Dr Shaghik Atakaramians | UNSW Research

Fields of Research (FoR)

Terahertz physics, Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave), Engineering electromagnetics, Antennas and propagation

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Biography

Shaghik Atakaramians is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Sydney.

Shaghik Atakaramians was a Scientia Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from 2018-2022. She was awarded ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2014 on Terahertz metamaterial waveguides. She worked at the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) at the University of Sydney from 2011-2017 as a postdoctoral and research fellow. She also worked for The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) 2012-2014.

Shaghik Atakaramians received her PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with a Certificate of Merit from the Dean in 2011. Her PhD thesis has won the Gertrude Rohan Memorial Prize and 2011 University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding research. She received her Bachelor's degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) and the Master's degree from University of Tehran.

Research Interest

Shaghik Atakaramians carries out and leads interdisciplinary research in the field of Electrical Engineering and Physics. Her current interests are:

Terahertz (THz) radiation and its application
THz waveguides/fibres
THz metawaveguides in particular topologically protected waveguides
THz planar waveguide based devices for wireless communications (hybrid and reflection free)
Electromagnetics
Metamaterial, metasurfaces and metadevices

My Grants

2019-2020	New Type Fibre with Ultra-broadband emission” Huawei Technologies (CN), G Peng, Y Lou, S Atakaramians, S Wei
2018-2019	UNSW Learning and Teaching Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems and Algorithms; V Sethu, W Hu, A Seneviratne, J Epps, S Atakaramians, M Hassan, S Kanhere
2018 – 2021	UNSW Scientia Fellowship
2015 - 2018	A novel scintillating optical fibre array for cancer imaging and therapy; Z Kuncic, P Vial, S Atakaramians, S Meikle; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP),
2014 – 2018	ARC DECRA Fellowship DE140100614, Terahertz metamaterial waveguides: a platform to create the next generation of compact THz devices
2007 – 2010	Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS), University of Adelaide Scholarship
2006	Visiting Scholarship, Adelaide T-ray group, The University of Adelaide

My Awards

2020	UNSW Academic Women in Leadership (AWIL) Program
2019	Eng Future Women Leaders Conference Award (Monash University, University of Melbourne and UNSW)
2019	OSA (Optical Society of America) Senior Member Designation
2019	UNSW Women in Engineering Visitor Funding Scheme
2017	RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow (unable to accept the award)
2016-2017	OSA recognition certificate for dedication to quality scientific peer-review
2015-2016	OSA recognition certificate for dedication to quality scientific peer-review
2012	Faculty of Science Fellowship for assistance with childcare expenses for travel and attendance at conferences, The University of Sydney
2011	The Adelaide University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding PhD research Dean's Merit Award for PhD thesis, University of Adelaide Gertrude Rohan Prize for PhD thesis, University of Adelaide
2009	Winner of the best poster presentation at Research Expo, University of Adelaide
2008	Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network Overseas Travel Fellowship IEEE South Australia Travel Assistance Award Research Abroad Scholarship, The University of Adelaide
2007	Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Award for CLEO
2000	“Outstanding Graduate,” E.E. Dept. of IUST, Tehran, Iran
1999	“The Best Student of the Year,” E.E. Dept. of IUST, Tehran, Iran “The Best Job Trainee,” E.E. Dept. of IUST, Tehran, Iran

My Research Activities

3D printed THz topological waveguides

Single-layer THz metasurface

THz pyramidal horn coupler for coupling free-space beam into planar waveguides

THz polarisation maintaining subwavelength filters

Hybrid integrated THz photonics crystal waveguides

Towards identification of grass seed infestation using THz radiation

THz metawaveguides

THz dielectric fibres: microwires and porous fibres

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Development of reflection-free integrated terahertz devices for next generation of wireless communication
Hybrid planar terahertz devices with multiplexing capability for next generation of wireless communication
Identifying grass seed infestation in Australian Sheep using terahertz radiation

Interested applicants please email me (s.atakaramians at unsw.edu.au) your CV and contact information of three references.

Currently supervising

Project title	Research Student/Assistant
Single-layer terahertz metasurfaces for beam-steering	Qigejian Wang
Terahertz on-chip devices for integrated system	Muhammad Talal Ali Khan
THz pyramidal horn coupler	Daniyal Shah
Identification of grass seed infestation using THz radiation	Sonali Thigale
Dielectric waveguides for THz communication	Noman Siddique