YP Ambassador
Syed Muzahir Abbas
Distinguished Lecturer
Syed Muzahir Abbas
Term 2025-2026
Lead Antennas Design Engineer
GME Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia
Syed Muzahir Abbas (S’12–M’16–SM’18) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical (telecommunication) engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering at Macquarie University, North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia, in 2016. He has been a Transmission Engineer for Alcatel-Lucent, Pakistan, RF Engineer with CommScope, Australia, and Senior Antenna Design Engineer and Senior Principal Engineer with Benelec Technologies, Australia. He has lectured various courses at CIIT, Islamabad, Pakistan, and in Australia with Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and University of Sydney. Currently, he is working as Lead Antenna Design Engineer with GME, Australia. He has been a visiting researcher at ElectroScience Laboratory, Ohio State University, USA, and Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has also received several prestigious awards and fellowships, including 2020 IEEE 5G World Forum Best Paper Award, 2019 IEEE NSW Outstanding Young Professional Award, 2018 Young Scientist Award (Commission B – Field and Waves) from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), 2013 CSIRO Postgraduate Fellowship, 2012 iMQRES Award for Ph.D., and Research Productivity Awards in 2012 and 2010 from CIIT, Pakistan. He is co-inventor on about 20 patent applications and co-author on more than 150 research publications. His research interests include base station antennas, 5G antennas, mmWave antennas, 3D printed technology, metamaterials and metasurfaces, high impedance surfaces (HIS), frequency selective surfaces (FSS), electromagnetic bandgap structures (EBG), artificial magnetic conductor (AMC), beam steering, UWB, multiband antennas, flexible/embroidered antennas, CNT yarns, CNT/graphene-based antennas, reconfigurable antennas/electronics, RFID, Sensors and the development of antennas for UWB, VHF, UHF and WBAN applications
Talk: Frequency Selective Surfaces for EMI/EMC Reduction
Abstract: In this age of ubiquitous sensing and data sharing, small size and higher functionality are often at odds leading to uncertainty and risk in product performance. As product designers levy increasingly demanding requirements, such as higher data rates and greater communication range, device footprint shrinks. Risk from interference of co-located digital and radio frequency (RF) systems are at the forefront of product development schedule and cost assessment. While simulation is prevalent in electronics design from chips and packaging to PCBs and antennas, the complexity of models can be enormous. Furthermore, the expectations of obtaining a useful “digital twin” are often lofty and impractical. Still, when simulation is applied properly it delivers enormous insight, exposing risk and pointing the way to mitigation. By applying the appropriate mix of physics-based and behavioral techniques, tractable and useful simulations can guide responsible design. Through the combination of state-of-the-art field solver techniques and system level behavior models a workflow is demonstrated to achieve efficient characterization of complex electronic systems with a variety of mixed signal sources. This talk first provides an overview of the finite element method (FEM) used to obtain the transfer function of all signal sources through complex paths including traces, connector pins, vias, etc. to the antenna. This accounts for all unwanted radiating and conducting interference sources. Next, spectral characteristics of the transient signals are defined in one of two ways: either through analytical estimates of spectral profile or through a Fourier transform of time-domain voltage signals. Once all spectra are obtained, along with the scattering matrix from FEM solution, a complete model of the performance can be made from an interference perspective. Examples of mitigation through isolation and spectral management are discussed.
GME Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia
Syed Muzahir Abbas (S’12–M’16–SM’18) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical (telecommunication) engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering at Macquarie University, North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia, in 2016. He has been a Transmission Engineer for Alcatel-Lucent, Pakistan, RF Engineer with CommScope, Australia, and Senior Antenna Design Engineer and Senior Principal Engineer with Benelec Technologies, Australia. He has lectured various courses at CIIT, Islamabad, Pakistan, and in Australia with Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and University of Sydney. Currently, he is working as Lead Antenna Design Engineer with GME, Australia. He has been a visiting researcher at ElectroScience Laboratory, Ohio State University, USA, and Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has also received several prestigious awards and fellowships, including 2020 IEEE 5G World Forum Best Paper Award, 2019 IEEE NSW Outstanding Young Professional Award, 2018 Young Scientist Award (Commission B – Field and Waves) from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), 2013 CSIRO Postgraduate Fellowship, 2012 iMQRES Award for Ph.D., and Research Productivity Awards in 2012 and 2010 from CIIT, Pakistan. He is co-inventor on about 20 patent applications and co-author on more than 150 research publications. His research interests include base station antennas, 5G antennas, mmWave antennas, 3D printed technology, metamaterials and metasurfaces, high impedance surfaces (HIS), frequency selective surfaces (FSS), electromagnetic bandgap structures (EBG), artificial magnetic conductor (AMC), beam steering, UWB, multiband antennas, flexible/embroidered antennas, CNT yarns, CNT/graphene-based antennas, reconfigurable antennas/electronics, RFID, Sensors and the development of antennas for UWB, VHF, UHF and WBAN applications
Talk: Frequency Selective Surfaces for EMI/EMC Reduction
Abstract: In this age of ubiquitous sensing and data sharing, small size and higher functionality are often at odds leading to uncertainty and risk in product performance. As product designers levy increasingly demanding requirements, such as higher data rates and greater communication range, device footprint shrinks. Risk from interference of co-located digital and radio frequency (RF) systems are at the forefront of product development schedule and cost assessment. While simulation is prevalent in electronics design from chips and packaging to PCBs and antennas, the complexity of models can be enormous. Furthermore, the expectations of obtaining a useful “digital twin” are often lofty and impractical. Still, when simulation is applied properly it delivers enormous insight, exposing risk and pointing the way to mitigation. By applying the appropriate mix of physics-based and behavioral techniques, tractable and useful simulations can guide responsible design. Through the combination of state-of-the-art field solver techniques and system level behavior models a workflow is demonstrated to achieve efficient characterization of complex electronic systems with a variety of mixed signal sources. This talk first provides an overview of the finite element method (FEM) used to obtain the transfer function of all signal sources through complex paths including traces, connector pins, vias, etc. to the antenna. This accounts for all unwanted radiating and conducting interference sources. Next, spectral characteristics of the transient signals are defined in one of two ways: either through analytical estimates of spectral profile or through a Fourier transform of time-domain voltage signals. Once all spectra are obtained, along with the scattering matrix from FEM solution, a complete model of the performance can be made from an interference perspective. Examples of mitigation through isolation and spectral management are discussed.