About Us

Our Mission

1. To contribute to the theory and practice of wireless communications system design with particular emphasis on propagation and channel modelling, electromagnetic compatibility, and development of low-profile antennas.

2. To support Canadian industry, government, and academia by addressing research problems of direct and immediate interest to them, often under the aegis of collaborative research agreements.

3. To train, through both research and course work, highly qualified personnel (HQP) in wireless communications systems design who will meet the staffing needs of Canadian industry, government, and academia.

4. To serve both the university and the community through participation in committees, editorial boards, and related bodies.

Our Facilities

The Radio Science Laboratory maintains a Research Office (MCLD 442), an Antennas and Propagation Lab (MCLD 500) and an Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab (MCLD 132).

Our major facilities include a mobile test van, a Ka-band satellite receiving terminal, roof-top antenna towers, a roof-top antenna range, a screen room and an anechoic chamber. Our well-equipped Antennas and Propagation Lab allows us to turn high performance spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, vector signal generators and vector signal analyzers into a variety of narrowband, wideband, UWB and MIMO channel sounders.

We thank the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Nokia Mobile Phones, Sierra Wireless, MDA Corporation, and Norsat International for their generous infrastructure support.

Our People

Prof. David G. Michelson

Arghavan Emami-Forooshani, PhD candidate

Pooyan Abouzar Djirandehi, PhD student

Sina Mashayekhi, PhD student

Shahzad Bashir, PhD candidate (part-time, T-Mobile)

Kyle Sivertsen, MASc candidate

Alex Corbett, MASc candidate

Robert White, MASc candidate

Andrew Mei, MASc candidate

Boubacar Diallo, MASc candidate (part-time, BC Hydro)

Adam Stefanski, MASc candidate (part-time, Icron Technologies)

Sol Lancashire, MASc candidate (part-time, BC Hydro)

Stanley Lee, NSERC undergraduate student research assistant

Simon Howkins, Engineering Intern

Andy Tsai, Engineering Intern

Ahad Shafiq, Engineering Intern

Carol Lee, Engineering Intern


a place of mind, The University of British Columbia

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

UBC Radio Science Lab
2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Tel: 604.822.3544
Fax: 604.822.5949
E-mail: david.michelson@ubc.ca

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