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Recent ECE/ARRC graduate, Precious Jatau, was named recipient of the 2023-2024 Provost's Doctoral Dissertation Award. The award is given annually to recognize outstanding performance by a doctoral student in the areas of Science and Engineering, Social Science, Education and the Professions, and Humanities and Fine Arts. The award will be presented during the Graduate College's Awards Ceremony on April 18.
Precious' dissertation was titled "Machine Learning for Classifying Biological Radar echoes with S-band Polarimetric Radar." He was advised by Dr. Tian Yu and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher.
We are excited to announce that the ARRC is expanding our professional team. Multiple positions are available for each of the job postings in the links below. Please help in our expansion process.
Weathernews, Inc. (WNI) was the recipient of an Oklahoma State Regents Business Partnership Excellence Award, presented at a ceremony on March 7 at the University of Central Oklahoma campus in Edmond.
WNI has been a long-time partner of the University of Oklahoma, focusing on radar, weather, and climate applications. They established an endowed chair and an endowed scholarship at OU in 2017. The scholarship is presented annually to an outstanding ARRC student studying weather radar, observations of the atmosphere, data analysis, and implementation.
Mr. Daisuke Abe, Executive Office, Service Operation and Development, accepted the award for Weathernews.
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Rick Spinrad, NOAA Administrator and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction; and Ajay Mehta, Radar Next program Director, toured the ARRC recently, alongside Ken Graham, Director of the National Weather Service, to learn more about the Horus phased array radar.
Several atmospheric scientists and engineers from across the U.S. gathered in Norman to attend a workshop on mmWave Phased Array Radar Technologies for Atmospheric Science, held February 29 at the Sam Noble Museum.
Aiming to illuminate key drivers, unleash innovative applications, maximize current capabilities, and charter technological advancements, the workshop served as a platform for insightful dialogue, collaboration, and envisioning the future of atmospheric science research enriched by mmWave technology and its evolving landscape.
The workshop was organized and hosted by Dr. Jorge Salazar.
ARRC and ECE graduate student Rosalind Agasti has been selected to receive the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for 2024. The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage and support graduate students from around the world who are interested in pursuing studies in the field of microwave engineering. The award will be presented at the 2024 IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Washington DC in June. Rosalind is advised by Dr. Jessica Ruyle.
Rosalind Agasti (ARRC/ECE) has been awarded a 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) Doctoral Research Grant for her proposed project on the Development of a System-on-Aperture (SoA) Front-End using Spatio-Temporal Modulation.
IEEE awards up to ten $4,000 PhD grants annually to encourage students to pursue a career in electromagnetics. Rosalind is advised by Dr. Jessica Ruyle.
Syed Jehangir has been selected as one of six recipients of the Fall 2023 OU Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award. The $5,000 award, designed to foster excellence among doctoral students, supports scholars in the final stages of their Ph.D. studies. Syed’s dissertation is titled, “Ultrawideband Antenna Solutions for Weather Radar Applications”. Congratulations Syed!