Students

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Steven Beninati
Ph.D. student

Steven received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2020.  He joined MIRSL in Fall 2022 and has been working on SAR radargrammetry for coastal change due to hurricane landfall.  He has also developed a bistatic radar receiver for application to atmospheric convection.

Marc Closa Tarres
Marc Closa Tarres
Ph.D. student
Marc received a B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC). He has been a part of MIRSL since 2019, where he completed his M.S. and is now pursuing his PhD. Marc's research interests revolve around Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Microwave Systems. Currently, he is involved in SNOWWI, the Snow Water-Equivalent Wide-Swath Interferometer and Scatterometer.
 
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Joseph Maloyan
Ph.D. student

Joe received the B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022.  He is developing FPGA-based data acquisition and signal processing systems for airborne synthetic aperture radar.

Rita Meraz Rivera
Ph.D. student
Anthony Migridichian
M.S. student
Hanie Sanaei
Hanie Sanaei
Ph.D. student

Hanie received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, specializing in folded reflectarray antenna design and microwave engineering. She joined MIRSL as a Ph.D. student in Summer 2023, working on slotted waveguide antenna bandwidth enhancement for the Snow Water-Equivalent Wide-Swath Interferometer and Scatterometer. Her current research applies microwave radiative transfer models (SMRT) to study how snow microstructure affects radar backscatter and to improve remote sensing of snow properties.

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Takuya Seaver
Ph.D. student

TK received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020. His research interests include remote sensing, radiometry, synthetic aperture radar, and microwave systems. Currently, he works on Snow Water-Equivalent Wide-Swath Interferometer and Scatterometer (SNOWWI).

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Ekin Su Saçın
Ph.D. student

Ekin Su Saçın joined MIRSL in Fall 2023 after completing her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.  She is currently developing a software-radio-based digital receiver for a C-band microwave radiometer used for measurements of ocean surface winds.

Qingchuan Wu
Ph.D. student