Dean Y. Arakaki
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
California State Polytechnic University
United States of America
Biography
Dean Arakaki joined the Cal Poly faculty in 2001 and teaches courses in electromagnetics, RF systems, wireless communications, and antennas. Current interdepartmental projects involve students and faculty in both the biology and physics departments in developing algae biofuel culturing and processing methods (Boeing sponsored) and neutrino detecting antenna probe design for the ANITA and GNO (Antarctic and Greenland) programs. He also works on RFID tag analysis, antenna test chamber equipment (organic absorbers, positioner design, chamber layout) and EMC testing, and microstrip patch antenna design and analysis projects. Summer positions include the Spacecraft Antennas Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA simulating and measuring reflectarray antennas (parallel supercomputers, anechoic chamber measurements) in the summers of 2002 and 2003. Dual reflector system analysis in the Radar Analysis Branch, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC was completed in the summer of 2004. RF communications systems simulations and analysis (US Marines) was completed at Oceanit Laboratories, Honolulu, Hawaii in the summers of 2006 and 2008. Dean Arakaki received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2000 from Penn State University, University Park, PA. Prior to teaching at Cal Poly, he worked in the Antenna, Microwave, and Systems Department at Raytheon Systems Company in Goleta, CA.
Research Interest
Computational Electromagnetics, Antennas, RF Systems
Publications
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Lubiano AA, Brito CR, Hui N, Arakaki DY. Reflectivity characterization and identification of primary reflection path in anechoic chamber analysis.
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Yu W, Arakaki D, Mittra R. On the solution of a class of large body problems with full or partial circular symmetry by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 2000 Dec;48(12):1810-7.
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Arakaki DY, Werner DH, Mittra R. A technique for analyzing radiation from conformal antennas mounted on arbitrarily-shaped conducting bodies. Journal of electromagnetic waves and applications. 2000 Jan 1;14(11):1505-23.
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Hempy AJ, Civerolo MP, Arakaki DY. Design and Assembly of an Antenna Demonstration System [Education Column]. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 2012 Apr;54(2):209-19.
