Prabhakar H. Pathak, Professor


 Campus Address:
215 ElectroScience Laboratory
1320 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

phone: (614) 292-6097
fax: (614) 292-7297
email: pathak.2@osu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in electrical engineering, 1973, M.Sc. in electrical engineering, 1970, The Ohio State University; B.S. in electrical engineering, 1965, Louisiana State University; B.Sc. in physics, 1962, University of Bombay (India).

Research Interests

Analysis of electromagnetic antenna scattering and guided wave problems.

Biography

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 geometrical as well as in the electrical properties of a surface; the latter category includes surface wave structures. In addition, he has 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.

He served a three year term beginning in 1991 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.

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