Justin Kasemodel
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Justin Kasemodel grew up in Gillette, WY. He received a BSEE from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) in 2006. During that time, he was a NASA Space Grant Fellow and undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory for Applied Electromagnetics and Communications where his senior research paper, A Direct Write Antenna for Wearable Applications, won second place at the IEEE Region 5 student paper competition. Justin came to Ohio for advanced studies after an internship at Ball Aerospace’s Low Observable Antenna Group in Boulder, CO and JT3-EG&G Technical Services Radio Frequency Research and Development branch in Las Vegas, NV.
Justin’s past achievements include: an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctorial Research Award in 2009, a second place award in the 2009 John D. and Alice Nelson Kraus Memorial Student Poster Competition and a third place student paper award at the 2008 Antenna Measurements and Techniques Associations (AMTA) conference for his paper, A Measurement Setup for Characterizing Antenna on an Infinite Ground Plane from 1-18GHz. He has performed UHF-Ku outdoor and indoor antenna measurements, material measurements, radar cross section measurements as well as on-site EMI/EMC measurements for the US Navy. Justin currently advises a high school honors student and an Ohio State University senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering student for his honors undergrad thesis. In 2009, he completed his MSEE degree with an Interdisciplinary Specialization in Engineering Management which included several MBA level courses.
Justin’s research interests include wideband antenna design and measurement techniques, reduced size continuous coverage adaptive GPS arrays, electrically small antennas, body worn antennas and the design, fabrication and measurement of planar ultra wideband low-profile phased array apertures capable of wide-angle scanning. He is mentored by Dr. Chi-Chih Chen and Prof. John Volakis. Justin was funded as a Northrop Grumman fellow for two years, and is currently funded though an Air Force Research Lab Fellowship where he’s developing an L-band space based phased array element and an X-band planar low-cost phased array for the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency.
Justin is scheduled to graduate in Aug. 2010 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a U.S born citizen with clearance.
