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Om P. Gandhi

Professor



University of Utah
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3280
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9206

Phone: (801) 581-7743
Fax: (801) 581-5281
Office: MEB 3280
E-mail: gandhi@ece.utah.edu


Background:

Education

  • Sc.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • B.S., Physics, University of Delhi

Honors

  • State of Utah Governor's Medal for Excellence in Science and Technology, 2002
  • Microwave Pioneer Award of IEEE – Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, 2001
  • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 1996
  • d'Arsonval Medal of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, 1995
  • Fellow, IEEE, 1979
  • Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1979


 

 


Research Interests:

Development of numerical techniques for electromagnetic (EM) absorption and scattering calculations from power line to microwave frequencies; software for design of personal wireless devices including low SAR antennas; numerical and experimental techniques for compliance testing of wireless communication devices; microwave engineering and applications.



Publications

Books

O. P. Gandhi, Editor, Biological Effects and Medical Applications of Electromagnetic Energy, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990.

Book Chapters

O. P. Gandhi, "FDTD in Bioelectromagnetics: Safety Assessment and Medical Applications," Chapter 11, pp. 613-651 in Advances in Computational Electromagnetics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, edited by A. Taflove, Artech House, Dedham, MA 1998

J. C. Lin and O. P. Gandhi, "Computational Methods for Predicting Field Intensities," Chapter 9, pp. 337-402 in Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, 2nd Edition, C. Polk and E. Postow, editors, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL 1996.

Journal Articles

A. D. Tinniswood, C. M. Furse and O. P. Gandhi, "Computations of SAR Distributions for Two Anatomically-Based Models of the Human Head Using CAD Files of Commercial Telephones and the Parallelized FDTD Code," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 46, pp. 829-833, June 1998.

G. Lazzi and O. P. Gandhi, "On Modeling and Personal Dosimetry of Cellular Telephone Helical Antennas with the FDTD Code," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 46, pp. 525-530, April 1998.

O. P. Gandhi, "Some Bioelectromagnetics Research at the University of Utah: Acceptance Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the d'Arsonval Medal," Bioelectromagnetics, Vol. 17, pp. 3-9, 1996.

O. P. Gandhi and C. M. Furse, "Currents Induced in the Human Body for Exposure to Ultrawideband Pulses," IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 39(2), pp. 174-180, May 1997.

O. P. Gandhi, G. Lazzi and C. M. Furse, "Electromagnetic Absorption in the Human Head and Neck for Mobile Telephones at 835 and 1900 MHz," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 44, pp. 1884-1897, October 1996.

University of Utah • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
50 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 3280 MEB • Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9206
Phone: (801) 581-6941 Fax: (801) 581-5281

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