Prof Djuradj Budimir

Biography

Dr. Budimir received the Dipl. Ing. and M. Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. In March l994, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Kings College London, University of London, UK. Since January 1997, he has been with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster, London, UK, where he is now a Reader of wireless communications. Dr. Budimir is Head of the Wireless Communications Research Group at UoW and a Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade. He has published more than 350 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, four books/book chapters and software's (the book Generalized Filter Design by Computer Optimization, ISBN 0-89006-579-9, Atrtech House Books, March 1998, and the Software and User’s Manual EPFIL-Waveguide E-plane Filter Design (Artech House, 2000) and a book chapter in Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering (Wiley, 2005) over 16 Invited papers/lectures, over 19 Seminars/Workshops, one TV program (BBC World Service programme on Microwaves, 17 Nov. 2010) in the field of RF/microwave and mmWave wireless systems and technologies. He has won awards for his journal papers. Dr. Budimir is a wireless RF, micro-/mm-wave circuits and systems expert of over 25 years’ experience as an academic. His expertise includes design of circuits from RF through uWave/mmWave to Terahertz frequencies for 4G, 5G, B5G and 6G wireless communications, WLAN, WPT, wireless sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) and biomedical applications. He serves as an Associate Editor for IET Electronic Letters (Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2020), He was a local co-chair of European Microwave Week Conference (EuMW2016)/European Antenna and Propagation Conference (EuCAP2018), will be TPC co-chair and a local arrangement chair of European Microwave Week Conference (EuMW2021)/ and member of the TPC of several conferences. He is a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, a senior Member of IEEE, a Member of IET and a Chartered Engineer. He has supervised 22 PhD/4 MRes/over 100 MSc theses through to completion and currently supervising 2 PhD theses as the main supervisor (DoS). 

Research Interests

Led by Dr. Djuradj Budimir the Wireless Communications Research Group (WCRG) has been operational since 1998 and during that time was submitted by the University to three Research Assessments including REF-2014. The Wireless Communications Research Group (https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/wireless-communications-research-group) was established to investigate new lines of research which can readily be transferred to industry. We are based within the Faculty of Science and Technology. Our research on wireless communications is a recognised world leader in the advanced design of circuits and subsystems from RF through uWave/mm-Wave to Terahertz frequencies for 4G, 5G, B5G and 6G wireless communications, WLAN, UWB, wireless sensors, Internet-of-Things (IoT), M2M and biomedical applications. In addition, members of the group deal with the development of selected aspects of the underlying theory of signals and systems for a wide range of engineering applications and design, development and improvement of efficient computational intelligent algorithms for various applications in computer engineering. More specifically, it is related to intelligent analysis of data for modelling, classification and control. The group has produced numerous peer-reviewed papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions and other prestigious journals and conferences. The group has very comprehensive facilities including the latest RF, microwave and mm-wave wireless communication test and measurement equipment. The group is involved into an extensive national and international collaboration. The activities are sponsored by EPSRC, EU, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Nuffield Foundation. 

Main Research Interests are: 

• IoT & 5G Wireless Network & System Design
• Advanced design of circuits and subsystems from RF through uWave/mm-Wave to Terahertz frequencies for 4G, 5G, B5G and 6G wireless communications, WLAN, UWB, wireless sensors, Internet-of-Things (IoT), M2M and biomedical applications. 
• Electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure in downlink of 5G wireless networks
• Numerical electromagnetics (i.e. electromagnetic modelling and simulation of planar, quasi-planar, waveguide structures and graphene devices);
• Design of compact tunable and switchable filters and filtennas for multiband and multistandard wireless transceivers.
• Wireless power transmission and Wireless energy harvesting;
• Wireless and electromagnetics in medicine;
• Compensation of nonlinear distortion in mobile broadband wireless transmitters.

Research Grants:

EPSRC:

A 2-year EPSRC funded project, EPSRC Grant Reference: GR/M58634/01, “Waveguide Filters with Improved Stopband Performance and Novel Antenna Filters for Millimeter-wave Applications”, Principal investigator Dr. D. Budimir (University of Westminster). Start Month – End Month (Duration): 04 May 1999 - 03 May 2001,

A 3-year EPSRC Case Studentship Award Reference: GR/00312760, “Novel 3D Multilayer Passive MIC and MMIC Components for Microwave and Millimeter-wave Applications”, Principal investigator Dr. D. Budimir (University of Westminster), Start Month – End Month (Duration): 09 Oct. 2000 – 08 Oct. 2003. 

The Royal Society: 

The Royal Society Fellowship; European Science Exchange Programme (ESEP), Adaptive Error Control Schemes for Software Radio”, March 2000.  

