Parisa Lotfi, PhD

IEEE Award-winning Antenna Engineer with 5+ years of experience developing and testing different type of antennas/RF systems. Highly effective at working with interdisciplinary teams of designers and builders to accomplish projects on-time and according to cost constraints.

• Pennsylvania State University (PSU)

Publications/Conference Papers
1. Parisa Lotfi, EP McGough, “Dual Antenna Support and Isolation Enhancer” Presented in IEEE APS/URSI 2023 Portland,OR, USA.
2. Parisa Lotfi, Navid P. Gandji, Michael Lanagan and Qing X Yang, “Dielectric Resonance Modes Effect on Enhancing the Rx-Sensitivity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) RF Coil” Presented in IEEE APS/URSI 2023 Portland,OR, USA.
3. Parisa Lotfi, Navid P. Gandji, Michael Lanagan, Soo-Han Soon, Wei Chen, and Qing X Yang,” Denoising Effect Of Double-Loop Spiral Coil with ultra-High Dielectric Constant Materials for MRI Applications” presented at ISMRM annual meeting 2023 Toronto, Canada.
4. Parisa Lotfi, Soo-Han Soon, Navid P. Gandji, Michael Lanagan, Hannes M. Wiesner, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Wei Chen, and Qing X Yang,”Inductive and capacitive coupling modes of an RF coil to an ultra-High Dielectric Constant(uHDC) disk resonator” accepted to present at ISMRM annual meeting 2023 Toronto, Canada.
5. Parisa Lotfi, Soo Han Soon, Michael Lanagan, Eugene Furman, Xinlian Chen, Xin Li, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Wei Chen, and Qing X Yang,” Parametric Study of High Dielectric Constant Helmet Characterization”, presented in ISMRM annual meeting 2022 London, England, UK.
6. Parisa Lotfi, Soo Han Soon, Michael Lanagan, Eugene Furman, Xinlian Chen, Xin Li, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Wei Chen, and Qing X Yang,” Study of High Dielectric Constant Helmet Characterization”, presented in ISMRM annual meeting 2022 London, England, UK.
7. Christopher T Sica, Parisa Lofti, Sebastian Rupprecht, and Qing X Yang, “Evaluation of an Ultra High Dielectric Constant (uHDC) Package for Enhancement of a Knee Phased Array”, presented in ISMRM annual meeting 2022 London, England, UK.
8. Xinlian Chen, Navid P. Gandji, Christopher T. Sica, Gary W. Yang, Parisa Lotfi, Hannes M Wiesner, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Michael Lanagan, Wei Chen, Qing X Yang, and Xuegang Xin, “Design of ultrahigh dielectric constant uHDC helmet for 3T and its intrinsic resonance modes”, presented in ISMRM annual meeting 2022 London, England, UK.
9. Saber Soltani, Yuhao Wu, Arkaprovo Das, Connor Haney, Ryan J Beneck, Parisa Lotfi, Galestan Mackertich-Sengerdy, Busra Sennik, Ying Zhou, Jesse S Jur, Pingjuan L Werner, Douglas H Werner,” Recent Progress on Full-duplex and Armband Textile Wearable Antennas”, Presented in IEEE APS/URSI 2022 Denver, Colorado, USA.
10. Parisa Lotfi, Saber Soltani, Nima Bayat-Makou, Yuhao Wu, Douglas H Werner, “Planar 40-port Slot Array for Healthcare Applications”, Presented in IEEE APS/URSI 2021 Singapore.
11. Parisa Lotfi, R. D. Murch, A. Khademhosseini and S. R. Shin, “Muscle Actuator Based on Electromagnetic Waves”, Presented in IEEE APS/URSI 2018 Boston, MA, USA.
12. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “Printed High Gain End-fire Beam-Steerable Yagi Antenna”, present (Oral) in IEEE APS/URSI 2017 San Diego, California, USA, July 2017. (Honorable Mention)
13. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “MIMO Antennas for Capsule Endoscope Systems”, Presented (Oral) in IEEE APS/URSI 2016 Puerto Rico, USA.
14. S. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and R. D. Murch, “MIMO Antenna Design with Pixelated Surface for WLAN Applications”, Presented (Oral) in IEEE APS/URSI 2016 Puerto Rico, USA. (Honorable Mention)
15. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “Pattern Reconfigurability of a Printed High Gain Antenna based on a Novel Parasitic Pixels Surface” Presented (Oral) in 16th IEEE (HK) AP/MTT 2015 PG Conf. HKUST, HK. (Best award, 1st runner)
16. S. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and R. D. Murch “Compact MIMO Antenna Design for WLAN Applications”, Presented (Oral) in 16th IEEE (HK) AP/MTT 2015 PG Conf. HKUST, HK.
17. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “Printed High Gain Beam Steerable Patch Antenna using Parasitic Pixel Elements” Presented (Oral) in IEEE APS/URSI 2015 BC, Canada. (Honorable Mention)
18. S. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and R. D. Murch, “Design of Compact Dual-Band Dual-Port WLAN MIMO Antennas using Slots”, Presented (Oral) in IEEE APS/URSI 2015 Vancouver, BC, Canada.
19. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, Parisa Lotfi, G. Dadashzadeh, "Design of WLAN- Rejection Monopole Antenna Using Simple Rectangular Slot in Patch and Bandwidth Enhancement Using to Symmetric Slot in CPW-Fed" Presented (Oral) in 17th Iranian conference on electrical engineering, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
20. Parisa Lotfi, M. N. Azarmanesh, E. Abbaspour-Sani, S. Soltani, "Design of Very Small UWB Monopole Antenna with Reconfigurable Band-Notch Performance" Presented (Oral) in Sixth International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST'2012) Tehran, Iran.


