Biography
John P.
Gianvittorio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
in the United States
in January of 1976. He received his BSEE from Drexel
University in Philadelphia
in 1998 after completing a 5 year co-operative education program that included
three six month co-ops in various telecommunication and defense electronic
companies. At Drexel
University, John is a member of
Alpha Pi Lambda. John is also a member
of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, engineering and electrical engineering honor
societies. He received his MSEE
from the University of California,
Los Angeles with his thesis titled:
"Fractal Antennas: Design, Characterization and Applications." John was awarded the Outstanding MS
Student Award for 1999-2000 from the Electrical Engineering Department,
UCLA. He has worked in the Antenna
Research, Analysis, and Measurement Laboratory at UCLA under the direction of
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii since September of 1998 toward a Ph.D. received in
September 2003 He has worked on
various projects involving fractal antennas including fabrication and
measurements of antenna elements and phased arrays. John has presented his research at
various antenna conferences. He was also awarded a Travel Grant for Young
Investigators from Spike Broadband Systems, Inc. in 2002 and the Best
Presentation Award in the 2002 UCLA Electrical Engineering Annual Research
Review. In 2002, John has
presented his research and antenna fundamentals as a guest lecturer at the
National University of Defense Technology in Changsha,
P.R. China. John also had the
opportunity to research for three months starting in April of 2001 at the
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona,
Spain with the Department
of Signal Theory and Communications under the direction of Professor Jordi
Romeu in the area of fractal frequency selective surfaces. John has also worked
in conjunction with the MEMS research group at UCLA in a project combining electromagnetics
and MEMS technologies. He is
currently the Director of San Diego Design Center for Ethertronics, Inc.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)