European Commission: 

A 4-year European Project; EUROWEB: European Research and Educational Collaboration with Western Balkan, Grant Ref: 204625-1-2011-1-SE-EMA21, Start Month – End Month (Duration): 15 July 2011 – 14 July 2015. 

UGC - UKIERI 2016. 

UK Lead Partner: Dr. Djuradj Budimir, Wireless Communications Research Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering, DCDI, University of Westminster

India Lead Partner: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India 

Project Title: Antenna Systems for 5G Applications 

Duration: 42 months: Start Date 01/04/2017; End Date 30/09/2020 

Research Degree Supervision/PhD student supervision 

I have had the honour to supervise all these research students.

1. Mr. G. Goussetis, EPSRC Research Associate and F/T PhD Student (Oct. 1999-Completed 2002; was lecturer and a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow. Now a Professor, Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK., 

2. Ms. N. Males-Ilic, F/T PhD Student (Oct. 2000-Completed 2003; now a Professor at University of Nis, Serbia) 

3. Mr. G. Shen, F/T PhD Student (Feb. 2001-Completed 2004)

4. Ms. L. Lalehparvar, EPSRC studentship, F/T PhD Student (Oct. 2000-Completed 2004)

5. Mr. A. Shelkovnikov, F/T PhD Student (Oct. 2002-Completed 2006)

6. Mr. H. Koulouzis, F/T PhD Student (Oct. 2002-Completed 2007)

7. Mr. N. Suntheralingam, F/T PhD Student (Feb. 2006-Completed 2009)

8. Mr. D. Draskovic, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2006-Completed 2009)

9. Mr. D. Bondar, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2006-Completed 2009)

10. Mr. D. Zayniyev, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2006-Completed 2010)

11. Mr. O. Globokov, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2007-Completed 2011)

12. Mr. M. Borenovic, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2007-Completed 2011)

13. Mr. L. Athukorala, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2008- Completed 2011)

14. Ms. M. Vaskovic, F/T PhD student (Feb. 2010 – Completed 2014)

15. Mr. K. Rabbi, F/T PhD student (Feb. 2010- Completed 2014)

16. Ms. K. Chakrabarty, F/T PhD student (Oct. 2010 – Completed 2014)

17. Mr. M. Cavarkapa, F/T PhD Student (Feb. 2011 – Completed 2014)

18. Mr. N. Mohotige, F/T PhD student (Feb. 2011 – Completed 2015)

19. Ms. M. Bozic, F/T PhD Student, (Oct 2011- Completed 2015),

20. Mr. W. Ahmad, F/T PhD Student (Sept 2012- Completed 2016)

21. Mr. U. Jankovic, F/T PhD student (Jan. 2014 – Completed 2018)

22. Mr. Oludotun Olukoya, F/T PhD student (Sept. 2014 – Completed 2018)

Current PhD students (DoS): 

23. Mr. Mioljub Jovanovic, F/T PhD student (Sept. 2018 – present)

Current PhD students (2nd Supervisor): 

Mr Hikmat Darawsheh

UKIERI/EuroWeb PhD students:

1. Mr. B. Bukvic, EuroWeb PhD student, (Oct. 2012 – Oct. 2014)

2. Ms. J. Misic, EuroWeb PhD student, (Oct. 2012 – Oct. 2014)

3. Ms. S. Spasojevic, EuroWeb PhD student (Sep. 2014 – March 2015)

4. Mr. Shakti Singh Chauhan, UKIERI PhD student (June 2017 – June 2019)

5. Ms. Sriparna De_UKIERI PhD student (June 2018) 

MRes students:

1. Ms. A. Anastasijevic, EuroWeb MRes student (Dec. 2012 – Feb. 2014)

2. Ms. D. Coja, EuroWeb MRes student (Dec. 2012 – Feb. 2014)

3. Mr. U. Jankovic, EuroWeb MRes student (Nov. 2012 – Jan. 2014)

4. Ms. J. Mijuskovic, EuroWeb MRes student (Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2014)

Publications:

• Books/Book chapters and software: 4
• Refereed journal papers and letters: 172
• Refereed conference papers: 381
• Keynote speaker/Invited papers/lectures: 22
• Seminars/workshops/posters: 24
• TV programmes (BBC): D. Budimir, L. Athukorala and K. Chakrabaty, BBC World Service programme on Microwaves, November 2010, London, W1W 6UW, UK. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCSPtuO1Go)

Books, chapters and software

• D Budimir, "Generalized Filter Design by Computer Optimization", ISBN 0-89006-579-9, Artech House Books, March 1998.
• D Budimir, "DBFILTER", Software and User Manual, London, England, 1997.
• D Budimir, "EPFIL-Waveguide E-plane Filter Design", Software and User Manual, ISBN 1-58053-083-4, Artech House Books, October 1999.
• D Budimir, “Waveguide Components”, in the book “Encyclopaedia of RF and Microwave Engineering", Edited by Kai Chang, Volume 6, ISBN: 0-471-27053-9, Wiley, February 2005.

