Current Members
Pawan Gaire
Pawan Gaire received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Howard University, Washington, DC, USA in 2019. He was research assistant at the Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA from 2019 to 2022 and received Ph.D. degree from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE in 2025. His research interests include artificial intelligence in computational electromagnetics, antenna design, RF circuit design for wearable applications, and multi-physics modeling. He has previously conducted research in wireless power transfer, miniature multiferroic antenna design, and numerical methods for solving partial differential equations, contributing to advancements across these interdisciplinary areas.
Md Faiyaz Bin Hassan
Md Faiyaz Bin Hassan has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, since Fall 2023. He is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Applied Electromagnetics Lab under the supervision of Dr. Shubhendu Bhardwaj. His research encircles topics such as various computational models for FDTD Electromagnetic Simulations, RF antennas etc. He was awarded the UNL College of Engineering Professional Development Fellowship in Summer 2025. He received his B.Sc. from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh in 2021. As a part of his undergraduate thesis project, Faiyaz studied the Surface Plasmon Resonance phenomenon in photonic crystal fibers and their applications in sensor technology.
H.M. Arifur Rahman
H.M. Arifur Rahman received his BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) in 2016 and his MSc in the same discipline from North South University (NSU), Bangladesh, in 2019. Apart from some short-term contractual jobs in the field of engineering, he continued his research practice after his MSc and joined as a full-time research assistant in the department of electrical and computer engineering at North South University in 2021, where he worked until July 2024. During this period, he was involved in multiple research projects on intensive antenna research, including arrays, implantable and conformal textile antennas for wireless body area networks (WBAN), and body-centric wireless communication (BCWC).In August 2024, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working as a graduate research assistant and doing research on multiplexers and advanced antenna techniques. His research interests include advanced antenna designing techniques, electromagnetics, wireless power transfer, and satellite communication. He remains a young, active researcher, with 20+ peer-reviewed journals and conference articles.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9BbxwL4AAAAJ
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/arif-rahman-gdg
Zecheng Li (Research Intern)
Zecheng is currently working as research intern at the AWARE lab. Originally from China, Zecheng Li earned both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a software developer at Hancock Software. He has a strong interest in data structures, algorithms, and staying current with emerging technologies. In the spring of 2024, Zecheng joined Dr. Bhardwaj’s lab—an opportunity that followed his attendance at a symposium—where his research focuses on antenna design and RF engineering. Outside the lab, he is passionate about fitness and recently completed the 2025 Lincoln Marathon with a time of 4 hours and 10 minutes.
