Prabhakar H Pathak

Phone

(614) 292-6097

Fax

(614) 292-7297

Address

The ElectroScience Laboratory
The Ohio State University
1320 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212

Email

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Education

Prabhakar Pathak received a BS in physics from the University of Bombay in 1962, a BSEE in 1965 from Louisiana State University, his MSEE in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1973, both graduate degrees from The Ohio State University. He has been at the ESL since he finished his schooling. He served a three year term as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is also a member of the U.S. Commission B of the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI) and of Sigma Xi.

Research Interests

Dr. Pathak has primarily dealt with the development of uniform asymptotic solutions which improve and extend the geometrical theory of diffraction for solving antenna and scattering problems associated with complex structures, such as aircraft and spacecraft. Some of this research has also been involved with an analysis of the problems of diffraction by discontinuities in the geometric as well as in the electrical properties of a surface; the latter category includes surface wave structures. In addition, has had been involved with the development of efficient hybrid methods for analysis of conformal antennas as well as RCS problems, and more recently for dealing with EM wave propagation in shipboard and urban environments. Currently, his work continues to be in the areas of asymptotic and hybrid methods, and in the development of uniform time domain ray solutions. He is also involved in the development of Gaussian Beam Techniques for antennas and other applications.