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Vadim V. Yakovlev

Research Associate Professor

Office: Stratton Hall, 104C
Phone: +1-508-831-5495
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
vadim@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Personal Web Site

Educational Background

• M.S., Saratov State University, USSR/Russia, 1979
• Ph.D., Institute of Radio Engineering & Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 1991

Research & Teaching Interests

Computational methods of optimization; artificial neural networks for optimization and inverse problems; coupled boundary value problems; computational electromagnetics; CAD and modeling-based optimization of microwave systems. Optimization; numerical methods; linear algebra; calculus.

IQP Advising Interests

Interaction of electromagnetic fields with materials; wireless sstems for solar power transmission; impact of new technologies

Recent Publications

• Neural network optimization of complex microwave structures with a reduced number of full-wave analyses (with E.K. Murphy), Intern. J. of RF & Microwave Computer-Aided Engng, vol. 21, no 2, pp. 279-287, 2011.

• CAD technique for microwave chemistry reactors with energy efficiency optimized for different reactants (with E.K. Murphy), ACES Journal, vol. 45, no 12, pp. 1108-1117, 2011.

• Computer modeling of microwave heating processes for food preservation (with T.V. Koutchma), In: M.M. Farid, Ed., Mathematical Modeling of Food Processing, CRC Press, pp. 625-657, 2010.

• Waveguide microwave imaging: neural network reconstruction of functional 2-D permittivity profiles (with A. V. Brovko and E. K. Murphy), IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 57, no 2, pp. 406-414, 2009.

• Waveguide microwave imaging: spherical inclusion in a dielectric sample (with A. V. Brovko, E. K. Murphy, M. Rother, and H. P. Schuchmann), IEEE Microwave and Wireless Comp. Lett., vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 647-649, 2008.

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Honors & Awards

• Highest Quality Workshop Award, from 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Boston, MA, 2009
• Certificate of Inclusion in the 13th Edition of The International Who's Who of Intellectuals, from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1998

 

Professional Societies/Memberships

• IMPI (International Microwave Power Institute), since 1996; member of Technical Advisory Board, since 2005.
• AMPERE (Association for Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education), since 2000.
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), since 2005; Senior Member, since 2008.
• MIT Electromagnetics Academy, since 2006.
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2007 - 2009.
• ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society), since 2009.