Rate My Professor Karu Esselle

Professor Karu Esselle serves as Professor and Visiting Professor in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University. His research focuses on antennas and propagation, metasurface design, beam-steering antennas, millimeter-wave antennas, ultra-wideband antennas, frequency selective surfaces, wireless integrated circuits, and water-filled antennas. He has led significant projects as Principal Chief Investigator, including High-power analogue beam steering at mm-wave frequencies using near-field phase transformation method, Closing the Design Gap in Wireless Integrated Circuits, Next-generation high-performance millimeter-wave antennas for wireless body area networks, and CSIRO Postgraduate scholarship initiatives. As Chief Investigator, he contributes to the Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics (SmartSat CRC). His work has resulted in practical applications, such as Macquarie-designed antennas utilized in space missions, highlighted in university media coverage.

Esselle has held key leadership positions at Macquarie University, including Director of the WiMed Research Centre from 2016 to 2018, Past Associate Dean for Higher Degree Research in the ICS Division, and Chair of the Postgraduate Coursework Program Committee in the School of Engineering. He chairs the Board of Management of the Australian Antenna Measurement Facility (AusAMF). A Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE) and Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), he was an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2017 and chaired its Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee in 2018 and 2019. Other roles include elected voting member of the IEEE AP-S Administrative Committee (2015-2017), Chair of IEEE New South Wales Section (2016-2017), member of IEEE AP-S Field Awards Committee and New Technologies Committee, and member of IEEE MTT Society TC-10 Technical Committee. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Access. Notable publications include "3-D printable synthetic metasurface to realize 2-D beam-steering antenna" (2023, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation), "Advancements, challenges, and prospects of water-filled antennas" (2023, IEEE Access), "Making UWB antennas unidirectional: phase coherence with an ultra-wide band frequency selective surface reflector" (2024), "Enhancing radiation characteristics of antenna arrays over a sparse area" (2024), and "Characterization of materials to realize metasurface design through 3D printing" (2024). He has produced over 600 research outputs across 35 projects.