Welcome to EMAGINE Lab (Applied Electromagnetics for Intelligent and Secured Systems), the research group of Dr. Duc Pham in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
At EMAGINE, we advance the frontiers of applied electromagnetics to enable the next generation of intelligent, secure, and trustworthy wireless systems. Our research bridges fundamental electromagnetic theory with cutting-edge engineering to address emerging challenges in antennas, RF systems, wireless communications, sensing, artificial intelligence, and hardware cybersecurity.
Our research is centered around two complementary themes. The first focuses on developing high-performance electromagnetic and RF systems that improve efficiency, reconfigurability, adaptability, and intelligence for future wireless and cyber-physical applications. The second investigates hardware-based cybersecurity for wireless infrastructures, where intrinsic electromagnetic and RF characteristics are leveraged to establish secure device authentication and resilient physical-layer protection against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
Interested in joining EMAGINE Lab?
We are actively recruiting highly motivated Ph.D., M.S., and undergraduate students, as well as visiting scholars and research collaborators. If you are passionate about applied electromagnetics, wireless technologies (i.e., antenna, RF sensors, and other EM devices), and hardware cybersecurity, we invite you to contact us at ducpham.mmw@gmail.com and become part of our growing research team to establish the future of intelligent and secured electromagnetic systems.
News
- Duc is joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor.
- Duc received the 2025 University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Postdoctoral Small Scholarship Award.
- Duc started serving as a Chapter Officer for IEEE Chicago APS/MTT-S Joint Chapter (AP03/MTT17). We sincerely invite all local researchers, industry professionals, and students in the antennas, propagation, and microwave fields to join our upcoming technical sessions and collaborative network.
- Our work has been selected as Finalist for ICEAA – IEEE APWC 2025 Young Scientist Award for 2025 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) and 2025 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), jointly held on 8-12 September 2025 in Palermo, Italy. We sincerely invite you for attending the presentation: "Physically Unclonable Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces for Cyber-Physical Security in Smart Wireless Networks".
- Duc received the 2025 University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Postdoctoral Travel Award for attending 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI) in Ottawa, Canada. We sincerely invite you for attending the presentation: "RF-Fingerprinted Reconfigurable-Intelligent-Surface for Countering Hardware Spoofing Attacks".
- Our work has been selected as Finalist in Young Professional Competition of 2025 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. We sincerely invite you for attending the presentation: "A wearable self-powered harmonic-backscattering SWIPT tag for avalanche rescue operation".
- Our work has been selected as Finalist in Best Paper Award of 2024 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) in Incheon, South Korea. We sincerely invite you for attending the presentation: "Shared-aperture millimeter-wave conical-beam antenna with K/Ka/E-band full spatial coverage for 6G space-air-ground communication".
- Duc joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
- Duc successfully defensed the PhD thesis of "Millimeter-wave aerodynamic antennas with high-performance specialized conical-coverage for hierarchical non-terrestrial networks".
- Our work on "60 GHz electronically tunable leaky-wave antenna based on annular-surface-plasmon-polariton media for continuous azimuth scanning" has been recognized as the Top Accessed Papers of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation for November 2022.
- Our work has been presented as an Invited talk in 2022 Global Symposium on Millimeter-wave & Terahertz (GSMM) in Seoul, South Korea. We sincerely invite you for attending the presentation: "Conical beam antennas for millimeter-wave applications".
- Duc received Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Academic Achievements (2019-2021), awarded by Vietnamese Students' Association and Embassy of The Socialist Republic of Vietnam in South Korea.
- Duc received Woori Bank Scholarship for 2021 Outstanding Student Researcher, awarded by Woori Bank in the cooperation with Embassy of The Socialist Republic of Vietnam in South Korea.
- Our work on "High gain and wideband metasurfaced magnetoelectric antenna for WiGig applications" has been recognized as the Top Accessed Papers of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation for February 2021.