Refereed papers in archival journals

• Andjelija ILIC, Branko Bukvić, Djuradj Budimir, Milan Ilić, Design methodology for graphene tunable filters at the sub–millimeter–wave frequencies, Solid-State Electronics, April 2019.
• M. Bozic, M. Cabarkapa, D. Barjamovic and D. Budimir, (2018), Waveform Comparison and PA Nonlinearity Effects on CP-OFDM and 5G FBMC Wireless Systems, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 60, No. 8, pp: 1952-1956, August 2018.
• M. Vaskovic, V. S. Kodogiannis and D. Budimir, An Adaptive Fuzzy Logic System for the Compensation of Nonlinear Distortion in Wireless Power Amplifiers, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2017.
• N. Mohottige, O. Glubokov, U. Jankovic and D. Budimir, “Ultra Compact Inline E-plane Waveguide Bandpass Filters Using Cross Coupling", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume: 64, Issue: 8, pp: 2561 - 2571, August 2016.
• Andjelija Ilic, Branko Bukvić, Milan Ilić, and Djuradj Budimir, "Graphene based waveguide resonators for submillimeter-wave applications" Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 49, Number 32, July 2016: JPhysD-108583, 2016.
• N. Maletic, M. Cabarkapa, N. Neskovic and D. Budimir,'The hardware impairments impact on fixed-gain AF relaying performance in Nakagami-m fading”, IET Electronics Letters, 21st January 2016 Vol. 52 No. 2 pp. 121–122.
• M. Bozic and D. Budimir, “Joint Compensation of I/Q Impairments and PA Nonlinearity for Concurrent Dual-Band Transmitters using Two-Box Model”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 340-343, 5 May 2015.
• A. V. Anastasijevic, D. Coja, N Neskovic, A. Neskovic, D. Budimir, “Joint power amplifier and I/Q modulator impairments modelling and compensation for LTE transmitters using artificial neural networks”, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications 69 (2), 529-538, 2015.
• K. Rabbi, and D. Budimir, “Highly Selective Reconfigurable Filter for UWB Systems”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 146-148, March 2014.
• N Mohottige, O Glubokov and D Budimir, “Ultra-Compact Inline Extracted Pole Waveguide Filters”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Volume 23, Issue: 8, pp. 409-411, August 2013.
• M Cabarkapa, N Neskovic, and D Budimir, “A Generalized 2-D Linearity Enhancement Architecture for Concurrent Dual-Band Wireless Transmitters”, IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, December 2013.
• H F Abutarboush, R Nilavalan, S W Cheung, K M Nasr, T Peter, D Budimir, H Al-Raweshidy, “A Reconfigurable Wideband and Multiband Antenna Using Dual-Patch Elements for Compact Wireless Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp. 36-43, January 2012.
• L Athukorala, and D Budimir, “Parallel-Coupled Open-Loop Tunable Resonators and Filters with Constant Bandwidth”, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 6, Issue: 7, pp. 800-806, 2012.
• L Athukorala, and D Budimir, “Compact Filter Configurations Using Concentric Microstrip Open-Loop Resonators”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 22, Issue: 5, pp: 245-247 May 2012.
• O Glubokov, and D Budimir, "Extraction of Generalized Coupling Coefficients for Inline Extracted Pole Filters with Nonresonating Nodes", IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol 59, No. 12, pp. 3023-3029, December 2011.
• L Athukorala, and D Budimir, “Compact Second-Order Highly Linear Varactor-Tuned Dual-Mode Filters with Constant Bandwidth”, IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol 59, No. 9, pp. 2214-2220, September 2011.
• H F Abutarboush, R Nilavalan, S W Cheung, K M Nasr, T Peter, H Al-Raweshidy, D Budimir, “Reconfigurable Tri-Band H-Shaped Antenna with Frequency Selectivity Feature for Compact Wireless Communication Systems”, IET Microwave Antennas and Propagation, Volume: 5 Issue:14, pp. 1675-1682, 22 December 2011.
• M Borenović, A Neskovic, and D Budimir, “Space Partiting Strategies for Indoor WLAN Positioning with Cascade-Connected ANN Structures”, International Journal of Neural Systems, pp. 1-15, Vol.21, No. 1, 2011.
• L Athukorala and D Budimir, “Design of Compact Dual-Mode Microstrip Filters”, IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, pp. 2888-2895, Vol 58, No. 11, November 2010.
• L Athukorala and D Budimir, "Compact Dual-Mode Open Loop Microstrip Resonators and Filters", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, pp. 698-700, Vol. 19, No. 11, November 2009.

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Research Groups / Centres

• Wireless Communications