Michael Andrello

Biography

Michael Andrello received his BS degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2017, with a major Material’s Science and Engineering, and a minor in Nanoscience. He has received industry experience working as a Materials Engineer for the Air Force under the PALACE Acquire (PAQ) program since July 2017, and has been pursuing his MS degree in Electrical Engineering at SUNY University at Buffalo under the guidance of Dr. Josep M. Jornet since August 2018. His current research interests are in the areas of graphene-based plasmonics, antenna design, beamforming arrays, and terahertz band communications.

Research

He started his research working on a team at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, NY, applying his material science knowledge to help estimate the time-scale associated with electrostatic doping of graphene nanoribbons. More recently, he has been modeling and simulating graphene-based nano-antennas and phase modulators to be used in novel plasmonic array architectures for THz band communications.

Other Publications

Conferences

1. M. Jornet, N. Thawdar, E. Woo, M. Andrello III, “Temporal dynamics of frequency-tunable graphene-based plasmonic grating structures for ultra-broadband terahertz communication”, in Proc. of Disruptive Technologies in Sensors and Sensor Systems, pp. 1020608, May 2017.
2. Thawdar, M. Andrello III, J.M. Jornet, “Modeling and performance analysis of a reconfigurable plasmonic nano-antenna array architecture for terahertz communications”, in Proc. of the 5th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, pp. 20, September 2018.
3. Andrello III, A. Singh, N. Thawdar, J.M. Jornet, “Dynamic beamforming algorithms for ultra-directional terahertz communication systems based on graphene-based plasmonic nano-antenna arrays”, in Proc. of 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1558-1563, October 2018.