Garret McKerricher obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim at Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuit Technology (IMPACT) Research Group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, Garret is working as a Scientist at Electroninks Incorporated in Austin, Texas.

Research Interests

Garret's research interests included ​Antenna design, Radio frequency and millimeter-wave Circuits, Printed electronics, RFID and sensor design, Wireless localization, navigation and communications techniques.

Education Profile

  • ​B.SC. in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • M.SC. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Selected Publications

​G. McKerricher, J. Wight, “Design of a Shaped Beam RFID Reader Antenna” Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference (ANTEM-AMEREM), Ottawa Canada, July 2010.
G. McKerricher, J. Wight, “Quadrifilar Helix antenna for UHF RFID” Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium(APS URSI), Toronto Canada, July 2010.