Directory profile for Dr. Ahmad N Darwish

Ahmad Darwish is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Alabama. Prior to that, he served as a senior research associate at Purdue University. His research interests focus on RF systems architecture development, wideband antennas and sensing front ends, RF PCB design, and high-power microwave chain integration with protection and measurement validation. His application areas include smart RF sensing for condition monitoring, particularly partial discharge diagnostics, and microwave-heating platform development for industrial process control, including microwave-assisted freeze-drying. Beyond his academic experience, Darwish is a co-founder and former CTO of LyoWave Inc., where he developed a full-stack RF platform used in microwave-assisted freeze-drying (RF chain, passives, antennas, and embedded control). Darwish received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE) Conference for “Partial Discharge Localization in GIS Using Various Learning Algorithms.”