student Mojisola Rachael Akinsiku joined RF-CONNECT Lab as a PhD student in August 2024. Welcome, Mojisola! |
May 7, 2024 | Centennial Endowment award for wireless drug delivery Dr. Dey received a $5,000 NDSU Foundation Centennial Endowment Fund award as principal investigator of “Microwave Rectenna and Cellulose Nano Fiber (CNF) Thin Film Based Wireless Drug Delivery System for Therapeutic Treatment.” |
May 7, 2024 | Gordon A. Larson award for precision-agriculture sensing Dr. Dey received a $19,800 NDSU Foundation Gordon A. Larson Agricultural Research Fund award as principal investigator of “Towards an Inexpensive, Ubiquitous Wireless Soil Salinity and Nutrient Sensing System for Precision Agriculture.” |
October 2023: | USDA-ARS funding awarded to Dr. Dey as co-PI Dr. Dey has received funding from United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) as a Co- Principal Investigator (Co-PI) as a part of the Congressional appropriation for an amount of approximately $1.2M. |
September 2023: | $770,100 NSF MRI grant for a DragonFly IV 3D printer Dr. Dey has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Grant as the Principal Investigator (PI). With the generous support of $770,100 from NSF, our lab will be able to acquire the state-of-the-art DragonFly IV 3D printer from Nano Dimension. The DragonFly IV provides a hybrid printing system by using simultaneous deposition of dielectric and conductive inks to enable the production of additively manufactured electronic circuits such as multi-layer PCBs, radio frequency devices such as antennas, embedded semiconductors, sensors, and other components for various applications. You can read more about the award and the instrument below: Award: http://bit.ly/3LP0erH Dragon Fly IV 3D printer: https://www.nano-di.com/dragonfly-iv |
2023–2024 Fellowship | Oni receives a 2023–2024 NDWRRI graduate fellowship Md Ashif Islam Oni has been awarded 2023-2024 North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute (NDWRRI) Graduate Fellowship which will support his research project “Towards a Low-cost, Pervasive Metasurface-based Dielectric Resonator Wireless Soil Salinity and Moisture Sensing System for Precision Agriculture”. Congratulations!! |
2023–2024 Fellowship | Mirazur Rahman receives a 2023–2024 NDWRRI fellowship Md Mirazur Rahman has been awarded 2023-2024 North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute (NDWRRI) Fellowship which will support his research project “Smart radiometer for soil moisture detection in view of an efficient irrigation system”. Congratulations!! |
2023 | Srabana’s wireless gas sensing paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Srabana Maiti's paper on "Novel Radio Frequency (RF) Based Wireless Gas Sensing using Polypyrrole (PPy) Smart Films" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations! |
2023 | Oni’s wearable metasurface antenna paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Md Ashif Islam Oni's paper on "Multi-band Wearable Metasurface Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network Applications" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations! |
2023 | Mirazur Rahman’s chipless RFID temperature sensing paper accepted at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Md Mirazur Rahman's paper on "Towards Chipless RFID based Temperature Sensing for IoT Applications" is accepted for IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 Conference. Congratulations! |
November 2022: | $39,947 ND EPSCoR equipment award for textile antennas and sensors Dr. Dey received the ND EPSCoR State Office equipment award of US $39,947 for his project “Enabling Fabrication of Embroidery Based Wearable Textile Antenna and Sensors for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) and Internet of Everything (IoE)”!! |
August 2022: | NDSU undergraduate research funding for RF biomedical sensing Dr. Dey received the NDSU Undergrad Biomedical Research Program Fund of US $5,635 for his project Non-Invasive Monitoring of Arterial Waveform to Determine Biophysiological Parameters using Radio Frequency Based Sensors!! |
August 2022: | Srabana Maiti joins RF-CONNECT Lab Srabana Maiti joins the research group at RF-Connect Lab as a Masters Student. She brings in expertise in sensing applications for precision agriculture. Welcome!! |
June 2022: | Oni and Mirazur Rahman receive IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 travel grants Md Mirazur Rahman and Md Ashif Islam Oni from "NDSU RF-Connect Lab" have been awarded the prestigious student travel grant from IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 Symposium. This is the flagship event of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. The travel grant was awarded to only 20 students across the world and my students who joined me in January 2022 have secured two of them! |
May 2022: | White Memorial Endowment funding for leaf wetness sensors Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Carl A. & Jean Y. White Memorial Endowment Fund of US $4,400 for Development of Low-Cost, Printable Chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based Sensors for Leaf Wetness Detection!! |
May 2022: | Centennial Endowment funding for arterial waveform sensing Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Centennial Endowment Fund of US $5,000 for his project Non-Invasive Monitoring of Arterial Waveform to Determine Biophysiological Parameters using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Based Sensing Technique!! |
May 2022: | Board of Trustees funding for outdoor antenna and sensor measurements Dr. Dey received the NDSU Foundation: Board of Trustees Endowment Fund of US $1,000 for his project Enabling Outdoor Measurement and Field Analysis of RF Antennas and Sensors for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications!! |
February 2022: | RCA award supports SIMUSERV software training Dr. Dey received Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Research Support Services Award to participate in software training sessions offered by SIMUSERV GmbH!! |
January 2022: | Md Ashif Islam Oni joins RF-CONNECT Lab Md Ashif Islam Oni joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Mr. Oni brings expertise in Metamaterials and Broadband Antenna Designing for Beyond-5G Applications. Welcome!! |
January 2022: | Md Mirazur Rahman joins RF-CONNECT Lab Md Mirazur Rahman joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Mr. Rahman brings expertise in Phased Array Antenna System. Welcome!! |
January 2022: | Susmita Ghosh joins RF-CONNECT Lab Susmita Ghosh joins the RF-Connect Lab. She brings expertise in biomedical and sensing applications. Welcome!! |
December 2021: | $75,000 ND EPSCoR equipment award Dr. Dey received an Equipment Award from the North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR) worth US $75,000!! |
November 2021: | Coauthored paper published in the IEEE 5th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE 2021, Indonesia)! Fatema–Tuz Zohra, Omar Salim, Shuvashis Dey, H. Masoumi and Nemai Karmakar, “A Novel Machine Learning Based Conveyor Belt Health Monitoring Incorporating UHF RFID Backscattered Power”. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICITISEE53823.2021.9655974 |
October 2021: | Coauthored paper published in the IEEE International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET 2021, Turkey)! Fatema–Tuz Zohra, Omar Salim, Shuvashis Dey, H. Masoumi and Nemai Karmakar, “A Novel Mining Conveyor Belt Modelling for UHF RFID Sensor based Health Monitoring”. |
October 2021: | $15,000 NDSU EPSCoR seed award for a smart phased array antenna system Dr. Dey received STEM Research and Education- Seed Award to Collect Preliminary Data from NDSU Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) worth US $15,000 for his project on Smart Phased Array Antenna System!! |
August 2021: | Dr. Shuvashis Dey joins NDSU Dr. Shuvashis Dey joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NDSU!! |