Ramesh Abhari received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University, Montreal, Canada as an assistant professor in June 2003. She is currently an Associate Professor at McGill University and a senior member of IEEE. She is a member of the IEEE Press Editorial board and founder and chair of the IEEE Montreal CPMT chapter.
         Dr. Abhari has pioneered the application of electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures for suppression of the power/ground noise and received the student paper award at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium in June 2002 for this work. Recently, her students have received student paper awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS 2009), IEEE Electrical Performance and Electronic Packaging conference (EPEP 2007), and International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2006).
         Dr. Abhari is a member of the technical committee of the IEEE workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects, and is a member of the steering committee of 2010 IEEE International Antenna and Propagation Symposium. Her research interests include novel interconnect and RF component design, Signal and Power integrity in modern microelectronic systems electromagnetic bandgap structures, integrated antennas and RFID systems.