Publications/Journal Papers
1. Jodat, Yasamin; Lotfi, Parisa; Abadi, Parisa; Mun, Ji-Young; Seo, Jungmok; Shin, Eun Ae; Jung, Sung Mi; Lee, Chang Kee; Shin, Su Ryon, “pH-Responsive DNA Nanolinker Conjugated Hybrid Materials for Electrochemcial Microactuator and Biosensor Applications” published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, on Oct 2019.
2. S. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and Ross D. Murch, “Design and Optimization of Multi-Port Pixel Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 2049- 2054, 2018.
3. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “Printed End-Fire Beam-Steerable Pixel Antenna” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3913-3923, 2017.
4. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, and R. D. Murch, “Broadside Beam-Steerable Planar Parasitic Pixel Patch Antenna” Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 4519 - 4524, 2016.
5. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and Ross D. Murch, “A Dual-Band Multi-Port MIMO Slot Antenna for WLAN Applications” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. PP, pp. 1-1, 2016.
6. S. Soltani, Parisa Lotfi, and R. Murch, “A Port and Frequency Reconfigurable MIMO Slot Antenna for WLAN Applications” Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1–1, 2016.
7. Parisa Lotfi, M. Azarmanesh, S. Soltani, “Rotatable Dual Band-Notched UWB/Triple-Band WLAN Reconfigurable Antenna”. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 12, pp. 104-107, 2013.
8. N. Bayatmaku, Parisa Lotfi, M. Azarmanesh, S. Soltani, “Design of Simple Multi-Band Patch Antenna for Mobile Communication Applications Using New E-Shape Fractal” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. vol. 10, pp. 873-875, 2011.
9. Parisa Lotfi, S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, “Triple Band-Notched UWB CPW& Microstrip Line Fed Monopole Antenna Using Broken ∩-Shaped Slot”, AEUE- International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Science Direct, Elsevier vol. 5, pp 728-733, 2011
10. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, Parisa Lotfi, “Design of UWB Monopole Antenna with WiMAX and C and WLAN Bands Notch”, IET Microw. Antennas Propag. vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 1741-1750, 2010
11. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, E. Valikhanloo, Parisa Lotfi, “Design of a Simple Single-Feed DualOrthogonal-Linearly-Polarized Slot Antenna for Concurrent 3.5 GHz WiMAX and 5 GHz WLAN Access Point”. J. of Electromagn. Waves and Appl., vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 1741-1750, 2010
12. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, Parisa Lotfi, “Design of Small ACS-Fed Band Notch UWB Monopole Antenna Using PSO”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters., vol. 52, pp. 1510-1513, 2010
13. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, Parisa Lotfi, G. Dadashzadeh, “Two Novel Very Small Monopole Antennas Having Frequency Band Notch Using DGS for UWB Application”, AEUE- International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Science Direct, Elsevier, vol 65, pp. 87-94, 2011
14. S. Soltani, M. N. Azarmanesh, Parisa Lotfi, “Design of Band Notched CPW-FED Monopole Antenna Using Two Symmetric Parasitic Elements for UWB Applications”, J. of Electromagn. Waves and Appl., vol. 23, pp. 1407-1416, 2009

Honors/Awards

• IEEE/ Mojgan Daneshmand Grants, Issued by The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Jul 2023,Portland,OR,USA.
• Educational Stipend Award from ISMRM (The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine), May 2022, London, England.
• Overseas Research Award (ORA) to visit Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology as a PhD Exchange-Visiting, July 2017- Aug 2018.
• Overseas Research Award (ORA) to visit National University of Singapore as a PhD Exchange-Visiting, May-June 2017.
• Honorable Mention paper award in IEEE APS/URSI 2017 San Diego, California, USA.
• Honorable Mention paper award in IEEE APS/URSI 2016 Puerto Rico, USA.
• Best (1st) paper award in 16th IEEE (HK) AP/MTT 2015 PG Conf. HKUST, HK.
• Research Travel Grant (RTG) to attend in IEEE APS/URSI 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Honorable Mention paper award in IEEE APS/URSI 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• 2014-2016 Full- Hong Kong Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients.